<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Anarchonomicon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Extremist in Extremis]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png</url><title>Anarchonomicon</title><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:20:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Anarchonomicon]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[anarchonomicon@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[anarchonomicon@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Kulak]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Kulak]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[anarchonomicon@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[anarchonomicon@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Kulak]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Ep30 Reading Banned Books w/Pete Quinones ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Quick interview with Peter R. Qui&#241;ones of The Pete Quinones Show on banned books and longform podcasting.]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep30-reading-banned-books-wpete-quinones</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep30-reading-banned-books-wpete-quinones</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 05:43:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198515442/f7bb03601b6d1fc1e59ba0a1749c49b4.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>A Quick interview with  <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Peter R. Qui&#241;ones&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:18884407,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AxSw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51577d66-95e7-4710-9e99-a894f49feda8_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;0678f128-eae1-4c0f-8732-f24074437134&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>  of <a href="https://petequinones.substack.com/">The Pete Quinones Show</a> on banned books and longform podcasting.</p><p></p><p>Works mentioned in this episode include:</p><p><em><strong><a href="https://dn720001.ca.archive.org/0/items/beaty-john-the-iron-curtain-over-america/Beaty_John_-_The_iron_curtain_over_America.pdf">Iron Curtain Over America</a></strong></em> by Col John Beatty</p><p><em><strong><a href="https://archive.org/details/11ShahakJewishHistoryJewishReligion">Jewish History Jewish Religion</a></strong></em><strong> </strong>by Israel Shahak<br>(<a href="https://petequinones.substack.com/p/pete-reads-jewish-history-jewish?utm_source=publication-search">Listen to Pete&#8217;s Reading</a>)</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Sombart">Werner Sombart</a><br>(<a href="https://petequinones.substack.com/p/episode-1202-continental-philosophy?utm_source=publication-search">Pete&#8217;s Reading</a>)</p><p><em><strong>Camp of the Saints</strong></em> by Jean Raspail<br>(<a href="https://petequinones.substack.com/p/pete-reads-jean-raspails-camp-of?utm_source=publication-search">Pete&#8217;s reading</a>)</p><p><em><strong><a href="https://archive.org/details/harold-saltzman-race-war-in-high-school/Race%20War%20In%20High%20School">Race War in Highschool</a></strong></em> by Harold Saltzman<br>(<a href="https://petequinones.substack.com/p/episode-795-reading-race-war-in-high-150?utm_source=publication-search">Pete&#8217;s Reading</a>)</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/weir-alison-against-our-better-judgment-the-hidden-history-of-how-the-u.-s.-was-_202404">Against our Better Judgement</a>  by Allison Weir<br>(<a href="https://petequinones.substack.com/p/against-our-better-judgment-part?utm_source=publication-search">Pete&#8217;s Reading</a>)</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bacque#Academic_criticism">James Basques</a></p><p>An Eye for an Eye</p><p>Francis Parker Yockey<br>(<a href="https://petequinones.substack.com/p/the-inquisition-ep-10-francis-parker?utm_source=publication-search">Pete&#8217;s Intro</a>)</p><p></p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;d44824ab-86d7-416f-9312-c379d9f3075e&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Ideas are more dangerous than guns. We don&#8217;t let our enemies have guns. Why would we let them have ideas?<br />-Joseph Stalin&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Anarchonomicon REAL Banned Book List&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2024-01-05T09:19:44.526Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HsTU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c5ce12f-384a-4e64-b183-ab6059577e3e_1272x923.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-anarchonomicon-real-banned-book&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:140295580,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:395,&quot;comment_count&quot;:49,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>Opening: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBPHaTZLwjw">&#8220;Lord of War&#8221; by White Bat Audio</a>.<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br><br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[5th Generation Nightmares, or Getting to Kojima: Metal Gear Solid and the Future of Warfare]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Great 21st Century Story of Life Imitating Art]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/5th-generation-nightmares-or-getting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/5th-generation-nightmares-or-getting</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 03:27:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GgoF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GgoF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GgoF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GgoF!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GgoF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GgoF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GgoF!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png" width="1200" height="787.0879120879121" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:955,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:8696261,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GgoF!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GgoF!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GgoF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GgoF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10d6a244-d5db-46cc-b6c1-7758bb71871c_3092x2029.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>People in west have asked why no diversity in my games [sic] but they are wrong, when all my games have included a gay character:<br> you, the player.<br>-Hideo Kojima</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>  </p><p>Continuing my series of Deep Dives into Videogames and the imagined world of assymetric strategies and tacitcs (that then come true) like <em><strong><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-most-beautiful-game-how-supreme">The Most Beautiful Game: How Supreme Commander Stole My Heart</a></strong></em> and <em><strong><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-unkillable-cyberpunk-franchise">The Unkillable Cyberpunk Franchise</a></strong></em> and unconventional asymmetric warfare and tactics like <em><strong><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/war-to-the-knife-the-knife-to-the">The War to the Knife, the Knife to the Hilt</a> </strong></em>and <em><strong><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/getting-away-with-it-the-art-of-urban">Getting Away With It: The Art of Urban Infiltration and Exfiltration</a></strong></em>&#8230; In this peace I&#8217;d like to go back to the beginning of 21st century imagined military madness&#8230; </p><p>The earliest-deepest dive into the madness of post-9/11 5th Generation Warfare&#8230; </p><p>The story that predicted everything&#8230;</p><h1>Part 1: The Generational Gulf</h1><p>Writing this essay is difficult, because depending on very specific thresholds of where and when you were born, your gender, and other cultural aspects&#8230; I&#8217;m either talking about one of the most familiar and foundational works of your childhood, your culture, and how you conceive war, culture, politics, history, and what it means to lead a good life&#8230; Or I&#8217;m talking about something you&#8217;ve never heard of. </p><p>The <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> franchise to this day is the primary, (maybe only?) property that exists at the intersection of the Tactical (Tacti-cool) Special Forces obsession of American Culture and Gamer culture more widely&#8230; And the Japanese Cyberpunk Philosophical Paranoia of late 90s Classic Anime and Anime-esque Games and media.</p><p>This has given it an extraordinarily prominent cultural purchase for young men (and women) of military or martial leaning. Having sold 65 MILLION copies across it&#8217;s franchise life it is the third most prominent &#8220;Modern Warfare&#8221; franchise after <em>Call Of Duty</em> and <em>Battlefield.</em></p><p>Across America, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Korea Something between 10 and 30% of men between the age of 18-40 (fighting age) have played at-least 1 of the games&#8230; With the ratio almost certainly rising or even doubling amongst the young men who actually enlist&#8230; <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> &#8220;MGS&#8221; is only surpassed in its field by of the 500 million copies of <em>Call of Duty</em> sold, over 50% have probably played a <em>COD</em> game&#8230; (<em>Battlefield </em>sold 88.7 million, basically comparable to MGS)</p><p>But whereas <em>Call of Duty</em> and <em>Battlefield </em>focused on fast paced twitchy multiplayer combat, with the &#8220;narratives&#8221; in their &#8220;story mode&#8221; that are remembered mostly for memes, action set pieces, and ridiculous dialogue&#8230; Mad Japanese game developer Hideo Kojima has become an icon in himself for his twisting multi-layered narratives, aspirational, haunting, and absurd characters, meditations on military trends and technical developments, philosophy, history, conspiracies, duty, and life.</p><p>It would not be a stretch to say the <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> franchise is almost certainly THE core text of how Millennials and Gen Z grew up imagining warfare and the philosophical implications of war.</p><p>I don&#8217;t think older generations realize the impact just because they don&#8217;t recognize the references when they come up or know enough to recognize the influence&#8230; It is almost impossible to walk around on any military installation in the west without hearing the &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S6QN5hdNIc">Codec Call Sound</a>&#8221; used as a ringtone by various soldiers, marines, and airmen, or the &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An7ZD-s6aHY">alert sound</a>&#8221; for text messages (bonus points when its an actual Colonel or Major calling). Conversations with soldiers regularly get into detailed dives into tactics, equipment, paranoid implications, and practical and not-so-practical ideas &#8220;Just like the game&#8221;. </p><p>I&#8217;ve heard of more than one real life military exercise, AI testing, and at least a few drones in actual combat, &#8220;cheesed&#8221; by a <em>Metal Gear Solid-</em>style <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-ai-paul-scharre/">cardboard box</a>&#8230; Yes this happened.</p><div id="youtube2-z6dDouUVtb0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;z6dDouUVtb0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/z6dDouUVtb0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h5>(Yes, as far as I&#8217;m aware, the pun between box the literal cardboard device, and &#8220;box&#8221; a slang term for &#8220;pussy&#8221; translates between Japanese and English)</h5><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Indeed the Japanese pacifistic paranoia of Hideo Kojima, a man deeply ambivalent about America, if not openly hostile to it&#8217;s Government and Military&#8230; Is almost certainly more influential on soldiers across the West, NATO, and even gamers in non-western militaries like Russia, or the Gulf States below a certain age threshold than works like  Tom Clancy&#8217;s oeuvre, <em>Saving Private Ryan</em>, <em>Rambo</em>, <em>Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, MASH, Lawrence of Arabia, To Hell and Back, The Storm of Steel, All&#8217;s Quiet on the Western Front, </em>Boy&#8217;s Own Adventures<em>,</em> the Stories of G. A. Henty, the stories of Walter Scott, <em> The Red Badge of Courage, War and Peace, Le Morte De Arthur, </em>and <em>The Iliad&#8230; </em>Combined<em>.</em></p><p>Yet the very thing that keeps Kojima&#8217;s work in relative obscurity compared to his extraordinary pop-culture reach is the very thing that gives him so much purchase on the young&#8230; He made videogames. Unlike films or TV shows he gets tens or even cumulative hundreds of hours out of his individual fans at something approaching full attention, and includes a level of detail that&#8217;s just not possible for film or TV, and very rare in book form&#8230; the script for <em>Metal Gear Solid 2 </em>alone is 900 pages, a text a large percentage of his fans will and have gone over multiple times across repeat playthroughs (very few 900 page books get repeat readthroughs). And yet this same extraordinary investment, buy-in, and considerable effort the games require on the part of his adolescent and still forming fans acts as a barrier to scrutiny, and as such the works have been subjected to shockingly little, if any, wider cultural critique and scrutiny as compared with almost any other medium or artform.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TczM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c5eaeed-cccd-452f-a65e-cb0e349f4d2e_1400x700.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TczM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c5eaeed-cccd-452f-a65e-cb0e349f4d2e_1400x700.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TczM!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c5eaeed-cccd-452f-a65e-cb0e349f4d2e_1400x700.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TczM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c5eaeed-cccd-452f-a65e-cb0e349f4d2e_1400x700.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TczM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c5eaeed-cccd-452f-a65e-cb0e349f4d2e_1400x700.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TczM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c5eaeed-cccd-452f-a65e-cb0e349f4d2e_1400x700.jpeg" width="1400" height="700" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7c5eaeed-cccd-452f-a65e-cb0e349f4d2e_1400x700.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:700,&quot;width&quot;:1400,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TczM!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c5eaeed-cccd-452f-a65e-cb0e349f4d2e_1400x700.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TczM!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c5eaeed-cccd-452f-a65e-cb0e349f4d2e_1400x700.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TczM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c5eaeed-cccd-452f-a65e-cb0e349f4d2e_1400x700.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TczM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c5eaeed-cccd-452f-a65e-cb0e349f4d2e_1400x700.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Contrast the political discussions and think pieces that surround a book or film like <em>Rambo: First Blood</em> and the treatment of homeless veterans, or American POWs in Vietnam&#8230; Or how works like <em>Platoon </em>or <em>Saving Private Ryan</em> do or don&#8217;t discourage service and sacrifice on the part of young Americans, and its remarkable that at the same time young Soldiers were mass quitting over Vax-Mandates and others refusing to enlist, no one commented that the first <em>Metal Gear Solid&#8230;</em> the first modern entry in the CORE piece of Millennial and Zoomer Media to do with the US Military&#8230;(spoilers) centers around a decorated US Soldier being manipulated, blackmailed, and threatened into being turned into a unwitting suicide bio-weapon via a designer Virus hidden within a mandatory injection.</p><p>Gee. I wonder if that affected Vaccine hesitancy in young soldiers who&#8217;d played the game? </p><p>Yet as far as I can tell not ONE paper written in the period of the COVID mandates referenced the &#8220;FoxDie Virus&#8221; of the Metal Gear Solid series, or the fact that a critical mass of US soldiers had been trained since childhood not to trust unexpected US Military injections&#8230; That indeed the core lesson of one of their most popular stories is that the greatest soldier fighting and playing perfectly still cannot be saved from the mistake of trusting the Military/Medical establishment before the action has even begun.</p><p>Hideo Kojima&#8217;s strange and prescient vision has acted as a philosophical and moral introduction to the world of arms for tens of millions of young men. It is deeply political, and is massive and detailed in a way that has already altered the course of military history and martial culture&#8230; Seemingly with hardly ANY comment or interest by the military establishment or the broader world of war commentators.</p><p>Largely because of the anime-esque absurdities of the series: variously wooden, melodramatic, self-serious, historical, conspiratorial, obsessive, humorously slapstick, and subtlety manipulative&#8230; which are cat-nip to millennials and Gen Z on the one hand, on the other make older generations intuitively cringe away at encountering something clearly awkwardly dubbed and translated, balancing between languages, mediums, cultures, nationality, and stages of adolescent development in a manner that openly invites dismissal and joking unseriousness&#8230; a conscious unseriousness which serves to hide the complexity of its political and military vision&#8230; both for shock value within the narrative, and arguably for propaganda value in delivering Kojima&#8217;s various messages.</p><p>By contrast comparatively unheard of works like Oliver Stone&#8217;s <em>Platoon (</em>$137mil Box Office<em>), </em>Francis Ford Copolla&#8217;s<em> Apocalypse Now ($</em>150million<em>), </em>or Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s <em>Full Metal Jacket (</em>$120mil<em>)</em> have been subjected to extraordinary Military and Academic study and assessment of their themes, cultural impact, effect on recruiting, and effect on soldier&#8217;s outlook&#8230; whilst <em>Metal Gear Solid </em>($2.5+ Billion franchise sales) has received almost none, with only 200 JSTOR entries for the entire series, compared to 1400 for Kubrick&#8217;s <em>Full Metal Jacket, </em>and 5400 for <em>Apocalypse Now</em>.</p><p>The only real critical discussion of the works is within the gamer subculture in various Youtube video-essays. These works vary from simple appreciation and &#8220;memeing&#8221; (Dawkins&#8217; coinage from <em>The Selfish Gene</em> was indeed partially popularized by Kojima in <em>Metal Gear Solid 2</em>), to politically and philosophically relevant deep dives into the the various themes of the work and Kojima&#8217;s predictions&#8230;</p><p>Yet the most relevant analysis: the assessment and reassessment of Kojima&#8217;s works from a military, social, geopolitical, and strategic theory perspective, works which in many sub-areas and theoretical sub-specialties are STILL on the cutting edge of 4th and 5th generation warfare, theories of espionage, and theories of information control even decades after their original release&#8230; That&#8217;s not been done, or only been tertiarily done by Youtube amateur philosophers, who don&#8217;t know or care how Kojima&#8217;s work relates to 5th Generation Warfare Theory, or indeed how it has almost certainly covertly influenced the development of that theory via 25+ years of fans in the military-intelligence world.</p><p>&#8220;Metal Gear Solid 2 Predicted Everything&#8221; is itself a meme, but not uninformative.</p><p>To put it bluntly, trying to understand modern intelligence and 5th generation warfare theory and practice without understanding Kojima&#8217;s <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> is like trying to understand the warfare of Late-Bronze and Early Iron Age Greece without understanding Homer&#8217;s <em>Iliad</em>. </p><p>What the hyper-reality fantasy of the work lacks in technical accuracy or realism to the actual warfare on the ground, it more than makes up for in the completeness and strangeness of it&#8217;s insight to the era, its philosophy, and culture.</p><p>Indeed the works themselves are an unending assault on your very conception of your own knowledge and understanding of tactically, strategically, politically, and psychologically relevant information&#8230; the ultimate 4th and 5th generation nightmares.</p><div id="youtube2-shMOA9-m4Cw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;shMOA9-m4Cw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/shMOA9-m4Cw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h4>[this Video Essay. especially the intro, is a solid vertical slice of how deep the madness goes, but I suspect completely unintelligible to anyone not already eyeballs deep in Metal Gear lore&#8230;  continue reading below] </h4><p><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h1>Part 2: War is a Kojima Game: The Future Soldier on the Present Battlefield</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vTmz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F751ee864-e67d-4c32-81c4-c62648a7a656_1920x1080.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vTmz!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F751ee864-e67d-4c32-81c4-c62648a7a656_1920x1080.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vTmz!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F751ee864-e67d-4c32-81c4-c62648a7a656_1920x1080.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vTmz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F751ee864-e67d-4c32-81c4-c62648a7a656_1920x1080.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vTmz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F751ee864-e67d-4c32-81c4-c62648a7a656_1920x1080.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vTmz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F751ee864-e67d-4c32-81c4-c62648a7a656_1920x1080.jpeg" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/751ee864-e67d-4c32-81c4-c62648a7a656_1920x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vTmz!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F751ee864-e67d-4c32-81c4-c62648a7a656_1920x1080.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vTmz!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F751ee864-e67d-4c32-81c4-c62648a7a656_1920x1080.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vTmz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F751ee864-e67d-4c32-81c4-c62648a7a656_1920x1080.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vTmz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F751ee864-e67d-4c32-81c4-c62648a7a656_1920x1080.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>The future is already here &#8212; it&#8217;s just not very evenly distributed.<br>-William Gibson</p></div><p>I first played <em>METAL GEAR SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY</em> before the age of 10, I&#8217;m not quite old enough to have played it on first release&#8230; but it was amongst the first games I got when I was old enough to get a then relatively new PlayStation 2&#8230; I was not ready.</p><p>The raw madness of MGS2 has to be experienced to be believed. At one moment a shockingly technical dive into military subjects and matters pulled right from WhitePapers and headlines, conspiracy fodder that makes even Alex Jones&#8217; most prescient predictions feel like child&#8217;s play, deep dives into theoretical concepts and sociology that wouldn&#8217;t be widely understood or relevant for 15 year, and bizarre psychedelic anime Nightmares of Ninjas, Prettyboys, Vampires, Mad-bombers on Rollerblades, and even more horrifying sexual politics&#8230;</p><p>It&#8217;s a franchise that explicitly signposts itself as a fantastical horror story running off dream logic, complete with monsters and psychic mysteries&#8230; Only to change genres entirely to become an entirely different horror story, then change again, then again&#8230; only for the new more grounded realities to be more disturbing&#8230; Only to turn back without breaking the new reality&#8230; Only for the most fantastical and absurd details to have been entirely relevant, grounded, and predictive of the new nightmare you were yourself stepping into, if only you had exercised sufficient judgement before making the leap in a shellshocked haze of your own disbelief.</p><p>A story that can be simultaneously a Cyberthriller that anticipates the Snowden revelations, a commentary on media radicalization, desensitization, and conditioning, a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cell"> exaggerated hypothetical take on </a><em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cell">Red Cell </a></em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cell">the Rogue OPFOR Special Forces penetration testers</a>, and <em>Nosferatu.</em></p><div id="youtube2-hYokCn8res0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;hYokCn8res0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hYokCn8res0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>By the end the fact that Kojima had introduced me to the idea of Political Memes (from Dawkins&#8217; <em>The Selfish Gene</em>) as a core geostrategic consideration 10+ years before 4chan and gamergate became political events, and Algorithmic AI censorship of such memes and information as the ultimate subtle system of conspiratorial totalitarian control&#8230; In a game that released in 2001! That was a minor side consideration compared to the completeness of the vision, and the raw prophesy of the next 25 years he laid out in that work.</p><p>It&#8217;s the game that was made from 1998 to 2001 unwittingly predicting 9/11, then had to censor out the Twin Towers collapsing in a terrorism attack in it&#8217;s finale for its release in November of 2001.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>But there&#8217;s more to it than that. </p><p>A wise commentator once said that as stories get further away from the present the safer their political themes get. That you can say pretty-much whatever you want about the far future or ancient past, or fantasy worlds, With almost perfect safety. <a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-banned-fantasy-novels-feminists"> You have to really try to make a story on a fantasy planet politically intolerable</a>. But that the closer to the present a sci-fi story gets the more one risks, both from political sensitivity (which is interesting, but might not get you published)&#8230; but also from simply betraying yourself as an idiot who doesn&#8217;t understand the subjects you&#8217;re discussing. </p><p>Nothing reveals naivety, incompetence, delusion, and dilettantism quite like a series of short term predictions. Genuinely Intelligent world-class subject matter experts regularly get even very short-term predictions embarrassingly wrong in ways that reveal their character in addition to their intelligence&#8230; The great ones can laugh and acknowledge the mistake with humility and commentate intelligently on the unexpected turns&#8230; Most however dissemble and try to twist the matter.</p><p>For this reason Fiction writers try to avoid near future predictions&#8230; Cyberpunk is one of the highest risk genres for storytelling given the genre is set mere decades from the present. With classics of the Genre hoping that their predictions will age into cheesy but fun archaic hypotheticals, like <em>Escape from New York</em>&#8217;s 1997, 16 years in the future from the release date of 1981, in which WW3 is ongoing and New York City has been walled off as an abandoned prison colony.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g04A!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d64de0e-da10-4bb7-81fe-e36c11060ba7_1080x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g04A!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d64de0e-da10-4bb7-81fe-e36c11060ba7_1080x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g04A!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d64de0e-da10-4bb7-81fe-e36c11060ba7_1080x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g04A!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d64de0e-da10-4bb7-81fe-e36c11060ba7_1080x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g04A!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d64de0e-da10-4bb7-81fe-e36c11060ba7_1080x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g04A!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d64de0e-da10-4bb7-81fe-e36c11060ba7_1080x1600.jpeg" width="346" height="512.5925925925926" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0d64de0e-da10-4bb7-81fe-e36c11060ba7_1080x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1600,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:346,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g04A!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d64de0e-da10-4bb7-81fe-e36c11060ba7_1080x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g04A!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d64de0e-da10-4bb7-81fe-e36c11060ba7_1080x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g04A!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d64de0e-da10-4bb7-81fe-e36c11060ba7_1080x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g04A!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d64de0e-da10-4bb7-81fe-e36c11060ba7_1080x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">John Carpenter&#8217;s film was one of Kojima&#8217;s Primary inspirations for the Metal Gear Solid Franchise. </figcaption></figure></div><p>Kojima however places his future stories INSANELY close in time to his games&#8217; release dates. 1998&#8217;s <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> was set in 2005. </p><p>2001&#8217;s <em>Metal Gear Solid 2: The Sons of Liberty </em>was set in 2007 and 2009<em>.</em></p><p>His stories are almost instantly dated, their scifi futures almost immediately in the past, and science fiction technologies and possibilities almost immediately shown to have not come to pass&#8230; Except they do come to pass.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NuYk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48e6775-8808-4e46-90a2-601cc626fd2d_1056x655.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NuYk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48e6775-8808-4e46-90a2-601cc626fd2d_1056x655.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NuYk!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48e6775-8808-4e46-90a2-601cc626fd2d_1056x655.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NuYk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48e6775-8808-4e46-90a2-601cc626fd2d_1056x655.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NuYk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48e6775-8808-4e46-90a2-601cc626fd2d_1056x655.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NuYk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48e6775-8808-4e46-90a2-601cc626fd2d_1056x655.png" width="1056" height="655" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b48e6775-8808-4e46-90a2-601cc626fd2d_1056x655.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:655,&quot;width&quot;:1056,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:314184,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48e6775-8808-4e46-90a2-601cc626fd2d_1056x655.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NuYk!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48e6775-8808-4e46-90a2-601cc626fd2d_1056x655.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NuYk!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48e6775-8808-4e46-90a2-601cc626fd2d_1056x655.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NuYk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48e6775-8808-4e46-90a2-601cc626fd2d_1056x655.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NuYk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48e6775-8808-4e46-90a2-601cc626fd2d_1056x655.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Like Nostradamus the things Hideo Kojima &#8220;predicts&#8221; which do NOT come to pass are countless&#8230; Giant Native Americans with man-portable Vulcan Cannons, Nuclear Capable bi-pedal robots, Rogue American Presidents dual-wielding Katanas and FN P90s&#8230; Yet for every cool/ridiculous Anime absurdity, Kojima predicts something so terrifyingly exactly it makes you question your own sanity when it happens.</p><p>And not just the collapse of the Twin Towers.</p><p>.</p><p>To present a short incomplete list of Kojima&#8217;s predictions that somehow came true&#8230;</p><p>&#8212;Genetically Engineered &#8220;Vaccinations&#8221;: the MRNA Covid Vaccine vs. FoxDie and the Genome Soldier Program of MGS1<br>&#8212;NGO Illegal/Grey Market Leaker Organizations: Julian Assange and Seth Rich of Wikileaks vs. Otacon and Solid Snake of &#8220;Philanthropy&#8221; of MGS2 <br>&#8212;Algorithmic AI internet Censorship Programs such as those of Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook Vs. the GW Kernel of MGS2<br>&#8212;Terrorists on Rollerblades employing IEDs and Small Arms like<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Is5i-WKSD0"> MGS2&#8217;s </a><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Is5i-WKSD0">FatMan</a> </strong>or the Modern Taliban</p><div id="youtube2-7k7b0sQA650" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;7k7b0sQA650&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7k7b0sQA650?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>&#8212;The United Healthcare Assassin&#8217;s Escape over the George Washington Bridge in New York City mirrored the opening of MGS2 when <a href="https://youtu.be/Hoe0BfPFOFE?si=w70shFgnPsuwznAD">Solid Snake Inserts into the mission by leaping from the George Washington Bridge</a>&#8230;<br>Indeed I&#8217;ve written Extensively on <em><strong><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/getting-away-with-it-the-art-of-urban">the  &#8220;Tactical Espionage Operation&#8221; Angles of the United HealthCare Assassination</a></strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7vz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e10b-9e3b-4f88-b667-cba4b81e21dd_2412x829.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7vz!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e10b-9e3b-4f88-b667-cba4b81e21dd_2412x829.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7vz!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e10b-9e3b-4f88-b667-cba4b81e21dd_2412x829.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7vz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e10b-9e3b-4f88-b667-cba4b81e21dd_2412x829.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7vz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e10b-9e3b-4f88-b667-cba4b81e21dd_2412x829.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7vz!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e10b-9e3b-4f88-b667-cba4b81e21dd_2412x829.png" width="1200" height="412.0879120879121" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3074e10b-9e3b-4f88-b667-cba4b81e21dd_2412x829.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:500,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:2225294,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e10b-9e3b-4f88-b667-cba4b81e21dd_2412x829.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7vz!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e10b-9e3b-4f88-b667-cba4b81e21dd_2412x829.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7vz!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e10b-9e3b-4f88-b667-cba4b81e21dd_2412x829.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7vz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e10b-9e3b-4f88-b667-cba4b81e21dd_2412x829.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7vz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e10b-9e3b-4f88-b667-cba4b81e21dd_2412x829.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>&#8212;AI Personalities impersonating real people to the point you can no longer tell when you are and aren&#8217;t talking to a real person or digital impersonations</p><p>To just name a few.</p><p>And then you get to maybe his most immediately pressing prediction&#8230;.</p><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xN8X!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b3c23d-60d2-4f2b-955d-6152fc85ed70_4032x1089.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xN8X!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b3c23d-60d2-4f2b-955d-6152fc85ed70_4032x1089.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xN8X!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b3c23d-60d2-4f2b-955d-6152fc85ed70_4032x1089.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xN8X!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b3c23d-60d2-4f2b-955d-6152fc85ed70_4032x1089.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xN8X!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b3c23d-60d2-4f2b-955d-6152fc85ed70_4032x1089.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xN8X!,w_5760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b3c23d-60d2-4f2b-955d-6152fc85ed70_4032x1089.png" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b5b3c23d-60d2-4f2b-955d-6152fc85ed70_4032x1089.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;full&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:393,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:6428537,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b3c23d-60d2-4f2b-955d-6152fc85ed70_4032x1089.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-fullscreen" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xN8X!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b3c23d-60d2-4f2b-955d-6152fc85ed70_4032x1089.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xN8X!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b3c23d-60d2-4f2b-955d-6152fc85ed70_4032x1089.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xN8X!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b3c23d-60d2-4f2b-955d-6152fc85ed70_4032x1089.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xN8X!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b3c23d-60d2-4f2b-955d-6152fc85ed70_4032x1089.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Left: Metal Gear (1987), Center: Metal Gear Solid (1998), Right: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)</figcaption></figure></div><h1>Part 3: A One Man Infiltration Mission: Archaic Design, Future Soldier</h1><blockquote><p><em><strong>Campbell: As usual this is a one man infiltration mission.<br>Snake: Weapons and Equipment OSP? (On Site Procurement)<br>Campbell: Yes. As usual this is a top secret black-op. Don&#8217;t expect any official support.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6plOoDl_s">-Metal Gear Solid 1 Introduction</a></strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Metal Gear is an OLD video game franchise&#8230; While most people discuss it in terms of 1998&#8217;s <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> and it&#8217;s sequels, the franchise dates back to the original 1987 game <em>Metal Gear. </em></p><p>Whilst the 1987 original and it&#8217;s early 90s Sequels, aren&#8217;t really relevant narratively, most fans never play them&#8230; They are important to understand the evolution of the franchise&#8230; The series is almost as old as the <em>Mario </em>Franchise. Kojima was harvesting idea from Rambo and Kurt Russel movies whilst those were still new, and videogames as a medium were still in the very earliest of infancy.</p><p>The very ideas of stealth games and &#8220;tactical games&#8221; and &#8220;realistic military games&#8221; were not even genres when <em>Metal Gear</em> codified the broad concepts of it&#8217;s core gameplay mechanics 5 years before even <em>Doom </em>or <em>Wolfenstein 3D</em> had invented the first person shooter. Sure later entries in the series would slowly and eventually assimilate towards modern action shooters&#8217; standardized controls and sensibilities&#8230; but the Classic 3 <em>Metal Gear Solid </em>games <em>1, </em>2 <em>Sons of Liberty</em>, and 3 <em>Snake Eater</em> all are still adapted out of the top down stealth game mechanics of the old 8 and 16 bit <em>Metal Gear</em> games from the 1980s, with north always at the top of the screen.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zqty!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1912d7b-ff26-4bd3-b5eb-0b4b5fcd56cc_1225x698.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zqty!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1912d7b-ff26-4bd3-b5eb-0b4b5fcd56cc_1225x698.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zqty!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1912d7b-ff26-4bd3-b5eb-0b4b5fcd56cc_1225x698.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zqty!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1912d7b-ff26-4bd3-b5eb-0b4b5fcd56cc_1225x698.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zqty!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1912d7b-ff26-4bd3-b5eb-0b4b5fcd56cc_1225x698.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zqty!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1912d7b-ff26-4bd3-b5eb-0b4b5fcd56cc_1225x698.png" width="1200" height="683.7551020408164" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e1912d7b-ff26-4bd3-b5eb-0b4b5fcd56cc_1225x698.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:698,&quot;width&quot;:1225,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:678925,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1912d7b-ff26-4bd3-b5eb-0b4b5fcd56cc_1225x698.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zqty!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1912d7b-ff26-4bd3-b5eb-0b4b5fcd56cc_1225x698.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zqty!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1912d7b-ff26-4bd3-b5eb-0b4b5fcd56cc_1225x698.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zqty!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1912d7b-ff26-4bd3-b5eb-0b4b5fcd56cc_1225x698.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zqty!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1912d7b-ff26-4bd3-b5eb-0b4b5fcd56cc_1225x698.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Metal Gear Solid Delta (the Remake of 3),  in legacy camera mode and Black and white mode. A 2025 game with 1987 camera angles, aping 1964 black and white film. <a href="https://youtu.be/dzBhf6zElYU?si=lYeneZd7ulRkh86Q&amp;t=1389">And it is an Achievement!</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>This is fascinatingly weird. </p><p>It&#8217;s an entirely parallel evolution to the question how to represent and simulate warfare and special operations in an interesting manner.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wqaR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97699d6f-2113-4f2d-bccf-c1955e359b57_1220x637.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wqaR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97699d6f-2113-4f2d-bccf-c1955e359b57_1220x637.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wqaR!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97699d6f-2113-4f2d-bccf-c1955e359b57_1220x637.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wqaR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97699d6f-2113-4f2d-bccf-c1955e359b57_1220x637.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wqaR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97699d6f-2113-4f2d-bccf-c1955e359b57_1220x637.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wqaR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97699d6f-2113-4f2d-bccf-c1955e359b57_1220x637.png" width="525" height="274.1188524590164" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97699d6f-2113-4f2d-bccf-c1955e359b57_1220x637.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:637,&quot;width&quot;:1220,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:525,&quot;bytes&quot;:1231142,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97699d6f-2113-4f2d-bccf-c1955e359b57_1220x637.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wqaR!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97699d6f-2113-4f2d-bccf-c1955e359b57_1220x637.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wqaR!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97699d6f-2113-4f2d-bccf-c1955e359b57_1220x637.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wqaR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97699d6f-2113-4f2d-bccf-c1955e359b57_1220x637.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wqaR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97699d6f-2113-4f2d-bccf-c1955e359b57_1220x637.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Sort-of like how both a Deer and a Kangaroo basically fill the same ecological niche: both are large herbivores that outrun predators, both can travel alone or in larger herds, both are challenging yet tasty enough to hunt and eat for a hobbyist sportsman&#8230; But they evolved entirely separately in entirely different environments with different physiologies, evolutionary pathways, and basic behaviors of locomotion.</p><p>Likewise the Metal Gear Solid franchise has entirely different mechanisms, gameplay loops, challenges, tempos, tones, narrative assumptions, and understandings and visions of what it means to be a soldier&#8230; Or rather a Gamer trying to imagine a realistic soldier in warfare. Or a soldier taking on the role of gamer in a simulation of realistic warfare&#8230; Or a gamer taking on the role of soldier taking on the role of gamer, taking on the role of a soldier, who is a gamer, who is a&#8230;.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1t3s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9a69ae5-21be-4b78-b1a9-7d9a230c9cd9_1920x1080.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1t3s!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9a69ae5-21be-4b78-b1a9-7d9a230c9cd9_1920x1080.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1t3s!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9a69ae5-21be-4b78-b1a9-7d9a230c9cd9_1920x1080.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1t3s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9a69ae5-21be-4b78-b1a9-7d9a230c9cd9_1920x1080.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1t3s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9a69ae5-21be-4b78-b1a9-7d9a230c9cd9_1920x1080.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1t3s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9a69ae5-21be-4b78-b1a9-7d9a230c9cd9_1920x1080.jpeg" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e9a69ae5-21be-4b78-b1a9-7d9a230c9cd9_1920x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1t3s!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9a69ae5-21be-4b78-b1a9-7d9a230c9cd9_1920x1080.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1t3s!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9a69ae5-21be-4b78-b1a9-7d9a230c9cd9_1920x1080.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1t3s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9a69ae5-21be-4b78-b1a9-7d9a230c9cd9_1920x1080.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1t3s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9a69ae5-21be-4b78-b1a9-7d9a230c9cd9_1920x1080.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Gunner Heat PC. A semi-realistic Tank Simulator</figcaption></figure></div><p>By way of analogy, Tank simulators from the Ultra-realistic Skeuomorphic mechanical simulations that are often used by actual Armor units for training, to more arcadey ones your cousin might play are an advanced genre that&#8217;s fully developed. Vehicle speeds, Turret panning speeds, sighting mechanisms, controls, optical devices, penetration physics&#8230; All are loving recreated with endless debates (and not a few actual classified leaks) over accurately recreating some advantage or disadvantage of some model of tank or how they behave in the brief seconds of combat.</p><p> But what if an entirely different type of tank simulator had been invented? </p><p>Instead of precisely lining up a gunner turret or maneuvering ever so carefully into the perfect concealed position to command an approach with no dead ground to hide the enemy&#8230; What if instead a game series simulated the &#8220;Road Trip&#8221; and Maneuver of tank warfare? Not 1-2 hour engagements, but days, weeks and months long campaigns navigating your tank platoon around enemy positions and civilians chaotical fleeing a warzone and completing often boring objectives that align with allied units, but which compound and create fiction as tanks lose treads and need to be repaired or recovered, injuries add up, tactical complications mount, bailed-out crews need to be rescued, and the operational situation changes with implications that you have to decide in a changing strategic picture with imperfect information? Half <em>Oregon Trial</em>, Half <em>Mount and Blade</em>, half survival horror?</p><p>Yes I am Describing Colonel J. F. Antal&#8217;s <em><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/book-review-infantry-combat-the-rifle">Armor Attacks: The Tank Platoon</a></em><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/book-review-infantry-combat-the-rifle"> and others in his Interactive Exercise series</a> of choose your own adventure books meant to train/introduce junior leaders&#8230; However similar concepts have been turned into games, submarine games like <em><a href="https://youtu.be/xwu376EbgP8?si=3Ya8Sh25pWPcmFK6">Silent Hunter 3 </a></em>for example have a lot this structure.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zbwO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe6314d0-0aca-445b-afba-7ae5fe352ba4_768x1024.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zbwO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe6314d0-0aca-445b-afba-7ae5fe352ba4_768x1024.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zbwO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe6314d0-0aca-445b-afba-7ae5fe352ba4_768x1024.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zbwO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe6314d0-0aca-445b-afba-7ae5fe352ba4_768x1024.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zbwO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe6314d0-0aca-445b-afba-7ae5fe352ba4_768x1024.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zbwO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe6314d0-0aca-445b-afba-7ae5fe352ba4_768x1024.jpeg" width="306" height="408" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/be6314d0-0aca-445b-afba-7ae5fe352ba4_768x1024.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1024,&quot;width&quot;:768,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:306,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zbwO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe6314d0-0aca-445b-afba-7ae5fe352ba4_768x1024.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zbwO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe6314d0-0aca-445b-afba-7ae5fe352ba4_768x1024.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zbwO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe6314d0-0aca-445b-afba-7ae5fe352ba4_768x1024.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zbwO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe6314d0-0aca-445b-afba-7ae5fe352ba4_768x1024.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Kojima&#8217;s vision is sortof like that for the infantryman/special operator, but vastly utterly stranger. What <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> did is it followed a completely bizarre developmental pathway that ONLY makes sense from the perspective of it&#8217;s having started in the 8-bit era of the Original <em>Super Mario Bros</em>.</p><p>In evolutionary terms, even when the original 1998 <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> was released and cutting edge in most respect, its core loop was a weird megalithic prehistoric dinosaur from the Cambrian period of game design. Less like a Deer to a Kangaroo and more Like finding some ancient whale sized cephalopod that had somehow persisted down millions of years into the present.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!akNs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dc25f34-8694-429b-9147-6f3f791f74e8_1280x853.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!akNs!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dc25f34-8694-429b-9147-6f3f791f74e8_1280x853.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!akNs!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dc25f34-8694-429b-9147-6f3f791f74e8_1280x853.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!akNs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dc25f34-8694-429b-9147-6f3f791f74e8_1280x853.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!akNs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dc25f34-8694-429b-9147-6f3f791f74e8_1280x853.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!akNs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dc25f34-8694-429b-9147-6f3f791f74e8_1280x853.jpeg" width="500" height="333.203125" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9dc25f34-8694-429b-9147-6f3f791f74e8_1280x853.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:853,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:500,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;undefined&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="undefined" title="undefined" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!akNs!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dc25f34-8694-429b-9147-6f3f791f74e8_1280x853.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!akNs!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dc25f34-8694-429b-9147-6f3f791f74e8_1280x853.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!akNs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dc25f34-8694-429b-9147-6f3f791f74e8_1280x853.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!akNs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dc25f34-8694-429b-9147-6f3f791f74e8_1280x853.