In this companion piece to our earlier podcast, “The REAL story of the Alt-Right’s rise and fall,” Devout Agnostic and Andy again discuss the “Alternative Right,” that online movement that Andy was part of for several years, as writer and eventual co-editor of the now defunct site alternativeright dot com. Could Andy have been an unknowing asset for an astroturfed/controlled opposition outfit all the while?
We examine Andy’s recollections of how “groupthink”-style intellectual conformity eventually took over the Alt Right, how the movement degenerated from elevated discussion as a mainstay to social media trolling and provocative edgelording as its standard MO, and how the cult of Trump assumed such a firm hold of nearly all Alt-Right adherents.
Also considered are the notion of “chaos magick,” possibilities of predictive programming, and fascinating similarities between Alt-Right mascot Pepe the Frog and Kek, the Egyptian god of darkness, danger, and the unknown.
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