**Now unlocked** Part 1 of my 3-part series on mystical and spiritual themes in the early, unfairly maligned seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I also go into the mid-late Eighties TV and other entertainment than shaped my childhood. Link in the replies. [..]
Notice how nobody has personality traits anymore. The way Discourse has it, no one is kind, or scatterbrained, or inconsiderate, or inconsistent, or brave. Instead people have diagnoses: autism, BPD, depression, ADHD.
One of the odder symptoms of the liberal psychosis at its current unprecedented intensity: a real pattern is noticed but somehow ends up reversed in the mind of the noticer.
100% AI Generated.
I remember when I would spend 30 hours on conceptualization, modeling, texturing, lighting, and rendering to finally get an image like this. And now, anyone who can communicate and has the idea can do it in less than 15 minutes.
Everything is going to change.
Houellebecq: “The Left feels lost, and just like an injured animal, it becomes mean. It wasn’t the case when I started writing. It now feels itself dying so it becomes mean.”
"I was a skilled steel worker.
Now I'm delivering parcels for minimum wage, self employed, no rights.
It stinks.
Think we'll lose the house.
Vote Brexit, they said, save Steel.
Vote Boris, they said, save Steel.
I'll still vote tory again - I don't trust Labour"
This is now the standard midwit take. At bottom, the CIA funding Abstract Expressionism is irrelevant, because the move into abstraction predated that funding by over 50 years & can clearly be put down to art’s own inner logic in the age of photography & mechanical reproduction.
Reminder that modern art was a CIA psy-op.
Former CIA officials came clean on this during the '90s, confirming that the agency used abstract art by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and others to promote American culture during the Cold War.
The intent was to portray America…
The perennial appeal of this tale (which this account has told a few times now, I think) is it allows bores to write off the likes of Pollock and Rothko as fakes, frauds. But really CIA involvement was incidental; this art succeeded because it resonated, & continues to resonate.
Interesting how grimdark has gone from being a faux-documentary aesthetic (the artificially aged film-stock of Saving Private Ryan), to being the standard look for historical films set in the Middle Ages, to being the look du jour for all pre-1960s-set historical films.
Posts like this really do a great job of making a mockery of all those 19th- and 20th-century women who worked hard to be taken seriously in the intellectual professions.
An ironic effect of Tinder: it hasn’t increased opportunities for sex and romance, quite the opposite. The ‘dating’ app’s popularity has made approaching a stranger in public semi-taboo.
All ‘resist capitalism’ type sentiments from wokes should be viewed as part of what Baudrillard called (specifically in reference to The Matrix) ‘trompe-l'œil critique’ - the system’s fake critique of itself. Woke capital (the phenomenon) is this bogus critique turned up the max.
We have a paradoxical sort of individualism now, where everything that matters - money, job etc - is your sole responsibility, yet you have no freedom. You’re absolutely on your own, but the eye of society is always on you. It’s a highly organised & policed individualism.
It’s curious how people’s hearts are just not in it these days. I never got that sense in the 90s, or even in the 00s. Something happened in the 2010s. Passions withering on the vine.
Hippocratic oath be damned.
Canadian doctor says that the unvaccinated should be completely denied an ICU and medical care for ANY injury or sickness, even if not COVID.
Unvaxxed and in a car wreck? You’re on your own with this doctor.
For me Pollock’s canvases, like Rothko’s and Bacon’s, are commentary (intended or not) on art reaching its end. And you can’t blame these painters for being there at the end—that was the lot assigned them. And AI ‘art’ is what you get *after* the end.
The contrast between transhumanism as imagined by 80s cyberpunk - romantic, erotic, hard nihilism - and the present-day actuality - monotonous, sentimental, feminine but oddly sexless; soft nihilism.
The Internet has completed the process Baudrillard described here, modernity’s ‘boiling down bit by bit into a culture of daily events’. What I miss is culture being something more than that.
MAiD is just one of many signs that liberalism has shifted over to a Schopenhauerian position, viewing life as having a negative value by default. Other signs: antinataliam, pro-choice extremism.
I doubt Lord Miles is an MI6 agent, but he does seem to be someone who has very deliberately set out to create an online RW persona and mythos. A new type of entrepreneur.
The real challenge of life today is to keep your energy up, keep yourself interested. You have to be constantly looking for angles that fire your imagination. Because the ambient culture is very low-energy, unimaginative.
An unwritten rule of the art world for the past half a century or more is that art must have the void at its core. It can’t affirm any transcendent reality (eg God). And ofc, there’s only so many times and ways you can do that, affirm the void. Eventually you become the void.
At least half of cringe production can be attributed to social media enabling untalented and not very bright people who are labouring under the delusion they have something to say.
Maybe this is the BAP influence, but there doesn’t appear to be modernist Right to speak of today. It’s all dreams of steppe marauders etc. The writings of 30s Rightists—Jünger,Spengler etc—evince a horrified fascination with the city, & with machinery, especially war machinery.
