Babel Collapse

The Collapse

Spend any length of time in dissident circles online, and you'll soon be introduced to the concept of the Collapse. Though formulated by philosophers of history a hundred years ago, the idea that civilization now faces a great decline is popular with ex-Trump supporters discouraged by the MAGA program's failure.…
November 18, 202111 Comments
Surveying Aftermath

Surveying the Aftermath

The mere act of listening to music from before the late 90s and after makes Music Ground Zero so evident that even pop cultists are starting to notice. NB: As you read the following, keep in mind that this is the bio of the account that tweeted it:   Observe…
November 16, 202114 Comments
CIA

A CIA Internal Matter

The popular perception of Millennials as culturally bankrupt philistines incapable of making anything useful doesn't give them a fair shake. Braving the dank bowels of the web reveals that the extremely online generation has pioneered a new art form: the sharing of spook stories through formularized posts. This medium has…
October 27, 202116 Comments
Swearing in Silver Lining

Silver Linings

An occasional reader confided the other day that he finds this blog too black pilled. Frequent readers will be aware that I eschew the whole white pill-black pill dichotomy. What people mean by a "white pill" is a sensible consolation--warm fuzzies, in laymen's terms. In the political life as in…
October 25, 202132 Comments
Travis Bickle Loser

Biggest Loser

Regular readers know I'm always on the lookout for new cultural insights. To that effect, a recent Twitter thread just caught my eye. This thread resonates with a post I wrote earlier this year about the same phenomenon. The only difference is the decade. If you want to gauge how…
October 19, 202112 Comments
Pop Culture Time Slippage

Pop Culture Time Slippage

About fifteen years ago I started noticing a curious phenomenon--a sort of jump-cutting in time. The effect wasn't internally consistent, like when I sit down to write at 7 PM, get into a groove, and suddenly it's midnight. The temporal anomaly I'm referring to is oddly selective. What happens is…
October 12, 202116 Comments
Typewriter Monkey

A Million Digital Monkeys

Hollywood gets short shrift around here, and it's easy to see why when they not only insist on accelerating ever farther out of touch, but reveling in it. Actress Geena Davis's latest role is getting artificial intelligence bots to monitor movie scripts to make sure Hollywood remains politically correct. The…
October 11, 202125 Comments
Before the Internet

Before the Internet

The pervasive sense of having been mugged by reality is a defining feature of Generation Y. As the last generation with personal memories of the pre-9/11 world, Ys have entered middle age with deep existential confusion over their role in society. Was "gorge on snack food, Nintendo, and Saturday morning…
October 8, 202141 Comments
weatherman

Don’t Need a Weatherman

...to tell you which way the shitstorm's blowing. Over the weekend, the accelerating decline of online culture experienced a fleeting reversal with the return of Mister Metokur. If you're not familiar with the digital gadfly also known as the Internet Aristocrat, the Weatherman, Daddy, or simply Jim, he started as…
August 30, 202112 Comments
Afghan War

In Taliban Hands

Dominating the headlines as of this writing is news of the Taliban's lightning reconquest of Afghanistan. The collapse of American neocons' pet project in the lead up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11 once again shows that the Almighty has a robust sense of humor. For some perspective, here is…
August 16, 202111 Comments