Interesting show. Thanks, Z.There is a family in the town where I live who locked themselves away for nearly two years during covid. Their small children weren’t permitted to go outside. When the husband finally emerged, he was 75 pounds heavier and none the wiser.They had a Biden/Harris sign in their yard and when Biden stepped down, they immediately lobbed off the top half of the sign to remove his name. It’s hilarious to see the ridiculous and shoddy “Harris” sign next to the tranny flag.Maybe all the screens leftists own display Kamala Headroom, cackling away as she repeats “…unburdened by what has been…”Have a great weekend!

I thought the plan was to ignore the election, deprive it of our consent, and in turn deprive it of its legitimacy. But instead no one can stop talking about it and around it. show some better discipline and fight the urge to give into it. It’s like quitting a bad habit, it looks like. But it can be done.

My only area of disagreement with the podcast is that I think that it is slightly unfair to the French court prior to July 1789. Louis XVI was quite aware of the problems France faced and was trying to make reforms, but was blocked time and time again by aristocrats jealous of their own prerogatives. And the “French Revolution” was not a peasant uprising, but more a coup d’état by the bougeoisie, who lost control of the leadership during the Terror. Many of the stories of how disconnected the French court was from reality were created or exaggerated by later historians seeking to make the Bourbons look as bad as possible. I would much rather by governed by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette than by the present political “leadership” of the U.S.

If we have to touch on generational politics (and sometimes we do), it’s probably worth mentioning that the “avatar-like” quality of the profiles you’re talking about is very much a Zoomer thing, not a Boomer thing. As a millennial, I was part of the last generation that knew meatspace as well as cyberspace. We even used to joke that you had to be careful about talking crap online, as the person you pissed off might have some IT skill, show up at your door and beat you down.For the Fuentes crowd, there is no door, or rather, the person you’re pissing off would only want to challenge you in in the virtual space you’re both already in. So you’re essentially in a consequence-free environment.That’s why adults warning about the actual consequences of a Kamala presidency are wasting their breath when talking to kids like Nick. Sure, the borders will be open, but how does that affect the screen I stare at all day? Sure, hiring preferences against white men will get worse, but even the poor get enough subsidies to keep the LCD screens glowing, and as long as you have those, you have your twenty-four hour fantasyland running. Who cares what your Door Dash driver looks like?But—as Z points out—kids are supposed to be dumb and do dumb stuff. The problem is that America—at least since the mid-twentieth century—has been a youth-centric culture. We look to the young not just with a little bit of longing for our own bygone youths, but for actual behavioral and cultural cues. It’s cringeworthy to see adults—middle-aged and older—peppering their speech with this slang and trying to dress young, but it’s also instructive. Ramzpaul is mystified by Fuentes’ cozying up to Kamala, but it makes a lot of sense in this context.Ultimately, she and Obama remind me of the head of the drug company in that old William Gibson cyberpunk story “Johnny Mnemonic.” He gives all these wonderful pronouncements and then finally when you see him, it’s literally just a guy’s hand, making mouth gestures with the fingers, with a graphical overlay of a human face to give the illusion that the hand is a head.The Kamala-Fetterman-Biden program seems to be the preferred one going forward. It hardly matters whether it started with Kennedy, Reagan, or Obama. They’re clearly not going to accept an autonomous decision-making creature in the position of presidency.

In Medieval times, monks who only wanted to live in the woods would be made Bishops and Popes against their objections. A lot of times, not wanting to take leadership roles proved you had the humility to be a good leader. Biden tried this with his “I wanted to retire but Charlottesville forced me to reenter the ring.” Nonsense of course, but there’s still that urge to create the reluctant hero backstory in modern times.

I think the manufactured illusion of Leftist unity around Quasi-President Quadroon is going to have a very short life. The pro-Palestinian faction is bound and determined to do some street action in Chicago, which will cause the pro-Bagel faction to demand retaliation, along with the Robber Baron faction, the Apparat faction and the Spiteful Mutant faction all rapidly remembering how much they hate Harris and each other.

