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Alright guys, um

Welcome.

Welcome to the infrared webcast.

I've been very, very busy, um, so.

That's the fact.

I've been very, very busy.

But there's a lot of very important developments underway.

And I cannot wait to fully, fully announce them and just have it be announced to the entire public of what is in the works.

What's going on?

All I can say is stay tuned.

Very serious stuff is coming.

Very, very serious.

Long, long time coming, by the way.

Long time coming.

But.

We are fully committed all along the way.

Anyway guys, how ominous, right?

Well

There are some interesting things and developments going on on the news front and side of things.

I had some thoughts I wanted to share and talk to you about today in general.

Now, if you don't know, if you didn't see the announcement on the Discord, the Patreon QA, I did it off-stream.

The reason I did it, I think I'm going to do these off-stream because when I do them on stream, the non-patrons tend to get bored and it's just not very good content.

And it's easy for me to just record them off stream.

And plus, I don't have to put my camera on, so that's that.

Right now, I don't want to make any quick announcements yet.

Because we're still in the discussion stage of this, but you know, me and some of the guys at the EB have been.

Talking about maybe we might do a weekly pre-recorded podcast for the ACP YouTube channel.

That's something we're thinking about.

And you know, you could, it would just be like us talking, it'd be very conversational, be very chill, very, very chill.

But, like, you know, we would just talk directly about party stuff, not just party stuff, it would just we would just talk about whatever's on our mind.

Um, it'd be a podcast, it'd be pre-recorded.

We are going to try it out, see how it works.

It's gonna be like good Good Morning Revolution.

Yeah, exactly.

And we don't want it to be boring, we want it to be conv it's not going to be too stiff and formal, you know.

And so, don't, you know, that's not definitely not the idea.

The idea is to be something that is engaging and is insightful.

Because I can't tell you how many times, for example, me and Carlos talk about philosophy and it's always so interesting.

And it's like, it's a damn shame no one can hear our conversations ever because, you know, so it's I'm not saying it's only going to be stuff like that, but you know, we at the EB, we always are having interesting discussions and we're making observations about how we see things.

You know, we we we Jimmy, what's up?

It'll give you a good idea of where we stand on the discourse and how we feel about new developments and things.

I don't know, I I think it's gonna be it'll give people a better idea of, you know, what goes on in our head when it comes to new events and discourse and stuff like that.

I think I think a lot of the party would appreciate it.

A lot of the people, especially the ones that can't catch my streams, although I want to get better at the streaming.

It's just this week I've been very busy.

Very, very busy.

So that's why the streams have been so late recently.

But hopefully that's gonna change pretty soon because we have some updates.

Yeah, and this is gonna be content you can play around your family, you know, definitely not like the infrared.

Sorry.

Anyway, guys, I um

That's something I wanted to share with you guys about what's on our mind, what we're thinking about going forward.

But

I also want to talk about something else.

Oh SOS, what's up?

First, some interesting news is going on, which I never like having to acknowledge, which is Trump.

uh tweeting or truth socialing, whatever you calling.

He's truthing, whatever you call it, on his platform.

About Putin.

I tend not to take this stuff very seriously because I remember and I always tell Jackson, remember how much Trump was tweeting about the D PRK and we thought there was about to be a war?

And then very suddenly, like very suddenly, one week later, he just meets Kim Jong-un?

So I don't know what's going on with Putin.

Trump is ramping up his rhetoric against Putin, I guess.

And Putin just doesn't care.

Now, I'm bringing this up because we had discussed earlier, if you remember, a scenario where uh you know Trump gets elected and uh he realizes he's not in the same world as uh when he took office in twenty sixteen and he realizes like Putin is like the man in the room, doesn't give a fuck about

Let's doing what Trump says and then Trump freaks out, you know.

So we we we did actually consider that possibility.

And I'm just I'm bringing it to your attention because that could actually be something that is happening.

Like that prophecy we had, I guess, might actually play out and actually happen.

We don't know, though.

What I know for certain is that Putin and the Russians are not holding their breath for Trump or for the USA.

The SMO changed everything.

And I knew it at the time, which is why I.

Immediately

gave my full and unconditional support for Putin and the SMO when it happened.

But it changed everything.

It's a it was a game changer.

Basically, it was like the biggest fuck you to the entire world order.

It was it started a world revolution.

There would not be uh Ibrahim Traore

I'm saying his name right, and the Sahel revolutions and and so much more.

None of this would have happened if it wasn't for the SMO, right?

The SMO was the first stage of a coming world revolution.

A revolution in geopolitics, revolution in the world system, and it was a very profound event.

That Trump was not in office for.

So we have to see.

We have to see.

We have to wait and see what's what's gonna happen.

But

Who knows?

It's it's I don't like to com I know there's a lot of people that love the news cycle.

And I don't like the news cycle.

I I like

The s I like the cycles that are like written in ancient books that only happen like once every ten thousand years.

And ah, it's an interesting s I like K waves.

I like the contratia of waves.

I don't like

Did you hear this?

Like, you know, you go on X, and I don't sometimes I see breaking news!

War is coming in minutes!

Breaking news!

Oh my god!

It's like.

I wasn't born yesterday and I don't really give a fuck about

If I wanted to be a grifter, like some of these, I don't know, alt media crowd, I don't know what to call them.

The Bricks News, Bitcoin scammers, I guess I could make a lot of money.

Like feeding people this idea that the sky is always falling, that there's always some giant thing happening right now, that it's always a big deal because Trump farted or something.

But the truth is that you have to be a little, you know, a lot of, you know, you know what meme I hate.

I can't stand the nothing ever happens meme.

It's gotta be for the most stupid, low attention span people.

Of course, things happen.

They definitely happen.

A lot has happened in the past five years.

A lot has happened, okay?

Things do happen.

They just don't happen at the scale of time that a lot of people have come to expect, I guess.

A lot of people just decide that unless things happen every second, nothing happens.

Unless things are happening every hour and it's just always constantly an uninterrupted stream of excitement and exciting, world-changing news, that nothing happens.

Whereas if you have j I'm not even saying have a long-term view.

I am not some Chinese philosopher with a long beard who's 90 years old telling you to wait generations for things to happen.

I'm just telling you maybe adjust your expectations from literally every second to maybe like every six months or every three months.

Something of significance happens.

But yeah, yes, not every day is nine eleven.

Okay, every day is not nine eleven.

And the it speaks to the and I'll I'll go ahead and say a word that I guess I think people should go to jail for saying the TikTokification, I guess, of the genera entire generation.

Nothing ever happens because it's not like just scrolling through fucking TikTok and

I'm just seeing

Seeing, you know, immediate satisfaction for your attention span.

I don't know.

Things are definitely accelerating, you know.

It's definitely true things are happening more often.

That's also true.

It's just people have like it's like Bitcoin where it's like, oh, is it worth five hundred thousand dollars?

No, it's more like eighty or seventy or whatever it's at right now.

It's still a lot more than where it was when it, you know, Bitcoin first came out.

It was like a penny.

Now it's like, what, seventy to ninety thousand, I think.

But some people think it should be like at a million already.

