I think the phenomenology of the train ride in comparison to flight explains the austerity of our times— a train ride is an expanded domain of movement— you can walk on the train, you can go into different rooms, you can even have your own room. Rich people get private jets to get the quality of life of a luxury suite on a train— but even they have to be locked in lift off & landing— literally restrained, like being in a car. The train is just a long hallway which is itself moving— it is the feeling of walking on a peoplemover amplified— it feels like “walking over massive space” with a colossal gait— being on an airplane feels like being a package, like a drugged animal in a cargo hold. There is a romance to walking to the train station & getting on the train & then getting off the train & walking directly out into the human world again. The airport however is like entering Dantean retail surveillance hell, being strapped to a gurney, MKUltraing yourself with slop, & then agonizingly exiting through the layers of Dantean hell that surround the airport, which is never “in the city” but in its own deterritorialized nonplace adjacent to it.

CPUSA lost the plot by tailing FDR. It's been kaputt since then. They tied themselves to "The War Effort" after having put up a strong resistance to it. The CPUSA was, originally, a member of the AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE. They supported ISOLATIONISM. Their slogan was "THE YANKS ARE NOT COMING." -- they were then pressured to "join the war effort" from Moscow, once the Soviet Union was invaded-- but in doing so, they basically made every compromise possible to become a part of "the war effort" & ultimately this meant that the Communist Party of America became an extension of the American Military Industrial Complex. The Yanks Came. Here we are now. The CPUSA's Joe Sims now has to equivocate-- "We oppose both PUTIN & BIDEN's war in Ukraine." but then also "We must fight fascism." But "Fighting Fascism in Ukraine" isn't justified or something... The CPUSA failed by not seeking, first, to gain power in America-- rather than being an "adjunct" to the establishment of Communism in Russia. This was also the same issue that ultimately caused the Sino-Soviet split. The USSR was "socially imperialist" in assuming its own establishment of Communism within its own nation was the paramount priority of Communists internationally. The Chinese said: "We got our own shit to deal with here." -- the CPUSA should have done the same & established itself as a real, consistent, opposition rather than what it was easily characterized as after the war "a flunky for a foreign power with deep ties to the FDR produced Deep State"

The thing that’s actually annoying about Zohran is that urban leftoids are only interested in making “urban socialist policies” & have no ambition to govern the entire nation (including rural populations)— “this is good enough” they say, as they introduce one more neolib compromised “market socialist” program, while making 0 ground in the vast majority of America’s landmass.

I see that Kantbot has said my “project” is “reactionary”— but he’s just tailing the normal urban new leftist shit that has accomplished absolutely nothing on a national/civilizational level. You can make New York City have as many Northwest European Social Democratic programs & policies as you wish, it will gain you no ground in upstate new york or the deindustrialized hinterlands.

My “project” is simply accepting the necessity of a revolution *on a national level* which necessarily requires both understanding and recognizing the legitimacy of rural opposition to “urban new leftism.” Thomas Massie understands that “New York New Left Policy” makes less than zero sense in rural appalachian townships with 2k populations. I guess coming form the a town with a population of 2k in the “foothills of appalachia” in Massachusetts & having lived in NYC for 6 years allows me to have this sort of, idk, DIALECTICAL perspective on the actual material reality of America & the necessity of not actively alienating rural populations, but instead addressing their legitimate concerns.

If all you want is Kantian Liberal Universalism with Welfare State characteristics, New York City Social Democracy is about as good as it gets. If kantbot was consistent he’d just call the Chinese Communist Party “fascist” & call it a day. “Mao was a fascist”— he necessarily concludes this because Mao “courted the reactionaries of the Qing dynasty & the Nationalist Army.” Mao enabled “backwards peasants” to humiliate the chinese bourgeois who could afford to read Kant. He’s just a Kamala voter who is happy he can vote for Zohran & get backpats at the functions that used to call HIM a fascist. Very chill celebration for Zohran at the Verso Loft. Who fucking cares, it accomplishes nothing on a civilizational level. If you're essentially an Upper West Side shut-in, who cares what some "rural reactionary" believes about anything-- they're barbarians-- you're in the cradle of civilization-- the only "REAL CITY" in America-- etc. See how that works out when shit really hits the fan.

The issue with America is that politics have become primarily federal, & Americans don’t know enough about America (& other Americans) for this to work out. The original schema of state representatives electing their federal representatives was better. People are much more knowledgeable about their immediate communities than matters of federal state. Most people are right about what works where they are— but then they extrapolate this to an “absolute right” in a one sided manner— & you have people from the city claiming to know how to govern people in rural areas & vice versa etc. It’s insane to me how people who would never even consider living in NYC are concerned for how they govern themselves.

What denomination is Tucker these days? He was raised Anglican (Episcopalian) but has recently described it as a false church. If someone got him a copy of "And Forgive them Their Debts" he might go nuclear. By the way, this is the most effective "Communist Propaganda" you could ever ask for in America. Americans are more interested in what Jesus Christ had to say about Political Economy than Karl Marx.

