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Dec. 14, 2021 - Davis Aurini
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2021-12-10 Antecedents to the Mass Formation

In this episode we discuss the signs of mass hysteria which led up tot he current panic.

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Good evening, folks.
How are all of y'all doing out there?
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And the topic for tonight is antecedents to the mass formation.
Now, the mass formation is the fancy new psychological term for mass hysteria.
The mass psychological crisis that has been building up for years now, and that finally made manifest in 2020 with the hysterical overreaction to a rather scary at first, granted, but turns out to be a relatively minor flu.
The pandemic is not a virus.
The pandemic is mental illness right now.
And it was.
The first person I heard call this out was the psychologist Matthias Desmet.
You can find a lot of great videos and articles where he's discussing this.
There's a really good interview on peak prosperity between him and the peak prosperity guy.
I actually have no idea what his name is.
I should know what his name is, but I don't know it offhand.
And I'm just going to toss a link into the description right there if you want to check that out.
It's an hour-long interview.
I mean, check it out tomorrow.
You're busy listening to me right now.
So, antecedents to mass formation.
Because it strikes me, you know, part of the reason I've been doing so much counter-signaling against the right is because it's the same elements I'm noticing in the right as I'm seeing with the COVID hysteria.
You know, one of the things about mass formation is it tends to go along with fear of a virus or fear of uncleanliness and demands for totalitarian government.
Okay, this has been, you know, this is a constant phenomenon.
When you see a totalitarian government take over, it's usually because of something that's framed in the language of uncleanliness.
Nazi Germany is the classic example of that, but it's just not the only one.
It's the first one that comes to mind, however.
Jews were described as a social disease.
And, you know, racial hygiene was such an important focus for the Nazis.
You know, not that the 1920s didn't happen.
Not that the German people didn't have a reason to be kind of pissed off after being blamed for World War I, but the form it took, right?
The radical racial theories of the Nazis.
In fact, I was just listening to another podcast pointing out that the Nazis were actually a major departure from actual fascist theory, which if you look at Spain or if you look at Italy, isn't actually all that bad.
It's not great, but it's not actually all that bad.
The radical form it took in Germany, partly inspired by all of this Gnostic, German idealistic nonsense about the hyperborean race.
But, you know, taking the form of reaction to disease.
And so I've been seeing a lot of the same elements cropping up on the right.
And like it's just as bad.
Okay?
It's one of the mistakes, and I think that this mistake has become obvious now.
Right?
Like, we're living in an era when the United Nations is very much seeking the destruction of Europeans.
The EU is seeking the destruction of Europeans.
The Canadian government is trying to destroy Canadians.
The American government is trying to destroy Americans, trying to undermine and subvert our ways of life, our culture, our people.
And so it's understandable that you look back and you take like a quick glance at the Nazi Party and you say, hey, at least Hitler loved Germany.
But honestly, if any of us had actually been living through that, I think we all would have been the ones protesting it.
And because we're seeing it now.
We're seeing it with the Karens trying to enforce their mask policies.
And keep in mind that when the Nazis came to power, women were the biggest supporters.
What's this?
Big Candace Owens moment.
You know, there's those studies on, oh, I forgot the name of the studies, but they were testing whether people would blindly obey somebody in a lab coat when he told them to electrocute somebody to death.
And what they found, one of the data points they found, first of all, 85% of people will do it.
You know, somebody in a lab coat says, give that person a lethal electric shock.
It's part of a lab experiment.
And they go along with it.
85% of people.
Now, the 15% that don't, most of those are men.
Right?
And this is correlated to other studies I've seen on testosterone, which, you know, if you dig into the data, and again, I don't have the study in front of me, so just take my word for it.
High testosterone men are not more violent than men, than your average man.
You know, there's another study where they took groups of women and told them they were being administered testosterone, or told they had four groups, right?
Political compass test.
Received testosterone, didn't receive testosterone, was told they received testosterone, wasn't told they received testosterone.
And what they found is that the most belligerent and aggressive group of women was the ones who had received the placebo but been told that they'd received testosterone.
So there's this concept that testosterone makes you more aggressive, more belligerent.
And so those women manifested the low testosterone women who'd been told they got it were the most belligerent.
The most cooperative group of women was the ones that had received testosterone but hadn't been told about it.
So high testosterone men are not more violent.
However, they are more likely to call out rule breakers in their environment.
Like if somebody cuts in line at the grocery store, it's the high testosterone guy that's going to call out that behavior.
And when it came to the compliance experiments, it was mostly men, probably the high testosterone men, that said, no, I'm not, I don't care if you have a fancy white lab coat, I'm not administering this shock.
And when it came to the election of the Nazis, it was primarily the men were the most likely to disagree with the Nazis.
Oh, yeah, racial medicalism.
It's, I mean, the whole world had gone through World War I, which was an absolute, absolute nightmare.
Read all quiet on the Western Front.
Then we blame Germany for the war, and there's the one diplomat that commented that the whole Versailles Treaty was nothing but a 20-year armistice, and he was, yeah, it was a 20-year armistice.
Then, after impoverishing Germany, Germany was taken over by foreign interests that were like the like they turned, like the Weimar Republic, Germans were just exploited.
They were poor, cultural degeneracy was pushed upon them, and they were desperate.
And so, you know, the pendulum swung pretty far in the other direction when all of that was over.
And so, yeah, we are seeing another mass formation at this point.
Alice says, more susceptible to controlling others as an idea of social order.
Well, I mean, like, there's the evolutionary psychology explanation for it that women, it tends to be safer to go along with the winners.
There's no evolutionary advantage to a childless woman standing on principle.
Anyway, so we have a mass formation happening right now.
We've all seen it.
I want to talk about the antecedents to it.
One of the big antecedents was the what was it?
The 20, I'd say 2018, the sudden mass conversion towards Christianity, towards radical Christianity.
And so this is the thing I'm very suspicious of.
Not that I'm saying that anybody, I'm not accusing anybody of lying or having a false conversion.
I think that it's all very sincere.
But what is going on with all of this?
Why the sudden switch from libertarian hedonism to what do you want to call it?
Rad-trad Christianity.
And the reason is, it's because there's this growing sense of powerlessness.
The first Big Shock was 2001, right?
The whole New World Order, the whole end of history had been disrupted.
Turned out that we could be attacked on American soil.
And the sudden ushering in of a security state.
Which, you know, again, me being two years out of time, I was one of the few people on the right calling that out.
But the rest of the conservatives, after, like, George Bush was just such an awful president.
You know, if you're too young to remember, he was just absolutely atrocious.
This is where the left-wing comedy news really blew up.
We've had comedy news for a long time, but with George Bush, it just absolutely blew up.
And you're honestly getting some pretty decent news from Colbert and Jon Stewart.
Bush was just absolutely awful.
And finally, after his eight years, the rest of conservatives figured this out.
And that's when you got the Tea Party, that's when you got Occupy Wall Street, both of which were immediately co-opted.
Tea Party was astro-turfed.
It was taken over by the GOP establishment.
Meanwhile, Occupy Wall Street, first they sent in the Progressive Stack.