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Video Games are power fantasies&#8230; The fun of them comes from artificially being put in a position in which you can do something very well or with a level of power and authority that you&#8217;d otherwise be unable to do. No one in the world might trust you with command of a billion dollar submarine or million dollar race car, that you&#8217;d crash it immediately&#8230; but play <em>Silent Hunter 3</em> and you can crash it over and over until you get locally good and become a uboat ace sinking hundreds of thousands of tons of allied cargo.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lr-y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79801ef5-6dd2-45b3-828b-ace5fd4f3d20_1024x768.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lr-y!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79801ef5-6dd2-45b3-828b-ace5fd4f3d20_1024x768.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lr-y!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79801ef5-6dd2-45b3-828b-ace5fd4f3d20_1024x768.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lr-y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79801ef5-6dd2-45b3-828b-ace5fd4f3d20_1024x768.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lr-y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79801ef5-6dd2-45b3-828b-ace5fd4f3d20_1024x768.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lr-y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79801ef5-6dd2-45b3-828b-ace5fd4f3d20_1024x768.jpeg" width="454" height="340.5" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/79801ef5-6dd2-45b3-828b-ace5fd4f3d20_1024x768.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:768,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:454,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lr-y!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79801ef5-6dd2-45b3-828b-ace5fd4f3d20_1024x768.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lr-y!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79801ef5-6dd2-45b3-828b-ace5fd4f3d20_1024x768.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lr-y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79801ef5-6dd2-45b3-828b-ace5fd4f3d20_1024x768.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lr-y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79801ef5-6dd2-45b3-828b-ace5fd4f3d20_1024x768.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Shooter games place the player in a position where they can outgun hundreds of enemies easily&#8230; Most later stealth games place you in the position of some perfect ghost who played well can evade all enemies in some power fantasy manner&#8230;</p><p> <em>Metal Gear Solid </em>on the other hand is weirdly frustrating&#8230; Every single one of its first three PlayStation and PlayStation 2 entries is awkward in a way most gamers complain about and actively have to wrestle against&#8230; You can get good at them, but even the act of Aiming you gun even late in the series is a bizarre difficulty often requiring you to hold down 2 or 3 buttons to shoot precisely, and it is almost impossible to do well in the panic of combat. </p><p>I can confidently say, as someone with vanishingly little marksmanship skill, that I am a VASTLY better shooter in real life on a real range than I am in <em>Metal Gear Solid.</em></p><p>Every mechanic is like this. Every aspect of the game awkward or strange&#8230; <em>Metal Gear Solid 3 </em>was re-released with an entirely different camera system because without the radar of the previous games many found it simply impossible to SEE the enemies before the enemies saw them in the jungle. (which was plainly intentional, a lot of the dialogue focuses on going slow, picking out enemies, visualizing space, and dealing with short range encounters in dense jungle, which the camera creates the dynamic of&#8230; but which plebian players found deeply frustrating) </p><p>Likewise the &#8220;One Man Sneaking Mission&#8221; with all weapons &#8220;OSP, On Site Procurement&#8221;, is entirely an artifact of the early game design where programing friendly AI was hard, and you had to unlock new weapons one at at time. The &#8220;ID-Locked firearms&#8221; of the series with biometric locking permissions are not because Hideo Kojima was commentating on Gun-Control, the surveillance state turning free men into slaves, and bizarre California proposals (though he later would in Metal Gear Solid 4) but because in older video games the memory limits wouldn&#8217;t allow for many items you could pickup, and thus he needed to explain why you couldn&#8217;t just grab a fallen enemy&#8217;s weapon.</p><p>No military in the world sends in lone special forces soldiers alone against an entire base or regiment of enemies. They certainly don&#8217;t send you in unarmed. And No soldier in such a position would shrink from picking up the very first firearm an enemy dropped&#8230; The very setup is absurd, and yet that absurdity allows a lot of specific and unique problem solving to be explored. Suddenly unique challenges that might occur once every 2-6 months in an actual military campaign or cumulative strange experiences that might occur in a memoir across decades of a very storied career&#8230; Suddenly all of those can happen in rapid succession across 10-20 hours.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-l8w!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29498735-39d7-43ea-a3d6-bbcb83b55d50_851x309.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-l8w!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29498735-39d7-43ea-a3d6-bbcb83b55d50_851x309.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-l8w!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29498735-39d7-43ea-a3d6-bbcb83b55d50_851x309.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-l8w!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29498735-39d7-43ea-a3d6-bbcb83b55d50_851x309.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-l8w!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29498735-39d7-43ea-a3d6-bbcb83b55d50_851x309.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-l8w!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29498735-39d7-43ea-a3d6-bbcb83b55d50_851x309.png" width="1464" height="531.5816686251469" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/29498735-39d7-43ea-a3d6-bbcb83b55d50_851x309.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:309,&quot;width&quot;:851,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1464,&quot;bytes&quot;:368662,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29498735-39d7-43ea-a3d6-bbcb83b55d50_851x309.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-l8w!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29498735-39d7-43ea-a3d6-bbcb83b55d50_851x309.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-l8w!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29498735-39d7-43ea-a3d6-bbcb83b55d50_851x309.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-l8w!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29498735-39d7-43ea-a3d6-bbcb83b55d50_851x309.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-l8w!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29498735-39d7-43ea-a3d6-bbcb83b55d50_851x309.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Left : 1998&#8217;s Rainbow Six letting you control a 4 man tactical team, with guns, in first-person&#8230; Like real life. Right: Metal Gear Solid, letting you control one person, from weird cinematic 3rd person fixed cameras, unarmed&#8230; Like how women think POV works.</figcaption></figure></div><p>By 1998 with<em> METAL GEAR SOLID 1</em> all of this had already been solved. First person shooters had weapons you could pick up off enemies. And tactical shooters had teammates you could order around and YOLO into the Fatal Funnel. You didn&#8217;t have to go it alone as an unrealistic one man unit.</p><p>But Kojima had developed his strange and archaic game design not in the 90s, but the 80s&#8230; and continued to develop on those original gameplay loops to absurd levels over the following iterations.</p><p>.</p><p>You see the <em>Metal Gear </em>Solid games had a completely different philosophy, like many early videogames the goal isn&#8217;t so much to simulate something satisfyingly and repeatedly&#8230; but to simulate new things that might never have been simulated in any game ever before, and to stack those novel unexpected experiences in a way that creates a new type of simulated experience&#8230; the way people in the 80s and early 90s talked about &#8220;virtual worlds&#8221;. That sense of wonder and possibility you find in early games continues in MGS.</p><p>The Games have dozens, sometimes hundreds of devices with very unique applications, that you&#8217;d almost never see in other games.</p><p>Handguns, Rifles, Sniper Rifles, Rocket Launchers, sure&#8230; but also Parabolic Microphones, Mine Detectors, Disguises, Smoke Grenades, Chaff Grenades (yes man portable chaff), rope, gasmasks, ketchup bottles (which you use to feign a medical emergency while imprisoned&#8230; if you think of that&#8230;), Mousetraps, cartoonish crocodile caps&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hk-_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38db67cb-efef-4b8e-bf50-e6c910fe8ca5_617x731.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hk-_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38db67cb-efef-4b8e-bf50-e6c910fe8ca5_617x731.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hk-_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38db67cb-efef-4b8e-bf50-e6c910fe8ca5_617x731.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hk-_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38db67cb-efef-4b8e-bf50-e6c910fe8ca5_617x731.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hk-_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38db67cb-efef-4b8e-bf50-e6c910fe8ca5_617x731.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hk-_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38db67cb-efef-4b8e-bf50-e6c910fe8ca5_617x731.png" width="477" height="565.1329011345218" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/38db67cb-efef-4b8e-bf50-e6c910fe8ca5_617x731.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:731,&quot;width&quot;:617,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:477,&quot;bytes&quot;:488155,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38db67cb-efef-4b8e-bf50-e6c910fe8ca5_617x731.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hk-_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38db67cb-efef-4b8e-bf50-e6c910fe8ca5_617x731.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hk-_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38db67cb-efef-4b8e-bf50-e6c910fe8ca5_617x731.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hk-_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38db67cb-efef-4b8e-bf50-e6c910fe8ca5_617x731.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hk-_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38db67cb-efef-4b8e-bf50-e6c910fe8ca5_617x731.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">A recurring Kojima gag is character reacting and NOT reacting to the absurdity of the game&#8217;s world. Characters serious actions interpreted as jokes and jokes interpreted as serious.</figcaption></figure></div><p>And none of these items really control well. The guns are less satisfying than other games and vastly harder to use, all the items are janky.</p><p>Yet they&#8217;re all multipurpose and useful, and interact with the environments in ways no other game has ever simulated, in weird ways no one has ever thought to make these things interact&#8230;</p><p>But this is weirdly MORE accurate to modern warfare, where all the various odd weapon systems and tools soldiers use are largely themselves awkward bizarre minigames and challenges. Where remote controlling a drone or Robot logistical cart, or using armored backhoes to dig a trench&#8230; bears little relation in terms of skills to everything else on the battlefield, yet all the complications and dangers of the rest of the battlefield are impacting your ability to do it.</p><p>Tracking down a person of interest by listening for their pace-maker in a crowd with a parabolic directional microphone you have to conceal&#8230; is not the type of thing you&#8217;d ever do in any other video game, but is exactly the kind of finicky bizarre thing you do find in real life espionage memoirs. </p><p>A lot of Kojima&#8217;s world is goofy ridiculous bullshit, but a lot of war, and espionage especially, is itself goofy ridiculous bullshit&#8230; Often disturbingly the most effective being the most goofy (The raw number of raids and assassinations that have been enabled by various special operators wearing drag&#8230; ask the Mossad).</p><p>This bizarre maximalist view of Espionage and Tactical warfare, in which Kojima tries to force in every dinky aspect of EVERYTHING military and espionage, or every oddity he&#8217;s found in a historical book&#8230; creates its own unique experience for players first encountering his games&#8230; They&#8217;re encouraged to improvise and test things out, many different options work&#8230;. And also many different things will trip them up.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bcon!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feaaa5610-d1b5-4e74-93bc-9c96c9bf28a6_1500x1000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bcon!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feaaa5610-d1b5-4e74-93bc-9c96c9bf28a6_1500x1000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bcon!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feaaa5610-d1b5-4e74-93bc-9c96c9bf28a6_1500x1000.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bcon!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feaaa5610-d1b5-4e74-93bc-9c96c9bf28a6_1500x1000.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bcon!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feaaa5610-d1b5-4e74-93bc-9c96c9bf28a6_1500x1000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bcon!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feaaa5610-d1b5-4e74-93bc-9c96c9bf28a6_1500x1000.jpeg" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eaaa5610-d1b5-4e74-93bc-9c96c9bf28a6_1500x1000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bcon!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feaaa5610-d1b5-4e74-93bc-9c96c9bf28a6_1500x1000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bcon!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feaaa5610-d1b5-4e74-93bc-9c96c9bf28a6_1500x1000.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bcon!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feaaa5610-d1b5-4e74-93bc-9c96c9bf28a6_1500x1000.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bcon!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feaaa5610-d1b5-4e74-93bc-9c96c9bf28a6_1500x1000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">In spite of America&#8217;s extensive experience with booby traps and IEDs in Vietnam and the War on Terror&#8230; Metal Gear Solid is one of the few series to actually include enemies who use unconventional Area Denial Weapons.</figcaption></figure></div><p>The best way to get past lasers sensors in one game might be to see them with Infrared Goggles&#8230; but they can also be seen by using cigarettes and the related smoke, or by shooting a nearby fire extinguisher or bag of flour to release particulate, or by simply going around the other way. A player who explores outside in a storm will have their character catch a cold and sneeze at inopportune times when mere meters from a guard on patrol they&#8217;re hiding from, they have to think to use the (until then useless) cold medication they found hours before. In one instance hiding in EXACTLY ONE SPOT on a ship by pressing up against a wall will cause a rusted pipe to fall causing all surrounding guards to check on the sound (who can be hidden from if you think fast)&#8230; Nowhere else in any of the other games does any such pipe occur and nothing warns the player aside from some coloring that it is rusted and will fall. In one game an entire enemy outpost can be infiltrated, their food stores and armories raided, TNT taken to blow up the armory, the food stores, and a parked helicopter nearby that guards in that area will be low on armaments and starving for the rest of the playthrough, and that the helicopter will not be able to search for you later&#8230; Or the entire outpost can by bypassed by crawling around the outside through the grass. Several of these mechanics only occur that one time. </p><p>Yes many subsequent games would imitate this design, but this was 2004!</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>In <em>Snake Eater</em> the player must alter and manage their camouflage, hunt their own food, and perform first aid and field surgeries on themselves to recover from injuries&#8230; You can get hit with leaches while swimming and you&#8217;ll lose stamina until you notice the parasites (which might take a while). And using tranquilizers you can capture live animals like venomous Snakes, and then release them by throwing them into a room with an enemy as a distraction.</p><p>These mechanics layer in unexpected ways along with the pre-scripted story, such that for the first SEVERAL playthroughs you actually have to use your brain and treat the world as if it&#8217;s real, not just a bunch of systems you&#8217;re abusing&#8230; you have no way to know you&#8217;ll catch a cold out in the rain, or get leaches on you swimming through the swamp&#8230; all of these have to be judged as you&#8217;d judge real life and interacted with as you&#8217;d interact with real places. And catch via keen observation of what happens (you might not clue in the random sneezes will alert guards, until it happens, at which point you&#8217;ve seen your character sneeze 5 times without really noticing, the same way you might disregard your own sniffles). You can get hit by hornets nest and poisonous snakes, however you can also wield both of these against enemy guards if you&#8217;re creative.</p><p>You can hide yourself in a shipping box inside a truck, and then get transported to the other side of the base if you use it right.</p><p>MUCH of this is unrealistic and cartoony in many ways&#8230; and yet in other ways its weirdly more realistic, and it certainly forces you to THINK in a tactical survival espionage frame.  And this is where Kojima is weirdly inspired. </p><p>In Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, and 3&#8230; There are no levels. Even most Games that pride themselves on their realism to this day, still have plainly distinctive levels. Sometimes they call them missions, or scenarios, but they fill the same role as levels in previous games. Bite sized chucks of an hour or two of one setting or another that break-off or end so another bite sized chuck can begin, and give the game time to load. Now sure the Metal Gear Solid games have loading screens but aside from that&#8230; Each one is continuous. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A2sI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffafcbf47-0f15-4e04-bf36-672212db201c_6400x3200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A2sI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffafcbf47-0f15-4e04-bf36-672212db201c_6400x3200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A2sI!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffafcbf47-0f15-4e04-bf36-672212db201c_6400x3200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A2sI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffafcbf47-0f15-4e04-bf36-672212db201c_6400x3200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A2sI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffafcbf47-0f15-4e04-bf36-672212db201c_6400x3200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A2sI!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffafcbf47-0f15-4e04-bf36-672212db201c_6400x3200.png" width="1200" height="600" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fafcbf47-0f15-4e04-bf36-672212db201c_6400x3200.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:728,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A2sI!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffafcbf47-0f15-4e04-bf36-672212db201c_6400x3200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A2sI!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffafcbf47-0f15-4e04-bf36-672212db201c_6400x3200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A2sI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffafcbf47-0f15-4e04-bf36-672212db201c_6400x3200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A2sI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffafcbf47-0f15-4e04-bf36-672212db201c_6400x3200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/vgcartography/art/Metal-Gear-Solid-Shadow-Moses-Mission-Map-968008032">This is an Amazing Map and breakdown of the First Metal Gear Solid</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>The Original <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> is ONE MISSION, from initial infiltration to daring escape&#8230; It&#8217;s all happening alone on the edge of the world on the same secret military  base in Alaska. Metal Gear Solid 2 is TWO Missions, that take place in the same location and continuing the same story and characters. Metal Gear Solid 3 is back to one mission, with a prologue that takes place in the same location with the same characters. </p><p>(sadly the later games would break this format and homogenize with the rest of triple-A gaming)</p><p>That&#8217;s 15-40 hours (depending on how quickly you play) and probably weeks of your life&#8230; Where all the decisions, all the revelations, all the overlapping motivations and scheming, all the changes to the location, all your survival decisions and those of the plot, everything you found, or missed&#8230; All of its adding up unbroken. If you use up all three of a rare item on hour 3 of a playthrough, you&#8217;re going the rest of the game without them. If you miss a core gadget or item like the Thermal Goggles early in the game&#8230; You&#8217;re going to have to solve the rest of your problems in the dark. If you&#8217;re overzealous with the mine detector or heart beat sensor and drain the batteries&#8230; It might be 8 hours until you find more batteries&#8230; if you find more batteries.</p><p>That 15-40 hour long mission, actually lines up way closer with the length of a lot of ACTUAL real life insertion missions and limited operations, and the complications, interactions with various factions, motivations and logistical hurdles that are allowed to add up and compound in that time is far closer to stories of real life special forces missions that have complications or go wrong, or need to adapt on the fly to some new turn of events than basically any other game out there.</p><p>Many challenge runners will actively bypass difficult challenges of gameplay (that might cause them to get caught or die) by deciding NOT to get some of the most important items in the game, that they&#8217;d rather muddle through improvising solutions to problems than risk their neck (and having to go back and restart the run) just because they want thermals, or a mine detector, or the good rifle.</p><p>That&#8217;s relatively rare for a videogame&#8230; but it&#8217;s unheard of in military games (which tend to focus on quick action segments), and it is extraordinary the mechanics that can be buried in this scarcity.</p><p>Thus in-spite of the absurdity of the &#8220;One man sneaking mission&#8221; with &#8220;all weapons procure on site&#8221;&#8230; The games simulate a SERE (Survival Escape Resistance and Evasion) mindset, a special operations &#8220;ask why&#8221;  mindset, and a lot of the intangible lessons instructors try to communicate in a way that even most dedicated tactical survival games really don&#8217;t because their focus on &#8220;realism&#8221; and action gameplay limits the room for real creativity.</p><p>Kojima makes you backtrack and sneak around and get frustrated, or bored, or exasperated at tasks in a way that&#8217;s very true to life, and which other game developers would flinch at the idea of ever upsetting their players that way.</p><p>The raw CONTINUITY of the Metal Gear Solid games creates a venue for exploring ideas of sustainment, individual logistics, tactical problem solving, battlefield creativity, setbacks, recovery, and the edge cases of espionage and individual tactical skills that would not exist in other games for decades afterwards&#8230;. While Kojima&#8217;s script and ambition aggressively pushing new complications and themes, and types and sub-specialization of warfare to the front.</p><p>It creates a vision of what a soldier IS and what exactly it is they&#8217;re navigating and what it means to fight that is utterly unique both in games but also in fiction more widely and even real life doctrine.</p><p>It is vastly more than the sum of its parts and the parts that are weird or janky or unrealistic are amongst the most important for forcing that improvisation and adaptation and tactical decision making.</p><p><strong>In the exact same way that Chess is not accurate simulation of the maneuver warfare capabilities of castles, cavalry, clergymen, or your wife&#8230; but is an amazing teaching tool for the fundamentals of strategy&#8230; The Metal Gear solid games are not &#8220;realistic&#8221; simulations of modern special operations, but they are wonderful tools for teaching concepts.</strong></p><p>.</p><p>And disturbingly rather than the games becoming more realistic and coming to resemble reality, reality has come to resemble the games.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4FEw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd17f7b09-d6a5-4a9b-b021-9fc347f391f1_1192x383.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4FEw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd17f7b09-d6a5-4a9b-b021-9fc347f391f1_1192x383.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4FEw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd17f7b09-d6a5-4a9b-b021-9fc347f391f1_1192x383.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4FEw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd17f7b09-d6a5-4a9b-b021-9fc347f391f1_1192x383.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4FEw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd17f7b09-d6a5-4a9b-b021-9fc347f391f1_1192x383.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4FEw!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd17f7b09-d6a5-4a9b-b021-9fc347f391f1_1192x383.png" width="1200" height="385.5704697986577" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d17f7b09-d6a5-4a9b-b021-9fc347f391f1_1192x383.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:383,&quot;width&quot;:1192,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:365310,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd17f7b09-d6a5-4a9b-b021-9fc347f391f1_1192x383.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4FEw!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd17f7b09-d6a5-4a9b-b021-9fc347f391f1_1192x383.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4FEw!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd17f7b09-d6a5-4a9b-b021-9fc347f391f1_1192x383.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4FEw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd17f7b09-d6a5-4a9b-b021-9fc347f391f1_1192x383.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4FEw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd17f7b09-d6a5-4a9b-b021-9fc347f391f1_1192x383.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h1>Part 4: Warfare is the Continuation of Kojima By Other Means</h1><p>Hideo Kojima Holds the distinction of having predicted the FPV Drone revolution, not once but twice.</p><p>In Metal Gear Solid 2 Hideo Kojima picked out maybe one of the most obscure failed spy technologies the Sikorsky Cypher&#8230; A UAV from 1987 that had only two prototypes ever made&#8230;</p><p>And then he included them as enemies in his game from 2001.  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jV1m!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c97e0a1-c17c-416e-8487-a63a73cb6d0d_997x722.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jV1m!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c97e0a1-c17c-416e-8487-a63a73cb6d0d_997x722.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jV1m!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c97e0a1-c17c-416e-8487-a63a73cb6d0d_997x722.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jV1m!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c97e0a1-c17c-416e-8487-a63a73cb6d0d_997x722.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jV1m!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c97e0a1-c17c-416e-8487-a63a73cb6d0d_997x722.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jV1m!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c97e0a1-c17c-416e-8487-a63a73cb6d0d_997x722.png" width="997" height="722" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5c97e0a1-c17c-416e-8487-a63a73cb6d0d_997x722.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:722,&quot;width&quot;:997,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:258667,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c97e0a1-c17c-416e-8487-a63a73cb6d0d_997x722.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jV1m!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c97e0a1-c17c-416e-8487-a63a73cb6d0d_997x722.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jV1m!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c97e0a1-c17c-416e-8487-a63a73cb6d0d_997x722.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jV1m!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c97e0a1-c17c-416e-8487-a63a73cb6d0d_997x722.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jV1m!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c97e0a1-c17c-416e-8487-a63a73cb6d0d_997x722.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>That&#8217;s right. The US anticipated the small drone revolution that ISIS and other non-state actors would exploit in the 2010s and would define the Ukraine war in the 2020s&#8230; In the 1980s! </p><p>And then they cancelled the program and were caught off guard by Sunni-militias employing consumer technology in 2015.</p><p>But Kojima saw this technology, wanted a scifi robotic enemy to mix things up&#8230;. And derived a shocking amount of quadcopter drone warfare from first principle 15 years before ISIS ever had the idea of Using Chinese DJI devices in combat.</p><p>The threat of the drones in Metal Gear Solid 2 is not that they&#8217;ll attack you, but that they&#8217;ll spot you and alert other assets. Some of the Cyphers have guns on them (Kamikaze drones not being a twinkle the Nagorno-Karabakh yet)&#8230; but the real threat is that one of them spotting you will bring down tactical teams of people and multiple other drones.</p><p>This primary threat of the drone: that of the Drone as a spotter in a kill-chain, is one that&#8217;s incredibly difficult to communicate in basically any other system of gameplay&#8230; It only works in a stealth game where slow deliberate tactical maneuvers are the point, and the threat isn&#8217;t any particular enemy, but that they&#8217;ll alert a wider ecosystem of tactical teams and other assets to draw them on your position. </p><p>But even in other stealth games like <em>Splinter Cell</em> or <em>Hitman</em>, the sudden introduction of new non-human entities might break the gameplay&#8230; but the entire point of Metal Gear Solid, the entire Kojima vision, the fact it&#8217;s a &#8220;Realistic&#8221; (LOL) Tactical Action game&#8230; That still has boss battles with increasingly weird Bee-Men, Vampires, Floating Psychic-Wizards, Cyborg Ninjas, Cowboy Gunslingers, 160 year old Super-Snipers from the US Civil War, and Giant Fighting Robots&#8230; </p><p>That very weirdness and fantastical unreality, the fact that it&#8217;s about using real life espionage and military tools and your own tactical thinking to overcome increasingly impossible and ridiculous unexpected threats&#8230; allows it to create novel tactical puzzles and problems in which it CAN predict future battlefield situations. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P7Vd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b9e04e8-cad0-4200-965a-5d58a8d8376f_1000x563.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P7Vd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b9e04e8-cad0-4200-965a-5d58a8d8376f_1000x563.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P7Vd!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b9e04e8-cad0-4200-965a-5d58a8d8376f_1000x563.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P7Vd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b9e04e8-cad0-4200-965a-5d58a8d8376f_1000x563.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P7Vd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b9e04e8-cad0-4200-965a-5d58a8d8376f_1000x563.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P7Vd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b9e04e8-cad0-4200-965a-5d58a8d8376f_1000x563.webp" width="1000" height="563" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0b9e04e8-cad0-4200-965a-5d58a8d8376f_1000x563.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:563,&quot;width&quot;:1000,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Mgs2hd1&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Mgs2hd1" title="Mgs2hd1" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P7Vd!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b9e04e8-cad0-4200-965a-5d58a8d8376f_1000x563.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P7Vd!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b9e04e8-cad0-4200-965a-5d58a8d8376f_1000x563.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P7Vd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b9e04e8-cad0-4200-965a-5d58a8d8376f_1000x563.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P7Vd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b9e04e8-cad0-4200-965a-5d58a8d8376f_1000x563.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Thus, IN 2001! Gamers were reasoning through the tactical value and danger of vertical hovering spotter UAVs, their superior optics as unique threats, their ability to draw in other killer drones and assets to your position, and their RECORDING of the battlefield as a PROPAGANDA THREAT at the strategic level outside the operation.</p><p>The most important thing One of these Cypher-UAVs does in Metal Gear Solid 2 isn&#8217;t alerting any enemy&#8230; It&#8217;s taking a recording WHICH DOES NOT EFFECT THE GAMEPLAY OR TACTICAL OPERATION AT ALL&#8230; But results in a catastrophic mission failure at the Strategic level in the plot of the game, because of the use of that recording within media and narrative manipulation to assign blame, imply guilt, cover the actions of other actors, and create and manipulate the motivations of all the subsequent actions in the story of the game. </p><p>Classic 5th Generation Warfare.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dioR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73d7e3b4-dbd9-4856-a0a9-1ad046277472_1009x613.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dioR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73d7e3b4-dbd9-4856-a0a9-1ad046277472_1009x613.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dioR!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73d7e3b4-dbd9-4856-a0a9-1ad046277472_1009x613.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dioR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73d7e3b4-dbd9-4856-a0a9-1ad046277472_1009x613.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dioR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73d7e3b4-dbd9-4856-a0a9-1ad046277472_1009x613.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dioR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73d7e3b4-dbd9-4856-a0a9-1ad046277472_1009x613.png" width="1009" height="613" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/73d7e3b4-dbd9-4856-a0a9-1ad046277472_1009x613.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:613,&quot;width&quot;:1009,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:540697,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73d7e3b4-dbd9-4856-a0a9-1ad046277472_1009x613.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dioR!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73d7e3b4-dbd9-4856-a0a9-1ad046277472_1009x613.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dioR!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73d7e3b4-dbd9-4856-a0a9-1ad046277472_1009x613.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dioR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73d7e3b4-dbd9-4856-a0a9-1ad046277472_1009x613.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dioR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73d7e3b4-dbd9-4856-a0a9-1ad046277472_1009x613.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>This is the obvious example&#8230; but Again Kojima predicted small UAV Drone-Warfare TWICE, the first time he predicted it was with the &#8220;NIKITA Missile Launcher&#8221; a fictional weapon system that had ZERO real world analog (Its name derives from the Luc Besson film <em>La Femme Nikita</em> a Kojima favorite)&#8230; but functions within the game and the flavor text functions EXACTLY how Quadcopter FPV Kamikaze Drones work today. </p><p>Uncannily so: Right down to being disabled and blocked by signal jamming.</p><div id="youtube2-ifVrI69zFl8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;ifVrI69zFl8&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ifVrI69zFl8?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>This was almost certainly an accident of Kojima wanting to include a guided-missile puzzle sequence, but not being able to justify it with how actual anti-tank missiles work (which can&#8217;t make multiply 90 degree turns, nor maneuver at all in the confined space of a Metal Gear Solid Game map) so he just made up a system:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WCZ3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4000e3a2-5756-4275-9d9f-14216f2cabd4_784x783.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WCZ3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4000e3a2-5756-4275-9d9f-14216f2cabd4_784x783.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WCZ3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4000e3a2-5756-4275-9d9f-14216f2cabd4_784x783.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WCZ3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4000e3a2-5756-4275-9d9f-14216f2cabd4_784x783.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WCZ3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4000e3a2-5756-4275-9d9f-14216f2cabd4_784x783.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WCZ3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4000e3a2-5756-4275-9d9f-14216f2cabd4_784x783.png" width="456" height="455.4183673469388" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4000e3a2-5756-4275-9d9f-14216f2cabd4_784x783.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:783,&quot;width&quot;:784,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:456,&quot;bytes&quot;:206634,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4000e3a2-5756-4275-9d9f-14216f2cabd4_784x783.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WCZ3!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4000e3a2-5756-4275-9d9f-14216f2cabd4_784x783.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WCZ3!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4000e3a2-5756-4275-9d9f-14216f2cabd4_784x783.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WCZ3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4000e3a2-5756-4275-9d9f-14216f2cabd4_784x783.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WCZ3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4000e3a2-5756-4275-9d9f-14216f2cabd4_784x783.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><p>&#8220;And was primarily a scouting device&#8221;. Again Kojima&#8217;s mind just thinks in the counter-intuitive way actual warfare invariably operates. The Exact same way Quadcopter Drones would function first and foremost for intelligence gathering and artillery spotters, Kojima predicts that his hilarious video-gamey &#8220;Unusually slow&#8221; &#8220;Miniature cruise missile&#8221;, if it actually existed, would be used exactly how drones moving at the same pace, with the exact same sized warhead, were actually used.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SvTM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40ab9ebd-9568-4ca3-9ef5-692a9c6a4091_850x566.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SvTM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40ab9ebd-9568-4ca3-9ef5-692a9c6a4091_850x566.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SvTM!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40ab9ebd-9568-4ca3-9ef5-692a9c6a4091_850x566.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SvTM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40ab9ebd-9568-4ca3-9ef5-692a9c6a4091_850x566.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SvTM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40ab9ebd-9568-4ca3-9ef5-692a9c6a4091_850x566.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SvTM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40ab9ebd-9568-4ca3-9ef5-692a9c6a4091_850x566.jpeg" width="850" height="566" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/40ab9ebd-9568-4ca3-9ef5-692a9c6a4091_850x566.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:566,&quot;width&quot;:850,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SvTM!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40ab9ebd-9568-4ca3-9ef5-692a9c6a4091_850x566.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SvTM!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40ab9ebd-9568-4ca3-9ef5-692a9c6a4091_850x566.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SvTM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40ab9ebd-9568-4ca3-9ef5-692a9c6a4091_850x566.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SvTM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40ab9ebd-9568-4ca3-9ef5-692a9c6a4091_850x566.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">This IS a Nikita Missile&#8230; it behaves in exactly the manner Kojima predicted. Again: Warfare is the Continuation of Kojima by Other Means.</figcaption></figure></div><p></p><p>But the truly fascinating thing is what happens when when we combine everything Kojima predicted.</p><p>How the totality of his vision predicted the modern soldier.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-FW_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dd4d351-4a6b-47bb-b4cb-0346c05d238b_4032x3024.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-FW_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dd4d351-4a6b-47bb-b4cb-0346c05d238b_4032x3024.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-FW_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dd4d351-4a6b-47bb-b4cb-0346c05d238b_4032x3024.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-FW_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dd4d351-4a6b-47bb-b4cb-0346c05d238b_4032x3024.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-FW_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dd4d351-4a6b-47bb-b4cb-0346c05d238b_4032x3024.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-FW_!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dd4d351-4a6b-47bb-b4cb-0346c05d238b_4032x3024.jpeg" width="1200" height="900" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9dd4d351-4a6b-47bb-b4cb-0346c05d238b_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:1726446,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dd4d351-4a6b-47bb-b4cb-0346c05d238b_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-FW_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dd4d351-4a6b-47bb-b4cb-0346c05d238b_4032x3024.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-FW_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dd4d351-4a6b-47bb-b4cb-0346c05d238b_4032x3024.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-FW_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dd4d351-4a6b-47bb-b4cb-0346c05d238b_4032x3024.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-FW_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dd4d351-4a6b-47bb-b4cb-0346c05d238b_4032x3024.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Yes that is a homebrew anti-air cannon made from 8 AK conventional rifles in the top left. Also yes, those are famous Identical twin influencers/AFU soldiers&#8230; not AI replicating the faces&#8230; also not secret Bill Gates Zio-Epstein-cloning biolab stuff, that I know of.</figcaption></figure></div><h1>Part 5: We&#8217;re All FoxHound Now: Life is Tactical Espionage Action</h1><p>The uncanny similarity between the narratives, larger than life personalities, elaborate backstories, and even &#8220;rule of cool&#8221; use of bizarre sports equipment, unique tools, and improvised heavy weapons that you see across Metal Gear Solid games&#8230;</p><p>This &#8220;Could&#8221; be chocked up to Kojima&#8217;s Japanese narrative instincts, which resembles less the post-Christian moralizing reification of Hobbits, Moral Sacrifice, and Survival (think of all the plotless stories about ordinary people caught up in things larger than themselves, heroes as ordinary people who do &#8220;what&#8217;s right&#8221;)&#8230; Than it resembles pre-Christian or early Christian classical-heroic tales of great men seeking revenge, being deceived, enduring recurring hardship&#8230; The centrality of romance, or betrayed romance, or unconsummated romance to the <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> series resembles nothing in western stories, but does resemble <em>The Odyssey </em>or <em>Le Morte D&#8217;Arthur</em> or the Sagas&#8230;</p><p>That Japan as a martial Shinto religious/narrative culture just represents these aspects of war and life more easily than modern westerners do, just as early Pagan Martial cultures did.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ncxu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8c20e05-4ad6-4c28-9629-8321983518b7_1920x1080.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ncxu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8c20e05-4ad6-4c28-9629-8321983518b7_1920x1080.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ncxu!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8c20e05-4ad6-4c28-9629-8321983518b7_1920x1080.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ncxu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8c20e05-4ad6-4c28-9629-8321983518b7_1920x1080.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ncxu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8c20e05-4ad6-4c28-9629-8321983518b7_1920x1080.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ncxu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8c20e05-4ad6-4c28-9629-8321983518b7_1920x1080.jpeg" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d8c20e05-4ad6-4c28-9629-8321983518b7_1920x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ncxu!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8c20e05-4ad6-4c28-9629-8321983518b7_1920x1080.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ncxu!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8c20e05-4ad6-4c28-9629-8321983518b7_1920x1080.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ncxu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8c20e05-4ad6-4c28-9629-8321983518b7_1920x1080.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ncxu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8c20e05-4ad6-4c28-9629-8321983518b7_1920x1080.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Indeed Kojima signposts many of his Shinto themes, including Ninjas, Samurai, and other Japanese coded oddities in the game to highlight these themes.</figcaption></figure></div><p>That worlds in which multiple sides have many rivalled unique classical heroes with their own skillsets and romantic motivations is the default for how a Japanese man would imagine modern US special operations (as opposed to &#8220;good vs. evil&#8221; stories in the west)</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Likewise maybe Kojima is just the greatest tech nerd on military history matters, and his conception of all the odds and ends of weird military and sports equipment all playing their part was there in tons of different military fictional and non-fictional works and he just drew it out and gamified them. Highlighting the dynamics to absurdity in a way that whilst not entirely realistic, put things in informative contrast.</p><p>A skeptic might say that maybe he wasn&#8217;t predictive, but just very observant.</p><p>.</p><p>HOWEVER&#8230; I cannot accept as mere coincidence the past decade of warfare.</p><p>Sometime around 2020, Kojima&#8217;s <em>Metal Gear</em> franchise stopped simply being descriptive or even predictive of individual events, and instead warfare itself started becoming more like <em>Metal Gear Solid</em>.</p><p>The things which were UNREALISTIC about Metal Gear Solid, not speculative, actively unrealistic&#8230; Video Game conceits and jokes&#8230; things which Kojima himself (i think?) never intended to be a vision of the future, have themselves become the future.</p><p>.</p><p>&#8220;One Man Infiltration Missions&#8221; are a thing now. And not just in New York for lone assassins and extremists:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;9d5cd3ac-d4da-43bd-ba54-7f6027cc41bc&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The United-Healthcare Assassin Has Been Caught (Allegedly)&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Getting Away With It: The Art of Urban Infiltration and Exfiltration. Or the Tragedy of Luigi Mangione&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-02-21T03:13:09.702Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53cbe2d5-9519-4f7c-a6aa-70b865f64ac7_945x599.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/getting-away-with-it-the-art-of-urban&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:152862583,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:150,&quot;comment_count&quot;:43,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p> </p><p> The Reality of the vast grey-zone of modern battlefields like Ukraine and ubiquity of drone surveillance has made it that one, two, and three man teams (Yes just like Snake, Otacon, and Meryl&#8230; Raiden, Snake, and Otacon&#8230; Or Snake and Eva) have gone from something militaries almost never do &#8212;favoring 8-12 man fireteams and 40 man platoons&#8212; to now being the default because larger elements are easily detected and prime targets for artillery and drones&#8230; at which point having wounded will pin you down and you&#8217;ll take more casualties from more artillery and drones.</p><p>Ukraine has instead taken to dropping off soldiers at insertion points in 1s, 2s, and 3s, and having them sneak from hide site to hide site, position to position all the way up to the frontline engagement point across 3-12 kms of grey-contested land hiding from drones, spotters, snipers, and other threats in the narrow few hour windows of sunup, sundown, and fog rolls. </p><p>And the Devil take you if you get lost.</p><p></p><p>Yes almost the exact same length of distance as &#8220;Operation Snake Eater&#8221; (whose total game map was 4 kms in width broken up by loading screens).</p><p>And yes many people are quite literally out there ALONE, by conscious decision or because their partner got killed or lost,  as attested by all the heartbreaking drone footage of lone soldiers being killed by dropper drones and FPV  kamikazes.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5E9W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59582b0d-8719-4cc9-88d6-b43a3370e328_1344x659.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5E9W!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59582b0d-8719-4cc9-88d6-b43a3370e328_1344x659.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5E9W!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59582b0d-8719-4cc9-88d6-b43a3370e328_1344x659.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5E9W!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59582b0d-8719-4cc9-88d6-b43a3370e328_1344x659.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5E9W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59582b0d-8719-4cc9-88d6-b43a3370e328_1344x659.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5E9W!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59582b0d-8719-4cc9-88d6-b43a3370e328_1344x659.png" width="716" height="351.07440476190476" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/59582b0d-8719-4cc9-88d6-b43a3370e328_1344x659.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:659,&quot;width&quot;:1344,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:716,&quot;bytes&quot;:430563,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59582b0d-8719-4cc9-88d6-b43a3370e328_1344x659.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5E9W!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59582b0d-8719-4cc9-88d6-b43a3370e328_1344x659.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5E9W!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59582b0d-8719-4cc9-88d6-b43a3370e328_1344x659.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5E9W!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59582b0d-8719-4cc9-88d6-b43a3370e328_1344x659.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5E9W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59582b0d-8719-4cc9-88d6-b43a3370e328_1344x659.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Russian soldier fleeing Ukrainian drone (The perspective is the drone&#8217;s camera)</figcaption></figure></div><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>If you were at all in contact with military culture I cannot express to you how much of a radical rupture this is from everything that came before.</p><p>Throughout the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s it was a staple of Military training to explicitly call out movies and videogames&#8230; And tell impressionable recruits and kids who are looking at military life, in no uncertain terms, that real life infantry isn&#8217;t like <em>Rambo </em>or <em>Doom </em>or <em>Call of Duty, </em>that everything in war is done as a team&#8230;</p><p><em><strong>&#8220;Two is one and one is none. You carry two knifes on you, just like you need two people in the most basic fire position, and at least two such positions to hold it.&#8221; </strong></em>Is a common bit of infantry wisdom. <em><strong>&#8220;Where&#8217;s your battle buddy!?&#8221;</strong></em> or some non-Canadian equivalent, has been screamed at many a private.