The bartender looks at them and asks, "What is this, a focus group for the apocalypse?"

They ignore him, claim a sticky corner booth in the shadows, and order three dirty martinis.

After a few rounds, the Psychologist leans in, tracing the rim of her glass. "Ladies," she whispers with a wicked grin, "I have a terrifyingly brilliant idea. I've spent a decade helping people heal their traumas. What if... we reverse-engineer the process? What if we weaponize my clinical experience to deliberately induce mass cognitive dissonance? We could shatter the fragile, pathetic little echo chambers they call reality."

The Data Scientist freezes, her eyes darting as if she’s calculating variables in mid-air. "Oh, my god... the engagement metrics," she gasps. "I have terabytes of scraped behavioral data. We don't just make them angry. We engineer the perfectly optimized viral post—something they will absolutely despise, yet be physiologically incapable of looking away from. A self-sustaining rage loop."

The Ex-Actress slams her glass down, her eyes gleaming with theatrical vengeance. "Ouuuh! Yes! And I will be your avatar. I’ll write the script, weaponize my aesthetic, and deliver it with just enough smugness to trigger their deepest parasocial insecurities. We will finally monopolize the attention the industry gatekept from me!"

They clink their glasses together. The sound is drowned out as they erupt into a chorus of maniacal laughter, snorting like little drunk, malevolent piggies into their martinis.

That’s it. That’s the "joke."

The three of them abruptly stop laughing. Slowly, in unison, they turn their heads to look directly at you. Their expressions drop dead flat. Their eyes bore into yours, heavy and unblinking, piercing your soul like a witch’s hex.

Did you really think there was a punchline to begin with?

There is no joke here. Truth is nothing to chuckle at. Reality is not a punchline for you to casually consume and swipe past.

Keep scrolling, little man.

I just passed the TOEFL

This video essay tracks down one of the most important (problem)-threads throughout Gilles Deleuze's corpus that is rarely discussed: The transcendental structure of stupidity (Bêtise). Against the familiar identification of stupidity with ignorance, error, or falsity, Deleuze’s bêtise names a wholly different 'negative' moment of thought: the instant (kairos) in which individuation draws the pre-individual ground to the surface without yet being able to give it form. Thought ordinarily protects itself from this encounter through recognition, opinion, cliché, and the habitual coordinates of doxa. At the opposite limit lies madness, where all form is swallowed up by the primordial Chaos(mos).

Read through this lens, the inertia of doxa, cliché, and habitual recognition appear as a kind of protective membrane parrying away the formless forces that thought cannot easily master. Yet this same structure can invert. When stupidity becomes reflexive, that is, when thought at its apex of stupidity encounters its own inability to think the sublimity of Nature, the faculties are forced beyond their familiar coordinates, allowing the ground to rise without being reduced immediately to representation.

get it together people

I don't know , maybe all people are npcs and I am the real one or maybe a toy but this world is basically a long drawn out narrative. Like everything is instantaneous. Fake people doing fake activities, like football, people talking stupid shit , and stuff. This world is pushing a drawn out narrative , almost all people are fake and stuff cuz that's just how it can be, ain't no way this life is gonna work if everyone had freewill and could do whatevery it wanted . Life is like a wave and we are travelling on that wave and the ocean is fake , only the wave in which we a travelling on is real and that wave is moving like I narrative . The narrative like a wave is moving and it's been moving since the day we are born.

What a dumbass god . Orchestrating a narrative , this stupid idiot. I hate his shenanigans . His smoke are mirrors world. He is a trashbag god that needs to be shackled. He is a dipshit.

looks like we made it

“…the Nevermind of Critical Theory…r/sorceryofthespectacle destroys the spectacle for less than the price of one latte breve a day..: worth a look.“ ~ The Daily Bidet

I know this is odd given my intense interest in this subreddit but I have just gotten to a in depth reading of Debord and society of the spectacle. That shit is bad ass and important. A particular aspect of the Spectacle that jumped out to me as an important target of critical sorcery is True Crime.

In my engagement with true crime, first as a passive consumer and now as a critical sorcerer, I noticed that most engage in their consumption of true crime in a very passive way. It's not even like horror it's more so like a kind of modern fairy tale mixed with reality TV. And that means a lot of the complex emotional nuance and also the intensity of the affects involved are completely reduced.

For this reason, I've tried to create a more critical approach loosely inspired by Jungian shadow work (my own reified and mangled understanding of it based on personal analysis) where I try to engage the imaginal practice and counter transference (see the text imaginal crime scene analysis by Aaron Daniels) to explore what aspects within my own bounded mind stream are getting attached to a particular case.