Just a funny aside, but I was doing some business networking yesterday. I met this Jewish guy in his 30’s. He was telling me how he went to college at Alabama and always gets asked if people really do hate Jews down there. That got me off on the tangent of sharing some of the quirks of history I know about, such as how the KKK didn’t really have a problem with their local Jews. It was the carpetbaggers from the north, who were predominantly Jewish, that they despised.I was razzing him a little bit about how whether his people are white or not depends on what benefits them the most at any given time and what is most convenient at the time. Believe it or not, he laughed and agreed.

Never took Cernovich seriously or anyone who re tweeted hisbullshit. From manosphere wanna be grifter to political wanna be grifter. Just another grifter.

Harris is the candidate of Pelosi and Obama. That’s it. That is her base. She won not a single delegate. Its just being handed to her.That might have worked in 2008, or 2000. But that was years ago.Now her candidacy is for wage and price controls. That is going to unite BigCorp against her, as they understand that they will have to be in an endless bribery race with shadowy people they cannot even identify (it is clear that like Biden, Kamala will not really be the President if she wins which is a feature not a bug of her candidacy). Which means a very good chance that their competitor will “win” and they will “lose” in the bribery race.There are others who suspect that the wage/price controls will be used to obliterate US industry in favor of China, so they lose the China hawks. Tampon Timmy is very close to China, which makes BigDefense very unhappy. Silicon Valley is mostly Trump now out of fear and loathing for Pelosi/Obama’s punitive policies.The Media is united against Trump for Kamala, but does that matter anymore? It is not 2008, after all Paramount is closing their TV production studio, and has devalued their TV holdings by $6 billion from a prior $7 billion, meaning CBS and MTV etc are only worth $1 billion. Warners Discovery took a $9 billion write down, and was not able to bid on the NBA rights.Its like the Ukraine Kursk “invasion” — the media spins a catastrophe for Putin, with 200,000 or more evacuated, and Zelensky marching on to Moscow to overthrow Putin. In reality its more guerilla warfare with UK spec ops teams in Ukraine uniforms committing atrocities as the huge front has most Russian forces in the East around Donbass where they are grinding the Ukrainians down. Putin has not even created a national mobilization. In reality the few dudes on motorcycles are eventually going to be hunted down by a limited mobilization and the prospect of a negotiated settlement will be dead (the true objective of the offensive).People have tuned out the media not just because of generations of lies but because their stuff is ugly, boring, and they have limitless alternatives in YT, Rumble, etc.Harris has no base. “She is brat” will generate the lackluster enthusiasm for Charlie XCX, among young women who say they vote but mostly don’t. Noteworthy is that the more female-brat stuff the media pushes, the more dudes vote Trump to stem the estrogen tide.

I overcame oppression therefore I am heroic. This is just vanity. Lying in order to declare yourself a hero, and people lap it up. It is the latter part of this that is more contemptible than the former. Harpo the Great! So Harpo is a hero, and Men who got in ships, sailed off into the total unknown on vast dangerous oceans, charted courses, water and wind currents, tides, the movement of heavenly bodies are evil. (Columbus, Drake, Magellan, deGama … … …)Take out all the fancy analysis and philosophy and that is the bottom line.As for Profilicity we have words for both sides of this:The Actor: a charade; a ruse; feigning; deceiver; manipulator; liarThe Actor and the Profile Consumer: buffoon; a tool; deluded;In addition to ZMan’s point about the philosopher’s inability to point out the lack of any truth value in Profilicity, is something else worth pointing out. The professor did admit that he too is a profilist, though I think he underestimated the extent to which he is, to borrow his terms, is bound up in it.He, in my opinion, is a shining example of why The West is in such an existential crisis. That clip of Harris and those children is less an example of profilism, it is a display of a deeply sinister and evil ruling regime and its methodology. He watches this display of psychopathy and sinister manipulation of children and draws from it his supporting evidence of Profilism. He concludes with his own Profilism with his derivative 7 rules that amount to full acceptance of these displays of malevolent evil.In short, he has no value judgement when confronting this evil. He refuses to call this out and pass a value judgement and assert some moral value. It is this passive and valueless and thus bereft of morality from an academic who should be making assertions, particularly in the face of the constant anti-morality of pseudo-academics.In other words. He is a coward, a cuck. He fits the profile of a Westman who has forfeited his moral authority and his agency – probably in order that he may peddle his 7 Rules and ride the wave of profits he’ll garner if he is credited with this sub-midwittery first.I hope ZMan is right and we are nearing the end. I want to be optimistic. I fear that the ride down will be long and that what we are seeing is not the transition of decay, but a planned transition into the new and highly controlled future of degradation that The Regime has capably planned for us. That future will not last forever, but the damage it can do is a catastrophic horror to even contemplate.