</p><p>Indeed the PS2 Game <em>SOCOM: US Navy SEALS</em> even <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pKoPscVr7o">came with a half hour documentary about the Navy SEALS</a> in which more than one interviewee told impressionable young gamers that SEALS isn&#8217;t like a video game, everything&#8217;s done as a team (unaware the game that the doc would launch with was actually a TACTICAL TEAM based shooter).</p><div id="youtube2-2pKoPscVr7o" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;2pKoPscVr7o&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/2pKoPscVr7o?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>.</p><p>That&#8217;s out the window now&#8230; Or rather the very nature of the Teams have changed.</p><p>Small units have to insert in 1s to 3s but they do so with radio and planning from teams of people and support staff who can give them insights, warnings, and up to date intelligence via radio and other comms&#8230; Whilst the actual fighting positions right at the front are dug in and allow for multiple such teams to converge and form some concentration of fire for assaults and other engagements, moments where they can reverse the dynamic from hiding and fleeing to standing and fighting at moments of concentrated firepower, consolidate victories or confirm kills, and then extract safely in 1-3 man teams again employing the same stealth techniques before gunning it when you finally get back into a vehicle  and are at maybe the most vulnerable point, paranoidly looking for drones before you can make your final escape at as fast as your driver dares to gun it. </p><p>It is the exact same &#8220;gameplay&#8221; loop as <em>Metal Gear Solid</em>: Briefing, infiltration, (CODEC update, further infiltration, meetup/interaction cutscene, boss-battle/technical problem,)&gt;repeat&#8230; exfiltration, high danger escape, debriefing.</p><p>Indeed the recent Ukraine War Documentary <em>2000 Meters to Andrivka</em> basically shows exactly this type of warfare.</p><p>Small teams of 2-4  moving and operating basically alone with all the coordination provided over radio and via drones, and only consolidating at core points into larger groups for assaults and other reasons. Their support team over radio vastly outnumbering the people in the field.</p><div id="youtube2-Nf4Cgy56slU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Nf4Cgy56slU&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Nf4Cgy56slU?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>.</p><p>And no! I don&#8217;t think this is me being cute or something that was the case in the 90s, or an example of Kojima just &#8220;predicting&#8221; the future of warfare.</p><p>Rather I think Warfare became vastly more like a Kojima game&#8230; because of the same forces that made Kojima design his game that way. </p><p>Indeed I think this evolution may have developed and been intuitive to soldiers on the frontline of Ukraine and elsewhere, specifically because they grew up playing videogames like <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> and others that adopted it&#8217;s model.</p><p>The core challenge Kojima faced in developing <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> is its byline: &#8220;Tactical Espionage Action&#8221;, and its later byline: &#8220;Tactical Espionage Operations&#8221;.</p><p>How much tactical thinking, situational awareness, unexpected twists, technical challenges, and fast paced complex changes and revelations can you throw at the young military minded adolescent and young adult before they&#8217;re completely lost, give into learned helplessness, give up, and stop trying.</p><p>How much additional information can you feed them before they zone out? How little direction can you give them before they wander off? How difficult a challenge can you present before they stop being able to solve it a reliable enough precent of the time? How long can you leave them on their own with only a distant objective? How long can they go without seeing the enemy or being reminded before they give into carelessness and screw up?</p><p>These are the exact same questions Ukraine and Russia had to ask as drones and shifts in the information battlespace shrunk the optimal dismounted unit from 10-40 riflemen, to 1-3.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>The Modern Battlespace is DEFINED by how much intelligence, independence of action, tactical forethought, navigational creativity, technical know-how, adaptability, survival judgement, perseverance, and sheer SNAP life or death will to fight you can drag out of adolescents/young adults, or even largely untrained middle-aged recruits (who we&#8217;d expect to perform even worse)&#8230;</p><p>As I&#8217;ve written before <em><strong><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/yes-individual-iq-matters-in-war">Intelligence is the single most important attribute of the modern fighter</a></strong></em>:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;9d00a396-2c52-4145-97a5-cef31faf1f49&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Yes. Individual IQ Matters in War. It is Maybe the Single Most Important Factor.&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2024-09-21T21:57:06.573Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dt9Z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba39dba9-18a3-43fc-8241-78bd57b64731_851x629.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/yes-individual-iq-matters-in-war&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:149224803,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:435,&quot;comment_count&quot;:140,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>.</p><p>And Hideo Kojima has been studying and experimenting to draw that tactical judgement and decision making out ordinary adolescents SINCE THE 80s.</p><p>He&#8217;s been experimenting with how much insane military history and detail and concepts you can pour into these young impressionable minds before they turn into mush&#8230; Then has gone even further to purposefully do that, to see how they respond to being completely yanked about, and train them to adapt to that&#8230; and then further train them to fight through the information overload.</p><p>In a lot of ways it seems inevitable that as tactical realities force more independence of action and individual judgement and decisions in warfare, that the tactics and skills of the soldier would converge on what Kojima already drew out of 2+ generations of young people now.</p><p>This would on it&#8217;s own make Kojima maybe one of the most important, if weird and rather siloed, military thinkers and theorists of the 21st century&#8230;</p><p></p><p>But where the real genius is, is he followed this chain of logic to it&#8217;s most horrifying conclusions.</p><p>Kojima not only anticipated the core role of individual intelligence, will, judgement, and independence of action on the future battlefield&#8230; he saw the nightmare it would become.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!84pb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2baf56f-3725-46b3-8b12-550f1b41dda5_1183x694.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!84pb!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2baf56f-3725-46b3-8b12-550f1b41dda5_1183x694.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!84pb!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2baf56f-3725-46b3-8b12-550f1b41dda5_1183x694.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!84pb!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2baf56f-3725-46b3-8b12-550f1b41dda5_1183x694.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!84pb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2baf56f-3725-46b3-8b12-550f1b41dda5_1183x694.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!84pb!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2baf56f-3725-46b3-8b12-550f1b41dda5_1183x694.png" width="1200" height="703.9729501267963" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a2baf56f-3725-46b3-8b12-550f1b41dda5_1183x694.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:694,&quot;width&quot;:1183,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:278604,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2baf56f-3725-46b3-8b12-550f1b41dda5_1183x694.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!84pb!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2baf56f-3725-46b3-8b12-550f1b41dda5_1183x694.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!84pb!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2baf56f-3725-46b3-8b12-550f1b41dda5_1183x694.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!84pb!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2baf56f-3725-46b3-8b12-550f1b41dda5_1183x694.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!84pb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2baf56f-3725-46b3-8b12-550f1b41dda5_1183x694.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h1>Part 6: 5th Generation Nightmares</h1><p>Every <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> game&#8230; Every single one, is a secret horror story.</p><p>And yes it is always secret, and it is always a surprise&#8230; you wouldn&#8217;t think that&#8217;s possible to keep pulling that surprise twist&#8230; even babies eventually pick up on &#8220;Peakaboo&#8221;. But every time Kojima finds a new way to stick it to you that you weren&#8217;t suspecting&#8230;. And it probably isn&#8217;t even possible for you to suspect the concepts and the very types of horror each time, it is so different from every previous one&#8230; Attacking the main character and the player in ways no game before has and  even other games haven&#8217;t tried to imitate&#8230;</p><p>With many of the later entries being contrasted with the more disturbing works of George Orwell or Extreme experimental Japanese horror movies.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KYep!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f03c0cc-0ab0-456c-93c1-56360a113e52_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KYep!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f03c0cc-0ab0-456c-93c1-56360a113e52_1280x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KYep!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f03c0cc-0ab0-456c-93c1-56360a113e52_1280x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KYep!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f03c0cc-0ab0-456c-93c1-56360a113e52_1280x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KYep!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f03c0cc-0ab0-456c-93c1-56360a113e52_1280x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KYep!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f03c0cc-0ab0-456c-93c1-56360a113e52_1280x720.jpeg" width="1280" height="720" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3f03c0cc-0ab0-456c-93c1-56360a113e52_1280x720.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:720,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KYep!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f03c0cc-0ab0-456c-93c1-56360a113e52_1280x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KYep!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f03c0cc-0ab0-456c-93c1-56360a113e52_1280x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KYep!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f03c0cc-0ab0-456c-93c1-56360a113e52_1280x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KYep!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f03c0cc-0ab0-456c-93c1-56360a113e52_1280x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>There are essays and deep dives on all the haunting and disturbing aspects of <em>Metal Gear Solid&#8230; </em>The twists of individual 5 minute codec calls from individual games have generated hours of video essays and debates and theorizing&#8230;. With each individual game being amongst the most interpreted and reinterpreted media pieces of the 21st century&#8230; Within internet video-essays if not academia.</p><p>If I were to try to explain even one of the simpler twists and turns and why it works so well, the thematic and political implications, this essay could very well balloon into a book.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9r_l!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95476cc4-5be0-49f0-9e33-dc28530faa3c_1244x692.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9r_l!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95476cc4-5be0-49f0-9e33-dc28530faa3c_1244x692.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9r_l!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95476cc4-5be0-49f0-9e33-dc28530faa3c_1244x692.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9r_l!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95476cc4-5be0-49f0-9e33-dc28530faa3c_1244x692.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9r_l!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95476cc4-5be0-49f0-9e33-dc28530faa3c_1244x692.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9r_l!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95476cc4-5be0-49f0-9e33-dc28530faa3c_1244x692.png" width="1244" height="692" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95476cc4-5be0-49f0-9e33-dc28530faa3c_1244x692.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:692,&quot;width&quot;:1244,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:606431,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95476cc4-5be0-49f0-9e33-dc28530faa3c_1244x692.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9r_l!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95476cc4-5be0-49f0-9e33-dc28530faa3c_1244x692.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9r_l!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95476cc4-5be0-49f0-9e33-dc28530faa3c_1244x692.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9r_l!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95476cc4-5be0-49f0-9e33-dc28530faa3c_1244x692.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9r_l!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95476cc4-5be0-49f0-9e33-dc28530faa3c_1244x692.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>But if there&#8217;s one thing that unifies all the horrors of the various Kojima twists and turns&#8230;. it is the Illusion of empowerment.</p><p>You are NOT the badass hypercompetent Special Forces super-soldier who can tear his way through a base of enemy forces with his wits, will, and brawn&#8230; You are instead a Gamer sitting in a chair going through pre-rendered, pre-scripted, pre-determined events&#8230; Decided on by someone else, and designed to trick you into that feeling of empowerment, so you will continue to act out the role assigned to you.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INJs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F508a29ac-ff2e-4e91-ab83-9828f5c94d80_932x608.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INJs!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F508a29ac-ff2e-4e91-ab83-9828f5c94d80_932x608.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INJs!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F508a29ac-ff2e-4e91-ab83-9828f5c94d80_932x608.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INJs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F508a29ac-ff2e-4e91-ab83-9828f5c94d80_932x608.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INJs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F508a29ac-ff2e-4e91-ab83-9828f5c94d80_932x608.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INJs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F508a29ac-ff2e-4e91-ab83-9828f5c94d80_932x608.png" width="932" height="608" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/508a29ac-ff2e-4e91-ab83-9828f5c94d80_932x608.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:608,&quot;width&quot;:932,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:36537,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F508a29ac-ff2e-4e91-ab83-9828f5c94d80_932x608.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INJs!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F508a29ac-ff2e-4e91-ab83-9828f5c94d80_932x608.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INJs!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F508a29ac-ff2e-4e91-ab83-9828f5c94d80_932x608.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INJs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F508a29ac-ff2e-4e91-ab83-9828f5c94d80_932x608.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INJs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F508a29ac-ff2e-4e91-ab83-9828f5c94d80_932x608.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>And the horror Kojima draws out of this is that your relation as a gamer to the unseen game developers you&#8217;ve never met who will determine what happens to you is the EXACT SAME as the relation between the soldier in the field and the unseen operational planners, senior leaders, and politicians who actually determine the ends, objectives and outcomes of your mission.</p><p>You are empowered to act as a lone or small unit.. a clever Fox evading your way through the underbrush of modern warfare attaining a knowledge and control of the space, but your mission, your support, your objectives, the operational and political point of those objectives? Those are assigned to you. Your friends and allies are assigned. You ideas, your information, your awareness of the world around you, the emotions you are to feel, your very biology often as not&#8230; These are assigned to you and determined by people who are often basically indifferent, if not outright hostile.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F553ad4c4-5ff4-4ce3-8789-097086671ea2_1255x708.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F553ad4c4-5ff4-4ce3-8789-097086671ea2_1255x708.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F553ad4c4-5ff4-4ce3-8789-097086671ea2_1255x708.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F553ad4c4-5ff4-4ce3-8789-097086671ea2_1255x708.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F553ad4c4-5ff4-4ce3-8789-097086671ea2_1255x708.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIO!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F553ad4c4-5ff4-4ce3-8789-097086671ea2_1255x708.png" width="862" height="486.29163346613547" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/553ad4c4-5ff4-4ce3-8789-097086671ea2_1255x708.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:708,&quot;width&quot;:1255,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:862,&quot;bytes&quot;:568341,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F553ad4c4-5ff4-4ce3-8789-097086671ea2_1255x708.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F553ad4c4-5ff4-4ce3-8789-097086671ea2_1255x708.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F553ad4c4-5ff4-4ce3-8789-097086671ea2_1255x708.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F553ad4c4-5ff4-4ce3-8789-097086671ea2_1255x708.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTIO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F553ad4c4-5ff4-4ce3-8789-097086671ea2_1255x708.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This is one of the oldest themes in all of military fiction&#8230; The tension of loyalties and the betrayal of that loyalty is timeless fodder for great fiction.</p><p>Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>Coriolanus </em>is about the civilian government trying to control the emotions of one of their great generals and then betraying him when he refuses to humiliate himself on their instruction.</p><p>Indeed the oldest story in the Western Cannon, Homer&#8217;s <em>Iliad&#8230; </em>Is about a great soldier betrayed by his commanders who has his family unit maliciously ripped apart by the impetuousness of his leaders, and his rivalry with another great soldier undermined by his own leadership, his family.</p><p>But what&#8217;s amazing about Kojima is he follows all of this to it&#8217;s logical horrifying 21st century conclusions: What happens when you are forced to operate and pursue military ends ALONE, or in groups small enough so as to be functionally alone.</p><p><em>&#8220;Soldiers don&#8217;t fight for politics or nations or Gods or abstract ideals. They fight for the friend next to them.&#8221; </em>So says the timeless wisdom of countless military observers, commentators officers, NCOs, and others&#8230; Indeed this goes right back to <em>The Iliad&#8230;</em></p><p>So what happens when there isn&#8217;t one? When you&#8217;re a unit of one? Or that one or two friends  wants to quit and desert and is asking you to go with them? Or that one or two gets wounded or killed or otherwise incapacitated?</p><p>Sure you might have a massive support team over radio or back at HQ planning your objectives, encouraging you, and providing useful information and support&#8230; but they won&#8217;t go where you go.</p><p>What happens when the vagaries of modern warfare and insane Japanese Game Developers means that you have to infiltrate, hold positions, complete objectives, and take risks alone, under your own will and judgement&#8230; without immediate officers, senior NCOs, or the collective of the unit?</p><p>How do you get people to fight at that point? How do you get people to sacrifice?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuP_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53102408-d79f-4e1f-b1f8-8c347fe1f6b4_1212x699.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuP_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53102408-d79f-4e1f-b1f8-8c347fe1f6b4_1212x699.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuP_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53102408-d79f-4e1f-b1f8-8c347fe1f6b4_1212x699.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuP_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53102408-d79f-4e1f-b1f8-8c347fe1f6b4_1212x699.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuP_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53102408-d79f-4e1f-b1f8-8c347fe1f6b4_1212x699.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuP_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53102408-d79f-4e1f-b1f8-8c347fe1f6b4_1212x699.png" width="1212" height="699" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/53102408-d79f-4e1f-b1f8-8c347fe1f6b4_1212x699.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:699,&quot;width&quot;:1212,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:521691,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53102408-d79f-4e1f-b1f8-8c347fe1f6b4_1212x699.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuP_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53102408-d79f-4e1f-b1f8-8c347fe1f6b4_1212x699.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuP_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53102408-d79f-4e1f-b1f8-8c347fe1f6b4_1212x699.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuP_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53102408-d79f-4e1f-b1f8-8c347fe1f6b4_1212x699.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IuP_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53102408-d79f-4e1f-b1f8-8c347fe1f6b4_1212x699.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>.</p><p>Even if your cause is the most divinely inspired, democratically justified, militarily vital, politically clever, piratically profitable, achievable, honorable, survival necessary, and humanitarian effort in the history of warfare (it&#8217;s not) that&#8217;s still no guarantee your soldiers will agree, or agree with sufficient enthusiasm to go forward into enemy fire.</p><p>In previous generations this was solved by force: Traditionally this is what NCOs and Officers are for&#8230; To stand around line-formations with spears preventing soldiers from breaking and running&#8230; And whether it was the threat of Roman Decimation or Soviet blocker units empowered to kill or machine gun deserters and broken units. And indeed Ukraine and Russia use these aggressively&#8230; with Drones and other blocker units often being used to hunt down deserters ( but not reliably, <a href="https://telegraph.com/over-140000-people-have-deserted-from-the-ukrainian-armed-forces-since-the-beginning-of-2025/">Ukraine&#8217;s official count puts their desertions in the hundreds of thousands</a>)</p><p>Whilst others from the Vikings to the Crusaders to the Boxer Rebellion to the SS to various communist Red Guards and third world militias have employed elaborate rituals, psychological indoctrination methods, and drugs (Psychedelics, &#8220;Go Pills&#8221;, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-brown">Brown-Brown</a>) to implant super-human aggression and energy into soldiers.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2v4p!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e7107a8-36b8-4181-8fe1-1f29362e385d_1044x614.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2v4p!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e7107a8-36b8-4181-8fe1-1f29362e385d_1044x614.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2v4p!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e7107a8-36b8-4181-8fe1-1f29362e385d_1044x614.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2v4p!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e7107a8-36b8-4181-8fe1-1f29362e385d_1044x614.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2v4p!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e7107a8-36b8-4181-8fe1-1f29362e385d_1044x614.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2v4p!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e7107a8-36b8-4181-8fe1-1f29362e385d_1044x614.png" width="1044" height="614" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0e7107a8-36b8-4181-8fe1-1f29362e385d_1044x614.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:614,&quot;width&quot;:1044,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:378504,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e7107a8-36b8-4181-8fe1-1f29362e385d_1044x614.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2v4p!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e7107a8-36b8-4181-8fe1-1f29362e385d_1044x614.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2v4p!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e7107a8-36b8-4181-8fe1-1f29362e385d_1044x614.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2v4p!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e7107a8-36b8-4181-8fe1-1f29362e385d_1044x614.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2v4p!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e7107a8-36b8-4181-8fe1-1f29362e385d_1044x614.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>And Yet others: Pirates, Napoleon, the Royal Navy, American Frontiersmen, the Ancient Greeks&#8230; Have promised, explicitly or implicitly, extraordinary financial rewards, prize money and plunder to soldiers&#8230;</p><p>Yet all of these break down when the soldier is alone, or they get out in the field and suddenly the enemy in front of them seems far more hazardous than the blocker units behind them, or all that Marxist theory they were forced to read 16 hours straight doesn&#8217;t sound so compelling, or the prize money seems far less certain than the enemy&#8217;s shot&#8230;</p><p>For a ship to mutiny you need an elaborate conspiracy and scheme to overpower the marines on board&#8230; For an individual to mutiny? You just need a change of mind.</p><p>So how do you control soldiers and gamers when the only thing truly sending them forward is their own internal decision to do so?</p><p><strong>You manipulate them.</strong></p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>As any reader of Thucydides or Xenophon or Livy could tell you: &#8220;LEADERSHIP&#8221; often as not has as much to do with deception and extortion as it does with inspiration.</p><p>You secure control of people via threats, blackmail, lies, deceptions, false loyalties, narrative control, information control, biological poisoning, bribes, false bribes, propaganda, bait, personal insecurities, moral manipulation, sexual manipulation&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28CI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee672dc3-8582-40f7-be79-e421a11c9ca7_1253x788.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28CI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee672dc3-8582-40f7-be79-e421a11c9ca7_1253x788.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28CI!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee672dc3-8582-40f7-be79-e421a11c9ca7_1253x788.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28CI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee672dc3-8582-40f7-be79-e421a11c9ca7_1253x788.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28CI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee672dc3-8582-40f7-be79-e421a11c9ca7_1253x788.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28CI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee672dc3-8582-40f7-be79-e421a11c9ca7_1253x788.png" width="560" height="352.1787709497207" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ee672dc3-8582-40f7-be79-e421a11c9ca7_1253x788.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:788,&quot;width&quot;:1253,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:560,&quot;bytes&quot;:1422317,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee672dc3-8582-40f7-be79-e421a11c9ca7_1253x788.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28CI!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee672dc3-8582-40f7-be79-e421a11c9ca7_1253x788.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28CI!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee672dc3-8582-40f7-be79-e421a11c9ca7_1253x788.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28CI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee672dc3-8582-40f7-be79-e421a11c9ca7_1253x788.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28CI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee672dc3-8582-40f7-be79-e421a11c9ca7_1253x788.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>If the entire gameplay loop of <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> is about manipulating odd and different battlefield environments towards your ends&#8230; the entire narrative loop is how you and others are manipulated to the ends of governments and power-players you largely can&#8217;t even perceive before you&#8217;re serving them&#8230;</p><p>And in later entries the horror that when you learn to perceive how you were manipulated and how to fight back&#8230; is when you start manipulating others.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!usuD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dad87a5-1c54-48c9-8980-73bd443a6a3f_1108x686.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!usuD!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dad87a5-1c54-48c9-8980-73bd443a6a3f_1108x686.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!usuD!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dad87a5-1c54-48c9-8980-73bd443a6a3f_1108x686.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!usuD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dad87a5-1c54-48c9-8980-73bd443a6a3f_1108x686.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!usuD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dad87a5-1c54-48c9-8980-73bd443a6a3f_1108x686.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!usuD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dad87a5-1c54-48c9-8980-73bd443a6a3f_1108x686.png" width="1108" height="686" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2dad87a5-1c54-48c9-8980-73bd443a6a3f_1108x686.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:686,&quot;width&quot;:1108,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:694039,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dad87a5-1c54-48c9-8980-73bd443a6a3f_1108x686.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!usuD!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dad87a5-1c54-48c9-8980-73bd443a6a3f_1108x686.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!usuD!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dad87a5-1c54-48c9-8980-73bd443a6a3f_1108x686.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!usuD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dad87a5-1c54-48c9-8980-73bd443a6a3f_1108x686.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!usuD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dad87a5-1c54-48c9-8980-73bd443a6a3f_1108x686.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h1>In Conclusion: <a href="https://youtu.be/Yy_4JmGCt-Q?si=rpYn89kOu0B5EZsT">You&#8217;ve Got a Way To Fall</a></h1><p>Unspoken but increasingly perceived in the tumult of Russia-Gate, Lockdown, the 2020 elections, the Vax Mandates, The Ukraine War, Oct 7th, The Israel-Gaza Wars&#8230; Etc.</p><p>Is that when western military and intelligence thinker theorized &#8220;5th Generation Warfare&#8221;, the hypothetical information focused warfare against cyber-manipulation, social engineering, narrative manipulation, etc.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>Fifth-generation warfare (5GW) is warfare that is conducted primarily through non-kinetic military action, such as social engineering, misinformation, cyberattacks, along with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and fully autonomous systems. Fifth generation warfare has been described by Daniel Abbot as a war of &#8220;information and perception&#8221;.[1] There is no widely agreed upon definition of fifth-generation warfare,[2] and it has been rejected by some scholars, including William S. Lind, who was one of the original theorists of fourth-generation warfare.[3]</p><p>-Wikipedia</p></div><p>Well those western leaders and theorists weren&#8217;t actually theorizing warfare and the development of military matters so much as they were CONFESSING to decades if not generations of manipulations, ops, lies, media infiltration, soft and hard censorship, lawfare, and worse.</p><p>Anyone who paid attention could tell you the definition of 5th Generation warfare was less a &#8220;prediction&#8221; than a description of decades of intel agency policy both around the world and at home, in WW2, the Cold War, the &#8220;End of History&#8221;, and the Global War on Terror. The codification &#8220;5th Generation Warfare&#8221; was more a formalization and attempted legitimization of the policies they were pursuing anyway&#8230; If not an attempt to Retcon and doctrine-wash many of the failures and moral horrors of Just such policy&#8230;</p><h5>(Contrary to DC received wisdom, the Cold War was mostly won by middle-America&#8217;s honesty, honorable conduct, and economic productivity&#8230; not intel agencies duplicity and counter-productive cultivation of the world&#8217;s criminals and ethnic mafias)</h5><p></p><p>Indeed the biggest omission in all their descriptions is simply that almost none of them give the game away and simply include the acronym &#8220;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization">NGO</a>&#8221; in their definition of 5th Generation Warfare.</p><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>We&#8217;ve been living through decades of what is effectively 5th Generation Warfare since at least the Kennedy Assassination&#8230;. Something Kojima intuits, setting his earliest game (Metal Gear Sold 3) within a year of the assassination. </p><p>All the defining policies and relationships of the modern west and its systematic betrayal of its traditional fighting base of young white men all comes out of those years&#8230;. from the &#8220;Greatest Ally&#8221; Israel, to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act and the policy of &#8220;diversity&#8221; which become a campaign to systematically destroyed western nations in concert.</p><p>Indeed for many the political betrayal is so complete Kojima&#8217;s made up mercenary ideology of &#8220;Outer Heaven&#8221; from the earliest 1987 Nintendo game, a placeholder for just &#8220;bad guys&#8221; has gone from an absurdity: a mercenary-pirate ideology of madmen&#8230; to something maybe a majority of young men in the west would sooner fight and die for than their own countries.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fywM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccdc3f84-e54c-4106-b0b8-01d28691aad7_984x811.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fywM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccdc3f84-e54c-4106-b0b8-01d28691aad7_984x811.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fywM!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccdc3f84-e54c-4106-b0b8-01d28691aad7_984x811.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fywM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccdc3f84-e54c-4106-b0b8-01d28691aad7_984x811.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fywM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccdc3f84-e54c-4106-b0b8-01d28691aad7_984x811.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fywM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccdc3f84-e54c-4106-b0b8-01d28691aad7_984x811.png" width="391" height="322.2571138211382" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ccdc3f84-e54c-4106-b0b8-01d28691aad7_984x811.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:811,&quot;width&quot;:984,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:391,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fywM!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccdc3f84-e54c-4106-b0b8-01d28691aad7_984x811.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fywM!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccdc3f84-e54c-4106-b0b8-01d28691aad7_984x811.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fywM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccdc3f84-e54c-4106-b0b8-01d28691aad7_984x811.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fywM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccdc3f84-e54c-4106-b0b8-01d28691aad7_984x811.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>But there&#8217;s the rub&#8230; </p><p>Because the second you become willing to fight for something whether that be nationalism, human rights, western civilization, democracy, the right to self determination, whatever&#8230; suddenly financial powers and international intelligence networks will show up to tell you exactly how you can fight for it.</p><p>.</p><p>One of the remarkable things about the War in Ukraine is how BOTH SIDES have made the complete opposite political claims to radically different groups who are mutually fighting for them.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F1Fe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F726b32f6-817d-42f2-aa15-35aa2ad7faf0_585x863.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F1Fe!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F726b32f6-817d-42f2-aa15-35aa2ad7faf0_585x863.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F1Fe!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F726b32f6-817d-42f2-aa15-35aa2ad7faf0_585x863.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F1Fe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F726b32f6-817d-42f2-aa15-35aa2ad7faf0_585x863.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F1Fe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F726b32f6-817d-42f2-aa15-35aa2ad7faf0_585x863.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F1Fe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F726b32f6-817d-42f2-aa15-35aa2ad7faf0_585x863.png" width="399" height="588.6102564102564" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/726b32f6-817d-42f2-aa15-35aa2ad7faf0_585x863.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:863,&quot;width&quot;:585,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:399,&quot;bytes&quot;:234625,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F726b32f6-817d-42f2-aa15-35aa2ad7faf0_585x863.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F1Fe!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F726b32f6-817d-42f2-aa15-35aa2ad7faf0_585x863.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F1Fe!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F726b32f6-817d-42f2-aa15-35aa2ad7faf0_585x863.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F1Fe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F726b32f6-817d-42f2-aa15-35aa2ad7faf0_585x863.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F1Fe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F726b32f6-817d-42f2-aa15-35aa2ad7faf0_585x863.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Ukraine at once promises left wing Gay, Trans, Liberal Democrats, European Unionists, and Internationalists the opportunity to fight for the &#8220;rules based international order&#8221; embodied by the  Rainbow Flag with countless queer activists, antifa members, and at least one would be Trump assassin going and making the Pilgrimage to Kiev.</p><p>Meanwhile one of the largest factions within the Ukrainian state are the Banderite Neo-Nazis represented by the Azov Battalion and others who openly wave Swastikas, incorporate black suns into their symbols and throw Roman salutes.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pXAi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fa114d6-a4e5-491f-8f36-4b3b3d395133_800x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pXAi!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fa114d6-a4e5-491f-8f36-4b3b3d395133_800x450.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pXAi!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fa114d6-a4e5-491f-8f36-4b3b3d395133_800x450.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pXAi!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fa114d6-a4e5-491f-8f36-4b3b3d395133_800x450.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pXAi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fa114d6-a4e5-491f-8f36-4b3b3d395133_800x450.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pXAi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fa114d6-a4e5-491f-8f36-4b3b3d395133_800x450.jpeg" width="800" height="450" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3fa114d6-a4e5-491f-8f36-4b3b3d395133_800x450.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:450,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pXAi!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fa114d6-a4e5-491f-8f36-4b3b3d395133_800x450.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pXAi!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fa114d6-a4e5-491f-8f36-4b3b3d395133_800x450.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pXAi!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fa114d6-a4e5-491f-8f36-4b3b3d395133_800x450.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pXAi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fa114d6-a4e5-491f-8f36-4b3b3d395133_800x450.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This has started a major fissure within international Neo-Nazism&#8230; Since now half of the world&#8217;s violent Right Wing extremists back Ukraine and are willing to go and many have gone to fight for them and train with them, whereas the other half point to Zelensky the Jewish President of Ukraine, and his ties to various Jewish oligarchs and Israeli influence networks, to argue that Ukraine is a honey pot to trick honest sincere hard working Far Right Violent Extremists into dying for Jewish influence networks and Israeli embezzlement and human trafficking schemes. Die for the white slavery of Ukrainian women young Nazi-goy.</p><p>With seemingly not even the people on the ground being able to tell who is actually the power behind the throne and who the useful idiots dying for their enemyies&#8217; geopolitical goals? Are the Gender-Queer NATO defenders dying for Nazis? The Nazis dying for Jews? Or is NATO funding Nazi extremists who will destabilize the continent in the next decade the same way they funded Islamic extremists Mujahadeen against the Soviets in the 80s or Chechens in the 90s?</p><p>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c8N!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791b867b-fc78-4e76-8098-494799d234a9_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c8N!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791b867b-fc78-4e76-8098-494799d234a9_1280x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c8N!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791b867b-fc78-4e76-8098-494799d234a9_1280x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c8N!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791b867b-fc78-4e76-8098-494799d234a9_1280x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c8N!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791b867b-fc78-4e76-8098-494799d234a9_1280x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c8N!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791b867b-fc78-4e76-8098-494799d234a9_1280x720.jpeg" width="1280" height="720" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/791b867b-fc78-4e76-8098-494799d234a9_1280x720.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:720,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c8N!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791b867b-fc78-4e76-8098-494799d234a9_1280x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c8N!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791b867b-fc78-4e76-8098-494799d234a9_1280x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c8N!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791b867b-fc78-4e76-8098-494799d234a9_1280x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c8N!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791b867b-fc78-4e76-8098-494799d234a9_1280x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Likewise the Russian government has stated again and again that one of its core goals for its special military operation is the &#8220;denazification&#8221; of Ukraine&#8230; To chase out the Azov Banderites and their anti-Russian racial ideology&#8230;</p><p>Yet at the same time Russian Neo-Nazis were core to much of the Russian war effort with the Infamous Russian PMC Wagner Group having been founded and commanded by the Neo-Nazi Dmitry Utkin&#8230; Who worked closely with his partner Yevgeny Prigozhin&#8230; a Man who&#8217;s father and stepfather were Jews!</p><p>Naturally when Putin shot down both members of this odd couple together aboard their transport plain after their failed coup attempt, in one of the most tragic endings to any Bro-mance in military history, the Metal Gear Fandom meme&#8217;d and immortalized the Wagner team&#8230; With many noting the similarity between PMC Wagner and PMC &#8220;Diamond Dogs&#8221; from <em>Metal Gear Solid V&#8230;</em> Kojima&#8217;s rogue fictional Mercenary outfit that was killed off by the US government just as Wagner was purged by Putin in real life.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mjVS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d18e0bd-d0e4-4fff-acc8-8918c6e888ad_598x605.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mjVS!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d18e0bd-d0e4-4fff-acc8-8918c6e888ad_598x605.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mjVS!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d18e0bd-d0e4-4fff-acc8-8918c6e888ad_598x605.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mjVS!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d18e0bd-d0e4-4fff-acc8-8918c6e888ad_598x605.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mjVS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d18e0bd-d0e4-4fff-acc8-8918c6e888ad_598x605.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mjVS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d18e0bd-d0e4-4fff-acc8-8918c6e888ad_598x605.jpeg" width="342" height="346.0033444816053" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2d18e0bd-d0e4-4fff-acc8-8918c6e888ad_598x605.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:605,&quot;width&quot;:598,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:342,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mjVS!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d18e0bd-d0e4-4fff-acc8-8918c6e888ad_598x605.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mjVS!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d18e0bd-d0e4-4fff-acc8-8918c6e888ad_598x605.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mjVS!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d18e0bd-d0e4-4fff-acc8-8918c6e888ad_598x605.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mjVS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d18e0bd-d0e4-4fff-acc8-8918c6e888ad_598x605.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">In this meme Rogue Mercenary Commander Prigozhin is compared with MGS:V&#8217;s Rogue Mercenary Commander Big Boss.</figcaption></figure></div><p>This painfully hard to map Schizophrenic kaleidoscope of ideologies, motivations, alliances, and ethnicities&#8230; with it never being clear which side actually represents what political or ideological end&#8230; Where a Jew could easily fight for a nation only for it to go Nazi, or a Nazi fight for a faction only to realize it is Zionist to its core&#8230; And no way to know which factions are the real power, and which traitors and useful idiots, but all of them ever keen to tell you that your individual ideological and moral dreams, your ethnic self-expression, your national dream for a better homeland, and sincere commitments can be met by fighting for THEIR cause, or sending funding to THEIR network&#8230;</p><p>Only for you to get betrayed for the geopolitical goals of a 3rd or 4th country, or get dragged on Yevgeny&#8217;s wild blood-feud March on Moscow&#8230; Or sold down river like the Kurds having won yet another &#8220;Trusted America&#8221; Award.</p><p>.</p><p>As Warfare becomes more and more driven by internal independence of decision&#8230; as foreign volunteers, individual action, internal motivation, and deep inner personal will to fight becomes THE currency of warfare&#8230;</p><p>Suddenly manipulating that, framing that, luring the ideological extremists of all sides, and then exiting, rug-pulling, and betraying those who trusted you for your own goals&#8230; that becomes THE GAME for nation states, mercenary companies, ideological movements, transnational criminal organizations and influence networks.</p><p>As the skillset and mode of fighting in modern warfare increasingly resembles the gameplay loop of <em>Metal Gear Solid</em>&#8230; the schemes, conspiracies, plots, dynamics, and personalities of modern warfare are increasingly resembling the stories, aesthetics, plot points, and character dynamics that Kojima wrote.</p><p>. </p><p>This is going to be an era of profound disillusionment and heartbreak&#8230; Tragically beautiful as increasingly independent and heroic fighters selecting their foreign battlefields to volunteer upon (or get press-ganged and shanghai&#8217;d into fighting)&#8230; having exercising truly admirable independence of judgement and action,&#8230; Only to have their trusts tragically betrayed, and new figures to arise leading new segments and movements on new crusades of vengeance and ideological visions&#8230; which themselves meet new tragedies.</p><p>Kojima&#8217;s vision has already expressed itself but not completely&#8230; the rise of this new type of soldier, this new independent &#8220;Legendary Mercenary&#8221; has already begun, you can see these figures with <a href="https://youtu.be/Yefms8A2WWg?si=A4b4XW7milzUwCyU">youtube channels and go-pro footage</a> of their time on the Frontlines of Ukraine, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and other places&#8230;</p><p>The Geopolitical implications of various Soldiers TikTok and Instagram videos creating legends for themselves&#8230; as well as the horror stories and disillusionment of others.</p><p>.</p><p>Just as warfare has come to resemble the Vision of Kojima&#8230; The way millennials and younger conceive and represent warfare is increasingly Kojima-fied with many now trying to cultivate the larger than life personalities, and narrative Arcs, and individuated career ambitions&#8230;</p><p>&#8220;You look like a bunch of God Damned individuals!&#8221; Might be an insult that drill sergeants have long used to insult and breakdown troops who&#8217;ve failed to maintain uniformity&#8230; </p><p>But on the modern battlefield where reputations drive career prospects and  might have to transfer between Conventional Militaries, Private Military Companies, Security Contracts, Foreign Volunteer Legions, Intelligence Agencies, Guerilla-Units, Youtube Channels, Podcasts, Military Industrial Companies, Semi or fully criminal organizations, Legacy Media Companies like FOX News, and Governmental Political Administrative appointments&#8230; </p><p>Suddenly personal branding takes on a shocking amount of importance.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E18y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82cd69bf-4006-4282-bd8a-b4e0117b0fbe_674x471.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E18y!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82cd69bf-4006-4282-bd8a-b4e0117b0fbe_674x471.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E18y!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82cd69bf-4006-4282-bd8a-b4e0117b0fbe_674x471.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E18y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82cd69bf-4006-4282-bd8a-b4e0117b0fbe_674x471.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E18y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82cd69bf-4006-4282-bd8a-b4e0117b0fbe_674x471.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E18y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82cd69bf-4006-4282-bd8a-b4e0117b0fbe_674x471.jpeg" width="674" height="471" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/82cd69bf-4006-4282-bd8a-b4e0117b0fbe_674x471.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:471,&quot;width&quot;:674,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E18y!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82cd69bf-4006-4282-bd8a-b4e0117b0fbe_674x471.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E18y!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82cd69bf-4006-4282-bd8a-b4e0117b0fbe_674x471.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E18y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82cd69bf-4006-4282-bd8a-b4e0117b0fbe_674x471.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E18y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82cd69bf-4006-4282-bd8a-b4e0117b0fbe_674x471.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Somehow even as most western militaries aim to have a &#8220;grey-man&#8221; &#8220;Quiet professional&#8221; appearance to dodge scrutiny&#8230; Increasingly everyone who gets contracts or appointments to various companies, agencies, departments and organizations all increasingly look weird, and have distinctive visual markers like Kojima villains, or the freelance mercenaries of earlier ages of warfare.