Mark Gagnon

Oh, really?

Like, it didn't look good?

Okay, so people didn't like it.

Oh, wow.

They slammed the film over a shallow adaptation of the memoir.

leaned into Americana miserablism.

Now that is an interesting phrase I've never heard.

It's a horrible country.

So that brings us to the present day.

Like you kind of get like the beats of his life thus far.

And now he's doing these lectures where he goes, you know, Rome, Paris, San Francisco, and he's doing lectures on the antichrist.

And each lecture kind of builds on the other one.

And he's like kind of like publishing them.

And he's putting out these essays like he co-authors an essay, Voyages to the End of the World.

And he then reportedly follows up with a European series and CNN and Fortune and like a bunch of different journalists are going to it.

And basically, it's this invitation only closed off to, you know, video or audio recording, closed off to media at an undisclosed location.

And basically, it's described as anchored in science and technology while commenting on theology, history, literature, and politics of the Antichrist.

Language attributed to invitation materials reviewed by the Associated Press.

So there's a ton of different references according to people that have gone.

There's things like obviously talking about Rene Girard, talking about Francis Bacon, talking about Carl Schmitt, a bunch of 19th century Catholic theology.