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Greg Johnson talks to composer Xurious about his intellectual, political, and artistic journey and the censorship of his music by YouTube.

• 0:00: Introduction


• 1:46: With Open Gates: The Forced Collective Suicide of Europe


• 6:02: Electronic Music: Vaporwave, Synthwave, Fashwave


• 14:55: Nostalgia for a lost future, the end of the end of history


• 17:00: From Artificial Intelligence to mysticism


• 18:26: His political journey begins


• 24:00: Anarchism, liberalism, and the rule of unaccountable elites; Carl Schmitt; the inevitability of hierarchy


• 34:30: From the Left to the Right: men’s rights, evolutionary psychology


• 37:02: Radical Traditionalism and the French New Right


• 37:40: Nostalgia directed not to past or future but upward to the divine


• 39:35: Recovering a vision of a beautiful future


• 40:09: The origin of the name “Xurious”; the angry mystic


• 44:40: Evola, Guénon, the possibility of reinfusing Christianity with mystical experience


• 49:24: His favorite composers, European classical music


• 50:29: Synthwave music and the European tradition


• 55:14: Stringed instruments and the bow and arrow


• 57:45: Xurious’ experiences with YouTube censorship; Google, the world’s most evil corporation, as a law unto itself


• 62:16: How social media and tech giants interfere with governments and target dissidents for economic destruction


• You can follow Xurious on Twitter: @xuriousmusic


• You can listen to his music on BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/xurious/