Will listen tonight.I’m glad to see there’ll be shade cast on some right wing characters. I’m often annoyed by the tribalism, stupidity and unrealistic shibboleths of our side. Being right wing doesn’t make one clever and adopting what one takes to be the dissident right world view is not a replacement for thought. The number of grifters on each side is about equal.

Cerno, Beale, and that whole alt-right network have got to be a weird ass psyop. Tucker’s dad was the Voice of the People (propaganda arm of the U.S. govt) and you’re probably aware he went out for the CIA.I also don’t believe the Cerno/Dersh cover story about how they don’t know each other…Dersh just ended up in Cerno’s lame documentary and then both going after Epstein documents in a way suggesting it was about the victims’ info, if I recall.What I don’t understand is why they give him any air time. His character is a queer mix of nothing. If he isn’t a propaganda tool why the fuck give him air time? If he is, why give him air time?Can someone here explain why Z thought Beale was lying about Patreon?

The problem of Plato’s cave is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. The fact is that people DO have the ability to live in an artificial reality based on shadow-myths for a LONG time.Yes, ultimately reality will bring the whole thing crashing down, but the myths can go on for centuries until it does.Imagine yourself as a pre-Columbian Aztec, sitting around with your buddies and saying one day “Ya know, I got my doubts about the sacrifice thing. We sacrificed a thousand dudes to the sun god last year and the maize crop was worse this year than last. I don’t think it’s working.”Your buddies would say “Naw, dude, c’mon! Buck up. Sun god just needs a few more sacrifices, then he’ll be happy and we’ll get a bumper crop of maize. Come on down with us to the festival tonight, there’ll be singing, dancing, lots to eat, plenty of babes. Ya might even meet some hottie and get laid tonight after the sacrifice!”If you persisted in questioning the rituals, or opposed the priests and publicly called them frauds and charlatans, YOU’D be the next guy on the altar, guaranteed.That is the lesson of Socrates, and of Christ.Sure, Cortez came along and brought the whole thing to a crashing halt. But the arrival of the Spaniards was an unpredictable, exogenous force. The entire culture built upon the sacrifice hoax lasted for hundreds of years before Cortez arrived. It was never reformed from within.And Cortez replaced it with a bullshit myth of his own, namely that instead of taking an obsidian knife and hacking the heart out of a living person, a guy in robes chanting in Latin would perform the miracle of making wine into the actual blood of Christ, which you would drink to save your soul.Did that make you a vampire, then? Better to not ask.If God created the world out of nothing and then created “Man in His own image,” that means that Man is able to create “reality” out of nothing, too. And that is what Man does. Since Man is not God he is unable to see when and how his artificial reality will be destroyed by “real reality,” as is invariably the case.I have no answer for this other than to just check out of the bullshit and head for the hills. The myth of the wise old hermit who knows The Truth living alone on the mountain may becliché,yet it exists for a reason. But man is a social animal, such hermitage is not suitable for the vast majority of the population, and that majority lives according tot he shadow-myths just as if they were real.

I agree eith all this. But I don’t put Keith Woods in the same category as Cernovich, Spencer, Fuentes. Woods isn’t deliberately developing a persona. His credentials are lifting boxes in a warehouse? He’s young? He’s not an expert? That’s a feature, not a bug. Ruling Class doesn’t want a 25 year old ex-warehouse guy to have a voice. If he makes sense and is fighting, I listen. I dont care if hes 27 or whatever. I am 57.

