Esoterica & the Occult

Starting from the British political scandal over decades of child sexual abuse and its cover-up, this piece argues that profit-driven systems select for sociopaths and that elite universities train what Herbert Marcuse called irrational rationality. Pinchbeck describes an occult control system, links Adam Weishaupt’s Illuminati to Rudolf Steiner’s Ahriman, and notes that Egypt and Central America gave Set and Tezcatlipoca a ritual place.

Built around quotations from Bataille’s On Nietzsche, Antonio Negri’s Time for Revolution, and Georg Kuhlewind’s Becoming Aware of the Logos, the piece argues that capitalism rests on domination and cannot be reformed, only superseded. Pinchbeck holds that a cooperative society must integrate humanity’s destructive tendencies as ancient Egypt and the Maya did through paired deities like Set and Tezcatlipoca.