In today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with an incredibly fascinating gent named
.Born to Evangelical Christian parents in my own backyard of Central Florida, John spent the better part of his adolescence worshiping as an Orthodox Jew, and even lived for several years among Hasidim in New York.
He was then drawn into the esoteric writings of Rene Guenon and Julius Evola, before ultimately taking a Bangladeshi wife and joining a non-normative sect of Shia Islam called Ismailism. Today he is a fellow traveler of
’s Cult of Apollo and has grown increasingly interested in white identitarianism.Topics include:
John’s religious upbringing in an Evangelical church venerating Jewish people
His conversion to Orthodox Judaism as a young man
His time spent living with a Hasidic community in New York
Cultural practices of Hasidic Jews
Are Hasidic Jews especially inbred? When we talk about regular Ashkenazi Jews are we typically talking about half Jews?
John’s service as a Shabbos Goy helping his community keep the Sabbath holy
How did John’s parents feel about his conversion to Judaism?
The asymmetrical nature of the Evangelical-Jewish relationship and how it evolved alongside Zionism and Millenarianism
Does Jewish conversion to Christianity equate to a repudiation of their heritage?
Why are Jews attracted to Traditional Catholicism?
Why are so many Hasids on welfare?
How do normie Jews feel about Hasids?
John’s exposure to Guenon’s Perennialism
Why are so many white nationalists interested in Hindu mythology?
Are Dravidians related to Australian Aboriginals?
Does Hinduism fill the void of an authentic pagan worship?
Hinduism as an ethno-religion of the Indian people
Pluralism and Hindu belief
Does John feel like he understands Indian faith or will he always be an outsider?
Do Indian Muslims still abide by the Caste System?
The Dawoodi Bohra sect of Ismailism
The white privilege John has experienced in the mosque
Sacred cow veneration vs. Muslim butchery norms
How similar is Hindutva to MAGA
Shia support for the BJP
How internally trad Indian Americans will be performatively trad out of an assimilationist impulse
The Brahmin Question—how to have a nuanced take as a white identitarian
It isn’t appropriate when upper caste Indians insert themselves into the American racial dynamic as an oppressed group
Indians resist assimilation to prevent being infected by diseases of modernity
Can we lobby Vivek to take a stand against H1Bs?
John Exum’s take on Vivek Ramaswamy
Importance of Vivek mainstreaming the Great Replacement on national television
Immigrants often are eager to pull up the ladder to newcomers
Castizo Futurism (and the Latin American racial caste system in general) is actually extremely pro white in practice
John’s thoughts on Castizo Futurism
America has developed a lot of racial heuristics to deal with the black-white issue that don’t apply to other races
John’s exposure to Mark Brahmin’s REM theory and the Cult of Apollo
John explains the central thesis of Mark Brahmin’s REM theory
How does John feel about Nordicism?
Mark Brahmin’s cosmology is entirely materialist
Walt likes the idea of worshipping the sun
The alternative symbolic language of Apolloism
Is Norse mythology a proto-Christianity? How does Brahmin feel about Wagner?
The idea of Christianity as a religion invented to subvert European peoples?
To what extent does Apolloism allow for syncretism or synthesis?
Is Plato Jewish-coded? Is Aristotle? Are the Iliad and Odyssey?
Is Apolloism scalable to normal people?
The importance of religious pluralism on the right
Is India more pluralist than Europe?
Would the worshipbros start burning people if they seized power?
Why John can’t be an orthodox Apollonian
Esoteric Ismaili beliefs that clash with mainstream Islam
Episode 48 : Jews, Hindus, and the Cult of Apollo with John Exum