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4th of July as soon

got like what 40 minutes

so everybody

hope everybody has a good 4th of July

weekend but tonight I'm going to ruin it for you

just kidding uh yeah nah but for real um uh on some real shit

on some real shit

I've been thinking about this new sentiment

people are getting on

which is

Trump with alligator alcatraz and the 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, American democracy as we know it, strong emphasis on as we know it.

And not to bullshit you.

Yeah, the GOP, 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 I don't think it's going to 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, 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 stopped how can he be stopped there's 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 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 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 called Trump in 2015 and was laughed at.

As somebody who knew about all this shit, okay, for over a decade, the rights, new agenda and the new shift.

I mean, nobody gave a fuck

you know you 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, 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 are you have to lose? Oh, something big is going to change and it's like compared to what what we have now

and then i realize it 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 20 years ago, 30 years ago, 40 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 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, um, not just leftists These leftists, they're just cattle.

And, and, um, not just leftists.

I mean, pretty much every single political form of consciousness that I see manifested and express depresses me because it's just cattle.

You're just a stupid cattle.

And I, I just can't. because it's just cattle. You're just a stupid cattle.

And 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.

Like profoundly so many different ways, you are just realizing something, and it's too late.

Maybe if you realize 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 tell you and i'm not

saying this because i'm saying it from a position of authority.

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 2016 or 2024 or 2025 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 no connection between their consciousness

and what they really think, 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 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's the point of Marxism? If we're not already going to be anticipating things like this, you're

telling me for all these years, you were just, joking? You were, what was it?

It was a hobby for you to call yourself a Marxist?

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

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

this is something I 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 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 the 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.

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 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, the 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, okay?

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

critically, it's changed.

I'm not saying it's disappeared,

but it's definitely changed.

It has changed profoundly

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.

You're being carried by currents of memes and by images and things like that.

And there's no way to just kind of like step back and

have a classical education anymore.

Being taught in the 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 had always been taken for granted for centuries

is now totally dominated by these 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... And there's the rise of this kind of post-capitalist neo-feudal 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 down this path, really. Which is,

I think there's a reason we were, you know, we had

infrared, we were so inspired by

Death Stranding that game.

And I think about, 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 a 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 see a lot of, like, leftists talk about, we need to stop, we need to save the planet, we need to 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 let me refine what I'm saying very, very carefully, okay? 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 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 worshipping 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.

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 going to 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 kind of like

and they're just like looking for like 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 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 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 because it is going to happen just let it happen because you try to resist it

it's in vain resisting the future that's going to pass which is going to 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

nothing and you know 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

because 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.

Except the future that's coming.

And anyone's selling you on this idea, it can be prevented. Accept the future that's coming.

And anyone's 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 going to have. 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 going to change the world. It's going to be the death stranding, right? It's going to be probably a world war, to be 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... 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 1917 have happened

without

1914 if it wasn't for the great war the first world war would the October

Revolution have happened

was is there even

one percent of a chance

something like that could have happened

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absolutely not

the first world war 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 sw Swan global event won't happen.

We diletticians, 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, because 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 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 and get excited too much

and oh hurry hurry it's now it's 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 labor organizing of social investigation of going to your city councils

and just look at the feet of acp main 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 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 going to 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.

We're not going to stop a fucking thing.

What we will do is build a foundation. stop that we're not going to stop a fucking thing but 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 going to 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.

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

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

It's already happened. You've 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 just got to...

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What do you think

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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'm not trying to give you guys false promises about the future.

Like, 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 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-rodded,

that have lost any sense of humanity,

that don't have any ability.

And how do I detect this?

I detect this because whenever I talk to someone,

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 Hollywood movie, all this kind of stuff. And...

Oh! Holy shit, Amila. Oh my god.

Oh my god.

Amila.

Holy shit.

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... um um but

continuing what I was saying

um

you could just tell that

I think death stranding was so ahead

i can't even like i need to like

really emphasize

how ahead of its time

that game was just like understanding

the future

in so many different ways that i'm not going to 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 a 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.

