• Youtube is dead: the lost avant garde of intellectual dissent on the internet.
    Oct 11 2025

    Implicitly, this is a significant contrast to my old "manifesto" titled On Community, although it does not address the thesis of that video, directly, in any way: if you regard this as a manifesto, it is addressed to the youtuber (or podcaster) as a solitary intellectual dissident, cultural critic, commentator and comedian --not as the center of an incipient community, pulling together like-minded people (as per "the spirit season one") with an ambition to accomplish something more than they could ever attempt alone.


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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    47 mins
  • Escaping the Cult of Happiness: who you are is what you make excuses for.
    Sep 26 2025

    Nihilism doesn't just mean that you refuse to believe OTHER PEOPLE'S bullshit… but, also, your own.

    The excuses are harder to quit than the thing itself, bro.


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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    17 mins
  • The Process of Learning is the Meaning of Life: Skepticism & Self-Doubt (vs. Cosmic Skeptic, Galileo, etc.)
    Sep 26 2025

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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    13 mins
  • The Opposite of Islam: Genocide in Gaza, Genocide in Xinjiang, in Parallel.
    Aug 14 2025

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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • The Necessity of Nihilism: Atheism is Not Enough.
    Jul 28 2025

    Explained in ten minutes or less. ;-)



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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    10 mins
  • Multiculturalism means another dozen dark ages, all at the same time: ignorance and antisemitism instead of atheism.
    Jun 29 2025

    "When you think about what culture is, it is the accumulation of past beliefs: it is the burden of ignorance we take on from our ancestors. It is a set of authoritarian attitudes that the past is trying to impose upon the present and the future. And we have to resist it all."


    Many minutes later: "What are we talking about, when we talk about culture, if not a way for the dead to impose their will upon the living?"


    This is PART TWO OF TWO. Atheism opposes a single belief only, whereas nihilism opposes them all, dealing with the root causes (and fundamental defects) of belief as such; therefore, a nihilistic critique of multiculturalism is inevitable, as a nihilist cannot see a plurality of false beliefs as an improvement on just one --for all the same reasons that we would not see a country divided between many warring forms and factions of islam as superior to a country unified by just one (although that one and the many would be equally false).


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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    2 hrs and 44 mins
  • Against multiculturalism. Culture is tyranny. And a plurality of tyrannies never adds up to a democracy.
    May 28 2025

    This is part one of two. Atheism opposes a single belief only, whereas nihilism opposes them all, dealing with the root causes (and fundamental defects) of belief as such; therefore, a nihilistic critique of multiculturalism is inevitable, as a nihilist cannot see a plurality of false beliefs as an improvement on just one --for all the same reasons that we would not see a country divided between many warring forms and factions of islam as superior to a country unified by just one (although that one and the many would be equally false).


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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Who Killed MLK? The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior: How Not Why.
    Apr 17 2025

    You know the difference between a police and an outlaw? If anyone ever asks, you just take off your shoe, hold it up, and reply, "ONE STEP".


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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    53 mins