Duke is gone and I’ve been on an intense character development arc, finally got around to working on write ups again; enjoy if you can.

I’ve been seeing a serious lack of interesting shit to buy with my hard earned slave tokens (US Dollars) recently. How are we supposed to enjoy the thousand year (Neo)Libtard Reich if we can’t buy cheap junk to be horded and thrown away willy-nilly? What will fill my garage with cardboard boxes and plastic? This is an honest question despite the phrasing I choose to use, what good is money in this case? What are you going to consume to numb the pain of living in an inhuman, lifeless, soul crushing society when money is worthless and so are the products? Will the products feel radically different on a private jet or AirBNB straight out of Instagram?

Well golly gee, isn’t that a way to answer a question. That rate of profit do tend to fall, and its caused sequel-itis in media and chaos everywhere else. People don’t even watch TV anymore. What are they doing? Working, gaming and watching “content”. They are certainly not doing anything besides “bowling alone”.

I could cite boring graphs all day long and demonstrate to you how mainstream media (and thus culture) has lost it’s grip but take this one for size: Joe Rogan has 4 times the views of Tucker Carlson’s former show on Fox News, the (perhaps former) poster boy of controlled opposition. Fun fact: the word ‘content’ only recently entered the lexicon and we have iDubbbz and Vtubers to blame for it. I hate the word ‘content’, it means commoditized attention, it means “the media equivalent of high fructose corn syrup and hydrolyzed soy protein”.

All of this is to say: what is out there worth ‘consuming’, and if there isn’t anything worth consuming, what worth is money and furthermore, what worth is in society? Are we to all just pray to our holiest Federal Reserve chair-peoples in hopes that one day we’ll be on the profitable end of the inflation and remember to subscribe to our nearest “build bro” hawking courses, Wifi money or whatever trendy term for elaborate middlemanning? We may all worship at the Altar of ‘Line go up’ in that case.

Obviously we can’t return to monkey or anything like that but everything seems to be shaping up for a complete paradigm shift. Never before have I heard of so many people trying to “get back to the land”, and while this has happened before, there are spiritual and deep rooted reasons this time for their flight; a radical approach to freedom and time use that runs completely counter to the ideas of something like ‘content’. The goal is, as far as I can see, to escape the attention cycle of society; the whole system runs on inertia and ego. Actions like ‘flexxing’ or ‘striving’ can be seen as physical manifestations of a deeper malaise in society. It’s pretty hard to do either of these things with hands covered in dirt and callouses. Should it be unaffordable to be ‘normal’, why would they not change their lifestyle? If one somehow obtained all the luxuries the system could offer, would they be any better off than one who refused all they could? How many endocrine disruptors and mental illnesses would one ingest or absorb during those pleasures, rendering themselves psychotic, infertile and energy-less like the media they consume? Would the consoomer even happen to reproduce in quantities enough to continue the scam unlike their content denialist cousin? There’s been a lot of talk about birthrates and immigration recently, and perhaps there’s a third group in between the consoomer and denialist, a sort of ‘pure overshoot’ human, a creature who only exists because of resource and capital excesses (including social capital) of the near past and is incapable of forming a state of being outside or inside of these two narratives I’ve named.
Just some thoughts I had; back to your usually scheduled programming.