Gary Lachman: Trickledown Metaphysics #TheExplorersCLUB #Philosophy #History #SocialChange

About the talk (from Gary)
My talk will look at how fashions in the academic world, such as deconstructionism and postmodernism, with their critique of the notion of a stable, knowable 'truth' and 'reality', initially promoted in the cause of progressive ideas, have ironically paved the way for the "post truth" "alternative fact" world we have inhabited since the 2016 US presidential election. This is result of a process I call "trickle down metaphysics," which began in the late 1880s, when the philosopher Nietzsche predicted a coming age of nihilism, the active belief in nothing. Since then it has trickled down from the metaphysical heights and has reached our television sets and Twitter feeds. I will also look at how the current global situation of unremitting crisis can be seen as an example of what I call the "Goldilocks theory of history," in which societies either crack up or transcend themselves, depending on whether the challenges they face are either too great, too small, or "just right."

ABOUT GARY LACHMAN
Gary Lachman is the author of twenty-one books on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness to literary suicides, popular culture and the history of the occult. He has written a rock and roll memoir of the 1970s, biographies of Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, C. G. Jung, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson, histories of Hermeticism and the Western Inner Tradition, studies in existentialism and the philosophy of consciousness, and about the influence of esotericism on politics and society. He writes for several journals in the UK, US, and Europe, including Fortean Times, Quest, Strange Attractor, Fenris Wolf, and his work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Times Educational Supplement, Guardian, Independent on Sunday, Sunday Times, Mojo, Gnosis and other publications. He lectures regularly in the UK, US, and Europe, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. He has appeared in several film and television documentaries and on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and is on the adjunct faculty in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Before becoming a full-time writer, Lachman studied philosophy, managed a new age bookshop, taught English Literature, and was a Science Writer for UCLA. Gary was a founding member of the pop group Blondie and in 2006 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lachman was born in New Jersey, but since 1996 has lived in London, UK.

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Interviewed for The Esoteric Explorers Club by Sarah Janes
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