Hey everybody. This is

this is Darrell Cooper and I thought I'd bring you a little Martyrmaid bonus.

This is a talk I gave last year about Friedrich Nietzsche and Fyodor Dosteevsky at the Novitate conference in Washington, D.C.

The Novatate conference was created by Luke Burgess, author of the book Wanting,

The Power of Memitic Desire in Everyday Life, to explore and celebrate the work of French

scholar Renee Gerard, of whom you've heard me speak a few times in the past.

Much of the material here will be familiar to those of you who have listened to the underground

spirit which was episode 20 of the Martyrmaid podcast.

But here you get it in a condensed 90 minutes

that you can send to your mom without asking her

to listen to some dude she's never heard of for five hours.

Although I admit cutting it down to this length

felt like choosing which fingers and toes I wanted to chop off.

There's a lot more stuff like this on the Martyrmaid's sub stack. I am currently, and this is January 31st,

2024, I'm currently working on a series of essays on the history of slavery and the lead up to the U.S. Civil War.

I just released the third essay in that series and there are many, many other essays, all of which have audio versions on a podcast feed if you prefer to listen to them, as well as

interviews and podcasts that are only available to subscribers on the sub-stack.

This is a 100% listener supported outfit.

I don't run ads and I'm able to keep doing this for one reason.

It's because you guys choose to support me by becoming paid subscribers at the

sub stack that's it. You can find the sub stack at martyrmaid

dot sub stack dot com and it's just five bucks a month or 50 bucks a year and subscribers get a discount on Martyrmaid gear along with the exclusive

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