Its happening...

Minus sixty-one.

Have I ever really loved some?

I deserve what I got.

Creat systems down the dewdrops and the theory switch inside

I own a million dollars worth of stock, but I still won't sleep at night.

Easy did I become?

Minus sixty-one.

The water level rises high in my cold paradise.

We're men sit in circles and talk numbers I never really like.

The way they think of life as some kind of gamble and watch the city jump.

Where we say that I belong

Try five.

and the fear.

Still won't sleep at night.

Easy did I become?

Minus sixty-one.

Wanna laugh?

I'm not sure if I can do it.

Met sit in circles and token numbers I never really like.

The way they think of life as some kind of gamble and watch the city jump.

Where is it?

They don't belong.

Sorry.

Coal uh

Sit in circles and talk numbers I never really like

The way they think of life as some kind of gamble and watch the city jump.

Where is he that I belong?

I appreciate the five, brother.

Thank you.

Iron Rose, what's going on, man?

Streyla standing.

What's going on, bro?

I appreciate you.

Thank you.

Thank you, brother.

What's up y'all?

going on guys I

I've got a lot to talk about.

I got a lot to talk about.

Um

4th of July is soon.

Got like, what, 40 minutes?

So, everybody, hope everybody has a good 4th of July weekend.

But tonight I'm gonna ruin it for you.

Just kidding.

Yeah.

Nah, but for real.

Um

Uh on some real shit.

On some real shit, you know.

I've been thinking about this new sentiment people are getting on, you know, which is.

Trump with alligator Alcatraz and they're ending birthright citizenship.

Oh my god, we're headed toward dictatorship.

Wow, this is crazy.

And you know, I have a mixed reaction, and it has gotten me down a path of thinking about where infrared came from, where my perspective came from, a lot of these kind of things.

Big thoughts, you know.

And to be honest,

It is absolutely true that there's something unprecedented going on in the conflict between the Office of the Executive and

The American democracy as we know it, strong emphasis on as we know it.

And not to bullshit you.

Yeah, the GOP um top thinkers are extremely cynical about democracy.

And Trump obviously doesn't believe in it.

And yeah, I mean, yeah, we're becoming a more authoritarian country.

And I know, like.

It's rich me saying that because I always point out how nothing has changed, just the media has changed, just the aesthetics have changed, which is true, but those matter.

So many quantitative changes end up with a qualitative leap.

It's basic dialectics.

And and and I don't think it's it's gonna be successful, but

That kind of change is happening, it absolutely is.

It's going to lead to a civil war and a constitutional crisis, sure.

Absolutely.

But not for a while.

And I'll tell you why, because the truth is most people just don't have the will.

To give a shit.

And this is the pill I want to share with you today, among more things.

Do I think Trump should be stopped?

How can he be stopped?

What is being stopped, what changed, what is new?

Not much, but

A lot of people are trying to stop it, they're trying to stop it, they're trying to stop it, and and that's what got me thinking about a lot of things.

Th the fact is very simple.

The consciousness, which is scared of Trump and which is trying to stop what's happening, and they're saying, Oh, he's the next Hitler and we have to stop him.

Oh, buddy, these people are going to be slaughtered.

Not maybe not literally, but they're going to be psychically shattered to a point where they're done.

They are so done.

They are so fucking done because they're so late.

You're so late.

As somebody who anticipated the rise of the right in 2014 and was laughed at, as somebody who called Trump in 2015 and was laughed at, as somebody who knew about all this shit, okay, for over a decade, the right new agenda and the new shift.

I mean, nobody gave a fuck.

You know, you'd tell these DSA people, they didn't give a shit, they would laugh at you.

And

You know, if you think about it, where I came from was really like, you know what?

You're going to have to just learn the hard way.

And

I don't even know what I'm trying to scare you of.

What what do you have to lose?

What w oh, something big is gonna change?

And it's like

compared to what, what we have now.

And and then I realized that it clicked for me.

The problem has always been a problem of consciousness.

You can't stop what's happening.

All you can hope for is that people will wake up.

When they should have twenty years ago, thirty years ago, forty years ago, sure.

But nothing has changed.

Nothing has changed.

It's just some people are having a change in their consciousness.

And because they're having a change in their consciousness, they're they're panicking.

And the change in consciousness that I'm talking about

It's not a change in consciousness of that's superficial.

It's a visceral feeling people have.

Oh my God, we have to stop Trump.

We have to stop him because it's serious now.

Oh, I was just flirting with these radical leftist ideas and revolutionary memes, you know, for years.

But oh my God, it's wow, something's actually happened.

I mean, yeah.

It is, and consciously you may be aware of it for years, but then these people, as soon as something happens, they lose their fucking mind.

Because reason is not in command.

because discipline is not in command, because principle is not in command,

And that, honestly, to be honest, when I see these people, it no, I'll be frank, it depresses me.

It absolutely does.

It depresses me how much these people are just cattle, these leftists, they're just cattle.

And and and um not just leftists, I mean, pretty much every single political form of consciousness that I see manifested and expressed depresses me because it's just cattle.

You're just the stupid cattle.

And I c I just can't help but see it that way.

Because you're so late.

You're in so many different ways, you're late.

So many different ways.

Like profoundly so many different ways.

You are just realizing something and it's too late.

Maybe if you realized this 30 years ago, you would have had a chance to alter the timeline.

But for everyone waking up, quote unquote, now.

I I hate them.

No, I'll I'll I'll tell you, and I'm not saying this because I'm saying it from a position of authority.

I'm I'm laying out a weakness of mine.

I don't think hatred is a strength, I think it's a weakness.

I hate these fucking people.

I hate everybody who gets radicalized by Trump, whether it's in twenty sixteen or twenty twenty four or twenty twenty five, because

You have a separation between your consciousness and your principles and your actions.

And when something in the real world happens, I just see how these people get jerked along and they just get tugged along and all of their principles get thrown out of the window.

Oh my god, it's real now though.

But why isn't why aren't your principles real for you?

Because it's real for me.

I live and die by my principles.

I live and die for my cause.

It's actually very real for me.

It's not a fucking meme to me.

It's something that is as real as a bullet or an explosion right in front of my fucking face.

It's that real to me.

It's as real.

You know, as a knife right on my throat.

That's how real it is.

But for a lot of these people there's there's no connection between their consciousness

And what they really think what they really think it's like profoundly unconscious, it's profoundly embedded in a world where they are just tugged and jerked along by media and by the powers that be and when they call themselves revolutionary, it means nothing.

Oh, something big is happening in politics.

Well, yeah, what was the point of being a communist for years and years and years, if not to prepare yourself, if not to not be surprised?

by anything, frankly, that happens.

And and yet so many people are just so they call themselves Marxists and they're just surprised somehow that something is happening that is different from the norm.

What what's the point of Marxism?

If we're not already gonna be anticipating things like this, you're telling me for all these years you were just what, joking?

You were what was it, it was um uh a hobby for you to call yourself a Marxist?

I I hate these people, I do.

I'm just laying that on the table, I fucking hate them.

I deeply resent them and I hate them.

And um

But it's not even that I hate them, it's that I hate

I hate the possibility that even I could be so stupid.

Which I'm not,

But like in another timeline, like I could see how they could adopt that position.

And because because of I am strong and disciplined, I don't go down the unprincipled path.

But I know it's a possible path and I fucking hate that some people are so disgusting and lazy that they do that.

They don't take these principles seriously.

And

Basically what I'm trying to say is that

Um

This is something I realized like over a decade ago, right?

Which was basically this: it's like me and a bunch of other people, too, by the way.

But it's basically like.

This is the paradox.

A lot of big things are coming.

Like a lot of world-changing things are coming.

And I can name a few of them.

Okay?

The breakdown of liberal democracies worldwide.

