Welcome to The Mystic Podcast, I’m your host GLO. In this episode, I sit down again with Aristocratic Dog, who’s bored out of his mind in Guatemala and in desperate need of intellectual stimulation. So, I give it to him.
At the high level, we dive into Slavoj Žižek’s The Sublime Object of Ideology—a vicious Yugoslav counterattack against post-structuralism. We break down why you can’t escape ideology, how Lacan and Hegel get stitched together into something far more aggressive than French ambiguity, and why controlling the center—whether in politics, language, or culture—always decides the game.
At the low level, we get into arbitrage—why your dating problems are basically liquidity problems, why burnt-out Americans find new value in Latin America, and how markets (whether in relationships, culture, or capital) reward those who know how to shift arenas. We explore Latin American politics, gangs as “indigenous cultural outreach organizations,” the future of Argentina, and why expats should think like traders instead of nationalists.
It’s high and low. Theory and practice. Sublime ideology and sexual arbitrage. If you’ve ever wondered how Lenin, Lacan, language, dating, and Latin American politics all collapse into one conversation—you’re in the right place.