“Kurt Cobain was a trans girl” demonstrates that the biggest mistake people make comparing culture 1945-2000 to 21st century culture is they perceive differences of degree (Kurt sometimes wore a dress) but not differences in kind (the dress-wearing was ironic and performative).
Dune is racist and an orientalist mess, they’re so obsessed with the whole Arabian desert princess aesthetics and it’s disgusting. The way y’all swear it’s not is so jarring when this is wht they wear for press tour stuff. how many times do swana ppl have to call the racism out?
Porn simply does not exist before the modern era because the global porn complex is literally a machine to make people orgasm. A libido management system. That’s all it is. No ancient object would have such a reductive function.
This is one of the worlds oldest sculptures, made something like 26,000 years ago, of a ladies big tits. It's not worth discussing whether pornography is good or bad if it's just a part of humanity. Like sleeping, eating or farts. Where humanity goes pornography follows.
Here’s a key difference between Musk and Trump. Trump wouldn’t tweet this. His humour can be coarse (of course), but it’s uniquely his own in a way that creates a weird sort of mystique. Whereas Musk comes across as a nerd trying to impress the jocks.
Phew. Good thing the 'elite' couple 'breeding to save mankind' but worried that 'falling birth rates are also a common preoccupation of neo-Nazis and other ethno-nationalists' don't look anything like fascists. Just normal, ordinary, elite breeders. Nothing to see here.
The presidents of
@Harvard
,
@MIT
, and
@Penn
were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?
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@Shaolinfatboy
@niall_gooch
What’s fake about it?
In any case, that was Dahl himself making the changes. He’s entitled to change his text. No one else is.
They may have just stumbled on a much cleverer way to make a culture-war film: make it ambiguous enough that different audiences can read what they want into it.
Because ultimately the aim is to create a lucrative media event; the ideology is secondary.
>make feminist Barbie movie
>messaging about le oppressive patriarchy
>patriarchy comes out looking based
>ken steals the show from Barbie
>feminist movie becomes about man's heroic struggle against the longhouse
BAP is the most successful fascist since the Nouvelle Droite because of his postmodernism, which surrounds his persona with an all-important ironic aura. Can never really be sure just how serious he is, & this is the secret of his appeal. The wokes, by contrast, are 100% earnest.
Do any remnants of Pine Tree Twitter 🌲 still exist? I only caught the tail end of it (it seems to have been purged in ‘19 in the wake of Christchurch) but it was fascinating. A lot of Ted K memes that were really surreal, vaporwavy. Much missed.
Pleasantville(1998) is one of the most Reddit films ever made,an unpleasant exercise in liberal smugness & condescension.90s siblings find themselves trapped in a black & white 50s TV show.Characters have to discover sex(or masturbation)to be liberated into the world of colour..
What he doesn’t understand is the Left desperately *wants* Trumpism is be fascism. This is a nostalgic, hauntological desire. They want a grandiose, mythic enemy. What they have in reality is an eccentric but essentially banal one, matching their own banality.
This is one of the most important threads I'll write.
Trumpism is fascism.
We are in a full-blown crisis. We must recognize we're dealing with a religious death cult and warring over reality itself.
Here's what I discovered writing AMERICAN RULE.
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Why did men start soyfacing?90s youth culture put a prohibition on earnestness.The cool thing was to affect a cynical nonchalance.The fallout from this seems to have has hung around.Soyfacing’s a cartoonish display of enthusiasm-cartoonish to avoid the impression of earnestness.
One thing I think hasn’t been commented upon is that the young lad is clearly upper-class and undoubtedly attended a private school like Eton or similar. The ever-widening gap between private and state education (Jones went to a Stockport comprehensive) painfully clear here.
Whether you agree with the young conservative or not, it’s entertaining to see him articulately embarrass Owen Jones, who clearly was trying to trip him up with this line of questioning for his next outage video compilation.
But only if the implosion of Western societies is solely or even mostly due to mass immigration. But it isn’t.
A charitable reading is that we, post-WW2, experimented with another way of living and it hasn’t quite worked. A few things have worked, but most have not.
They took some of the rarest, most beautiful societies that have ever existed on Earth and crushed them into a globalised grey goo of trash and low expectations.
In 2060 Twitter is brought back as an exercise in nostalgia, with AIs of all the big 2013 - 30 posters for that authentic ‘Pepe’ experience. However, due to a glitch some mutant accounts are spawned, like Zero HP Logocraft. These mutants prove unexpectedly popular.
Thelonious Monk performing “Blue Monk” with Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums live at the University Aula in Oslo, Noway, 1966.
Reminder that modernity was invented in the years 1890-1925 and everything since then has merely been a variation on something that was in the original blueprint.
Stoicism in the face of serious illness, by declining to tell anyone outside close friends & family about it. Not the approved course of action in the never-ending therapy session that is today’s society ofc,but a marvelously defiant attitude. Defying the illness,defying society.