Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism
Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism is a podcast about the politics of atheism and atheist perspectives on politics, framed by a nihilist critique of both. It examines the period after the failure and dissolution of New Atheism as a movement. The show is part of Eisel Mazard's AR+IO project, which stands for Active Research and Informed Opinion, with episodes consistently numbered AR+IO-001 and onward. Mazard is also known as Zel from Ashdod and formerly as the voice behind the banned YouTube channel à-bas-le-ciel.
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Don't Stop Reading: from a "gym bro" who spends all his time chasing women half his age.
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The Rejection of Philosophy Becomes a Philosophy Unto Itself: Plato, Buddhism, Nihilism.
On à-bas-le-ciel:LINK: https://youtube.com/live/t6vBgeJRiyIOn Eisel Mazard, Monolingual Polyglot:LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tY7o0cE-skFind me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/pos
Islamophobia is Doomed: the Critique of Mass Deportation as a Moral Cause.
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University: Practical Nihilism about Higher Education.
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Nihilism and the Philosophy of Language, Free Will and Determinism.
A New Definition of "Linguistic Nihilism".Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/postsAR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consiste
Nihilism vs Metaphysics: Most Philosophy is Not Worth Talking About.
Have any of you been watching for long enough to remember me saying that you should make youtube videos that you would find interesting yourself, if you came back to watch them again five years from now? ;-)Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/
Debunking the Dunning Kruger Effect: Nihilism and Religious Attitudes Disguised as Science.
A podcast about the politics of atheism (and the importance of atheism in politics) from a nihilist perspective.Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/postsAR+IO abbreviates the motto "Ac
Everything you're saying is a lie: political science, how not why.
"I'm making a statement about a type of danger that doesn't arise from false facts. It doesn't arise from factually incorrect information. It's a more profound problem in our attitude." A fifty minute lecture on how to think about politics, in ways both shallow and profound. And, yes, it just happens to include a critique of Colleen Patrick-Goudreau."The problem is n
Ecology and Ego: Veganism and False Humility.
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Youtube is dead: the lost avant garde of intellectual dissent on the internet.
Implicitly, this is a significant contrast to my old "manifesto" titled On Community, although it does not address the thesis of that video, directly, in any way: if you regard this as a manifesto, it is addressed to the youtuber (or podcaster) as a solitary intellectual dissident, cultural critic, commentator and comedian --not as the center of an incipient community, pulling together l
Escaping the Cult of Happiness: who you are is what you make excuses for.
Nihilism doesn't just mean that you refuse to believe OTHER PEOPLE'S bullshit… but, also, your own.The excuses are harder to quit than the thing itself, bro.Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_
The Process of Learning is the Meaning of Life: Skepticism & Self-Doubt (vs. Cosmic Skeptic, Galileo, etc.)
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The Opposite of Islam: Genocide in Gaza, Genocide in Xinjiang, in Parallel.
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The Necessity of Nihilism: Atheism is Not Enough.
Explained in ten minutes or less. ;-)Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/postsAR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering fo
Multiculturalism means another dozen dark ages, all at the same time: ignorance and antisemitism instead of atheism.
"When you think about what culture is, it is the accumulation of past beliefs: it is the burden of ignorance we take on from our ancestors. It is a set of authoritarian attitudes that the past is trying to impose upon the present and the future. And we have to resist it all."Many minutes later: "What are we talking about, when we talk about culture, if not a way for the dead to im
Against multiculturalism. Culture is tyranny. And a plurality of tyrannies never adds up to a democracy.
This is part one of two. Atheism opposes a single belief only, whereas nihilism opposes them all, dealing with the root causes (and fundamental defects) of belief as such; therefore, a nihilistic critique of multiculturalism is inevitable, as a nihilist cannot see a plurality of false beliefs as an improvement on just one --for all the same reasons that we would not see a country divided between m
Who Killed MLK? The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior: How Not Why.
You know the difference between a police and an outlaw? If anyone ever asks, you just take off your shoe, hold it up, and reply, "ONE STEP".Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/postsAR+IO abbreviates
Nihilism vs BLM: the right wing is right about SOMETHING, SOMETIMES, okay?
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The idiocy of Ben Shapiro: a sequel on JFK's assassination and the conspiracy theory mentality.
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Nihilism vs Nationalism: Donald Trump, Tariffs, and the Post-Neoliberal Consensus.
Ice bucket economics: recorded one day before Donald Trump's declared "Liberation Day", which could also be described as April Fool's Day, coincidentally, 2025.Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.pat
Nihilism vs Conspiracy Theories: the Assassination of JFK in 2025, How Not Why.