</p><p>Trump Appointees aren&#8217;t quite as garish as Trump the Man, and certainly aren&#8217;t as ostentatious as historical mercenaries&#8230; But it doesn&#8217;t take a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.</p><p>As clout becomes the currency&#8230; Clown becomes the style.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MBSz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0aa1498-28d6-413e-a4b1-312b1ec4a092_3264x2448.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MBSz!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0aa1498-28d6-413e-a4b1-312b1ec4a092_3264x2448.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MBSz!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0aa1498-28d6-413e-a4b1-312b1ec4a092_3264x2448.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MBSz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0aa1498-28d6-413e-a4b1-312b1ec4a092_3264x2448.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MBSz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0aa1498-28d6-413e-a4b1-312b1ec4a092_3264x2448.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MBSz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0aa1498-28d6-413e-a4b1-312b1ec4a092_3264x2448.png" width="1456" height="1092" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c0aa1498-28d6-413e-a4b1-312b1ec4a092_3264x2448.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:11441944,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/175582920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0aa1498-28d6-413e-a4b1-312b1ec4a092_3264x2448.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MBSz!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0aa1498-28d6-413e-a4b1-312b1ec4a092_3264x2448.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MBSz!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0aa1498-28d6-413e-a4b1-312b1ec4a092_3264x2448.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MBSz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0aa1498-28d6-413e-a4b1-312b1ec4a092_3264x2448.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MBSz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0aa1498-28d6-413e-a4b1-312b1ec4a092_3264x2448.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Clockwise From bottom center: ISIS All Female Police unit, Revolver Ocelot of Metal Gear Solid 3 juggling revolvers, Ukrainian Female soldier with Neon Hair, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Border Patrol Chief Bovino, IDF Soldier posing in Capture Palestinian Women&#8217;s Clothing, A comical drawing of a Renaissance German &#8220;Landsknecht&#8221; mercenary as a hot redhead, center: Gay Jews spreading the &#8220;love&#8221; to Gaza</figcaption></figure></div><p><strong>Welcome to warfare in the 21st century.</strong></p><p><strong>The best Is yet to come.</strong></p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><div id="youtube2-XEFYq2Fanks" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;XEFYq2Fanks&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XEFYq2Fanks?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p><strong>Tip:<br><br>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter:<strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></strong></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you "OrGaNiZe" Your Way Out of Tyranny?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every Right Wing conversation, every debate, every Twitter thread, every &#8220;what must be done&#8221;&#8230; Eventually comes to a round of people saying &#8220;We need to get organized&#8221; &#8220;The left is organized and we&#8217;re not!&#8221;&#8230; And then everyone nods in approval that ya organizing would be nice&#8230; And then no one does anything, and even if that was actually a conversation at an in person meeting&#8230; something that anyone who&#8217;s tried retail politics will tell you is the hardest hurdle to get over when organizing.]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/can-you-organize-your-way-out-of</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/can-you-organize-your-way-out-of</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:15:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LruG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u80n!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f7c253e-2fea-4e69-86b3-66a5ea36f6c0_2048x1450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u80n!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f7c253e-2fea-4e69-86b3-66a5ea36f6c0_2048x1450.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u80n!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f7c253e-2fea-4e69-86b3-66a5ea36f6c0_2048x1450.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u80n!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f7c253e-2fea-4e69-86b3-66a5ea36f6c0_2048x1450.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u80n!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f7c253e-2fea-4e69-86b3-66a5ea36f6c0_2048x1450.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u80n!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f7c253e-2fea-4e69-86b3-66a5ea36f6c0_2048x1450.jpeg" width="1456" height="1031" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7f7c253e-2fea-4e69-86b3-66a5ea36f6c0_2048x1450.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1031,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Seeing the Power of Political Posters - The New York Times&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Seeing the Power of Political Posters - The New York Times" title="Seeing the Power of Political Posters - The New York Times" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u80n!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f7c253e-2fea-4e69-86b3-66a5ea36f6c0_2048x1450.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u80n!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f7c253e-2fea-4e69-86b3-66a5ea36f6c0_2048x1450.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u80n!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f7c253e-2fea-4e69-86b3-66a5ea36f6c0_2048x1450.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u80n!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f7c253e-2fea-4e69-86b3-66a5ea36f6c0_2048x1450.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I&#8217;ve deep dived the fundamental questions and delusions of Right wing Rhetoric a few times&#8230; Whether it&#8217;s Right winger&#8217;s <strong><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood">Counterproductive insistence on non-violent and non-feminine anger</a></strong>,  the <strong><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/discrimination-is-a-right-in-praise">delusions of Anti-Discrimination as simply Christian Niceness</a></strong>, or <strong><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-myth-of-the-stupid-right">the self-defeating willingness to believe what leftists say about stupid right winger &#8220;rubes and rednecks&#8221;</a></strong>. But one rightwing bugbear maybe outdoes all the others in its raw self-defeating thought stopping power.</p><p>.</p><p>Every Right Wing conversation, every debate, every Twitter thread, every &#8220;what must be done&#8221;&#8230; Eventually comes to a round of people saying &#8220;We need to get organized&#8221; &#8220;The left is organized and we&#8217;re not!&#8221;&#8230; And then everyone nods in approval that ya organizing would be nice&#8230; And then no one does anything, and even if that was actually a conversation at an in person meeting&#8230; something that anyone who&#8217;s tried retail politics will tell you is the hardest hurdle to get over when organizing. No one even passes around a clipboard to get contact info for a subsequent meeting.</p><p>Right Wingers are all in agreement that they need to &#8220;Organize&#8221;, that &#8220;organization&#8221; is this mythical solution that would work, just as sure as they all tacitly know that&#8230; they mean that someone else should be organizing.</p><p>.</p><p>Now the common read is &#8220;Yep, right wingers are just useless. We deserve to lose because we&#8217;re not even as civic minded as the evil leftists who hate society&#8221; and then you get endless recriminations about boomer detachment; football watchers; isolated millennials and zoomers who won&#8217;t leave social media&#8230; </p><p>But this is plainly NOT the case if you stop and think for just a single second.</p><p>Whether it&#8217;s Jan 6th, The Canadian Trucker Convoy, or the various farmer&#8217;s protests in Europe that shut down cities and dumped manure outside government buildings,  Right Wingers are actually quite willing to travel hundreds or even thousands of miles with literal tons of equipment or mere nuisance items. They are actually quite willing to assume physical and legal risks, and even brave -20 degree weather for their beliefs. Indeed these are not one offs, from Charlottesville, to the anti-migrant riots in Britain, to the Ulez Blade-Runners (subject of an upcoming piece)&#8230; Right wingers are consistently willing to exert considerable sustained effort, risk, and endurance&#8230; often at considerable cost&#8230; </p><p>If they think it will actually DO SOMETHING.</p><p>.</p><p>&#8220;But those protests never transitioned to being OrGaNiZeD&#8221;</p><p>And here we get to the rub.</p><p>&#8220;Organization&#8221; has the become the &#8220;Synergy&#8221; or &#8220;pizazz&#8221; or in military circles &#8220;Lethality&#8221; of the Right wing world.</p><p>A Placeholder word that means 50 different things to 20 different people and exists as at best an agreed upon vibe that covers up often non-overlapping radically different ideas, if not straight sloppy non-thinking or magic pixie dust.</p><p>Fortunately Rightists have not gone to the communist level of having 50 committees each taking meeting minutes of the same 20 people representing 10 non-committee members&#8230; They aren&#8217;t at &#8220;People&#8217;s Front of Judea&#8221; levels. but the way they talk about &#8220;Organizing&#8221; as the cure-all, its sounds as if they actually wish they were.</p><div id="youtube2-YawagQ6lLrA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;YawagQ6lLrA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/YawagQ6lLrA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>The fundamental problem is as soon as you take it away from abstractions, none of these people share an idea of what organizing even is or exists to achieve.</p><p>&#8220;Ok we need to organize&#8230; Organize and do what?&#8221;</p><p>Win. Like the left does.</p><p>&#8220;Ok&#8230; And what steps would you want to take, milestones would you want to achieve, and metrics would you want to optimize?&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;First we get organized. Then we&#8217;ll be organized. Then we&#8217;ll start winning. then we&#8217;ll win. Like the left does.&#8221;</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Ok maybe this is a little uncharitable but its not that far from how most right wingers actually talk about the prospect of organizing&#8230; And there is a very simple reason for this: they know that basically all proposals for actually organizing will NOT WORK, or will be so low return on effort as to be actively painful, and then PROBALBY not work.</p><p>Occasionally you&#8217;ll get people to explicitly say what &#8220;organizing&#8221; means: Run for schoolboard, county council, Form an NGO, attend &#8220;protests&#8221;, volunteer on a campaign&#8230; And if you ask them why they don&#8217;t run for schoolboard they&#8217;ll either have an excuse for why they specifically cannot do that at this point in their life, or they&#8217;ll say they HAVE&#8230; And now it&#8217;s someone else&#8217;s turn to suffer the burden of being a good citizen and yelling at the traitor leftists twice a month and blocking them from doing what they&#8217;ve already gotten passed in every other school district but not this one&#8230; for now. Until they do. After which there will never be any way to reverse it.</p><p> Its not glamorous but this is why the left wins, they&#8217;ll tell you. It&#8217;s not easy defending civic life. You have to attend meeting.</p><p>The way they talk about you might be confused that they think they&#8217;re living in 1926 instead of 2026.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CXjN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5901282e-45de-4b5b-9896-271c54e9ff51_2144x3000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CXjN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5901282e-45de-4b5b-9896-271c54e9ff51_2144x3000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CXjN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5901282e-45de-4b5b-9896-271c54e9ff51_2144x3000.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CXjN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5901282e-45de-4b5b-9896-271c54e9ff51_2144x3000.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CXjN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5901282e-45de-4b5b-9896-271c54e9ff51_2144x3000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CXjN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5901282e-45de-4b5b-9896-271c54e9ff51_2144x3000.jpeg" width="390" height="545.625" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5901282e-45de-4b5b-9896-271c54e9ff51_2144x3000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:2037,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:390,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CXjN!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5901282e-45de-4b5b-9896-271c54e9ff51_2144x3000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CXjN!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5901282e-45de-4b5b-9896-271c54e9ff51_2144x3000.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CXjN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5901282e-45de-4b5b-9896-271c54e9ff51_2144x3000.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CXjN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5901282e-45de-4b5b-9896-271c54e9ff51_2144x3000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>.</p><p>Indeed almost every single call on the right for &#8220;Organizing&#8221; is almost never a call for any specific organization, but rather a cheer at the idea that SOMEONE ELSE might pour dozens or hundreds of hours into unpaid thankless political work of shoving their fingers in the leaky dike of western civilization, that we all know is never going to hold long term or ever get better, but you can put it off one more day.</p><p>&#8220;We Just need to organize more&#8221; is actually. when you start to parse it, a wish that an infinity of free political labor and/or donations will be performed by others such that it doesn&#8217;t matter how low return the individual tasks. &#8220;Run for school board&#8221; not because that&#8217;s a high return use of your time, but because if everyone was willing to pour endless hours of free low reward, low impact, political work out of their free time, presumably someone would do that as well. And if only we had INFINITE free political labor and donations&#8230; We might just win. Maybe.</p><p>&#8220;But this is what the left does!?  The left is organized! The left is amazing at at organizing!&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Ok. Let&#8217;s define &#8220;organizing&#8221; as what the left is doing, And then come up with a definition of &#8220;organizing&#8221;&#8230;</p><p>If &#8220;Organizing&#8221; is &#8220;what the left does&#8221;&#8230; then &#8220;Organizing&#8221; actually does a have a specific meaning. In that case &#8220;organizing&#8221; is a combination of Racketeering, money laundering, graft, human trafficking, lawfare extortion schemes, corruption, foreign espionage, nepotism, employment lawsuit fraud, public grant fraud, blackmail, spoils, do nothing jobs, embezzlement of public funds, environmental shakedowns, billionaire influence peddling, child prostitution, and probably whole other categories that I am forgetting.</p><p>&#8220;Organizing&#8221; is ORGANIZED CRIME.</p><p>Ya that&#8217;s right. </p><p>Unlike the &#8220;organized&#8221; right that prays more people will volunteer their time with no hope of reward, leftists are getting PAID. Leftists are advancing their primary employment career. And often even getting millionaire rich by advancing their goals.</p><p>You know, like EVERY organization that operate at national scale. Indeed this is so obvious and so well known that we are into the DOZENS of premium TV crime shows that have plots revolving around just Black and Italian networks in Democrat local politics like in <em>The Sopranos</em> or <em>The Wire</em>. And we are into the THOUSANDS of documentaries about various political criminal orgs like the Epstein Network, The Kennedy Irish Mafia Network, The IRA, The Bronfmans in Canada&#8230;</p><div id="youtube2-U4uW__3hZTQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;U4uW__3hZTQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/U4uW__3hZTQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h4>This is considered the single most realistic TV show on the running of City Government that has been made. Indeed it is considered the Greatest TV Show of All time. <br><br>This is how politicians and &#8220;Political Organizers&#8221; actually talk about what they do&#8230; And not one person in the Democratic Party or Baltimore or anywhere else recoiled in outrage at this. Indeed, They&#8217;re nostalgic for when Italians and Jews could &#8220;leave a little&#8221; that their black and brown partners didn&#8217;t embezzle the majority of everything..</h4><p>.</p><p>&#8220;Labor disputes&#8221; and &#8220;Labor organizing&#8221; as a vehicle for racketeering had been a staple of Leftist politics and Mafia Activity for almost 100 years BEFORE Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in 1975, and half of Left wing politics still works on this model&#8230; they just rarely seek out actual private sector workers to organize anymore preferring Public sector workers or victim categories, which have the advantage of not being attached to Market forces that will punish companies laid down with expenses that only exist to service crime and politics, and being consistently ideologically aligned with the leftists.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAPK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1948634f-7423-470e-8d08-4187012b619d_1080x1080.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAPK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1948634f-7423-470e-8d08-4187012b619d_1080x1080.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAPK!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1948634f-7423-470e-8d08-4187012b619d_1080x1080.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAPK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1948634f-7423-470e-8d08-4187012b619d_1080x1080.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAPK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1948634f-7423-470e-8d08-4187012b619d_1080x1080.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAPK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1948634f-7423-470e-8d08-4187012b619d_1080x1080.jpeg" width="440" height="440" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1948634f-7423-470e-8d08-4187012b619d_1080x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1080,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:440,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Stream Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO | Listen to podcast  episodes online for free on SoundCloud&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Stream Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO | Listen to podcast  episodes online for free on SoundCloud" title="Stream Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO | Listen to podcast  episodes online for free on SoundCloud" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAPK!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1948634f-7423-470e-8d08-4187012b619d_1080x1080.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAPK!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1948634f-7423-470e-8d08-4187012b619d_1080x1080.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAPK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1948634f-7423-470e-8d08-4187012b619d_1080x1080.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAPK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1948634f-7423-470e-8d08-4187012b619d_1080x1080.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Leftists in various constituencies have even <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_Riders_Union_(Los_Angeles)">&#8220;organized&#8221; &#8220;Unions&#8221; of &#8220;bus riders&#8221;</a>! Is the public transit service any better in these constituencies than areas with non-unionized riderships? FUCK NO! </p><p>But I can guarantee you that the people who organized the &#8220;Union&#8221; now receive the equivalent of a six figure salary relative to the actual hours they put into union activity annually out of tax dollars, and they carry influence via whatever ability to propagandize and whip votes their &#8220;ridership union&#8221; gives them. (assuming they didn&#8217;t just forge and juice the signatures for registering their union and forming a 501c(4) )</p><p>This is why Earnest civically minded right-wing women in the top 1% of conscientiousness and altruistic willingness to do the work&#8230; Can get elected schoolboard trustee, show up, and be drowned out at schoolboard meetings by various Queer Activists, Black and Brown studies officials, corrupt teacher&#8217;s union representatives, disabled students reps&#8230; All vastly more cynical and and of abyssally lower character than her&#8230;</p><p> Because it&#8217;s their DAY JOB. It&#8217;s their career! They&#8217;re getting PAID! It&#8217;s how they advance up the ladder of their profession in NGO/Politics/Education world and get that 6 figure salary and generous as can be pension for doing fucking nothing all day and creating no value. The best of them will make it to 7 figures.</p><p>They aren&#8217;t &#8220;Volunteering&#8221; their time. This is their job. Scamming the education system, or Transit Budget, and claiming some moral justification is their career, and advancing themselves within the organized crime ecosystem of leftist politics is  their chosen occupation.</p><p>This is their Profession.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nOwU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd066d4a7-4e58-454f-8e42-e3ead0473a9a_640x360.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nOwU!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd066d4a7-4e58-454f-8e42-e3ead0473a9a_640x360.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nOwU!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd066d4a7-4e58-454f-8e42-e3ead0473a9a_640x360.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nOwU!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd066d4a7-4e58-454f-8e42-e3ead0473a9a_640x360.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nOwU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd066d4a7-4e58-454f-8e42-e3ead0473a9a_640x360.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nOwU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd066d4a7-4e58-454f-8e42-e3ead0473a9a_640x360.jpeg" width="724" height="407.25" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d066d4a7-4e58-454f-8e42-e3ead0473a9a_640x360.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:360,&quot;width&quot;:640,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:724,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nOwU!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd066d4a7-4e58-454f-8e42-e3ead0473a9a_640x360.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nOwU!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd066d4a7-4e58-454f-8e42-e3ead0473a9a_640x360.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nOwU!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd066d4a7-4e58-454f-8e42-e3ead0473a9a_640x360.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nOwU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd066d4a7-4e58-454f-8e42-e3ead0473a9a_640x360.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>And the bizarre civic mindedness of some random rightwing lady who&#8217;s so earnest and concerned about the public welfare she&#8217;s willing attend schoolboard meetings after work for the basically non-existent stipend they give schoolboard trustees&#8230; That&#8217;s either cute to them, or mildly threatening and an obstacle, but not serious competition. The serious competition is all the other people in the activist class who want to outcompete them and take their funding and career opportunities.</p><p>This is called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice">Public Choice Theory</a>.</p><p>Despite what you might naively think given that &#8220;Democracy&#8221; is a system of &#8220;Majority Vote&#8221; the actual dynamic of all democratic systems is to reward concentrated organized Self-interested minority interests at the expense of dispersed disorganized public spirited majority interests.</p><p>Or as Frederic Bastiat said:</p><p><em><strong>&#8220;Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.&#8221; </strong></em></p><p>The only type of governments that resists this long-term, at least in theory, are Multi-Generational Monarchy&#8230; because in theory the monarch is the Most organized minority and his long term interest, being measured in generations and dynasties has a long enough time horizon to actually make judgements in what is EFFECTIVELY the interest of the public (He wants a functional middle class and prosperity because his grandkids might need them in a war someday) without immediately being outcompeted and losing what power he has&#8230; but this is only in theory&#8230; In practice New and unstable Kings or Weak Kings or delusional kings often fall into their own bizarre courtly problems of decision making.</p><p>Or HerenVolk Democracies or Monoethnic Oligarchy where the franchise is radically restricted to those with property, and ethnic ties to the territory, and consequently low time preferences&#8230; (though these often degrade into Democracies)&#8230; These atleast put up some resistance to the inescapable pull of public choice theory.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>But this is the default of Government. Millions of organized crime rackets all trying to carve out slices of FUCKING MONEY. With power as a distant second concern.</p><p>And that has to be the ordering for the same reasons armies require money&#8230; because if people aren&#8217;t getting paid they don&#8217;t show up.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>the sinews of war are infinite money.<br>-Cicero</p></div><p></p><p>This is why Right Wing Parties are so goddamned useless in every single country on earth, because right wing parties represent people who work for a living producing actual taxable private sector value, and must necessarily be represented by fulltime political actors who don&#8217;t.</p><p>This is why when EVERY SINGLE right wing party in the west that get&#8217;s voted in by 51% of the population in a coalition of white people, hard working small businessmen, military veterans, skilled tradespeople, etc. </p><p>Those Right-Wing parties almost immediately gets subverted by decades old gay mafias, Israeli foreign interests, closet leftists, defense contractors, tech companies, and franchise chains trying to import a bajillion Indians, and implement a surveillance state.</p><p>Because that&#8217;s THEIR PROFESSION. They spend 2000 hours a year fulltime thinking about that with other people who are spending their 2000 full time hours the same way. They&#8217;re setting themselves up to make money and still have a job no matter what happens in the elections. And the hopes of white America, and the collective interests of small business on main street, and responsible government aren&#8217;t going to give them 6 figures for the rest of their lives to sit around DC expensing 5 star meals and taking trips to Israel with the prostitutes comped.</p><p>At best the White Small Business owners might maybe get them a job in government&#8230; via appointment, for 4 years, if they win. Whereas they can get 6 figure jobs FOREVER irrespective of electoral results, for them, their spouses, and their children, by just selling out their constituents or joining in whatever leftist, zionist, or gay organized crime network will give it to them.</p><p>Indeed you will notice that Right Wing Responsible Government is the ONE THING they can NEVER give you.</p><p>Black activists can form protest movements, organize riots, and then get bought off&#8230; Some Jesse Jackson type motherfucker can get the government to give 6, 7, 8 figure grants for his corrupt NGO, some black ladies can be given jobs in the civil service, and laws can be passed allowing literally retarded black job applicants to sue their employers for not promoting them because they&#8217;re literally retarded&#8230; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.">this was a real lawsuit</a>&#8230;. And when the political class buys them off, that benefits the political class! </p><p>Suddenly managing race relations requires MORE government employees, suddenly all the existing government employees get PROMOTED to manage those new employees, suddenly all the lawsuits against employers create new opportunities for employment lawyers to make money, suddenly professors need to be hired to create new school curriculums to brainwash white schoolkids of the productive classes to accept the new racial caste system they&#8217;re under.</p><p>Everybody gets a promotion! Everyone gets new exciting career opportunities to get paid 6 figures enjoyably exercising power over others and micromanaging the relations of normal people.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FKHd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F037fb4ac-67aa-4ff5-a14b-8b154bed63c5_490x680.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FKHd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F037fb4ac-67aa-4ff5-a14b-8b154bed63c5_490x680.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FKHd!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F037fb4ac-67aa-4ff5-a14b-8b154bed63c5_490x680.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FKHd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F037fb4ac-67aa-4ff5-a14b-8b154bed63c5_490x680.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FKHd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F037fb4ac-67aa-4ff5-a14b-8b154bed63c5_490x680.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FKHd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F037fb4ac-67aa-4ff5-a14b-8b154bed63c5_490x680.png" width="304" height="421.8775510204082" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/037fb4ac-67aa-4ff5-a14b-8b154bed63c5_490x680.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:680,&quot;width&quot;:490,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:304,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FKHd!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F037fb4ac-67aa-4ff5-a14b-8b154bed63c5_490x680.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FKHd!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F037fb4ac-67aa-4ff5-a14b-8b154bed63c5_490x680.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FKHd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F037fb4ac-67aa-4ff5-a14b-8b154bed63c5_490x680.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FKHd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F037fb4ac-67aa-4ff5-a14b-8b154bed63c5_490x680.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>By contrast&#8230; Right Wing Politics? If you organized MLK style violent riots for Responsible government and low taxes?</p><p>They could NEVER give it to you&#8230; Because RESPONCIBLE GOVERNMENT MEANS FIRING THEM AND ARRESTING THEM.</p><p>Fiscal responsibility means hutting down all the carveout, schemes, racketeering operations, regulatory capture, Unionized grifters, advocates getting paid to advocate more money for themselves&#8230; And eliminating their jobs, if not hunting them down, chopping their balls off, and shoving them in an arctic gulag to mine Lithium and Bauxite like any halfway competent Roman administrator would have.</p><p>This is why the Somali daycare fraud turned into a red-alert riot season in Minneapolis&#8230; IN THE DEAD OF WINTER&#8230; because if you started getting the obvious Somali welfare fraud and organized crime and hired people in one place and created offices to deal with the fraud there&#8230; suddenly you&#8217;d have government employees, permanent people, being paid to hunt down the leftist fraud and organized crime that IS government under conditions of multicultural western democracy. </p><p>They will fight to the death to prevent you from ever getting that policy achievement that actually matters and actually bankrupting and imprisoning all the &#8220;Organizers&#8221; ie. Organized Crime, that is leftist politics.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>This is why Right Wingers never win. The system is set up to prevent them from winning as a matter of all-hands-on-deck emergency survival.</p><p>There are over 1 million people who are professionally PAID in the US to be Democrats.</p><p>From TV personalities, to College Professors, Grade School Teachers, Employment-Equity Lawyers, Environmental impact assessors, hospital administrators, Union Chair-people, Think-tankers, Social Workers, Urban Planners, Human Resources, NGOs, Catholic Priests (whose NGOs are paid by government)&#8230; All basically HAVE to be extreme leftists, and are paid to be extreme leftists.</p><p>By contrast only about 10,000 people are paid to be republicans, and basically all of them are in DC working for actual republican politicians, at the few right wing think tanks, or at Fox News&#8230; And every single one of them knows they aren&#8217;t getting a job elsewhere if their few paymasters decide they don&#8217;t like them.</p><p>A republican staffer or magazine person can do a 180 and become a leftist if they&#8217;re in good standing, and indeed MANY &#8220;Gay Republicans&#8221; have used right wing politics as basically an in to upper level left wing politics and legacy media which they couldn&#8217;t have accessed otherwise&#8230; But unlike the left wing ecosystem (where there are actually a lot of options for activists to burn a few bridges) basically all professional DC right wingers have to toe every leftist shiboleth and be constantly demonstrating their value to Israel and the Military industrial complex&#8230; Or they can be left jobless and unemployable very easily.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>And none of their constituents are going to give them that 6 figure job to do nothing out of appreciation, not least because even if they did fall on their sword they&#8217;re almost certainly still hated for being someone who kissed the wall and sucked Peter Thiel&#8217;s weird sweaty dick.</p><p>And any of them naive enough to think that the corrupt government leftists are going to protect them or keep them employed if they actually advance right wing politics are in for a rude awakening just like all the young MAGA Graduates who got jobs in DC.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R6SO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72f8b4ab-9ed3-4215-8620-83e78714a193_708x453.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R6SO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72f8b4ab-9ed3-4215-8620-83e78714a193_708x453.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R6SO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72f8b4ab-9ed3-4215-8620-83e78714a193_708x453.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R6SO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72f8b4ab-9ed3-4215-8620-83e78714a193_708x453.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R6SO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72f8b4ab-9ed3-4215-8620-83e78714a193_708x453.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R6SO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72f8b4ab-9ed3-4215-8620-83e78714a193_708x453.png" width="460" height="294.3220338983051" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/72f8b4ab-9ed3-4215-8620-83e78714a193_708x453.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:453,&quot;width&quot;:708,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:460,&quot;bytes&quot;:271860,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/187773104?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72f8b4ab-9ed3-4215-8620-83e78714a193_708x453.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R6SO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72f8b4ab-9ed3-4215-8620-83e78714a193_708x453.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R6SO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72f8b4ab-9ed3-4215-8620-83e78714a193_708x453.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R6SO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72f8b4ab-9ed3-4215-8620-83e78714a193_708x453.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R6SO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72f8b4ab-9ed3-4215-8620-83e78714a193_708x453.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Indeed the &#8220;Maga Civil War&#8221; is best modelled as a class struggle between the classic 10,000 paid Republicans  who are overwhelmingly Gay, Jewish, Literal Prostitutes (yes literal, they suck cock for money&#8230; <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/congress-sexual-harassment-slush-fund-everything-we-know-11836662">congress spends 18 million a year+ on paying female staffers for their services</a>), and Literal former communists who populate the legacy right, and get their money from the machine and shady billionaires&#8230; On the one hand. Fighting a war against actual entrepreneurial free market influencers whose income comes from their supporters and audience on the other&#8230; and the few young staffers who didn&#8217;t realize they were purposefully being set up to fail.</p><p>Right Wing politics has exploded because suddenly another 10,000ish people are getting paid to advance right wing politics&#8230; but not by the political machine. Traditional RW politics was so corrupt and castrated grumpy youtubers, Anime Avatars on twitter, and podcasters require emergency meetings with their Zionist billionaire backers.</p><p>But not because they&#8217;ve managed to get anywhere close to power&#8230;</p><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>.</p><p>And there is no real way to fix this.</p><p>There is no way to go to the Mafia and make them give you your money back peacefully.</p><p>They will escalate to violence before you win. They will start riots in the street, and escalate those riots to Troubles style terrorist campaigns to try and scare you off&#8230; why do you think they fund Antifa so well?</p><p>They would literally rather escalate to civil war than let white private sector America take the government back and fire all of them, cut all the funding to their NGOs, end all their welfare, and arrest a good percentage of them for fraud, racketeering and worse.</p><p>The Epstein Class would probably launch nukes before admitting fault and lining up for the guillotine.</p><p>.</p><p>And you are never going to &#8220;Out-Organize&#8221; them, because its their fucking job, and their fucking career, and their fucking life, and in most cases the lives of their families, friends, communities, and entire ethnicities.</p><p>The Idea that civic minded right wingers volunteering their time on weekends or after work to &#8220;get organized&#8221; are going defeat the left, is as absurd as the idea that your weekend soccer club with your friends is going compete with 100 million dollar franchises and win the FIFA World Cup.</p><p>These people have been doing this as their primary career since they were in the University student unions competing to be the ones that get a choice NGO or DC internship before they go to law school. Many have been doing this since they were in highschool or sooner. Many have been groomed by parents and grandparents to specifically become Senior History Professors, Lawyers, Politicians, Department Head, Think Tankers, Publishers, and otherwise have careers as connected political actors since birth.</p><p>Ben Shapiro performed the violin at the Israel Bonds Banquet, the annual event held by the Development Corporation for Israel, Israel&#8217;s primary underwriter of their national bonds&#8230; At age 12.</p><p>Leftist and Zionist and institutional &#8220;Political Organizers&#8221; have been doing this multi-generationally, and grooming their kids to do the same at the level most pro-athletes, West Point Candidates, and Child stars are trained and groomed.</p><p>&#8220;We need to get organized&#8221; is the equivalent of saying &#8220;We just need to practice more on Thursday nights and then we&#8217;ll win the dance off with the Jackson Five.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vlE_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19a17c2a-7e58-4de5-ba09-9eede1398c0c_1200x800.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vlE_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19a17c2a-7e58-4de5-ba09-9eede1398c0c_1200x800.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vlE_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19a17c2a-7e58-4de5-ba09-9eede1398c0c_1200x800.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vlE_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19a17c2a-7e58-4de5-ba09-9eede1398c0c_1200x800.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vlE_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19a17c2a-7e58-4de5-ba09-9eede1398c0c_1200x800.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vlE_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19a17c2a-7e58-4de5-ba09-9eede1398c0c_1200x800.jpeg" width="456" height="304" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/19a17c2a-7e58-4de5-ba09-9eede1398c0c_1200x800.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:800,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:456,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vlE_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19a17c2a-7e58-4de5-ba09-9eede1398c0c_1200x800.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vlE_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19a17c2a-7e58-4de5-ba09-9eede1398c0c_1200x800.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vlE_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19a17c2a-7e58-4de5-ba09-9eede1398c0c_1200x800.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vlE_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19a17c2a-7e58-4de5-ba09-9eede1398c0c_1200x800.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Joseph Jackson gave these kids Puberty blockers to make them sing and dance better. No, you&#8217;re not outdancing them.</figcaption></figure></div><p>.</p><p>You are almost certainly NOT going to out-organize the left or the zionists. You don&#8217;t even have the nerve to admit what &#8220;Organizing&#8221; even is&#8230; Organizing is arranging networks of corruption and organized crime to devour the tax base and social trust of society, so that you might consume the last viable vestiges of civilization to feed your burgeoning breakaway criminal empire.</p><p>Because that&#8217;s what political organizing is. It&#8217;s committing crimes and frauds to turn beautiful non-political things into fuel to generate money to feed and grow the machine that devours those beautiful things.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>&#8220;Wah-wah! You&#8217;re so negative! Why must you say things so meanly? You&#8217;re a blackpiller! Why don&#8217;t want people to get organized? Why aren&#8217;t you offering hashtag #realistic solutions!? Why!? WHY???&#8221;</h2><p>.</p><p>Because the default is NOT that things get better. The defaults is this continues until your civilization fucking dies and the leftists and others sell you children to Arab, Jewish, and Mexican sex traffickers as their last act of treachery before they flee the final collapse of your civilization. </p><p>This is what happens to decaying civilizations, just like decaying bodies. The parasites defeat the immune system, health declines, and then at some point the organism dies and the immune system disappears, and then the parasites devour everything and even ones that would never be a threat before like earth worms, or common molds, or Somalians, are now able to penetrate the body and devour the choice flesh that the cancer and the heart worms didn&#8217;t get to.</p><p>But, Ok you want a realistic actionable solution? You want extraordinary measures that could actually solve the problem? </p><p>You want to subject the body politic to necessary but horrifying back to back rounds of chemotherapy, radiation, and anti-parasitics with the goal of saving the patient no matter how torturous and scaring it is or how much the patient screams that the pain is worse than death?</p><p>You want a way to beat your enemies despite the fact they&#8217;re vastly better organized than you and there&#8217;s no possible way for you to get more organized?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Btp4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F044cbfe1-0227-4a25-87a2-d576597603f0_944x625.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Btp4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F044cbfe1-0227-4a25-87a2-d576597603f0_944x625.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Btp4!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F044cbfe1-0227-4a25-87a2-d576597603f0_944x625.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Btp4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F044cbfe1-0227-4a25-87a2-d576597603f0_944x625.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Btp4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F044cbfe1-0227-4a25-87a2-d576597603f0_944x625.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Btp4!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F044cbfe1-0227-4a25-87a2-d576597603f0_944x625.jpeg" width="1290" height="854.0783898305085" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/044cbfe1-0227-4a25-87a2-d576597603f0_944x625.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:625,&quot;width&quot;:944,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1290,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Btp4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F044cbfe1-0227-4a25-87a2-d576597603f0_944x625.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Btp4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F044cbfe1-0227-4a25-87a2-d576597603f0_944x625.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Btp4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F044cbfe1-0227-4a25-87a2-d576597603f0_944x625.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Btp4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F044cbfe1-0227-4a25-87a2-d576597603f0_944x625.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8216;Julius Caesar&#8217;, Act III, Scene 2, Marc Antony&#8217;s Oration. William Holmes Sullivan (1836&#8211;1908)</figcaption></figure></div><h1>Fucking Kill Them</h1><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;There is a man, there is a problem. No man, no problem.&#8221;<br>-Joseph Stalin</p></div><p>This is how corrupt decaying civilizations traditionally pull themselves out of death spirals and reorient themselves towards new political goals and new self-stable political arrangements. With new non-cancerous elites oriented toward new virtues, grooming their children and the most promising prodigies not towards ruin, decadence, and a totalitarian nightmare of perfect lies perfectly believed&#8230; but their new vision of life, rugged virtue, and a utopian dream of perfect insight perfectly introspected&#8230;(it ussually buys another 80 years before they finally get too corrupt and the cycle needs repeating) </p><p>This is done via a simple basic method:</p><p>  The wholesale liquidation of class enemies and the institutions that produce those enemy classes via the abundant use of Extraordinary Systematic and Ad Hoc Violence.</p><p>Think about it, normal military men, responsible citizen, business owners, believers in an honest day&#8217;s work&#8230; Even the most possible civic minded persons of them volunteering 3 hours a week to civic minded causes and even tithing of 2-5% of their income to political causes&#8230; Cannot compete with 40 hours a week fulltime work and actually getting paid six figures to run an organized political machine that can unwillingly tax all of society 20-50% of their income. </p><p>That math doesn&#8217;t math. No amount of donation or volunteering from even the most civically minded saints can compete with that.</p><p>However if you kill an enemy political organizer, the 6-12 hours you took out of your schedule to track them down, head over, black bag them, torture some info out of them, burn them alive, and then dump their body?</p><p>That 6-12 hours and maybe 1000 dollar budget (5k if you use a burner car off craigslist then dump it in a lake?) that rewards 2000 hours a year, or 80,000 hours over the course of a 40 year career that they&#8217;re not actively working non-stop to destroy you and your civilization. That&#8217;s the equivalent not of 200k a year you denied your enemy, but some multiple of that their paymasters thought they were worth that they were willing to pay them 200k a year.</p><p>Despite the heroic efforts of Necromancers and Detroit poll workers, the dead are hard to organize.</p><p>This is why warfare is the inevitable consequence of all politics on a long enough time horizon in all times, in all places, without exception, and without any possibility of an exception. </p><p>Violence is always the highest return political activity. It has been since the dawning of the world, and it will be til the last star falls from the night.</p><p>Warfare is the continuation of politics by other means, and politics is the continuation of warfare by other means. Where one fails the other begins.</p><p>On a long enough time horizon every polity must have a regime change, or die.</p><p>You might not be able to outdance the Jackson five&#8230; <a href="https://ia801400.us.archive.org/30/items/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Bergeron.pdf">But they go down to buckshot</a>.</p><p>Likewise even the most corrupt unreformable regime purpose built to never ever in million years ever change or give anything back to its victims of it&#8217;s own accord can still erupt in coups, revolutions, assassinations, civil wars, and total state collapses.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>In the first draft, originally I went into a series of case studies at this point, but you all know the American revolution and Roman Civil Wars and French revolution&#8230; but you probably don&#8217;t know the most illustrative example:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tH-L!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7739daf-32af-4b05-a441-fdfe6c9a54f7_349x396.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tH-L!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7739daf-32af-4b05-a441-fdfe6c9a54f7_349x396.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tH-L!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7739daf-32af-4b05-a441-fdfe6c9a54f7_349x396.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tH-L!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7739daf-32af-4b05-a441-fdfe6c9a54f7_349x396.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tH-L!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7739daf-32af-4b05-a441-fdfe6c9a54f7_349x396.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tH-L!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7739daf-32af-4b05-a441-fdfe6c9a54f7_349x396.jpeg" width="349" height="396" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c7739daf-32af-4b05-a441-fdfe6c9a54f7_349x396.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:396,&quot;width&quot;:349,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;undefined&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;undefined&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="undefined" title="undefined" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tH-L!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7739daf-32af-4b05-a441-fdfe6c9a54f7_349x396.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tH-L!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7739daf-32af-4b05-a441-fdfe6c9a54f7_349x396.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tH-L!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7739daf-32af-4b05-a441-fdfe6c9a54f7_349x396.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tH-L!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7739daf-32af-4b05-a441-fdfe6c9a54f7_349x396.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Hong Xiuquan</figcaption></figure></div><h3>The Taiping Rebellion</h3><p>The Qing Dynasty had a ingenious way to lockdown aspirant intelligent young men: It gave them an entrance exam.</p><p>The Qing&#8217;s Imperial Examination was both fair on some level, and highly corrupt&#8230; It was basically impossible requiring endless memorization of Confucian poetry and philosophy, endless drilling, and tons of things the elite could raise their kids in from birth or bribe imperial officials to cheat in some way, but&#8230;like America&#8217;s Democratic elections and University System&#8230; gave the appearance of some official meritocratic fair method of advancing up the social structure and redressing imperial grievances. Just take the Civil Service Exam and become a governor yourself. Get Organized. Git Good. Work Hard, stop complaining.</p><p> Well Hong Xiuquan was a child of agricultural workers who had aspirations. We don&#8217;t know his birthdate that his farmer father was so irrelevant&#8230; but in his time off from farming young Hong studied ruthlessly in a way that only the Chinese can. At age 5 he began studying and after 5 or 6 years could recite the entire 4 books of Confucianism from memory. Taking the entry Civil Service Exam he finished first, but then travelling to Ghangzhou for the provincial civil service exam he failed, and he was forced to return to the farm that his parents couldn&#8217;t afford his studies&#8230; But a lucky break hit! Connecting with some wealthier friends, he was able to spend a year studying further, and became a village school teacher&#8230; Then after several more years of studying in his spare time and teaching the exact same curiculum he was studying full-time&#8230; he failed the imperial examinations for a third time at 23 in 1837 (which passed less than 1%) &#8230; At which point he had a neverous breakdown and sudden realization of profound sanity.