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Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism

A podcast about the politics of atheism, about atheist perspectives on politics, and the nihilist critique of both, in the era following after the failure and dissolution of "New Atheism" as a movement. AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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31 episodes

Christianwashing Atheism: Slavoj Zizek, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Richard Dawkins, Jordan Peterson, Ken Wilber.

Nov 25, 2024•—

The Triumph of the Will, the Tragedy of the Will, the Philosophy of the Will: Social Darwinism, Schopenhauer, George Bernard Shaw, etc.

Prostitution in Principle, Pornography in Practice: the Philosophy and Politics of OnlyFans.

Mar 21, 2025•—

Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism

Episode Playlist

Christianwashing Atheism: Slavoj Zizek, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Richard Dawkins, Jordan Peterson, Ken Wilber.

Lauren Chen: Russian Espionage, American Censorship, Canadian Treason.

JD Vance: Atheist or Catholic, American Cicero or American Caesar.

Alyssa Grenfell: Ex-Mormon & Messiah of Mediocrity

The Life of the Mind: Nihilism and/or Education

Jordan Peterson's perennial philosophy takes a step to the left.

The American Empire with the Mask Off: the Canadian Empire with the Mask On.

Economic Nihilism: Neoliberalism's Fatal Flaw.

Nihilism vs Judaism: Jaclyn Glenn and the Greatest Taboo in the Atheist Movement.

Burning Down Notre Dame Cathedral: the Atheist Revolution in Practice, not in Principle.

Nihilism vs antisemitism: from the occult origins of the Nazi movement to Kanye West.

Nihilism: the only religion you can believe in, the only philosophy you can live by.

The Critique of Sam Harris, Hallucinogenic Drugs, Hinduism, Meditation and Pseudo-Skepticism.

The Triumph of the Will, the Tragedy of the Will, the Philosophy of the Will: Social Darwinism, Schopenhauer, George Bernard Shaw, etc.

Prostitution in Principle, Pornography in Practice: the Philosophy and Politics of OnlyFans.

Jordan Peterson is not a genius: brain damage, bible bashing and scientific racism.

Electoral Nihilism: Trump vs Yemen, Democracy vs Tyranny.

Nihilism vs Conspiracy Theories: the Assassination of JFK in 2025, How Not Why.

Nihilism vs Nationalism: Donald Trump, Tariffs, and the Post-Neoliberal Consensus.

The idiocy of Ben Shapiro: a sequel on JFK's assassination and the conspiracy theory mentality.

Nihilism vs BLM: the right wing is right about SOMETHING, SOMETIMES, okay?

Who Killed MLK? The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior: How Not Why.

Against multiculturalism. Culture is tyranny. And a plurality of tyrannies never adds up to a democracy.

Multiculturalism means another dozen dark ages, all at the same time: ignorance and antisemitism instead of atheism.

The Necessity of Nihilism: Atheism is Not Enough.

The Opposite of Islam: Genocide in Gaza, Genocide in Xinjiang, in Parallel.

The Process of Learning is the Meaning of Life: Skepticism & Self-Doubt (vs. Cosmic Skeptic, Galileo, etc.)

Escaping the Cult of Happiness: who you are is what you make excuses for.

Youtube is dead: the lost avant garde of intellectual dissent on the internet.

Ecology and Ego: Veganism and False Humility.

Everything you're saying is a lie: political science, how not why.

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