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Being an entrepreneur is arguably the highest status job in the world at the moment. In the 1960s, it was the rock star. In the 1980s-1990s, investment bankers were the ‘masters of the universe’, the object of cultural fascination (and loathing), depicted in books like Bonfire of the Vanities or American Psycho. Now? No one could give a crap about investment bankers — they’re souped-up traders who bet with other people’s money and the only thing they invent are bullshit derivatives. But the entrepreneur? The ‘founder’? All kneel before their genius.

Entrepreneurship, Tech, Culture, Business, StartupJules EvansJanuary 7, 2023Entrepreneurship, Tech, Startup, BusinessComment

The Religion of the Future Police

In 2015, Google engineer Anthony Levandowski started The Way of the Future, a church to worship super-intelligent AI. And now we have the Religion of the Future Police, began by former Google manager Malcolm Collins and his wife Simone.

Culture, Entrepreneurship, Genetics, Religion, TechnologyJules EvansDecember 16, 2022Comment

10) HG Wells and the New World Order

This is the latest entry in my Spiritual Eugenics research project, which researches the overlap between eugenics and New Age spirituality. You can find the rest of the project here.

Science Fiction, Technology, History, Evolution, CultureJules EvansJanuary 27, 2022Comment

7) Edward Bulwer-Lytton and the Coming Race

This is the seventh entry in my spiritual eugenics series, which explores the overlap between eugenics and New Age spirituality. You can find the whole series here.

You probably haven’t heard of Edward Bulwer-Lytton. If you have, it’s likely because he was the author of supposedly the worst ever opening sentence of a novel: ‘It was a dark and stormy night’ — a line so cringe, it’s inspired an annual prize for bad writing.

Culture, Spirituality, Literature, Fantasy, Science FictionJules EvansDecember 31, 2021Comment

6) Dune, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and ‘occult eugenics’

This is the latest chapter in my project to explore ‘spiritual eugenics’. It looks at occult eugenics in the practices and books of members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a very influential occult society of the late 19th century. Its members believed they could use sex magic to engineer the incarnation of highly-evolved beings — an idea which would appear in later fantasy fiction, including Frank Herbert’s Dune.

Magic, Occult, Spirituality, Dune, CultureJules EvansDecember 10, 2021Comment

On Hellbound

This month, Los Angeles finally opened a museum for the movies. It’s telling that it took LA over a century to open a commemoration of its greatest achievement — California has never been much for dwelling on the past. Yet I wonder if the opening of the museum is also something on a tombstone, marking the end of the era when Hollywood ruled the world.

Netflix, Korea, Asia, TV Series, CultureJules EvansNovember 25, 2021Comment