With regard to “The One We All Waited For”, it always amazed and amused me that not one swingin dick has ever come forward to relate a story about their time in one of his Constitutionsl Law classes. Another fake and gay representation I suppose.

Business idea, create LLM AI driven android congressmen menagerie centrally controlled and driven by bidding process for various lobbies. It could be cheaper than buying off current semi-human models for the buyers of policy and more directly lucrative and easier to manage for the sellers. Today’s tech with all its flaws is certainly good enough as the public will to be deceived and accept the absurd has been demonstrated to be very high indeed as shown by Glitchin’ Mitch and Dementia Joe.

I’m interested in YOUR projections, Z. Cornelius Rye (whose reputation for honesty and integrity is beyond dispute) – claims that you are actually black and jewish. Care to comment and set the record straight for clamoring mob? That was a good show – hope all you guys have something fun lined up for the weekend.

“Cerno would warrant national attention. He was nothing more than a weird internet character.” A weird internet character who was coaching all kinds of misfits on how to pick up women and himself once had sex with a tranny. (But he was ridiculed for this and tried to scrub the post.) His family runs a junkyard in Kewanee, Illinois, so I always assumed he was Jewish, but I think he might be a from a Serbian or Croatian background. https://www.mapquest.com/us/illinois/cernovichs-auto-truck-7857032

Excellent podcast. I agree, the problem with the gaslighting is that it is inversely proportional to the quality of the product. Meaning, the more heavily hyped a product, the worse it usually is. This happens especially with products everyone hears about, BUT NOBODY THEY KNOW ACTUALLY HAS ONE.The beauty of the insane levels of media coordination is that consumers (ie voters) intuitively understand this concept, even if they cannot articulate it. The Harris hype will snag some early adopters. But the early adopters exist to shake the bugs out of an expensive product, but they can also quickly destroy the product’s brand.I’ve said since Week 1, “Give it a few weeks.” Eventually, things settle back down. It is why, until he fell in Las Vegas, Biden was not dropping out of the race. It was not going to happen. The insane media storm had already stated to fade. And then…oopsie. If he hadn’t fallen or had a spell (which opened the door for people to write those Tweets for him), he’d still be running.Survive the blitzkrieg, and you stand a very good chance of winning the war through a combination of Kamala-fatigue and Reality. They are DESPERATELY trying to keep her away from unscripted situations. I would argue that the level of media hype is an indicator of EXTREME PANIC about her stupidity making itself public.What we are watching is the media equivalent of the “Zerg Rush” from video games.https://www.dailydot.com/memes/zerg-rush-meaning-origins-and-use/Sooner or later, people log off their pretend world to buy eggs, or gas, or notice all the crime and homeless and foreigners, and reality sets in. The web is escapism.The bigger the gap between the world around you and the Avatar world you’ve fabricated online, the harder it is to maintain the illusion of online reality. Gravity always wins, as I like to say.Notice how Trump keeps giving press conferences…they’re trying to flush her out.

You sound like you’d look like Donald Barthelme, the only author whose books I’ve read enough times to physically destroy them (two copies of my favorites). So I assume you don’t look like that. But the vague man in my head when I listen to the podcast is pretty much him.He’s a good representative of how, bad as it always was, “media” has fallen over our lifetime. He was the New Yorker’s house short fiction writer, so probably the world’s most popular one—and he was thebestone, literarily, the most interesting and innovative, the least likely to produce a clunker. Today we get “Cat Person,” with not a single writerly sentence in it—and faked viral interest in “Cat Person,” and admonishment that if you don’t like “Cat Person” you’re a nazi incel.I even saw Barthelme on TV once (probably on George Plimpton’s show). Successful avant-garde writers! On your newsstand and in your living room! Different world. I was raised to live in that one, but by the time I got there the carnival had packed off.

