#140: Q Infinitum (feat. Matt Christman)
The only possible guest, the great Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House and the new series Time for My Stories, joins MSJ to analyze Q as a mind virus, detachable from all "content," latent in the nature of information itself – it's the true product of a society in which everyone is always lying, and it's already mutating into more durable antibiotic-resistant forms. Soon, we will all be Market Gnostics.
Check out Time for My Stories: https://www.stitcher.com/show/time-for-my-stories
Comments (21)
Returning to this episode only to be confronted by how unbelievably prescient it continues to be with each passing year is such an astounding experience. You two really got this one up while the shot clock was winding down, genuinely masterful stuff.
MJ I just wanted to let you know that I just impulse bought a very strange starter lap steel called a Peavey Powerslide. The last one I owned was 10 years ago and it blows my mind how much I have learned since then, especially recently via your guitar and amp episodes, about how to craft a tone and effects chain. Thanks a million.
Right on. Whenever you get/want the chance, rotary speaker is one of my favorite effects on lap steel, and the Electro-Harmonix Lester G is an incredible Leslie simulator with built-in overdrive and compression that gives you so much sustain you can play infinite-note leads with it. Usually good rotary sims are like $400, but you can get the Lester G any day fr $170 or so, mint, who knows why. Killer with more standard steel effects like spring reverb and tape echo, too.
Great show. Too short though. Reminded me of arch-reptoid Zbig Brzezinski’s 1970 book “between two ages” where he observed that the number of books published since 1450 has doubled every 20 years: “it is simply impossible for the average citizen and even men of intellect to assimilate and meaningfully organize the flow of knowledge for themselves...The sharing of new common perspectives thus becomes more difficult as knowledge expands; in addition, traditional perspectives such as those provided by primitive myths or, more recently, by certain historically condition ideologies can no longer be sustained.” The sheer volume of information precludes understanding, and when you add disinformation and media spin to the process, sussing out reality becomes that much more difficult, even for the small percentage of weirdos compelled to do so.
my favourite boys, my favourite [content] keep on rocking in the free world
This was more clear and resounding in thought than I even could’ve imagined. Don’t break your brains too hard getting us piggies more answers/resolutions, but thank you!
Compare this comments section (good vibes) to the chapo comments (why so angry?)
The Uighur debate seems to have fractured some lines in the chapo fan sphere. There's a couple of repeat characters on that comment section dead set on claiming they know exactly what's going on in China and any skepticism surrounding the media barrage is equivalent to absolving the holocaust or something. Very tired, very stupid.
Great interview — tight, intent, solid. You had a very good rapport, the conversation was well balanced between you both, and the subject matter popped. I think this is your best one yet.
always a pleasure to listen to you and mr christman discuss the various aspects our present insanity 🖤
Is the title a Star Trek pun or am I entirely mistaken?
I honestly don't know shit about Star Trek (except DS9, which an ex forced me to watch), so maybe?
Yes. Yess!!!!
I remember multiple times during my undergrad literature degree at our shared university a gnostic text coming up in passing (usually Plato’s “Statesman”) and it being sort of glossed over as not that important, while I’m waving my hands like a lunatic saying WAIT JUST ONE MINUTE PLEASE. Another text that made a pretty convincing argument for the truly deranged/dedicated was to the effect of how Milton’s theology taken to its conclusion was not the end of Paradise Lost + Regained but rather his rewrite of Samson Agonistes in which Samson doesn’t kill just the noble Philistines in the arena, but rather everyone in the arena. The argument in that criticism was that Blake stopped short by accusing Milton of being “of the devil” because in fact, Milton would have been inevitably gnostic, had he more time on his hands before he died, and not been blind (thus having more time to read and consider the conclusions of his rewrite of the scriptures). tl;dr lets start a gnostic cult, boys, god hates us heeelll yeah
man, love the reference to that Borges story as it pertains to Q. read that really, really red wine hungover on a train in New Jersey a few years ago and it absolutely sparkles in my mind when I question whether I have had good times in my life. nice to here you and Matt chat again -
Hell yeah I love Death Cab is Just Around for the Cutie
Hell yeah, just got home from work to this.
Oh yeah!!! MSJ and Cushbomb 🚀
Hell yea dude
its 2am and i was just about to go to sleep, this is the most ive ever resented a podcaster. also been listening to a lot of cush recently so this is exactly what i wanted. fuck you.
LFG