And it's the same thing when it comes to people's expectations about how much things are accelerating.

They're definitely accelerating.

I mean, much more than before.

Things are definitely heating up globally.

But people have gotten ahead of themselves and just because it's not happening at the rate that they've hyped themselves up and excited themselves into thinking it is, they just say nothing happens, nothing's happening at all, right?

Um so I don't like the nothing ever happens meme.

I think it's a really stupid meme, frankly.

I think it's really stupid.

But uh I tend not to pay attention to rhetoric.

I don't like to be reached out to comment on rhetoric.

I think it's beneath me and my pay grade.

Not that getting paid more would make me more willing to, but it's just kind of beneath

Beneath what I

It's just too undignified for me to just like constantly

He plugged into the fucking truth social news cycle.

I like to observe Trump.

Based on what he actually does, not based on what he says on Truth Social.

I don't really give a shit about that, right?

But no, it's just something to keep in mind, because it looks like the negotiations are not going well.

In the case of or but but look if it's true that Trump is secretly serving Russia which some people think you can only hope you know I I see no evidence of it maybe also he is pretending like he's like oh Putin stop maybe he's just giving Putin more of uh opportunity to just take over more territory while pretending like he's upset about it and it's like you know maybe that's what's going on so there's a lot you could speculate on honestly

Um but that that you know maybe maybe if if that's true it w it you know there's a there there is a way at least to to um explain away why he would be rhetorically charged against Putin if he was pro-Russian in some way.

Maybe because I'll tell you the truth is that

If the Ukraine war ended now, I'll tell you the opinion of the Russians that I know who I've spoken to, it would have been a waste if they just consolidate the territory they've already conquered.

It's not enough.

Absolutely not enough.

It's not over till Odessa is taken.

It's not over.

There are so many parts of the Donbass that have not been liberated yet, right?

So

I don't think Russia is interested in ending it right now.

I think they were interested in ending it maybe within the first weeks that it happened, and then clearly the the West was not, and so they're just gonna keep going.

They're just gonna keep going until they have taken at least all of the eastern part of Ukraine.

And then then maybe they'll they'll so it's going to be on their time and on their terms.

They're not in a rush.

By no means are they in a rush.

And it's over, basically.

I mean, it is totally over.

The

The two years, three years of endless aid and arms supplies that were coming from NATO, it's over.

And Russia is just now so rapidly advancing.

And it has the Kiev government in the chokehold.

So, why would they want to negotiate now?

Why would they want to?

They're in a strong position now.

They're not in a weak position.

Not that they've ever really been in a weak position, but there was definitely.

There's definitely been a.

I mean, look, I remember when I went to Donetsk City, when I was in Donetsk City at the hotel, they had just.

Right before I came, eliminated.

an artillery position of uh the Ukrainian army, making the city much, much safer than it had been before.

Now I had the great luck of being three hundred meters away from a partial High Mars strike

But

That was an exception.

It's not often that the IMARs are used, from my knowledge.

Uh especially in the city center, right?

City center of Donetsk City.

I mean, what are the odds?

It's three hundred meters away from where I was st uh s I I for sure thought I was like we were being targeted, that's how close it was.

But still, the facts are the facts.

The f the fact is that Donetsk City is much safer than it was before because of the advances of the Russian military.

that they had been making.

Now I want to get into a topic that is not that pressing and immediate, but is more generally something I was thinking about.

Which is an observation that I can make.

That a lot of people when when we talk about politics, when we talk about understanding the world and

And things that are abstract and not necessarily personal.

And then it can get personal depending on people's psychological state, of course.

But do you ever sit around and wonder and realize 'cause I I I often am oblivious to this, to the extent of it, just how much your average person really does get their entire worldview, their entire world view, their entire comprehension of morals, of right and wrong, of who the good guy is, who the b all of it they get from Hollywood and T V shows and video games.

And you notice that i i for a lot of people I laugh at it 'cause I think it's like stupid, but for a lot of people, oh, Russia are the bad guys and Ukraine are the good guys, that a lot of people genuinely think that way.

And it's because I guess they've been taught in these movies or these video games they play or whatever they're doing that the big the big one is the bad one and the small people are the good people.

Whereas in you look at actual history, the small British Empire, small island of Britain, went to big India and all these big landmasses, Africa and so on and so on, larger populations.

And, you know, who were the good guys and the bad guys?

It was very clearly Britain, right?

It was clearly Portugal and Britain and these small shitty countries that went around the world looting and pillaging and destroying giant civilizations.

The Middle East and so on and so on.

So people don't get that though, because I think about it.

It's like when's the last time in a Hollywood movie you hear about this arrogant small island of assholes that go to a large great civilization and just fuck everything up?

No, it's always some great empire is gonna conquer and destroy you and then these small innocent people that are like in the we will defend our small little stupid village and that's like that's like the trope, right?

But in reality, it's actually the opposite.

And I'll tell you why because

Great big empires.

So, Hollywood teaches you that in great big giant continuous, like big power empires, right?

That all of that can be reduced to the subjective mania of some big asshole.

So, in Zack Snyder's 300, there was a big weird asshole, a Xerxes.

He was this weird naked guy.

No one knows why he was depicted because the real Xerxes was, you know, he had a beard, he was dressed, and he wasn't naked.

But this one was like some big, weird asshole.

I want unlimited power!

And then, in every other film or TV show with or the Star Wars, and I am Darth Vader, I'm a big asshole, I just want to be a big asshole for no reason because I'm a big bully who's just a fucking asshole that wants power.

That's the trope, right?

Just some big asshole, and that big empire's a big asshole, big jerk bully.

Okay, but I want to explain to you reality though, right?

So.

In reality, a big empire, a big power, is always based on a big principle.

You need a very big, grand, beautiful, sublime,

Old, weathered, tested, impersonal, fundamentally impersonal, impersonal principle that has been weathered over generations and thousands of years and enriched with wisdom and experience.

Only a principle can unite so many different groups and be capable of governing at a scale of such a large territory.

Only a principle, right?

Is capable of accomplishing that.

And what you'll find is the emperor, the great leader, the Cyrus the Great, whatever you want, Stalin, Mao.

These are people that are trying to serve this principle and do their best to attend to it.

But that principle is not at a scale of an individual subject.

It's an objective reality that binds together and it's just more noble, it's more powerful, it's not petty, it's something big that's meaningful, right?

And that is what is capable of actually uniting human beings at scale, at the scale of large powers.

Whereas a petty small people

Um they don't need a great principle.

To serve as the foundation of their existence, they can be motivated by egotism, they could be motivated by pettiness, hatred, subjective one-sidedness.

You know, in a grand empire like the Chinese empires, the Russian, before the Romanovs, at least, Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, whatever you like, the Incan empire, even the Aztec Empire.

You know, no one-sided subjectivity could serve as the foundation of a great that those great powers.

It's always a dialectical principle because only a dialectical principle can overcome differences between different groups and unite them on a on a basis bigger than themselves, right?

Only that could command into service

Millions and millions of individuals to sacrifice their own interests for something greater, right?

And it's like

You know, that's not true for small, shitty countries.

