WHY DOES THE GEOPOLITICS & EMPIRE PODCAST PLATFORM HARDCORE DENIALISTS?
WRITERS TO WATCH - HRVOJE MORIC
Hey Gang,
Recently I announced the start of a new series here on Nevermore, which I call WRITERS TO WATCH.
Pretty self-explanatory, right? Basically I intend to profile writers I think deserve you attention.
Sometimes it really helps to have an introduction to a writer. Knowing a writer’s biases up front, for instance, can really help you familiarize yourself with their work more quickly, and decide whether or not to trust them, or to what degree you want to trust them.
WRITERS TO WATCH - HRVOJE MORIC
So for the second edition of WRITERS TO WATCH, I’d like to profile Hrvoje Moric of Geopolitics and Empire.
First things first - yes I know that Hrvoje Moric isn’t primarily known as a writer, but as a podcaster and radio host.
But he does write, and CONTENT CREATORS TO WATCH is a lame name,.
So I’m sticking with WRITERS TO WATCH, okay?
If you’ve got a problem with that, please feel free to take a stroll to the nearest corner store, buy an envelope and some stamps, affix the proper postage, and send it to someone who cares.
One of my favourite sources for news these days is the Geopolitics and Empire channel on Telegram, so I’ll start there.
I normally don’t like Telegram as a way of getting news, because it tends to give me information overload, and leads to doomscrolling, in which I scan headlines and rapidly go through a series of emotional reactions in quick succession. Because there is such a vast amount of content on Telegram, I don’t end up reading many of the articles, meaning I’m not actually deepening my analysis in any meaningful way.
I think that this is a terrible way to consume information, which is way I hate Twitter.
Telegram also is kind of like crack like political junkies, so I tend to avoid it.
The Geopolitics and Empire Telegram channel is an exception, though. I have gotten a lot from it, and never consider it a waste of my time.
I have found it especially useful for understanding the current situation in the Middle East.
Here’s a sampling to give you an idea of the kind of content this Telegram channel shares:
I’m guessing you just learned quite a few things you didn’t know. Some of it, you may need to go look up before you believe it. Go for it. It’s all true.
The Geopolitics and Empire Telegram channel is curated by Hrvoje Moric, a professor who began building up his following in 2012 when he started a YouTube channel called Dissident Thinker.
Today, Hrvoje Moric is a podcaster who consistently turns out some of the highest-quality geopolitical analysis that I am aware of.
In addition to the Geopolitics & Empire podcast, he also has a radio show on TNT Radio.
Geopolitics & Empire isn’t just a Telegram channel, though, it’s also one of my favourite podcasts, up there with Unlimited Hangout and The Corbett Report.
Hrvoje is evidently highly educated and very well-read. He also has a very impressive resume.
He also benefits from a very worldly perspective, having lived all around the world.
He has lived in the Balkans, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, the U.S.A., and Latin America. He speaks three languages fluently - Croato-Serbian, English and Spanish.
He is a citizen of three countries - Croatia, Mexico, and the United States.
It’s a little difficult for me to put my finger on what makes the Geopolitics & Empire stand out, and I guess a lot of it comes down to Hrvoje just being really likeable.
He’s clearly a genuine truth seeker with a boundless curiosity about the world. He clearly has his biases, and is aware of them, but he is also a true intellectual, which is to say that he is willing to change his mind when the occasion calls for it.
Speaking of his biases, Hrvoje is a Christian and calls himself a conservative. It kind of makes me feel a little strange that I, as an anarchist, now find myself agreeing with a conservative about so much.
Once upon a time, I used to think of conservatives as close-minded and liberals as open-minded. Hrvoje is clearly very open-minded, and liberals these days are often completely unwilling to debate people they disagree with, so I guess times have changed.
I used to associate being conservative with being right-wing, and being right-wing with nationalism, and nationalism with support for militarism, but I now have a more nuanced perspective.
Arguably, anarchists now have more in common with conservatives than with so-called liberals. But that’s a topic for another day.
As proof of how open-minded Hrvoje is, I’ll point out that he is willing to talk to people from across the political spectrum.
