Growing up in the early 2000’s, I remember American culture feeling distinctly melancholic and blue.

Up until now, I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

Here are some of my reflections on the Y2K era.

THREAD As kids I think it is easier to tap into the zeitgeist - the cultural mood of the time

Even though children are unaware of the historical chain of events that led up to them, their world isn't clouded by abstraction.

They see what they feel, and feel what they see.

Psychologist William James presented one of the most convincing cases for why death isn't the end of consciousness.

His non-personal theory of immortality posits that even though the self ends with death, consciousness goes on.

Here is how.

THREAD 🧵🧵🧵 The most popular conception of immortality presumes that immortality is a 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 state.

According to this theory, after you die, you're still the same person you were before.

Couldn't there be life after death without continuing to exist as the same person?

Social media is promoting content that depicts all men & women as unfaithful.

The more you absorb this content, the more you start to notice it in reality, which biases you toward the notion that true love is impossible.

This creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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A hyperstition is a fiction or idea that makes itself real.

The hyperreal, ruthless dating market being depicted over social media is cultivating a hyperstition.

The more we consume this content, the more we internalize the false reality, and base our actions around it.

People no longer have children to build a legacy; they have a baby for its own sake, for the pleasure that a ‘living toy’ will provide them.

When a baby comes at the ‘wrong’ time they are quickly aborted, & seen as a burden rather than a blessing.

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In societies where children are treated as ‘living toys’, playthings meant to be pampered and played with for the parents benefit, every child grows up to be just as individualistic, and hedonistic, as their predecessors.

It’s a viscous cycle.

The Woke mind virus is eating away at its host population.

The left isn't reproducing, turning to God, getting healthier, or stronger.

Here is why the right will win the demographic war, and create a NEO-Byzantium.

THREAD 🧵🧵🧵 Up until the industrial revolution, evolution selected for resistance to genetically based diseases.

Now that we've eliminated what was once the 'crucible of evolution' - child mortality - evolution is selecting for resistance to ideologically based mind viruses like leftism.

Orania is a town in South Africa that has become a homeland for white Afrikaners.

Orania represents a resistance front against the massive demographic changes that are transforming cities and countries around the world.

Here is Orania's hope, and story.

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@elonmusk @elonmusk Some thirty years ago, a few families made a life-changing decision.

Unwilling to be governed by a government that was hostile to its white population, these Afrikaners resolved to follow in the footsteps of their forebears - the Voortrekkers.

They formed their own homeland.

Why do white men commit suicide at such a higher rate than Black males?

A key aspect of white psychology in the 21st century is that destructive tensions are borne internally rather than discharged externally.

The opposite is true of blacks.

Why is this the case?

THREAD 🧵🧵 To understand why, for whites, aggression against others has mutated into aggression against oneself, we must look at the Western concept of 'selfhood', which has shaped our moral intuitions.

Selfhood is associated with inwardness and radical reflexivity.

What are these things?

We live in the age of average.

Everybody and everything is becoming the same.

How come?

Political philosopher Alain De Benoist believed that the homogenization of society can be blamed on what he called 'the ideology of sameness'.

THREAD 🧵🧵🧵 Benoist defines the ideology of sameness as a "rising aspiration for homogeneity, for the resorption of all differences".

The ideology of Sameness unfolds from what all men have in common.

It begins to surface as soon as equality is wrongly seen as a synonym for sameness.

Plato believed that music was capable of influencing one's capacity for virtue by way of the common harmonic structure shared between the soul, music, and the universe.

Good music is akin to gospel.

Here's why.

THREAD 🧵 Most of us listen to music for its entertainment value.

Rarely do we ever stop to think about the impact music has on our character and psychology.

As Aristotle said, though, "If one listens to the wrong kind of music he will become the wrong kind of person."

Michelangelo's iconic painting, The Creation of Adam, has a small detail that contains a profound meaning.

What is the story behind God's divine touch?

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🧵🧵🧵 Michelangelo originally designed the panel of creation with the fingers of Adam and God touching each other.

The cardinals overseeing the fresco's design asked for a small change in detail.

What change did they ask for?

Zoomers can't go to concerts anymore without treating everything like a joke.

Death Grips recently ended a concert because the audience was throwing glow sticks onto the stage.