Ranico, 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

let me

continue what I was saying

is just that

yeah so I see

that even in everyday

interactions

how people are just

NPCs

and but despite are just NPCs.

And but despite that, so I'm trying

to get to,

they're just caught in these stupid

routines and they're

fixated on really petty

stuff, you know um friendships and relationships and egos and all this

stuff and how profoundly disappointing it it could be um if you were not

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.

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 and NPCs 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 21st 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 TV show.

You're on your own.

And you have to, in a 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 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.

Because 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

who

you know, it's like

Death Stranding. We're connecting

the Kyrill Network.

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

But 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, you know, I didn't even know if I was like just a crazy person. And then I was like, I'm just perpetually running away from the psych ward on the run from the psych ward.

Because 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 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.

You got to just, you got to

feed the, you know, the AI is hungry. You got to feed it the data. You got to keep feeding and, you got to just you got to feed the you know the AI is hungry you got to feed it the data you got to keep feeding and feeding and feeding the hungry discourse and a and the AI is a stupid AI it's the passive cattle-like npc existence that 99% 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 conscious consciousness that is in some, at odds with the prevailing conventions and ideas of society. in the age of AI, how can true consciousness arise? 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 Reed is from Death Stranding 1 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 and 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?

Do you think that somebody working as a cashier is producing surplus value?

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

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 lost world.

It's gone.

And isn't it a 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 got to follow the trail. that's what i always want to say is

no follow the trail marks lived a long time ago and a lot happens since then follow the footsteps

follow his footsteps.

Then follow Lenin's footsteps.

Follow Lenin's footsteps.

Follow Lenin's footsteps.

Follow Stalin'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 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, we at the Infrared Collective, all we've ever said is that we're onto 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 a 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 marks 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.

I don't know what to tell you. It happened. The crisis happened. In the the crisis of Mark, the crisis that Marx anticipated happened in 1929. So here we are today and a lot of people are coping and pretending like they have the answer and they just don't.

It's like they're, you know what they are?

They're just nihilus.

They're just.

They have a dopamine addiction to um they're chasing after that object hey it's just all it is you know they've they put themselves in a circuit of enjoyment and call themselves principled.

You know, I'm the true Marxist.

Everyone else is not.

If only people just listen to what I have to say,

everything would be fine.

And, you know, you're not successful.

So you just, you find a way to enjoy your position,

and you enjoy it.

It's absolutely something you enjoy.

Are you being honest and authentic about what your position is?

You're 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. self. Yeah, I mean, Reves got it exactly correct. I mean, why didn't the communist 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've discovered the Holy Grail.

It's like, 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 just

rotting away in the sea, in the open sea.

So ACP is like, hey, we can fix the boat.

We can fix the boat.

And that's what we've done.

We've 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... And, um... Will we lose?

Well, 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 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 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 going to be this big revolutionary moment we're all working up to, and it's going to be this explosion of juicants, and we're all going to just, it's going to pay off everything. And it's like, no, you look, and then you put the, 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, your communities need help

your people need help

they need leadership, they need

guidance

and

you should just

we've all been in 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. for so, so long, decades and decades.

And now we've pushed it past a point where there's a point in 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 kind of just get on doing the work that needs to be done that no one else is

because they're too focused on

escaping

you know

because this is all we fucking got

that's just the truth

this is all we it got. That's just the truth.

This is all we... It's not going to get like better.

This is what I'm trying to say.

This was my message from day one as 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 rebuilding and repairing and just getting the work done.

And hey, nobody, nobody here.

So 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 you do it consistently and persistently enough,

and if it's organized enough

with that collective principle,

hey, you're going to run a foul

with the power of that be.

You're going to run a foul with them, inevitably.

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 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, um,

and there's something about that that I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,

I, I, I, 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 line up

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 avowed 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, is it 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 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 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 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 marks

fuck this is like a...

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 get in

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 lucky and you're dead. And all your life, you're anticipating this big thing to happen as a revolution, all your life.