For example, Hrvoje interviews anarchists like Etienne de la Boetie2, Iain Davis, and James Corbett.
But he also willing to talk to people on the complete opposite side of the political spectrum, including people like U.S. Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor, former C.I.A. officer Brian Fairchild, and former cops like Mike Rothmiller.
Personally, I don’t know whether I would have the stomach to play along while a former C.I.A. agent pretends to be a good guy, but I am big believer that you can often learn more from one’s enemies than one’s friends, so I commend Hrvoje for his willingness to speak to such people.
I find it really interesting to learn more about how these people think, and I think that it’s a good sign that many people who spent their careers serving the War Machine now are beginning to have their doubts about whether they’re on the right side of history.
I’ll quickly take the time to give one very special recommendation of one episode in particular which helped me to run a system upgrade on my brain.
That episode featured Mary Harrington, author of Feminism Against Progress.
When I listened to Hrvoje interview Mary Harrington, my reaction was “THE MOTHERSHIP HAS LANDED!”
If you are one of the many people who think that first world feminism has lost the plot in recent years, I would really highly recommend watching this interview.
I’ll also mention that Mary Harrington has a blog here on Substack. It’s called Reactionary Feminist, and we’ll probably get around to writing a WRITERS TO WATCH profile on her at some point.
But I digress. Back to Hrvoje Moric. I’ve already mentioned that he is a Christian, a fact that he often brings up.
It seems to me that Hrvoje is a Bible-believing Christian, and I respect how up front with his beliefs. For instance, he has stated quite plainly that he doesn’t believe that the congressional hearings on UFOs have anything to do with extraterrestrials, instead suggesting that we seek to interpret UFO phenomena as possibly being due to the activities of angels and demons.
I think that it’s a sign of the times that one of the most insightful political analysts in the world is open that he literally believes in angels and demons.
Just ten years ago, most intellectuals, even those who are religious, would have kept such beliefs to themselves.
Chris Hedges, for instance, is a Presbyterian minister, but has he ever spoken about the literal existence of angels and demons?
Both Carl Jung and Rudolf Steiner, both of whom were voice hearers who believed in angels, were quite coy about how they presented their beliefs.
Personally, I believe in angels, due to a number of experiences that I have had.
If anyone is interested, I have written the story of one such experience, in which I saw a group of people all dressed in white right after surviving a car accident in Northern B.C. You can find that story here:
Honestly, I’m not sure what to think about a lot of the Bible - I agree with the teachings of Jesus, and I love parts of the Old Testament as literature, but I can’t pretend that I believe that everything is meant to be taken literally, and as far as I can tell, the Bible is not remotely close to being historically accurate.
I do know this, though - I believe in the power of prayer, and I believe in the existence of angels.
And I couldn’t be happier that the taboo against intellectuals believing in non-corporeal entities has fallen.
Hrvoje is quite up front that he believes that Satanism is a real political force, and seems to believe that many globalists are Satanists. I have to admit, the evidence keeps piling up.
I’ll be honest - I have become more sympathetic to traditional religion in recent years because I have become more and more convinced that the Powers That Shouldn’t Be are either Satanists or something pretty damn close.
One example would be Epstein’s partner-in-crime Leslie Wexner, who remains at large.
Last year, Whitney Webb published an article entitled Leslie Wexner’s Inner Demon, which is all about how the billionaire believes that he is basically possessed by a demon, which he calls a dybbuk.
I know, I know, this all sounds crazy as hell, but go read the article.
Even mainstream media has reported on Wexner’s weird relationship with his dybbuk.
So what are we supposed to make of this? Are we supposed to conclude that he’s just mentally ill? Should we assume that he’s just an eccentric billionaire who has an imaginary demonic friend?
Well, that would be easier to do if it wasn’t for the fact that he’s a wildly successful businessman involved in all kinds of evil shit.
Let’s keep in mind that this is the guy who used Victoria’s Secret to recruit young models who could then be exploited by Epstein and his clients.
In her article, Whitney writes:
[Wexner] told New York magazine that his dybbuk makes him “wander from house to house”, “wanting more and more” and “swallowing companies larger than his own.”