I was friends with some of the people that organized Occupy Wall Street, that started the whole thing.
And the people that organized it were very friendly towards the Tea Party.
They were a bunch of weirdo tranny coders, as they described themselves.
And they didn't feel like they'd be welcomed at a Tea Party rally.
They probably would have.
They wouldn't have been chased off.
But they said, it's like, okay, we're the weirdo lefties.
Let's do our Occupy, like, let's do our Tea Party and call it Occupy Wall Street.
Well, as soon as they started it, immediately the Progressive Stack was sent in.
Took it over, subverted it, and then turned it into an absolute farce.
The point of Occupy Wall Street was the 08 bailouts were, they were absolutely criminal.
Wall Street destroyed the economy, and we bailed out Wall Street.
That was the point of Occupy Wall Street.
Progressive stack takes it over, and suddenly it's about, you know, clicking your fingers instead of clapping because clapping triggers people and everybody can speak.
We're going to pass around the peace brush.
That nonsense.
Completely destroyed the whole thing.
And then immediately all of the newspapers stopped reporting on Occupy Wall Street and started talking about white supremacy.
So the current BLM thing that we're seeing right now, that's when they lit the fire behind that.
It's like, uh-oh, they're getting a little bit too close with the Tea Party wanting some honest Republicans.
And Occupy Wall Street wanting some honest Democrats.
Oh, the Normies are the plebs, the dirt people.
They're getting a little bit too close.
We better subvert them.
And so left and right got subverted.
And so this is.
And then we have the Obama years, which Obama, there's a really good onion video from right after Obama got elected.
You see, Obama, and I know, this is going back 12 years.
Shit, I'm old, aren't I?
Obama was the promised one.
The black president that would finally unite us and America would repent of her sins.
She'd finally get over the history of slavery, et cetera.
And Obama would bring us the promised Democrat future of health care and equal opportunity and no more violence from police.
And it turns out that Obama was just another president.
There's a good Onion video, as I said.
And the premise of the Onion video was all the people that believed in Saint Obama after he got elected, they had nothing to do with their lives and they were still going around asking people to vote for Obama.
And, you know, a very similar thing happened to the right wing after Trump got elected.
Now, with the right wing, if that everybody on the right, we got internet bum fights.
Everybody on the right started fighting everybody else on the right because, okay, we got Trump elected.
Now what?
So Bush, Bush was a failed president.
Or like failed as in conservatives are not happy about Bush.
Okay, I think Bush accomplished exactly what he wanted to accomplish.
He plays stupid.
I don't think he's actually stupid.
He put on a stupid act in public and all the Dems made fun of him for being stupid.
He's not stupid.
Neither is Trump.
Neither is Obama.
These people are not stupid.
Stop underestimating your enemy.
But if you want to believe they're stupid, go ahead.
It doesn't matter.
So the right suffered under Bush, trying to support him, and after eight years, like, why did we support him?
He was terrible.
He tore apart the Constitution.
Then the left got eight years of Obama.
And Obama was an absolute failure.
He was the promised one, and he was a complete failure.
Then we got Trump, and, you know, nothing changed with Trump.
And then Biden.
So we're all feeling extremely powerless because of the way politics are going.
And so the 2018, that sudden shift to radical traditional Christianity, that was one of the antecedents to the mass formation that we're seeing over COVID.
Another example.
And you guys are probably going to know who I'm talking about.
Listen, I like the guy.
Okay, I like the guy.
And hey, a lot of the people that went rad trad, they found themselves a wife and they had some kids.
And it's like, so they're kind of crazy, but at least it's crazy with good outcomes, right?
It's like, I don't know, man.
It's like if you get married at a Star Wars convention, right?
And you have the wedding vows and Klingon, like, I think you're crazy, but, you know, good for you for getting married.
The Flat Earth Conspiracy.
Now, I think, yeah, I think you guys all know who I'm talking about.
The Flat Earth thing is absolutely ridiculous.
The We Never Landed on the Moon thing is pretty ridiculous as well, in my opinion.
I don't know.
I've looked into it.
I don't see anything there.
Could be wrong.
Could be wrong.
But I will say, whether or not we landed on the moon, most of the people obsessed over it are crazy.
What's happening with the whole, the Earth is flat, there was no evolution, science is all fake, we didn't land on the moon.
It's a desire for moral certainty.
And there's a book I'm reading right now.
I'm just kind of like reading it on and off.
It is Evil in Modern Thought by Susan Nieman, which is covering the.
It's about how our understanding of evil, you know, like I did that review of, oh goodness, what's the book called?
I only have an e-book, but it's how like how the Christian Revolution created the modern world.
That was about our understanding of morality going back 2,000 years.
This one is basically about morality going back 600 years.
And it starts with Alfonso X, who famously said, like, he had a very disastrous reign.
He had a lot of bad luck during his reign.
And he had famously said, like, one of the things he was criticized for is he brought Jews into his court to learn astronomy.
And it's like, what are you doing learning astronomy?
You ought to be doing falconry and wenching.
That's what kings are supposed to do.
No, he was studying astronomy.
He's supposed to be hobnobbing and having wars, but he's studying astronomy.
And this was back before the Copernican Revolution, so he's studying epicycles and Ptolemaic, astral, whatever.
And so it's kind of like, it's ironic.
He spent his whole life studying, like, he didn't even learn anything.
Not really.
And he's quoted as saying: if I'd been included on God's design committee, the universe would make a lot more sense.
Which is like in today's world is well, first, in a way, that's become the modern religion, but like that's something we've all like, why is pi an irrational number?
And so he was just absolutely smeared and hated and called a heretic and all the bad luck that happened to him.
He deserved for daring to critique God's cosmos.
When the fact of the matter is that it turns out the universe is really, really messy.
Really, really messy.
And, you know, it was Leibniz who wound up kind of resurrecting him, bringing back his reputation, saying that, no, no, you're not.
Now, if he'd said it, like, oh, God should have included me, God's an idiot.
Well, yeah, that's heresy.
That's impiety.
But it's probably not what he was saying.
And Leibniz, as I'm sure you all know, is one of the three men who independently invented calculus.
Leibniz, Isaac Newton, and Leo M. J. Arrini in grade 11.
I actually did invent protocalculus, although it's a hell of a lot easier when you have a modern mathematical education.
And now, Leibniz, with the invention of calculus, like finally we had a mathematics that could deal with infinities.
And Leibniz had this idealistic notion.
You know, in Civilization V, when you get the rationality tree that you can open for your civilization, that's who Leibniz was.
Philosopher, mathematician, diplomat, polymath, the father of rationalism.
Now, he envisioned a future where instead of using violence to settle political disputes, we'd use calculus.
And, you know, in a certain way, it kind of came true.
We have largely put down our arms and resorted to debate.
But where his vision fell short is the fact that men of good character who share the same values can both independently look at a political situation and come to different conclusions.
And no matter how much they argue, they will still have different conclusions.
There is not a perfect rationality for existence.
I've been replaying Adam RPG, which is it's like a Russian Fallout 2 remix, which you should all play if you like Fallout.
And one of the things that's really making me consider is how RPGs have this kind of inherent best playthrough built into them.