So that's happening.

I mean, we knew that was happening decades ago, right?

Or I wasn't I'm not that old, but that was something very early on.

could be understood that liberal democracy and neoliberal whatever we call this is done.

The second thing was climate change.

I know we make fun of the green avatar lip tards, but no, no, it's actually very real.

Climate change is very real.

And a lot of the alarmists are not totally off the mark when it comes to.

How catastrophic a lot of the consequences of that are going to be.

uh not just climate change, but the environmental consequences of just how rapidly the world has changed and how many ecosystems have been disrupted.

And

Oh, it's really bad.

I d I never wanted to give everyone the anyone the impression that it wasn't.

It's really fucking bad.

It's really bad.

Sorry if I've ever given you any other impression.

But it's really fucking bad.

Um and it's not just climate change.

It's there are so many changes happening to the biosphere as we know it.

Too fast and it's happening too fast

And it's fucking really, really extreme.

And the truth is, these scientists don't even know what the consequences are going to be.

So that's another one.

Then another one is the rise of AI and social media.

People talk about automation a lot and the job displacement that's going to come from that.

Obama talks about it last year.

Well, a lot of us were talking about it 15 years ago.

Um not just the job displacement, but the fundamental implications for consciousness.

I'm not saying AI is going to become conscious or sentient, but the ability to think critically and reflect.

Uh critically, it's changed.

It i I'm not saying it's disappeared, but it's definitely changed.

It has changed profoundly.

The the how thoughts come to be, how we experience thoughts.

And how consciousness develops has fundamentally changed.

Are you kidding?

All these people who do it the old school way,

It's over.

Um

You're being carried by currents of memes and

by images and and things like that.

And there's no way to just kinda like step back and have a classical education anymore, uh being taught in in the you know, humanities and philosophy and all this.

It's not really possible anymore, frankly.

Because even if you undergo a classical education by an institution,

Your imaginary raw material that is that had always been taken for granted for centuries is now totally dominated by this very dynamic, free-flowing information media sphere, which totally determines the content of what you actually think in practice and how you understand philosophy and all this kind of stuff, right?

So I mean, that's a thing that's that was anticipated.

And uh

There is the rise of this kind of post-capitalist, neo-feudal.

Uh type of society we've been entering into.

And oh boy man, all these things have just been happening way too fast.

And if I've ever conveyed to you and I feel like I haven't but if I've ever conveyed to you

The idea that

Somehow this can be stopped.

I have failed on my part.

Because I think this is what has really gotten me thinking down this path, really.

Which is, I think there's a reason we, you know, we at Infrared, we were so inspired by Death Stranding, that game.

And I think about it, because this stuff reminds me of it.

And it's like, our whole message and takeaway is that you can't stop what's coming.

It's over, basically.

And you already need to start thinking as if it already happened.

As if the Death Stranding already happened.

And you have to proceed accordingly.

Because the best we can do.

Is build the foundation of something totally new after the extinction event that literally is coming.

And this is an extinction event.

At best, maybe not for huge swaths of the population.

Maybe it won't have to be like that, but it will be an extinction event for consciousness.

It will be an extinction event for sanity, for how people live and dwell in a world coexisting with others.

And it's already happened.

It's just that a lot of people

Haven't realized that yet.

And

And I I see a lot of like leftists talk about we need to stop, we need to save the planet, we need to stop, stop.

You can't stop it.

You can't stop it.

It cannot none of this can be stopped.

And I'll tell you why it can't be stopped.

Because you deserve it.

Don't hate me for saying that.

But that's the truth.

You're getting what you deserve.

In the same way, a lot of people are fear-mongering about the future and are absolutely horrified by what's in store.

They are themselves culpable in the realization of that future.

This is just.

The consequences of your existence and your reality.

You may not be consciously aware of it, you may not have taken responsibility for it, but there is something wrong with your existence that has led to this point.

And now you see the consequences of your existence and you're repulsed by them, but they're yours and you will own them.

And don't take that from me.

Don't act like I'm imposing this.

I'm just a fucking messenger telling you the truth.

All of this is what everyone deserves.

And and let me refine what I'm saying very, very carefully, okay?

Very, very carefully.

I realized something along the way, like over the past decade, I realized something.

The only way we could stop this really tragic future that's coming, the only way we could have a chance of stopping it from coming.

is a radical break and shift within consciousness that is so violent, that is so abrupt, so profound, and so

Explosive

Right.

That it shocks people, literally shocks people into a realization that.

All these old idols and gods they've been worshiping are dead and gone.

All these beliefs they've had about the nature of existence and reality are totally false.

And yes, you need to go all in on a very, very radical

Idea or path forward.

No matter how shocking, no matter how abrupt, you absolutely need to go all in and not look back.

And here's something I realized.

And let me tell you what the tragedy is before you get excited by what I just told you.

This is an economical problem, ladies and gentlemen.

It's a very tragic problem, but the math.

Just think about it, it doesn't add up in a good way.

Every explosion requires

A proportionate degree of

Energy stored in and put in, and what does it take to provoke something like that?

You think I can do it?

I can yell as much as I want and it's not gonna do it for people.

I yell all the time in the camera.

A lot of you guys get it, but there's a reason there aren't tens of thousands of you, okay?

You ever see a dumbass wander in the chat sometimes, just kinda like

And they're just like looking for an instant gratification and they don't get it.

And it's like, you know, that's 99% of people, right?

And you guys are a profound minority.

Profound minority.

And

The only thing that could possibly shock people into the necessary consciousness to prevent the horrific future.

Is that horrific future itself actually coming to pass?

You get it now?

This is the tragedy, and I've done this, I've I've run the math in my head a million, million times in a million different which ways.

I've thought about this very deeply and profoundly for years, and I came to the conclusion that people will not get it until it happens.

There's nothing you can communicate.

You have to let it happen, 'cause it is gonna happen.

Just let it happen.

Because you try to resist it, it's in vain.

Resisting the future that's gonna pass, which is gonna shock the world and shock everyone, it's totally vain.

You're just wasting your energy and you're wasting your time.

There's nothing you can do to get the message across, absolutely nothing.

And

You know,

Have we not passed the point of extinction?

Why is that so terrible to say?

How many people are sleeping well tonight knowing that

People in Gaza are starving to death, intentionally, by the way.

How many people have how many people's world has already ended 'cause of our regime?

It's been happening.

It's just nobody's been given a shit.

So don't worry, just in the same way.

Accept the future that's coming.

And anyone selling you on this idea it can be prevented is a fucking idiot.

And I'll tell you why, because

This is necessary.

This bad future, this bad, shocking thing that's gonna ha you know how they say nothing ever happens?

The reason that meme has been working is because nothing will happen until something happens.

That something is one event, one event that's gonna change the world.

It's gonna be the death stranding, right?

It's gonna be

Probably a World War, to be honest.

Probably a nuclear war, who knows?

Real black swan event, for sure.

And the next one, our civilization is not going to survive it.

And I think secretly, unconsciously, everyone wants it to happen actually.

You know how disappointed people are when they share those Nothing Ever Happens memes?

Because they want something to happen.

And they'll get what they want.

Now let me ask you guys a question if what I'm saying sounds...

Really brutal.

Could nineteen seventeen have happened without

1914.

If it wasn't for the Great War,

The First World War

Would the October Revolution have happened?

Wa was is there even one percent of a chance something like that could have happened?

Without the First World War.

Absolutely not.

The First World War, by the way, was a complete moral, human, you name it, disaster.

It was a horrific, horrific war.

And yet something like that was necessary.

To produce

The necessary energy for the radical, abrupt shock and change in consciousness that allowed.

The 1917 October Revolution to happen.

Some people say maybe this Black Swan global event won't happen.

We dialecticians we know better because we know the law of the transition of quantity into quality.