Here's why NPCs are ruining public gatherings.

THREAD 🧵 @robertlasagna1 has a great substack piece on NPC psychology - I think it applies here to concertgoers

Zoomers can't tell the difference between social media and reality because they try to live out their private lives in a public setting (which doesn't work, and leads to this):

Found this gem of a quote from a book that is aptly named:

“We Had A Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World’s Getting Worse.”

Here are some nuggets of wisdom I found from it.

THREAD 🧵 We live in a deteriorating world.

Why haven’t therapists noticed that?

“Because psychotherapy is only working on the “inside” soul. By removing the soul from the world and not recognizing the soul is also in the world, psychotherapy can’t do its job anymore. The buildings are sick, the institutions, are sick, the banking system’s sick, the schools, the streets—the sickness is out there.”

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What do all religions boil down to?

What is one phrase that summarizes the essence of all philosophies and moral doctrines?

"ʏᴏᴜ ᴍᴜꜱᴛ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʟɪꜰᴇ."

THREAD 🧵 This unconditional instruction, this illuminated utterance, tells you that you are already living, but something is telling you with unchallengeable authority you 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺.

Something about you, about who you are, must change.

In order to end private property, the left must convince young people that owning nothing is good.

To do that, young people must internalize defeat, and rationalize their own lousy living conditions

If you can’t own a home, it makes you feel better to become anti-ownership.

🧵 The anti-growth message promulgated by the WEF and the Biden Admin has fallen on fertile ground because Wallstreet has taken over the housing market by buying out all the single-family homes that young people could own

Predatory lending has also saddled us with mountains of debt

Matter is not that which produces consciousness, but that which limits it.

Psychedelics unleash the mind from the brain.

Here's why.

THREAD 🧵 Aldous Huxley believed that mescaline and other hallucinogens induced psychedelic effects by inhibiting the brain's filtering mechanism:

“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system."

There's a scene in Barbie where Ken sings "Push" by Matchbox Twenty.

When this song came out in the 90s, there was a huge uproar from feminists claiming that the song promoted violence.

This subtext reveals a lot about the film.

Here's why.

THREAD "Push" angered feminists because of lyrics like "I wanna push you around" and "I wanna take you for granted."

Little did they know, the song was actually sung from the perspective of Rob Thomas's emotionally abusive ex-girlfriend.

Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the New World.

She vanished along with all the other Roanoke colonists in 1590.

Her life, which has long been shrouded in mystery, has become a key part of the American Mythos.

THREAD The life of Virginia has become the stuff of legends.

it is said that the young Virginia Dare grew to be a beautiful maiden, attracting the attention of many suitors, including a young Indian Chieftain, Okisko, and a jealous medicine man named Chico.

Why are breakups so difficult for men?

Is it possible to move on from a heartbreak?

Here's how to deal with it.

THREAD 🧵 Men struggle the most with breakups.

In one study, it was found that, compared to divorced women, divorced men were nine times more likely to die by suicide.

Contrary to popular belief, most men are very emotionally invested in relationships - we just don't show it.

The Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh had a simple exercise for seeing the rich web of connections that make up our lives.

He would hold up a piece of paper and invite his students to see the clouds and rain and sunshine that make the piece of paper what it is.

THREAD 🧵 As the monk says:

"If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow: and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist."

Nostalgia is one of those feelings that corporations exploit to give you a sense of illusory belonging.

"Nostalgia", as Christopher Lasch once said, "evokes the past only to bury it alive."

Why should you avoid it?

THREAD Modern pop culture is drunk on nostalgia.

Stranger Things, Star Wars, The Barbie Movie, Indiana Jones, etc.

Hollywood is trying to bank off the past because they know that we all want to escape the present.

The key word there is ESCAPE.

The entire Zoomer outlook on life boils down to not taking anything seriously.

To be serious is to be 'cringe', to be in love is to be a 'simp', and to be ambitious is to be a 'try-hard'.

THREAD 🧵 In order to come across as cool, a zoomer must adopt a live-and-let-live attitude and remain blasé at all times.

The only time anything can be taken seriously is when a black man is killed by a cop or when a zoomer loses a 'human right'.

Otherwise, nothing else matters.