In other words, it compels him to accumulate more money and more power with no end in sight. Wexner later describes the dybbuk as an integral “part of his genius.”
Hmm. Weird. Usually insanity doesn’t give you an edge in business.
I really don’t know what to make of all of this, but I do know that Hrvoje Moric is willing and able to speak intelligently about the occult from a perspective that doesn’t automatically assume that everyone who believes in invisible beings is insane and delusional.
Let’s remember that the vast majority of people since the beginning of time have believed in spirits and magical creatures of one type or another.
Until recently, I think that people believed all pre-industrial people were misguided “because science”.
But now that we know how error-prone, credulous, pig-headed, corruptible, and susceptible to groupthink scientists can be, “Because Science” isn’t really cutting it anymore.
Given that faith in science is lower than it’s been at any point during my lifetime, I think that it’s inevitable that people will begin reassessing the history of human belief and wondering whether our supposed intellectual supremacy is nothing but a symptom of our hubris.
Perhaps thinkers like Giordano Bruno and Paracelsus possessed a higher degree of scientific understanding that our top physicists today do.
In any case, secularists who believe that they’re always right “Because Science” are going to have to learn a little humility.
Recent polls suggest that over 80% of Americans believe in God, but you would never know that if you were basing your perception on the mainstream media, who is constantly shoving “the Science” down our throats whilst poo-pooing religion, spirituality, and “superstition”.
When I make the case that invisible entities exist, I am not saying that we need to accept their existence on faith and check our intellects at the door.
Ultimately, I believe that reality is an illusion, and I’m pretty sure that I’m a figment of my own imagination.
I am simply saying that perhaps we should be more open-minded.
Which brings me to my main criticism of Hrvoje Moric - his flagrant platforming of hard-core denialists.
Back in the Summer, I heard a guest on the Geopolitics and Empire podcast vociferously deny that Mexican president AMLO was seriously suggesting that his government had made contact with interdimensional fairy folk.
The interview was very good for the first 36 minutes or so, when Moric’s guest, of nowhere, launched into a tirade about how it’s racist to think that Mexicans believe in amulets and elves.
The guest, whose name was Kurt Hackbarth, railed against how insulting it was that American Mainstream Media dare question whether AMLO believes in mythical creatures.
To make matters worse, Moric sort of just went along with it. Rather than immediately ending the interview and condemning his guest as a blatant denialist, he shifted the subject back to politics, talking to Hackbarth like he was a normal human being entitled to his own perspective.
Let’s recap - Hackbarth engaged in flagrant, full-on denialism, and Moric gave him the platform to do so. Is that’s not denialism-platforming, what is?
Clearly, Hackbarth is a paradigm-believer who actually seems offended that Mexicans believe in aluxes. He seems to think that it’s a racist trope perpetuated by Americans that a lot of Mexicans believe in magical beings. Ergo, Hackbarth is a racist.
The fact that his analysis is astute and insightful is no excuse for straight-up racist denialism. Given that Hackbarth is also a white cisgendered male, he’s probably also a nazi and white supremacist.
Does that mean that Hrvoje Moric is a Nazi? You be the judge.
Hackbarth was commenting on how American commentators were laughing about how AMLO had posted something about “aluxes”, which is a Mayan term for what the beings for small, forest-dwelling magical creatures we would most likely call elves, leprechauns, or fairies.
(Note - Although I don’t think the Aluxes have gone woke, and probably couldn’t care less about what we call them, I’ll include a point on nomenclature here. According to my mom, if I’m interested in being as accurate as possible, I should use the term “elves” or “fairy folk”.
According to her, sprites, gnomes, and leprechauns are specific kinds of little people with distinct characteristics, and I may have been misusing the term leprechaun.
Somehow, I doubt that the leprechauns have gone woke, though, so I’ll probably keep using the term. If I start having bad luck, I’ll reassess.)
But I digress. Back to my question for Hrvoje Moric about why he chooses to use Geopolitics and Empire to give a platform to a rabid, full-on leprechaun-denialist?
