Losing Our Minds at the End of the World
A podcast about life in the Anthropocene created by Clay (@babadookspinoza.bsky.social).
Artwork by Hayley Doyle (@hayleydoyleart.bsky.social).
Contact us at: LOMatEotW@gmail.com
- Episode 5 is now out at long last! It’ll be on Spotify, Apple, etc. in a few minutes, but here’s the Patreon link. Thank you so much to my guest on this one, Rae (@borzoilover47.bsky.social)! www.patreon.com/posts/117629...
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- Thank you to all the new followers! Please check out what’s been released so far and *subscribe* if you like what you find! 🙏 There will never be advertisements and I want to keep the episodes & pieces public as much as possible—but that depends on subscribers! www.patreon.com/LosingOurMin...
- For… $2/mo: access the Discord chat and some bonus material $5/mo: all bonus material $15/mo: shout-out on next episode + suggest a topic for an episode segment or written piece $50/mo: shout-out on EVERY episode …and other perks TBA! Any subscribers can request stickers of the project art.
- Expect Ep. 5 in the coming days! In the meantime, catch up on the first 4 episodes and 17 written pieces up on the Patreon now—and please subscribe if you like what you find to help keep the project going! $2 gets you into the Discord, $5 unlocks all bonus material... www.patreon.com/LosingOurMin...
- It’s not a virtue to put on a false face to spare people the inner turmoil of living on a dying world. You’re only making its death certain. We’re all bearing the psychological toll—probably in even more aggravated ways if we’re lying to ourselves that everything is mostly fine. We know better!
- Read (here or, preferably, on Patreon) this piece from 2017 by @babadookspinoza.bsky.social on Marx’s frequent analogy between capital and vampires, using Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a point of reference. “Bloodsuckers: The Vampire-Bite of Capital” (1/2) www.patreon.com/posts/113218...
- (2/2) The alt-text doesn’t fit at all on these so please visit the public Patreon post for the full text: www.patreon.com/posts/113218...
- “The life of the vampire is devoid of pleasure, stripped to the barest of trappings in order to pursue efficiently the one real necessity: blood. The process of procuring it seems hardly worth the trouble, given the miserable kind of quasi-life it sustains.”
- Please subscribe today! And a huge thank-you to everyone who already has. ❤️
- Meet the host/author!✨
- “Trust the Disgust: On the Death of Joy”—Read the latest piece here or on the Patreon! (1/2) www.patreon.com/posts/111103...
- “Menace the liberal delusion of a morally inverted world from all sides and do not relent. Organize the strength to right the world.”
- New public post! “The Doom Is Coming from Inside the House”: www.patreon.com/posts/110773...
- New post for all paid subscribers ($2/mo or more): “Fake Plastic People” www.patreon.com/posts/110711...
- Here’s a thread of everything that’s been released so far—the four podcast episodes (all public) and thirteen written pieces (all but one public), with descriptions, clips and excerpts. If you like what you find, please subscribe to support the project! ✨ x.com/babadookspin...
- “Words, Words, Words! in a Material World”: www.patreon.com/posts/108369... A piece on the power and limits of language.
- Dying in America: www.patreon.com/posts/109320...
- “The only way I know to deal with the enormity of this is to try to say something real about it.”
- This episode—“Doom and Shrooms”—was really fantastic and it’s available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and elsewhere in addition to the Patreon! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1CQC... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
- CW: addiction, relapse From the latest public piece on the Patreon, “Still Just a Rat in a Cage: Notes from the Underworld”: www.patreon.com/posts/110218...
- CW: addiction, relapse Here’s my latest piece: “Still Just a Rat in a Cage: Notes from the Underworld.” Definitely my most personal piece to date, it recounts my recent relapse, including some text I wrote in the midst of it. I hope it helps someone! www.patreon.com/posts/110218...
- My eventual goal is to release one podcast episode and one written piece about every week. The written pieces have been coming out at a good clip but obviously the podcast isn’t there yet. I appreciate everybody’s patience while I get this off the ground—it’s still very early! :)
- And let me just add that the support of the Patreon subscribers is so immensely appreciated, especially at this critical early stage, not just for the money but because it means a lot to see that anyone gives a shit about this project. My undying thanks <3 www.patreon.com/LosingOurMin...
- And I also want to add that I’m still doing everything by myself, which will hopefully change soon but which is a serious constraint on my ability to release episodes regularly at the pace I’d like. Again, I greatly appreciate your patience while I learn how to do this better!