That's not true for small, shitty, petty, narcissistic, subjectivistic, you know, Azov, Ukraine, whatever.

That's not true.

They don't have to have a well-rounded dialectical perspective.

They don't have to have a more holistic view.

They don't have to have an understanding of you have to balance the interests of different groups and you have to rise above such pettiness and smallness.

No, they could just be motivated by the immediacy of some kind of grudge, some kind of hatred, some kind of egotism, greed, anything, right?

So, you know, Hollywood doesn't teach you this.

It teaches you the opposite of what's the truth, right?

Because it doesn't give expression to bigger, impersonal collective principles.

In Hollywood films and in TV shows and in video games, you'll notice something about the Western liberal ideology, right?

Which is that collective principles don't exist.

Only individual subjects and their feelings exist.

I can't tell you how many movies and TV shows and games I've seen where the premise of the plot is like, okay, five trillion people are going to be wiped out.

Unless this one person gets shot.

And then in the story, the villain is the person who's like, yeah, just shoot that, shoot them.

Like, we need to, yeah, I mean, 5 trillion.

Are you kidding?

What's one person compared to 5 trillion, right?

But then the show is like, who are you to decide?

Who are you to play God?

It's not your choice.

It's my choice.

What?

And that's the good guy?

Like, what is that?

You know what I mean?

Like, that's the protagonist?

Give me a fucking break.

That's ridiculous.

But that's what and they only believe individuals exist.

They don't believe there's anything bigger.

There's no.

Because I'll tell you why.

Because anything.

Let me explain to you something very sad about Western liberalism.

Right, when I m more like, you know, Western neoliberalism, call it whatever you want, right?

But it's something very sad and rotten about this mentality, which is that unless it's tangible to an individual, it doesn't exist.

Like a collective principle is not tangible, okay?

Um.

This is tangible.

This was a gift given to me.

This is tangible, okay?

This is tangible.

This is the music box I was given.

It's a tangible thing, right?

So it exists, I guess, right?

Individuals are tangible.

So I guess individuals exist.

But a collective principle, I can't sense that completely.

I can't fully experience that just as one individual.

Therefore, it doesn't exist.

How vain, how silly is that mentality and that outlook?

So I'm one individual, right?

Will I ever experience the entire circle of life?

No.

I will live maybe maximum 90 years if I'm lucky.

And I'm just by the way, I'm a man, right?

So I'm a man.

Which is one half of what a human being is, fully, right?

And I uh will never know what it's like to um give birth to a child.

I'll never know what it's like.

No one will, by the way, ultimately, to know what it's like to experience the entire scale of time of a generational cycle.

I am part only one part of a generational cycle.

And so are you.

You're only one part of a generational cycle.

But if you have kids, for example, you will have descendants and and there will be a generational cycle that comes after you.

You'll just never fully experience it.

So does that mean it doesn't exist?

Just because you're not going to be around

When your kids have kids, have kids, have kids, does that mean they don't exist and they're not real?

So, at the level of time, we know that there are things, objects, if you want to call them, hyper-objects, right?

It's what Timothy Morton, I think, would call them that exist at a scale so much larger than it can be comprehended by individual experience, right?

And they exist, it's just that you will not be around to you cannot experience them as a subject, right?

So, that also exists in terms of social reality.

That's what a collective principle is: it's you will never fully experience it yourself, never, right?

Um

You'll never fully be able to experience the sum total, the totality of the entire ensemble of social relations that constitute a civilization or a people.

But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

And that doesn't mean there is not a responsibility of wise governance and statecraft to attend to this reality.

And this is the fact.

And you know who understood this was Mao.

Because there was a specific interpretation of Marxism.

I hate this interpretation.

Which says that in the withering away of the state,

The centralization of authority will disappear and everyone's just going to willy-nilly do whatever they want, right?

And you know what Mao said?

It was so interesting.

He said, I don't actually, Mao said, this is his words.

I'm paraphrasing him.

He's like, I don't actually think the state will ever wither away.

He's like, we're always going to need these courts that we've had in China for thousands and thousands of years to settle petty squabbles and disputes between people.

We're always going to need some kind of like authority that's going to be able to actually wisely govern people at scale in some kind of way.

He said maybe a state in the Western sense won't exist as an organ of class dictatorship, but he said there still is going to be a central authority.

And that's the correct Marxist view, you know.

And that and that is not something you'll ever be able to experience just as an individual by yourself.

Not even the supreme leader or the emperor can do that.

But all they can do is assume the reins of power and responsibility and the application of will in service to this principle to make decisions.

that um ensure the continuity of generations.

So

Like, that's good, though.

That's what a good guy would do.

That's what the good, that's what the good guys are.

The good guys are not.

The good guys are Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, you know, looking over the universe, making sure that, you know, there's stability, people have food on their ta.

That's a huge responsibility.

And, you know, I hate Hollywood so much.

So, so, so, so, Darth Vader's an asshole just because he doesn't go to every single person's house and hold their hand and subjectively engage and kiss on the cheek everyone before they go to bed.

That means he's an asshole who's cold and ruthless.

Fuck, you know, this is nonsense, okay?

Like Darth Vader is the good guy because he's doing it from afar, but he's the one taking responsibility and assuming a perspective at scale that all these people in villages and these stupid Chewbacca's or whatever, they don't have the perspective to balance and weigh so many conflicting interests and so many different needs and necessities of society at scale.

The dumb Chewbacca's and the dumb fucking Ewoks, all they're just scratching their ass with a stick.

They don't care.

And that's fine.

It's good to live and be a normal

Person, there's nothing wrong with that.

But don't point your fingers and call Darth Vader an asshole because he's doing what needs to be done to bring, uh, you know, to bring to unite a fucking galaxy, right?

So, um, it's just it doesn't have to be Darth Vader, it could be Sauron, it could be, um, uh

Xerxes from 300.

It could be uh

Is is uh in in Harry Potter, what was the that's what Voldemort wanted too, right?

He wanted to just conquer everything, I guess him as well, you know, Lord Lord Fargo.

Well,

You know.

Lord Lord Farquad's an interesting case because Shrek, you know, when you think, you know, it's actually interesting because Shrek Shrek was not here to meddle in Lord.

Shrek was not saying, like, oh, Lord Farquad, you're doing it all wrong.

How dare you?

You know, my feelings.

No, Shrek was just standing on business.

To be honest, what was going on between Shrek and Lord Farquad?

Shrek.

He was a he was.

Shrek was a freehold peasant who was.

I'll tell you what's going on in Shrek.

It's just like so simple, right?

Shrek was a freehold peasant who was living in an Asiatic mode of production, right?

And Lord Farquad Shrek was always cool with whoever the emperor was.

He was chill.

Like he had no problem.

He didn't want to get involved in politics.

He was a freehold peasant, right?

But the problem is that Lord Farquad was a Greek, and that's the worst.

Lord Farquhad wanted to end the Asiatic mode of production and institute private property.

And eliminate freehold peasants like Shrek and all these fairytale creatures, 'cause those were the freehold peasants I guess, and throw them in one pile for primitive accumulation, the the the prelude to Greek slavery of classical antiquity, right?