There's too much to correct people on for any swift correction to the prevailing ideology of the American Empire. You have to start from first principles, & every step you have to fight centuries of ingrained propaganda. It will only be possible to rebuild after a complete collapse in faith in American institutions-- which is ongoing presently, but only accelerates with the cost of "finding out" after "fucking around." We are past the need for ideological justifications-- there was much more of an effort to sell the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. Today they're just wheeling out a paper tiger puppet "Persian King" & expecting us to just accept it. "I guess we're making those now" comic.

The split between Mussolini and Hitler regarding the correct application of racism is very funny to me. Mussolini’s brand of Fascism required recasting all British & Germanic achievement as stolen valor from the Mediterranean “Roman” race while Germanic fascism required “the innate superiority of the nordic blond haired blue eyed”— both required a means of describing the British as neither nordic nor Mediterranean but a third, sort of Jewish, thing. “Too utilitarian, too mercantile, not PASSIONATE & irrational enough” etc This noble tradition of intersectional far right infighting based upon Skyrim level historiographies continues in our time— where each individual “far right” ideologue has their own distinct rank ordering hierarchy of races, which naturally places themselves at the top.

REMINDER: Tolerance of illegal immigration is primarily about depressing wages & depressing wages is the only Fed sanctioned means of lowering inflation. It is considered a nightmare scenario to cut off immigration as it would lead to an increase in the value of labor.
They use a lot of economic jargon to say “workers making too much money is bad for the economy. Increasing the reserve army of labor decreases the value of labor.” Bankers love illegal immigration— if it was up to the Banks, there only citizens of America would be bankers, & everyone else would be a “migrant laborer.”

It’s funny to see people (especially not Americans) who think that this round of riots & protests is “going somewhere”— I remember in 2020 when people said the same thing & how much flak I got for saying it’s all spectacle & has no political import anymore than Philadelphians rioting for a sports franchise victory— a french “communist” is telling me that Mexicans are going to take back California & deport me, in 2020 the midwestern neonazis were telling me that George Floyd Militants were going to raid my apartment & execute my cats. Nothing happens, either way. The realization no one wants to have is “this is normal”— this is what “the American Normal” is— every so often you get a little riot as a treat & the cops get overtime & hazard pay & the property owners get insurance payouts & at best some sexless collegiate “activist” gets some solidarity pussy. It’s all in good fun, after all. Some kids get to steal some televisions. Some kids get to shoot off some fireworks at the cops. Some kids get to feel their hearts racing as they bike away from a police kettling op with a single airpod in playing the Drive soundtrack. Everyone is having fun.

Los Angeles in the news just makes me think about how True Detective Season 2 was the "real parapolitics" season & Season 1 was just pulp horror garbage designed to get enough money to make Season 2, & then the show had to be destroyed because Season 2 was too real. Los Angeles-- what is it? What is it really? It is really a crossroads, ports, highways, gigantic industrial projects, artificial rivers, power stations. It is really a gritty industrial machine-- the powers that operate it are not "Hollywood" or "Media"-- it is criminal syndicates, shipping magnates, importer/exporters, utilities, construction...

I. Man’s perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception; he percieves more than sense (tho’ ever so acute) can discover.
II. Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
[III lacking]
IV. The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels.
V. If the many become the same as the few when possess’d, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul. Less than All cannot satisfy Man.
VI. If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot.
VII. The desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite.
Application. He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only.
Conclusion. If it were not for the Poetic or Prophetic character the Philosophic & Experimental would soon be at the ratio of all things, & stand still unable to do other than repeat the same dull round over again.
Therefore God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is.

-William Blake In 1788 he wrote this, & you can still just repeat this verbatim to the Rationalists & they will turn to stone.

I think drinking makes you enter your preconscious mode of cognition which is often the exact opposite / an inversion of conscious metacognition. My basic metacognitive mood is Anger, so I am a Jolly drunk. I know many who are the opposite, metacognitively jolly, deep down pre-consciously angry, It is like “what mood am I in when I am asleep”— for me, this is the best mood, & the moment I wake up my first instinct is to be pissed off about the fact that I’m not sleeping anymore. I think some people are “angry sleepers” & thus angry drunks.

