Second Dark Age feat. Alan Moore | Chapo Trap House | Episode 322 

50:09 "I remain optimistic. Chiefly, because there's no point in being anything else."

I've been saying that our understanding of climate change is basically the Eldritch truth of our time, and I think HP Lovecraft absolutely nailed what people's reaction to that would be. I think Lovecraftian cosmic horror has at once never been so relevant, nor so redundant.

Are you sure this isn’t just Felix doing a voice

Will is hands down one of the best interviewers in the business. That was one hell of an on-ramp to help Moore to engage at one hell of a pleasantly granular level.

As expected of Alan Moore, creative, original, and completely mad.

Alan Moore is an international treasure.

Dude i had no idea you guys scored an interview with Alan Moore. And the hawkmoor church story. Jesus its frightening.

Can't wait for the boys to start doing podcasts on the esoteric occult

You can hear Moore's beard when he talks it's funny

This was absolutely amazing.

I thought this was troll or a different alan moore at first

Jerusalem is a life changing work, and this is one of the better AM interviews available. Great job.

This was the Alan Moore I was thinking of, but not expecting. I love it.

This is a crowning achievement in the podcast medium.

Personally I find predeterminism comforting and empowering, but the idea of having to experience my life over and over ad infinitum absolutely horrifying like nothing else. Anyways always good to hear from Moore.

Wow thanks for the existential crisis

There's some Adorno in here in the way Moore talks about the transition of culture through the renaissance that I like quite a lot.

The second I saw Alan Moore in the title my weenie became big weenie

I understood all of this and it made perfect sense to me.

I did a double take on that title. Awesome.

death is watching, the cat is listening, and the train goes on forever

Alan Moore's rhetoric is at least as coherent and likely far more coherent than any argument that capitalism is the "natural state" of human organization.

I see Alan Moore, I click. Great interview. I really wish Moore hadn’t left the main stream.

Getting stoned before listening to this was a good choice, perhaps it was fated

Wow! I had assumed it was a different Alan Moore.

2 minutes in: Wait, is this real? I had no idea this existed!

Hawksmoor is a great novel. I hadn't known it tied-in to From Helll, or that Nicholas Hawksmoor was a historical personage. Moore's description of the crypt was very creepy, similar to what is depicted in the film As Above, So Below.

This is some primo uncut ketamine communism, I approve.

My favorite episode of 2019

Good ,new stuff from Mr Moore.

I am definitely buying Jerusalem now, great interview Bois!

Alan Moore is a living legend

Well...this descended quickly. Thankfully.

"The greatest weight.-- What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!" Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal? " Nietzsche - The Gay Science

im so glad i was smoking weed when this one popped up.

OINSTOIN

Damn, he even goes into Julian Jaynes territory

Great interview. I remember listening to this maybe a couple of years ago - when was the original air date?

Alan Moore is my god

I love checking out Chapo references. HENRY DARGER!

Fascinating person

32:44. Profound.

I’m half sure I’m plagiarising a comment I read when this pod came out but I can’t listen to Alan talk to Will without thinking it’s actually Felix doing a bit.

yeah, this.

magic always includes some kind of transformation which is why i think comedians who turn tragedy into comedy are of shamanic origin.

How dare you people :

I love Alan Moore's creativity and willingness to share his knowledge and craft, But I really hate when he falls into "valley girl" speak and ends every single one of his sentences with an upwards inflection. It makes it sound like he's doubting everything he says and it's terribly annoying to hear. "The seeming insecurity of the person speaking is annoying, and we wonder how they managed to get a spot on television or radio. The Urban Dictionary calls it an affliction." -excerpt quote from Kerry Kiefer's answer on Quora: "Why do people introduce upward inflection to the end of their sentences?"

Anyone here from the "c.o.v.I.D A.I" sermon by that one preacher?

3:28

Will they talk about the demdebate?

32:44

I'm somewhat confused by this episode ...

Who has finished his book Jerusalem? I've certainly tried.

I think American libertarianism is inherently different from Egoism in the Stirnerist sense in that Anarcho Capitalism is fundementaly about property ownership and Egoist anarchy explicitly looks to abolish property. In other words, egoism ViOlatEs tHe nAP

hearing americans come into contact with a really thick brummie accent will never not be funny

why no views squad>>??

jk

Anybody else here can’t stand grant Morrison?

post cringe

The Alan Moore part is hands down the most boring thing Ive ever experienced.

Marxism is a religion you dorks

Truly the worst episode since the one with brandon wardell