So many small quantitative changes eventually add up to something very qualitatively profound and significant.

But let me even entertain that.

There will be a breaking point when the iron is hot

And our words start to have meaning.

Even if things continue with a veneer of normalcy, the more insane they become, the more people put up with crazy, crazy bullshit in their everyday lives with no way to make sense of them, the more people will start to understand the meaning of our words.

Even if nothing ever happens.

That gradual spiral into insanity will be enough to inspire people with the necessary.

Energy, 'cause this is really what we're talking about is energy.

to accept and understand the meaning of our words.

So, why am I telling you guys this?

I'm telling you guys this because I want you to always bear something in mind about what this is: infrared, ACP, our party, even.

We are so fucking early.

You have no idea how early we are.

We've shown up.

We've shown up to work three, four, five hours early.

Work starts at 8 a.m.

We're here at 3 a.m.

That's how fucking early we are.

We are so fucking early you have no idea.

I don't want you to think and get excited too much and, oh, hurry, hurry, it's now, it's now.

Now nothing will happen now.

The beautiful thing about the American Communist Party is that you guys are getting in the routine.

Of

community service of u labor organizing

of social investigation, of going to your city councils.

And just look at the feed of ACP Maine.

This is what the vision was.

And that's the scariest thing is how my vision for this party, a year before it launched, this is exactly like literally exactly what I had in mind, and some.

There is literally that is crazy and shocking, and it defies.

It defies laws of the universe.

Because usually, when you have an ideal, it has to be contradicted.

But the vision in my head for ACP, which was one year before it was founded, this idea for what this party would be, it's exactly, exactly as I envisioned it would be.

Exactly as I envisioned it.

On the dot.

And guys

This is what it's gonna take.

You got to get used to the mundane existence of being a Communist.

You cannot think we're going to overthrow Trump and we're going to overthrow this and that and we're going to stop the World War and we're going to stop the we're not going to stop a fucking thing.

What we will do is build a foundation.

Because you know what?

Let me say very frankly.

We get the civilization we deserve.

And instead of trying to save

The semblance of civilization that exists now?

Maybe we should just accept

That what's gonna happen needs to happen.

And that's why Death Stranding was a big inspiration for Infrared, by the way, because what a beautiful game.

I still remember that game.

And now the second one is out.

Uh, I do want to play it one day when I have time.

Um.

But basically, it's already happened, and now you got to start from scratch, from year zero.

It's already happened.

You got to build from zero now.

That's what we are doing now, and we're preparing for in the future.

We are not.

I I just gotta all these people oh, Trump's doing alligator alcatraz and ICE is deporting

What do you what do you think you're gonna do?

You're gonna

Keep giving your energy to Democrats and

Stop what's happened.

Oh, this is like Hitler's rise to power.

Wow!

Holy shit, Jennifer with the 45.

Thank you so much, Jennifer.

Oh, my God

I don't even know what to say.

Jennifer, thank you so, so much.

Yeah guys, because I appreciate it because you know I'm not I don't I'm not trying to give you guys false promises about the future.

Like let take it from me when I tell you the future is really bleak in the foreseeable term.

But I want us to be at peace with that.

And if we are at peace with that and we have the strength and confidence to survive it and and allow our humanity to survive it.

People are going to look at us as leaders in a future they don't understand and that they are not really capable of surviving themselves.

And as much as I call everybody cattle, because that's what we've all that's what people have become, is cattle.

I interact with people sometimes, not quite often, but sometimes.

And yeah, I do see NPCs.

I absolutely see people that have been brain rotted, that have lost any sense of humanity.

That don't have any ability to and and how do I detect this?

I detect this because whenever I talk to someone, obviously I don't ever bring up politics or anything like that, but it's always like I can always tell.

That they're just kind of

Like

They're playing a character they got from social media or they're like from TikTok.

Every all their sensibilities are not actually based in real world experience, but based in what they perceive to be the normal thing, thanks to social media.

and a Hollywood movie, all this kind of stuff, and

Holy shit, Amila.

Oh my god.

Amela Holy shit.

Thank you so much, Amela.

I've gotta update the subcount.

Holy shit!

Amila, thank you so much.

Thank you so, so much.

Again, I don't even know how to thank you.

I don't even know what to say.

Thank you so much.

Um

But

Continuing what I was saying, um, you could just tell that I th Death Stranding was so ahead.

I can't even like I I need to like re really emphasize how ahead of its time that game was.

Just like understanding the future in so many different ways that I'm not gonna get into right now, but

People are really just connected.

And I'm not saying this as a boomer who's like saying we need to return or go back to how it was before because we can't.

There's no way to do that.

And it would be reactionary to fantasize about that.

But we just haven't updated our sensibilities and our sense of humanity.

Ronico, we just haven't updated our sense of humanity to adjust to this new world.

And I like Death Stranding because it's trying to do that, you know, and I think it succeeds.

But anyway, um

Let me let me uh continue what I was saying.

It's it's just that yeah, so I see that be even in everyday interactions how people are just NPCs.

And um

But despite that so I'm trying to get to.

They're just caught in these stupid routines and they're they're fixated on really petty stuff, you know, um f friendships and relationships and egos and all this stuff and how profoundly disappointing it it could be.

Um if you were not uh someone who thinks about it more deeply.

But despite that is what I'm trying to say, I see in everyday people

They still have a soul.

They absolutely have a soul that is screaming and struggling inside.

And it's very Lynchian, actually, because I think Lynch.

Kind of depicts how people can be mundane and stupid in N P C's, in Twin Peaks for example.

But then there's this side to them that's screaming and just can't be heard, and even they're not aware of it.

And I see that.

One thousand percent I see it, you know.

And

People are on autopilot because they're asleep and because they are scared like animals.

They are absolutely terrified.

And they find refuge in the most immediate sense of social recognition they can get.

And they are fucking terrified of being stranded.

They are absolutely terrified of it.

But I think one of the things, you know, infrared started out trying to communicate.

If you're a Marxist in the twenty first century, you need to regard yourself as stranded in some kind of way.

And you can't look for validation for this position in a movie, in other people, in a social circle, in a T V show.

You're on your own, and you you got you have to in a way embrace that abyss.

And only when you under when you embrace that abyss

Can you be introspective enough and contemplative enough

To arrive not only at the correct consciousness, but consciousness in the first place.

Because that's what people don't have, they don't have consciousness as such.

To be consciously aware, you know, is a very violent thing.

It's an abrupt, extremely abrupt discontinuity with what everyone thinks, what the norm is, what everyone thinks of you.

What everyone's supposed to think, how you think you're supposed to think, how you think you're supposed to experience life.

What everyone's saying, and it's like you need to dwell in that and let it cook for a for a while.

And you don't have to be like me, so thank God for me, right?

Because I was like that for years and years and years and years.

I'm not saying you have to do that.

I'm not saying you have to become like Haas, 'cause Haas went through all that shit so he can tell you what he's telling you now.

And let me tell you guys, I'm very happy to know there's

Other people

Um

Who

You know, it and it's like Death Stranding, where we're we're we're connecting the chiral network.

It's not uh too big and there's not too many people.

But

Um it's much better than how it was before infrared when I was it was like there was nothing.

I was literally I didn't even know if I was uh you know I didn't even know if I was like just a crazy person, and then it was like I'm just perpetually running away from the psych ward.

On the run from the psych ward.

'Cause just that's how much

I was just totally like alone.

When I say alone, I mean in the sense of like what I thought the correct.

understanding of what's going on is versus what everyone else was saying.

But people are more terrified of loneliness than they are of death.

And when I say loneliness, I mean real loneliness is when you can be alone and not cope about it, not give yourself a narrative that you just can't wait to tell someone else.

Just like really learn to shut the fuck up.