Just piling all these rooting them up from their land and piling them in one place to be slaves and laborers.

And that violated the social contract, right?

And Shrek wasn't having it.

He wasn't having it, you know.

And, you know, you could think about it, and it's like the dragon.

What was the dragon?

You know, and the dragon was a symbol of Chinese civilization.

So the dragon represented this ancient principle of the Asiatic society that Shrek was living in.

Lord Farquad tells Shrek, go kill the dragon, go end the supreme, grand and sublime principle of civilization and statehood.

So he can affect his Greek pedastry reforms to create private property and end freehold civilization, right?

And you know that that that dragon

Like that was a symbol of something, right?

And he was saying, Oh, go rescue the princess from the dragon.

And and and um Lord Farquhad wanted to take uh Fiona.

Well, Fiona, it kind of sounds like Sophia.

This is Sophianic principle.

So Fiona represents the entire body politic, the entire not the body politic, the whole uh social body of the people.

It's you know, it's like a

It's like a analogy for for the m the the the the the the masses, the people, right?

You you you gotta read Soloviev's sophology to understand it.

Anyway, Fiona represents like the trust of the masses and the peace.

Farquad wanted to take that and undermine it.

And you know what Shrek did?

He took Fiona and he brought her back to the masses because he Shrekified her.

Fiona was in that tower locked because the whole reason Farquad was getting away with his wild, nefarious plots and tricks, the whole reason he was able to do it.

was because you know the the the the there was an out of touchness

With the masses in the dynastic cycle of statehood.

You read about Michael Hudson, he talks about how the oligarchical principle started to take hold when this periodic dynastic process of debt cancellation stopped happening.

And the vast accumulation of wealth was able to occur.

And on this basis, the rest is history.

It's the rise of private property itself.

Well, that dynastic cycle was being frozen because Fiona was locked in that tower, far above and away from the masses, you know.

And you know, when Shrek when he Shrekified Fiona, she turns green and big and whatever.

Um she that was like the debt c that was like the

The debt cancellation.

This far away principle going back down to the masses, becoming among the people, right?

Regaining touch with the people, with the masses.

Um

So, you know, I would not go so far as to say that Shrek is an example of what, you know, Shrek, you could read Shrek in a lot of different ways.

But anyway.

Anyway.

Let me uh

Let me end that topic, you know, general.

So basically, what I'm trying to say.

Is that um Hollywood?

Okay, forget about Shrek.

Stop thinking about Shrek.

You know, it was a detour, it wasn't even the main point.

Forget about Shrek.

But the whole point was how Hollywood and T V shows and video games have completely warped and distorted uh people's um

People's ideology and worldview, and it goes back to Russia, Ukraine, and all that kind of stuff.

So, you know, I've it

Now this is just when it comes to politics, but you know for a lot of people it it also applies to morality in their personal lives and their relationships.

They get it from these T V shows and movies and it's starting to get a little scary because you know autism is becoming widespread, much more widespread than it ever has been before.

And a lot of people are starting to look to T V shows and movies to simulate and emulate emotions.

And because they don't have authentic experiences that give them emotion, so they are emulating the ones that they see to find meaning in their lives, to be like characters in movies and T V shows and video games and stuff, right?

That's why in I'm not I'm not trying to make fun of them.

I'm genuinely, it's a it's a concerning phenomena.

Like, and um, you'll find people that are extremely on the spectrum and um.

in grade school or whatever, they're always like trying to be a character directly, like from an anime or Sonic the Hedgehog or something.

And it's generally because they um don't have guidance

As far as like where to derive meaning, right?

So they're just getting it from Hollywood and I'm just trying to say that.

I don't want to be this I don't want to repeat the cliche that media literacy is important.

But in some sense, it really is.

And I think about it a lot and how much it actually matters because I forgot about it.

I remember when I was like 13.

And I was first getting interested in Marxism, how much I had to actually change how I experienced and consumed movies and stuff.

Like, I was always so paranoid, it was all propaganda, and I would have to dissect it so critically and think so critically about movies and TV shows and video games.

And okay, so is this anti-how is this anti-communist?

Is this like that?

I was on that vibe length because I was adopting the Marxist worldview.

But this is silly to me now, but when I was growing up, I felt like when you watched a movie or a T V show or something, the ideological messages and themes in those

were so compelling that it almost was like you had to resist being tempted by the message that they were selling like this is the truth this is reality and you had to kind of like in a way resist the compulsion to buy into that and and like and like be compelled by it and and and therefore you had to like not enjoy it and i think that's sad because i missed out on a lot of on a lot okay i was a fanatic when i was in high school i there was a lot of movies and just i wouldn't consume it because like i don't want to enjoy this because if i enjoy it it's going to degrade my marxist principles and like my ideological conviction i don't want that and that's really sad because today i am now like i can consume anything and enjoy any movie or if i like it and i can actually objectively be like this is good or this is bad and even if it's ideologically dog shit i could still appreciate it and i don't have to have this like fanaticism i used to have right but

I have to every so often think about the fact that that's not true for like the majority of people.

For the majority of people,

They are so

addict they are so plugged in to like moo like the th

Like pop culture, that it actually is the fullest possible horizon of meaningfulness for them to the point where, like, it does, it is that serious.

Like, for example, like.

I told you I was watching a show called Foundation on Apple, right?

It's like such an ideologically dog shit show, right?

But like I f I enjoy it because it's like

I see how they're like

I I I like the execution.

I don't know.

It's like I appreciate the execution.

But there's a lot of people that can't consume media that way, where it's like, this is really bad, but on it, I can still appreciate the objective significance in some kind of way, not just the subjective experience of consumption, right?

And a lot of people don't have the capacity to imagine in that way, and I find it really scary.

Like, when I watch a blockbuster movie and it's and I decide that it's good, one of the reasons I think it's good is because it increases the range of imagination, right?

Like, I could do a counter-narrative in my head.

I could imagine, there's, I could think about a plot that would be really cool.

And how could I, I always want to like.

Think about how would I fix this movie?

How would I make it ideologically correct?

And and use its imagery as the raw material to inspire, you know, uh higher forms of contemplation and consciousness, right?

And no, I'm not talking about fan fiction.

I'm just talking about like just purely imagination, like thinking about like this is the vibe, you know, like this is uh

It's like a v it's very much like a vibe-based like for example um

There's not really an example I could use that's not gonna sound retarded, but it's like I remember the the Godzilla movies.

actually like allowed me to think about Heidegger a lot better, right?

I don't know, it sounds like really retarded, but it's the truth.

It's like that's how I like to enjoy media, you know?

I guess.

And um, I feel like that without the French school of thought, without like Deleuze like reading about Deleuze, I mean, forget Lacan, Lacan is a given, but Deleuze is, I think, way more important, right?

Without a lot of engagement with phenomenology and these kind of schools of thought in the late 20th century, I think that people will become enslaved to pop culture idols that become like a religion for them.

And I might sound crazy, but I'm starting to get it now because every time I go online, I'm always seeing people freak out over a fucking TV show.

They're like, they ruined the last of us.