Not skepticism: nihilism. Even in the case of the assassination of John F Kennedy, there is nothing to be believed in.Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/postsAR+IO abbreviates the motto &q
Electoral Nihilism: Trump vs Yemen, Democracy vs Tyranny.
Elections, alone, do not define democracy. This is episode 17 of Nihilism Now, but the sixteenth (all new, all different) podcast in the sequence of Active Research and Informed Opinion. (AR+IO-016)Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_
Jordan Peterson is not a genius: brain damage, bible bashing and scientific racism.
The old "equal opportunity" vs. "equality of outcomes" conundrum. Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/postsAR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed
Prostitution in Principle, Pornography in Practice: the Philosophy and Politics of OnlyFans.
Shout out to Ghostface. Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/postsAR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001,
The Triumph of the Will, the Tragedy of the Will, the Philosophy of the Will: Social Darwinism, Schopenhauer, George Bernard Shaw, etc.
How could you possibly require a synopsis after such a long title? ;-)This is episode 14 of Nihilism Now, but also the 15th episode of the separately numbered sequence (across many podcasts) of Active Research and Informed Opinion. (AR+IO-015)Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).
The Critique of Sam Harris, Hallucinogenic Drugs, Hinduism, Meditation and Pseudo-Skepticism.
This is Episode 13 of Nihilism Now, a podcast about the politics of atheism (and the importance of atheism in politics) from a nihilist perspective. You may also want to take a glance at my other podcast, Brand New Ancient Buddhism.Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www
Nihilism: the only religion you can believe in, the only philosophy you can live by.
Shout out to Woody Curry. This is episode 12 of Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism.Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/postsAR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", provi
Nihilism vs antisemitism: from the occult origins of the Nazi movement to Kanye West.
Occult in its origins, occult in its undoing in the end: this could instead be titled Nihilism vs the Neo-Nazis (although we might need a footnote to clarify that this category includes Kanye West).This is episode 11 of Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism.Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under m
Burning Down Notre Dame Cathedral: the Atheist Revolution in Practice, not in Principle.
This is episode 10 of Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism, a podcast about the politics of atheism (and the importance of atheism in politics) from a nihilist perspective.Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas
Nihilism vs Judaism: Jaclyn Glenn and the Greatest Taboo in the Atheist Movement.
Although it is commonly said that Judaism is not quite the same thing as Jewishness, supporting either one while rejecting the other entails a paradox that comes close to racism —and these are precisely the arguments that Jaclyn Glenn attempts to make, defending the continuation of the religion "as an identity" that is supposedly rooted in D.N.A. while remaining nominally atheist, and yet demonstr
Economic Nihilism: Neoliberalism's Fatal Flaw.
The problem is not so much that Milton Friedman is wrong about everything, but, instead, the extent to which people presume that being right about any particular factoid (in the overlapping fields of politics and economics) means that you "must be" correct about anything (or everything) else. (AR+IO-014) A podcast about the politics of atheism (and the importance of atheism in politics)
The American Empire with the Mask Off: the Canadian Empire with the Mask On.
Episode thirteen (AR+IO-013). Let us be blunt: if Quebec has the right to establish its independence by a referendum, then the Crimea does, too —along with the Donbas (Donetsk and Luhansk) and Taiwan and everyone else, everywhere else. If not, we're back to the phony sovereignty (and even phonier empire-building) of the Napoleonic wars. How, after all, was Poland supposed to establish its inde
Jordan Peterson's perennial philosophy takes a step to the left.
Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism (AR+IO-012)Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/postsAR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of
Nihilism and/or/as Education: Redefining the Life of the Mind
Episode 05 of Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism (AR+IO-009).Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/postsAR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent number
Alyssa Grenfell: Ex-Mormon & Messiah of Mediocrity
The excuses she makes for the acceptance of religion are far more important than the reasons she's given for its rejection. Within just the last few months, Alyssa Grefell has seemingly stumbled into her role as "the face of atheism", but, already, mistakes she is making (in that accidental leadership role) illustrate why (and how) this still incipient political movement is stumbling as a whole. T
JD Vance: Atheist or Catholic, American Cicero or American Caesar.
J.D. Vance is one of the most important examples of an "ex-atheist", and he didn't merely revert to Christianity, but converted (for the first time) to Catholicism, for avowedly intellectual reasons that you'll find specified and cross examined here.
Episode 03 of Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism (AR+IO-003)
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Lauren Chen: Russian Espionage, American Censorship, Canadian Treason.
Episode 02 of Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism (AR+IO-001)
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Christianwashing Atheism: Slavoj Zizek, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Richard Dawkins, Jordan Peterson, Ken Wilber.
A podcast about the politics of atheism (and the importance of atheism in politics) from a nihilist perspective.
Episode 01 of Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism (AR+IO-001)
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