Chaos in Russia! Wagner’s pagan neo-Nazis. Is conspirituality unique to a failing American empire in the internet age? Does it require Californian New Age spirituality, with conspiracy theories that weave around alternative medicine, for-profit pharma with no social safety net, and the reactionary politics of White Christian Nationalism?
This week, Julian explores a different version of Conspirituality. This form translates QAnon for a European audience and calls for a return to the golden age of the Russian empire, but also to an ancient pre-Christian Slavic identity united across borders in pagan faith.
Show Notes
The Everyday Religious Life in Wagner PMC, via Observatoire
Candance Rondeaux on Wagner, Pan-Slavism, al-Qaeda
Jan Zabka’s piece on QAnon in Czech/Slovakia, Prophets of Freedom and Doom
Sofia Cherici’s piece on QAnon’s cross-cultural evolution, Translating QAnon
Marlene Laurelle on the Rodnoverie Movement
Fake News sites centered in Veles, Macedonia had Russian and American ties
A Photographer and an Artist Walk into a Fake News Factory from Coda Story
Original Book of Veles forgery
Main interstitial music: Bus Ride to Gulu — Pete Kuzma
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