Morning Comrades! So many thoughts today, one of which I am sure you can guess and the other I feel fell through the regular news cycle cracks but before I get into them, a little update / teaser on the continuing Black Lodges Fall Winter Season.
One of my favourite pieces of this year is making a return this Friday with two new pieces. The paying subscribers will be getting an early bird email on Thursday, with their discount code as well as their usual extra email. Everyone else will be getting links to this drop on Friday. Feel free to click on the above image to see what’s what. Also if you are interested I posted a schedule for the remainder of the year over in our Telegram Group if this is of interest to you.
A few, very brief words on the MET Gala and THAT AOC etc picture. Who cares and is anyone surprised? Yes, it is incredibly tone deaf, yes that entire institution and event exist for clickbait at best and yes, it gives off nothing but Hunger Games / Let Them Eat Cakes vibes. What’s new? I will say that I find it fascinating how wildly the 1% of this world are celebrating their literal and figurative “mask off” events in the face of the biggest inequality this world has seen in centuries ( whilst the workers at this event all had to wear literal masks ) and no one blinks an eye at the dissonance between us and them. If this public display of “Let Them Eat Cake” doesn’t radicalize you, and we have had enough of those moments these last ten years, then, well, go subscribe to something else. More importantly, is anyone surprised at a US Democratic Party Member shitting on everyone other than those that pay them? This is nothing new, and AOC’s bullshit has been out in the open for ever. This virtue signaling noise is nothing new, is not surprising and only serves to hammer down the reality that our democracies do not work, that real change comes from below and us and any hope, projection, outrage and so on is the hot air these class traitors live on. It’s a big club and no one of us are in it. Move on, there is literally nothing to see here.
No, the real news, one that actually matters is once again the fuckery that is Social Media and specifically Facebook. Yes, other parameters such as geography, poverty and education come into play when we are talking about the ever increasing egocentric destructive behavior ripping apart the imaginary social contracts that held our societies together, but no other factor in this highway to hell is more responsible for this than Facebook. Creating echo chambers filled with targeted falsehoods to keep you glued to the screen for longer to solely sell more advertising under the premise of equality in voices, Facebook, Instagram etc are hugely responsible for allowing, pushing, supporting and benefiting hugely for charlatans pushing lies to divide and conquer. I have written at length about who rules those platforms traffic and content wise, the well-funded, coordinated and orchestrated “far-right”, the Ben Shapiro’s of this world in case you missed that, that exist solely as puppets for the evils of the Mercer’s, Murdochs and the Koch’s of this world. Their sole existence, their coordinated content, their lies work hand in hand with FB Inc. to create never seen division among us, to keep the working classes from unifying and seeing our enemies for who they truly are. The reason why I am beating this drum once again is this:
The Real Facebook Oversight Board is a group of highly respected investigative journalists that fuck with Zuck on a whole other level and are calling them on their bullshit. Long story short, the top twenty performing content creators on FB / IG are exempt from the rules ( whatever they may be ) that apply to us all and allows them to push their lies, hate and insanity unchecked, because, you guessed it, money. A fuck tonne of money. If you are wondering why our world is falling apart at the seams, look no further. Profit driven division at an intelligence and effectiveness never witnessed before is one of the main reasons and as the big, bad, old man Utah Phillips so wisely said:
“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
Do with that what you will, but be assured that the smoke and mirror bullshit being played by our “politicians” is nothing but that, a diversion from what’s actually being done.
I have been talking about scientific utopianism for a little while on here, on a relevant subject, watch this. Seriously.
We are going to finish the mid-week heavy weight email with some hot shots, because aside from the above mentioned fuckery, well, there is more. A few words on the first bit, VICE is a problem, always has been and as long as the owners and bosses are who they are, will continue to be one. Do not support them, and fuck them particularly for this latest bullshit.