Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 262
Nostalgia for a Lost Future:
A Conversation with Xurious

^[1]215 words / 70:38

To listen in a player, click here ^[2]. To download the mp3, right-click here ^[2] and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”

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 ^[3]
• 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 ^[4]
• You can listen to his music on BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/xurious/ ^[5]