Paleolithic Secret Societies and How to Join One (Premium E332) Sample

About this episode

The episode explores the allure of exclusive societies and their historical roots in anthropology.

Travis and Jack are joined by Devin O’Shea to examine why even powerful billionaires like Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein seek increasingly exclusive associations. Devin turns to the anthropological work The Power of Ritual in Prehistory: Secret Societies and Origins of Social Complexity by Brian Hayden to show how and why societies develop groups that declare themselves keepers of esoteric knowledge. How is this related to why Universities can’t seem to prevent dangerous fraternity hazing rituals? If you don’t want to join Kappa Sigma to find out, you could listen to this episode instead. The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2770-the-veiled-prophet Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media! Spectral Voyager Season 2 is releasing now! Binge the entirety of Truly Tradly Deeply by Annie Kelly and Megan Kelly as well as Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows: cursedmedia.net Produced by Liv Agar & Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE…

People in this episode

Hosts: Travis, Jack

Guest: Devin O’Shea

Topics covered

• Paleolithic secret societies
• exclusive associations
• esoteric knowledge
• fraternity hazing rituals
• anthropology

Keywords

• secret societies
• billionaires
• Peter Thiel
• Jeffrey Epstein
• fraternity hazing
• esoteric knowledge
• anthropology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kappa Sigma, Cursed Media, QAA Podcast

Books & works: The Power of Ritual in Prehistory: Secret Societies and Origins of Social Complexity, The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis

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