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L.P. Koch's avatar

Excellent and on point. This whole thing is so psychologically crushing because it is almost impossible to defend oneself against it rationally. Despite it being so blatantly obvious that it is wrong and demented. But as you say, this has to do with deep intuition, heritage and archetypes, the very thing that grounds our reality as descendants of a unique culture. Yet as with so many things that touch the fabric of reality, when pressed, words are hard to come by. Some things are just not directly accessible to the categorizing, defining, closure-seeking mind.

All the more important that those who know how to do it try, like you did here. You also found the right vibe, and I think people are in dire need of that.

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κρῠπτός's avatar

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, understanding what is happening is the first step to not getting sucked into the rhetorical traps and tactical pitfalls. Ellul does make you stare head on at the difficulty of the task ahead.

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John Carter's avatar

I expect this will only become more outrageous, eg movie back-catalogues being blacked with AI in order to ensure there is no escape to be found in old cinema. Ultimately the only thing to do is to generate culture whose content is so toxic that it defies cooptation, as the regime would discredit itself by attempting to co-opt it according to the regime's own logic. Explicitly rather than implicitly European.

Yet this seems cold comfort ... this vandalism is a form of sacrilege, in many ways worse than tearing down idols and temples. Cultures have had their songs banned before, but to have them coopted and perverted in this fashion seems an especially vicious sadism.

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κρῠπτός's avatar

Sacrilege is the right word, John. I get that desire to go on the offensive, but I am skeptical of its ability to threaten the regime.

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John Carter's avatar

It doesn't threaten the regime at all. Quite the opposite.

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κρῠπτός's avatar

Exactly.

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Mark Bisone's avatar

The memelords can also jujistu this graffiti. How about a deepfaked version of "Black Panther" starring Ryan Reynolds, or better yet a young Clint Eastwood? Like Burger King, "You can have it your way."

I don't think there’s anything so profane the Enemy wouldn't try to co-opt it. Can't wait to see their remake of "Triumph of the Will" starring Will Smith.

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John Carter's avatar

Those memes have already been made. They don't anger the enemy nearly as much as the reverse, though. It's hard to deface something which is hollow to begin with.

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κρῠπτός's avatar

That is the key. We cannot deface their propaganda artifacts, mostly because they are completely empty outside of their political use.

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Mark Bisone's avatar

I agree about the last bit, but think you underestimate their anger. They are angered by practically everything, all the time, but laughter most of all. Actually, just the thought of someone else having any kind of fun seems to piss them off royally, even if its not at their expense.

But yeah, there's probably not much point in getting them even more worked up. I'd say angry people make more mistakes, but that presumes competence in the first place.

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Daniel D's avatar

That's the asymmetric advantage purely destructive agents, like viruses and Marxcissists, have. It's so much easier to subvert and destroy than it is to create, and when they have no life of their own, they present little in the way of a target for a counterattack. What's really weird is that the elites have been turned into a virus, such that they don't realize their privileged position is possible only because of the well-being of the civilization they leech off of.

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κρῠπτός's avatar

Yes. It is much easier to subvert than to generate. They have subordinated everything to the needs of the progressive project that it is nearly impossible for them to generate stories as stories for their own sake. They cannot generate.

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Throgmorton's avatar

"Content so toxic that it defies cooptation..."

That seems to be the philosophy behind 4Chan.

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John Carter's avatar

Precisely.

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Mark Bisone's avatar

"The only real option is to not play the game."

This statement works on multiple levels (and purposely, I assume). I've never played MtG, but WotC is probably messing with the wrong fan base (as Amazon found out in its recent "Rings of Power" disaster.

Parallel systems, yes. And for now, that would easily include the world of card and board games. Tolkien’s license might be out of reach, but not his spirit of rendering archetypal heroes and elevate cultural inheritance.

I smell a Deimos Station skunkworks project in the works...

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silentsod's avatar

There is an enormous amount of energy dissipated by the notice and move on outrage cycle.

It is spiritually, mentally, and emotionally necessary not to be caught up in every single media vortex.

This is not to say that everything should be ceded, but not every battle needs to be fought. For myself, highlighting the total corruption of humanity found in the Trans movement is enough. Butchery and perversion masquerading as love is an incredible trick. Those who embrace it seem to end up full of fear and hate at the end of the day.

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κρῠπτός's avatar

Yes, exactly.

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Mark Bisone's avatar

I only meant that the answer is more creativity in response to these kinds of childish attacks. I agree that energy shouldn't be wasted complaining about them (in fact, that feeds the beast behind it). If they want to vandalize the past and pretend to own the wreckage, we should laugh them off and build a parallel future.

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κρῠπτός's avatar

Agreed.

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ROM's avatar

This is one of those rare posts I read that illuminates and reveals something so clearly, like a flare going over a battlefield. Excellent!

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κρῠπτός's avatar

Thank you for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed it.

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daiva's avatar

🗨 some of us have the dignity to acknowledge that we are being ritually humiliated and others trick themselves into thinking that they are not, because their ego or their religion doesn’t allow them to be honest.

That’s what Rolo of The Slavland Chronicles reports about the effects of subversive ‘revolutionary’ propaganda, from utterly foreign milieu thirdway around the globe. Couldn’t be more different on the surface—yet eerily familiar on archetypal level. Almost makes you freeze in your tracks 🤦

[I have my qualms about bringing up religion in this context; cultist ideology would fit the bill much more to my liking 😇]

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κρῠπτός's avatar

It really does make you freeze in your tracks.

I see your concern vis a vis religion, but much of the liberalization of the Christian faith is the attempt to empty it of its real content and to fill it with proper revolutionary content. It must serve Progress. Only in this way can it’s potency be neutered. This is exactly what Del Noce was talking about with the immanentization of Christianity. It loses its transcendent supernatural reality--God is real and in Christ can be met--and becomes another force driving human history, human progress.

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OGRE's avatar

Wow! That's an excellent piece.

You're 100% spot on. The "resistance" *is* comprised of useful idiots -- all the way down.

“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) circa 1960s

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κρῠπτός's avatar

Thanks! And you have it exactly. It’s always about the revolution.

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Cliff's avatar

My advice would be to get physical copies of the LOTR books and read them, and -strive- to create your own imagery for them. Don't rely on the images of the movies. Reclaim the stories for yourself. The movies are mass-produced globalist story-adjacent slop. You have no control over them; you do have control over what your mind builds upon the foundations of the written word.

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Seamus's avatar

I ignore such phaggotry. It has been going on against my favoured genres since I was a kid. The ideas espoused in them are still a corrosive vitriol; they fuck around with these genres at their peril. Note too, Christianity thought destroying British culture was a done deal, but a Catholic proved it wrong. I larf.

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Sean Patterson's avatar

It's wrong because Aragorn looks like Viggo Mortensen, who is not black. Arwen looks like Liv Tyler.

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Belte's avatar

The fascinating part of this whole scheme is that Tolkien himself declared explicitly that evil cannot create anything but only corrupt and ruin what has already been made by the good. I wonder what could be done to prevent new works from falling under this capture as Tolkien saw it coming and said what he could to humiliate those who would subvert his work.

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