Joel Thomas

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1,385 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt · Dead Internet 2026: DARPA, Peter Thiel, Alien AI & Memetic Magick · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

But the way he talks about mimetic magic or meme, he talks about it more

It's closer to what Richard Dawkins talked about.

in his book, The Selfish Gene, which came out in 1976.

And he basically uses meme as a term for replicators.

And it's the idea of how you can take

Cultural ideas, behaviors, music, art, and spread it, and then it evolves very much like a biological gene does.

And then they start attributing it to a virus as well.

And that makes sense, right?

When a meme goes viral, it's like a virus that spreads and takes over everything that you see, right?

You know, it's like the

Talk to a girl, right?

This thing happens and then it's everywhere to the point that she started a podcast and then obviously put out a meme coin and there was a lot going on with that.

But all of these things, I think in some way, even if the people that are a part of it, like she was, know what's going on or not, they're there to.

control the consciousness of the people around them, either for distractions or to sway us to do certain things.

So this is what they're talking about before what we understand what a meme is.

This is what

Dawkins and Packwood are talking about in this particular aspect.

Now, what Packwood breaks down in this root social matrix, he talks about that.

The

magician.

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