Imagine a world where everything works in reverse. Men are women and always have been, there is no creator and action no longer matters as much as speech. Show how good of a person you are by choking out a trafficked underage Mexican tranny in the bathroom of a bar while your wife is at home smoking weed in front of your children, children who are so deep in the screen they will never know the real and so masked they will never see their own face. Everything is fake, nothing is real, so it becomes very easy to forget what you cared about an hour ago. It’s all instant gratification, likes, memes and gotchas. 280 characters to create and explain a thesis in real time before someone pwns your ass. Digital blackface avatars gaining steam whenever they make a self-deprecating racially charged comment, the white children who long to get gender surgery to prove they know a black avatar lining up to properly tokenize. This always has been, but acceleration brings the worst and most ugly aspects to the front. Ideology is nothing but a meme where our souls exist in a coded concentration camp channel running on fumes of fear frequency.
FEMA camp dualism: Kamp Kamala plays minimal techno1, serves you Bocabug burgers and gives you free weed. Get paid in likes to watch children in clown make up raping each other. Qamp Qanon plays punk rock and the Grateful Dead2, gives you a grill and a brand new AA chip or a suboxone prescription. Get paid in downvotes to not watch clownworld child rape on the screen but to keep it on a loop in your broken mind. Both are accelerated counterculture, addiction to ephemerality and finding meaning in the most meaningless trash. As if culture itself wasn’t illusory and warping, counterculture trods along to tell sensitive and impressionable children that God isn’t real and to put faith in institutions. As much as it seems to be “anti-statist”, counterculture does nothing but enforce the state and it’s true oppression by vehemently denying it. It’s hard to focus or think straight when you truly believe that the “nazis” or “fascists” hell bent on world domination are either 4chan addicts posting swastikas online or woke evangelicals smashing anyone’s windows (not actually smashing a person, that would be a bit too analog) who disagrees with them for tomorrow mornings wake-up Instagram story, and not those in control who run the hellscape we are stuck in. No, they obviously care about our lives and well being, it’s why they are simping for a fake vaccine that is probably just a mental eugenic grouper.
When jobs have ceased to exist, everyone can be the retarded specialist of whatever digital (not) cool kids club they frequent. Rightmin are epidemiologists while leftmin are lawyers. In a way it is sorta beautiful, true soul automation controlled by memes. Everyone does exactly what they are told (by Satanists) because it offers immediate gratification, and the real world is now just a meme. Honest work becomes something to meme about in the info war, a LARP in between Fortnite and Reddit; the only job available is to help code the Covid-23 countercultural complex, endlessly pressing buttons as a form of physical release, with free rape porno and legalized military grade marijuana to wind down after a hard day on social media in your government owned pod. Children now have rights; the right to get addicted to satanic sex videos for free, the right to sleep with adults who want to harm them, the right to a free anti-education of Pepes, Wojaks, Chads and Stacys. Don’t try to read any books to them, especially the Bible. That many words on a page is hard to stomach and we can find a meme that explains it more simply with brighter colors, better dimensions and less letters. Don’t tell your kids about Jesus, he was abusive!!!! He didn’t once mention BIPOC trans Samoans who have no legs. He also looks white in most images and he clearly took care of his body, obvious fascism.
Consumption and production form an ouroboros; never fully one or the other but always eating and shitting the same. It no longer matters what comes out because (((they))) have already broken us down so deeply that all we have to eat is the data we pay to produce with our essence and consume raw no questions asked. One now has a list of hashtags and memes to throw out whenever their state informed world view is challenged; sentient wikipedia articles using the most broken rhetoric as dialectic. This is why someone like Lin Wood3 has such cache in 2021; its not *what* he is saying, it is the modulation between calm, Southern rhetoric and short bursts of dialectic as a throttle to the throat.
I remember seeing a mutual friends MySpace profile in 2007 that just had a bunch of screenshots of brands they liked in the “about me” section: Apple, Coca-Cola, Starbucks. In 2021 hashtag #BLM means you are a good person; even if you burn poor peoples house of worship for likes. Hashtag #qanon means you’re a skeptical person, even if you eat up anti-fake fake news like candy and accuse your child of being a pedophile for being upset when a maniac cop brutally slaughters a child on television. Super-sized meme meals, no side of nuance offered; in fact that makes us wretch. Psychological terror porn not only for free at PornHub but on the nü-news; state sanctioned and owned social media alternate reality game systems that offer no warp tunnel back to the real. Terrorism as discourse; call the cyber-police on your mother for wearing a MAGA hat while dad calls the cops on your brother for posting a BLM meme. And don’t talk to another person on the subway, you could spread the coof with the quickness.
