1. Why is there something rather than nothing? 2. Can my individual choices aid in either the ‘something’ of the universe or aim for absolute nothing? 3. What is the relationship between Christianity and power? What does it mean to invert all hierarchies and bring union between man and God? 4. What is the true… Continue reading 30 Questions for 2018
Author: Alexander
Artificial Intelligence Won’t Surpass Humankind
The modern world, at its bedrock technological character, could be considered a Tower of Babel. The common tongue of our modern techno-digital world is rather simple – speed. The language of speed has seized the Western world, most perceptibly since the election of Donald Trump. In our Babel, news that would have once taken months… Continue reading Artificial Intelligence Won’t Surpass Humankind
The United States is a Corporate Communist Country
Who is this world for? As the commons of the internet is dissolved for the profit of carrion-snatchers like Comcast, and the forces of corporate power swirl the modern-day Babel of New York, helmed by Wall Street and Trump, where do ordinary living, working people fit into a world defined by IQ and A.I.? They… Continue reading The United States is a Corporate Communist Country
Review of SYRE by Jaden Smith
The opening of the album is the only presence of the feminine in the entire project, save for the few brief words of a doctor announcing that SYRE has “died before”. A shallow reading would believe that SYRE is about dreams, but in fact, it is about reincarnation. Moreso, it is about surviving one’s death,… Continue reading Review of SYRE by Jaden Smith
Markers of Ideological Collapse
The idea that any system we have developed thus far as a species is going to be the one that saves us is extremely unlikely. Everywhere you turn, the current ways people think about politics, culture and biology are a wasteland of half-thoughts that land us nowhere. So, let’s locate the pulse of the problem.… Continue reading Markers of Ideological Collapse
The hollowness of Trump
Donald Trump is a neoliberal. But since performance is more deeply valued than policy, he continues to masquerade to his supporters as a populist rebel, a force for human resurgence against the globalists. This mythic narrative is as false as could possibly be. It is 20XX. The people of America, resurrecting the great spirit of… Continue reading The hollowness of Trump
The Left will Return to Free Speech or Remain Absurd
What do Left Twitter pundits believe? Taking them at their word, they tend to believe that free speech is a fascist ideal, or only fetishized by reactionaries…until they, the correct leftists, need it, that is. They have an absurdly reductive view of the First Amendment, which holds that only state censorship is meaningful, and individual… Continue reading The Left will Return to Free Speech or Remain Absurd
George Ciccariello-Maher is a Goon
“No more performative shit!” Cries a latinx antifa woman at a white antifa man, whom she accuses of not being radical enough to punch a Nazi in the jaw. But, really, it’s all performative shit. All of it. None of you have scraped even one single filing of white off the spine of capital. The… Continue reading George Ciccariello-Maher is a Goon
The Field and the Knee: Trump, Football and the Eschaton
Why does the emperor turn the circus against him? In conventional narratives of authoritarianism, sports are a tool of reinforcing uncritical patriotism and keeping entertainment wedded to the heights of performative nationalism. Yet Donald Trump, a man seen as representing the ruddy faces of America’s red state white male fathers, who all tune in to… Continue reading The Field and the Knee: Trump, Football and the Eschaton
Yung Lord Krishna’s Tooth
“Don’t believe everything you read.” Pitter patter. Rain dots the windowsill. I lick and leaf the page. Why wouldn’t I believe every word? When I read, the same voice that I think with speaks the very words I am reading. I am only repeating thoughts inside my own head, letting them wriggle their way in,… Continue reading Yung Lord Krishna’s Tooth