# Why the Entire Foundation of Western Culture Was Built on a Historical Myth w/ Alexander Bard

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Podcast: [The "What is Money?" Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-what-is-money-show-1365694)
Published: 2026-05-29T22:05:42+00:00
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## Resource

What if the self you believe in is a projection your mind generates to connect the past to the future — and nothing more? In this conversation, Robert Breedlove sits down with Alexander Bard — Swedish cyber philosopher, co-author of Syntheism and Process and Event, music producer, tantric monk, and one of the most original philosophical minds working today — to dismantle the foundations of Western thought and rebuild them from scratch. The conversation moves through the Persian-Hebrew axis that actually gave birth to Western civilization long before the Greeks, the philosophy of flux as the foundational truth of reality, how the self is constructed moment to moment through the interplay of pretension and retention, why the individual is a legal fiction invented to imprison people, how ego dissolution in meditation and sexual ecstasy point to the same pre-subject state, and how Hegel, Nietzsche, Spinoza, and the Sufis all converge on the same radical insight. This conversation explores the deeper forces shaping human behavior, institutions, and the future of civilization.

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