And I think it's tragic because

A lot of people when they say they don't have an internal monologue it's just they don't know how to shut the fuck up.

Everything they think has to be shared with the world.

And I see it so often.

And social media rewards it.

It's so sick.

Frankly, it's like you know the you know what the epitome of that is?

It's leaking the group chat.

You are such a sick, disgusting fuck if you do that.

Because wow, you really just got to throw everything out there, right?

For the AI, for the algorithms.

There's.

You gotta just you gotta feed the you know, the AI is hungry, you gotta feed it the data, you gotta keep feeding and feeding and feeding.

The hungry discourse and AI and and the the AI is a stupid AI.

It's the passive cattle like NPC existence that ninety nine percent of people dwell in.

That's what the discourse reproduces.

The only way to break out of it is to acquire some measure of distinction.

Square one of acquiring that measure of distinction.

Is

Developing a consciousness that is in some ways at odds with the prevailing conventions and ideas of society.

In the age of AI, how

Can true consciousness arise?

How can class consciousness arise in the age of AI?

It's a really important question.

Nobody's asking it.

I see a lot of people getting bogged down in barista discourse.

And I feel like I'm Norman Reidas from Death Stranding One where the camera pans out and it's like there's just an apocalypse.

And that's the truth.

The capitalism that Marx was living in doesn't even fucking exist anymore.

It's gone.

Surplus value?

What are you talking about?

Do you even know how money is made and

What our economy actually consists in right now?

You think that somebody working as a cashier is

Producing surplus value?

Do you even know how deep into this shit we have gotten?

Th m Marx would not recognize the world we're living in today.

He said nothing about it.

Nothing, not even a word.

The world Marx was talking about.

Was pre-death stranding.

It's a different, it's a lost world.

It's gone.

And isn't it a f breath of fresh air to just wake up to that fact and accept that?

That

Marx

He provides a clue.

He broke out of this prison system.

Of consciousness.

And he did that successfully.

But you gotta follow the trail.

That's what I always wanna say is no, follow the trail.

Marx lived a long time ago and a lot happened since then.

Follow the footsteps.

Follow his footsteps.

Then follow Lenin's footsteps.

Follow Lenin's footsteps, follow Stalin's footsteps, Mao's footsteps.

Understand how we got here today.

You just woke up.

You're in a room you don't recognize.

You look out the window, you don't recognize where you are, you don't know how you got there.

How are you going to figure out where you are?

You've woken up and you don't know where you are, and that's us.

Everyone who has woken up from the false consciousness

We don't know how the fuck we got here, we just don't.

You can pretend we're living in the world from 150 years ago.

Sure, pretend.

All you like.

It's just another form of LARP.

It's just another form of cosplay.

And you're not being honest.

you're just engaging in a type of escapism where you can pretend

That

You know, you live in a world that's familiar to you and that will never contradict you or surprise you in any kind of way.

And you're living in a wholesome chungus.

Fantasy world, that's what it is, you know, and well, sorry, no, the real world is pretty vicious.

The real world is pretty vicious in terms of how unknown it is to you, and you need to be humble about that fact.

I am uh we at the infrared collective, all we've ever said is that we're on to something.

I definitely think I'm onto something pretty big and significant, actually.

But I've never closed the door as far as

Giving other people the chance to ask that question themselves and figure it out themselves.

But no, people their brains are so fucked up, especially ones that call themselves Marxists or leftists.

No, Marx absolutely predicted what was going to happen, but nobody likes to hear the truth, which is what I said.

Marx predicted the collapse.

He predicted exactly how it would happen, and it happened.

He was right.

Isn't that a tough pill to swallow?

Marx was right.

Welcome to the post capitalist world.

This is it.

Marx didn't give us instructions or a guidebook as far as how to regain our humanity and our sense of morality and our sense of purpose and meaningfulness and existence after this would happen.

He also didn't give us precise instructions about how we would restore justice and seize the reins and control of the state.

He just described from his analysis of the development

Of the capitalist mode of production, how those contradictions would inevitably play out.

In crisis theory, and it happened.

And Rev's right.

It happened in 29.

It happened.

It happened.

Like what uh I don't know what to tell you.

It happened.

The cr the crisis happened.

In the the crisis of Marx the crisis that Marx anticipated happened in nineteen twenty nine.

So

Here we are today.

And a lot of people are coping and pretending like

They have the answer and they just don't.

They're it's like uh they're they're you know what they are?

They're just nihilists.

They're just

They're they have a dopamine addiction.

To um

They're they're chasing after that object A, it's just all it is.

You know, they they've they put themselves in a circuit of enjoyment and call themselves principled.

You know, oh, I'm the true Marxist.

Everyone else is not.

If if only people just listen to what I have to say, everything would be fine.

And you know, you know, you're not successful, so you just you find a way to enjoy your position and you enjoy it.

It's absolutely w something you enjoy.

Are you being honest and authentic about what your position is or not?

Because if you were, you would take a step back and reflect upon why your message is not succeeding.

You blame others, you blame the government, you can blame whoever the fuck you want, but you have nothing to blame but yourself.

Yeah, I mean Rev's got it exactly correct.

I mean

Why didn't the communists win after 1929?

Hey, that's on us.

You know, the American Communist Party

We're trying to save what deserves to be saved, which is a foundation, you know?

We're not claiming.

You know that that

We discovered the Holy Grail.

It's like you imagine you're stranded in the ocean.

Well, our boat.

Was in disrepair for a long time.

We were just living on planks of wood and and just

you know, rotting away in the in the sea, in the open sea.

So A C P is like, hey, we can fix the boat.

We can fix the boat.

And that's what we've done.

We fixed the boat.

But now we have to launch an investigation.

Why did the boat?

Sink in the first place.

What the fuck actually happened here?

How did we get stranded out here?

We don't even know.

You know?

No one knows.

Absolutely no one knows.

And um

Will we lose?

Well, n nothing guarantees we win.

By itself.

But I think we're on to something.

And the more people try to shut down what we're doing, the more I think we get convinced of that.

Because I definitely do.

I think we're on to something.

And I think the path to victory is very possible for us.

I think there is already plenty of errors we have managed to overcome.

Because restoring the Communist Party is not easy and it's not a small feat, and we've done it.

And in order to pull something like that off without any money,

Without any like institutional ties or any any advantages going for you, it's not easy, guys.

You had to have gotten something really fucking right to do what we did.

And I can tell you that with a lot of confidence.

You know, you had to have gotten something right to even have gotten to where we have gotten now.

But you know what I'm actually trying to say is that

I thought about Death Stranding again because I realized that, not necessarily consciously, maybe unconsciously too, how much that actually influenced ACP.

Big time.

Big time.

It was a huge influence on what my understanding of socialism was because I loved this idea of just.

being at peace with mundane routines and knowing how to actually have morale in the midst of a mundane

Cycle of life which

Because, you know, a lot of leftists have this fantasy which is like

Hey, there's gonna be this big revolutionary moment we're all working up to, and it's gonna be this explosion of jouissance, and we're all gonna just it's gonna pay off everything, and it's like.

No.

You look and then you put the r you take off the stupid goggles, the ideology glasses or whatever, and then you look at the real world and it's a desolate landscape that you've been neglecting all this time.

Because, you know, the socialism was right in front of you all this time.

And you were just trampling over it, neglecting it, chasing a fantasy.

But it was in front of you the whole time.

Your neighbors need help, your communities need help.

Your people need help, they need leadership, they need guidance.

And

You should just

We we've all been in America Americans, we've all been living in this fantasy world for so long, trampling over.

Our common existence for so, so long, decades and decades, and now we've pushed it past a point where there's a point of no return and we're living in a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape.

We may as well be, you know.

Again, I named all these different things going on that are irreversible changes in civilization.

That absolutely annihilate the old world as we know it.