Brilliant, man.I don’t think Harris will win outright, but of course she could “win.” No one mentions it but even amid the ferocious propaganda campaign she has never been ahead, to the extent anything can be believed, for a nanosecond in the Electoral College. That may be claimed during or in the immediate aftermath of the DNC and likely will be, but so far it has not been so the topic has been largely avoided. I’ve tended to think of late the Regime actually might accept a Trump win albeit for purposes that may be alarming. For example, Trump might be useful to gull young white males into fighting for Our Greatest Ally. I don’t think even he could pull that off at this point, to be clear, but just suggesting motivation. The Regime certainly prefers Harris but may find Trump palatable and potentially useful enough not to interfere as much on her behalf. Dunno.The more interesting part, given politics are fake and gay and meaningless at this point (if not this time, soon enough Harris types will win legitimately every time), is as you point out the susceptibility of people to blatant distortions of reality. Prolificity is indeed a good explanation although it overlaps greatly with propaganda and marketing. Yes, people may notice soon enough that no one they know in life is voting for Harris, but they can be persuaded multitudes are doing so. Covid should have ended this naivete/infantilism, but we saw much of it repeated with the Ukraine war, to cite one example from the aftermath. There also is no shortage of people who believe blatant lies for the simple reason they want to believe them. They very well may be the vast majority.The immoral and shameless sociopaths who play even minor internet influencer roles in these charades are legion. We have learned even public people we assumed had at least some knowledge and insight are devoid of it but more than willing to pretend they possess great wisdom. It required rampant immorality to have endless propagandists who promote lies as truth, whether in politics, media, business, culture or government. A system with that much rot cannot survive and is in fact going away, and it appears what follows even may be worse.A final and unrelated point about AI. The fear has been it would manipulate people in politics, culture and matters of life and death, and that has indeed happened. Oddly, though, it causes everything to be doubted and assumed to be fraudulent, even things that are objectively true. That may prove to be an unexpected silver lining even if not a silver bullet.

Well, the surface explanation seems to point to technological ease of life as the cause for increasing the observable indolence and apathy that is inflicting our population… I think the real cause is a lot more complicated than that though.It seems that a lot of that apathy is simply caused by more and more people realizing,either consciously or unconsciously, that really, we are pretty screwed. We are a dying empire ruled by bad people.A dying empire with a propaganda apparatus of a scale and scope never before seen in all of human history.The sensible thing for our ruling class to do at this point would be to try and roll back then reverse some of the selfish excesses and failed social engineering projects that have led our society to this point.. But that seems very unlikely to happen, and even if they wanted to try they probably would not be able to undo most of the damage.People with above room temperature IQ realize that the news is fake, it’s now common knowledge. The majority don’t pay very much attention to it anymore, outside of large events like covid. Coincidentally, covid probably increased the number of people who are unhappy with our ruling caste by a large percentage. But it’s mostly that the more general decrease in quality of life, society and culture have led to an increase of that, difficult to describe but never too far from the surface, feeling of unease that seems to now permeate the collective unconsciousness of society. Everyone expects things to get worse, it’s grassroots common knowledge.More people are medicating themselves than ever before (SSRIs for example, are similar to a chemical lobotomy and over 43 million people in the USA are taking them. A good way to think of them is as analogous to the “Soma” drug in BNW, they do the same thing though less effectively than the fictional drug, no more bad moods or anxiety about the world).And people are right to be worried… More people than ever are living paycheck to paycheck indebted lives and the majority will never own a home, there is less cultural cohesion than ever before in our nation’s history and what little “popular” culture there is is weird and has strong anti-White, anti-Christian and anti-traditional undertones…This country will not last the way things are going and everyone outside of our ruling caste has realized on some level that they have very, very little say in how things are run. The future looks bad and a diplomatic solution does not seem likely. This does bode well for anyone.People would naturally prefer not to dwell on it, and it makes a lot of sense that many would seek some method of diverting themselves from thinking about it too much… but.. that doesn’t mean that people don’t realize it. There just doesn’t seem to be much they can do about it at the moment and most prefer not to dwell on things they feel they cannot change.. but at the same time… it’s becoming increasingly difficult for people to ignore so… things are getting more and more unstable as the masses begin to flail out in desperate ways.

