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Leaving America, Reclaiming Paganism + Facing Collapse / Rhyd Wildermuth

Leaving America, Reclaiming Paganism + Facing Collapse / Rhyd Wildermuth

Rhyd Wildermuth is co-founder and managing editor of Gods&Radicals, a nonprofit pagan anticapitalist publication. Rhyd identifies as a Pagan and an anarchist, and as we go over in this episode, those are not mutually exclusive terms.

Rhyd gives a description as to why Paganism, in the Americanized sense, has lost touch with its radical anticapitalist roots, and through his work and writings, Rhyd is attempting to provide a much-needed reinterpretation of what it means to be Pagan in these tumultuous, crisis-laden times.

Rhyd left America behind to spend his remaining days in Europe, where he currently resides. We discuss his expatriation, the recent events in Charlottesville and its fallout, and how anarchists and anticapitalists of all stripes and creeds have work to do preparing and adapting to the accelerating collapse of capitalism and the American Empire.

Episode Notes:

You can find Rhyd's essays at God&Radicals


Interviews:

Great Dying: Deforestation, Species Extinction + Localized Conservation / Stuart Pimm

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Patterns of Meaning: The Patterning Instinct + Overthrowing The Selfish Gene / Jeremy Lent

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