And the best we can do now that we've gotten here, take off the cope glasses.

Stop trying to

Live a fantasy and just kinda just get on.

Doing when doing the work that needs to be done.

That no one else is 'cause they're too focussed on

Escaping, you know?

Because this is all we fucking got.

That's just the truth.

This is all we fu.

It's not gonna get like better.

Okay, this is what I'm trying to say.

This was my message from day one: infrared.

Summit, thank you so much, man.

I appreciate you so much.

My message from day one as infrared is that it's not going to get better.

This is all we got.

So let's stop neglecting it.

Let's start taking care of it.

And let's start reb rebuilding and repairing and just getting the work done.

And hey

Nobody.

Nobody here.

Oh, so what you're some kind of hippie who just believes in mutual aid?

No.

Because you create this network that we're creating, you know, this nationwide thing we're creating.

You do it consistently and persistently enough, and if it's organized enough with that collective principle, hey, you're going to run afoul.

With the power of the Zap V, you're gonna run afoul with them, inevitably.

And you don't have to go looking for trouble.

The trouble's going to find you.

And when the trouble finds you, you're going to have to make a choice.

Do you back down and submit or do you fight?

And I think everyone knows

What our stance on that is going to be.

See, I'm not a reformist, I am a revolutionary, but revolution doesn't mean adventurism.

I'm a Muslim revolutionary.

You know what that means?

It means we form the community first, we lay down the law first.

We don't go looking for trouble.

But the trouble will find us, and when it does,

We stand our ground, and that enough that is enough to shake the world.

Standing your ground is enough to make the entire world around you change.

You know, the first community of the Muslim prophet

Was not adventuristic.

Far from it.

They were just trying to mind their own business.

And then people kept trying to mess with them.

And then in self-defense, they expanded as big as they did.

But that was in self-defense.

It wasn't because.

They were aggressors, you know.

Um

And there's something about that that I I I fuck with heavy, you know?

I believe that we have a right to insist on our rights in this country.

We absolutely have a right.

We are revolutionaries.

But we're not anticipating or waiting for some big moment that's going to be a big payoff.

No, we're not.

If that's how you're thinking, you've got it all fucking wrong.

You've got it all fucking wrong if that's the way you're thinking about it, you know?

Like you've really got it all wrong, you know?

Same with the Mongols, of course.

The same thing.

I want, you know what?

I want everyone to understand is that it is a routine where you pass through.

Anticipation, excitement, you get a payoff in small numbers, you go back to the boring, you keep doing it, it's a cycle.

It's not

You know, in this sense, I actually like the Chinese critique of Western eschatology or even Abrahamic eschatology.

As an avowed Abrahamic,

They do have a point a little bit.

They say you Abrahamic people, you think everything's a lineup and then there's all going to be the end times, a big payoff, and that's your understanding of life.

And then the Chinese they'll tell me, they'll say, But the way we think is that it's a cycle.

You know?

And, you know, I proudly avow myself as a

Humble, open-minded student of that perspective.

I think the two perspectives are actually compatible and that there's a lot of wisdom in the Chinese way of thinking.

Again, I keep going back to that video game, Death Stranding, but it's such a work of art, and I never say that about video games, but it really is.

Because the whole point of that game is that.

You're doing these small acts.

That are necessary to connect America, right?

And none of them in particular is like, whoa, it's a just really small and it's a payoff, and then you keep going.

And you get used to that routine.

There's something really powerful about that.

That you are making a difference and you're doing a really good thing.

Something heroic.

You're doing something heroic.

But not as one big payoff with one climax and finale.

But the heroism of the mundane.

The heroism of the mundane, the everyday,

Doing the right thing.

That is extremely powerful.

That is extremely powerful.

You know?

Again, also, you know, maybe that's Islamic as well, because they because you're supposed to pray five times a day and you have all these.

Daily routines you attend to and so hey, maybe there's there's a there's a similarity after all, or there's a compatibility after all.

And look, the the grand historical change you know what the tragedy about the hippies and the new left is?

Or maybe even some of the first generations of communists after Marx.

Fuck, this is like a this this one will hit people and make them tear up and cry.

You're one human life.

You're born?

You go through that stage of your adolescence, you become an adult, and then if you're lucky.

You make it to 95 if you're super lucky and you're dead.

And all your life, you're anticipating this big thing to happen as a revolutionary.

All your life.

And what you didn't realize is the entire time this is thing is happening at a scale that's just beyond you.

Beyond your frame of experience as an individual.

And that you never made peace.

With your existence and your sense of purpose within that, if you know what I mean.

Like you you have this idea that you know you're anticipating something.

But you didn't realize the entire time you were you were growing and aging, you know?

And

There we need to have such a humility, guys, where we need to That's why I say we have to be selfless as communists.

It's not out of some appeal to conventional morals.

It's more like this isn't about us.

This isn't about our lives.

What we're fighting for is for generations.

It's for generations and generations.

And it's truly an honor to be part of something like that.

But is are you looking for your life to be improved or some big payoff in your life?

Or I'm just gonna tell you right now, I don't think it's gonna happen for you through this, if that's what you're looking for.

If you're looking for some kind of payoff for your own life, I don't know what to tell you, you know?

If you can

You should be able to fully experience the revolutionary process within your life.

And doing that means being at peace with the mundane work of existence, 'cause that's the most revolutionary thing of all.

Being able to reset your understanding of your place in society.

And your relations toward other human beings, most importantly, is a revolutionary process.

Why?

Because it's a process where you have to undergo.

something very, very painful, which is total alienation and estrangement from other people.

In order to reassert and redefine what you're you know, the correct sense of

having a dignified and honorable existences.

A lot of people, they don't do that.

They'll go their whole lives being submerged in some kind of social circle or a few social circles and they'll hop between them and they'll never take a step back and

Ask the question of the important question of what actually fucking matters, you know?

What they'll do is they'll just be submerged in the cattle, in the crowd, and that's it.

And that's that's not a that's not a uh dignified human life.

You're you this is how people are losing their sense of humanity.

Fuck you know, I've had really bad dreams about this shit, to be honest with you guys.

I've had really fucking scary dreams about this shit.

Because

We are at such a level of socialization, if there started to be like

Our sense of pain is social socially based now.

Like, we could have, like, chop your hand off challenge hashtag and people would just fucking do it.

It's how scary I've I've had dreams of like crowds and crowds of people.

Um long ago.

I've had really terrifying dreams where like crowds of people became desensitized to pain itself and they like just started mutilating themselves, like cutting themselves and nobody, everyone was streaming like it was no big deal.

And people were stabbing each other and it was like it was everyone was treated was being treated with like such

Nobody was noticing that like something fucked up was going on.

And then I was in the middle of it as everyone was like walking by.

And I realized like if someone stabbed me they wouldn't give a fuck.

Because they don't even care if it happens to themselves.

So I was just like it's it was like a scary dream where you're like, you don't know if you're about to get stabbed, but it's not because somebody hates you and wants to kill you.

It's just because people have so little regard for their own lives and for each other.

That yeah, it may happen, maybe, you know.

That's like a different level of horror, right?

Where it's like there's one type of horror where it's like there's a monster chasing you who wants to do harm to you.

And then there's another one where it's like, maybe it doesn't matter.

It doesn't, there's a desensitization by these people.

They don't even care.

Um

But that's what yeah, I mean, w we that's what's happening.

Um

In a way.

Uh because uh what was I saying?

People are going with the flow right now and they don't necessarily realize

That they are falling into trends and they're allowing their mind to be rearranged and re-engineered.

in ways that are actually self-destructive, um, not just to society, but to themselves.

And and there is like a huge

Loss of humanity factor Absolutely.

People don't know the value of human life anymore.