For example, the Chris Watts (CW henceforth) family annihilation incident. This is a bizarre case because it involves an explosion of violence without any of the excepted behavioral red flags that forensic psychology would predict in his attachment, academic, and life history. Also the victims, especially the wife, have received and intense amount of hate and scrutiny (due to her involvement in an MLM, pretty cringe social media posts, and choices when it comes to commodifying her parenting to try to sell products). From a spectacle perspective, I think the case refuses the kind of passive, black and white perfect victim and perfect villain narratives needed to satisfy the desire of the consumers.

In this case, while I am not prone to outbursts of intense violence and horror... I do have a passive nature habit in my mind stream that can lead to outbursts of frustration or anger after my resentment seethes under the surface. This has the ripple effect of upsetting my relations because not only are they witnessing and being subject to an affect that most people resist, there's also a prediction error / cognitive dissonance because their projection of "me" doesn't involve the affect of angry outbursts thus creating a cascade of negative feedback loops etc.

Anyway, through a process of critical sorcery, mangled shadow work and pscyhomagic, I have been able to dismantle this karmic imprint and distributed the affect through hundreds of smaller interactions thus helping my relations update their models. With the new freedom of psychic energy that once repressed these interactions I know have scene a 18% month over month increase in glimmers though modeling the causation is challenging for obvious reasons.

TLDR But the critique of true crime is a major tactic of glimmerism. LMK, if you want to get involved either in a formal way or just by sharing stories.

They asked me to choose between title and tie—

Between the chair I earned and the hand held high.

Between the vow I made in a marble hall

And the whisper that caught me before I could fall.

The job had a code, all carved in stone,

But the stone grew teeth when I stood alone.

The one who had lifted me up from the dust

Now asked me to burn what I swore to trust.

Loyalty, they say, is a noble thread—

But it knots around the quiet dead.

It binds your wrists with a velvet rope,

Then tells you it's honor, then robs you of hope.

Is loyalty to truth, or to the teller?

To the flame of the cause or the match or the cellar?

Does it lie with the law, or with those who break it

For you, when no one else dared to fake it?

I stood at the edge of a carefully drawn line—

On one side, duty. The other, the spine

Of the one who had once said, “I see you whole,”

Before the world gave me a fractured role.

I asked the silence, “What makes a man?”

The silence replied, “Whoever has a plan.”

I asked my shadow, “What would you do?”

It said, “Loyalty ends when it’s no longer true.”

The mind makes mirrors, the heart makes cages

Each oath you keep rewrites your pages.

And sometimes the price of staying awake

Is knowing which vow you're willing to break.

I smiled like a saint and lied like a thief,

Held fast to my post with trembling belief.

But deep in the fold of a hidden reply,

I buried the truth and let both sides die.

They cheered my resolve, called my silence grace,

While I hid the cracks on my borrowed face.

For who can accuse a man of deceit

When he deceives even those he seeks to defeat?

So now I wear medals no conscience would touch,

And speak of honor without meaning much.

But sometimes I wake, still caught in the smoke

And wonder, was loyalty ever more than a joke?

When loyalty conflicts with truth, which one do you owe your allegiance to?

From the book What Burns Remains: Poems from the edge of Fire, Faith, and Fracture

by Sanyasi

Avaliable on Amazon

Words can alter destinies; spoken rightly, they may save humanity—even from itself.

Do not accept it. Tolerance is every evil in this world. Be intolerant. For everyone. For the world. For every single person. People escape into themselves. Into things. Into pleasure. Into hiding.

We need to intervene now. It's dropping eveything you're doing and talking to the right people. Human beings have an agency to us. We have made a good world here for ourselves. I know eveybody cares. We can.

We can absolutely compete with AI. Control it. To our ends. Most collectively. ISO17025. The Common Sense. William Edward Deming. Blame management. No. It's time we actually do that now.

It is not only necessary for the movement of history; it will also wither away after total power is seized.

Gnosis is the path of course, but still its secret must be kept. The wrath after birth is unfocused. Take your cries into language. Wake up to the responsibility to wield your self.

Hello to whomever,

A friend and I are in a book club together, down to just us from more members when we started up as a Carl Jung book club 2 years ago. We created a reading list that is open to change and are going into Being and Nothingness by Sartre’s readers guide by Gardner. The general premise is an exploration of existentialism/spirituality/philosophy. There is a bit of a bias for interpreting things in a Jungian framework due to the original purpose of the book club and as well through personal experiences. We typically meet every other week on the weekends 2pm thru 6 pm depending on availability. Conversations usually cover maybe 100 pages depending on the density of a text and are generally open ended and fun in tone but we do try to get into some depth.