Like maybe they have diverging paths that you can't do all of them, but generally speaking, like you want to have your lockpick at 50 when you come to this town, but there's no reason for it to be at 100.
And part of the RPG, part of the whole video game process is reloading your saved games to see what the different outcomes are.
Whereas the reality we are actually in is one that is constantly moving, constantly flowing, constantly changing, and you make educated guesses.
And so the two men might disagree on what the correct political choice is because of their risk tolerance.
It's impossible to say that one risk tolerance is correct and the other is incorrect.
Survive and perhaps you'll thrive, else pain, pain, pain, and extinction.
Right?
Nobody knows what tomorrow brings.
And so one of the consequences, and by the way, I believe this is what Fatima was talking about, the errors of Russia.
I'll get back to that.
One of the consequences of Liebna's promoting this rationalism, right?
This is before Gerdel's incompleteness theorem.
back when we thought we could create a system that was true and complete it put god into question It put the omnipotence of God into question.
So I'll try and explain this.
I mean, like, in a certain sense, all of this goes back to the book of Job.
And I mean, the book of Job is one of the, like, that's the mystery of faith right there.
Like, how the hell is that justified?
I mean, something like eight of Job's children died because God and the devil were shooting crabs with one another.
And it's one thing for Job to be brought low and then brought high.
It's another thing when his children die.
What the hell is that?
And I mean, this is the eternal question.
And so if we take this in a more mathematical sense, well, like the Simpson says, could Jesus microwave a burrito that was so hot that he himself couldn't eat it?
Could God have created a reality where pi was equal to three?
Could he have created a reality where logic worked differently?
Or is God subservient to logic?
Like, are there only so many formations in which logic is possible?
Right?
For the for a universe, for a universe to exist, period, let alone one that can contain intelligent life, you need to have consistent laws, consistent mathematics, consistent platonic forms.
And is there an infinitude of possible realities that God could have made, or is God restrained to a few billion possible realities that he could have created?
Because if God is now constrained, like if he can only create realities that include irrational numbers, is God still omnipotent?
Because, again, go back to Alfonso X. You know, if I'd been on the design committee of the universe, I would have discluded irrational numbers.
In fact, I would have created a mathematics that didn't have the damn things at all because they're awful.
But is it possible to create a universe, a universe where anything interesting happens without irrational numbers?
Like Conway's game of life.
Take Conway's game of life, and if you look hard enough, you're going to find irrational numbers.
The most simple, basic substrate that you can build a universe off of.
And give me five minutes, I'll find you an irrational number.
Divide two, no, I was going to say divide two by seven, that's not how it works, but you get my meaning somewhere in Conway's game of life, there's irreducible complexity.
Although that is a construct within our own reality.
So, all of a sudden, that this rationalism, which started off as worship of God, look at the wonderful rational order that God created wound up making God subservient to reason.
And if, well, in the 18th century, 19th century rolls around, if God is subservient to reason, who needs God, man?
We got reason.
Tim, I'm actually not sure.
Look up here.
Let me Google this for you.
Conway's Game of Life is so cool.
You can install it on your computer.
Is it Tim Conway?
No, John Horton Conway.
He developed it in 1970.
So yeah, you can run this on your computer at home.
There's the Wikipedia article on it.
And it's a universe that, like, it's really, really simple rules.
It's something like any dark square that is empty around it dies of loneliness.
If it has three dark squares around it, it maintains.
And if it has four or more, it creates a new dark square, something like that.
That's it.
Those are the rules of the universe.
And it creates incredibly complex behavior.
Look up on YouTube some of the crazy things people have built with this.
Some of the crazy patterns.
It's absolutely amazing.
Like this is what emergent behavior refers to.
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So yeah, 1800s, we abandoned God because we've got reason.
And if God is subservient to reason, who needs God?
And then 20th century, we find out the limits of reason.
We find them literally with Gerdell.
And we find them physically with the absolute disaster that our politics became in the 21st century.
The death camps, the mass genocides.
Like, oh, look where reason led us.
Now we get to Fatima.
Fatima said the prophecy of Fatima was that if Russia was not consecrated to the sacred heart, that her errors would spread all over the earth.
Illya, glad to have you.
Now, people interpret that as being the errors of communism.
And I don't think history rhymes.
It doesn't repeat.
Okay, communism, much like Nazism, right?
Like all these idiot liberals that are like, oh no, there's Nazis.
Like we are not in 1930s Germany.
There are no Nazis.
Not even the guys in plastic German army helmets are Nazis.
Okay, that was a 1930s German phenomenon.
And similarly, communism qua communism, Leninism, Stalinism, that's not the error of Russia.
The error is something more fundamental than that.
And I think the error is believing that we've got the complete solution.
Right?
And that's the core of German idealism in general.
And I mean, I hate to knock Leibniz.
This guy's brilliant.
But you can see in Leibniz, you can see where Hegel came from, and Hegel led to Marx, Marx led to Stalin, to Marc Hughes, to the moral horror that's all around us right now.
You know, people talk about dystopia.
live in a dystopia, and it's that idea that we can create a complete, perfect system.
That, oh, yes, don't worry, comrade.
Marxism will solve all the solutions.
Just need to shove half the population to go legs and torture them to death.
Then we'll get the communist paradise.
It'll work this time.
And so when I talk about this radical trad Christianity, it's seeking after the same sort of certitude.
Flat Earth is such a perfect example of this.
Because when you move from two dimensions to three dimensions, everything becomes messy.
You can have a fairly ordered two-dimensional universe.
But, goodness, shoot, I don't know if I can explain this properly.
Hairy ball problem.
The hairy ball problem.
So the hairy ball problem is: can you take a hairy ball and comb it in such a way that there is no space on the ball where the net vector is zero?
MinutePhysics did a really good video on this.
So if you take a two-dimensional hairy ball, think a Kushball.
You got their hair and it's got hair.
Can nicely comb the hair all the way around.
And it's nice and pretty and it's smooth and everything's happy.
If you take a three-dimensional ball, cover it with hair, and you try and comb that hair, you're always going to have a cow lick somewhere.
And so, I don't know, like, no, Tacticat's up.
Hey, Tacticat.
Do you want to?
Do you want up?
So, Tacticat is actually not the best example because Tacticat is too hairy.
But back when I had Space Dog, you want to see the hairy ball problem.
They've got two hairy ball problems on either side of their cooter, right?
That bit where the hair goes.
It looks stupid.
You know, back when I had hair, it's like I'd comb it and I've had that one bit that stuck up the middle where the vector was zero.
And, you know, it struck me when I was doing automotive sales that, like, when we delivered the cars, you know, first the detailer would go over it, then I'd go over it personally and just like make sure everything was super shiny and pretty.
And you know what?
When you're trying to, like, it's a brand new car.
It's like a bride on her wedding day.
You want everything to be perfect?
Nothing's ever perfect.
Perfection is impossible in three dimensions.
There's always that one part of the car where things just don't quite fit.
And if you look too closely, you know, the panels are a little bit off.
There's that one spot where there's still a little bit of dust or grease and it's impossible to reach into that part to clean it properly.