They ruined the last.

And I'm like, who gives a fuck?

It's like, what?

Why does it matter if it gets ruined?

Why does it even matter?

They ruined the video game.

It's the it's like what?

Why does that matter?

And I and now I get it.

It's like, well, the reason it matters to these people is because this is their fucking religion.

This is where they are actively getting a continuous stream of.

acquaintance with the meaningfulness of existence itself, right?

Yeah, like the Starship Troopers discourse, and like how much people like aggressively defend their fantasies.

Oh, I have a fantasy of Star Wars, I have to defend this fantasy, you can't ruin it for me, don't you dare ruin it for me?

And it's like when I made my Lord of the Rings tweet, for example, like a lot of people were genuinely like, like.

Like going to the hospital and shit.

Amilo with the ten.

Like a lot of people were like shaking and pissing and shitting their pants.

Like a lot of people like were really getting dizzy and like it was ruining their lives.

And Reddit was the same way and it's like holy shit.

And I I I kind of understand it now, which is that

They'd never went through that experience that I take for granted, which is like media literacy.

And I'm not saying media literacy is where you, from a detached perspective, put fucking, you know, academic spectacles on and start like filtering everything through some kind of like textual analysis or reduction.

Like, oh, these are the themes that are.

No, no, I'm not saying that.

I'm just saying like the bare minimum of a kind of phenomenological type thinking where it's almost like where you're like, oh, this looks cool.

I like how this looks.

I like this.

It's almost like a Lynchian.

You know, it was very phenomenological.

uh thinker, I guess, was like David Lynch.

'Cause David Lynch would just be like, Hey, I like how that looks.

I like how that works.

I like how that moves.

I like how that comes together in that way.

And it's not necessarily that this reflects a narrative or a specific claim or a specific metaphysical statement.

It's just more like.

There's a reality to the.

There's an objective reality, I guess.

To the um

T to to this um uh visual language.

I don't know if you could call it that, right?

Um

Exactly.

Lynch allowed himself to be seduced by um

Things he could not explain, like, like rationally, I guess, right, or narratively.

And I always assume everyone's like that, but it's just not it's stupid to assume that.

It's like Hollywood and pop culture is like everything for people.

It's literally everything.

It's everything.

It's the fucking be all end all for a lot of people.

And um

I I I guess I would say that, um

I think I think it the class element here.

starts to become decisive in ways that I think a lot of people

don't reflect on all that often or that deeply, right?

I think that I'm going to propose something really controversial, which is totally outside Orthodox Marxism.

And I'm not even like.

I'm not stating it as like a definitive theory of class.

I just want to get people's.

Thoughts in a more creative direction to think about class, right?

If we live in a if we fundamentally live in a consumer-based society, right?

It's a society whose ultimate subject is a consumer, right?

And I think that's a fair appraisal of the society we live in.

We're a society of consumers.

We're all a bunch of curators who are arguing over the gender and race of characters in games and arguing over we're consumers, right?

That's a we're a consumer-oriented society.

whose ultimate subject is a consumer, right?

Isn't it very interesting how class differences maybe they're also shaped by people's relationship and proximity

to the material premises of reality.

Like, for example, it's gonna sound like simple to a lot of you, but you should maybe think about it from this perspective.

Like, why is someone who's PMC

Never going to understand somebody who's like a blue collar worker, right?

Because a blue collar worker is not sitting on a chair just consuming.

Okay, a blue collar worker has a fundamental range of experience that comes from the violence of actually

Altering and shaping reality physically.

Right.

And that's not always glamorous.

And that's not a passive act of consumption that just like.

reinforces the meaningfulness of the world to you.

It's a it's it's like

It's a violent, active relationship to the world that endangers a new range of experience.

Kit, what's going on?

A new range of experience.

Which demands, you know, a a a greater threshold of of uh

Of fidelity when it comes to things that you're consuming.

Like, you know, if you are about some real shit, you listen to real music, for example, right?

If you're genuinely a gangbanger who's catching bullets and shooting people on the street, or you're such a gangsta, you want to listen to music that reflects that range of experience, right?

And it and it's the same thing for workers, genuine workers, right?

And what I I guess I what I mean to say is that

If you don't have a real job, full disclosure, I don't, right?

But I have some self-awareness, I guess.

But if you don't have a real job,

You are just the consumer.

And

You have no ability to critically think about the things you're consuming passively.

Because you don't know what real life is that goes into this fake bullshit.

Like, isn't that simple?

How I just put it, it's like if you're actually part of the working class.

You have to constantly be faced with the violent and abrupt discontinuities within the general phenomenology of society.

Like you are

You are forced to actually deal with like

The back end, basically, right?

And therefore you maintain already as a subject a level of critical distance toward media that others do not, because your critical distance from media is that

You are actively in some kind of way responsible for actual reality, at least to some extent.

Most people are not, or a lot of the population aren't.

A lot of the population are not responsible for reality in any decisive way.

They are just responsible for managing and curating different representations of reality.

So, for example, if you work at a, I don't know, a firm, or you work, you are managing and administrating the communication of reality and the communication of information and how it's depicted.

You are not actually directly confronting and facing the stuff out of which reality is made and comes together, right?

So it's like at that level, there's an interesting class distinction that emerges, you know, just at the level of the phenomenology of popular media.

Yeah, that's why liberal PMC it's so out there and it's unrelatable and it's a stretch.

I'll tell you exactly why.

Because they pretend to have a level of critical distance to media that they don't actually have.

Instead of having authentic critical distance to movies and T V shows and video games, they impose a false filter that is primarily based on like a meta-narrative, meta, you know, textual analysis where they're just reading into shit and imposing things that are not actually there.

Whereas I think that the proletarian notion of media literacy is actually more like Lynchian, where it's like it's reflected in memes.

You know where I see the most amount of proletarian media literacy?

I see it in memes.

I see it in memes that are basically like

Um applying

things that happen in movies and T V shows and and video games or whatever in scenarios and in real life ways that are like that actually are funny and make sense and are like ironic in in a lot of ways, right?

It's like

I think that is a higher form of media literacy than

The whole thing about like the capitalist structure of Star Wars.

Darth Vader represents primitive accumulation because he's the colonial extractive nature of the Death Star.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Yeah, people there's people who just d deal with relations of consumption, and there's people involved in actual production of some kind.

And that's why I think that all of these non-workers redditors are hateful toward Russia and Putin because they just the extent of their reality is pop media and and it's it's really the case.

It's really sad.

And you know, you think some right wingers.

Who claim to be red-pilled, you'd think that they, oh, they're totally outside the matrix.

No, they're not.

They always have a fundamental fantasy.

And I exposed it when I started making fun of Lord of the Rings.

I started making fun of Lord of the Rings and they all started, they freaked out.

And I was like, oh, that's what's going on.

You are not people who took the red pill and you're outside the fucking Matrix like you claim.

You are people who have a fundamental fantasy in Lord of the Rings versus, and that's your like bedrock.

Like that's the bedrock of your psychological stability and the coherence of your reality and worldview.

You know.

Um, whereas, like, you know, and you could see different factions of the right have different fundamentals.