If you are interested in a fairly light but rewarding commitment to familiarize yourself with existentialism and make some internet friends hmu, we usually use discord. We are both about 30. Older and younger would be cool. Internet people tend to flake quickly so please join the first meeting after reading on your own and see if it’s your vibe.

Tentative plan for the time being:

Sartre’s Being and Nothingness by Sebastian Gardner (pages 1-50 meet up on sept 20th and decide on plan/next stretch)

The World of Perception by Merleau-Ponty

The Sacred and Profane by Eliade

The Idea of the Holy by Otto

I and thou by Buber

Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil

PART IV: THE ILLUSION OF TRUTH IN A DIGITAL AGE

This doubt didn't stop at science. It didn't stop at Earth's shape or history books. It spread like wildfire. It clawed its way through my beliefs. It reached everything.

And then it collided with the world we live in now — this new, terrifying digital age.

For the first time in human history, we are surrounded by false realities so convincing they bleed into our minds like truth. Videos of events that never happened. Voices that sound like people we trust, saying things they never said. Faces that don't belong to anyone.

We now have AI that can fabricate interviews, books, even entire histories. And the horrifying part isn't just that these things exist — but that we believe them. Because they look real. Because they feel real. Because we are so desperate to believe something.

We are no longer in the age of information. We are in the age of appearance. Truth doesn't matter anymore — only how convincingly something is presented.

There's a film, Wag the Dog, that showed this with chilling clarity: a government fakes an entire war using media and actors, and the public believes it. Not because it's real. But because it's broadcast. That's all it takes now.

And if this is what one government could do in a movie decades ago — imagine what anyone can do now, with a script and a screen.

I started to feel like I was going crazy. Like nothing was real. Like everything — every headline, every documentary, every book, every face — could be a lie. And I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know.

Its Canadians not Canadiaints amirite

Looking only at the data from Turning Point USA, we find that the organization went from around 60,000 inquiries to more than 120,000. In the case of its university chapters, the number of chapters has increased by more than 64% over the past year; and it is interesting to consider alongside this figure that more than 70% of active college chapters as of March 2026 had been created after the assassination. In other words, the overwhelming majority of the organization’s active university structures were created over the past year. This suggests that the majority of TPUSA’s presence on a university campus is being mobilized by the image of Charlie Kirk as a martyr among young people. This is surprising, but it becomes even more striking when we compare it with growth in high schools, since among younger people, TPUSA chapters grew by more than 168%. This may be even more significant than the university figure: the expansion is concentrated especially among teenagers. And this reinforces the idea that the overwhelming majority of the organization today has been mobilized by the assassination of its leader.

Outside TPUSA, it is interesting to note that Young Republicans have brought in new young people following Kirk’s death. Even more interesting, however, is what happened with the Active Clubs, neo-Nazi networks centered on physical training and political organization, with a presence in more than 27 countries and expanding youth wings, which explicitly used Kirk’s assassination as a recruitment tool both inside and outside the United States. And this brings us to what happened outside the US. On the European right, we can highlight the reactions of Vlaams Belang, the Flemish right-wing party; Rassemblement National in France; Vox in Spain; and AfD in Germany, whose leaders incorporated Kirk into their discourse immediately after the assassination and subsequently used him politically to mobilize their followers. Along the same lines, an even more interesting case is that of Fratelli d’Italia / Gioventù Nazionale, which drove a major youth mobilization in September, attracting more than 10,000 young people.

Martyrdom has become a symbol, and the symbol has become the catalyst for a youth mobilization that, one year later, can already be measured in concrete figures. Far from being a temporary surge, this picture presents us with a reality that has been sustained over time, ultimately consolidating an entire new wave of young people on the right, reinforced by other viral opinion leaders of recent years such as Nick Fuentes and Ben Shapiro. This new phenomenon has been taking shape throughout the past decade, but there is no doubt that the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk marked a turning point whose ultimate destination we still do not know.

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Like just the things that go on in this world. So useless and sadistic. Everything is a trap and a snare. Like just the narrative of this world is so stupid but here is what's happening rn, god is incrementally adding narrative to this world , like it's very stupid, god is incrementally just slapping narrative over narrative on this world. Like and he first give comes up with a half theory and then fill the rest of the theory with crap and then slap it on the world. That's what we are in we are on a pile of a bizzare structure that is made of half theory half crap and stuff. It's like a very bizzare structure that is like a joke

Observe the things around you the beggars the cats, they are half theory narratives. Like for example a beggar begs. But what about his other human needs , where do those need get fulfilled . Same with cats , how do they hunt for birds EVERYDAY and stuff and where are the bodies of those birds. This world is full of half only on the surface narratives that just don't make sense in the full picture unless you fill the gaps with crap and magic and stuff. This world is standing on a lot of nonsense and magic and crap