Doesn’t he know that by platforming denialists, he’s basically guilty of the egregious sin of denialism-enabling?
I can only hope that he will own up to this horrible, insanely hurtful act and unequivocally apologize.
Heaven forbid that he make things worse by explaining his actions, because that would make him a denialism-apologist.
Isn’t being a denialist-platformer and a denialist-enabler bad enough, Hrvoje?
Listen, a lot of people in Mexico believe in elves, okay? I’ll give you example - When I bought my first motorcycle in Mexico, my Spanish teacher encouraged, in all seriousness, to get a little bell to protect me from “los duendes”.
He then explained to me why so many Mexican bikers travel with a little bell by telling me the story of the “campanita biker”.
Listen, I live in Mexico, and it’s simply a fact that many, many Mexicans believe in amulets, witchcraft, and yes, los duendes.
Is it racist to think that the Mexican might share this belief? Is it racist to believe that the Pope believes in angels?
A quick search on YouTube will turn up hundreds upon hundreds of videos which take the existence of los duendes seriously.
Here’s a random sampling:
Listen, say what you want about AMLO, but he’s not dumb. He didn’t set off all this “Does AMLO believe in magical creatures?” stuff for nothing. There was a reason. How often do seasoned politicians do things purely for the lulz? So what’s the reason?
I won’t claim to know, but here are three ideas:
He’s thumbing his nose at the Americans as a way of saying “Esto es Mexico, Cabrones!”
He knows something we don’t about the existence of elves.
This is part of some longer-term strategy which will be revealed in time.
I see no reason to believe that AMLO doesn’t actually believe in aluxes or amulets, though. In this case, the simplest explanation is that he actually does believe in aluxes.
AMLO has spent a lot of time in the jungle. People who have spent a lot of time in the jungle tend to believe in elves, for the same reason that people who live in deserts tend to believe in genies.
For those of you who saw the famous tweet, and thought that it obviously shows a stone sculpture, not a living creature, you don’t understand that elves are INTERDIMENSIONAL AND SELF-TRANSFORMING.
What part of self-transforming do people not understand? Elves turn themselves into stone all the time, or at least appear to.
I think that it is well-understood that leprechauns have the power the turn themselves invisible, but what people don’t seem to understand is they sometimes trick us into thinking that they are invisible, when really they are merely pretending to be a rock, or plant, or other object, such as a supposedly inanimate garden gnome that no one can remember purchasing.
They also have the power to mess with our perception, for example by making your car keys invisible so that some synchronicity can occur.
Let me say that again for those of you in the back of the room:
PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN ELVES BELIEVE THAT NOT ONLY THAT ELVES CAN TURN THEM INVISIBLE, BUT CAN ALSO TRANSFORM INTO SEEMINGLY INANIMATE OBJECTS.
So let’s have another look at AMLO’s famous aluxe.
Does it look like it could be a real elf pretending to be a sculpture of an elf? I’d say so. Wouldn’t you?
Anyway, I could go on and on and on, but I think my point is clear. Mr. Hackbarth’s anti-magic extremism is not based on logic, but hateful denialism rooted in racist tropes invented by white supremacist conquistadors in order to justify genocide. I think that should be crystal clear to all but the most delusional by this point.
Nevertheless, questions remain about why Moric, who is in many ways a leading light of the truth movement, engage in denialism-platforming and denialism-enabling?
I’d like to pose a few questions to Hrvoje Moric vis-a-vis his beliefs regarding viruses and aluxes.
Does God, as an omnipotent being, possess the power to create self-transforming interdimensional fairy folk?
If God created angels, who are usually invisible to human beings, does it not then stand to reason that He could have created another creatures who are usually invisible to human beings?
If God could create magical, playful, fun-loving nature spirits, why wouldn’t He create them?
Perhaps a thought experiment would help here. Imagine that you had the power to bring leprechauns or fairies into existence. Wouldn’t you create them? I would!
Remember, if you were omnipotent, you would also have the option of making them vanish from existence if you chose to at some future point in time. I don’t really see what the downside to creating elves would be. Do you?
I rest my case.