Like every bride, there's like one square centimeter of her that smells bad.
The rest smells great.
There's one bit that's no good.
And that's the thing about three-dimensional reality.
It's just, it's never perfect.
Yes, every new car has a defect.
Every new wife has a defect and that perfection that we're seeking in three dimensions.
Like you can get, you can get perfection in two dimensions.
But three dimensions completely throws it off.
And like, I mean, four is even more interesting because light, like if we existed, like we would not work in a four-dimensional reality for a variety of reasons.
That is, with, I should say, five-dimensional because time is a dimension.
Like, if we had a four-dimensional physical reality, we can describe platonic forms in four dimensions, no problem.
Right?
Like a hypercube, no problem describing that.
But everything, chemistry, physics, you name it, absolutely the bottom falls out of it when you move to four dimensions.
And so, yeah, the errors of Russia are seeking this moral and rational certitude.
And that is what I see happening with the rad trads.
Or the like the oh, right, I'm saying the flat earth.
Like, So, fun bit from my geophysics degree.
If you've got spheres, which we pretend the Earth is, you've got a spheroid, which is like a flattened sphere because of the Earth's spin pushing the equator out.
And then you've got the shape called a geoid, which is a lumpy sphere.
Like, if you want to see an example of this, zoom out to a terrain map of Alberta and look in the northern half.
We've got a huge lump in the northern half of Alberta.
And so, if you try and map the location of things in Alberta with the presumption of the Earth being a spheroid, then you're going to be about 15 kilometers off.
You have to take into account elevation because it distorts absolutely everything.
Okay, I will get to that, public frog.
Actually, like here, here's a good example: How big is Alberta?
So, people think there's an answer to this question.
There actually is not an answer to this question.
So, what happens when you download a political jurisdiction map, like a map form, a shapefile?
The shapefiles that we use are based on latitude and longitude.
So, if you download it without a map projection, you get this flattened, squeezed-out thing that looks nothing like Canada.
Well, now you put it into a map projection.
And the way a map projection works is: you know, this will be a perfect example.
So, we've got the Earth is round, right?
So, we take a projection and we cut it like this, with a little bulge over the top, and then this coming out the sides.
And so, this map projection is, you know, you can see, like, if we flatten this into a piece of paper, this part would be squeezed together, and this part would be elongated.
And, you know, you've got one projection that you use for Calgary, you've got another one that you use for the entire province.
It still distorts things.
So, depending upon your map projection, the size of the area that Alberta occupies is going to be different.
And then you have to take into account elevation, as I mentioned, that you know, on the you've got the Rockies coming up like this, and you know, Alberta is on this slope, pretty major slope, actually.
In fact, yeah, here in Calgary, we're the same elevation as a ski town in British Columbia.
Well, like it's very, very high elevation here.
Water boils at 97 degrees centigrade in Calgary because of the low air pressure.
And so, depending on what map projection you use, you're going to get slightly variance in areas.
Then you might say, Well, that's stupid.
Just what's the surface area?
What's the surface area?
Like, I could tell you the size of Alberta if it were on a sphere.
I could tell you if it was on a spheroid, you know, a flattened sphere.
I could tell you the size of Alberta on that nice, smooth, platonic solid.
Technically, not a platonic solid, but you know what I'm saying.
But on a lumpy, irregular shape, are we including houses as part of the square kilometers of Alberta?
Like the walls and the roof and all of that?
Is that part of the area?
Or do we slice off the houses?
What about grass?
What about, like, how detailed do you want?
long is a coastline there actually is no answer to that And what an awful thing.
How fucking like we know exactly where Alberta is.
Like, we know down to the square centimeter where Alberta is and where the lines along it are.
We know perfectly where it is, and yet we don't, like, we can't say how big it is.
I mean, it's not a huge issue.
The variance is like, you know, 0.01%.
But it's one of those things you think should have an answer, and it doesn't have an answer.
And so, God, that's frustrating.
God, that's upsetting.
We vote for Republicans and we get neocons.
We vote for liberals and we get neolibs.
We ask a straightforward question: how big is the United States of America?
It's like, we don't really know.
You can't.
There isn't an answer to that.
Shit, man.
And so, flat Earth, do you understand the attraction of flat earth?
Because flat earth actually has an answer.
It's not true, but it has an answer for you.
Now, public fraud said, I don't understand the connection between flat earthers and trad Catholics.
Now, again, I'm specifying rad trad Catholics.
The radical trads that think there is an answer.
What we need is to all go to the Latin Mass, and we need a Catholic monarch, and this, that, the other thing, And then reality will be beautiful once more.
Completely ignoring the fact that our very understanding of morality as Catholics has been evolving over the past 2,000 years.
As humans.
evolving over the past 10,000 years.
That Alfonso X. Like, I made the exact same comment as on Alfonso.
Like, if God had included me on the design committee, we wouldn't have any irrational numbers.
And I don't think any of you are chomping at the bit to get me declared a heretic that is blaspheming God.
But that's what happened to Alfonso X. All of the bad luck that happened to him was blamed on him blaspheming God when he was making an offhand comment about epicycles.
Similarly, the earthquake in Lisbon, not only did this earthquake hit one of the most pious cities in Europe, within Lisbon, it hit the worst neighborhood or the best neighborhoods.
It wasn't the brothels or the banks that were destroyed by that earthquake.
It was the fine estates and the churches that were destroyed by the earthquake.
And so we used to have this understanding of like it's funny, Liebnes, when he was discussing Alfonso, he specified a difference between natural evils and moral evils.
And he really went out of his way to do this.
Where areas today, in today's world, we understand that, you know, sometimes a kid gets cancer.
It doesn't mean the kid was a bad kid.
The kid just got cancer.
Shit happens, man.
Wear a hat.
but with the earthquake in lisbon this was mind-blowing for us and so when i'm talking about the rad trats trying to find that if only we adhere to this perfect interpretation
our understanding's been growing all of this time.
And what's really going on with all of this is that the mass formation is out of fear of uncertainty.
We've got all the political uncertainty.
we've got a lot of moral uncertainty part of what's happening with the flat earthers is that science has been completely overhyped over the past 40 years or so
Right, we grew up with Beekman's world and with who's that other asshole?
Bill Nye, who treated science as if it's something that could give us the perfect answers.
Right?
That if we all just followed science, we'd get Star Trek.
And it turns out that basic geography can't tell you the size of a country.
And to think that Orbel just posted a very dark image of Gates jabbing the world.
And by the way, speaking of Bill Gates, speaking of Gates, Fauci, of this current paradigm that we have, like in the same way that flat earthers are going back like 4,000 years and adopting the old model because like we're uncertain about the current one.
So it's like, oh, I hate uncertainty.
I'm going to go back.
These thought leaders, Bill Gates, Bill Nye, these guys are going back to the 19th century.
They are not visionaries, they are retrogrades.
He thinks he can inject the world into health.
That it's an arithmetic equation that just needs to be balanced properly.
When the reality is we are encountering levels of unknown that we've never dealt with before.
I mean, wouldn't it be easier living in a world where natural disasters didn't happen to good people?
Didn't happen at random.