I'll tell you, like, for example, there's the Lord of the Rings right, and then there's the Game of Thrones right.

The Game of Thrones right LARPs and pretends that they're realists, and they're like, Power is power, power is power.

And they th that that's actually like their their whole vibe.

Like they actually think that way.

And they have no critical thinking or there's their all and look, it's like we're living in a society where like everyone is a fucking NPC programmed by some fucking movie or TV show, right?

And it's like me?

I I feel like I'm the only conscious, sentient being.

I don't I don't

I don't know what movie or T V show I'm a character of.

I definitely draw from stuff in ironic ways to make f but I not seriously.

You know?

Like what what who am I pretending to be?

You know?

Um

Def definitely not anything that exists.

I I'm pretending you know what I'm not claiming that I'm uh just directly, you know, a direct auth you can't in in uh on the internet.

There's no way.

No one's directly just who they are on the internet.

But if if you want to know something,

The character that I'm pretending to be?

Is in a film that has not been made yet.

That only I could make, only I could direct this film, only I could produce this film.

This that's that's my uh my my my uh inspiration.

Some something that doesn't exist but should, in my opinion.

And I could I could make many movies by the way.

By the way, I could make many movies.

Many movies.

I could make many, many movies.

I have so many ideas for movies.

And I don't want to do any of the work.

I just want to write the script and be the idea guy.

So I want to be a type of director who's on set.

And I'm just like, all right, this is what's got it.

I don't care how you make it happen, just make it happen.

Like, and I could make so many cool things.

Um, I have so many different ideas for movies.

I have a lot of ideas, but imagine if they let me make one movie.

If they let me make one movie, I could change the world.

Let me make one movie, I could change the whole fucking world, right?

They won't let me do it.

There's so many, and I have so many ideas as well.

Do it with AI.

I don't have the patience.

I'm too lazy even for that.

Um, I have a lot of movie ideas.

Lot of movie ideas.

Lot of ideas.

Me and Logo should film a TV show.

I always say that.

Me and Logo.

Are the dream team for a T V show?

We should both

Make a T V show.

That's that's the thing that needs to happen.

Me and Logo will be the T V guys.

Do y'all wanna know something crazy though?

You won't believe it, but it's it's the truth.

You know, all these like neo-Nazis.

All of 'em, without exception.

All these like neo pagan, neo Nazis.

I shit you not.

I shit you not.

You wanna know the truth?

I'm about to expose them all.

You wanna know the truth?

Every single one are you ready?

Every single one is LARPing Skyrim.

I'm not fucking kidding.

Every single one is LARPing Skyrim.

It all came from Skyrim.

They play Skyrim.

Like they they they play Skyrim and they're like the powerful Aryan like it's it's literally fucking Skyrim.

Like that's their whole shit is coming from Skyrim.

I'm not fucking kidding.

That's how powerful pop media is.

And you know, I'm not here to be the dipshit who goes, we need to stop, we need to just go back to reality.

You can't.

There's no way to avoid the dimension of

Literature, that's what it is, literature, and LARP.

There's no real way to avoid it fully.

And you know, you'll read about the early revolutionaries.

Of the Russian Revolution and the Revolutionary Underground.

Every single one was inspired by fictional characters from books.

Every single one.

They were all inspired by fiction.

All of them.

Every single one were inspired by these fictional characters, right?

And it's not like this was something created just with the rise of visual media.

It's only been accelerated.

So you should always have a creative mind where you're thinking about how can we play with these things?

How can you play with these narratives and movies and these visual, not in a cynical way where you're detached and you're being cynical, but more like, how can we give expression to real principles and truth and narratives?

How can you take from the raw material of these high production and very popular, tap into the unconscious of what makes these things so compelling to people and try to distill the grain of truth of like what social realities and values do these reflect?

And that's what we should really be focused.

You should really have that creative outlook and mentality, you know, in my opinion.

You should not ever limit yourself.

You know what I never, you know, what I think is a really why we need French theory is because most people have a fundamental fantasy.

They have one specific fiction that they always have to go back to and they can't escape.

So for the right-wingers, it's Lord of the Rings.

But people always have, you know, for example, Jason Unruh, he has fallout.

It's just the truth.

For him, fallout is the supreme horizon of his how much he allows himself to indulge in this kind of realm of fantasy and stuff.

And um

It's true though that most people have a fundamental fantasy, that that that the and and and uh I think to be a Marxist consistently you cannot.

That doesn't mean you pretend to just go back to naive realism, but you should have such a dynamic.

uh comprehension of of the phenomenology of of pop media that you're able to traverse many different fictional worlds and stories and narratives and stuff like that and and really

Articulate the the the rational kernel within all of them, right?

That's kind of the vibe you should be on.

You should not confine yourself or limit yourself to any kind of

Foundation of a f like one specific fundamental fictional fantasy of what you consider to be like the supreme horizon of reality and existence, right?

But most people do when they are political extremists.

They absolutely do.

On the right, they're all into Skyrim.

And then leftists, you know what leftists are into?

So, for example, you know who, you know, observe.

I don't mean to like call them out, but like, I'm just gonna do it anyway.

Do you know why Hassan Piker dresses weird?

Because he's trying to be like the anime characters from One Piece and these like anime shows that he watches.

Because for him, like One Piece and these anime shows, it seems like these are his fundamental fantasies.

Which come from childhood probably.

You know.

But that's why he dresses strangely.

Um, and like you could whenever you see so you could tell, like, like you could tell what theirs is just by, like, noticing these patterns, you know, a lot of the time.

Like, uh, for example, um

I think for leftists or leftists, it's usually a combination of anime.

I see it all.

There's a lot of um.

Give me a give me a famous leftist personality and I'll tell you who they're LARPing.

Like, it's so obvious a lot of the time, right?

There's a there's a lot of diversity there, but often you'll find that it's usually Star Wars.

That's usually a huge one is Star Wars.

Usually huge.

Like, they're always trying to be like

The Rebels from Star Wars.

It's like a really b especially the recent Star Wars things, I think.

Um your typical lip tards will be like this is how basically like typical lip tards are gonna be like Harry Potter, right?

and Star Wars as well.

But as they get more radicalized radicalized, they'll start LARPing like, you know, Oh, we're really into Star Wars now, like we're really big time.

Uh, into like the hardcore rebel alliance, you know, LARP, and then there's there's many, many others, um.

Well, no, logo has good I'm not say I'm not demonizing One Piece.

I'm saying logo is not a fundamental fantasy, you know.

Um

Yeah, they'll they'll be super into um

Peaky blinders or some shit.

It's always like some bullshit.

A mop.

And I don't, I don't know, actually, because a lot of the the thing is, I have to make a confession as well.

I am not.

that literate when it comes to popular media in terms of my range of consumption.

I don't know all the movies and T V shows and and video games.

I I admittedly only know about like the main ones.

But there's stuff that I just don't know about that people are super into, you know?

Um

A lot of the millennial leftists on X I noticed they're like Simpsons.

Like for them it's The Simpsons.

Big time.

I think, you know, the healthiest one the healthiest fundamental fantasy a person can have is probably South Park.