</p><p>I say SANITY, because if the definition of Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, what Hong Xiuquan did must rank up there with the sanest things that any Chinese man, or indeed any man, has ever done.</p><div id="youtube2-WsYnwfXZkX8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;WsYnwfXZkX8&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WsYnwfXZkX8?start=3&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Instead of taking the Civil service exam a 4th, 5th, 10th, or 20th time (not unheard of) hoping to maybe pass and win a station for himself in his 50s, like many lucky passers eventually did, instead of going back to his little classroom and reciting aloud the same 4 bullshit books of Confucianism another 300 fucking times, instead of sitting there contemplating the 5 constants of Ren, Yi, Li, Zhi, and Zin for another 5 years of his fucking life!!!<br><br>Xiuquan instead took the sane approach.</p><p>He declared himself the younger brother of Jesus Christ, God&#8217;s second begotten son and living emissary on earth, attracted followers, and then he launched a rebellion declaring himself &#8220;Heavenly King of the Heavenly Kingdom of Peace&#8221;. </p><p>His rebellion would eventually kill 20-30 million people.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0cVZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff974a3ec-66de-45be-bd9b-5f1393bb0574_2508x1328.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0cVZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff974a3ec-66de-45be-bd9b-5f1393bb0574_2508x1328.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0cVZ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff974a3ec-66de-45be-bd9b-5f1393bb0574_2508x1328.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0cVZ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff974a3ec-66de-45be-bd9b-5f1393bb0574_2508x1328.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0cVZ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff974a3ec-66de-45be-bd9b-5f1393bb0574_2508x1328.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0cVZ!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff974a3ec-66de-45be-bd9b-5f1393bb0574_2508x1328.jpeg" width="1200" height="635.4395604395604" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f974a3ec-66de-45be-bd9b-5f1393bb0574_2508x1328.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:771,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0cVZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff974a3ec-66de-45be-bd9b-5f1393bb0574_2508x1328.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0cVZ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff974a3ec-66de-45be-bd9b-5f1393bb0574_2508x1328.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0cVZ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff974a3ec-66de-45be-bd9b-5f1393bb0574_2508x1328.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0cVZ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff974a3ec-66de-45be-bd9b-5f1393bb0574_2508x1328.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>He was going to burn down the entire Confucian imperial system, and ensure that no one ever had to take that fucking exam ever again, and no one had to answer to any crooked Confucian administrator ever again&#8230; They would instead answer to him, and his  Neo-Christian Administrators. </p><p>While ultimately the Taiping rebellion would fail, not least because this begat the age of foreign armies operating in China, it was one of a sequence of such mystical and oddly influenced rebellions in China over the period&#8230; Because the underlying problems were never addressed, they just repeated. The Boxer Rebellion, the Wuchang Rebellion, the 1911 Revolution, the Nationalists, Revolutionaries, the Communist revolution&#8230; All begin with this destabilization and age of Chinese instability.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cpv_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74ce8082-e720-46a5-a408-7334e4a13534_1280x960.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cpv_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74ce8082-e720-46a5-a408-7334e4a13534_1280x960.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cpv_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74ce8082-e720-46a5-a408-7334e4a13534_1280x960.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cpv_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74ce8082-e720-46a5-a408-7334e4a13534_1280x960.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cpv_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74ce8082-e720-46a5-a408-7334e4a13534_1280x960.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cpv_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74ce8082-e720-46a5-a408-7334e4a13534_1280x960.jpeg" width="1280" height="960" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/74ce8082-e720-46a5-a408-7334e4a13534_1280x960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:960,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;undefined&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="undefined" title="undefined" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cpv_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74ce8082-e720-46a5-a408-7334e4a13534_1280x960.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cpv_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74ce8082-e720-46a5-a408-7334e4a13534_1280x960.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cpv_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74ce8082-e720-46a5-a408-7334e4a13534_1280x960.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cpv_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74ce8082-e720-46a5-a408-7334e4a13534_1280x960.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Statue of Hong Xiuquan in front of the site of his former residence in Guangzhou</figcaption></figure></div><p>While the Chinese did not learn to worship his particular vision of God and Him as God&#8217;s second begotten emissary&#8230; They learnt something even more profound and more attached to his character&#8230; They learnt to fucking rage quit, murder their enemies, form fanatical paramilitaries, and start wars of Armageddon for the whole of China against their traitorous elite and their foreign handlers.</p><p>Every Chinese Warlord was indeed his child in a way.</p><p>An enviable legacy.</p><p>Even the most impenetrable, uncaring and unreformable system can still be &#8220;Re-formed&#8221; via the &#8220;re-Forming&#8221; of the innards of its supporters via cold sharp steel.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h1>&#8220;But I Don&#8217;t Want to Fight For My Liberties And Dignity! I want to Work Within the System.&#8221;</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WjpN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e14499-fad5-48f4-a8b5-1357888bd972_960x540.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WjpN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e14499-fad5-48f4-a8b5-1357888bd972_960x540.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WjpN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e14499-fad5-48f4-a8b5-1357888bd972_960x540.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WjpN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e14499-fad5-48f4-a8b5-1357888bd972_960x540.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WjpN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e14499-fad5-48f4-a8b5-1357888bd972_960x540.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WjpN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e14499-fad5-48f4-a8b5-1357888bd972_960x540.jpeg" width="960" height="540" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f5e14499-fad5-48f4-a8b5-1357888bd972_960x540.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:540,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WjpN!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e14499-fad5-48f4-a8b5-1357888bd972_960x540.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WjpN!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e14499-fad5-48f4-a8b5-1357888bd972_960x540.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WjpN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e14499-fad5-48f4-a8b5-1357888bd972_960x540.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WjpN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e14499-fad5-48f4-a8b5-1357888bd972_960x540.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Ok&#8230; Go to law school. </p><p>You may need to go back and get a Bachelors first. Combined this will throw you into about 500k in debt.</p><p>At this point you NEED to pay that debt back (its non-dischargable in bankruptcy, and going bankrupt precludes you from practicing law in most jurisdictions), and you want to get to political power as fast a possible, so you&#8217;re going to want to take an internship at the most politicized post you can&#8230; Unfortunately only rich kids get SCOTUS internships, but with luck and probably you&#8217;ll have to do some stuff free, you&#8217;ll get in at a leftist thinktank or other org doing gruntwork on a discrimination lawsuit&#8230; And yes it would basically have to be a leftist thinktank unless you&#8217;re willing to do gay-for-pay stuff to get in at the one or two conservative NGOs that do lawsuits&#8230; If you&#8217;re heterosexual and want to stay that way&#8230; You have to start at leftist law-firms and NGOs and then switch over.</p><p>I know exactly one person who says &#8220;no there&#8217;s lots of opportunities for conservatives&#8221; and he&#8217;s gay as can be, and not a conservative&#8230; But he&#8217;s getting hired as the &#8220;token Conservative&#8221; at various positions&#8230; because they don&#8217;t want Right Wing men, they want a liberal gay they can call their token right winger.</p><p>You will never get the Token conservative job as an actual conservative.</p><p>Then after 5-10 years, when you&#8217;re down to 300k in student debt, you might maybe be established enough to make the &#8220;conversion&#8221; to being a &#8220;conservative&#8221; lawyer, and then the real struggle begins&#8230; You&#8217;ll have to be aggressively networking with the zionists at this point and make it clear you love Israel no matter what, and if you&#8217;ve been willing to do shady stuff for the right corporate masters&#8230; the opportunity will present itself.</p><p>At this point you&#8217;ll have to fuck children. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/20/epstein-1000-survivors-victims-not-politics/87335276007/">Epstein wasn&#8217;t trafficking to himself</a>, and there&#8217;s no way his network will just let a stranger waltz in and be innocent with their support.</p><p>You&#8217;ll also have to fuck a lot of children, across years&#8230; or do creepier worse shit. You have to make them think you really like it&#8230; You have to make them think you&#8217;re Lindsay Graham or Howard Lutnik levels of creepy.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ne__!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedb46b52-2707-4966-8590-a59ad9e4e3da_768x576.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ne__!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedb46b52-2707-4966-8590-a59ad9e4e3da_768x576.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ne__!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedb46b52-2707-4966-8590-a59ad9e4e3da_768x576.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ne__!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedb46b52-2707-4966-8590-a59ad9e4e3da_768x576.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ne__!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedb46b52-2707-4966-8590-a59ad9e4e3da_768x576.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ne__!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedb46b52-2707-4966-8590-a59ad9e4e3da_768x576.jpeg" width="512" height="384" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/edb46b52-2707-4966-8590-a59ad9e4e3da_768x576.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:576,&quot;width&quot;:768,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:512,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ne__!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedb46b52-2707-4966-8590-a59ad9e4e3da_768x576.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ne__!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedb46b52-2707-4966-8590-a59ad9e4e3da_768x576.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ne__!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedb46b52-2707-4966-8590-a59ad9e4e3da_768x576.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ne__!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedb46b52-2707-4966-8590-a59ad9e4e3da_768x576.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Lindsay Graham spotted on Vacation at Disney World&#8230; With the wife, kids, and Grandkids he doesn&#8217;t have and never had.</figcaption></figure></div><p>There is no way you&#8217;ll realistically advance any further if you don&#8217;t, and if you actually want to win&#8230; this is what it takes.</p><p>You may also have to give your asshole to Peter Theil.</p><p>However get married, not for love but for political connection, and make sure she&#8217;s wealthy and powerful.</p><p>Then if everything lines up exactly right you&#8217;ll become a Senator, or Governor, or Vice President&#8230;</p><p>Now you just need the next 2 or 3 elections to go exactly right so you wind up like Joseph Biden and not Dick Cheney or Kamala Harris or Mike Pence or Al Gore&#8230; You also need to 100% support the bombing of women and children, sign off on every warcrime, tell young people to shutup when they talk about housing, but lead them on just enough to still vote for you when you promise to release the Epstein Files (winking to all your Pedophile friends, like that&#8217;ll happen) And then Tada! </p><p>You&#8217;re president.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>NOW! You can finally do something! Then commit SEPUKU live on air screaming &#8220;Let this e</p><p>The Next-time Netenyahu visits deploy Delta Force to assassinate him in New York and Massacre his personal security, then get up at a press conference at Federal Hall you have scheduled&#8230; Name every single name, confess to everything, lay out exactly how the system works, declassify every single file, Sign a presidential pardon live on air for every American who kills one of the Epstein Clients or other pedos you named&#8230; at this point some of your handlers who are themselves pedos that you&#8217;ve named will start yelling and trying rush the stage, threatening that they&#8217;ll have your family killed for what you&#8217;ve done&#8230; At which point You can laugh at them and point out that you married for power, and you actually hate you wife her bastard children, and there&#8217;s nothing that would bring you more joy.</p><p>Then commit Sepuku live on TV yelling: &#8220;Let this expiate!&#8221;</p><p>Congratulations&#8230; You saved America. You are the single greatest double agent of all time. You are the boss to surpass Big Boss. You successfully pulled off the Solidus Snake Gambit and got the evil conspiracy to put you in charge only so you could betray them out patriotism and love for America. </p><div id="youtube2-GFu0SEAF7ZA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;GFu0SEAF7ZA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;196&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/GFu0SEAF7ZA?start=196&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>And hurray you did it non-lethally! You worked entirely within the system. The only murders you were a party to were the warcrimes the government already commits and the sex offenses against children the FBI already treats as legal.</p><p>You are the avatar of faith in the American system.</p><p>And all it cost you was your soul, all human connection, your asshole, your innocence, all sense of dignity, and not uttering a single word except to lie for decades on end until the very moment of your death.</p><p>.</p><p>Except you wouldn&#8217;t&#8230; because You can&#8217;t pretend to be a blackmailed corrupt cowardly pedophile flinching at anything that threatens your career and delusions without actually just becoming Howard Lutnik or Lindsay Graham.</p><p>You pretend to be retarded for decades, and at the end you&#8217;ll find you&#8217;ve forgotten how to speak normally without the Down Syndrome lisp.</p><p>But hey, maybe J.D. Vance will do it. </p><p>(he won&#8217;t, he&#8217;ll morph into Lindsay Graham)</p><p>.</p><p>Ok But now you&#8217;re going to say you don&#8217;t want to go to law school, and you don&#8217;t want to work for leftist NGOs, and you don&#8217;t want to bend over in gay for pay schemes, you don&#8217;t want to rape kids, and you want to marry for love, and you don&#8217;t want to risk being Kamala Harris, and you don&#8217;t want you kids to be killed even if they probably won&#8217;t be yours, and Seppuku sounds like it hurts&#8230;.</p><p>huh&#8230;..</p><p>I prepare a masterpiece for you&#8230; and you reject it.<br>I&#8217;m like a 3 star Michelin Chef being asked if there&#8217;s a gluten free vegan option.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Ok.</p><p>So you want to &#8220;organize&#8221; your way out of this political scenario, without having to dedicate decades of your life, without having to live a lie, without having to perform sexual favours or sexual abominations, without having to play nice with pedophiles, without having to marry for political connection, and without having to endure the humiliations and war crimes of public office yourself&#8230;</p><p>And also you want to work entirely within the system and not commit any noble violence that might actually wash the corruption away with blood.</p><p>.</p><p>You want to get together and play democracy with likeminded friends in your spare time on evenings and weekends but actually have it DO SOMETHING and not be immediately drowned out by the corruption of the elite&#8230; And you want it do something meaningful, substantive, and permanent in the real world&#8230; Not be a boutique Live Action Roleplay like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZW4">the Star Wars Hotel</a> or dinner theater.</p><p>.</p><p>And you&#8217;re sure you aren&#8217;t looking for a Dinner Theater? </p><p>You want to actually participate in politics? <br>Warfare by other means? The meaningful manipulation of the machinery that controls the nuclear weapons? And the spy system that tracks everyone on earth? And the intelligence agencies that experiment on unwitting college students with LSD? And sex traffick children to politicians? And bomb girl&#8217;s Schools?</p><p>You&#8217;re sure you&#8217;re looking for Democratic Politics, and not Dungeons and Dragons?</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Ok&#8230; </p><p>The first thing is to remember what politics is: </p><p>Warfare by other means.</p><p>You aren&#8217;t immediately organizing violence&#8230; But you also aren&#8217;t NOT organizing violence.</p><p>The extent a political faction or movement has power is the extent to which it could transition to violence and criminal activity effectively.</p><p>The Israelis and Jewish mafia are the most powerful faction in America, not because they have the most armaments (that would be the army) but because they can transition to violence the fastest and most coherently.</p><p>They are indeed one of three prominent Mafias from the 20th century that had this power, the other two were the Irish and the Italians&#8230; who the Jewish Mafia used the FBI to kill off.</p><p>Your average Army Captain would probably struggle to find someone they trust and trusts them enough to act as or hire a third party as a hitman&#8230; That&#8217;s not the case with even relatively low level people in the Jewish Mafia world.</p><p>Your goal when politically organizing should be to form bonds with people that you could trust them to participate in violence with or for you.</p><p>That&#8217;s actually really a hard bond to form in the modern day&#8230; when you don&#8217;t share a religion or ethnic kinship, or family ties that&#8217;s kinda hard.</p><p>For this reason you should be trying to do PHYSICAL things when you organize, and trying to create rituals for your group.</p><p>Frats, soccer clubs, active clubs, airsoft teams, veterans groups, football ultras&#8230; Teams. These transition to participating in riots or acting as Freikorp much more easily.</p><p>Likewise you want to sort aggressively by sex and ethnicity&#8230; Think of the Captain planet multiethnic team? You want the opposite. You want ethnic coherence This is why they&#8217;re scarred of neo-nazis. (also t<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_(white_supremacist_group)">he most famous Neo-Nazi group was betrayed by their one token Mexican</a>)</p><p>Remember a chain is only as strong as it&#8217;s weakest link, so you want activities that act as sorting mechanisms of temperament, endurance, intelligence and character.</p><p>There&#8217;s a reason in many white countries the highest level of crime was taken over by Biker Clubs in the 90s (Hells Angels became a multibillion dollar cartel in Canada, Australia, and Scandinavia)&#8230; The kinds of people who can maintain a motorcycle, endure camping out, get in fights, get back on after bad crashes, not die from poor decisions, and then want to join a criminal enterprise in spite of those virtues? Those people make powerful criminal orgs.</p><p>Likewise good reason Truckers and Farmers rebellions in Canada and Europe are so common and effective. If you own and maintain your own big rig, you tend to be very competent and commitment-capable. (and it&#8217;s hard for the Cops to fake a $300,000 piece of equipment to go undercover)</p><p>For non-active activities, if you really want a dinner theater that&#8217;s still somewhat relevant, classics bookclubs and poetry clubs attract intelligent people with a keen sense of history and western civilization&#8230; It&#8217;s also invariably default all white.</p><p></p><p>The Second thing to remember is what &#8220;Organizing&#8221; means: Organized crime.</p><p>Even if its technically legal&#8230; If you&#8217;re getting together with a group of unpaid political volunteers, the explicit goal&#8230; and you should force this to the center if you&#8217;re right wing&#8230; is to get at least one person at that meeting in a job with a 6 figure salary where they&#8217;re being paid to be right wing full time.</p><p>It might be as innocent as you&#8217;re influencers coming up with a private chat group to boost eachother&#8217;s tweets and podcasts and products to try and do things honestly via the free market, you might be honorable enough that you aren&#8217;t accepting payoffs to hype people and aren&#8217;t acting as a mouthpiece for some billionaire&#8230; But the goal is to get eachother rich via influence peddling so that you can be full-time activists instead of part time and so that you can lock in permanent allies who can never betray you and moderate, because their income depends on ideological fanaticism.</p><p>But more realistically you want to get access to tax dollars, get some &#8220;Learing Centers&#8221; going&#8230; or find some regulatory oddity or enforcement blind spot where you can make outsized returns because of the government&#8217;s capriciousness, or ignorance.</p><p>Second Amendment types are actually fairly decent at this, coming up with unusual linguistic exceptions to various firearms regulations so that they alone can sell &#8220;not an auto-sear&#8221; auto-sears and other products that just barely fit some extraordinarily thin definition of legal.</p><p></p><p>Remember the goal isn&#8217;t to make the government look stupid, maybe they&#8217;ll waste time closing a loophole, but that&#8217;s not the point&#8230; The goal is to make money off of your individual hobby&#8217;s fanaticism and contempt for state regulations, even if you technically obeyed them&#8230; not only will this let you organize enterprises but these business models quickly become ecosystems all thinking the same.</p><p>It&#8217;s not a coincidence the Boston Tea-Party was carried out by smugglers&#8230; The creation of a criminal class ecosystems outside and against the law was the main thing that organized them against the crown&#8230; This &#8220;white&#8221;, grey, and black market activity is the true backbone of all political organization.</p><p>Its important to stay in contact with the opponent and feel where they are, little non-compliances and deviances give you that feel and reveal opportunities&#8230;</p><p>Grow your totally above board enterprises&#8230; then pour resources into local politics where you operate to gain control of the institutions most immediately impacting you, then use that to grow your enterprises further&#8230;</p><p>And at the end of it if you're highly effective you&#8217;ll probably turn into some George Soros or Sheldon Adellson monster&#8230; But there&#8217;s a chance you turn into Samuel Adams&#8230; Who participated in an armed rebellion&#8230; because that&#8217;s what actually lowers the corruption threshold.</p><p>But If you want to &#8220;get organized&#8221; against your political rivals&#8230; this is how you do it, you form white, grey, and black market organized crime networks. </p><p>Never meet with your political allies without some scheme forming to get one of you rich.</p><p>And if you&#8217;re extraordinarily moral you&#8217;ll only sell the goods or steal the resources that you politically agree with taking&#8230; You&#8217;ll rob from the robbers so to speak, only plunder the enemy&#8230; Be a sort of Robin Hood.</p><p>But then, that&#8217;s what the leftists say they&#8217;re doing.</p><p>I think most people will find that when all is played out, honest murder is often less corrupting than peaceful politics.</p><p>Everyone talks about guilty souls closing their eyes and seeing the faces of the people they killed&#8230; The wise man sees the faces of the people he didn&#8217;t.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.<br>-George Orwell, Animal Farm</p></div><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CcsP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcb817b1-8f61-45fe-bc16-74a919c77ad4_2304x1536.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CcsP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcb817b1-8f61-45fe-bc16-74a919c77ad4_2304x1536.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CcsP!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcb817b1-8f61-45fe-bc16-74a919c77ad4_2304x1536.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CcsP!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcb817b1-8f61-45fe-bc16-74a919c77ad4_2304x1536.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CcsP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcb817b1-8f61-45fe-bc16-74a919c77ad4_2304x1536.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CcsP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcb817b1-8f61-45fe-bc16-74a919c77ad4_2304x1536.jpeg" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bcb817b1-8f61-45fe-bc16-74a919c77ad4_2304x1536.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CcsP!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcb817b1-8f61-45fe-bc16-74a919c77ad4_2304x1536.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CcsP!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcb817b1-8f61-45fe-bc16-74a919c77ad4_2304x1536.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CcsP!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcb817b1-8f61-45fe-bc16-74a919c77ad4_2304x1536.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CcsP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcb817b1-8f61-45fe-bc16-74a919c77ad4_2304x1536.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p>Tip:<br><br><br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br><br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br><br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a>   </em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LruG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LruG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LruG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LruG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LruG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LruG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png" width="662" height="454" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:454,&quot;width&quot;:662,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:349882,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/187773104?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LruG!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LruG!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LruG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LruG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17897b3d-7678-400a-894b-7a1b18e2d121_662x454.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ep29 Iran-War April 2026! One Month In w/Hypozomata]]></title><description><![CDATA[Follow-up on the progress of the Iran War and speculation on the future of the conflict with Anarchonomicon Favorite Hypozomata.]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep29-iran-war-april-2026-one-month</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep29-iran-war-april-2026-one-month</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:11:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/192689832/986d8070ce07b5c04e94c3c3bd930b0f.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Follow-up on the progress of the Iran War and speculation on the future of the conflict with Anarchonomicon Favorite Hypozomata. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4Cgy56slU">2000 Meters To Andrivka <br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4Cgy56slU<br></a></p><div id="youtube2-Nf4Cgy56slU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Nf4Cgy56slU&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Nf4Cgy56slU?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p></p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/AscendedYield/status/2033303052216660059&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;New paper by India's former Chief Economic Adviser says the country's GDP has been overstated by roughly 22%.\n\nA fifth of the economy doesn't exist.&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;AscendedYield&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;camilo&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1909774684188446720/JgYnmu85_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15T22:03:19.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/HDe-U4nXsAAujXw.png&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/9zWx5Nny67&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;India's 20 years of GDP misestimation: New evidence https://t.co/cfIsnFDmf3&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;AscendedYield&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;camilo&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1909774684188446720/JgYnmu85_normal.jpg&quot;},&quot;reply_count&quot;:206,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:1668,&quot;like_count&quot;:9828,&quot;impression_count&quot;:932934,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbWyaxIUifU">Hearts of Iron 4: The Fire Rises Mod <br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbWyaxIUifU </a></p><div id="youtube2-rbWyaxIUifU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;rbWyaxIUifU&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rbWyaxIUifU?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Opening: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBPHaTZLwjw">&#8220;Lord of War&#8221; by White Bat Audio</a>, Outro <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Di-UB1d84&amp;list=RDw5Di-UB1d84&amp;start_radio=1">Aviator, white bat audio</a></p><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nightmare of a Sickly Crown: Yes, Netanyahu Probably Got Got]]></title><description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s dead or hospitalized. The only alternative is this is a purposeful distraction from something else.]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-nightmare-of-a-sickly-crown-yes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-nightmare-of-a-sickly-crown-yes</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:26:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Follow me on Twitter:<strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg" width="640" height="477" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:477,&quot;width&quot;:640,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>For those who haven&#8217;t followed: Netanyahu hasn&#8217;t been seen in days or made any substantive public statement.</p><p>On March 13th Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was called out of a LIVE interview for an emergency meeting in the Situation room with Trump, then returned visibly shaken refusing to comment on why he had left but saying he&#8217;d trust his children&#8217;s life to Trump&#8217;s hands in the US Military in a visibly halting tone.</p><div id="youtube2-d1RUg39AVrI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;d1RUg39AVrI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/d1RUg39AVrI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>This led to all kinds of speculation, but shortly after One video was released of Netanyahu giving a statement which made everyone Narrow in on the most likely possibility:</p><p>Netanyahu was hit in an Iranian strike:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!03Pb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4fd1e91-ba23-46c8-bbff-4c8146689143_591x425.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!03Pb!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4fd1e91-ba23-46c8-bbff-4c8146689143_591x425.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!03Pb!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4fd1e91-ba23-46c8-bbff-4c8146689143_591x425.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!03Pb!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4fd1e91-ba23-46c8-bbff-4c8146689143_591x425.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!03Pb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4fd1e91-ba23-46c8-bbff-4c8146689143_591x425.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!03Pb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4fd1e91-ba23-46c8-bbff-4c8146689143_591x425.png" width="591" height="425" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a4fd1e91-ba23-46c8-bbff-4c8146689143_591x425.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:425,&quot;width&quot;:591,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:201528,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/191054842?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4fd1e91-ba23-46c8-bbff-4c8146689143_591x425.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!03Pb!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4fd1e91-ba23-46c8-bbff-4c8146689143_591x425.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!03Pb!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4fd1e91-ba23-46c8-bbff-4c8146689143_591x425.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!03Pb!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4fd1e91-ba23-46c8-bbff-4c8146689143_591x425.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!03Pb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4fd1e91-ba23-46c8-bbff-4c8146689143_591x425.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Netenyahu&#8217;s palm and pinky morph together as he gestures in the film, as an additional finger appears between them&#8230; Stills really don&#8217;t do it justice</figcaption></figure></div><p>The Video which appeared to show Netanyahu alive and well on closer inspection had clear AI artifacting: notably at one point Netanyahu appears to have 6 fingers, while at others fingers appear Salad Fingers long, or extra-joints appear and disappear, at other points his teeth change shape:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4d874a54-ae0c-442e-b8b4-cc8e413c0a21&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>This however isn&#8217;t actually that odd since a lot of recording equipment and software uses AI post-processing its actually really common for real footage to get ai postprocessing artifacts in release versions of the video especially once its been shared online a few times&#8230;</p><p>This was a major plot point in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial where the Prosecutor insisted that Kyle&#8217;s rifle could be seen firing and doing all kinds of menacing stuff&#8230; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6AT12nRelQ">When on technical inspection these turned out to be artifacts of his macbook video-player&#8217;s &#8220;Enhance&#8221; feature</a>.</p><p>AI artifacting in one video on its own wouldn&#8217;t show much&#8230; Except then Netanyahu was absent from other meetings, and rumors quickly spread:</p><p>&#8220;Is this why Bessent was so spooked? Did he get news Netanyahu was hit?&#8221;</p><p>Netanyahu was releasing no statements and the internet was abuzz&#8230; Then this video was released:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7c11a142-c2db-4336-a33a-46e76b47e29d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h5>(notice at the 55 second shot he switches hands on the coffee cup to shake with his right&#8230; My friends insist it seems to happens too fast mid-pan as if an AI didn&#8217;t realize how gingerly old men move, or failed to maintain object permanence while he was out of shot)</h5><p>.</p><p>Now the entire internet is abuzz looking at the coffee cup and trying to assess the behavior of the liquid coffee or the fabric of his clothing&#8230; That many insist they&#8217;re behaving oddly or AI&#8230; Many have tried to find the Coffeeshop with some arguing that it&#8217;s real, others that its closed and hasn&#8217;t operated for months, others that it was closed for the photoshoot&#8230; And several just obvious lies from both sides.</p><p>Some argue the date on the screen of the terminal said 2023  others using other enhance software that it was todays date&#8230;</p><p>And about a million posts from hasbara bots calling their enemies &#8220;retarded&#8221;, &#8220;peasants&#8221;, and &#8220;This is why the goyim must be ruled&#8221; (Yes mask off moment)</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>But I want you to notice something uncontestable:</p><h4>How short the video is.</h4><p>We can debate about AI, Body doubles, AI face Swap, prerecorded fluff statements, prerecorded fluff statements that even reference known obvious AI bugs&#8230;</p><p>But notice how short it is. </p><p>Film isn&#8217;t scarce&#8230; we don&#8217;t even use it. You can record lengthy statements. Politicians tend to JUMP at the opportunity to make lengthy statements, especially when they have a captive audience&#8230; Especially in the midst of a war when people already think there&#8217;s been a meaningful threat to their health or the state and they want to reassure people or cash in politically.</p><p>Think of how many politicians visited Iraq or Afghanistan and wore Body Armor or Camo, desperate to appear to their voters that they&#8217;ve suffered some risk to themselves and they aren&#8217;t all talk&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iu_J!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F136eb4ca-69a8-4230-95ff-f8a3a90f4118_726x553.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iu_J!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F136eb4ca-69a8-4230-95ff-f8a3a90f4118_726x553.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iu_J!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F136eb4ca-69a8-4230-95ff-f8a3a90f4118_726x553.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iu_J!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F136eb4ca-69a8-4230-95ff-f8a3a90f4118_726x553.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iu_J!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F136eb4ca-69a8-4230-95ff-f8a3a90f4118_726x553.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iu_J!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F136eb4ca-69a8-4230-95ff-f8a3a90f4118_726x553.png" width="576" height="438.74380165289256" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/136eb4ca-69a8-4230-95ff-f8a3a90f4118_726x553.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:553,&quot;width&quot;:726,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:576,&quot;bytes&quot;:694233,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/191054842?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F136eb4ca-69a8-4230-95ff-f8a3a90f4118_726x553.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iu_J!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F136eb4ca-69a8-4230-95ff-f8a3a90f4118_726x553.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iu_J!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F136eb4ca-69a8-4230-95ff-f8a3a90f4118_726x553.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iu_J!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F136eb4ca-69a8-4230-95ff-f8a3a90f4118_726x553.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iu_J!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F136eb4ca-69a8-4230-95ff-f8a3a90f4118_726x553.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Former Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper on a state visit to Canadian forces in Afghanistan&#8230; Indoor in a windowless transport.</figcaption></figure></div><p></p><p>Yet in this golden opportunity to deliver his exact message&#8230; A politician famous for his English statements delivers a message in Hebrew (no official transcript) glibly, about his coffee.</p><p>.</p><p>This is such an unnaturally short and bait video, and the substance so utterly lacking and non-date specific. Especially to act glibly about a war and the survival of the state... If he was alive and well he could use it to make any statement he wanted to push some propaganda point while everyone&#8217;s waiting, make a statement about the resolve and will of the Israeli people... In English! To an audience with baited breath!</p><p> Instead its the EXACT bare minimum to get the shills and bots calling others retards for questioning it, and trying to shame YOU about how HE hasn&#8217;t answered questions or made any statement of substance in days. (something we&#8217;d criticize politicians for normally)</p><p>Ai &#8220;weekend at Bernie&#8217;s&#8221;? Body-Double who only speak Hebrew? Pre-recorded video?</p><p>He still hasn&#8217;t made any statement of substance or answered any question in days... indeed his son Yair Netanyahu hasn&#8217;t either, he hasn&#8217;t posted since March 8th, and he usually posts daily.</p><p>Sure Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s old so who knows... maybe his heart just kicked out and he&#8217;s undergoing bypass surgery in Europe.</p><p>But the fact everyone&#8217;s unconvinced and they just haven&#8217;t released something substantive or answered press questions... (something most major politicians do daily) speaks to something being hidden.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Remember this isn&#8217;t just shitposters. </p><p>Regimes are vulnerable when the Leader is even PERCIEVED to be sick, weak, or dead... There are many historical examples of countries enduring real coups or real wars starting because of truly false rumors that the leader was sick or dead.</p><p>Perfectly healthy leaders have gotten home safe and sound from a hunting trip or helicopter crash or getting lost in the woods&#8230; only to find that they&#8217;re no longer king their brother or rival took over when everyone thought they were dead in an act of treason... And now that they&#8217;re alive, the cleanest solution is to just actually kill them.</p><p>This is not something governments play games with. </p><p>Indeed if you&#8217;ve seen the Tom Cruise film &#8220;Valkyrie&#8221; you know one of the most famous examples of such an event  the attempted July 20 coup following the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler&#8230; if Hitler had merely been slightly more WOUNDED, not killed, it would have worked since his leadership and voice could not have organized a stop to the coup&#8230; and his physical person could be finished off where the bomb failed</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6t7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ee0ccc1-43c5-449a-8a17-24af125f1dea_1010x794.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6t7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ee0ccc1-43c5-449a-8a17-24af125f1dea_1010x794.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6t7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ee0ccc1-43c5-449a-8a17-24af125f1dea_1010x794.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6t7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ee0ccc1-43c5-449a-8a17-24af125f1dea_1010x794.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6t7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ee0ccc1-43c5-449a-8a17-24af125f1dea_1010x794.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6t7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ee0ccc1-43c5-449a-8a17-24af125f1dea_1010x794.png" width="1010" height="794" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2ee0ccc1-43c5-449a-8a17-24af125f1dea_1010x794.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:794,&quot;width&quot;:1010,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:164024,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/191054842?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ee0ccc1-43c5-449a-8a17-24af125f1dea_1010x794.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6t7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ee0ccc1-43c5-449a-8a17-24af125f1dea_1010x794.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6t7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ee0ccc1-43c5-449a-8a17-24af125f1dea_1010x794.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6t7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ee0ccc1-43c5-449a-8a17-24af125f1dea_1010x794.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x6t7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ee0ccc1-43c5-449a-8a17-24af125f1dea_1010x794.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>.</p><p></p><p>We saw a softer coup in the Soviet Union force Brezhnev and most of his faction from power well before his death when his health declined&#8230; He kept his title, but by the end he was little more than a figurehead.</p><p>And most pressingly for the current conflict, the Shah of Iran actually did lose his country to Ayatollah Khomeini, the first Supreme Leader, when the Islamic revolution and maneuvering began&#8230; not with any political happening&#8230; but the Shah&#8217;s Cancer diagnosis&#8230; something that quickly leaked through international intelligence service chattering.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg" width="640" height="477" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:477,&quot;width&quot;:640,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nyX4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e556fc9-5422-4921-bcdc-0eb89b9a6e0c_640x477.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The Shah on his Death Bed</figcaption></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if the Shah has cancer or not, but in any case, he must die.&#8221;<br>-Chief Justice of the newly created Iranian Revolutionary Court</p></div><p>.</p><p>Unless Netanyahu&#8217;s purposefully trying to create the rumor that he&#8217;s dead so as to bait an enemy, or some other 5d chess maneuver, his security services would be freaking out and demanding that he make a substantive uncontestable demonstration of life lest some faction of the army, some US political group, or a foreign government make a move off the perception of weakness.</p><p>Indeed WE CAN SEE THE FREAKOUT, because all the bots and paid influencers are at battle-stations ready to tell you Netanyahu&#8217;s fine, and you&#8217;re an absolute retard for doubting video evidence the same way they all said Biden was &#8220;sharp as a tack&#8221;&#8230;. And the exact way no one freaks out about actual dumb conspiracy theories such as the one that Biden was replaced with a body double (who was also senile)&#8230; No one has to run about and debunk flat earth theory&#8230; Indeed you can tell which &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; have the ring of truth to them by which ones get tons of posters and bots trying to shame people out of believing them ( and it is always shame, you&#8217;re always called &#8220;antisemitic&#8221; or &#8220;Stupid&#8221; or &#8220;anti-science&#8221;&#8230; its never a substantive argument. Whereas people who do go out of their way to debunk flat earth or other dumb conspiracies, actually do tend to get a kick out of going into the physical science side of it and the historical epistemology&#8230; You can get really good histories of ancient Greek philosophers, Geopositioning and the historical struggles and breakthroughs of navigation by just watching videos debunking flat earth, or good histories of aviation and photography when people debunk aliens).</p><p>.</p><p>But between Bessent, the AI video, the poorly done follow-up, and Netenyahu&#8217;s general absence from the world stage for 3 days, even as rumors fly&#8230;</p><p>I&#8217;m calling it: </p><p>He hasn&#8217;t made a substantive statement&#8230; because he can&#8217;t.</p><p>Most likely he&#8217;s been wounded in an Iranian strike, had a heart attack, or had a stroke and is out of action... but not dead.</p><p>Generally when a leader actually dies the rules of succession take over and he&#8217;s just made into a martyr&#8230; It is conceivable Israel is genuinely THAT paranoid about showing weakness or admitting the effectiveness of Iran&#8217;s strikes that they&#8217;d rather &#8220;Weekend at Bernie&#8217;s&#8221; a dead Netanyahu than admit an Iranian drone or missile got him&#8230; but if they were THAT paranoid, they probably wouldn&#8217;t have briefed the US immediately&#8230; Unless the US actually wasn&#8217;t briefed, and Trump found out via the US&#8217;s own intel services.</p><p>But vastly more likely he&#8217;s &#8220;Not Quite Dead&#8221;.</p><p> So simultaneously he can&#8217;t make a substantive statement, they can&#8217;t move forward with any succession plan, and its politically sensitive enough he couldn&#8217;t even make a statement from a hospital bed (maybe because he can&#8217;t, maybe because they can&#8217;t show weakness). And they&#8217;re just hoping he gets better in a quick enough timeline to make some brave statement soon as possible, and deny Iran the propaganda victory that &#8220;they got Netanyahu&#8221;... Which might not even be true, it might just be an old man ailment (Heart attack, stroke, exploded prostate)... but which is a victory Iran will certainly try to claim the longer out of action Netanyahu is.</p><p>But statistically a mere 14 days into the war it&#8217;s vastly more likely to have been a Kinetic hit from Iran than just a random health thing that happens to old men. (barring of course someone else took out Netanyahu&#8230; If he was pushing to nuke Iran unilaterally the US or his own security services might have done so) </p><p>Even men in their 70s can generally go 2 weeks without being hospitalized from ill health, so something kinetic is just statistically more likely in a war that&#8217;s already taken out wide sections of Iranian and Israeli leadership.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>In Conclusion</h2><p>Is this the end of Netanyahu? Who knows&#8230; he might show up minus an arm and up an eyepatch, and reveal he&#8217;s released the secret bioweapons and fighting robots in reprisal&#8230; but he&#8217;s down for the count.</p><p> </p><p>Usually I wouldn&#8217;t write something this up to the minute But I have people who follow me who have various investments and careers on the line&#8230; expect things to get crazy&#8230;</p><p>But also this just an amazing case study in capabilities the regime does and doesn&#8217;t have.</p><p>If they had super-secret <em>Mission Impossible</em> morph masks, or perfect clone body doubles, or perfect undetectable AI that could fake 30 minute interviews convincingly and without artifacts&#8230;</p><p>Well this would have been the time to use it&#8230; Instead in a matter of the greatest sensitivity, of the survival of the super-secret 4th topmost level of the US government (Local, State, Federal, Israel)&#8230; We&#8217;re seeing the upper limits of their powers to fake messages, falsify evidence, and control narratives&#8230; And block missiles.</p><p>We&#8217;re seeing the iron fist without the velvet glove&#8230; And we can see all the cracks and rust.</p><p>Very worth noting! </p><p>Remember just because someone is powerful doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re all powerful, and just because they&#8217;re masters of deception doesn&#8217;t mean they can reliably deceive the suspicious.</p><p>.</p><p>In contrast to the legacy media era of 1950-2010&#8230; Governments ability to control narratives has well and truly collapsed.</p><p>..</p><p>..</p><p>..</p><p>Also Check out my Take on the Iran War and what it&#8217;d take for the US to actually &#8220;Win&#8221; in Iran:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;0387822b-0d93-42ac-9525-66dab3d4d1e7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The CatGirl Plan: My Modest Proposal for a Ground Invasion of Iran (And how the US Will Screw it Up)&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13T03:36:46.039Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrvF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-catgirl-plan-my-modest-proposal&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:190535715,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:98,&quot;comment_count&quot;:58,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h4><strong>Tip:<br><br>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter:<strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></strong></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The CatGirl Plan: My Modest Proposal for a Ground Invasion of Iran (And how the US Will Screw it Up)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Follow me on Twitter: @FromKulak]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-catgirl-plan-my-modest-proposal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-catgirl-plan-my-modest-proposal</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:36:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrvF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <strong><a href="https://x.