I mean, you know, as conservatives, one of the huge, huge moral background talking about the bailouts of banks, The moral hazard.
The moral hazard.
We're dealing with two things that are true.
Number one, wages of sin or death.
If you do bad things, then consequences catch up with you.
However, it also rains on the just and the unjust alike.
So we should be the good Samaritan.
That, you know, you see the person bleeding out in the ditch, you don't immediately jump to asshole deserved it.
No, you help out the person.
And one of the big points that conservatives have been trying to make is that if you create a social safety net that helps everybody, you're encouraging victimhood behavior.
You are subsidizing being a victim.
And the fact is that everybody, everybody can find a way that they're a victim.
And it's gotten to the point where 90%, I would say 90%, but I'm just making up that number.
Huge, huge proportion of the trans movement.
It's not about being trans.
It's that the current moral paradigm.
See, we got rid of God, and the psychologists and sociologists tried inventing their own, and it's a really stupid one.
And so, the moral standard of these idiots is evil white male patriarchy is the devil.
And the evil white male patriarchy makes people feel bad and makes people perform poorly in economic matters and oppressive, etc.
And the greatest virtue is if you're a victim of this evil white male patriarchy.
It's you know, there's a there's a live stream by New Discourses where he's talking about theodicity, which he points us out that the university is supposed to be the handmaiden to the church.
Right, science is there to help our understanding of God, not to replace our understanding of God.
But the university threw away God and then made up their own God, but it's a really crappy, stupid God.
It's something that a Stone Age primitive would have laughed his ass off at.
Like their conception of God is so primitive, but it's what we've been promoting.
And so, these if you're a white male growing up under this theological regime, again, I wish I could take credit for this, but like he basically explains, he nails why Curtis Yarvin called it the cathedral because it's a religion.
You know, Catholicism has a, at bare minimum, 6,000-year-old understanding of God, probably a lot longer than that, 6,000 years of written history go into the Catholic Church, and a lot of history before it got written down.
Freudianism is 200 years old.
Not even 200 years old.
This is what Nietzsche was lamenting: that we have killed God, and there's not enough water to wash the blood off our hands.
We took 6,000 years of theology, flushed it down the fucking toilet, and replaced it with Freud.
And so the great devil is the straight white male patriarchy.
And the great virtue is being a victim.
And most of the trans movement that you see right now is young men who are never catechized into a real church trying to be virtuous.
And it's impossible to be virtuous, according to this religion, if you're a straight white male.
So they become trends.
And hey, listen, Freud had a lot of great ideas.
I'm actually not knocking Freud, right?
Like, to blame Freud for all of this is so reductionist.
It's like blaming Nietzsche for the Nazis, right?
Or even blaming his sister for the Nazis.
No, it's a hell of a lot more complex than that.
But this simplified, cheap moral narrative where this group good, that group bad.
Cavemen had more advanced theology than we do.
Oi!
Soul consciousness!
This is, uh...
Um...
I currently have an alto that I'm renting.
I think I'm going to go back to the tenor, though.
I like the vibrato of the tenor more.
And John Coltrane is my favorite.
I can actually play a few of his solos.
I do not like the bird at all.
Okay.
What's his name?
What is his name?
I mean, I respect him as an alto player.
I just don't like anything he's done.
Whereas I freaking love Coltrane.
Charlie Parker, thank you.
Yeah, I've got, well, you remember when CDs were a thing?
I've got several Charlie Parker CDs.
They just don't do it for me, man.
I like Coltrane.
Now, you know what?
Perfect time to get ice with that distraction.
I haven't played it in a while, though.
I need to get back into it.
I mean, Alto is nice because it doesn't weigh 50 pounds.
But, oh, heck, I've been bodybuilding.
Sure, it won't bug me as much as it used to.
Oh, yeah, and hey, Charlie Parker is fantastic.
I just.
Really like Wonderful World.
Here's that.
The trumpet player.
Really like his stuff, too.
The thing I've been experimenting a lot with is rock and roll songs on saxophone.
Which it actually works.
It works pretty well.
It works a lot better than you think.
Or for non-rock signs, you got Man Eater.
Oh, God, that's a sexy one in Saxophone.
Yeah, Louis Armstrong.
Love Louis Armstrong.
Not just Wonderful World.
I mean, I've got several of his albums as well.
Oh, geez, which period of Coltrane?
Awesome.
I would guess late.
Like when he's really mature, where he's really wailing on the damn thing.
I have a whole album of his studio giant steps recording.
And fuck, do I have it here?
There you go.
So I've got about seven audio recordings and thirty transcriptions of giant steps, the different solos he did.
Anyway, I don't want to talk about jazz all night.
I'm a middling saxophone player at best.
Mass formation is all about increasing apprehension at chaos and not knowing how to deal with it.
And so snapping towards a totalitarian, rules-based understanding of reality.
Flat Earth is an example of this, because unlike the science promoted by Bill Nye, actual science is really, really fuzzy.
Unlike the medical certitude promised by Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci, it's always a gamble.
Like we're honestly, like the current frontiers of science, we're engaged in statistical analysis of things.
You know, like one of the big things happening in astrophysics right now is they may have found a supercluster that is bigger than superclusters ought to be, given the age of the universe.
And this supercluster, our knowledge of it, it's based upon a few statistical analyses of things detected.
So we're not even sure if the damn thing exists.
Similar issue with dark matter, though a little bit weirder with that one.
We're not in the simple physics of billiard balls anymore.
And yet, guys like Bill Nye, guys like Bill Gates, promise billiard ball science.
And this is very, very upsetting to people.
And so they want to snap back to Flat Earth because it's nice and easy.
Doesn't actually work, but it's nice and easy.
And now if Russia had been consecrated to the sacred heart, if we'd done that, if we'd all prayed the rosary, what would that actually mean?
What does it do to you when you pray the rosary?
Well, you go out into the world, and you're a little bit less of an asshole.
You're a little bit friendlier.
You're a little bit more empathetic to other people.
No, we've gone out and we've been edgy.
We've been on edge.
We've been, you know, having bad attitudes.
And so the rad trads, but it's not just rad trad Catholics, by the way, okay?
It's rad trad Orthodox, it's rad trad Protestants, you fucking name it, right?
Rad trad muzzies Throw everybody off the rooftop.
You paint people into corners, they get reactionary.
And they team up with other people that feel painted in the corners, and they all get reactionary together, which makes you more reactionary, which makes everybody more terrified of the chaos and more desperate for a strong man to lay down the law.
And I think there might be, I think we might be undergoing another moral shift that's on par with Lisbon.
Now, you know, I'm going to point out, first of all, I mentioned the book of Job.
We've been putting God on trial since the earliest days.
Like, why this reality?
Why does suffering?
Why?
These are the fundamental questions that lead us towards theology.
I mean, as children, you need to ask your father, why do you make me go to bed on time?
Blind obedience is not a virtue.
Yes, we question God.
That's part of what we do.
Does not mean that we hate him or blaspheme him.
We do question him, though.
Trying to figure out how his mind works.
It rains upon the just and the unjust alike.
So, I mean, it was there, it was right there in the Bible.
