NonzeroClips | Introducing Psychopolitica 🍄 | Nikita Petrov & John Horgan @MeaningoflifeTV | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
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In the first of a series of bi-weekly conversations, Nikita Petrov and John Horgan talk about John’s hockey career, the Covid pandemic, Nikita’s escape from the city and search for a new lifestyle, the 60s, Russian laws about “foreign agents,” amanita muscaria mushrooms, inner emigration, the social responsibility of an artist, and more.


0:00 John’s going to play Covid hockey after the taping
4:31 Nikita’s experience with Covid
6:44 Covid in America
8:30 Nikita’s escape from the city
11:08 John’s experience with New York
11:54 A survey of Russian ways of living
20:44 John: “My country is like… I need time to process it.”
21:26 John’s new book, Pay Attention
24:52 Monstration, the Russian absurdist rally
31:50 John: “Ideas that are lifted out of their human context are phony“
33:19 Mind-Body Problems
33:47 The Yippies
37:44 Psychopolitica, Nikita’s project that puts dreams, drug trips and politics on equal footing
42:33 Fighting the system vs dropping out
43:21 Patti Smith and Adam Curtis’s Hypernormalisation
48:18 Nikita’s case for not being “a foreign agent”
50:04 Nikita: “I want to invent a new genre of enacting change”
53:24 Nikita’s involvement with amanita muscaria mushrooms
1:02:46 John’s escape from politics into quantum mechanics
1:05:46 “Inner emigration”