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></strong></em></p><p><em>Follow me on substack<strong>: <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;bc761eae-25e4-40eb-af7f-50e293ae561a&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lHs2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a93e76a-b66a-4c9a-af05-29f5bd706806_800x400.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lHs2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a93e76a-b66a-4c9a-af05-29f5bd706806_800x400.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lHs2!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a93e76a-b66a-4c9a-af05-29f5bd706806_800x400.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lHs2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a93e76a-b66a-4c9a-af05-29f5bd706806_800x400.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lHs2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a93e76a-b66a-4c9a-af05-29f5bd706806_800x400.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lHs2!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a93e76a-b66a-4c9a-af05-29f5bd706806_800x400.png" width="1200" height="600" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1a93e76a-b66a-4c9a-af05-29f5bd706806_800x400.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:400,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lHs2!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a93e76a-b66a-4c9a-af05-29f5bd706806_800x400.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lHs2!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a93e76a-b66a-4c9a-af05-29f5bd706806_800x400.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lHs2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a93e76a-b66a-4c9a-af05-29f5bd706806_800x400.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lHs2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a93e76a-b66a-4c9a-af05-29f5bd706806_800x400.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The Strait of Hormuz, two weeks ago.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Many Trump loyalists and others are predicting a short war or that it&#8217;s already over&#8230; This fundamentally misunderstands (purposefully misrepresents?) the dynamics of the budding Iran war.</p><p>.</p><p>Iran wants a long and painful war: lasting some 8 months to 3 or 4 years, ideally. </p><p>Iran has been sanctioned, suffered major economic decline as a result, had agreements it has signed reneged upon, and been surprise attack during negotiations not just recently but during the Twelve Day War last year&#8230; not to mention Iranian allies like Hamas and Hezbollah having their leadership assassinated AT NEGOTIATIONS in nominally neutral gulf countries under the banner of peace.</p><p>Then during the most recent negotiations they were surprise attacked, had their own leadership assassinated, and had unarmed naval ships attacked &#8220;While they thought they were safe in international waters&#8221; (War Secretary, Pete Hegseth) but really while they thought they were safe, as an unarmed participant in peaceful naval exercises with India.</p><p>Now, you might have to reach back in your imagination to kindergarten or childhood, or WWE, or maybe tap into some prison experiences&#8230; But the basic game theory, that even children and wrestling fans understand, is when you&#8217;ve suffered treachery, or sucker punches, or surprise attacks when someone pretends to be trying to negotiate with you&#8230; is that, assuming you cannot kill them off (which children, wrestlers, and nation states generally can&#8217;t)  you have to hit them back or inflict some other pain hard enough that you suitably disincentivize future treachery, and make them not want to mess with you again.</p><p>Very much like how your dad (or the dad of your neighbor who was happy) will tell you that you have to stand up to bullies and fight back&#8230; ya they&#8217;ll kick your ass, that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re bullying you! You&#8217;re weaker than them. But you have to fight back and take your punches, because it still hurts them when you get your few punches in, and as long as you don&#8217;t cry too much when you probably inevitably lose&#8230; they&#8217;re going to conclude the effort wasn&#8217;t worth it, and not try to push you around again because the risk and pain of having to fight you isn&#8217;t worth status gain&#8230; they&#8217;ll pick on someone else who doesn&#8217;t fight back.</p><p>This is the very loose game theory that basically holds wherever the laws of civilization don&#8217;t regulate conflict: like International relations, prison, WWE, or American Schools.</p><h5><strong>(NOTE</strong>: There&#8217;s a moral connotation when we talk about &#8220;bullies&#8221; strip that away. There is no morality in International Relation (or American Schools) this is law of the jungle survival, and the game theory doesn&#8217;t change or cease to hold just because the most obvious familiar example is juvenile and has a moral connotation&#8230;)</h5><p>.</p><p>So even if Iran&#8217;s getting hit much harder than it&#8217;s hitting back&#8230; Iran&#8217;s not going to stop.</p><p>They&#8217;d much rather get bombed for the next 8 months to 4 years but make America, Israel, and the international community suffer enough they fear ever doing it again&#8230; Than let the precedent stand that you can sanction them, violate all norms of negotiation, airstrike them by surprise, arm foreign mercenaries to try and overthrow them, assassinate their leaders, sink their ships, bomb their girl&#8217;s schools&#8230; And then go &#8220;that&#8217;s enough, we&#8217;re cool until next time&#8221;.</p><p>Because they know that there WILL be a next time.</p><p>Just as the Twelve Day War last year ended not with peace but with rolling subsequent attempts to overthrow the Iranian government ending in the current war&#8230; They&#8217;re not going to accept terms whereby they just sit around waiting for the next US-Israeli surprise attack that attempts to overthrow their government, or accept the uncertainty is going to just shred their economy into permanent decline.</p><p>Indeed the Shia religion and sexism of the Iranian regime actively encourages them to value the struggle and suffering and deaths they&#8217;ll endure in a way most western secularists, who structure their lives around the screeching comfort seeking of old women, can&#8217;t imagine.</p><p>.</p><p>So in short: Iran is not going to stop firing missiles and drones at Israel and the Gulf states. And It&#8217;s not going to open the Strait of Hormuz&#8230; And its Certainly not going to do so in any timeframe that spares international oil markets or American consumers in a way that rescues Trump&#8217;s political prospects and US domestic tolerance for Israel&#8230; The entire point of this exercise is to make this conflict hurt international supply lines and the Israeli public such that it becomes less likely they&#8217;ll deal with this again, or that some politician will propose a &#8220;grass mowing&#8221; operation 5 years from now.</p><p>Iran is purposefully going to try to crash boomer&#8217;s stock-market portfolios so that Trump suffers domestic political death and so every subsequent politician knows their constituents can lose their retirements if he gives into the Israel lobby and tries to hit Iran again.</p><p>But can they succeed?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h1>The Current Strategic Game</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xgg9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25cbf6bd-68bb-4abe-a7a2-18940b997e65_1047x903.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xgg9!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25cbf6bd-68bb-4abe-a7a2-18940b997e65_1047x903.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xgg9!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25cbf6bd-68bb-4abe-a7a2-18940b997e65_1047x903.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xgg9!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25cbf6bd-68bb-4abe-a7a2-18940b997e65_1047x903.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xgg9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25cbf6bd-68bb-4abe-a7a2-18940b997e65_1047x903.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xgg9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25cbf6bd-68bb-4abe-a7a2-18940b997e65_1047x903.png" width="1047" height="903" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/25cbf6bd-68bb-4abe-a7a2-18940b997e65_1047x903.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:903,&quot;width&quot;:1047,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:334364,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25cbf6bd-68bb-4abe-a7a2-18940b997e65_1047x903.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xgg9!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25cbf6bd-68bb-4abe-a7a2-18940b997e65_1047x903.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xgg9!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25cbf6bd-68bb-4abe-a7a2-18940b997e65_1047x903.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xgg9!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25cbf6bd-68bb-4abe-a7a2-18940b997e65_1047x903.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xgg9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25cbf6bd-68bb-4abe-a7a2-18940b997e65_1047x903.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Currently Iran is hitting 7+ countries in the Middle East, most notably basically all the US bases in the region. But also Hotels (thought to be housing US officials, several instances of oil infrastructure and other targets&#8230; Notably Power infrastructure and desalination plants have been hit back and forth in several countries&#8230; Although Iran so far has not yet, seemingly, attempted to take out any country&#8217;s entire grid or water infrastructure&#8230; Which in several countries would kill hundreds of thousands given the near complete lack of Ground Water in several.</p><p>Rather it appears these strikes have been &#8220;Warning shots&#8221; to terrify leadership or extract some minor under the table concessions from individual players.</p><p>.</p><p>Simplifying greatly: </p><p>Iran is hitting its enemies with Conventional Missiles, Ballistic and Hypersonic advanced Missiles, and domestically produced drones, as many as 80,,000 in stockpile.</p><p>On paper Iran has enough missiles and drones to keep a constant barrage for months, years, or even indefinitely if domestic production keeps up with what they&#8217;ve stated&#8230; </p><p>Meanwhile the US and Allied interceptor missile stockpile is drawing dangerously low and may already be effectively exhausted. </p><p>On paper the numbers do not favor the US. On paper.</p><p>This however runs into the question of Whether Iran could get these Missiles and drones off.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!okNG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e0b3bb-6065-4d58-85e8-a7a2b5734ba7_3125x962.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!okNG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e0b3bb-6065-4d58-85e8-a7a2b5734ba7_3125x962.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!okNG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e0b3bb-6065-4d58-85e8-a7a2b5734ba7_3125x962.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!okNG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e0b3bb-6065-4d58-85e8-a7a2b5734ba7_3125x962.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!okNG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e0b3bb-6065-4d58-85e8-a7a2b5734ba7_3125x962.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!okNG!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e0b3bb-6065-4d58-85e8-a7a2b5734ba7_3125x962.png" width="1390" height="427.6923076923077" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/90e0b3bb-6065-4d58-85e8-a7a2b5734ba7_3125x962.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:448,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1390,&quot;bytes&quot;:5796080,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e0b3bb-6065-4d58-85e8-a7a2b5734ba7_3125x962.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!okNG!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e0b3bb-6065-4d58-85e8-a7a2b5734ba7_3125x962.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!okNG!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e0b3bb-6065-4d58-85e8-a7a2b5734ba7_3125x962.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!okNG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e0b3bb-6065-4d58-85e8-a7a2b5734ba7_3125x962.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!okNG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e0b3bb-6065-4d58-85e8-a7a2b5734ba7_3125x962.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Left: Iranian Shahed drones on transport truck. Right: Ukrainian Soldiers inspect remnants of Shahed Drone Iran sells to Russia.</figcaption></figure></div><p>The Drones can be launched from the back of pickup trucks, and are highly effective&#8230; Russia BUYS Iranian Shahed Drones for use against Ukraine.</p><p>But they&#8217;re also slow and easy to detect and shoot down with Machine Guns air defenses, Flak, other Close-in Weapon Systems, or via guns on aircraft.</p><p>Thus to effectively employ the drones, Iran would have to strategically use its missile stockpile to overwhelm and disable US, Israeli, and Gulf air defenses&#8230; BEFORE the US could take out its missile launch Vehicles and stockpiles.</p><p>It was quite conceivable if the US timed its attack to perfectly coincide with the peak of their intelligence knowledge of Iran, or if they had gotten an intelligence coup&#8230; They could have crippled Iranian launch capabilities on the ground and taken out a good chunk of Iran&#8217;s stockpiles at the start of the war.</p><p>.</p><p>However 10+ days in what actually seems to have happened is the US and Iran simply had a mutual degradation of capabilities. Indeed Iran&#8217;s successes in hitting multibillion dollar US Radar installations might mean that US capabilities have degraded faster than Iran&#8217;s.</p><p>Already America had the problem that interceptor missiles able to hit another missile midair cost vastly more than common missiles that just have to vaguely hit a coordinate on the ground, and you almost always had to fire two&#8230; but with the reduced radar intelligence  and warning time, the US is often having to fire 3+ million dollar missiles to take out one 50,000 dollar missile from Iran. Indeed I&#8217;ve seen several reports of Iran taking out or damaging America&#8217;s THADD launchers, of which maybe fewer than 2 dozen exist in the world.</p><p>.</p><p>And before you ask Yes! This is exactly like the missile point defense in a 2000s game of <em>Supreme Commander</em>, minus the bubble shields:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;9a3fc1ce-2307-443f-81c2-c7a65ada95d8&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow me on Twitter: @FromKulak&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Most Beautiful Game: How Supreme Commander Stole my Heart &quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-03-22T02:39:07.047Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F448229b1-cb4f-4689-b770-6afe179232c2_1287x716.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-most-beautiful-game-how-supreme&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:106913342,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:41,&quot;comment_count&quot;:11,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>.</p><h1>No End in Sight</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pl3s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff57b2aa3-7075-4268-8beb-9bd2b8cade52_975x772.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pl3s!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff57b2aa3-7075-4268-8beb-9bd2b8cade52_975x772.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pl3s!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff57b2aa3-7075-4268-8beb-9bd2b8cade52_975x772.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pl3s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff57b2aa3-7075-4268-8beb-9bd2b8cade52_975x772.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pl3s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff57b2aa3-7075-4268-8beb-9bd2b8cade52_975x772.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pl3s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff57b2aa3-7075-4268-8beb-9bd2b8cade52_975x772.png" width="975" height="772" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f57b2aa3-7075-4268-8beb-9bd2b8cade52_975x772.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:772,&quot;width&quot;:975,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:338975,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff57b2aa3-7075-4268-8beb-9bd2b8cade52_975x772.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pl3s!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff57b2aa3-7075-4268-8beb-9bd2b8cade52_975x772.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pl3s!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff57b2aa3-7075-4268-8beb-9bd2b8cade52_975x772.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pl3s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff57b2aa3-7075-4268-8beb-9bd2b8cade52_975x772.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pl3s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff57b2aa3-7075-4268-8beb-9bd2b8cade52_975x772.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Iran has explicitly said they want this war to continue through the midterms, have the economy in ruins, and at least one set of American political careers as a sort of monument as to why no one should ever fuck with them.</p><p>This might be rather odd to you&#8230; Iran is still losing militarily. The US has killed 100x the number of Iranians to Americans lost (according to official US numbers) and even if you believe the Iranian numbers and think the US military is copying the Ukrainian handbook and hiding hundreds of casualties and deaths (which at least the wounded they do seem to be hiding, US Military Hospitals in Germany have ceased providing Natal care to soldier&#8217;s spouses &#8220;in preparation&#8221; for a rush of wounded)&#8230; The US is still up 2 to 1 in even the wildest Islamic Revolutionary numbers.</p><p>Edit: It&#8217;s been confirmed the US is lying about Casualties.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQAs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc33e4eb3-01ae-4667-94aa-6d0b73f40c21_554x748.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQAs!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc33e4eb3-01ae-4667-94aa-6d0b73f40c21_554x748.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQAs!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc33e4eb3-01ae-4667-94aa-6d0b73f40c21_554x748.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQAs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc33e4eb3-01ae-4667-94aa-6d0b73f40c21_554x748.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQAs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc33e4eb3-01ae-4667-94aa-6d0b73f40c21_554x748.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQAs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc33e4eb3-01ae-4667-94aa-6d0b73f40c21_554x748.png" width="360" height="486.06498194945846" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c33e4eb3-01ae-4667-94aa-6d0b73f40c21_554x748.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:748,&quot;width&quot;:554,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:360,&quot;bytes&quot;:240502,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc33e4eb3-01ae-4667-94aa-6d0b73f40c21_554x748.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQAs!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc33e4eb3-01ae-4667-94aa-6d0b73f40c21_554x748.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQAs!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc33e4eb3-01ae-4667-94aa-6d0b73f40c21_554x748.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQAs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc33e4eb3-01ae-4667-94aa-6d0b73f40c21_554x748.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQAs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc33e4eb3-01ae-4667-94aa-6d0b73f40c21_554x748.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>On the face of it the Americans winning&#8230; </p><p>Except 25% of all the world&#8217;s oil goes through the Strait of Hormuz. And Iran can shut it down.</p><p>At  only 32 miles wide at its narrowest, even conventional artillery&#8230; Stuff WW1 militaries had available to them could shut down the Strait.</p><p>Now the US is a net oil producer, it hypothetically could have just enjoy the rising oil prices, subsidize domestic gas with the resultant revenues, and prosper as the world burns&#8230; Except the entire US financial system and government has slaved itself to world oil markets with the petrol-dollar, the US Government spends 3 dollars for every 2 dollars it brings in and has a budget deficit of 1.6 TRILLION dollars per year&#8230; That it currently absorbs into the international financial system through debt financing and money printing.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Jz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3950cc46-3448-4001-8349-4b8be0e3a13d_1118x821.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Jz!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3950cc46-3448-4001-8349-4b8be0e3a13d_1118x821.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Jz!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3950cc46-3448-4001-8349-4b8be0e3a13d_1118x821.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Jz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3950cc46-3448-4001-8349-4b8be0e3a13d_1118x821.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Jz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3950cc46-3448-4001-8349-4b8be0e3a13d_1118x821.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Jz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3950cc46-3448-4001-8349-4b8be0e3a13d_1118x821.png" width="1118" height="821" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3950cc46-3448-4001-8349-4b8be0e3a13d_1118x821.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:821,&quot;width&quot;:1118,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1689653,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3950cc46-3448-4001-8349-4b8be0e3a13d_1118x821.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Jz!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3950cc46-3448-4001-8349-4b8be0e3a13d_1118x821.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Jz!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3950cc46-3448-4001-8349-4b8be0e3a13d_1118x821.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Jz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3950cc46-3448-4001-8349-4b8be0e3a13d_1118x821.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c6Jz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3950cc46-3448-4001-8349-4b8be0e3a13d_1118x821.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Unless the gulf states are selling oil for dollars and the global financial system is forced to absorb all those US Bonds and Dollars at below market rates to get their oil (effectively letting the US backdoor tax all global oil transactions for a percentage annually, amounting to about 1.6 trillion a year)&#8230; Suddenly the US gets runaway interests rates and inflation and the entire American system collapses&#8230; With inevitable riots and societal breakdown as soon as all that welfare, gibs, government pensions, and boomer retirement subsidies, either stops or has to be paid for with taxes or inflation.</p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-catgirl-plan-my-modest-proposal?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Anarchonomicon! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-catgirl-plan-my-modest-proposal?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-catgirl-plan-my-modest-proposal?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p>Seriously the US was on track for a literal race war in the 70s before the petrol-dollar system was codified. 3000 bombs were detonated in 1972 alone, and ambush and sniper killings of police were staples of the late 60s and 70s. (See Days of Rage by Bryan Burroughs) The US bought its way out the civil war it should have had, with mass debt spending and petrol-dollars.</p><p>Thus despite being a net oil exporter that receives almost ZERO oil from the Gulf, the US is highly dependent on the Gulf  oil economy, and Iran has a chokehold on it.</p><p>This is beyond the threat to Europe and South Asia&#8230; With European countries and India specifically being HIGHLY dependent on Gulf Oil, such that Europe might be forced to backstab Ukraine if the crisis continues given they&#8217;ll require Russian Oil and Gas to simply survive&#8230; This is if they make it that far, since their own societies are simply not stable, and hard ethnic conflict between whites and migrants could erupt at any economic downturn. India is even more poorly placed, with the risk that any extended disruption could&#8230; possibly&#8230; kill hundreds of millions of them. India&#8217;s dependence on gulf oil and gas is extreme&#8230; And they&#8217;re the last customer to get product. They have the least buying power, and they&#8217;re at the end of the supply chain.</p><p>If Oil goes to $10 a gallon the average American won&#8217;t like it, but they will find a way to afford enough before they freeze to death, and they probably wouldn&#8217;t even have to afford it because the US government would freeze exports or impose price controls since the US is a net exporter and controls the flow of oil from North America. India is at the back of the line, they have to pay market prices, and they can&#8217;t afford it because they&#8217;re broke Indians with a GDP per capita of $2,500 per person per year&#8230; and that&#8217;s BEFORE they have a generational economic downturn, famine, and resultant internal instability.</p><p>If you&#8217;re in India or another poor South Asian country&#8230; I&#8217;d suggest planning your exit soon.</p><p>China is also at the end of the Chain&#8230; But they have 5x the GDP and the CCP has been planning for this for years and have a lot of built up redundancy (not least foreign exchange reserves)&#8230; They certainly would suffer, but they have more options. China I&#8217;d watch to invade Taiwan and go for a breakout to try and secure their own supply lines while they&#8217;re already effectively blockaded by circumstance, US is already tied down with drained armaments, and thus they have less to lose relative to a normal year.</p><p>China&#8217;s situation looks a lot like Japan&#8217;s in early 40s with regards to oil.</p><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>But what options do the US and its &#8220;allies&#8221; have?</p><p>I have a proposition&#8230; A Scenario.</p><p>I&#8217;d say a &#8220;Prediction&#8221; but I&#8217;m almost certain what they actually wind up doing will be considerably dumber, more Ad Hoc, more chasing of SOME WAY to drag the west into a dumber war.</p><p>I suspect by the time this is over this will look like a cross between how the Suez Crisis broke the British Empire, on the one hand, and how US political will broke and Indochina was lost in the 70s on the other.</p><p></p><p>But here&#8217;s my presentation of what I think is the best way to do a dumb thing and double down on a mistaken bet.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S5Df!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc54b52fc-d58e-4836-9ceb-4be1d20af666_1916x1045.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S5Df!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc54b52fc-d58e-4836-9ceb-4be1d20af666_1916x1045.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S5Df!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc54b52fc-d58e-4836-9ceb-4be1d20af666_1916x1045.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S5Df!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc54b52fc-d58e-4836-9ceb-4be1d20af666_1916x1045.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S5Df!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc54b52fc-d58e-4836-9ceb-4be1d20af666_1916x1045.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S5Df!,w_5760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc54b52fc-d58e-4836-9ceb-4be1d20af666_1916x1045.jpeg" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c54b52fc-d58e-4836-9ceb-4be1d20af666_1916x1045.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;full&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:794,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;undefined&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-fullscreen" alt="undefined" title="undefined" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S5Df!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc54b52fc-d58e-4836-9ceb-4be1d20af666_1916x1045.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S5Df!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc54b52fc-d58e-4836-9ceb-4be1d20af666_1916x1045.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S5Df!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc54b52fc-d58e-4836-9ceb-4be1d20af666_1916x1045.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S5Df!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc54b52fc-d58e-4836-9ceb-4be1d20af666_1916x1045.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Retreat of the Ten Thousand at the Battle of Cunaxa, by Jean-Adrien Guignet. 1843.</figcaption></figure></div><h1>Ground War: The CatGirl Plan!</h1><p>It&#8217;s Just a Quick Invasion of Persia! What could go Wrong?</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em><strong>&#8220;In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game.&#8221;<br>-Jose Capablanca, "Chess Fundamentals" (1921)</strong></em></p></div><p>When making a plan you have to consider victory conditions&#8230; Specifically you have to consider <strong>Minimum Victory Conditions</strong>.</p><p>What is the least America could achieve that its objectives would be tolerably achieved?</p><p>This is a relatively difficult question because seemingly I am the first person on planet earth to ask this.</p><p>Now Israel has its victory conditions&#8230; It wants Iran removed or permanently crippled as a geostrategic player, such that it cannot threaten Israel&#8217;s regional hegemony again, and specifically it has to do this before America&#8217;s forming Left and Right Bipartisan Anti-Zionist consensus can form within the next 4-8 years.</p><p>Towards this we&#8217;ve seen all the efforts of the past year and a bit, and all the domestic political belligerence in the US as basically every Zionist or Jewish commentator, and member of the Epstein class has realized this is their exit, and they can make their fortune and secure their safe harbor outside the country by throwing it all against the wall: NOW.</p><p>And whatever happens to the US&#8230; Who cares.</p><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>But US Leadership&#8230; no matter how compromised, is composed of a wide cross-section of people who DO intend to live in the US going forward and who expect their children to live in the US. Lindsay Graham and Ben Shapiro, and the Trump clan increasingly look like they&#8217;re willing to jump in the escape hatch&#8230; But your average General and Department Head? Even if they&#8217;re generally stupid and evil, and would gladly betray the constitution and sell out your civil liberties for a cushy seat on corporate board, they need the US to survive and not have Russo-Japanese War type disaster resulting in a mini or actual revolution and escalation to domestic political violence in which the populace quite possibly kills their family. Likewise they don&#8217;t want to risk WW3 and they don&#8217;t want to risk nukes&#8230; They live in the types of Urban Areas that generally tend to attract nukes.</p><p>Even if Benjamin Netanyahu and Lindsay Graham don&#8217;t care what happens to the US once opinions on Israel finally kill the alliance&#8230; </p><p>Most of US leadership almost certainly wants to avoid a draft, avoid domestic instability, and avoid any nuclear escalation which would result in proliferation and radically increase the risk of a nuke hitting DC in the next 50 years.</p><p>.</p><p>This gets rather difficult when you consider the default is that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, gas hits $10 a gallon and Israel probably escalates to nukes out of its paranoia that Iran is going to kill it economically and Geostrategically with it&#8217;s continued missile barrage&#8230; And most likely that Iran escalates to a nuke back (most of that nuclear material is still there, and they have redundant centrifuges) and then Israel&#8217;s surviving command structure releases the Samson option out of spite.</p><p></p><p>So&#8230; The Oil has to flow. The US can&#8217;t escalate to a draft or totalitarianism. The nukes have to stay in their silos and hangars. And Israel has to stay happy enough that they don&#8217;t rage quit like your gay little cousin in <em>Call of Duty</em>.</p><p>This requires a ground invasion.</p><p>US politicians don&#8217;t like it the idea. The US public doesn&#8217;t like the idea. But I can guarantee you the US Government is going to talk itself into it.</p><p>Indeed there&#8217;s already a lot of speculation a false flag is incoming to try and get the public and politicians in line, which might backfire stupendously given basically all sides of the US political ecosystem has been trained to form conspiracy theories&#8230; Not least the US political elite, who if anything tend to be more conspiratorial than the general public (it was just revealed that for 50+ years Senior Airforce Officers have been convinced Secret Alien spaceships have been experimented on in classified facilities&#8230; Elsewhere&#8230; not because it was true, but because lying about this was part of a recurring hazing ritual amongst Airforce Officers).</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>And this is probably the first point at which my scenario is NOT going to follow reality. What I will present will be an optimal coherent plan, or at least what will be my attempt at one, whereas in reality even if they do come to my plan&#8230; I expect it to be fumbling, walked into backwards, horribly executed, and strategically found mostly by accident.</p><p>Even if some talented officers present what follows as the best of the bad options&#8230; I expect their political leadership will almost certainly make ridiculous demands, pussyfoot it, insist on useless symbolic gestures or lies told to them by Netanyahu&#8230; Before coming to the least retarded course action after exhausting every mistake they can think off.  </p><p>But these are the Minimum conditions:</p><p><strong>-The Oil Must Flow</strong></p><p><strong>-The US can&#8217;t Escalate to a Draft or Complete Totalitarianism</strong></p><p><strong>-The Nukes stay room Temperature</strong></p><p><strong>-Israel has to stay above an apocalyptic level of anxiety&#8230;</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K4lD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0243a7d9-0263-4999-8b60-fd5f3734fdbc_236x235.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K4lD!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0243a7d9-0263-4999-8b60-fd5f3734fdbc_236x235.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K4lD!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0243a7d9-0263-4999-8b60-fd5f3734fdbc_236x235.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K4lD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0243a7d9-0263-4999-8b60-fd5f3734fdbc_236x235.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K4lD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0243a7d9-0263-4999-8b60-fd5f3734fdbc_236x235.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K4lD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0243a7d9-0263-4999-8b60-fd5f3734fdbc_236x235.jpeg" width="466" height="464.02542372881356" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0243a7d9-0263-4999-8b60-fd5f3734fdbc_236x235.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:235,&quot;width&quot;:236,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:466,&quot;bytes&quot;:10097,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0243a7d9-0263-4999-8b60-fd5f3734fdbc_236x235.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K4lD!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0243a7d9-0263-4999-8b60-fd5f3734fdbc_236x235.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K4lD!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0243a7d9-0263-4999-8b60-fd5f3734fdbc_236x235.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K4lD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0243a7d9-0263-4999-8b60-fd5f3734fdbc_236x235.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K4lD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0243a7d9-0263-4999-8b60-fd5f3734fdbc_236x235.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This last condition is maybe the hardest.</p><p>Israel has been called the Psychopathic nation&#8230; It might also be called the Bipolar nation. Keeping Israel above an apocalyptic level of anxiety is about as easy as keeping your crazy ex-girlfriend above an apocalyptic level of anxiety.</p><p>Israel Is fighting an &#8220;8 Front War&#8221;, their words, of which &#8220;the most important&#8221;&#8230; THEIR WORDS&#8230; Is the US homeland. Not Gaza or Hezbollah or Iran who fire rockets into their country&#8230; but you.  Which should make your blood boil that a foreign country feels it can wage war on US citizens, even if we allow that that&#8217;s allegedly supposed to be &#8220;metaphorical&#8221; and they&#8217;re merely violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act to do exactly what Russia was accused of doing during Russia-Gate but on a level larger that all other nations in US history combined.</p><p>They consider US public opinion so vital to their national strategic interests&#8230; And they&#8217;re losing it, and they&#8217;re going to lose it. </p><p>Zoomers fucking hate them. Exactly for reasons like this.</p><p>Israel is on a timeline, despite all the cash infusions they&#8217;re running out of money, domestic will, and economic maneuverability&#8230; Even the Zionist billionaire class is spending a ton and will probably see a lot of their paper assets wiped out in any downturn&#8230; None of their 8 fronts are really winding down or stable&#8230; Hezbollah just rose from the dead and hit them with tons of rockets (further draining their interceptors)&#8230; And so the Israeli leadership, not incorrectly, think their survival depends on drawing the US into war with Iran NOW. And actually getting the US to destroy Iran is basically the only thing that will actually reassure them&#8230; And then immediately they&#8217;ll start whining about Turkey, because the real problem is they can&#8217;t exist peaceably with any military power near them.</p><p>.</p><p>So how does the US achieve all of that?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg" width="1200" height="941.2087912087912" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:1142,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:623470,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h1>The CatGirl Plan: Minimum Viable Ground-War</h1><p></p><p>Iran is one of the worst countries on the planet you could get into a Ground War with.</p><p>The place is nearly a thousand miles wide, is dominated by massive mountain ranges perfect for asymmetric warfare, it has a population of 92 million or about as many people as the German Reich in 1940.</p><p>And worst of all&#8230; The Iranian government is set up exactly for this war. </p><p>Indeed they&#8217;ve already fought it.</p><p>The Iran-Iraq War was 8 years from 1980 to 1988, and Iran suffered between 200k and 600k military dead, and as many as 500k wounded.</p><p>And this was at a time when their population was half as large.</p><p>The war had a brutal back and forth that bogged down into attritional fighting&#8230; And the US even supplied Saddam with chemical weapons including nerve gas and blood agents to use against the Iranians&#8230; but without producing a breakthrough or regime collapse in Iran.</p><p>Indeed the Iranians are said to have been so casualty tolerant that they consistently used &#8220;Human Wave&#8221; tactics&#8230; which has been disputed, but no one disputes that they were able to use poorly trained or even raw troops aggressively and effectively.</p><p>Put simply any ground invasion could expect to meet quite possibly 1-2 million enemy forces in the field after volunteers and conscripts are rolled into Iran&#8217;s pre-war active and reserve force of 960,000, and almost certainly more over any extended period of time. </p><p>For reference the Germans suffered 5.3 million CASUALTIES&#8230; and managed to mobilize 18 million during the 6 year war&#8230; Which some have criticized as proportionately low compared to the Soviet Union or some of the Allies under less strain.</p><p>By contrast the US has a military of 2 million active and reserve&#8230; but with so many global obligations that even aggressively activating reserves, the US could probably only commit about 200,000&#8230; And would suffer major volunteer problems going forward, as we saw during the mid-Iraq War with the introduction of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-loss_policy">stop-loss measures for want of volunteers to replace soldiers who&#8217;s contracts were up</a>.</p><p>On the face of it almost any ground war would require an immediate conscription policy to meet manpower requirements for a country the size of Iran, with casualties in the hundreds of thousands amongst those conscripts.</p><p>Which is why no US administration is ever going to bite off a country the size of Iran if they don&#8217;t want angry disillusioned parents assassinating the children of Administration officials in revenge: &#8220;An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a child for a child&#8221;.</p><p>However&#8230; </p><h3>What if you didn&#8217;t bite off Iran? What if you just nibbled it a bit?</h3><p>Remember our win conditions: Oil flows, no nukes, no draft, no Israeli meltdown&#8230;</p><p>Nowhere in there did we say you had to take Tehran.</p><p>The only thing you actually have to achieve with the ground invasion is you have to get the oil flowing through the gulf again.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Sure the Israelis want the missiles and drones to stop hitting them, but as long as there&#8217;s progress on that, and they see lots of goys dying for them in the middle-east&#8230; You can string them along! &#8220;Look Bibi, we&#8217;re working on it. Look we've just crossed the border&#8230; we have to say we&#8217;re not going to Tehran, that has to look like we were forced into it later&#8221;&#8230; And with political opposition, military realities, the budding hatred of Israel&#8230; with luck you could draw it out, run out the clock on Israel&#8217;s influence, and hopefully persuade the Israelis and the Epstein class to accept some extended air campaign.</p><p>Indeed the ONLY thing you actually have to achieve on the ground&#8230; Is you have to get the oil to flow.</p><p>Israel can be strung along for years expecting Iran to collapse any day, the global economy can&#8217;t last many months without oil.</p><p>.</p><p>So it goes from an impossible ground campaign&#8230; To one You could talk US political leadership into.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D6tp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb31d348e-7845-4da4-9690-da62823239f9_815x582.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D6tp!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb31d348e-7845-4da4-9690-da62823239f9_815x582.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D6tp!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb31d348e-7845-4da4-9690-da62823239f9_815x582.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D6tp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb31d348e-7845-4da4-9690-da62823239f9_815x582.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D6tp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb31d348e-7845-4da4-9690-da62823239f9_815x582.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D6tp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb31d348e-7845-4da4-9690-da62823239f9_815x582.png" width="815" height="582" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b31d348e-7845-4da4-9690-da62823239f9_815x582.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:582,&quot;width&quot;:815,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:225081,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb31d348e-7845-4da4-9690-da62823239f9_815x582.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D6tp!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb31d348e-7845-4da4-9690-da62823239f9_815x582.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D6tp!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb31d348e-7845-4da4-9690-da62823239f9_815x582.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D6tp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb31d348e-7845-4da4-9690-da62823239f9_815x582.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D6tp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb31d348e-7845-4da4-9690-da62823239f9_815x582.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The goal of the plan is to secure not the country&#8230; but Just the Persian gulf. And for this you need only to secure two provinces out of thirty one.. </p><p>Kuzestan and Hormozgan.</p><p>You take these two and you take away 80% of Iran&#8217;s coastline, its entire chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz and most of its Littoral logistical capacity.</p><p>The middle coastal province of Bushehr has only 5 roadways connecting back to Fars and the rest of Iran without the Coastal roads.</p><p>Fewer than 20 Special Forces in hidden spotter positions in the mountains could report all the real-time road traffic along these mountain roads, and air assets would have hours to pick them off  since the winding of the narrow mountain roads drags out the distance so much. With only coastal raids and airstrikes needed to suppress the province, just as Coastal raids and airstrikes will be needed against Iranian Islands in the Persian gulf.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!By7z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc500b82c-bc87-454d-9a99-d3c407476ba2_952x862.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!By7z!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc500b82c-bc87-454d-9a99-d3c407476ba2_952x862.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!By7z!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc500b82c-bc87-454d-9a99-d3c407476ba2_952x862.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!By7z!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc500b82c-bc87-454d-9a99-d3c407476ba2_952x862.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!By7z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc500b82c-bc87-454d-9a99-d3c407476ba2_952x862.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!By7z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc500b82c-bc87-454d-9a99-d3c407476ba2_952x862.png" width="364" height="329.5882352941176" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c500b82c-bc87-454d-9a99-d3c407476ba2_952x862.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:862,&quot;width&quot;:952,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:364,&quot;bytes&quot;:1536609,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc500b82c-bc87-454d-9a99-d3c407476ba2_952x862.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!By7z!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc500b82c-bc87-454d-9a99-d3c407476ba2_952x862.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!By7z!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc500b82c-bc87-454d-9a99-d3c407476ba2_952x862.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!By7z!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc500b82c-bc87-454d-9a99-d3c407476ba2_952x862.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!By7z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc500b82c-bc87-454d-9a99-d3c407476ba2_952x862.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Likewise the Province of &#8220;Sistan and Baluchistan&#8221; doesn&#8217;t need to be taken because it&#8217;s past the mouth of the strait and by hugging the shore of Oman ships can quicky can stay out of range of most Iranian assets, with the open sea giving US fighters and weapons systems clear radar environments and lots of space to maneuver against any long range drones. And speed-boats manned or unmanned would need to cross hundreds of miles of open water once the Ships clear the Strait and are safely in the Gulf of Oman.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KFdt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faed9216f-aa05-4905-9c7a-1413f10d6598_907x887.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KFdt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faed9216f-aa05-4905-9c7a-1413f10d6598_907x887.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KFdt!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faed9216f-aa05-4905-9c7a-1413f10d6598_907x887.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KFdt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faed9216f-aa05-4905-9c7a-1413f10d6598_907x887.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KFdt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faed9216f-aa05-4905-9c7a-1413f10d6598_907x887.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KFdt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faed9216f-aa05-4905-9c7a-1413f10d6598_907x887.png" width="412" height="402.9151047409041" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/aed9216f-aa05-4905-9c7a-1413f10d6598_907x887.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:887,&quot;width&quot;:907,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:412,&quot;bytes&quot;:1247114,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faed9216f-aa05-4905-9c7a-1413f10d6598_907x887.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KFdt!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faed9216f-aa05-4905-9c7a-1413f10d6598_907x887.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KFdt!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faed9216f-aa05-4905-9c7a-1413f10d6598_907x887.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KFdt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faed9216f-aa05-4905-9c7a-1413f10d6598_907x887.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KFdt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faed9216f-aa05-4905-9c7a-1413f10d6598_907x887.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>At most raids and airstrikes are really needed to suppress that threat.</p><p></p><p>But in Kuzestan and Hormozgan a proper ground war would be needed.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg" width="1200" height="941.2087912087912" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:1142,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_o!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee31713e-4b46-42f6-8613-3f90996920f7_2077x1629.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Now the ultimate problem of and US ground-war is the raw lack of manpower in the the US military compared to what Iran can bring.</p><p>Between all of America&#8217;s other commitments 100-300k is probably the upper bound the US could maintain without a draft and almost certainly less and declining as the conflict becomes politically unpalatable, and recruitment dries up like your girlfriend when you cry.</p><p>This seems almost hopeless against the millions of existing military, volunteers, and conscripts of their own that Iran can probably field.</p><p>FORTUNATELY&#8230; Iran is a mountain country and its southern and western approaches utterly unnavigable by massive armies. </p><p>THAT&#8217;S RIGHT. We&#8217;re going to use their own mountains against them.</p><p>Remember in this plan we&#8217;re not going to Tehran.</p><p>We just need to secure the gulf for oil transit. If you can get 50-100 kilometers in and just deny artillery, short range drones, and easy sighting of targets to the Iranians&#8230; That&#8217;s all you need to do. Let the Airforce and the Mossad worry about how they&#8217;re going to topple the second Ayatollah, and then the third, and then the forth.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h1>The Khuzestan Campaign</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fiVG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc62d5bcd-144e-4cea-8e36-dcbdbf0ae3f1_977x646.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fiVG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc62d5bcd-144e-4cea-8e36-dcbdbf0ae3f1_977x646.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fiVG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc62d5bcd-144e-4cea-8e36-dcbdbf0ae3f1_977x646.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fiVG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc62d5bcd-144e-4cea-8e36-dcbdbf0ae3f1_977x646.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fiVG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc62d5bcd-144e-4cea-8e36-dcbdbf0ae3f1_977x646.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fiVG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc62d5bcd-144e-4cea-8e36-dcbdbf0ae3f1_977x646.png" width="977" height="646" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c62d5bcd-144e-4cea-8e36-dcbdbf0ae3f1_977x646.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:646,&quot;width&quot;:977,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1128533,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc62d5bcd-144e-4cea-8e36-dcbdbf0ae3f1_977x646.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fiVG!