And what you didn't realize is the entire time, this 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 and there we need to have such a humility guys where 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 is... it's more like this isn't about us this isn't about our lives what we're fighting for is is for generations and generations and generations.

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

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

I'm just going to tell you right now, I don't think it's going to 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.

Because 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 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 not a, that's not a... A dignified human life.

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... 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

socially based now.

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

It's how scary.

I've had dreams of, like, crowds and crowds of people.

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 no

everyone was streamingly was no big deal

and people were stabbing each other

and it was like it was

it was being treated with like

such nobody was noticing it was like, it was, it 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 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, we...

That's what's happening.

In a way because

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, not just to society, but to themselves.

And there is like a huge loss of humanity factor.

Absolutely.

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

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... 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

and not to moralize

it 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, because I sense

and I detect you don't.

If you're a soldier and you

have risked your life, your comrades have died.

I get white 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 sometimes people will realize

like something real

oh my God Trump's deporting people

wow that's what it took for you to

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 are 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 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 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'll have all these things. And 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, uh, you can suppress these

human, uh, needs to have, uh, you know, I can, basically, if I was put in solitary confinement

for 20 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 break my psych,

not at all.

And that's not because I'm superhuman, I have superhuman powers, is just because

I'm aware, I have an awareness of the praxis of consciousness, which is not just a

practice of like committing acts and reflecting on them, but also the practice of the relationship between consciousness and the unconscious and your unconscious relationships

and how your perceptions

are often shaped by others

and the socialization

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 the socialists.

They're so fucking petty, and it's a, I laugh at them. Look at the wreckers 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 an NPC. You have this 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 find it really sad that people just don't have like the minimal self-awareness and 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 minimum, if you want to be petty, be petty.

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

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 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. of your principles.

Now tell me how many people have the strength to do that. Not many. Not many.

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,

for 99% of human beings.

What?

What are you talking about?

What is brought on? What? And they're like, they're, talking about what is

bro on

and they're like

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 gonna like

they're thinking about their TikTok you know what people do anymore. They're gonna like the thing 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 see... I meet

people and how

like... Stuck. Yeah. see, I meet people and how, like,

stuck they are in some petty, small,

retarded life they're living

when it comes to, like,

I got to impress my friends. I got to impress

the bros.

I got to, I, I, I wonder what this person thinks about me.

I got it's so important.

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.

That's no such thing.

The only way to become a critical thinker is 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 keep going at it keep going at it keep going at, 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. When you do this enough,

you start thinking about it. Some people cope immediately and they get back up and keep coping. All you have to do is not cope one time. That's all you got to do. All you got to 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. They just, they want their, I want it now. I want it now.

They just,

they want their,

they want,

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 their 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 that should be the point of uh you know you start to develop

and you're you're you're you're growing from adulthood right not not fully sorry not not growing from childhood not

becoming an adult yet but you you're no longer like an infant right and you can

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 middle school right like at least and most people

there's most 25 year olds don't have that

self-awareness

isn't that scary

most 25 year olds today

don't have that self-awareness

they were supposed to have

long long ago.

And, yeah, people

can't, 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 no, people are too arrogant.

They need to, there's such a neuroticism of, uh, this is like what, you know,

thinkers would describe 19th century modern industrial capitalism where everyone's just

in a rush

and there's such a hurriedness

you know

to just get to the next thing

and it's like

it's like very high toidegarian actually when you think

about it like nobody wants to just sit down

and think about being as such

but

I like that Heidegarian

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 have.

You know what should make you recognize Heidegger is 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 95 96 years old and i see him he was being filmed by the youtube by the

by the camera he goes i, 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,

I never noticed them before.

You know, I always took them for granted.

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

I don't want to die.

I don't want to be gone.

And how sad is that?

He 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 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 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.

That's so sad. It's so sad because 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 already what you need, you can, you can then, you know, 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.