And yet it took an earthquake in Lisbon for us to say, oh shit.
This shit just random, you?
Yeah, sometimes it is just random, and I think we might be on the verge of a new moral awakening.
And that new moral the new moral awakening is it's something like it's something like you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences.
Yeah, there's this, uh, this, this tweet.
I saw it screen capped on 4chan.
I can't remember it exactly, but it's something like, oh, so you chose to get the vax.
Well, here's what to expect.
You know, first of all, High risk of dying from myocarditis during the first couple months.
If you don't get that, wait for ADE to kick in.
So, a lot of people dying from ADE this winter.
And after ADE, you get cancers and you get mental decline, which is what we saw in the macaques that we injected with this mRNA technology.
And on and on.
Again, it was really, I butchered it, but you know,
I see I'm speaking a little bit, I'm outside of my wheelhouse right now.
A little bit outside.
But the data is already in on this Dan vaccine.
That is not safe.
Okay, the you know, I was going to post a funny tweet saying that no hockey players have died of heart attacks because I like to make fun of hockey players for being in really bad shape.
Right?
They're all fat and gross looking.
The two types of football, American and European, those are the guys at the top of physical performance, peak physicality.
And we've seen the mass die off of European football players.
Probably saw something similar with American football players.
We already have that data.
VARES is blown up, and it's at maybe 3% of actual adverse events are being reported.
ADE is going to kick in this winter.
And we'll see how bad that is.
And then there's the cancer rates.
Cancer is, according to some sources, exploding right now.
All sorts of weird cancers of people that got vexed.
And there's going to be a lot of fucking people angry about this.
And I think next summer is going to be the worst.
Right now, the consequences are isolated enough that you can ignore them.
The mainstream media isn't talking about them and, you know, don't believe your own lying eyes.
Next summer, I think it's going to become evident enough that...
Oh, God, look, people complain about fucking smoking.
This takes six months off your life, if that.
And that's the average.
I mean, if you've got a good constitution score, then it really doesn't do anything, right?
If you have bad lungs, don't start smoking.
Right?
If you've got a history of lung cancer or heart problems in your family, do yourself a favor, don't start smoking.
If you're like me and everybody in your family lives past 100 because God wants you to suffer, then this ain't going to do fuck all.
Six months at most.
This goddamn vaccine, there's strong indications that it takes a huge chunk off your life.
I think by next summer that's going to become evident.
Next summer, people are going to be lashing out looking for somebody to blame.
And I think it's going to be a year after that that people finally accept you chose the behavior, you chose the consequences.
Turner and Hooch says, got the wool over so many eyes with this pandemic.
You know, that's the thing.
It's they wanted the wool pulled over their eyes.
Take all these people obsessed with the flat earth nonsense, right?
I mean, the major reason I'm not a flat earther is I have a degree in geophysics, okay?
Like I like I the amount of stuff you'd have to fake for my, I don't know, $6,000 of tuition or whatever it was, like the amount of effort you'd have to go to fake all of that just so I got a degree in it.
It's like, no, no.
Like I know the earth isn't flat.
But more to the point, where's the benefit?
Like who profits from the 600-year-old, and it is a six, like, they say it's 600 years old conspiracy to tell people the earth was round.
Who the fuck benefits from this?
And how does knowing the difference benefit you?
Like if the local shawarma shop says it's goat meat, but it's actually chicken meat, but it still tastes delicious.
why do you care?
Why the hell do you care about that conspiracy?
How does knowing the truth about flat earth advance your cause in any way whatsoever?
It doesn't.
They want the wool pulled over their eyes.
They want the certainty of wool pulled over their eyes.
And the same thing with this mass formation about COVID.
They want a religious ritual.
You know, one of the problems that the Catholic Church had in, I believe it was the 1200s, is that peasants would want to just adore the sacrament all day long.
I mean, because the blood and the flesh, the bread and the wine is...
It is literally flesh and blood.
And so the peasants would want to just sit around all day admiring the host.
And eventually the church had to step in and say, no, you're supposed to eat it.
Jesus, just eat the damn thing, get back to work, like go back to playing the guitar and tilling the field and telling girls they're pretty like stop doing this.
They want this transcendent.
Hey, transcendent experiences are fantastic, but like they've got a time and the place.
Like, dude, I think you need to go have a shower now.
And so the whole COVID vaccination, people are looking for a sacrament.
They're looking for a guarantee.
And the only guarantee you're going to find in this life is there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
There's a book I read.
Oh, goodness.
You know what?
I don't need to even mention the I can't remember the author, but he's one of those like popular authors that everybody's read and he kind of writes nihilistic goes nowhere fiction.
But like it was a bunch of a collection of short stories that all happened in the same small town.
Can't remember it, but one of them was about like that, like the four guys that would drink at the bar, and one guy, his catchphrase was, you can't scam an honest man, and how his buddy really hated this because it's a true saying.
And like this guy tells the story of how he got caught up in the scam.
Or guys, yeah, just lend me some money and we'll do a scam.
I've talked about scams before.
Like the way that you scam somebody is you get them to do something dishonest.
Look up the pigeon drop on YouTube to see an example of how you scam somebody.
If you're an honest person, you can be stolen from, but you can't be scammed.
Part of the scam is getting the mark to think they're part of the scam when they're actually the mark.
And this whole COVID thing, see all these people that are so eager about the masks, about the vaccines, they think we're the marks for not participating.
Right?
They think they are on Team Fauci.
No, Team Fauci is Fauci and Biden and Trump and Obama.
We are not on Team Fauci.
It's a big club and you're not in it.
They think they're on Team Bill Nye the Science Guy.
No, no, no, you're not.
Bill Nye's on that team.
Clinton's around that team.
You're the Mark, and the Great Awakening is going to be when people realize that they were the Mark, and they asked to be the Mark.
Let's see.
So, Winning Smile says: if a lot of the top football players die off, people have to pay to see their own equivalent play the game.
I wonder how many would do that turn hooch says how do you go to the bathroom the metaverse Oh, you just say, I need to do a zuck.
I got a hot zuck coming out.
I wouldn't worry about the metaverse.
Okay, the, there's a foundational difference between games and reality,
which, I don't know.
it's like the dumbest thing to say.
Of course, there is.
But no, this is something I've thought a lot about.
I did a I briefly did a redesign of 3.5 DD to make it more quote-unquote realistic.
And now my players just act like cunts, so I didn't even game test it properly.
I think there might be a way to game test it, but I did come away with the realization that games are meant to be fun, not realistic.
Same thing goes for storytelling.
Storytelling should not be realistic.
It should be fun.
It should be engaging.
It should have a message to tell.
Part of the reason that modern fiction, you know, that series of short stories in the small town that I mentioned?
The problem with that book is the meta-narrative was realistic.
They're just stories of different random people in the small town doing their random small people things.
Now, it left you with nothing.
Like you finished the book.
There were a bunch of good stories in the book.
But you left the book with nothing.
The meta-narrative was crap.
And it's like, no, you don't get it, man.
It's a point of the.
Yeah, no, I get it.
I get it.
Postmodernism.
I get it.
But if they're now, each individual story had an arc to it.