Um

I've talked about this a lot and people think I sound sentimental and I'm moralizing.

Until you actually know what it means.

Only when you actually know what it means, you understand what I'm talking about.

If you don't know what it means, what I'm talking about sounds like a trope you heard from, I don't know, like Bill Nye or some shit, or I don't know, who says Dr.

Phil or something.

But when you actually understand what that means, what like the value of human life.

You start to realize, yeah, we have lost humanity.

Big time.

The way in which we can just narratively turn everything into a joke, we can narratively frame anything to be convenient to us, and we can cope with it and just move along without zero issues.

Uh it's such a profound extent to which that's possible, you know.

Like, you know how many hood fights videos I see where it's like somebody gets like killed?

And then everybody's just like laughing, like treating it like it's a cartoon.

And I'm like.

Uh, or even like war footage and I'm just like

But I wonder if you know what the value of human life is, you know.

I'm not to moralize at all, by no means.

I just say I wonder if you know what the value of human life is to treat it like a cartoon, 'cause I sense and I detect you don't.

If you're a soldier and you have risked your life, your comrades have died, and I get why people joke.

I mean I'm not sensitive and I'm not moralizing about anything.

But I'm just saying the way society who's not built like that talks about shit like that, it's really interesting.

It's super interesting.

But then you know what drives me crazy is that when some real shit starts entering people's consciousness, like a knife at their throat, oh, suddenly you've snapped back into it.

Not literally like a knife at the throat, but like some there's sometimes people realize like something real.

Oh my god, Trump's deporting people.

Wow, that's what it took for you to.

What what's going on?

Only when the celebrities in Hollywood are doing a hashtag and the media starts freaking out about something do the cattle start to realize oh no, this is serious You were watching footage of people being slaughtered and murdered you were making light of death You were it was just a joke to you.

No, you didn't care but only when the media started to change the tone When the TV the the tone of the TV's voice started changing you started shaking and freaking out Realizing something real is going on.

Why didn't you have that obligation to reality before then?

Because you're not independent because you're just a and I don't I don't mean to say there's such a thing as independent thinkers Full disclosure every single human being is a social animal myself included

It's just that through discipline for decades I have learned to refine and control and

Be responsible for my determination socially, psychologically.

Like, I've hacked into my unconscious big time.

Are you kidding?

I couldn't be the man I am if I didn't have that ability.

But I have one.

I mean, I have a social existence.

I'm not a god.

I absolutely am a human being just like anyone else.

I absolutely have a psychology and have an ego and I have all these things.

And, you know, like all human beings, I have a sense of dependency on the recognition within personal life, I mean, from others.

But if you can learn how to control that, you don't necessarily need it.

Or you can you can uh you can suppress these human uh needs.

to have uh you know

I can ba basically if I was put in solitary confinement for twenty years, it would it would yeah, it would change me functionally.

It would I would lose my ability to talk in the way that but I wouldn't it wouldn't sh break my psych, not at all.

And that's not because I'm superhuman, I have superhuman powers, it's just because um I'm aware, I have an awareness of the praxis of consciousness, which is not just a praxis of like

Committing acts and reflecting on them, but also the praxis of the relationship between consciousness and the unconscious and your unconscious relationships, and how your perceptions are often shaped by others.

And the socialization pro it's so funny to me how little self-awareness a lot of people have when it comes to the socialization process and how they're determined by it.

Whereas, like, I will see these like self-avowed Marxist radicals and communist radicals or whatever they socialists, they're so fucking petty.

And it's a I laugh at them.

Look at the records of the ACP.

How fucking petty are they if they're not feds?

Which one of them we know is, but like, they're just so fucking petty.

It's like, really?

You're that predictable?

You're like an NPC.

You have this like psychological dynamic where you lost your friend group and now your whole ideology has changed, your consciousness has completely changed, suddenly your theory has changed, your principles have changed.

That is just sad.

I just find it really sad that people just don't have like the minimal self-awareness.

And they they just get tugged along.

And look, we're all social animals, absolutely.

But have minimal self awareness at least about how you come off.

At the minima if you wanna be petty, be petty.

But why make it so obvious what a petty idiot you are, you know?

To to actually have

Principles, like to actually have real principles, right?

To have real principles doesn't just mean to think them consistently in your head.

It means to act it, it means to risk radically disrupting your social relationships and existence on the basis of your principles.

Now tell me how many people have the strength to do that.

Not many.

Not many.

H how many people even have the strength to like sit down and listen to me talk, saying anything?

Not not many.

Not many.

Already, I'm killing the vibe for 99% of human beings.

What?

Uh what are you talking about?

What is bro on?

And they're like, they're they're thinking, they're already thinking about.

Tomorrow when they're gonna go I don't even know what people do anymore, they're gonna like

They're thinking about their TikTok or I don't fucking know.

Just some nonsense.

And they're like in the moment.

They're in the you know what always depresses me is when I I see peop I meet people and how like

Stuck.

They are in some petty, small, retarded life they're living when it comes to like, I gotta impress my friends, I gotta impress the bros.

I gotta I I I wonder what this person thinks about me.

I got it's so important I mean and they're like locked in.

They're locked in.

They can't even take a moment to like stop and reflect.

They're locked in.

As if that's the most important fucking thing in the world, then I'm not arrogant because there's no way to abstract, there's no such thing.

The only way to

become a critical thinker as if you just

You're like a pit bull.

Your jaw is locked on the baby's head.

No, I'm just kidding.

Your jaw is locked on something and you can't let go.

All right.

So, do it.

Keep going at it.

Keep going at it.

Keep going at it.

Keep going at it.

And then once you hit yourself.

Once you hit your head on the wall, which you inevitably will.

Then you're going to be stuck figuring out what the fuck happened.

But you do this enough.

You start thinking about it.

Some people cope immediately and they get back up and they keep coping.

All you have to do is not cope one time.

That's all you gotta do.

All you gotta do is just to refuse the coping mechanism one time and truly accept the fact you hit your head on the fucking wall and fucked up.

To acquire real consciousness.

That's all you need is to fail one time.

And ideally, that should happen like immediately after childhood.

If we lived in a good society, because that's what children are: children, I want it now, I want it now.

Like, they just want their, I want McDonald's now.

They want their happy meal, they want whatever, and they can't think about anything else.

And they're just, give me my iPad right now.

They can't think about anything else.

You can't, you literally can't.

I mean, they will scream and cry, and you'll try to reason.

Hey, no, they can't, they can't get their.

So give it to them.

Give it to them.

Right?

Give them the McDonald's or the iPad or whatever, right?

And then.

Let them on their own become melancholic.

Let them realize

In pursuit of this, they fail somehow, right?

In that moment of failure,

That should be the point of maturity, right?

Uh that should be the point of uh

You know, you start to develop.

and you're you're you're you're you're growing from adulthood, right?

Not not fully uh n sorry, not not growing from childhood, not becoming an adult yet, but you you're no longer like an infant, right?

And you can um

You acquire like a self-awareness.

That's ideally how it should work.

You should just have self-awareness by the time you're like in m middle school, right?

Like at least.

And um most people there's mo most twenty five year olds don't have that self awareness.

Isn't that scary?

Most twenty five year olds today don't have that self awareness they were supposed to have.

Long, long ago.

And um yeah, people can't re they need to they react to negative stimulus.

That's a good way of putting it.

And the first thing they do is cope with delusion.

That's what you if you can just avoid that.

And have it be a moment of self-awareness and reflection, that solves a lot of problems.

But nope, people are too arrogant.

They need a there's such a neuroticism of uh

This is like what thinkers would describe 19th-century modern industrial capitalism, where it's just like everyone's just in a rush.

And there's such a hurriedness, you know, uh, to just get to the next thing.

And it's like it's like very Heideggerian actually when you think about it.