Because it it at the very least it'll uh give them a basic road map of knowing how to avoid being cringe.

But uh it's still not good.

But it at the very minimum you won't end up like

with the fallout barbed wire bat or some shit.

You know.

Walking Dead.

Yeah, there's a there's a lot of shit.

There's a lot of shit people are getting all of it from.

Um and yeah, I mean hmm it's sad.

I think it's sad.

It's really scary to think about.

A lot of people cannot live without these like narratives and stories and shit.

They can't live without them.

It's fucking disturbing to me.

Crazy.

Am I am I wrong?

Am I wrong?

Am I just like uh

I don't know.

I feel like I'm like, I've like touched upon something that's like forbidden knowledge, like forbidden truth.

Am I right that like almost every single person is like fucking LARPing as like some fucking stupid fictional character they saw?

Or am I myself like autistic and

Maybe, like, can see why fellow autistic people go down that path, but do make a conscious decision to reject it on my part, but project it on all normal people wrongly.

'Cause I'm I'm all I guess I have the self-awareness to accept that might be possible as well, that like people are genuinely normal and are not doing that.

But I just kind of like feel like everyone.

Has this super dependence on like fictional bullshit?

It's like, I'm gonna, you know, what I'm gonna, I'm gonna fucking put the entire Arab American community on blast.

Every single, all the older generation of the entire Arab American community is fucking LARPing the godfather.

They're all fucking LARPing Italian crime dramas, every single one of them.

Every single one of them, they're all LARPing that.

They're all LARPing that.

All of them.

All Lebanese

People that are above the age of 50 or 45, they are LARPing Italian crime films.

All of them.

Goodfellas, all of that shit.

It's all t their whole life is LARP.

Alright, and then there's, you know, I hate people that LARP Tony Montana.

I fucking hate that.

It's so cringe.

You're not the fucking main character.

It's like someone shitting in public.

Like, I'm Tony Montana.

I can't help it.

I can't help it.

I'm so crazy.

Shut the fuck up, right?

Anyway.

Yeah.

You know what else is something to think about?

A lot of people

In the same way that they're dependent on fictional narratives, they are nihilists, they are narrative nihilists when it comes to actual history and reality.

Because here's what I'll say: the ultimate narrative, the ultimate narrative, is the reality of history itself.

And a lot of people are cynical about that.

They're like, No, there's no there's no metanarrative.

You know, this postmodern trope of oh, there's no meta-narrative.

But what does the Communist Manifesto say?

You know?

Spectre is haunting Europe.

And what does Marx say later?

He goes in his early writings, not later, earlier.

He goes, it's the riddle of history solved.

This is a meta-narrative, right?

And this is what has been lost, is an authentic meta-narrative.

Which is all history is.

That's all history means.

That's all it is, right?

And it's like the the power of narrative, the the the the power and essence of historical existence, it's been alienated in such a way that it's been dispersed across the medium of fiction.

Such that people have this way of being able to enjoy this fundamental aspect of human existence, which is narrative, while still maintaining a distance toward it in such a way as, oh, but it's not real, so it doesn't matter.

And then, this is why we have these really bizarre paradoxes.

Ah, it's not real and doesn't matter, but why?

What's this Gamergate shit?

What's this like shit about people like losing their mind over the video game or the movie not going in the way they wanted it to?

Like their life fucking depends on it, and their whole identity is curated on the basis of this fucking movie franchise.

And like, it's so important to them, it means so much to them, right?

And it's like

This is this is a big

I'm always thinking about how do we bring people to communist consciousness?

This is why I have to think in these ways, these very strange ways.

But, you know, people have become alienated from the historical, authentic reality.

of their historical existence.

through the medium of fiction, which precisely gives them the illusion.

Not not that fiction is real, but that there is some kind of blank, neutral, meaningless realism that is devoid of narrative power.

In other words, the notion that actual reality is this desolate, barren wasteland, devoid of any kind of um spirit, as Hegel would call it, devoid of any um narrative power

And the only way to enjoy and not not simply enjoy, I'm using enjoy in a loaded French term.

I don't wanna use Jargon, you know.

But the only way people can put put it this way, for human beings, historical existence, which is what narrative is, it's oxygen.

They fucking need it to make sense of their existence and reality.

All of that has been outsourced to the pure medium of fiction.

But in re in the real, in reality itself,

There's a total foreclosure, right?

So

In the realm of uh a fiction, they can from a comfortable safe distance play with a bunch of different narratives, which are ultimately always the same narrative in in Hollywood.

It's the same ideology, right?

But then when it comes to actual reality

There's a barrenness of of well, there's nothing.

So there's this fundamental dependency on fictional narratives to avoid confrontation with the traumatic and

Much more difficult to confront narrative of the real, right?

Uh the narrative of the real is not simply someone else's narrative or someone else's story.

It's our story.

It's our story as a society.

It's our story as human beings that exist.

For example, what's going on in Gaza.

It's not a narrative, it's something real and actually happening.

But

There is a r narrative of the real.

that's going on.

Like, this is a genocide.

This is um so many stories of people being victimized and tortured and murdered and and killed.

And like that is something very fucking real, right?

And that's not a movie, it's not a T V show.

There's no movie or no T V show and there's no video game that could ever put you into proximity with a necessary confrontation of reckoning with the meaningfulness of our existence.

Through this event that's happening.

And that's why I think the Palestinian struggle has cut across the hegemony so effectively in the way that it has.

Uh it has shaken Hollywood, it has shaken uh uh T V, it has shaken uh gaming, everything, you know.

Because once again, people are.

Didn't you name yourself after a Lovecraft carry?

Who cares?

Who cares?

Look, Lovecraft.

Uh, look, Abdul Al-Hazrad is just some kind of um uh ironic thing because he's the mad Arab, he's a crazy Arab.

So, my first expectation is that people, maybe rightfully, will just say I'm a fucking crazy guy.

So, that's it's all it means, you know.

Um, just a crazy Arab guy, you know, anyway.

Look.

Um but but no no, I mean uh even then though, what did I say earlier?

There's no way of avoiding fiction.

There's no way of avoiding fiction.

You know, most most um narrative r there's there's there's two let me can I can I guys can you can you let me cook?

Stay put.

Like, this is so important.

I'm about to tell you.

It's going to fucking change your world, right?

There are two.

There are two.

Versions of

Um

KF, thank you.

There are two versions of the same

A crisis of metanarratives, right?

Two types of subjects that exist in today's society.

There are narrative nihilists.

Narrative nihilists do not believe in meta narratives.

They do not believe narratives exist in the real or have any meaningful reality in the real.

Just fiction.

So let me just play with Star Wars and and Harry Potter and that's where I'll cry and have emotions and I'll I'll be impa but in real life, I mean uh you know

Rarely will they will they bring it to real life, unless they want to become autistic, which is the second thing.

Then there are narrative naive realists.

Now, narrative naive realists can be political ideologists, they can be extremists, they could be something else, they could be this, they could be that.

But narrative naive realists will they will say, I directly

Uh ascribe to a specific real narrative.

And just the real.

So I am a Maoist of the real.

