Subliminal Jihad

Dimitri and Khalid explore the evolving nature of what is perhaps the ur-text of the "Superhero" in western pop culture: the nefarious English cryptid-turned-avenging silk topper vigilante known as Spring-Heeled Jack... LA LISTENERS: Dimitri will be manning the decks, synthesizers, and video projector all night TONIGHT, FRIDAY OCTOBER 2ND, at Superchief Gallery in DTLA for the opening party of SPECTRE: A Parapolitical Art Show, exploring the spectre of anti-communism and the resistance to it... Tickets are still available here: https://spectreartshow.eventbrite.com Use code "THEYAREWATCHING666" for $5 off at checkout. Limited copies of DEMON FORCES VOL. 2 on cassette and COMMUNOID Issue 01 will be on sale, as well as some classic SJ merch. Don't miss it!

Dimitri and Khalid explore the often misunderstood, over-simplified, and polemicized history of alcohol prohibition in the US under the 18th Amendment from 1920 to 1934. Questions considered: was the temperance movement an evangelical Protestant aberration in the heartland of the wet, as Richard Hofstadter declared in the 1960s? Was Prohibition pushed through by silk topper WASP capitalists who wanted to engineer the perfectly optimized American worker/consumer for the automobile age? Was the saloon a despicable ruling class trap to rob the working man of his wages and dignity, or the secret clubhouse of the heckin’ worker’s movement that had to be stamped out by the bosses? Was Prohibition a thinly veiled repression strategy against Catholic immigrants and African-Americans by Klan-adjacent church ladies, or the culmination of Progressive social movements deeply intertwined with slavery abolition, women’s suffrage, and anti-colonialist struggles (or a little bit of both)? And last but not least, did Prohibition “work” at all? The complexity of the answers may shock you… For access to weekly premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.