Like, nobody wants to just sit down and think about being as such.

But

I like that Heideggerian gesture because at a certain point you realize this is all you fucking have.

And that's why I think it's important, actually.

This is it.

This is all you get.

Stop trying to cope yourself and delude yourself it's going to get better.

This is all you have.

So think about what you know what you know what should make you recognize Heidegger's an important thinker.

I saw this YouTube video once of this 95-year-old guy who's not to laugh, but he wrote his whole life.

Apparently, he was like a philosopher and he wrote all these books talking about how death doesn't matter and you shouldn't fear death.

But the poor man, he's ninety five, ninety six years old.

And I see him, he was being filmed by the YouTube, by the by the camera.

He goes, I changed my mind.

I don't want to die.

And they're kind of like asking him, What made you change your mind?

He was like, Well,

I looked outside and I looked at the trees.

And he's like

Um

I never noticed them before.

You know, I never I always took them for granted.

And he's like, I would like to s be here more for longer.

I don't want to die.

I don't want to be gone.

And how sad is that?

You didn't realize this is all you have.

You go your whole life thinking.

There's something else.

No, this is it.

You know?

At the the bare minimum you could do as a form of gratitude to your existence is fucking think about it.

Think about it deeply and without being in a rush.

Without expecting a payoff.

Just think just just try to

Think about where you are, you know, and and and what this life is.

99% of people don't do that.

They don't.

Yeah, it's true though.

Think about it.

A lot of people they see trees and they're not thinking about it.

They're not noticing it.

They're not paying attention.

Um

That's so sad, isn't it?

It's so sad 'cause you you go your whole life chasing something, not realizing it's all already here.

It's all already in front of you.

Like this really is it, you know?

Does that mean you should be complacent?

No, on the contrary.

Once you accept that you have w already what you need,

You can you can then, you know.

You can you can stop um

I mean, I know this is like a stupid thing to say because a lot of people don't have what they need, like, physically to survive.

But.

You know, you can't build if you don't know what you have.

That's all I'm trying to say.

That's all I'm trying to say.

But um

I I feel like I've become so lame, that's just the truth.

Because I say this shit and it's like people think, Oh, you're like an old man, you're just a cringe boomer, and it's like, fuck.

What do you want from me man?

This is what I learned, this is what I believe.

I might sound like a fucking boomer.

I'm people I f I sound like a fucking boomer teacher or some shit.

And I hate it because I try to share my wisdom and people they just fucking ignore it.

They just go, oh, whatever.

And they just like they don't even.

It's like, all right.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

I guess I'm wrong.

I'm missing something, right?

What am I?

I just want to know what I'm missing.

I'm very open-minded.

What am I missing?

Like, what am I missing?

That everybody else seems to understand.

Am I missing the uh

The latest Scooby-Doo artist.

Scooby-Doo, Shaggy,

The latest

Lil Scoob.

Lil Shaggy, the mystery machine.

What am I miss?

Tell me what I'm missing.

The latest pu strand of pot.

The latest two K?

It's the same as last year, but it's the latest one, I guess.

I mean, what am I missing?

Shit, man.

What am I missing?

Tell me what I'm missing.

Tell me the wisdom that I don't have that makes me like an idiot.

I'm open-minded, 'cause clearly a lot of people don't like to hear what I have to say.

GTA 6.

GTA 6 has become the new socialism.

Like everyone's waiting for the big payoff, like the big utopia.

You know what?

We don't have interesting thinkers anymore.

We don't, it's my only generation could do it.

Nobody has been educated like me.

Think about it.

Who is in my age group besides Logo?

That has the ability to draw.

It's like the Zijek generation.

You have the Boris Groys people, those are all Gen X.

There's no one in the millennial generation who's not a retard, who thinks about any of this stuff.

But if there was, they would be talking about how GTA 6 has become this kind of new utopia, virtual utopia, and how GTA 6, there's going to be transactions in it.

Literally, there's going to be real transactions.

It's going to be monetized, and it's going to be like second life, you know, and it's going to, but everyone's looking forward to it, anticipating in a future-oriented way as like the big payoff and the big utopia.

We're all going to ascend into GTA 6.

Uh yeah.

And that's very interesting 'cause it's like uh utopian socialism in twenty first century.

Uh no I I f the Black Mirror, just just get out.

I'm sorry.

I don't you know, Julian, no offense, but and that's not what I mean at all, okay?

I don't mean it in a dystopian sense whatsoever.

I mean it in a very neutral realistic sense.

Like this is w utopian socialism in the nineteenth century, our equivalent of that today is like GCA six.

That's what I mean.

Can I tell you what the falsehood of dystopia is?

Let me explain to you why dystopia is false and why people enjoy dystopia so much.

All dystopian fiction is reactionary, and I'll tell you why.

In real life, there's always a narrative.

It's not like something tomorrow is just going to happen that is radically at odds with the majority of people's sensibilities, and they're not going to be able to make a narrative out of it that coexists with their daily lives and routines.

That's Halloween.

That's a fantasy.

That's like Halloween.

Oh, the Handmaiden's Tale.

What happens in reality is much more sinister, and it's something Adorno talks about, a guy who I don't like.

But credit where credit is due, only people like Adorno, who are the biggest negative Nancy's, notice things like this, right?

What happens is much worse.

Horrible things and dystopian things do come to pass in the future.

It's just that they become normalized.

And everyone looks the other way, and no one cares.

Such that the price of freaking out, oh my god, it's the handmaiden's tail, just becomes too high socially.

Nobody has the energy to reproduce that type of consciousness.

And so we live in a very fucked up, immoral, horrifying world.

But nobody cares, including you.

You don't care.

You enjoy Black Mirror.

You enjoy The Hunger Games because it's popular.

Because it's normal to share the sentiment of wow, wouldn't the future be so far Sure, but when it actually happens, hey, it's just too expensive to just freak out.

Um

Now, I don't necessarily agree with that, but that's kind of more close to the truth than what dystopian fiction never addresses that.

Dystopian fiction always makes the subject or the viewer happy about how

About their own sensibilities compared to this radically twisted and warped world, right?

That's why it's reactionary.

If dystopian fiction.

was progressive, what it would do is it would

Um provoke

On the viewer

Um

An awareness about how they are themselves culpable in the dystopia now, based on the very same sensibilities.

that make them revolt in horror, a revulsion sense, uh uh depicting bad a bad dystopia.

Um like it's your fault.

You're the one who's uh the dystopian.

Your sensibilities uh create the dystopia.

Now finally, I want to make another critique, which is that um

I d actually don't agree with Adorno that the bad things happen.

I think that

There is a the the history is open because it's a narrative opening within history.

No matter what is happening, all there there is is incumbent upon human beings to make sense of it.

And it's not like this suddenly, this narrative agency disappears one day and we're living in the handmaiden's tale.

And oh my god.

No, there's always a narrative agency at play, always, that every actor has to make sense of.

And that dialectic is always ongoing.

It's always active and it's always open.

We are never going to be in a point of a dystopia.

We are never going to be living in a dystopia.

where your sensibilities and narrative is correct, but no one else can see it.

Hey, that's now.

Look what's going on now.

So that's not, there's no dystopia, okay?

Or your sensibilities are insufficiently being communicated.

Otherwise, how can you be confident that they're correct?

You can't, right?

So, you know, there's no

There's no dystopia.

There's no such thing.

There's not gonna be a terrible, horrible world where everyone is so twisted that they're letting this happen and only you are seeing how bad it is.

like the handmaiden's tail.

No,

We have narrative agen I hate word agency, it's such a lip tard word, but we have a narrative autono uh that's also a stupid word.

We have a narrative uh activity, living narrative activity as human beings.

Which means

You cannot abstract yourself from the dialectic of

Narratives and counter narratives, you can't abstract yourself from that.