That's my narrative.

That's my real narrative, right?

Okay.

The narrative naive realist.

What's actually going on with a narrative naive realist?

With a narrative naïve realist.

What's going on is that they are taking a bunch of different fictional narratives and they're exclusively insisting on one.

Because they're never just Maoists.

They are fallout Maoists.

You understand?

They always need this supplementary.

Fictional narrative background

From which the meaningfulness of their ideology can be given exclusive uh expression.

And and the narrative naive realist will say, I'm not into all of this Hollywood fandom, I'm directly the real, right?

But they always need this second thing that's always lurking in the background, you know?

It's like they'll have that stupid hat.

They'll have the peaky blinders hat.

They'll be like, oh, well, this is just my hat that I have to wear.

So this is their psychosis.

That's what they call in psychoanalysis psychosis.

They're foreclosing the real by elevating, confusing the imaginary, basically, for the signifier, collapsing the distinction between signifier and imaginary, right?

And that is that's what's going on with narrative naive realism.

So,

The the the the the only correct path for a Marxist-Leninist, in my view, is is um

Neither naive narrative naive realism nor um nor n narrative nihilism, but something more like what Zizek calls uh the reality of the virtual, comprehending how truth has the structure of a fiction, right?

This is why Zizek I think is important to to comprehend and understand.

Not a cynical distance from fix the world of fictional narratives, but more like understanding how reality is even more uh dynamic and strange than fiction itself, right?

Um rather than the narrative naive realism which just says, you know.

Oh, it's just fallout.

It's normal.

That's just how reality is, you know?

It's more like a comprehension.

It's really what infrared is.

When you think all this, like this whole vibes-based way of thinking and everything that you're used to within the infrared community, like that is really what it is.

You know, like, remember the mecha tanky shit?

Like, that, we are on a type of wavelength, which is like does have room for dreams and has room for fiction and it has room for things that are not directly just pretending to be like naive realism, right?

But

We're not nihilistic that about reality.

We're not dogmatic about reality, but we're not nihilistic about it either, right?

And you know, the thing about narrative naive realism is that's exactly what happened with the Russian SMO, with the Ukraine supporters.

Ukraine supporters went from being narrative nihilists, right, to, oh my god, this is directly Harry Potter and Star Wars.

It's going on.

And they went and signed up to go fight for the Azov Battalion.

Because they became psychotic autistics.

They took, they before were narrative nihilists, and they're like, oh my God, Star Wars is now happening in real life.

So they became narrative naive realists, dogmatically and fanatically supporting Zelensky and Ukraine on the basis that this is the reality of the narrative.

Like it's actually happening.

That's why Liptards.

They go from narrative naive realism to narrative sorry, they go from narrative nihilism to narrative naive realism, right?

So narrative nihilism is like, okay, there's no meda narratives, whatever.

But then Trump gets elected, and it's like, we are the resistance.

We're gonna larp on the street and pretend like we're in a movie and it's it's uh the it w w um handmade in stale.

And that's terri there's no difference between that and the autistic kid at school who's pretending to be an anime character.

The liberals that are pretending to be the handmaiden's tale, there's no difference between that.

It's the same thing.

It's the same thing.

Now

I'm not saying that even to degrade or insult.

I'm just saying it is the same way of reconciling the narrative structure of reality, right?

And let me show you dialectically.

This is the final thing I say.

By the way, this is my favorite stream I've done in weeks.

Um this would be the final thing I say.

It is precisely the transition between narrative nihilism to narrative naive realism that ends up debunking the metaphysics of Western liberalism.

All Hollywood uh movies, T V shows and video games give expression to the specific metaphysics of Western liberalism through narrative nihilism itself.

So you will find themes of

Uh uh i subjectivism and voluntarism and um individualism, so on and so on, uh reflected in all of these different movies and all this kind of stuff, right?

And then in the movie itself, they are reflecting and perpetuating the value and the worldview, the phenomenology of narrative nihilism.

Of okay, this villain thinks that they're this great ideolog ideolog ideologist, but at the end of the day, me, Iron Man, and Captain America, we're just having Shawarma and Shawarma in the New York ruins.

It's just a blank, bare, desolate, you know, neutral reality.

HBO Chernobyl, for example, there's this ideological veneer of Soviet power, but it's just this gloomy, droom, gloomy, gray.

I can't believe it's so gloomy.

So this is the narrative nihilism, but it's precisely the dependency upon the fictional media that disproves narrative nihilism itself.

That's the secret, ladies and gentlemen.

If Western liberal metaphysics was correct as a reflection of reality, the absolute horizon of of truth and reality.

There would not need to be a dependence upon fictional mediums that narratively give expression to narrative nihilism itself.

We would just have narrative nihilism, we wouldn't need video games, we wouldn't need these movies, whatever, right?

It's the very dependency on this that proves the partiality and meaningfulness of the the metaphysical.

In other words, metaphysics, the realm of metaphysics, I'm putting on quotations, it is charged with meaning.

It is inherently charged, like a subatomic particle.

It's charged in a certain direction.

It has a specific meaningfulness.

It's not just a nothingness, a desolate nothingness devoid of the dimension of truth and meaning and all the values we hold dear.

These things that we regard as exclusive to the individual subject, meaning, truth, justice, so on, these do not exist within an individual's mind, within the subject.

They are out there.

They are real.

Something that reflects real principles within reality itself.

And

Harry Potter Zelensky proves that fact.

Harry Potter Zelensky proves Putin correct.

Putin is justified.

You can take away this whole lecture.

Take this away.

Putin's actions in the SMO find confirmation and are justified precisely by

The meme where Zelensky is the blue avatar guy.

That is exactly why the SMO is justified.

And then someone will say, Oh, why?

Is it 'cause you're saying Zelensky and the Ukraine supporters are so cringe?

And then I'll say, Yes, but more importantly, because it proves

That meta-narratives are back

that the metaphysics of Western liberalism upon which the project of recent modern Ukrainian national independence is founded is a lie.

That actual reality itself depends upon the structure of fiction.

It depends upon the structure of uh narrative, human narrative.

Uh uh and um

The very opposition to Russia proves that fact.

So, so when Putin on 22 February 22, when he

talked about his narrative of Russian history, why his actions were justified.

That was not a falsehood, that was not fake.

He was giving authentic expression to something very real, very real.

Very real.

Russian ontology was justified, because if

If Zelensky has to be fucking Harry Potter, if he has to be fucking uh Luke Skywalker.

Then clearly

There is a dependency on a specific notion of ontology that is not just seamlessly directly reality itself.

Therefore, Russian ontology is also finds justification.

Therefore, multipolarity, therefore Putin is correct.

How simple is that?

This is dialectics, guys.

Very simple.

Harry Potter Zelensky justifies Putin.

It's it, that's it.

Anyway, guys, I love this stream today.

It's a really good stream.

Let me toot my own horn and say that it was a really great stream.

I had a lot of fun.

And I enjoyed it greatly.

But I'm very hungry, so I'm going to eat.

So I'll be leaving now.

I'll see you guys tomorrow for Confront the Chairman.

Bye-bye.