In our feature interview, world-weary rock star Alex Ebert — frontman for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros — joins Derek to map out the late 20th-century slide into infinitely co-opted creativity and revolution. They discuss the reasons America could use death rituals, the rise of Trump as the ultimate New Ager, wellness influencers as “the clerical class of the right,” and to ask if critical thinking and open-eyed spirituality are the new punk rock—and for how long.

Source: Conspirituality