Hey folks, welcome to the mind of a skeptical leftist. Today I have an interview with my friend Damien Marie Athope. Damien is an activist turned educator who has spent many years working for social justice in various ways. He has spent the past few years learning about and spreading information about the history of religion from the time before it became the dominant mode of thought across much of the world. He has studied prehistory and talked to many archeologists and anthropologists who appreciated his work and his understanding of prehistoric times. In this interview we talk about his growth and how he came to the worldview he now holds including his path to atheism and anarchism while touching on his mode of thinking which he describes as axiology. For more information on axiology you can go watch Damien’s videos on his channel which will be in the show notes or description box of this episode. We didn’t spend as much time on Damien’s activism and what he has done for his communities so we’re going to be doing a second interview. I hope that you appreciate him and his work as much as I do.
Once again I’m not doing an intro rant, I’m definitely trying to focus on my attempt to do a video essay so I won’t be doing any hot takes for awhile. I love talking to people though so I am continuing the interview series while I work on my theory project.
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