Astroworld satanic

Stanning for Satanism?

A quote often attributed to Chesterton notes that when something draws equally vehement attacks from opposite sides of the same issue, it's a good bet that what the partisans are attacking is true. In other words, heresies tend to come in diametrically opposed but equally erroneous twos. The resurgence of…
November 19, 202119 Comments
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
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
Transactional Generation

The Transactional Generation

A frequent topic of this blog that has, rather surprisingly to me, caught a great deal of reader interest is the ongoing project to map the contours of forgotten generations. These are the cohorts who've been memory holed since Madison Avenue no longer finds them profitable to advertise to. Also…
October 21, 202126 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
American Flag Blindfold

Renfield Americans

An enduring meme phrase used to describe out-of-touch and out-of-control Western elites is "the Vampire Castle." This term gained traction because it's easy to picture people like Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, or Klaus Schwab dangling upside down from the rafters of some crumbling fortress overlooking the Rhine.  They may as…
September 21, 20218 Comments
Link's Awakening

A Link to the 90s

Recently in my internet wanderings, I chanced upon a rare buried treasure--the sort that used to pop up regularly before the death of the web. The following piece of archived video only runs three minutes, but in that short time it captures the look and mood of Nintendo headquarters in…
September 1, 20216 Comments