- We see headlines like this every few days and yet are expected to go about our normal lives until the moment they become impossible—very soon! We need to organize the collective power to stop this before it’s too late. Let the fact that it could be already drive you to righteous vengeance & action!
- “It is definitely becoming increasingly common for people to have these overwhelming feelings about the world, … there’s a lot of people feeling the weight of the world upon them.” @borzoilover47.bsky.social in the upcoming episode
- We must move “away from the definition of psychopathology where if you don’t go with the status quo, if you don’t fall in line, if you don’t keep waking up, going to work, going home, repeat—that there’s something wrong with you or something pathological about what you’re doing.”
- New episode now out on Spotify! open.spotify.com/episode/057h...
- New episode!! The first installment of the listener-contributed series “Who Speaks for Earth? Ch. 1: At the Bottom of Everything” www.patreon.com/posts/109708...
- If you have your own thoughts you’d like to have featured on the first “Who Speaks for Earth?” listener-contributed episode, please get in touch! Either message the social media accounts, the Patreon page, or email lomateotw@gmail.com! :)
- Hope is central to this project, but not false hope. If the world is ending, does that mean there’s no hope? The world was always going to end! Nothing lasts forever. I think as long as we’re alive, there is hope—of something good, of something new, of something meaningful. Life!
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View full threadLife is struggle, and life is beautiful. Life ends—but life is still worth it. As much or as little life as is given to us, what we do now will always and forever be what we did now. We get to take care of each other in difficult times. Maybe we even get to see how it all ends.
- It’s difficult to be grateful to be living in these times, but on reflection, there is so much to be grateful for. And I’m grateful for all of you. Thank you for joining me in grappling with these thorny questions that have been gnawing at us for so long—hopefully a lot longer!
- I’m excited to share the episode with you and hear your thoughts. I don’t know the future better than anyone else, and I haven’t given up hope of averting the worst of the worst yet, so take it all with a grain of salt. But I’m not content to peddle false hope or forced optimism.
- How we end says just as much about us as how we began. If the world ends in twenty years, would the next twenty years not become, then, even more important, rather than less? I think so. So don’t despair, no matter what you’re predicting. Don’t let the future drown the present.
- I say this because the interview I conducted yesterday for the “Who Speaks for Earth?” listener-contributed episode really gets into the weeds of these anxieties and possibilities. Parts of it might strike some people as overly grim (it is a podcast about the end of the world!).
- But not to consider these questions—what meaning there is to hold onto if this is the end—would be to shirk the responsibilities I accepted in starting this project: to make something real, to explore the questions literally everyone is asking, even if deep in their subconscious.
- That said, I’m not ready to concede that there is nothing we can do about the climate crisis. But it’s necessary to acknowledge the seriousness of our situation—which further means grappling with the question: “What if our efforts fail and human life on Earth becomes impossible?”
- From Episode 1: “I want this show to be able to talk about the crisis of this moment, how to be alive right now, how to avoid what's coming, and how to deal seriously with the possibility that that won't work.”
- Just conducted a fascinating interview with a listener who got in touch with her thoughts for the Who Speaks for Earth prompt—“How are you doing, and how are you dealing?” Excited to feature our conversation along with other listener submissions. Get in touch! lomateotw@gmail.com :)
- New public post, “Dying in America”: www.patreon.com/posts/109320...
- Hello all! My apologies: Episode 4 has been much delayed for various reasons but is coming soon! In the meantime, check out the 3 podcast episodes and 11 written pieces out now—and please subscribe if you like what you find! www.patreon.com/LosingOurMin...
- Right now I’m doing everything myself. If you’d like to get involved with this project, please get in touch! Whatever you can contribute to the process would be greatly appreciated and would help me get these episodes out more regularly. DM or hit up lomateotw@gmail.com! :)
- Meet the host!
- Please subscribe if you’ve enjoyed the episodes and written pieces so far! This project doesn’t have advertisers, so subscriptions are important to keep it going. Word-of-mouth also helps, so please tell your friends and followers about it! Rate, review, follow… it all helps! :)
- Please subscribe to support this project, which is entirely listener-funded! www.patreon.com/LosingOurMin...
- “”””Mutuals”””” broadly defined in the sense of contemporaries, fellow humans, “Alles Menschen Werden Mutuals!” etc.
- New public piece on the Patreon on the power and limits of language: “When you speak the truth, your words hit with the full weight of the world behind them.” www.patreon.com/posts/108369...
