In that movie, there's a moment in the climactic scene where Conan shakes of the spell (2:33 into this great clip) of Thulsa Doom's bullshit speech. That scene is extremely dense with concepts. Thulsa Doom is representative of "the pyramid" system, which bizarrely enough, is founded on "sex energy" represented by the flame and Thulsa Dooms magical scamming ability.
The Thulsa Doom cult is supposed to represent an old sex cult that continues to this day--which is also pretty gay and theatrical. It appears to control all the western governments and certainly the financial system and other key institutions. Members of the cult sometimes give a nod to their penis worship either by a name like "Shakespeare" or "Rodenberry" or they build a penis monument like the Washington penis monument. Like every cult, it's bizarre to outsiders.
Notably James Earl Jones plays both Thulsa Doom and Darth Vader-the same archetypal character in two different movies. Note the "I am your father" aspect of the speech he gives to Conan. Similarly Conan, just like Luke, start life at the fringe of the Empire. In Conan's world he's in a small village with his actual family, in some Hyperborean Eden until the Pyramid snake cult invades, kills his family and kin and enslaves him as a child. When Conan kills Thulsa Doom, he basically "resets" the circle of his life. He's back outside the pyramid system as a new child going down a new "Riddle of Steel" path.
Anyway, I finally realized "the world of man is the world of lies" about ten years ago. That was several years before the COVID bullshit onslaught hit. It was wild and scary to observe the throng get pushed into yet another cult where all those fucktards went and chanted "doom" at the feet of yet another false prophet little gnome weirdo Fauci. That was a bizarre spectacle to witness.
It's apparent, we're at the end of the "neoliberal" system and the vast pile of lies and institutions that kept it going for my whole life. It's "the pyramid" system, well the current version of it anyway. The premise of the neoliberal system is a bunch of "highly trained" "expert" managers would restructure the world economy for "maximum efficiency". Really they just looted all the equity in the western world and replaced it with funny money. Every time some corporation is sold, for example, equity vanishes into a cloud of debt.
It's falling apart like a rusted old jalopy, now. Some evidence of the rot is precious metals prices shooting to the moon and inflation in general, plus the spastic mega-theft perpetrated by the US empire overseas. Inflation is particularly bad for the pyramid, because it forces people to think for themselves and to see that the pyramid's institutions, like public schools or colleges and universities funded by student loans, are actually toxic and deadly.
Now we're at the point in the ongoing breakdown of the US economy as Jalopy where it's important to understand what happens to the cult of Thulsa Doom after Conan chops his head off? What's the mass of normies going to do when the pyramid falls apart? They won't "wake up". They'll look for a new Daddy or Mommy.
The population can be lumped into a handful of groups: poors, middle class (people who work), ruling class. The middle class is characterized by the habit of trying to make sensible choices and trying to be productive. The ruling class and poors are similar in that they have no such compulsion and suck wealth out of the productive dopes in the middle.
The middle class is subdivided in two. 20% of the productive people are Conan types: they realize the system is a scam and is predatory. 80% have no clue. Eventually the 20% chops the head off the ruling class in various ways. In the French Revolution it was literal head chopping. In that scenario it's a complete refutation of the ruling class. In other scenarios the 20% try to renegotiate their deal with the ruling class. That's happened several times in the US. There was a literal "new deal" for example that eventually was coupled with middle class nirvana in the US for decades.
In other countries and other eras, a bunch of system dropouts reboot "the way". In classical Athens, for example, Diogenes was a contemporary of Plato. Athens and Greece went Empire mode under crazy old Alexander. Diogenes ridiculed the whole thing including the official state oriented philosophical school of Plato... Diogenes thinking eventually led to stoicism which popped up as the Roman Empire was falling apart.
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