Everything is constantly being made sense of in some kind of way.

On a social level, and you have to participate in that and partake in that.

That's how worlds are created.

You don't get to abstract yourself from that and say, I'm right, and everyone else is wrong, or bad, or immoral.

No, you get one, and we're in it.

Like let's say, you know, for example, people who like, oh Silicon Valley's taking okay, so let's say Google.

starts uh creating a private mercenary company and it's going around the country and it's hey look, you know, everyone's gonna find a way to make sense of it and in a way that's like, hey, you know, it makes sense.

So you cannot stand here shocked in horror of what's going on.

Because everything will adjust in just the right way for it to be made, for it to be normal to us.

Um

And uh

And and there's always an opening with that for contradictions.

So you know what I love?

I love um I don't love dystopian um

Films, I think the more revolutionary type of narratives are ones where there's already a really fucked up.

Like maybe Mad Max.

I don't like Mad Max too much, but more so where it's not necessarily dystopian, but it's definitely bad.

But there's still a logic to it.

There's still a mythological there's a ground fertile ground of

Um of uh

Um uh h heroism.

Maybe the video game Skyrim, where it's like a fallen world, and it's not necessarily dystopia, but it's a world in disrepair.

It's a fallen world.

Maybe Dune, maybe Mad Max or something.

And there's no critique ongoing of the norms.

It just is what it is.

Yeah, we eat people, we're cannibals.

It is what it is.

But somehow.

The Weltgeist, the world spirit, the world world soul still is at play and there are still contradictions.

I like movies where there are no heroes in the beginning.

There's a there's all these terrible tribes and then there's one tribe or there's a mercenary group or there's a tribe.

And then within that within the logic of that tribe, the contradictions therein.

Arises a hero.

Not because he's a hero according to our sensibilities, but according to the imminent logic of that world, he does something we can relate to as heroic, right?

And that wasn't a movie, it was real fucking history, and that hero's name was Hingis Khan.

You understand?

Do you understand what I'm saying?

That's what I like.

That story is real.

Because it shows even in the worst, most forsaken, abominable, fallen conditions, there's an activity of spirit still there that develops it toward communism.

Toward a historical outcome that is meaningful, you know?

Do you know how brutal?

The Eurasian steppe

The Tibetan plateau and the and and uh what was known mo uh today Mongolia was.

Have you read the secret history of the Mongols?

Do you know how fucking brutal and dystopian and post-apocalyptic it was back then?

Very.

And yet the hero Hingis Khan

Arises from this.

See this is what's w w this is why I reject dystopian fiction.

The past was pretty bad.

Do you know how fucking brutal the Bronze Age was?

You know how fucking brutal it was?

And tell me how from that came Abraham and Moses.

Do you know what these stories we're talking about?

You know?

We came from a wilderness.

We came from wilderness.

So, why should I be scared of some future?

Black mirror.

Why should I be scared of that?

We given where we came from, why should I be scared we're heading towards somewhere?

What can we be heading toward that's worse than all of these senseless brutality and savagery?

And you have no idea the tragedies of human history.

You have no fucking literally, it's it's sublime, it's indescribable, it's at a scale no one could describe.

You know how much countless suffering and cruelty and pain.

Human beings endured, from from world history, unimaginable, unimaginable torture and cruelty.

And we're still fucking here.

So why the fuck am I scared of the future?

You know?

So this is in a in in so many words, this is why dystopian fiction is retarded and reactionary.

The default is cruelty, you know that, right?

Why do they say God is merciful?

Because the default is cruelty.

The default is you're in a desert and there's no water.

It's c the the default is a wilderness of predators and prey.

That's the default.

A ruthless, cold and indifferent being and existence.

And somehow there is a grace and a mercy that intervenes amidst all of that.

That's the story here.

You understand?

How would I write 1984 to be progressive?

I would A, write it as a prequel of the or the glorious origin of the state, or B, um.

I would write about the war, the war they're fighting or something.

Um

I would introduce heroism.

That's how I would rewrite it.

I would rewrite 1984 by reintroducing heroism.

Notice how that's sorely lacking in the dystopian fiction genre.

Winston is not a hero, he's a tragic victim.

Fuck him!

You know, where's the heroism?

There is none.

Yeah.

cry and whine and moan about some kind of existential uh sadness and and cruelty and injustice if there's no heroism because you're imply it's like you're implying there's some alternative.

So what's so sad and so George Ra was like, it's getting so bad.

It's black mirror.

It's like, so you're implying there's a solution.

If you're not implying there's a solution, then shut up and stop whining.

If you're not implying there's a heroic struggle to make things right, what position are you in to say how bad it is?

This is why I don't like a Dorno, you know?

It's just a negative dialectic, everything is just worse and worse and worse.

So kill yourself then!

Which I'm I don't agree with, but th it's like that's what they're trying to say.

That's what they're trying to fucking imply.

That's that that's what you should fucking do.

What else do you what do you want from us?

As human beings.

And it's it's false.

It's false.

We could do that collectively.

All eight billion people disappear.

What did we fucking accomplish?

Hey, it's always been bad in this universe of ours.

It's always been fucking bad.

But somehow something keeps acquiring distinction relative to the baseline, relative to the thing before, right?

For example, there used to not be life on Earth.

For example, Earth used to be a smoldering

Pit of fire, okay.

For example, you know, they say there used to be big dinosaurs, that's what they claim.

10,000 years ago, you know, 100,000 years ago, we were living in caves.

Okay.

So yeah, we could have this mentality that, oh, we all just need to go extinct.

But why does something new keep arising?

That's the thing you haven't locked down.

It's always the negative dialectic.

But how come you can't predict it then?

Adorno, you want to know why Adorno?

I can debunk him right now.

Can Adorno predict the stock market?

He fucking can't.

He can claim it's always going to be end in the negation, but he cannot in a concrete, specific, particular way actually fucking tell me what's going to happen.

Because he doesn't fucking know.

Because everything that does happen is new.

It has a quality of novelty, which he is unable to anticipate, which he retroactively claims he knew all along.

Fuck you, you lazy fuck.

Sounds like a parasite to me.

Just depending upon things going on without having any fucking skin in the game.

Well guys, this was an unusual stream, to say the least.

And I recognize that.

I recognize that.

And

Notice how we didn't talk about news, we didn't talk about anything, but I just wanted to have some thoughts I wanted to share them with you.

That's all.

Remember guys, we're very early, we're very very early, it's one A.M.

right now.

Okay, the big things are gonna happen at 8 a.m.

And we're this fucking early.

Okay.

Osos, what's up?

We are super early, guys.

And there's remember, don't beat yourself up if we're not able to win the entire country tomorrow.

Don't beat yourself up if there's not going to be a revolution tomorrow.

Because we're super early, okay?

And what we're doing right now, it's makes all the fucking difference in the world.

So keep at it and keep going.

Keep at it and keep going.

'Cause we're the only ones doing it, okay?

We're the only ones connecting the country.

To LARP a little bit, you know, because it's but it's kind of what we're doing, isn't it?

We're connecting the country.

Very small in scale right now, very modest in size, but you just scale up and we're doing the same thing.

We're creating a network, all right?

That's really essentially what we're doing, a network.

And you just gotta keep at it.

This is it, you know, but keep at it.

You want to make more of it, then keep doing it, and more will come.

You know?

Got do little things and they'll grow into big things.

Anyway, y'all.

I'll see you uh

See you Sunday.

Everyone, have a beautiful 4th of July weekend.

I hope you all enjoy it.

I hope you all enjoy it and

Once again, shout out, Amila.

Thank you so much.

Shout out, Jennifer.

Thank you so much, guys.

I really appreciate it.

All right, guys, I'll see you Sunday.

Have a good 4th of July weekend.

Bye-bye.