Had a thing it was telling to the point where the one about you can't scam an honest man sticks with me to this day.
And the woman that accidentally killed herself idling her car during a blizzard when the exhaust pipe was blocked with snow also sticks with me.
The individual stories had arcs, but they were connected in a way with no arc.
It's postmodernism, man.
No, it's bad storytelling.
Let's go back to that Atom RPG that I mentioned, the more realistic Fallout.
Do you know what realistic fallout is?
It's that you're a first-level character with no resources, and the whole society is run by 10th-level characters with all the best guns.
Fuck you, do what we tell you.
That's realistic.
And that's a really shitty game.
The goal of games is not to be realistic, but engaging.
The goal of stories is not to be realistic, but to speak of deeper truths.
And so this whole metaverse concept is a failure from the get-go.
Virtual reality is nothing but video games.
It is not the same thing as reality where fucking anything could happen.
i mean you know that feeling when a girl breathes on your neck and a cold shiver goes all over your body because she wants to fuck you porn is nice and all but porn can't do that
When you don't know what could happen, when you're so excited over a girl that your whole body is shaking, video games can't do that.
Video games are not part of the time stream, and the metaverse is fake.
Metaverse can be fun.
Games are fun.
Nothing wrong with games.
Nothing wrong with stories.
Nothing wrong with movies.
It ain't the same thing, though.
And so just, I mean, like, what it boils down to is a video game with like full 3D support.
Hey, I love the 3D goggles.
Okay, my ex had some.
They're fantastic.
I really, really want to get some.
Beat Saber is a great workout regimen.
It's not the same thing as reality.
And better video games are not going to replace reality.
Again, I've heard that the VR porn is like really overwhelming.
It's really good porn.
And yeah, a lot of people are going to get caught in that lobster trap, but it's not the same thing as having a girl breathe on your neck.
Fuck.
Or kissing a girl outside in the winter, right after she had a cigarette.
She's all cold, smoky, and wet.
Fuck in hell.
Nothing can compare to that.
So I'm really not worried about the metaverse.
Nothing is more loved in the world than the lie, says Winning Smile.
And you know what?
If anything, the metaverse, good.
Good.
Please go disappear into that place.
Cartography rights holders in the 1600s benefit.
Jesus.
I mean, it's, that's what really, you know, like two things I want to know about a conspiracy.
Number one, kibono.
Number two, why do I care?
Like, I have to have some skin in the game for me to be invested in the conspiracy.
Like, 9-11, okay, that one's pretty obvious.
Why I would care about that.
Gulf of Tonkin, pretty obvious why I'd care about that.
Flat Earth?
Don't actually care about that.
I mean, like, it's intellectually interesting if the Earth is actually flat.
But doesn't affect my daily life.
Like, what a stupid thing to conceal.
Tectonic says I'm a flat center and a round earther.
Tectonic says, Do you think the Mark of the Beast is a recurring archetype?
Well, I definitely think that the Antichrist is an archetype, a recurring archetype.
And I don't know what I think about Revelations.
For one thing, all the language of Revelations was clearly about Nero.
And Nero literally put himself up as the alternative to Christ.
Christ promises you blessings in heaven.
I will give you blessings here in Rome.
Christ says the first shall be last and the last shall be first.
I say the Roman matrons will sleep with slaves.
Like Nero was the original black.com and it's definitely an archetype.
So at the bare minimum, we can say that when Saint John the Baptist described Nero, he was describing something we've seen again and again and again.
And if he was merely using the contemporary language describing Nero to describe the eventual true Antichrist, it's still an archetype ain't it the metaverse is only a problem for those who accept it just like every other social media platform
You know, I actually, funny, you want to hear something weird?
You know what?
This is weird enough that I'm getting paranoid over it.
But I got flagged for a 30-day ban because I switched my banner to some edgy image of, you know, a new retrowave soldier with accelerationism was written on it.
Whatever.
I'm just being edgy, Mr. Edgelord here.
Got a 30-day ban for that.
And he said, do you agree?
I'm like, no, fuck you.
You lack, like, it does not disobey the rule.
Fuck you, I'm not promoting terrorism.
And they actually lifted the ban on me.
Which is weird enough that now I think that somebody in the government wants to see what sort of evil things I'm going to post on Facebook.
But you know, here's the thing.
I spent five months this year banned from Facebook, and it didn't really detract from my life.
I mean, I like posting funny memes on Facebook.
I like playing grab ass with my Facebook friends.
It's nice, fun distraction.
But I don't actually use, like, I don't really care about Facebook.
All right, come on.
Come on.
There we go.
Tacticat needs a.
Well, Tacticat's ruining my jacket with his claws.
My point is that they've kind of censored themselves into irrelevancy.
Because I'm not allowed to post the things I want to post to Facebook.
Because, you know, school teachers always looking over your sh- Like, imagine having an after-school club and things are a lot of fun.
And then supervising teacher starts attending after-school club.
Well, guess what?
You're going to start a new after-school club behind the bleachers where you don't have teacher watching you.
So, yeah, the metaverse is only a problem for those who accept it.
Same thing for social media.
It's like, yeah, we want to meet people over the internet.
We want to talk with our fellow B-rothers online.
And if Facebook's going to make it so fucking cunty you can't do it on Facebook, well go somewhere else.
Beat Saber is the only VR game because of the workout.
It's the only good VR game because of the workout.
That super hot.
Holy shit, super hot.
I was playing super hot at this place with my ex, and Space Dog got so excited that she went outside, killed a mouse, and then brought it for me.
And my ex had to pick up the mouse before I Matrix combat rolled over a dead mouse.
Have you ever read William Gibson?
You know, I really want to like William Gibson.
I've like I've got Neuromancer somewhere.
I've read about half of Neuromancer.
But I am so fucking picky when it comes to fiction authors.
And I can't stand his prose.
I can't even tell you why.
Like there's just.
Ian Banks, okay, like Ian Banks, I've got a love-hate relationship with Ian Banks.
I really like the ideas in Ian Banks' novels.
Right?
Even though the guy is like a toxic atheist.
Total fucking nihilist.
I really like his novels.
I like his approach to violence.
I love his action scenes.
God, what's considering Phlebus is one of my favorites.
Or the chairmaker.
Which one has considered Phlebus?
Is there a chair maker in it?
Anyway.
Use of weapons.
Use of weapons is.
Honest to God, that's one of my favorite novels.
But but, and it's a big but I often get lost in his novels.
I think because I am I'm a very visual person.
You know, one of the difficulties I have is the ears don't work all that well.
I mean, like my hearing is fine.
Okay, I can I've got very good hearing, but the brain doesn't process audio information very well.
So if you write if you're primarily audio-based and everything's audio, it's like he spoke in a brusque voice.
I associate that with emotions, but I don't hear it.
And so when it comes to filmmaking, like I've said this many times, like I'm terrible at audio.
I'm so bad at audio.
Even though, like, I've got good pitch.
I can figure out a song from listening to it.
I don't need to read the sheet music.
But I'm not primarily audio.
I'm primarily visual.
And Ian Banks, like, what happens?
