Cancel the Election: “Democracy isn’t pretty; make sure the old whore’s syphilis scars are on full display as she gracelessly expires.”
Concrete and Glass: “Do you want to know why [JG] Ballard’s late 1960s and 1970s output is based? Because it’s all about unstoppable civilisational decline, and the chances of thriving, despite everything, in the midst of it.”
Do Lizard People Rule Over Humanity? An Honest Investigation: “Terence Mckenna, an ethnobotanist and philosopher, as well as the premier psychedelic advocate of the 90s, also related a reptilian-seeped psychedelic experience. While under the influence of LSD, he turned on a badly wired heater that made a strange sound that catalyzed his entrance into ‘Lizard Land’:
I entered into this completely coherent thing, which lasted for hours, about this world inhabited by these intelligent reptilian beings, and we went through their art, their history, their theories of jewelry making, their philosophy, their polity, their science, their religion, their fashion, and it was like endless, endless stuff about this very specific reptilian world.
McKenna speculated that the imagination might be simply ‘hyper-dimensional perception’ and that under the psychedelic trance we are actually seeing ‘worlds and places that truly exist somewhere scattered through the galaxy like grains of sand.'”
Happenings Await: “…expect the war in Ukraine to come to an end. The news media might omit to inform you about this, but it awaits. Russia will not trumpet its victory, so as to avoid inflaming America’s crazed neo-cons. Rather it will just quietly take charge of its successfully neutralized neighbor, make provision for some sort of administration over what remains of the rump state — in a way that affords Russia a sense of permanent security — at the same time that Russia commences new negotiations separately with several European nations to reestablish realistic relations.”
How to Talk to God: “I think if you pay attention you’ll find that God almost always speaks back. It’s just that we pretend he doesn’t because we dearly wish he was saying something else. We wish he was telling us how to go make a million dollars or to lie just a little to make things go easier at work or to break off that relationship instead of trying to repair it. That’s why Christ said that the wicked and the perverse seek a sign. An external confirmation. Because the Kingdom of Heaven is within, and all that looking for God in fire and wind and earth is just a way to ignore it.
“The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” — Jesus
Amor Vincit Omnia.”
Our Mercenary Century: “Modern warfare is conducted with sophisticated weapons systems that require a great deal of training and technical infrastructure. In the coming decades, we may see the rise of a new warrior class that devotes itself to developing the skills needed for modern combat, and large, quasi-state organizations with the resources to run it. PMC Wagner will be among the first of many such organizations to rise to prominence. The corporate economy will not fall just because the American military fails to secure it. Instead, a new global multipolarity will develop, but with a pre-modern character. In our growing Neo-Medieval world order, the invisible hand of the global market will invite adventurous men to seek their fortune in a new age of cyberpunk chivalry.”
Twin Peaks Finale: A Theory of Cooper, Laura, Diane, and Judy: “The disturbing nature of Diane and Cooper’s sex stems, ultimately, from two people violating every instinct of humanity, compassion, and love they possess in pursuit of an abstract greater good. In particular it stems from Cooper using Diane — with her consent, admittedly — as a means to an end in a brutally inhumane fashion. Cooper rarely had to choose between duty and instinct prior to now; they always pointed him in the same direction. Now they are completely incompatible.”