It's all I'm trying to say

but um

but um

I feel like I become so lame

that's just the truth

because I feel like I 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 i learned this is what i believe i might sound like a fucking boomer i'm people i i sound like a fucking boomer teacher or some

shit and i i 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 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,

the latest Scooby-Doo artist

Scooby-Doo Shaggy

The latest

Lil Scoob

Shaggy, the mystery machine.

What am I, tell me what I'm missing.

The latest strand of pot. the latest 2k

is 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 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.

Because clearly a lot of people don't like to hear what I have to say. Yeah. yeah yeah gta 6 has become the new

socialism like everyone's waiting for the big payoff like the big GTA 6 has become the new socialism.

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

You know, look, we don't have interesting thinkers anymore.

It's only my 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 it's like the jizek generation

you have the boris groys people those are all

gen x there's no one in the millennia generation. You have the Boris Groyes 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 GTA6 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 GTA6.

Uh, in the big utopia. We're all going to ascend into GTA6. Yeah.

And that's very interesting

because it's like utopian socialism

in 21st century.

No,

the black mirror

just just get out

I'm sorry

I don't

you know

Julian no offense

but 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 sense whatsoever. I mean it in a very neutral, realistic

sense.

Like, this is

utopian socialism

in the 19th century.

Our equivalent of that today

is like GCA6.

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 coexist with their daily lives and routines.

That's Halloween. That's a fantasy. That's like Halloween. Oh, the Handmaid'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 credits do, 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 Tale,

just becomes too high socially, and 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.

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 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 provoke on the viewer 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, depicting a bad dystopia.

Like, it's your fault. You're the one who's... dystopia.

Like, it's your fault.

You're the one who's the dystopian.

Your sensibilities create the dystopia.

Now, finally, I want to make another critique, which is that I actually don't agree with Adorno that the bad things happen. I think that

there is a

history is open

because it's a narrative opening

within history. No matter what is happening, all 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

handmaid'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.

It's not going to...

There's not going to 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 Tale. No. bad it is like the

handmaid's tale

no

we have narrative

age I hate word agency

it's such a lip-tard word but

we have a narrative autonomy

that's also a stupid word

we have a narrative

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 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 are like, oh, Silicon Valley's taking, okay, so let's say Google starts creating a private mercenary company and it's going around the country and it's hey look you know

everyone's going to 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 and 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 don't love dystopian 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 fertile ground of, um, of, uh, heroism.

Maybe the video game Skyroom,

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 Veltgeist, the world spirit, the world soul still is at play.

And there are still contradictions.

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

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 Gingis 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 step,

the Tibetan plateau and the, and what was known 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, Gingis Khan arises from this.

See, 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 some future black mirror why should I be scared of that

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 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 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 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.

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 glorious origin of the estate, or B, I would write about the war, the war they're fighting or something.

I would introduce heroism.

That's how I would rewrite it. I would rewrite 1984 by reintroducing 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.

You cannot cry and whine and moan about some kind of existential

sadness and cruelty

and injustice if there's no heroism

because you're implying, it's like you're implying

there's some alternative. So what's so sad?

And so George Rowe 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 it's like that's what they're trying to say.

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

That's what you should fucking do.

What else do you, what do you want from us?

As human beings.

And it's false.

It's false. We could do that collectively. All 8 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.

He says, it's always

the negative

dialectic. But how

come you can't predict it then?

Adorno, you don't 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.

But she 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 is 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 I want to I had 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 1 a.m. right now. The big things

are going to happen at 8 a.m.

And we're this fucking early.

Oso's what's up?

We are super early, guys.

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 makes all the fucking difference in the world.

So keep at it and keep going.

Keep at it and keep going.

Because we're the only ones doing it.

We're the only ones connecting the country.

To LARP a little bit, you know,

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 it's really essentially what we're doing a network work.

And you just got to 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?

Do you get up do little things and they'll grow into big things.

Anyway, y'all, I'll see you.

See you Sunday.

Everyone have a beautiful 4th of July weekend.

I hope you all enjoy it. i hope you all enjoy it i hope you all enjoy it and once again shout out amelia 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 july weekend bye bye