Jordan Peterson is explicitly not a Christian— he has even described himself in the lineage of Nietzsche as a *critic* of Christianity on a fundamental level— what he says here is the Nietzschean description of “truth”— there is only “truth” in the pursuit & use of power, “truth” is what you *kill* for. He basically tells the atheists here that Christianity is *esoterically* a poetic description of attaining “single mindedness” in the recognition of oneself as God. This is the Jungian “psychological Christ” (what I would describe as a form of Antichrist). It’s mostly neoconservatism dressed up as Christ— this is “we must defend the zionist state” christianity. He says what is true is what you are willing to kill for. He said “Give them hell Netanyahu.” That’s what he believes— it has nothing to do with the noble proletarian carpenter of Roman occupied Judaea. He wouldn’t “die for his belief in the bodily resurrection of all men & their subsequent trial & judgment by Jesus Christ”— he’d ask the would be executioner “well what do you mean by believe? It’s really an event of the mind, you see, in the pursuit of single mindedness…”

Zoomers & beyond will be far more revolutionary than Millennials because Millennials are (presently) inheriting the windfall of the Great Boomer Die Off. While the generations after Millennials will never get the opportunity of, for instance, pre-covid mortgage rates.

https://twitter.com/emily_14568/status/1925950740918358468

As Engels wrote a long time ago— Communism in America doesn’t catch on because so much money can still be made in land speculation (& other sorts of speculative investment). Why be a communist if DOGEcoin is mooning & so on?

Parapolitics loses a lot of its “cosmic horror” punch when you realize the satirical insight that the most absurd retarded & evil things are necessary features of the prevailing superstructure & not incidental divergences from some posited innate goodness of mankind. Was the Israeli ambassador or whatever shooting a false flag by the deep state? Was the shooter “programmed to kill”? Does it even matter? This is what America necessarily produces in the year 2025. It’s all grist of the mill— the mill is unipolar dollar hegemony buttressed by the international black market.

This is just the natural consequences of the cueing system of literacy pedagogy in which people are trained to “guess” what something says piece by piece rather than grasping the gestalt through repeated exposure. Nobody “talks like Dickens writes” nowadays— so they have no knowledge base from which to “guess”— the only way to learn how to read a Victorian novel’s figurative language is to read many things that are similar to a victorian novel. No matter how much Steven’s Universe you watch, none of it will equip you with the skills to read the Pickwick Papers et al Eventually this lack of exposure (ie: illiteracy) compounds & you’re in college & you have to pretend to understand a book that you literally cannot read because you should have started reading books like that when you were ten years old.

I understand the famous Tertullian "apology" for Christian Faith: "Credo quia absurdum"/"certum est, quia impossibile" ("I believe because it is absurd"/"It is certain because it is impossible") -- that's the sort of world it is-- reality itself seems the most impossible. Before Christianity, the reality of life was not understood deeply enough-- there was a type of false seriousness, the kind that betokens a sort of midwittery-- it's only with the figure of Christ that the absolute transcendentally ironic lunacy of reality becomes apparent.

The basis of Marxism is very simple common sense stuff that pretty much everyone has already intuited considering we live more than a century later & his ideas have diffused through the entire world such that there are no states in the world that are not "marxist" to some degree. The basis of Marxism is this: "There is a fundamental conflict between the class of people who own everything & the class of people who own nothing." Do you want to know who would agree with this? The Intelligence Agencies of the Anglsophere. The CIA would say "thanks to Marxist theory, we are aware of our role in managing & mediating this class conflict such that society remains stable & there is no revolution"-- in fact, the criticism of the Soviet Union offered by Langley & so on, even back in the 1950s, was that the USSR was engaged in "Social Imperialism" -- this is to say that the "Marxist Critique of the Soviet Union" was developed in Western Intelligence Agencies.

["Communist Principles & Tactics..."; November 1952; for J Edgar Hoover's FBI]

My message to 20-somethings is that your 20s milieu is an anarchy server & when everyone hits 30 the great sort occurs & people who are most invested in their 20something identity get completely owned by time & the rest become normal. If you’re 30something & you are on Discord you have lost the plot. It’s forgivable to be an internet retard cybergoon in your 20s— in your 30s such a person is basically invisible & only exists as a ghostly warning to 20somethings— like the super senior at the high school party

Something that I've learned about America is that having grown up in New England, it's easier for me to be extremely cynical about "progressivism" than it is for someone raised a fundamentalist evangelical christian who then "becomes progressive" in college or whatever. For me, the dream world of the fundamentalist evangelical kid who just wants to be punk rock & do drugs & listen to secular music & even *ghasp* evil pagan metal music-- this is just the world I grew up in, it has no "edginess" to me at all.

Arguably the wealth polarization of the present is worse than in the Gilded Age because back then if you got rich enough you’d run out of things to buy & you couldn’t just give your money to be managed by “civil society” in the form of NGOs & charities yet, so often times you’d give a ton of money to the construction of public infrastructure with the proviso that something or other gets named after you. Even if Zuckerberg or someone else now donates enough to get the hospital named after them, the hospital is not actually public infrastructure in the way that every library Andrew Carnegie built is to this day. Back then you’d have these heiresses sitting on millions of dollars & instead of donating to some charity at a charity gala, they’d give their money to the city or state with the promise it would build some public good that would get named after them. Andrew Carnegie personally paid for the construction of 2,509 libraries.