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc62d5bcd-144e-4cea-8e36-dcbdbf0ae3f1_977x646.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fiVG!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc62d5bcd-144e-4cea-8e36-dcbdbf0ae3f1_977x646.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fiVG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc62d5bcd-144e-4cea-8e36-dcbdbf0ae3f1_977x646.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fiVG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc62d5bcd-144e-4cea-8e36-dcbdbf0ae3f1_977x646.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In the Khuzestan Campaign carried out by the US Army and &#8220;Allies&#8221; the US basically recreates the logistical operation from Desert Storm and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but instead of going to Baghdad they cross the River at Basrah and further up, using Superior American Air-Support, Air Cavalry, and Armored Cavalry to capture the small province of 4 million and push into the first mountain range. </p><p>Mountain passes deny logistical maneuverability, and having reached the first range suddenly the enemy is limited to the few roads and passes available, and are left vulnerable to Airstrike for want of other routes, and when they finally reach the front are funneled into a handful of little Thermopylae type battles where the narrowness of the maneuver room lets American skill, intel, firepower, and money make up for their lack of numbers once the &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; of the initial push wears off and the reality of attritional fighting sets in.</p><p>The Main problem however, is the flat geography before the mountains doesn&#8217;t favor it. </p><p>This region HAS to be taken: with its maze of Canals and Snaking river deltas that have defined battles in this area since the days of the 10,000 under Xenophon&#8230;. There&#8217;s an infinite number of tiny waterways whereby a slapped together kamikaze drone-speedboat can be put in the water and then gun it through the rivers until it&#8217;s in the gulf and hits a Kuwaiti or Iraqi Tanker with little notice.</p><p>But these same rivers also make the ground-war vastly more complex, and navigating armies vastly harder&#8230; As Xenophon and the 10,000 found out when they tried to navigate themselves out during their Persian expedition, and got caught up and lost between these exact canals and rivers.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>As soon as Proxenus had said: &#8220;I am he, whom you seek,&#8221; the man replied: &#8220;I have been sent by Ariaeus and Artaozus, who have been trusty friends to Cyrus in past days, and are your well-wishers. They warn you to be on your guard, in case the barbarians attack you in the night. There is a large body of troops in the neighbouring park. They also warn you to send and occupy the bridge over the Tigris, since Tissaphernes is minded to break it down in the night, if he can, so that you may not cross, but be caught between the river and the canal.&#8221;<br>-Anabasis of Xenophon</p></div><p>I expect the Army core of Engineers to have a heart attack at just the raw number and BREADTH of the Rivers they&#8217;re going to have to keep bridged, and I expect the Iranians are 100% going to strike those bridges&#8230;</p><p>Crossing the Tigris, and the Euphrates, and all their canals, and the Karun river&#8230;. None of which travel in the convenient direction, will be quite the nerve wracking task for the Army&#8217;s logistical chain.</p><p>But this is an ancient problem, and many armies have had to bridge multiple rivers mid battle (ask Napoleon)&#8230; And If if done with speed and violence of action it can be overcome&#8230; If you get bogged down however and the Iranians are given the opportunity to take out the bridges you could have 20,000 Americans and their equipment trapped just across the river with 500,000 Iranians descending upon them.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gM8H!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff272f967-ac7f-48fa-8754-efc0acfc1b39_1024x768.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gM8H!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff272f967-ac7f-48fa-8754-efc0acfc1b39_1024x768.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gM8H!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff272f967-ac7f-48fa-8754-efc0acfc1b39_1024x768.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gM8H!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff272f967-ac7f-48fa-8754-efc0acfc1b39_1024x768.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gM8H!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff272f967-ac7f-48fa-8754-efc0acfc1b39_1024x768.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gM8H!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff272f967-ac7f-48fa-8754-efc0acfc1b39_1024x768.jpeg" width="456" height="342" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f272f967-ac7f-48fa-8754-efc0acfc1b39_1024x768.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:768,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:456,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gM8H!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff272f967-ac7f-48fa-8754-efc0acfc1b39_1024x768.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gM8H!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff272f967-ac7f-48fa-8754-efc0acfc1b39_1024x768.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gM8H!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff272f967-ac7f-48fa-8754-efc0acfc1b39_1024x768.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gM8H!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff272f967-ac7f-48fa-8754-efc0acfc1b39_1024x768.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The Italian Bridge in Basra Iraq crossing to Iran. The Shat Al Arab waterway is 500 meters wide.</figcaption></figure></div><p>However&#8230; IF everything goes well and US gets across the rivers in Quick succession, Americans need only take the Million person provincial capital of Ahvas&#8230; itself on the 300 meter wide Karun River, the City of Dezful with a population of 300,000, and a half dozen outlying cities with 10s of thousands&#8230; All whilst maintaining momentum and pushing hard to that mountain chain before 1-2 million Iranian fighters can get their human wave on.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1x87!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec7ed9b-3da1-44a1-8eca-0829a9d842e3_800x533.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1x87!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec7ed9b-3da1-44a1-8eca-0829a9d842e3_800x533.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1x87!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec7ed9b-3da1-44a1-8eca-0829a9d842e3_800x533.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1x87!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec7ed9b-3da1-44a1-8eca-0829a9d842e3_800x533.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1x87!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec7ed9b-3da1-44a1-8eca-0829a9d842e3_800x533.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1x87!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec7ed9b-3da1-44a1-8eca-0829a9d842e3_800x533.jpeg" width="622" height="414.4075" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8ec7ed9b-3da1-44a1-8eca-0829a9d842e3_800x533.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:533,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:622,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1x87!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec7ed9b-3da1-44a1-8eca-0829a9d842e3_800x533.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1x87!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec7ed9b-3da1-44a1-8eca-0829a9d842e3_800x533.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1x87!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec7ed9b-3da1-44a1-8eca-0829a9d842e3_800x533.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1x87!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec7ed9b-3da1-44a1-8eca-0829a9d842e3_800x533.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Ahvas.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Its a tall order for 50-150k US Army to do&#8230; especially without marine corp support and their airpower divided.</p><p>but the good news is once you have the line established&#8230; You can pawn it off on the Arabs.</p><p>Remember our rule NO DRAFT in the US.</p><p>I didn&#8217;t say no drafts&#8230; period. Now did I.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Once the battle lines the US wants are established in the first mountain chain, It&#8217;d be politically impossible to just keep US soldiers there indeffinitely enduring casualties. </p><p>Politically that&#8217;d be just untenable, Americans would stop enlisting, and then you&#8217;d need a draft&#8230; And American parents won&#8217;t tolerate that being done to their children.</p><p>So make Arab Children do it.</p><p>.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;91c37f83-9b20-4c4e-820f-2edde01c6cb9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h5>(^Press Gangs Recruit in Ukraine, average survival time on the front for the forced mobilized is 4 hours)</h5><p></p><p>Its THEIR OIL. Its THEIR COUNTRIES&#8230; Its THEIR WATERWAY&#8230;.</p><p>Let them die for it.</p><p>And let the Gulf states security aparatus do something useful for once, and all the cousins and mercenaries of the Gulf monarchs can do their work dragging Arab boys off the street to die for Israel in Iran.</p><p>Once US troops hit the first Mountain range and can dig in, there&#8217;s no reason for them to stick arround destabilizing domestic politics&#8230; Just give the Gulf states the Ukraine Treatment, keep those US troops well back from the front where they can provide &#8220;security&#8221;&#8230;</p><p>And over time you&#8217;ll find all the Gulf monarchs become really REALLY compliant with the US and all American demands, because their population would slaughter them if the US ever left.</p><h1>The Hormozgan Campaign</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oHqf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e4a19df-4018-43a9-ad97-cb1691c092ac_1077x830.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oHqf!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e4a19df-4018-43a9-ad97-cb1691c092ac_1077x830.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oHqf!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e4a19df-4018-43a9-ad97-cb1691c092ac_1077x830.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oHqf!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e4a19df-4018-43a9-ad97-cb1691c092ac_1077x830.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oHqf!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e4a19df-4018-43a9-ad97-cb1691c092ac_1077x830.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oHqf!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e4a19df-4018-43a9-ad97-cb1691c092ac_1077x830.png" width="1077" height="830" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e4a19df-4018-43a9-ad97-cb1691c092ac_1077x830.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:830,&quot;width&quot;:1077,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1353680,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e4a19df-4018-43a9-ad97-cb1691c092ac_1077x830.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oHqf!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e4a19df-4018-43a9-ad97-cb1691c092ac_1077x830.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oHqf!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e4a19df-4018-43a9-ad97-cb1691c092ac_1077x830.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oHqf!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e4a19df-4018-43a9-ad97-cb1691c092ac_1077x830.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oHqf!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e4a19df-4018-43a9-ad97-cb1691c092ac_1077x830.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>By contrast the Hormozgan Campaign is going to be an entirely different nightmare for military plannners.</p><p>One opposed Marine landing is risky&#8230; Dozens will be a nightmare.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OlyT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12073f6e-3fdc-4b4e-8b4e-d158b6d78bc2_1288x830.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OlyT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12073f6e-3fdc-4b4e-8b4e-d158b6d78bc2_1288x830.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OlyT!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12073f6e-3fdc-4b4e-8b4e-d158b6d78bc2_1288x830.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OlyT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12073f6e-3fdc-4b4e-8b4e-d158b6d78bc2_1288x830.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OlyT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12073f6e-3fdc-4b4e-8b4e-d158b6d78bc2_1288x830.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OlyT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12073f6e-3fdc-4b4e-8b4e-d158b6d78bc2_1288x830.png" width="558" height="359.5807453416149" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/12073f6e-3fdc-4b4e-8b4e-d158b6d78bc2_1288x830.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:830,&quot;width&quot;:1288,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:558,&quot;bytes&quot;:326250,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12073f6e-3fdc-4b4e-8b4e-d158b6d78bc2_1288x830.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OlyT!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12073f6e-3fdc-4b4e-8b4e-d158b6d78bc2_1288x830.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OlyT!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12073f6e-3fdc-4b4e-8b4e-d158b6d78bc2_1288x830.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OlyT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12073f6e-3fdc-4b4e-8b4e-d158b6d78bc2_1288x830.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OlyT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12073f6e-3fdc-4b4e-8b4e-d158b6d78bc2_1288x830.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Iran has Dozens of little 4-10 mile wide Islands in the Persian Gulf and lots of little bays and Inlets&#8230; Most EXACTLY at the Strait of Hormuz.</p><p>These have to be taken.</p><p>The Island of Qeshm is the largest at over 100km long and Directly on the Strait.</p><p>This is the Single most important to take, and the single hardest.</p><p>Fortunately however&#8230; It IS an Island, not a peninsula. The only road access to the Mainland of Iran is a 2 km ferry. Meaning that once a beachhead is established the Iranian logistical challenge is almost exactly as difficult as the US logistical challenge of getting more supplies across the Strait from the Gulf States.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8XBY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F676412d1-9a2a-4493-aef3-1d45edc77caa_741x814.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8XBY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F676412d1-9a2a-4493-aef3-1d45edc77caa_741x814.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8XBY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F676412d1-9a2a-4493-aef3-1d45edc77caa_741x814.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8XBY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F676412d1-9a2a-4493-aef3-1d45edc77caa_741x814.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8XBY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F676412d1-9a2a-4493-aef3-1d45edc77caa_741x814.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8XBY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F676412d1-9a2a-4493-aef3-1d45edc77caa_741x814.png" width="334" height="366.90418353576246" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/676412d1-9a2a-4493-aef3-1d45edc77caa_741x814.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:814,&quot;width&quot;:741,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:334,&quot;bytes&quot;:102860,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F676412d1-9a2a-4493-aef3-1d45edc77caa_741x814.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8XBY!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F676412d1-9a2a-4493-aef3-1d45edc77caa_741x814.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8XBY!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F676412d1-9a2a-4493-aef3-1d45edc77caa_741x814.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8XBY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F676412d1-9a2a-4493-aef3-1d45edc77caa_741x814.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8XBY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F676412d1-9a2a-4493-aef3-1d45edc77caa_741x814.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Here US technological, financial, and skills superiority can reasonably be expected to best the Iranians before their numbers can defeat the US&#8230; And once the base is established Artillery positions, real time spotters on the Islands mountains can start hitting and identifying positions on the mainland from which the enemy is spotting and launching shells and drones at the strait.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3vRu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd219ec21-f54b-4e1f-af05-091c48d94e43_826x583.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3vRu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd219ec21-f54b-4e1f-af05-091c48d94e43_826x583.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3vRu!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd219ec21-f54b-4e1f-af05-091c48d94e43_826x583.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3vRu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd219ec21-f54b-4e1f-af05-091c48d94e43_826x583.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3vRu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd219ec21-f54b-4e1f-af05-091c48d94e43_826x583.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3vRu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd219ec21-f54b-4e1f-af05-091c48d94e43_826x583.png" width="826" height="583" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d219ec21-f54b-4e1f-af05-091c48d94e43_826x583.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:583,&quot;width&quot;:826,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:508215,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd219ec21-f54b-4e1f-af05-091c48d94e43_826x583.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3vRu!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd219ec21-f54b-4e1f-af05-091c48d94e43_826x583.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3vRu!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd219ec21-f54b-4e1f-af05-091c48d94e43_826x583.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3vRu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd219ec21-f54b-4e1f-af05-091c48d94e43_826x583.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3vRu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd219ec21-f54b-4e1f-af05-091c48d94e43_826x583.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The Marines aren&#8217;t done yet however&#8230;Because Iran Can still hit the Strait from basically anywhere else on the coast&#8230; So just like like the Army up north, they&#8217;re going to have to do water crossings, push out and take territory til they&#8217;ve hit the mountain passes that can be secured and locked down&#8230;</p><p>I expect this to take the form of layered positions, since they are so VASTLY more vulnerable to being cut off than the army up north, but once the thresholds are hit, just like the Army up north&#8230; They can immediately hand those positions over to the Arabs who can die like Ukrainian conscripts, while the Marines provide &#8220;security&#8221; mostly on Qeshm were they have a nice 2 km wide motte in case things get really bad.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3></h3><blockquote><p><strong>NOTE:</strong></p><p><strong>Shahed Drones have an operational range of 2,500 km when hitting a ground targets. They can use a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) or even Inertial Navigation if that&#8217;d jammed or shut off&#8230; But to hit MOVING targets they largely need active signal back and forth from an operator on some kind of radio frequency.</strong></p><p><strong>If you deny the coast up to the first mountain chain, that becomes impossible since radio frequencies are almost all &#8220;Line of Sight&#8221; (this is why you lose them in the mountains, and why antenna arrays and cell towers are on high poles)&#8230;</strong></p><p><strong>Some MAY have some form of automatic target recognition and terminal guidance (a basic AI or Algorithm) but as a rule all of these tend to be dependent on User input and guidance til final approach (which you deny for dozens of miles) or some point at which autonomous detection is activated. Denying them visual and radar on the strait radically reduces their strike capability and control and feedback over any drones that are sent, and gives the US and allies ample early warning and intercept options (not least jamming) on the advanced drones that can still be used on shipping.</strong></p></blockquote><h1>Global Security&#8230; For a Price</h1><p>Basically to achieve any politically tolerable support from the US public Trump and Co. would have to sell the Idea that &#8220;This time it&#8217;s Different&#8221; and nothing about how they are carrying out the war is going to resemble Iraq at all.</p><p>No nation building, no extended occupations, no push to the capital&#8230;</p><p>And the fastest way to do that is to make the Gulf states pay for it in blood and treassure&#8230; And make the Gulf states visibly suffer to get their oil out.</p><p>Sure you have force conscript your men off the street like Ukraine to die holding the mountain passes of Iran&#8230;</p><p>But AMERICA is the one holding the Strait of <s>Hormuz</s>&#8230; Sorry, Strait of America. And so if you want your tankers to transit the Gulf, you&#8217;re going to be paying highly inflated insurance premiums and transit fees&#8230; To America (and tacitly via the backdoor to Israel).</p><p>This will put the Squeeze on the Gulf (since American tankers out of the US aren&#8217;t paying this and so they as the supplier get squeezed), but it will also put the squeeze on South Asia and Europe&#8230; Who are now doubly paying for America&#8217;s war in the increased costs from the risks, and now the fees America charges to mitigate that risk.</p><p>.</p><p>And if you&#8217;re thinking &#8220;Ya right, the American government would never put American interest over that of the gulf states who buy them off and hire them onto corporate boards&#8221; remember that as costs mount, and Israel&#8217;s economic and political reality reveals itself, and the US government itself probably enters a fiscal crisis&#8230; This is basically the one &#8220;Infinite money&#8221; lever the US administration will have whereby they can keep from avoiding any consequences of the decades of the their descision&#8230;</p><p>Thus the US would go from effectively employing a financial toll/extortion system on the world via the Petro-dollar&#8230; To a litteral river toll system where they just directly charge fees and take cuts right at the Strait with military force (I mean I assume the paperwork would still be done in offices&#8230; but it&#8217;d be way more visually obvious)&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7hMM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7bb94ee-558a-4b40-8ccb-61d83637feb2_1100x515.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7hMM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7bb94ee-558a-4b40-8ccb-61d83637feb2_1100x515.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7hMM!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7bb94ee-558a-4b40-8ccb-61d83637feb2_1100x515.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7hMM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7bb94ee-558a-4b40-8ccb-61d83637feb2_1100x515.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7hMM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7bb94ee-558a-4b40-8ccb-61d83637feb2_1100x515.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7hMM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7bb94ee-558a-4b40-8ccb-61d83637feb2_1100x515.jpeg" width="1100" height="515" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a7bb94ee-558a-4b40-8ccb-61d83637feb2_1100x515.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:515,&quot;width&quot;:1100,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7hMM!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7bb94ee-558a-4b40-8ccb-61d83637feb2_1100x515.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7hMM!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7bb94ee-558a-4b40-8ccb-61d83637feb2_1100x515.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7hMM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7bb94ee-558a-4b40-8ccb-61d83637feb2_1100x515.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7hMM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7bb94ee-558a-4b40-8ccb-61d83637feb2_1100x515.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Bogged down warfare in the Iran-Iraq War</figcaption></figure></div><h1>The Problem: It Won&#8217;t Work&#8230;And These People Certainly Won&#8217;t Get It to Work</h1><p>So even if the US does all of this perfectly&#8230; Even if they can actually secure these two provinces without a military blunder or disaster. Even if they can actually stop the Iranian drones by pushing far enough in to regain early warning capabilities and cut off Iranian radar and visual sighting on the strait.</p><p>The Gulf states would probably erupt in popular rebellions and hatred of their own governments for going along with the neccessary drafts of line holders, and the US position in the Middle-East would get tenuous as hell.</p><p>I expect that the final ground plan will look something like this, that the institutional forces that don&#8217;t want to do it and the institutional forces that demand it will finally meet at the Idea of being &#8220;a little bit pregnant&#8221; and &#8220;just nibbling Iran a bit&#8221; and &#8220;War but no draft&#8221;&#8230;</p><p>The Generals and skeptics will think it the best of the bad options (avoid stepping into it as much as you can), the war hawks will see it as progress towards the bigger war they want&#8230; Major players in New York and on the market will see it as the only way to get stable or atleast create the expectation of stability.</p><p>And in the process of compromising, avoiding, dodging, blame shifting, and cajoling&#8230; They&#8217;ll finally come to something like this&#8230; Badly. And too late.</p><p>Something else will go wrong, another world crisis will erupt&#8230; A rebellion will kick off in Europe or the Middle East, China will invade Taiwan, India will enter famine, some Leroy Jenkins at the FBI will leak the full unredacted Epstein files, Israel will start to lose in Lebanon or the west bank will erupt&#8230;</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>And then instead of this Chaotic plan that still makes sorta sense&#8230; they&#8217;ll wind up escalating to ground war with Iran in the same way they got into the Air war with Iran in February&#8230; Half-cocked and at the last second, rushing because Israel was going to do something else if they didn&#8217;t&#8230; and then the gameboard will be a complete mess as they try desperately to make it resemble a coherent &#8220;No Nukes, No Draft, Oil Flows&#8221; state&#8230;  Before another things happens and it all falls apart.</p><p>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nD6C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f9a35f2-b054-4f8a-8295-b8e866ba3481_2410x1356.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nD6C!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f9a35f2-b054-4f8a-8295-b8e866ba3481_2410x1356.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nD6C!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f9a35f2-b054-4f8a-8295-b8e866ba3481_2410x1356.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nD6C!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f9a35f2-b054-4f8a-8295-b8e866ba3481_2410x1356.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nD6C!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f9a35f2-b054-4f8a-8295-b8e866ba3481_2410x1356.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nD6C!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f9a35f2-b054-4f8a-8295-b8e866ba3481_2410x1356.jpeg" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1f9a35f2-b054-4f8a-8295-b8e866ba3481_2410x1356.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nD6C!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f9a35f2-b054-4f8a-8295-b8e866ba3481_2410x1356.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nD6C!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f9a35f2-b054-4f8a-8295-b8e866ba3481_2410x1356.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nD6C!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f9a35f2-b054-4f8a-8295-b8e866ba3481_2410x1356.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nD6C!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f9a35f2-b054-4f8a-8295-b8e866ba3481_2410x1356.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Think of this &#8220;Catgirl Plan&#8221; how many things have to go right and technical details have to line up just so to make it even sorta work with lots of prep and pre-planning, and then realize China might invade Taiwan in the midst of it and we&#8217;re in the midst of a world crisis in which India has no oil flowing to it.</p><p>You don&#8217;t plan your way out of a world crisis&#8230; you survive it&#8230; And this is looking like the beginning of the Dominoes falling.</p><p>Think of the US domestic front where no one under the age of 50 has any class or ethnic loyalty to the government that would carry this out.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Honestly maybe the most coherent outcome would just be a military coup followed by the removal of the Israel lobby as a factor in US politics. Trump faces the firing squad then the successor could negotiate with Iran to restore oil-flows to the world&#8230; but that&#8217;s almost completely impossible within the structure of the US system and you&#8217;d almost certainly see a Draft, riots and, the start of Civil War in the US before the military actually did something independent for the good of the country.</p><p>Oh&#8230; And also Iran is almost certainly rushing to finish the enrichment of the Uranium it has squirrelled away&#8230; So depending on how much you thing Trump was lying when he &#8220;obliterated&#8221; the Fordow site&#8230; We might see a Nuke as soon a &#8220;TWO WEEKS&#8221; or months to a year from now when Iran tests the first of them.</p><p>There really is not a solution to this&#8230;</p><p>.</p><p>And even Israel going nuclear preemptively doesn&#8217;t do much.</p><p>What that&#8217;d guarantee is both Turkey and Saudi Arabia rush to get the Nukes Pakistan has quietly promised them over the years (in exchange for various economic things they&#8217;ve done), Iran probably would just march on&#8230; It&#8217;s 90 million people, even a 1 Megaton nuke in Tehran, and 2 More at key military sites won&#8217;t actually cripple their military capability&#8230; Just kill 1-2 million and make them double and triple down while their population disperses more loosely&#8230;</p><p>Germany and Japan both tolerated massive firebombing without breaking politically (Japan surrendered not due to the Nukes, but due to the Soviets finally declaring war).</p><p>.</p><p>You can&#8217;t make a Chinese finger trap loosen by pulling harder, and you can&#8217;t make a country more internally divided and less resolved to fight by attacking it and killing it&#8217;s civilians.</p><p>Indeed to the extent the atrocities (assassination of major government figures, attacks on hospitals, attacks on girl&#8217;s schools) have been at Israel&#8217;s behest or influence hoping to lock the US and Iran into a major attritional war&#8230;</p><p>They severely miscalculated at just how Impossible it is on any near time horizon with current US conventional resources, political will, and interests.</p><p>.</p><p>The mistake people make when looking at fights between countries is thinking of as a sheer test of numbers or ability. </p><p>Ya the US is a bigger country and in a no holds barred straight up fight with unlimited will and an unlimited draft&#8230; The US would almost certainly win. The US has 3x the Population with 100x the GDP.</p><p>The problem is the question isn&#8217;t &#8220;Can you win&#8221; its &#8220;can you win at tolerable cost&#8221;. </p><p>My Grandpa could beat your Grandpa in an all out knife fight, but it wouldn&#8217;t matter because both men would get stabbed multiple times and old men don&#8217;t heal from stab wounds.</p><p>The question is &#8220;Can you win without getting stabbed?&#8221;.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;4caf135b-a03a-47bb-8b57-2711405b4e11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Who was the first to forge the deadly blade?&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;War to the Knife, the Knife to the Hilt: \&quot;The Anarchonomicon Guide To Knife Fighting in Modern Warfare\&quot;&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-04-25T02:34:32.910Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F029f09f6-cca9-47e6-94fd-da74d70125c2_625x521.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/war-to-the-knife-the-knife-to-the&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:140536850,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:152,&quot;comment_count&quot;:54,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>Can the US fight Iran, a country of 90 million&#8230;  </p><ol><li><p>Within a fast enough timeline that the world oil market doesn&#8217;t die</p></li><li><p>Israel isn&#8217;t put in perpetual decline from all the missile and Drone hits</p></li><li><p>without a draft that would start a civil war</p></li><li><p>without resorting to nukes and starting WW3?</p></li></ol><p>No. It can&#8217;t. </p><p>All of those conditions have rendered it beyond the strength disparity between the US and Iran.</p><p>You can take the kid in a fight, but not without him messing up your face for the next week. </p><p>Even superior power is not limitless. Once you start adding conditions and limits and costs, even the most powerful empire in history encounters things it can&#8217;t do.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h4><strong>Tip:<br><br>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter:<strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a> </strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrvF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrvF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrvF!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrvF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrvF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrvF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png" width="986" height="516" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:516,&quot;width&quot;:986,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1118383,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/190535715?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5126cbb-334a-46f6-97e3-aea18d076fd1_998x664.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrvF!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrvF!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrvF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrvF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf565c22-63e7-47d4-9d6c-4512caa23f36_986x516.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ep28 Stone Choir, Christianity, Paganism w/ Woe to those who Dwell on the Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Woe to those who Dwell on the Earth @treblewoe from the StoneChoir podcast joins me to discuss the Stone Choir Project, the secrets of effective RW Content, Christianity, Paganism, and much more.]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep28-stone-choir-christianity-paganism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep28-stone-choir-christianity-paganism</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:59:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/190044291/c36fa4a30c68f9b3625fe324b3ab1d76.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woe to those who Dwell on the Earth <a href="https://x.com/treblewoe">@treblewoe </a>from the <a href="https://stone-choir.com/">StoneChoir podcast</a> joins me to discuss the Stone Choir Project, the secrets of effective RW Content, Christianity, Paganism, and much more.</p><p>Links to content mentioned in the Episode:</p><p><a href="https://stone-choir.com/very-eastern-less-orthodox/">https://stone-choir.com/very-eastern-less-orthodox/</a></p><p><a href="https://stone-choir.com/6000-years-and-counting/">https://stone-choir.com/6000-years-and-counting/</a></p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;7eb4909b-2c92-43a8-8da7-c8604f71d073&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow Me on Twitter: @FromKulak&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Feral Aryan Femininity: Blonde Women as Bioweapons&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2024-03-14T23:07:33.407Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zIiM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd279d376-e2cb-419c-b7bf-add37f45febc_1142x824.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/feral-aryan-femininity-blonde-women&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:142035981,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:223,&quot;comment_count&quot;:60,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><h5>BTW I changed my recording setup recently to get around some stuttering problems that I&#8217;ve been having. Future episodes should be good. But this and a few episodes already recorded might have some problems. Please bear with me</h5><p></p><p>Opening: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBPHaTZLwjw">&#8220;Lord of War&#8221; by White Bat Audio</a>, Outro: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzhNp_pei84&amp;list=RDvzhNp_pei84&amp;start_radio=1">&#8220;Yeshoua&#8221; -Highfleet OST</a></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ep27 WAR! Iran! March 2026! Missiles, Supreme Leaders, and More! w/Hypozomata and Goppy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Follow me on Twitter: @FromKulak]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/war-iran-march-2026-missiles-supreme</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/war-iran-march-2026-missiles-supreme</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:41:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189706868/c8d42dc637914d6bc64bfc4e6d3c8fa4.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p><p>Follow me on Substack: <strong><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;e987099a-25a2-461d-97b8-2dd6d88a183b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </strong></p><p>Anarchonomicon veterans Hypozomata and Flying Goppy return to discuss the latest exchange and escalations between Iran, Israel and the US (Why is it always you three?)</p><p></p><p>Everything we&#8217;ve learnt in the first 48 hours! </p><p>NOTE: Immediately after recording it was confirmed 3 US airframes were shot down in what is being reported as Friendly Fire by allied Kuwaiti Air Defense.</p><p></p><p>Mentioned on the Podcast:</p><p>https://lostarmour.info/</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ep26 "Which Way Western Man?" Part 2 w/ Brynhildr]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chapter 2 "The Continuing search: From St Francis to Nietzsche"]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep24-which-way-western-man-part-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep24-which-way-western-man-part-2</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:07:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189422389/1d2b0fd46dae44ab5750f765ef6c8099.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chapter 2<br> The Continuing Search: From St. Francis to Nietzsche</p><p>Continuing our long series discussing and close reading &#8220;Which Way Western Man?&#8221; by William Gayley Simpson (1892-1990) The work that introduced Nietzsche to the American far-right and created much of the Far Right Vitilist, Pagan, Nietzschean, Racialist, and Eugenic though that defines the Far Right today. We will be following his personal/intellectual journey from Presbyterian Clergy to the Early ACLU to Franciscan Monkhood to Socialist Agitator to Zarathustran hermit to American Eugenicist and Racial-Nationalist.</p><p>Joining me is Brynhildr/Vivienne Magdalene of <a href="https://peopleai.com/fame/podcasts/for-the-love-of-nietzsche/1hz0wzjx4ahz9">the &#8220;For the Love of Nietzsche&#8221; Podcast</a>, who will be giving us her unique Nietzschean expertise.</p><p>Opening &#8220;Divinitus&#8221;, Outro &#8220;Greek intro&#8221; by Jeff Van Dyke. Rome: Total War Soundtrack</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ep25 The Toll of Fortune w/ A. J. R. Klopp]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Ancient Aryans!]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep25-the-toll-of-fortune-w-a-j-r</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep25-the-toll-of-fortune-w-a-j-r</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:27:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189150018/7573d100e9efdaca049cc735e79e33e4.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Ancient Aryans!</p><p> with <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;A.J.R. Klopp&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:248444987,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5288dab0-e42b-4052-ab14-6a63c5dbc8db_1450x1450.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;c605fa9e-75e6-4328-a494-a6daa693765b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> of <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Thirteen Fathers Substack&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2731515,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/ajrklopp&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/40c5fa00-ffab-4e9e-a59f-8555b6011f28_333x333.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;4e868086-8401-499b-993a-200e8ecfe56b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, <a href="https://x.com/ThirteenFathers">@ThirteenFathers on Twitter</a>.</p><p>Klopp joins us to discuss his book: &#8220;The Toll of Fortune&#8221;</p><p>Buy from the Printer: <a href="https://store.bookbaby.com/book/the-toll-of-fortune">https://store.bookbaby.com/book/the-toll-of-fortune</a></p><p>Or Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Toll-Fortune-Thirteen-Fathers/dp/B0DD9VWYR1">https://www.amazon.com/Toll-Fortune-Thirteen-Fathers/dp/B0DD9VWYR1</a><br><br>And Check out his website: <a href="https://13fathers.com/">https://13fathers.com/</a></p><p></p><p>Follow me on Substack <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;08d84024-ec03-45a2-91ae-29526cc8bfee&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><p>and on Twitter <a href="https://x.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a> </p><p>Theme Song &#8220;Lord of War&#8221; by Karl Casey, White Bat Audio<br>Intermission: &#8220;Barbarian Domination&#8221;, Outro: &#8220;Epic&#8221; by Jeff Van Dyke</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ep24 "Which Way Western Man?" Part 1 w/ Brynhildr]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Start of a long series discussing and close reading &#8220;Which Way Western Man?&#8221; by William Gayley Simpson (1892-1990) The work that introduced Nietzsche to the American far-right and created much of the Far Right Vitilist, Pagan, Nietzschean, Racialist, and Eugenic though that defines the Far Right today.]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/which-way-western-man-part-1-w-brynhildr</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/which-way-western-man-part-1-w-brynhildr</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:59:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/188085146/83747b70ad08e17aa1961aa62d72413d.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Start of a long series discussing and close reading &#8220;Which Way Western Man?&#8221; by William Gayley Simpson (1892-1990)   The work that introduced Nietzsche to the American far-right and created much of the Far Right Vitilist, Pagan, Nietzschean, Racialist, and Eugenic though that defines the Far Right today. We will be following his personal/intellectual journey from Presbyterian Clergy to the Early ACLU to Franciscan Monkhood to Socialist Agitator to Zarathustran hermit to American Eugenicist and Racial-Nationalist.</p><p>Joining me is Brynhildr/Vivienne Magdalene of the <a href="https://peopleai.com/fame/podcasts/for-the-love-of-nietzsche/1hz0wzjx4ahz9">&#8220;For the Love of Nietzsche&#8221; Podcast</a>, who will be giving us her unique Nietzschean expertise.</p><p></p><p>Theme Song &#8220;Lord of War&#8221;, Outro &#8220;War Games&#8221; by Karl Casey, White Bat Audio</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short Take: The Epstein Esoterica Dodge]]></title><description><![CDATA[I keep seeing people trying to say &#8220;The Child-Rape Blackmail is small potatoes in the Epstein files&#8221;...]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/short-take-the-epstein-esoterica</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/short-take-the-epstein-esoterica</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:59:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MtVs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MtVs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MtVs!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MtVs!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MtVs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MtVs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MtVs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png" width="928" height="621" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:621,&quot;width&quot;:928,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1147569,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/187543098?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MtVs!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MtVs!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MtVs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MtVs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feac75967-7bda-4396-83a7-8a17a8f5204a_928x621.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I keep seeing people trying to say &#8220;The Child-Rape Blackmail is small potatoes in the Epstein files&#8221;... Then try to talk about Demons, psychic stuff, genetic experiments, what have you, that is barely supported by the evidence and entirely tertiary.</p><p>This is a dodge. Its a covert cope&#8230;. And you can hear the cope when they talk about it. People trying to reclassify and refile the child sex abuse and Geopolitical subversion of their country by ethnic enemies into the &#8220;Woo-conspiracy&#8221; part of their brain.</p><p>Because you don&#8217;t have to kill people over Aleister Crowley bullshit, your mind doesn&#8217;t need you to gun down, torture, and disembowel your enemies over Aliens and the Occult. No one thinks they have to have a violent revolution and Icepick their enemies in darkened alleys over <em>Skinwalker Ranch</em> and <em>The Curse of Oak Island</em>.</p><p>You don&#8217;t need to have a second American revolution this second and start loading nails into pipe bombs over Agartha and the Ice-Wall in Antarctica.</p><p>If Epstein was doing Psychic, Demon, esoteric occult stuff... then that gets to go in the Woo-Demon-Pyramids Esoterica part of your mind, and then you personally don&#8217;t need to kill people like the Founders did over a foreign nation blackmailing, subverting, and occupying your nation.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>To the extent it is true that Epstein and his circle incorporated rituals and various spiritual practices into their systemic child abuse, criminal cartels, and Jewish dominated blackmail/influence networks <strong><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-epstein-and-israel-timeline-an">FOR ISRAEL</a></strong>&#8230; It is significant only in so far as it had a sociological effect increasing their internal cohesion, frightening practitioners into greater loyalty to the conspiracy, and most disturbingly&#8230; Discrediting the survivors because their accurate accounts of how they were abused would then be dismissed as the ravings of crazy people or kids who watched too much TV. In the same manner I suspect that the &#8220;alien abduction&#8221; craze in media and fringe culture of the 50s through 70s coincides with the exact years we know that that the CIA was kidnapping and performing medical experiments on America drifters through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra">programs like MKULTRA (Wikipedia link, declassified fact)</a> because they knew that the Alien stories and associations would discredit them.</p><p>Why would you dress up in robes and do demon rituals and alien bullshit before you abuse a child or rob an old lady? So no one would believe them. </p><p>And focusing on the Occult boomer bullshit of Epstein only serves to discredit it and file it away in the same place as Agartha and the History Channel Thanksgiving special about Puritans, Indians, and Aliens all eating Turkey and Womprats together.</p><div id="youtube2-9_wKHixTXOg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;9_wKHixTXOg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;3s&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9_wKHixTXOg?start=3s&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/short-take-the-epstein-esoterica?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/short-take-the-epstein-esoterica?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Whatever depraved spiritually bankrupt Boomer bullshit Epstein was doing&#8230; and it was boomer bullshit, urban boomers do Woo-Demon-crystal-homeopathy-ritual stuff over EVERYTHING, not just child abuse&#8230;. It is significant only in so far as it made them more scared and coherent and less likely to defect or come clean&#8230; because they&#8217;re retarded urban libertines who all abuse drugs and they believed a demon or curse would get them if they told the truth&#8230; Aside from that it is only relevant as a psyop distraction, because it&#8217;s discrediting and lets the Generations that watched TV perform mental gymnastics to categorize it as safe TV Scary, not start obsessively researching the founding period, Zionist terror campaigns, and<strong> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fry-Brain-Sniping-Guerrilla-Warfare/dp/0971413398">IRA Urban sniper tactics</a></strong> scary.</p><p>The &#8220;X-Files&#8221; and &#8220;The Patriot&#8221; are two different movies... And as long as you can somehow refile Epstein into the &#8220;X-Files&#8221; part of your brain, you just get to keep entertaining yourself and &#8220;investigating&#8221; forever, and you never have to fight an insurgency against your occupational traitor government and those controlling it...</p><p>You get to stay in the conspiracy genre and never have to go into the Revolutionary War/Irish Troubles genre.</p><p>As long as Epstein can be put safely back into the unknown conspiracy category, you don&#8217;t have to have uncomfortable rage filled thoughts about how the government, legal system, and moral calculus of western nations is broken irreparably and that only your private violence can fix anything. </p><p>As long as &#8220;the Truth is out there&#8221;, you can keep looking and you don&#8217;t have to do anything about it now that you have it.</p><p>As long as you can find a deeper mystery, you get rid of the pain of finally knowing the truth and having to do something about it.</p><p>As long as you can convince yourself that there&#8217;s another link to click and another thread to unravel, then it is not yet time to load nails into pipes and rounds into chambers.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f6qz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5455f9bb-0352-4b18-8c8b-88a581cf28e4_321x259.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f6qz!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5455f9bb-0352-4b18-8c8b-88a581cf28e4_321x259.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f6qz!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5455f9bb-0352-4b18-8c8b-88a581cf28e4_321x259.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f6qz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5455f9bb-0352-4b18-8c8b-88a581cf28e4_321x259.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f6qz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5455f9bb-0352-4b18-8c8b-88a581cf28e4_321x259.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f6qz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5455f9bb-0352-4b18-8c8b-88a581cf28e4_321x259.jpeg" width="455" height="367.1183800623053" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5455f9bb-0352-4b18-8c8b-88a581cf28e4_321x259.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:259,&quot;width&quot;:321,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:455,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f6qz!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5455f9bb-0352-4b18-8c8b-88a581cf28e4_321x259.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f6qz!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5455f9bb-0352-4b18-8c8b-88a581cf28e4_321x259.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f6qz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5455f9bb-0352-4b18-8c8b-88a581cf28e4_321x259.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f6qz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5455f9bb-0352-4b18-8c8b-88a581cf28e4_321x259.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;4dd1e624-1368-463b-979d-c1481d6aaafd&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The United-Healthcare Assassin Has Been Caught (Allegedly)&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Getting Away With It: The Art of Urban Infiltration and Exfiltration. Or the Tragedy of Luigi Mangione&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-02-21T03:13:09.702Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53cbe2d5-9519-4f7c-a6aa-70b865f64ac7_945x599.