The Trivium is much more than an external system we have been given to communicate correctly with, it is an internal locus that keeps grounded in truth. Grammar is the art of inventing and combining symbols, logic/dialectic is the art of thinking and rhetoric is the art of communication. Grammar is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-symbolized and prescribes the correct combination of words to form a sentence. Logic concerns the thing-as-it-is-known, it prescribes how to combine concepts into judgement and judgements into syllogisms (chains of reasoning) to achieve truth. Rhetoric concerns the thing-as-it-is-communicated and is the prescription of combining sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into a whole composition having unity, coherence and the desired emphasis, as well as clarity, force and beauty. Any communication is a modulation of all three trivial points: any teaching has always involved these arts and sciences. HTML based anti-learning entrainment involves none of this, it is the piggish, blind consumption of Kabbalastic coding via the meme. Meme-meal of pure numerical modulation; hate the big bad nazis with funnier memes while simultaneously espousing generic eugenic prescription to anyone who questions the digital-worldview. The AI based state is the supreme God. Even Marx would probably be outraged by how literally his words have been implemented. This is what happens when Scripture is hidden and maligned; no one reads correctly, and we take dialectics and use them as botched rhetoric to whine about our own issues being made worse via web based quarantining.
Marshall McLuhan spoke of Southern rhetoric vs. Northern dialectic; the freedom of getting dirty in thick swampy woods vs the prison of forced proper Puritanism. Huck Finn may say “nigger” and fist fight with Tom Sawyer, but he is a young boy learning morality in the truly sticky and not binary world of the real. On the other hand, Walden is a book written by a rich, Harvard educated loser who had the privilege of dropping out of society to read books and be lazy.4 Books like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn served as a proper escape from routine for children, a world where play and work are integrated correctly. Tom and Huck may be simple; they don’t need to navel gaze, they’re always running, fishing, swimming and being vulgar. They lead a truly unplanned existence, soaking in the dérive of the everyday. They also have skills, agency and friendship. In contrast, Thoreau explains with his inaction that nothing matters and one should only drop out, a life where one abandons work for play to end up with neither because they can afford both. The great Yankee drive towards immediate action without thought (by sitting in the woods and thinking about action) carries the incapacity for either reflection, contemplation or enjoyment with it’s “jittery, know-howish, self improving and pragmatical bias which ‘can’t let things be’”.5 It isn’t a form of resistance to refuse to work when you can afford not to; transcendental naturalism as the root of postmodern losership as winning. The promotion of Walden as transcendental and Huck Finn as “racist” has led to a soaking up of the Calvinist moral arithmetic of the soul; the chosen few control the masses with this simple code and we beg for our next feeding of pure number, just let us do nothing and take pics of it for others to consume and add to their anti-routine of nothingness.
Walden is a great “Bible” for the war based education system; do nothing and lose to win. Even when the university was purported to still matter it was just a monument to trained incapacity: PHD programming → German Studies = assembly line technique. Long before the web was conceived, Hollywood, the US Military and the university system formed like Voltron to swap knowledge (Trivium based studies of scripture) for data (industrial bricolage via the human mechanism). Students became pure tool-beings, only being taught the “tools of research” which tell you “where to start and how to find”; you may never know what you are searching for but here are the tools to maybe make a contribution to knowledge. Everything becomes a recipe for those who have never learned to cook. Knowledge is intentionally kept secret while education becomes pure information warfare, the classroom a battlefield of planned confusion. It is no mystery why mid 20th Century books called “How To Read a Book” became best sellers and process art usurped the idea of finality. Memorization is prized over knowledge, time is the what denotes greatness, and we are taught to both ask and answer our own questions; enforcing fascistic narcissism and induced multiplicity. No need for nuance when you can go to Wikipedia and pick from a list of “one hundred important ideas” that are easy to meme.
All this has already led us into a myopic mirror world where the opposite is what leads to quantization of likes and upvotes. When the Trivium is hidden from us logic doesn’t make sense. When all we know is codes, but not pure math, no one can begin to break down the rhetoric shoveled in and out of their mouths. One can easily imagine a very near future where no one speaks, children become entrained via iPad video games like Angry Birds and YouTube hypnosis. Porno addiction now starts in the womb; play your child audio of women gagging to teach them how beautiful life is. In fact, porno could be banned (and trust me, it will be soon, especially the more we pray) and it wouldn’t matter because we have created a digital topology where avatar and image itself serve as an ad for a psychological terror porn of the soul. And if you want to be a porno star, all you need to do is boot up the MacBook, you’re already being filmed masturbating, whether is with your genitals or your mind. Web traffic as human traffic, though the human is slowly being willed out of existence. Pure dissociation in the echoed hall of mirrors; searching for any semblance of self among the soulless avatars we don’t identify with and never will be able to.
4 Thoreau famously refused to pay $5 for his Masters Degree.
5 Marshall McLuhan, private letters .
Hey, heard you on System of Systems, great stuff and dig this article too. Quick question, on that podcast, you mention a podcast that was discussing Dugin's facebook posts. Was trying to find it, but no luck. It was at 1hr15m in the SoS podcast. Do you remember what podcast was being discussed?
This was great man, loved it. Dropped a lot of interconnected pieces. Fire on the Mountain in '77, damn!