AI and the Return of Creative Elitism: “We’ve found a way to automate the parrots, and in doing so we will dash the dreams of mediocre thinkers everywhere who had been prospering under an illusion that they were creative. It will end the glut of mediocre art by finally, thankfully, making the chaff redundant so that the real creatives can get back to work.”
Dragons: “Knowing the nature of your enemy helps a lot because so long as ‘The Devil’ is just a vague general concept about an ill-defined force of badness in your mind you won’t recognize his attacks. No, he is a dragon that had its wings ripped off.”
Megaliths for the New Age: “According to Earth’s axial precession—the movement of Earth’s axis that shifts the autumnal and vernal equinoxes in relation to the fixed star constellations of our solar system—we are on the precipice of a new age, defined by the zodiacal constellations and understood from ancient texts to be the Age of Aquarius. And so, this new age requires of us a new megalithic super-structure to situate us firmly in our the Aquarian context. That megalith is Bitcoin.”
On Wokeness, its Nature, and its Prospects: “The damage has been done and the pre-Woke world can never be re-achieved, but Wokery isn’t a stable ideological system. It is instead the mere ideological expression of a revolutionary process.”
The MKULTRA Ecology: “…the most significant campaign of psychological warfare conducted against the United States population was the campaign conducted by the US government. Americans were radically isolationist at the time and the weight of the entire psychiatric establishment was brought to bear to change their minds. Isolationist sentiment was portrayed as a dangerous ‘fifth column’; the aviator Charles Lindbergh, leader of the America First isolationist movement, rejoined ‘the one-fifth who are for war call the four-fifths who are against war the ‘fifth column’. They know that the people of this country will not vote for war, and they therefore plan on involving us through subterfuge.'”
The MKULTRA Evolutions: “The noetic Gnosticism and transhumanist vision of Esalen, a religion of no religion, and divinity without the Divine, is the ultimate extrapolation of ‘self-actualization’ as the actualization of desire. A virtual world of enthusiasm, artificially created and synthetically satisfied, shaping the body and mind into a deathless desiring-machine, transforming the image of man from a reflection of God, into the brood of the abyss.”
The Pugilist at Rest: “Dostoyevski was nervous and depressed, a tormented hypochondriac, a compulsive writer obsessed with religious and philosophic themes. He was hyperloquacious, raving, etc. & etc. His gambling addiction is well known. By most accounts he was a sick soul. The peculiar and most distinctive thing about his epilepsy was that in the split second before his fit—in the aura, which is in fact officially a part of the attack—Dostoyevski experienced a sense of felicity, of ecstatic well-being unlike anything an ordinary mortal could hope to imagine. It was the experience of satori. Not the nickel-and-dime satori of Abraham Maslow, but the Supreme. He said that he wouldn’t trade ten years of life for this feeling, and I, who have had it, too, would have to agree. I can’t explain it, I don’t understand it—it becomes slippery and elusive when it gets any distance on you—but I have felt this down to the core of my being. Yes, God exists! But then it slides away and I lose it. I become a doubter.”
Young Wolves 3: “For all our progress with the intellect: We are still left asking; What does it mean to be a human? We can often easily say what we are not. We can often easily identify when we’ve been treated inhumanely. The hunter and the warrior, though both dealing in the business of death, are two very different practices; in one case you need to learn how to rightly kill an animal, and in the other you must learn how to rightly kill a man.”