Andrew Sage

The most famous version of this, which isn't necessarily for political ends, so this was for personal ends, is the Burroughs Cafe incident, which I have been a fan of for years, in which he was slighted by a cafe.

So then he started recording.

there's been some menus that have changed that I would consider using, using this tactic where he recorded sounds from, from outside of like people talking or arguing or walking by or plates dropping, and then played them back outside of the cafe for a series of months, uh, until the cafe closed.

And, and this is like the, the, the funniest, the funniest form of, of this, uh, sort of magical obsession, because this really is just a crazy guy playing loud sounds in front of a cafe until they close.

I mean, it worked.

Of, yeah, playing back sounds of, you know, arguing, fighting, plates smashing, which would probably create a negative aura around this building.

But that is the most funny Burroughs, the Circus Jump moment.

Although, I mean, Burroughs' life is full of these humorous and sometimes worrying anecdotes.

Yeah, and this is something our materialist friend Mia does talk about is how

there's a quote from some neocons about how, how like Democrats just have to kind of like, you know, like react to reality versus the Republicans who generate it.

And they like decide what reality is.

And you can see this with all of the sort of like moral, moral panics which have spread across the United States and around the world the past few years, whether that's

gender ideology, whether it's immigration, whether that's this non-existent crime wave, where it is a genuine creation of reality.

And this goes into, you know, Burroughs' ideas later get developed by a group of academics and occultists that formed the CCRU.

This included, say, Plant, Nick Land, who then turned to the dark side, and the since-past Mark Fisher.

who put a name to some of this sort of phenomenon called the hyperstition, which is, Robert has talked about before on the show, but it is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It is a fiction that becomes true through the creation of the fiction and the dissemination of this fiction.

And this is part of how reality can get formed is through these falsehoods that through repetition and dissemination become self-manifest.

The thing about that though is like the, the high positional model itself requires to the acceptance of the idea that everything is a fiction.

Yes.