Like, Ian Banks will have, everything will make sense.
You'll have like a small number of characters.
I understand what's going on.
And then we get into weird sci-fi area.
And he does not satisfactorily describe what the ring world looks like for me.
And so I just get confused for about three pages until the action scene ends.
And something about Gibson's the same way.
Gibson seems to just talk about the ideas behind things.
Like I know in Neuromancer, he talks about the girl has like the like she's got like permanent sunglasses on, right?
They're like welded into her face or something like that.
But he doesn't describe what that looks like.
He tells you what it is, but he doesn't describe what it looks like to you.
I really want to like Gibson, but I've tried to read Neuromancer twice.
I got about halfway through and then just I just lost the threat.
I put the book down and didn't read it again for months.
So yeah, I want to like Gibson, but I don't.
Oh God, once Metaverse gets the right to Star Wars, it's game over.
Once they get the right to Star Wars, we finally get good science fiction again.
Oh, Tacticat.
Tacticat thinks he's a featherless biped.
Can we get some tacticat on camera?
There we go.
There is, I think that's tacticat.
Wait, if I switch to the there, we go.
There's Tacticat.
An extremely self-look at him.
He's annoyed.
He's annoyed.
Look at this here.
What a prick.
Like this, this cat is such an asshole.
You've got no idea.
Mmm.
Soul Conscious says, The reason I ask is because I recently watched Johnny Mnemonic, and Keanu's character is named Mr. Smith.
I love that movie.
That movie is fucking fantastic.
I wonder, actually.
You know, who...
You know, another writer that doesn't do visuals that I also, now I've read a lot more of him than I, Philip K. Dick.
I.
I love Philip K. Dick.
Love is paranoia.
And by the way, Philip K. Dick is heavily rooted in Christianity.
One of his books, The Stigmata.
I'm Googling this.
I want to recommend this book specifically because I was having Philip K. Dick's Digmata.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrick.
It's crazy.
I was having a conversation with a guy at a bookstore back when that was a thing that you did.
And now he hated this book because actually, I really want to reread this.
I've been thinking of a sci-fi concept about an evil, a fundamentally evil alien race, and I'm going to base it upon their grammar.
This guy had read the book.
He didn't really know who Philip K. Dick was, didn't understand that the guy was cranked out of his gourd on LSD and everything was paranoial with him.
But the three stigmata is basically this guy visits an alien species and comes back and he becomes the Antichrist that turns everybody else into the Antichrist until a Catholic priest performs an exorcism and destroys the alien planet.
And so I was chatting with the guy at the bookstore.
This is back at like, I don't know, 2000 or something.
Guys, like, I just thought it was really reductionist, not good science fiction, and too much faith, not enough reason.
Which I totally get that interpretation of it.
Right?
If you're not familiar with the constant paranoia of Philip K. Dick, you'd think it was shitty science fiction.
But I think it's fantastic science fiction.
And Dick is one of those guys that, like, he does not provide visual descriptions.
And, you know, it's these authors that don't do the visual descriptions that wind up getting turned into cinema all the time.
Because I can understand that.
Because as a cinematographer, it allows you to invent the imagery for the film.
And so we've got a whole bunch of Philip K. Dick novels or short stories that have been turned to films.
We've got the Schwarzenegger one about Mars.
Total Recall.
Now the short story is completely different from either of the movies.
I thought both the movies were good.
But the paranoia is more evident in the Dick movie.
My favorite Philip K. Dick movie is oh, it's the Rotoscope Keanu Reeves.
So yeah, we're going to say Johnny Mimonic, fantastic cyberpunk movie.
Absolutely fantastic.
He also did a Philip K. Dick movie.
Oh, I gotta Google this.
Philip K. Dick Keanu Reeves.
A scanner darkly.
Oh, God, that's a Toby?
A scanner darkly is fucking fantastic.
68% on Rotten Tomatoes.
It's really weird, guys.
It's really like what you have to understand about Philip K. Dick is that his movies are about fucking paranoia.
And if you've never been cranked on Vivance or LSD, if you've never felt properly paranoid, it might not actually make sense to you.
But it's kind of his writing is about exploring the limits of paranoia.
And of course, yeah, we've got the do androids dream of electric sheep?
You know, people people want the answer is.
Is Harrison Ford a replicant or not?
And you know what?
To tie this back to the original point of this live stream, what is the square footage of Alberta?
The point.
the point of do androids dream of elective electric sheep the point of blade runner is you don't fucking know the point of blade runner is that that speech by the replicant And I'm gonna find this for you.
This is the point.
Tears in the Rain monologue.
Okay, there's like five different ones.
Come on, which...
This is the one I'm going to read.
Okay, you know, I'm going to read the longer one.
You can go watch the actual clip, which has the shorter one if you want.
I've known adventures, seen places you people will never see.
I've been off-world and back.
Frontiers.
I've stood in the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutonian camps with sweat in my eyes watching stars fight on the shoulder of Orion.
I've felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear.
I've seen it, felt it.
I've seen things, seen things you little people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships off on fire off the shoulder of Orion, bright as magnesium.
I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched sea beams glitter in the dark near the Tanzauer gate.
All those moments, with my death, they'll be gone.
That is the fucking point.
Not whether or not Decker is a replicant.
It doesn't matter if he's a replicant.
The point is that every one of us has these experiences, ideas,
These feelings to quote, to quote Red Dwarf.
You're born alone, you die alone, you leave the game alone.
No matter how well we communicate, we're all alone inside our own heads with the experiences we have.
And fighting for a cause is great and all.
Why the hell not fight for a cause?
It's something worth doing.
Much like kissing girls, it beats the hell out of playing bridge.
But we're ultimately alone up there, and we don't know what comes on the other side.
Do we have souls?
Do we continue existing or are we all just replicants?
And upon our death, all those memories just dust in the wind.
We don't really know.
But it's worth cherishing that.
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Is an electric sheep as good as a real one?
Is an electric tacticat as good as a real one?
What are experiences?
Do they matter?
How do they matter?
Should they matter?
And Philip K. Dick is saying you can never know.
You can never fucking know.
Do your experiences matter to you?
Do you have meaningful catharsis?
If you do, then you do.
And if you don't, no outside validation is ever going to make that catharsis true.
There's never going to be a medical expert that can tell you how to live your life.
There will never be a doctor or a priest or a psychologist that you can know teaches you to live your perfect life.
Now you can hand over the reins of control.
You can read the secret and do everything Oprah says.
You can take every single injection that your doctor recommends.
You can obey whatever you think the Catholic Church is telling you to do.
But at the end of the day, you can't know.
You can only experience.
I think the big moral realization that we as a species are on the advent of, I think that's it.
You choose the behavior, you choose the consequences.
All you can really choose is to be accountable for your decisions.
I think a lot of people made a very bad choice trusting the science and taking this vaccine.
And over the next few years, they are going to be feeling the consequences of blind obedience, of blind faith.
So yeah, that's where I think things are headed.
Couple of rocky years.
Guess it'll be interesting on the other side.
Anyway, that's it.
Guys, thank you very much for listening.
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God bless all of you.
Carpe futurum teneteratitum.
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