Fiction, philosophy, and chaos in practice

Corrupt adults from Ikebukuro

We kick off spring talking about Tokyo track day aggression before diving into a long-form chat with writer Rayme Michaels. We break down his seven books, from dirty screwball comedies to existential urban satire, and how philosophy sneaks into everything he writes.

We talk about Kierkegaard’s infamous seducer story and how aesthetics and ethics crash into real life. That leads us into a deep dive on Nietzsche, the will to power, Dionysian self-destruction, and whether Nietzsche cursed himself by naming his alter ego Dionysus.

Rayme shares wild autobiographical stories from his books — manic university friends, memory wipeouts from medication, revenge tales from high school bullying, and the blurry line between fiction and reality.

We end up discussing Schopenhauer, occultism, and whether philosophers were really just frustrated fiction writers. Then we spin out into Ayn Rand, libertarian socialism, banking regulation, the myth of capitalism’s romance, and how power structures want to keep magical thinking to themselves.

We also touch on hypnosis, the occult, corporate sigils, Grant Morrison comics, The Black Arts, the white/black/yellow schools of magic, Adler over Freud, and why Crowley thought Alfred Adler was the real one.

Finally, we lament the low-tier state of most content creation in Japan — clickbait reels vs. deep thinking — and shout out anyone still doing real long-form work in the shadows.

Rayme Michaels Links:
youtube.com/@raymemichaels
amazon.com/author/raymemichaels
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raymemichaels.tumblr.com
x.com/rayme_michaels
instagram.com/rayme_michaels
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