Red Scare - Honor Roll w/ Honor Levy *TEASER*

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

Author Honor Levy stops by the pod to talk about her debut short story collection, My First Book.

what if I was two things at once, but both of them were innocent? Yeah, totally. I'm like, try like, it's cute. I try so hard to be like non-binary, like. It has like an exercise once a day, and then I try so hard to like, just take a position, like if I think something, I'm like, can I like, would I die for this would I die for Taiwan yeah but that's the thing you should be able to take positions and like know what you think but

not for everything you don't have to have a position on everything I mean I think like I don't like my kid like I don't think I would die there's nothing that I care enough I was like I don't want my kid. I don't think I would die. There's nothing that I care enough. I don't know, I'm really interested in extremists. People think you guys are extremists. We're really not. And I mean. We can't be bothered to get out of bed half the time. I guess that's extreme.

Extremely, extremely, or extremely bohemian, extremely, or like. Extremely psy-optic. Extremely, yeah. And if I know people think that. Extremely depressed. bohemian yet extremely or like or like extremely shy extremely extremely depressed things are psyops yeah yeah it's it's kind of beautiful that we think that like there's any buddy well you can't just pulling the levers yeah because I know you address them they seem like it seems like you're running cover the more they the more they say it, the more true it becomes. The more you the more you believe in something you like, like, like, you know, like certain means like are becoming real.

Well, I want to have a question about this. And as a question on her. No, I'm not trying to interrupt. No, no. I'm just afraid. OK, you you mentioned this word hyperstition a lot. And I looked it up, hyperstition is like a compound of hyper and superstition and describes ideas that become real in the future through their expression

in the past or present. So in other words, kind of like a self-fulfilling prophecy. And like, I'm guessing this comes from Nick Land, but I haven't read him. And I see that process with memes a lot now because I was thinking about how instead of reality defining memes, memes have now come to define reality. Think of the whole Lolita, Treadcath, Bambi Fawn,

Coke Cat, Red Scare, Girl thing, which came about because people were trying to imitate or meme Dasha or whatever. And they made that into a real, it's like a thing that didn't exist. A parody, like breaking down. And it's one of the worst things. It's one of the worst things,

but it's like a thing that exists now. It's like a thing that you can plug into a search engine. It's a whole new type of person. Like the satire of a moment will become, will just become the truth. Be careful, be careful, don't make a joke downtown because it will just become true. But people literally meme things into existence.

They meme their own psyops into existence. Maybe try memeing, maybe try memeing, remember when Hillary Clinton fainted, there was this kid, he was like, come check this, meme magic, and then there was a guy who wrote a book, and then Keck, Keck, Keck, Keck, Keck, Keck, Keck the God, and seeing evidence of, there is like,

meme magic is real. Meme magic's super real. Well, I like when, in the book, when you say words are magic, that's why it's called spelling. I can't remember that myself. There's a banger line. Thank you. Snap on it.

Thank you. Like that's totally, like if you've heard that, like it's me, like it's, it's, no, I'm just kidding.