JFK aside, David Bowie was the first, biggest examplar of serial ersatz identity. I mean, if the Thin White Duke wasn’t our guy, no one is. He tried to play it off later, butin cocaini est veritas,if you folllow.

You really need to toss all the neocon pundits off the roof of the pole barn to get an accurate representation… sample size matters.

Of course, Kennedy only won because the Democrats stole Texas, Illinois, and West Virginia, so the debate shouldn’t have changed anything…

I don’t know, we have a much better word than Prolificity we can use to describe this and that’s duplicity. This is especially true with the minor celebrities we call “influencers” These artificial “manufactured profiles” are not the influencer or even politician merely playing a role. I don’t even see ‘playing a role’ as being all that bad and is often aspirational. What they are doing is a deliberate attempt to deceive you, usually for monetary gain or just “likes.” They are the same people who in an earlier age would have been working as a con artist.

Trump’s collapse in the polls is largely because of his team’s failures to recognize how fake the entire national discourse it. He gave a press conference on inflation yesterday. Despite the fact that inflation actually IS a huge problem, and actually HAS made everything more expensive, and IS a result of horrible government policies, it’s not going to make a single person vote one way or the other. People are going to vote for Kamala because she is “brat” or because JD Vance is “weird” though.This is something that Trump intuitively grasped in 2016, yet for some reason he has let GOP losers tell him that messages from losing GOP campaigns is the path to victory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE_dA479MCsSupertramp — “Better Days”Trust me, I can help youFeel free, we can save youJoin us in the good lifeAnd better days, better daysCampaign for a new lifeChampagne and the bright lightsMake way for the right wayAnd better days, better daysYou didn’t realize about the other life that we can give youWe’ll open up your eyes and makeyou see the light that’s all around youWe’ll help you work it out and then you’ll never doubtOur intuition, our vision, our decision, our mission, so listenNo war, and no inflationNo more desperationYou’ll see, we can show youBetter days, better daysMore food, higher wagesGood schools, and smiling facesMake way for the new wayBetter days, better daysWe’re going to lead you down to where the sun is always brightly shiningWe’ll push away the clouds and show you there’s a gold and silver liningWe’ll take away the pain, you’ll want to try againYou won’t be sorry, so don’t worry, don’t worry, so hurry and join me

people are now going back into Plato’s cavemy personal antidote to this is prayer, reading old books, and daily ealks in the woods. Although I’m probably not always successful in escaping all the brainwashing.but seriously, I think newspapers could have done the created the same “character” thing in the past 300 years. And minstrel shows and the like. I don’t think it’s totally unique to the internet. In a way, the radio could have done it, too. In fact it’s very possible that it was easier to create fake characters based on real people with the radio as there was not much other competition to that early imagination tingling device!

The episode reminded me of the old quip, “In politics, sincerity is everything, and if you can fake that you’ve got it made.”

As it turns out Kamala did in fact speak of practical matters. She shared her economic proposals in front of a paltry audience. She went off about “price gouging” at grocery stores and proposed price controls among other things. Even the WaPo panned it as Nixonian and an inevitable failure. The NY Post came up with the meme Kamunism which I suppose is spreading around.

Profilicity isn’t prolificity.

From this day forward I pledge to only use Kackula as the moniker off the chosen one.

Somewhat related:https://thecritic.co.uk/why-europeans-dont-get-elon/

They’re so close! It’s right in front of them! Map Shows Which States Have the Highest IQs (msn.com)

I’m really not sure what the point of this ep was supposed to be, or at least it didn’t strike me as particularly insightful.People (particularly politicians, god forbid) aren’t honest?They present personas to the wider world?The Media is biased? They also lie?It would certainly be ironic if this was some sort of feigned naivete.I don’t follow Keith Woods at all, but am I to assume you’d take him more seriously if he had a doctorate in virology before he started telling you Corona was a zombie apocalypse?I thought you were supposed to be against credentialism or “expertocracy”.