I think that this is why intellectuals are so loathe to admit that angels exist - because if you admit that angels and demons exist, you’re opening the door to all kinds of uncertainty as to what exactly the true nature of reality is.
How real is reality? If angels and demons are real, what is reality? How can we be sure what is and what isn’t real?
If we can’t trust priests or scientists or philosophers to interpret reality for us, what does that mean?
Was Bill Hicks right? Is this all just a ride?
Ahhhh, okay, that’s enough. That was fun. I know that Hrvoje has a sense of humour, and I hope that Mr. Hackbarth does too.
Regular readers of this blog will get the joke, but I guess I should explain to our new readers, though I’m tempted to leave you hanging, because that would be hilarious to me in an Andy Kaufman-type way.
But this time I’ll actually explain the joke.
Nevermore has often being accused of a long list of thoughtcrimes, including transphobia, antisemitism, anti-feminism, “conspiracism”, and so on.
We believe that this is due to a COINTELPRO-style campaign of ideological subversion led by intelligence agent. We’ve written quick extensively on this subject, and we even name names of people we think are involved.
All this brings me to my main point:
THE TERM “DENIER” OR “DENIALIST” IS A JOKE AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH BY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE
The term “denier” or “denialist” started out with Holocaust-denial, but has since been applied to climate change, COVID, and science. The term now basically means “someone who believes that which it is forbidden to believe”. It is equivalent to the medieval term “heretic”.
It’s become a joke.
When I was accused of being a “science denier”, I decided to have some fun with it.
As for the sin of “platforming”, Nevermore contributor David Rovics was been targeted by a vicious smear campaign because he is accused of “platforming” a reformed white supremacist by interviewing him.
All this cancel culture stuff is a massive buzzkill, and so I’ve decided that humour is probably the best way of dealing with it.
Anyway, Mr. Hackbarth, if you end up seeing this, I hope you can take a joke! I mean no disrespect.
By the way, I learned from that interview that you are a Oaxaca-based publisher, and it just so happens that I wrote a non-fiction novela about psychedelic tourism in Oaxaca. I’m looking for a publisher. Just saying.
CONCLUSION
Okay, I hope you guys enjoyed that. Back to Hrvoje Moric.
I think I’ve already made this clear, but I consider him one of the leading lights of the truth movement.
I’m curious to hear what you, dear reader, think. Are you a fan of Hrvoje Moric? Did I neglect to mention anything particularly important? What do you think about Satanism? How about angels and demons? Do I sound crazy? (Please tell me if I do.)
What does the word “conservative” even mean anymore? Do you consider yourself conservative? Is an alliance between anarchists and conservatives now possible?
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Thank you so much for summarising Hrvoje's recent thoughts so comprehensively. Made me realise I owe him a proper sub and much more recognition and promotion. His analysis is all you described and more.
If I accepted that the universe is created by human conciousness alone, I would have a hard time accepting it because 'what about the non-human conciousness possibilities?'
I'm no physicist or mathemetician, but if we take the observer effect of quantum physics which is largely about the influence the observer has on the outcome of the experiment. When people suggest 'that allows for magic' I see responses along the lines 'There is no reason an observer has to be concious, or human.'
If I accept that materialism is more true than conciousness, it leads to the question of what are the boundaries of materialism? Which could well be a deeper beyond human form of conciousness affects human conciousnees affects reality, with some kind of venn diagram like overlap.
If materialism can exist in consensus reality, perhaps consensus reality allows materialism because believing in it makes this more readable. Although I think I'd prefer to believe in the elves or gnomes or spirit creatures as a method of guidance than put up with the tiny ideas of people who live in a bubble of industrialised bullshit that made writing this possible. But that could well make me a satanism-platformer to the kind of Christian who believes in Angels and Demons.
I just know there is no way I'd be able to discern Angels from Demons or other kind of spirit influence, or even from UFO's and if we allowed a concious, subconscious or unconcious observer interaction into the fabric of the universe there's no end to what could be added as possible interactions with consensus reality.
My unconcious face hurts with all the beauty that might be unleashed by merely discussing the topic.
Maybe being unconciously guided is better than being woke.