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/getting-away-with-it-the-art-of-urban&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:152862583,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:149,&quot;comment_count&quot;:43,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h4><strong>Tip:<br><br>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter:<strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></strong></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ep 23 On the Frontier Against the Invaders w/Rogue Philosophy]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Free wheeling interview on Frontier life, Adventure, Technological society, Hesiod, the Absolute State of Western Civilization, and the illegal Migrant invasion&#8230; With Rogue / Frontier Philosophy (@RoguesPhilo on twitter) who Writes at Heir to the Aryans]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep-23-on-the-frontier-against-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep-23-on-the-frontier-against-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:20:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186522367/8dcc77ffeb981fc0064fcca9e560e1b0.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>A Free wheeling interview on Frontier life, Adventure, Technological society, Hesiod, the Absolute State of Western Civilization, and the illegal Migrant invasion&#8230; With <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Rogue / Frontier Philosophy&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:208256109,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d2191231-7025-4425-8a79-814729319d48_3000x3000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;bbab17df-6dfa-4e77-b207-5ddaa7ebdd90&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> (<a href="https://x.com/RoguesPhilo">@RoguesPhilo on twitter</a>) who Writes at<em> </em><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Heir to the Aryans&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:3183172,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/roguephilosophy&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e12ec9e4-1395-40fd-a1eb-5f2c4b61c4f9_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;38c80c5d-d711-40e3-b076-a3b03045cd24&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> here on substack:</p><div class="embedded-publication-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:3183172,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Heir to the Aryans&quot;,&quot;logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n9t-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe12ec9e4-1395-40fd-a1eb-5f2c4b61c4f9_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;base_url&quot;:&quot;https://roguephilosophy.substack.com&quot;,&quot;hero_text&quot;:&quot;Wield the power of tradition like lightening. Transform yourself into the heroic ideal through weekly college-level lectures on &#8220;beyond right&#8221; philosophy. Learn strategies to Manifest your Destiny in real life. Awaken the Aryan spirit within your blood. &quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;Rogue / Frontier Philosophy&quot;,&quot;show_subscribe&quot;:true,&quot;logo_bg_color&quot;:&quot;#171717&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPublicationToDOMWithSubscribe"><div class="embedded-publication show-subscribe"><a class="embedded-publication-link-part" native="true" href="https://roguephilosophy.substack.com?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=publication_embed&amp;utm_medium=web"><img class="embedded-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n9t-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe12ec9e4-1395-40fd-a1eb-5f2c4b61c4f9_1280x1280.png" width="56" height="56" style="background-color: rgb(23, 23, 23);"><span class="embedded-publication-name">Heir to the Aryans</span><div class="embedded-publication-hero-text">Wield the power of tradition like lightening. Transform yourself into the heroic ideal through weekly college-level lectures on &#8220;beyond right&#8221; philosophy. Learn strategies to Manifest your Destiny in real life. Awaken the Aryan spirit within your blood. </div><div class="embedded-publication-author-name">By Rogue / Frontier Philosophy</div></a><form class="embedded-publication-subscribe" method="GET" action="https://roguephilosophy.substack.com/subscribe?"><input type="hidden" name="source" value="publication-embed"><input type="hidden" name="autoSubmit" value="true"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email..."><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"></form></div></div><p>I had some technological difficulty this episode, if the sound seems off on your sound system or unlistenable&#8230; Skip to 55:30 and it improves dramatically.</p><p>.</p><p>Referenced works:</p><p>-<a href="https://archive.org/details/hesiodhomerichym0000unse/page/78/mode/2up">Hesiod&#8217;s Theogony (Greek and English opposing face)</a></p><p>-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto">John Taylor Gatto</a></p><p></p><p>Music:</p><p>Intro: &#8220;Lord of War&#8221;, Intermission &#8220;Eternal Night&#8221;, Outro &#8220;Aviator&#8221; by Karl Casey, White Bat Audio</p><p></p><p>Also mentioned:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;ea09258b-f30d-4ec6-a83d-51c2ea3ddfcb&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow me on Twitter: @FromKulak&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Tactical Espionage Dollar-Store Hobo&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-05T20:34:51.927Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P_mq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf77c4e0-d315-4e6e-adc2-99f215f0e6ee_809x495.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/tactical-espionage-dollar-store-hobo&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:171483630,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:128,&quot;comment_count&quot;:39,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The GoySlop Ideology: The Lie of Libertarianism]]></title><description><![CDATA[The American Founding Ideology didn't Come From Austria]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-goyslop-ideology-the-lie-of-libertarianism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-goyslop-ideology-the-lie-of-libertarianism</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:08:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uvb0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Follow me on Substack: <strong><a href="https://open.substack.com/users/79262163-kulak?utm_source=mentions">Kulak</a></strong></p><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uvb0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uvb0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uvb0!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uvb0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uvb0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uvb0!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png" width="1200" height="725.2747252747253" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:880,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:4216530,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/185750965?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uvb0!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uvb0!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uvb0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uvb0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F288e4672-f0ec-4884-9858-b53d8319270e_2125x1285.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Article song: <strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F95nGLTUfko&amp;list=RDF95nGLTUfko&amp;start_radio=1">&#8220;Bye Bye Bye to the Devil in I&#8221;</a></strong></p></blockquote><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>The debasement of the value of a people&#8217;s currency is secondary to the debasement of the people and values themselves.</strong></p></div><p>Dear readers, for my sins I am that most cursed of creature&#8230; An Ex-Libertarian.</p><p>There are indeed a shocking number of us, there might actually be more Ex-Libertarians today than there remain &#8220;Libertarians&#8221;.</p><p>Indeed the completeness of the failure and implosion of Libertarianism is matched only by the popular appeal it once had amongst the intelligent White Youth of America and in the wider anglosphere. Below a certain age cut-off Libertarianism once enjoyed more support than any George Bush style Republicanism or even many left wing ideologies that had traditionally dominated student politics&#8230;</p><p>Then Libertarianism imploded almost completely in repeated humiliations, ideological self-sabotage, rivalled purity spirals of retardation (somehow as lockdowns were happening the <em>Reason </em>crowd decided obscure arguments WRT &#8220;externalities&#8221; justified forced vaccination, whilst others performatively bought the George Floyd panic&#8230; Just as they buy every police brutality story)&#8230;</p><p>That an ideology and an intellectual leadership so bankrupt, so careerist, so self-sabotaging, and so actively hateful of the actual intelligent (slightly autistic) patriotic freedom loving white Americans who support them, could have won the support of those very same intelligent patriotic freedom loving white Americans? That requires explanation.</p><p>The Median Libertarian supporter was an highly intelligent 20 something educated, (or &#8220;some college&#8221;) White Male distinguished by his independence streak, patriotic disposition, disagreeable personality, unusual &#8212;often self-employed&#8212; career path, and willingness to read seemingly THOUSANDS of pages of economics, political theory, secret histories, and dissident articles&#8230; And with a infallible ear for Inauthenticity that would make  perfect pitch opera singers and submarine sonar technicians blush.</p><p>Consistently tricking one such person would be a nightmare&#8230; How do you consistently get MILLIONS of them to act in concert against their own interests to advance the careers of mediocrities that hate them?</p><p>These people are like herding cats when you want them to do something productive and for their own interest!!! How do you consistently trick all of them at once in concert?</p><p>.</p><p>It all centers around a very subtle sleight of hand.</p><p>Dear reader Answer a question for me&#8230;</p><p>.</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cWKy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91489ef9-f395-4752-bc84-6cab0f2fc10d_1309x634.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cWKy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91489ef9-f395-4752-bc84-6cab0f2fc10d_1309x634.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cWKy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91489ef9-f395-4752-bc84-6cab0f2fc10d_1309x634.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cWKy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91489ef9-f395-4752-bc84-6cab0f2fc10d_1309x634.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cWKy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91489ef9-f395-4752-bc84-6cab0f2fc10d_1309x634.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cWKy!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91489ef9-f395-4752-bc84-6cab0f2fc10d_1309x634.png" width="1200" height="581.2070282658518" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/91489ef9-f395-4752-bc84-6cab0f2fc10d_1309x634.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:634,&quot;width&quot;:1309,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:80921,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/185750965?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91489ef9-f395-4752-bc84-6cab0f2fc10d_1309x634.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cWKy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91489ef9-f395-4752-bc84-6cab0f2fc10d_1309x634.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cWKy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91489ef9-f395-4752-bc84-6cab0f2fc10d_1309x634.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cWKy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91489ef9-f395-4752-bc84-6cab0f2fc10d_1309x634.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cWKy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F91489ef9-f395-4752-bc84-6cab0f2fc10d_1309x634.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>What is Libertarianism?</h2><p></p><p>Ask 10 Libertarians and you get 30 different answers&#8230; but one of the most consistent answers you&#8217;ll get is that Libertarianism is the founding ideology of America.</p><p>That Libertarianism is just the beliefs of the Founding Fathers and Patriots of 1776 carried forward.</p><p>Indeed this profound fondness for the founders is found in their rhetoric, symbolism, stated values, and almost everything they do&#8230; The TRAPPINGS and SYMBOLS of the American Founders and the 18th-19th century Patriot movements  (See the Decemberist revolt in Russia, the 1837 Rebellion and Patriot War in Canada, the risings of 1848, the Fenian Raids and Irish Risings, and obviously the French Revolution, etc.) are all very dear to Libertarians in their individual countries&#8230;</p><p>You know what is NOT dear to Libertarians?</p><p>Any of the Writings, histories, or policies of those early patriotic thinkers, nor any of the works that they themselves were reading.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XYDL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3308de1b-f4d6-4221-9413-96925ba2d648_1500x450.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XYDL!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3308de1b-f4d6-4221-9413-96925ba2d648_1500x450.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XYDL!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3308de1b-f4d6-4221-9413-96925ba2d648_1500x450.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XYDL!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3308de1b-f4d6-4221-9413-96925ba2d648_1500x450.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XYDL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3308de1b-f4d6-4221-9413-96925ba2d648_1500x450.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XYDL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3308de1b-f4d6-4221-9413-96925ba2d648_1500x450.png" width="724" height="217.29945054945054" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3308de1b-f4d6-4221-9413-96925ba2d648_1500x450.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:437,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:724,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XYDL!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3308de1b-f4d6-4221-9413-96925ba2d648_1500x450.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XYDL!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3308de1b-f4d6-4221-9413-96925ba2d648_1500x450.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XYDL!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3308de1b-f4d6-4221-9413-96925ba2d648_1500x450.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XYDL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3308de1b-f4d6-4221-9413-96925ba2d648_1500x450.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Rather for a Ideology that waves the Gadsden flag, vows to &#8220;Live Free or Die&#8221;, and is composed overwhelmingly of the palest white males you have ever laid eyes on and whose families invariably trace their roots back to the founding stock of their countries and regions&#8230; you will find narrowest smallest minority of founding stock thinkers in the bottomless corpus of Libertarian theorist who are read and promoted.</p><p>The 35 Million living Mayflower Descendants represent over 10% of the US population and 15% of the US white population&#8230; Yet somehow they represent far less than 10% of the prominent thinkers in an almost 90% white American movement.</p><p>Libertarianism in other Countries is no less perplexing in that it draws it&#8217;s support overwhelmingly from the country&#8217;s autistic white founding stock, yet promotes writers, thinkers, commentators, speakers, etc. From anyone but that stock.</p><p>This is of course true even of the texts they read.</p><p>The American Founders, despite being THE FOUNDERS of American liberty are not read in any prominence by Libertarians, indeed you could go dozens or even hundreds of hours through libertarian podcasts without a specific individual founder being mentioned or quoted as all but a hand waving symbol &#8220;the founders wouldn&#8217;t want [thing I don&#8217;t want]&#8221; not even requiring a sourcing or citation from one of the actual founder.</p><p>So which thinkers ARE they reading and discussing?</p><p>All these intellectual sensitive young men with endlessly systematizing minds and the will and curiosity to read thousands if not 10s of thousands of pages of dry economic theory?</p><p>What are they reading?</p><h4><strong>They&#8217;re reading Jewish theorists from the Weimar Era of Axis humiliation. </strong></h4><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-goyslop-ideology-the-lie-of-libertarianism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Anarchonomicon! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-goyslop-ideology-the-lie-of-libertarianism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-goyslop-ideology-the-lie-of-libertarianism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p></p><p></p><h1>What is GoySlop?</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rco6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11005664-83a1-4d86-8e20-da2621a7593c_1200x800.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rco6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11005664-83a1-4d86-8e20-da2621a7593c_1200x800.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rco6!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11005664-83a1-4d86-8e20-da2621a7593c_1200x800.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rco6!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11005664-83a1-4d86-8e20-da2621a7593c_1200x800.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rco6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11005664-83a1-4d86-8e20-da2621a7593c_1200x800.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rco6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11005664-83a1-4d86-8e20-da2621a7593c_1200x800.jpeg" width="598" height="398.6666666666667" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/11005664-83a1-4d86-8e20-da2621a7593c_1200x800.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:800,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:598,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rco6!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11005664-83a1-4d86-8e20-da2621a7593c_1200x800.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rco6!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11005664-83a1-4d86-8e20-da2621a7593c_1200x800.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rco6!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11005664-83a1-4d86-8e20-da2621a7593c_1200x800.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rco6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11005664-83a1-4d86-8e20-da2621a7593c_1200x800.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Goyslop is a term of abuse that&#8217;s come out of the internet health community to describe ultra-processed factory assembled food and other goods that are made to resemble things which were once real substantive products so as to trick you into buying the slop. They were real foods and products, but are now cheapened, adulterated, and even poisoned to the point of resembling real food and other goods not at all.  &#8220;They were men once&#8221; in the words of Aragorn.</p><p>Fast food is the classic example:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ynJo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75c6a0ca-b25d-4e2c-8fc9-79d7f8676963_813x682.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ynJo!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75c6a0ca-b25d-4e2c-8fc9-79d7f8676963_813x682.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ynJo!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75c6a0ca-b25d-4e2c-8fc9-79d7f8676963_813x682.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ynJo!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75c6a0ca-b25d-4e2c-8fc9-79d7f8676963_813x682.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ynJo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75c6a0ca-b25d-4e2c-8fc9-79d7f8676963_813x682.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ynJo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75c6a0ca-b25d-4e2c-8fc9-79d7f8676963_813x682.png" width="490" height="411.04551045510453" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/75c6a0ca-b25d-4e2c-8fc9-79d7f8676963_813x682.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:682,&quot;width&quot;:813,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:490,&quot;bytes&quot;:281649,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/185750965?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75c6a0ca-b25d-4e2c-8fc9-79d7f8676963_813x682.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ynJo!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75c6a0ca-b25d-4e2c-8fc9-79d7f8676963_813x682.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ynJo!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75c6a0ca-b25d-4e2c-8fc9-79d7f8676963_813x682.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ynJo!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75c6a0ca-b25d-4e2c-8fc9-79d7f8676963_813x682.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ynJo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75c6a0ca-b25d-4e2c-8fc9-79d7f8676963_813x682.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">In the early 90s and Before McDonalds enslopified French Fries were actually healthy, or would certainly qualify as healthy today.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Across decades Brands which had built real estate and business empires off of the quality and flavor of their goods, realized that their core clientele had aged with them, lacked functional tastebuds anymore, often had developed psychological complexes around the foods they ate as kids&#8230; And so would not notice or would even  tolerate NOSE-DIVING quality of the actual goods.</p><p>Wide Sections of young people might be openly repulsed by McDonalds and other fast food places, but people raised on it as kids or aging boomer demographics whose tastebuds are fading like their eyesight either don&#8217;t notice or are willing to tolerate that the actual  food has collapsed in quality and that what was once fresh beef patties are now ultra-processed industrial amalgams of bottom grade beef, soy, chemical preservatives, industrial lubricants like &#8220;vegetable oil&#8221;&#8230; And other Slop ingredients and fillers.</p><p>You&#8217;ll notice this happening to every product with a brand that was once valuable. Hotels that were once good are now crap, Film Franchises that used to be defined by Auteur film makers with vision, are now made in the cheapest low risk manner possible by diversity hire producers and committees&#8230;</p><p>The product doesn&#8217;t go all at once (usually), that might be noticeable. But slowly everything that was good about it is adulterated, substituted, shrinkflated, and otherwise EnSlopified&#8230; Because the owners realized the brand was sufficient to keep ensnaring the aging, the gullible, and the young who didn&#8217;t know any better.</p><p>Also, as the internet does in most things, the Term identifies Jewish financiers as the cause of the Slopification&#8230; With the similarity between the roving financier practices at public corporations and traditional Jewish business practices, the McDonalds food scientist as the stereotypical unscrupulous Jew adulterating vodka, being a matter which can be debated one way or the other, but which the internet has latched onto.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iEjd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe630654-6e42-4779-8a48-0ce4f1de85ff_1196x699.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iEjd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe630654-6e42-4779-8a48-0ce4f1de85ff_1196x699.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iEjd!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe630654-6e42-4779-8a48-0ce4f1de85ff_1196x699.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iEjd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe630654-6e42-4779-8a48-0ce4f1de85ff_1196x699.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iEjd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe630654-6e42-4779-8a48-0ce4f1de85ff_1196x699.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iEjd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe630654-6e42-4779-8a48-0ce4f1de85ff_1196x699.png" width="1196" height="699" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fe630654-6e42-4779-8a48-0ce4f1de85ff_1196x699.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:699,&quot;width&quot;:1196,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:971165,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/185750965?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe630654-6e42-4779-8a48-0ce4f1de85ff_1196x699.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iEjd!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe630654-6e42-4779-8a48-0ce4f1de85ff_1196x699.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iEjd!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe630654-6e42-4779-8a48-0ce4f1de85ff_1196x699.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iEjd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe630654-6e42-4779-8a48-0ce4f1de85ff_1196x699.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iEjd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe630654-6e42-4779-8a48-0ce4f1de85ff_1196x699.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Here food scientist  Eugene Crabs is introducing SpongeBob the the cost saving Magic of Canola Oil</figcaption></figure></div><p>But My Contention however is that LIBERTARIANISM is a Goyslop Ideology.</p><p>That Libertarianism the Ideology resembles the Patriot Militia ideology of the American Founders and the Nationalist Patriot Revolts of the 18th and 19th century, about as much as Grocery Store Velveeta instant Melt &#8220;Cheese Product&#8221; Resembles a heritage cheese from the Village of Cheddar in Somerset.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J8Js!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d50ba8e-b16d-41c3-8f99-5cbb609970a8_903x437.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J8Js!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d50ba8e-b16d-41c3-8f99-5cbb609970a8_903x437.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J8Js!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d50ba8e-b16d-41c3-8f99-5cbb609970a8_903x437.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J8Js!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d50ba8e-b16d-41c3-8f99-5cbb609970a8_903x437.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J8Js!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d50ba8e-b16d-41c3-8f99-5cbb609970a8_903x437.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J8Js!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d50ba8e-b16d-41c3-8f99-5cbb609970a8_903x437.png" width="903" height="437" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5d50ba8e-b16d-41c3-8f99-5cbb609970a8_903x437.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:437,&quot;width&quot;:903,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:593345,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/185750965?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d50ba8e-b16d-41c3-8f99-5cbb609970a8_903x437.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J8Js!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d50ba8e-b16d-41c3-8f99-5cbb609970a8_903x437.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J8Js!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d50ba8e-b16d-41c3-8f99-5cbb609970a8_903x437.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J8Js!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d50ba8e-b16d-41c3-8f99-5cbb609970a8_903x437.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J8Js!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d50ba8e-b16d-41c3-8f99-5cbb609970a8_903x437.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Left: Gas station Nacho &#8220;cheese&#8221; dispenser. Right: A wedge of Unpasteurized West Country Cheddar cheese, made in Somerset </figcaption></figure></div><p>Across decades the Liberty Ideology of the Founders has been adulterated, the harsh edges, flavors, structure, and logic shorn off&#8230; The racial and ethnic particularity and harsh words apologized for, censored, and excused away; all talk of violence or mere rudeness that might be necessary for an effective movement denounced and rejected; all manly honor and opinions about the relation of the sexes shamed and chased away&#8230; </p><p></p><p>So that now instead of the functional warlike Patriot Liberty ideology the Founders left for their &#8220;Posterity&#8221; their flesh and blood SONS, there exists instead a Goyslop ideology which is supposed to appeal and be marketable to all ethnicities, all races, all 72 genders and sexual identities, offend no one, and CERTAINLY NOT make anyone question if they shouldn&#8217;t actually do what the founders DID and defend their lands and liberty by scalping Foreign trespassers, burning the skin off tyrants and collaborators with hot tar and feathers, and certainly not launching armed revolts against a tyrannical state for opposing the manifest destiny and interests of your National Ethnicity.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Libertarianism is a Goyslop &#8220;Ideology Product&#8221; <a href="https://www.aol.com/heres-why-american-cheese-cant-175000032.html">just as many &#8220;American Cheese&#8221; items (or Kraft Singles in Canada, no Canadian would eat &#8220;&#8220;&#8220;American&#8221;&#8221;&#8221; Cheese) cannot actually be marketed as &#8220;cheese&#8221; but instead must be labeled &#8220;cheese product&#8221; because they no longer contain enough actual Cheese to be legally sold as &#8220;cheese&#8221;</a>, they have been so adulterated.</p><p>Indeed we see the exact same linguistic transformation. Not one of the American founders or fighters of the revolutionary war called themselves &#8220;Libertarians&#8221;, just as no 17th century Cheese-Maker in Summerset ever referred to his Cheddar cheese as &#8220;Kraft Cheddary Cheesey Snack-Spread&#8221;. The Founders referred to themselves not as &#8220;Libertarians&#8221; but &#8220;Patriots&#8221; or when organized &#8220;Patriot Militias&#8221; (a term you might recognize from the 90s), just as the The Sommerset Cheese-Maker refers to his product not as &#8220;Cheddary Cheesey Snack Spread&#8221;&#8230; but Cheese.</p><p>Indeed use the word &#8220;Patriot&#8221; around a Libertarian and you will immediately get the same qualifications, nuances, &#8220;well actually&#8221;s, and spin that you&#8217;d get from Lawyer at Kraft if you told them you wanted a good &#8220;Cheese&#8221; to serve on your Burger.  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cno0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb798f20-10ad-446c-9cbe-87f190eb76ae_1500x750.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cno0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb798f20-10ad-446c-9cbe-87f190eb76ae_1500x750.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cno0!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb798f20-10ad-446c-9cbe-87f190eb76ae_1500x750.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cno0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb798f20-10ad-446c-9cbe-87f190eb76ae_1500x750.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cno0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb798f20-10ad-446c-9cbe-87f190eb76ae_1500x750.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cno0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb798f20-10ad-446c-9cbe-87f190eb76ae_1500x750.jpeg" width="1456" height="728" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/db798f20-10ad-446c-9cbe-87f190eb76ae_1500x750.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:728,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cno0!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb798f20-10ad-446c-9cbe-87f190eb76ae_1500x750.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cno0!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb798f20-10ad-446c-9cbe-87f190eb76ae_1500x750.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cno0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb798f20-10ad-446c-9cbe-87f190eb76ae_1500x750.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cno0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb798f20-10ad-446c-9cbe-87f190eb76ae_1500x750.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Just like other slop products it has no appeal to anyone not already nostalgic for American Liberty actually meant something, and most non-senile connoisseurs of the actual Founding Patriot Ideology complete with its classical education, warlike sense of honor, Ethno-supremacism, manifest destiny, and frontier values actively despise the new inoffensive cosmopolitan &#8220;Liberty product&#8221;.</p><p>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4giC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4cdb7497-613d-409c-a258-58574754db07_950x500.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4giC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4cdb7497-613d-409c-a258-58574754db07_950x500.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4giC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4cdb7497-613d-409c-a258-58574754db07_950x500.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4giC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4cdb7497-613d-409c-a258-58574754db07_950x500.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4giC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4cdb7497-613d-409c-a258-58574754db07_950x500.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4giC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4cdb7497-613d-409c-a258-58574754db07_950x500.jpeg" width="950" height="500" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4cdb7497-613d-409c-a258-58574754db07_950x500.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:500,&quot;width&quot;:950,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4giC!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4cdb7497-613d-409c-a258-58574754db07_950x500.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4giC!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4cdb7497-613d-409c-a258-58574754db07_950x500.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4giC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4cdb7497-613d-409c-a258-58574754db07_950x500.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4giC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4cdb7497-613d-409c-a258-58574754db07_950x500.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><h2>Why Do Libertarians Hate the word &#8220;Patriot&#8221;</h2><p>You might think the Libertarian aversion to &#8220;Patriot&#8221; has something to do with the &#8220;Patriot Act&#8221; or the War on Terror&#8230; but their aversion precedes that by decades.</p><p>Rather Libertarianism is an Anti-Racist, Universalist, Post-National, Egalitarian ideology&#8230; They just think everyone should have &#8220;Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome&#8221; (you see why libertarian inevitably start to support open borders), many will object to that phrasing now&#8230; but there is no substantive change in libertarian ideology from when that line was popularized.</p><p>By contrast the American Patriots were NATIONALISTS. The American Revolution was indeed the first Nationalist &#8220;Bourgeoise&#8221; Revolution. Far from believing in Universal egalitarian values, anti-racism, or &#8220;tolerance&#8221; as a general principle&#8230; The Founding fathers were profound ETHNO-NATIONALISTS. They owned multi-generational slaves of other ethnicities. They scalped Natives born on the same &#8220;magic dirt&#8221; as them, George Washington even fought the existing process that scalp bounties could be paid on French Canadians who accompanied natives in the French-Indian War. And many Founders would go on to Scalp Mexicans, Spaniards, and stranger ethnicities.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gThb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4dbf702-817d-41d9-ad3d-28df4c3057c4_489x548.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gThb!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4dbf702-817d-41d9-ad3d-28df4c3057c4_489x548.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gThb!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4dbf702-817d-41d9-ad3d-28df4c3057c4_489x548.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gThb!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4dbf702-817d-41d9-ad3d-28df4c3057c4_489x548.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gThb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4dbf702-817d-41d9-ad3d-28df4c3057c4_489x548.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gThb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4dbf702-817d-41d9-ad3d-28df4c3057c4_489x548.png" width="375" height="420.2453987730061" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a4dbf702-817d-41d9-ad3d-28df4c3057c4_489x548.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:548,&quot;width&quot;:489,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:375,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gThb!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4dbf702-817d-41d9-ad3d-28df4c3057c4_489x548.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gThb!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4dbf702-817d-41d9-ad3d-28df4c3057c4_489x548.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gThb!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4dbf702-817d-41d9-ad3d-28df4c3057c4_489x548.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gThb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4dbf702-817d-41d9-ad3d-28df4c3057c4_489x548.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The meaning of the Indian Headdresses worn during Boston Tea Party was not to trick the British (the protest wouldn&#8217;t have worked if the British had been tricked into thinking Indians had actually done it)&#8230; But rather it was a Statement of Ethno-genesis. That the protestors considered themselves a new Indigenous people to the Americas and were breaking their bonds of kinship and identity with the British who were tyrannizing them.</p><p>The significance of the Founders bringing forth &#8220;A New Nation&#8221; was not a statement about a new &#8220;government&#8221; being created out of the Articles of Confederation (Indeed that would not have been much to be proud of&#8230; Some people make new governments every decade), but rather that they had become a New Ethnic People&#8230; The same way we might speak of the German Nation or Polish Nation persisting across any number of monarchies, regimes, foreign occupations, World Wars, unification, dissolutions, etc. The Ethnic Nation persists&#8230; And the Americans had created of themselves a new Nation.</p><p>Do you see why an ideology propagated by immigrant Jews in the midst of the Desegregation movements and the ethnic tumult of the 50s and 60s would be violently opposed to the word &#8220;Patriot&#8221;?</p></blockquote><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h1>The Adulterated Product</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nPT0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb819b418-4fcf-4e7e-aebf-36a5fe5ec229_1000x723.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nPT0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb819b418-4fcf-4e7e-aebf-36a5fe5ec229_1000x723.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nPT0!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb819b418-4fcf-4e7e-aebf-36a5fe5ec229_1000x723.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nPT0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb819b418-4fcf-4e7e-aebf-36a5fe5ec229_1000x723.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nPT0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb819b418-4fcf-4e7e-aebf-36a5fe5ec229_1000x723.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nPT0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb819b418-4fcf-4e7e-aebf-36a5fe5ec229_1000x723.jpeg" width="1000" height="723" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b819b418-4fcf-4e7e-aebf-36a5fe5ec229_1000x723.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:723,&quot;width&quot;:1000,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nPT0!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb819b418-4fcf-4e7e-aebf-36a5fe5ec229_1000x723.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nPT0!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb819b418-4fcf-4e7e-aebf-36a5fe5ec229_1000x723.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nPT0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb819b418-4fcf-4e7e-aebf-36a5fe5ec229_1000x723.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nPT0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb819b418-4fcf-4e7e-aebf-36a5fe5ec229_1000x723.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Freedom loving young Americans&#8230; who have never read <strong>the political philosophy of Samuel Adams (Vol <a href="https://archive.org/details/writingsofsamuel0001adam/mode/2up">1</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/writingsofsamuel0002adam/page/n7/mode/2up">2</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/writingsofsamuel0003adam/page/n7/mode/2up">3</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/writingsofsamuel0004adam/page/n7/mode/2up">4</a>) or <a href="https://archive.org/details/patrickhenrylif00henrgoog/page/n6/mode/2up">Patrick Henry&#8217;s life, correspondence, and Speeches</a>, or <a href="https://archive.org/details/writingsofgeorge01wash_0/page/n11/mode/2up">the ELEVEN volume writings of George Washington (Vol 1, scroll down for the rest</a>) or Maj. John Burnham&#8217;s <a href="https://archive.org/details/personrecrevowar00burnrich/page/n3/mode/2up">Personal Recollection on the Revolutionary War</a>, or <a href="https://archive.org/details/battlemapscharts00carr_0/mode/2up">a Good Collection of Battle Maps and Atlas&#8217;s</a>  </strong>or <strong><a href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_cCYCAAAAYAAJ/page/n11/mode/2up">Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s meditation on the moral Lessons of Chess</a>&#8230;</strong> Brilliant Genius young American minds who have not read any of these works.</p><p>Young Americans who have not read the Classical Authors these great people studied and revered. Who have not read Thucydides<em> <strong>History of the Peloponnesian W</strong></em><strong>ar (Vol <a href="https://archive.org/details/historyofthucydi01thuc/mode/2up">1</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/historyofthucydi02thuc">2 </a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/historyofthucydi03thuc">3</a>)</strong> , nor Xenophon&#8217;s <em><strong><a href="https://archive.org/details/marchoftenthousa0000hgda/page/n5/mode/2up">Anabasis </a></strong></em>and <em><strong>Hellenica (<a href="https://archive.org/details/xenophonwithengl01xeno/page/n5/mode/2up">Vol 1 </a>and <a href="https://archive.org/details/xenophonwithengl02xeno_0/page/n7/mode/2up">2</a>) </strong></em><strong>nor Livy&#8217;s </strong><em><strong>History of Rome (Vol <a href="https://archive.org/details/livywithenglisht01livyuoft/page/n5/mode/2up">1</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/livywithenglisht02livyuoft/page/n5/mode/2up">2</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.98926/page/n7/mode/2up">3</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/livywithenglisht04livyuoft/page/n7/mode/2up">4</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/livy05livy/page/n3/mode/2up">5</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/livywithenglisht06livyuoft/livywithenglisht06livyuoft/page/n5/mode/2up">6</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/livywithenglisht07livyuoft/page/n7/mode/2up">7</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/livywithenglisht13livyuoft/page/n5/mode/2up">8</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/livywithenglisht04livyuoft/page/n5/mode/2up">9</a>, 10</strong></em><strong>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/livywithenglisht11livyuoft/page/n5/mode/2up">11</a>, 12, <a href="https://archive.org/details/livywithenglisht13livyuoft/page/n5/mode/2up">13</a>, 14</strong> (the missing 3 are easy to find in other editions)) nor indeed <em><strong><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10827">Machiavelli&#8217;s Discourses on Livy</a></strong></em>&#8230;. Nor any of the traditional classic texts of the Ancient and Early modern world that before the 2nd world war were core to creating a Gentleman&#8230; and massively influential on the founders.</p><p>Young Liberty Minded Americans have instead read the vastly DRYER and HARDER to read thousand page economic treatises&#8230; of whom?</p><p>Mises? Hayek? Rothbard? Friedman? Ayn Rand? Walter Block?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bn1F!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38e9ea94-205c-4d23-8d18-822ab9eaf9f4_750x949.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bn1F!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38e9ea94-205c-4d23-8d18-822ab9eaf9f4_750x949.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bn1F!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38e9ea94-205c-4d23-8d18-822ab9eaf9f4_750x949.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bn1F!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38e9ea94-205c-4d23-8d18-822ab9eaf9f4_750x949.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bn1F!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38e9ea94-205c-4d23-8d18-822ab9eaf9f4_750x949.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bn1F!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38e9ea94-205c-4d23-8d18-822ab9eaf9f4_750x949.jpeg" width="260" height="328.9866666666667" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/38e9ea94-205c-4d23-8d18-822ab9eaf9f4_750x949.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:949,&quot;width&quot;:750,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:260,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bn1F!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38e9ea94-205c-4d23-8d18-822ab9eaf9f4_750x949.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bn1F!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38e9ea94-205c-4d23-8d18-822ab9eaf9f4_750x949.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bn1F!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38e9ea94-205c-4d23-8d18-822ab9eaf9f4_750x949.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bn1F!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38e9ea94-205c-4d23-8d18-822ab9eaf9f4_750x949.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Walter Block&#8217;s Portrait at Mises.org</figcaption></figure></div><p>Men (and Woman) who in contrast to the founding fathers were largely not Americans by birth or were second generation later immigrants, were not frontiersmen, fought no battles for liberty, did NOT win any wars, gained NO political power, nor founded any great nations on their ideas.</p><p>Yet bright young White Anglo-Saxon Americans, many of whom grew up on rural frontiers, many of them directly descended from Veterans of the Revolution, Civil War, or Cowboy Pioneers, or direct descendants from the Mayflower&#8230; People who have lived and experienced America&#8217;s tradition of liberty, and have intimate family traditions of fighting for liberty, collectively turned en-masse for an education in their own liberty, national tradition, and frontier values&#8230; to Cosmopolitan foreign Jewish academic, many of whom still spoke with the thick accents of their central and Eastern European homelands.</p><p>But why?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><blockquote><p>Seriously I cannot Emphasize to you enough how Cosmopolitan-Jewish Libertarianism is. </p><p>I visited Porc-Fest (the Porcupine Festival) in Upstate New Hampshire the other year. I had stopped really considering myself a Libertarian, but wanted to see the <a href="https://www.fsp.org/">Free State Project&#8217;s</a> experiment in Ethnogenesis of moving all the Autistic white disagreeable libertarians to one of the smallest, Whitest, most rural states in the Union for myself. By coincidence I was visiting New York City for unrelated reasons immediately before. So I left New York,  following the Hudson river valley up back to Canada stopping at West Point to see a the Army&#8217;s Military Academy, crossed the St Lawrence river at Kingston and the Cottage country of the 1000 Islands for another errand&#8230; Then the next day drove another 10 hours following The St Lawrence River, across the Rapids at <em>Grande Isle</em> in Quebec, through the outlying Laurentian Mountains&#8230; Back across the US Border into Vermont, reversing the route Benedict Arnold took in 1775 to lay Siege to Quebec at the outset of the Revolution,  through the green Mountains and Victory State Forest to Lancaster, New Hampshire&#8230; Home of Porc-Fest and at the former Border of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Indian_Stream">1832-1835 Independent Republic of Indian Stream.</a></p><p>And at Porc-Fest&#8230;  In the most remote and rural part of America, in such an old frontier New England part of the US you&#8217;re inches from forgotten independent Republics and old revolutionary war battle tracks&#8230; The headline event was a Debate between Gene Epstein and David Freidman, two Octogenarian Jewish Economists who commented that the debate was something of a continuation of their previous debate months before at the Soho Forum in New York City&#8230; 3 blocks from where I had gotten Chinese Food 20 hours of driving before hand.</p><p>If that seems Artificial or strange, all these white 20-50 somethings gathered in the New Hampshire woods to hear two octogenarian Jewish academics from New York and Chicago? It is.</p></blockquote><p>.</p><p>The common innocent reason to read authors of other ethnicities and to forego your own traditional texts and modes of thinking&#8230; is because it works.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jPII!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc969c0e1-df07-4843-ba83-69447fd43684_1200x600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jPII!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc969c0e1-df07-4843-ba83-69447fd43684_1200x600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jPII!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc969c0e1-df07-4843-ba83-69447fd43684_1200x600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jPII!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc969c0e1-df07-4843-ba83-69447fd43684_1200x600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jPII!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc969c0e1-df07-4843-ba83-69447fd43684_1200x600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jPII!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc969c0e1-df07-4843-ba83-69447fd43684_1200x600.jpeg" width="1200" height="600" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c969c0e1-df07-4843-ba83-69447fd43684_1200x600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:600,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jPII!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc969c0e1-df07-4843-ba83-69447fd43684_1200x600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jPII!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc969c0e1-df07-4843-ba83-69447fd43684_1200x600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jPII!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc969c0e1-df07-4843-ba83-69447fd43684_1200x600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jPII!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc969c0e1-df07-4843-ba83-69447fd43684_1200x600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The Meiji Restoration</figcaption></figure></div><p>The Japanese after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 buried themselves in European texts, technology, protocols and culture&#8230; Because the Europeans had them outgunned. The Japanese adopted foreign traditions and modes of thought and copied all they could, because they couldn&#8217;t tell at a glance what was the secret sauce that gave the Europeans victory seemingly without limit&#8230; And so they copied everything they could, and only began to reintegrate their own nationalist cultural artifacts once they had experience with the the state of the art and could judge which of their own traditions wouldn&#8217;t doom them to conquest.</p><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>By contrast Liberty minded American White intellectuals and precocious teenagers were abandoning the texts and traditions of the Founders who had actually WON. Had actually defeated tyranny. Had actually attained political power. Had actually created regimes of liberty&#8230; And the Classical Literary and Historic traditions which had produced those founders and the Gentlemen conquerors of the American 19th Century, the  industrial revolution, and the age of Exploration. In favor of foreign losers.</p><p>People who had been driven from their countries in disgrace, people who had failed to defeat or even send a solitary volley of lead towards the people they considered tyrants&#8230; Mises and Hayek mourned the fall of the Austrian Empire and had fought for Austria in WW1, but they&#8217;d had ZERO success in producing a functional state after the war, and Mises even expressed contempt for having been forced to fight for the empire he subsequently mourned the fall of (Hayek by contrast was decorated for bravery).</p><p>Mises was the only one to attain any notable political power, having been the head economist of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce in the interwar period we associate with the Weimar republic in Germany&#8230; Then fleeing Austria in 1934, years before <em>Anschluss, </em>after the internal political failure of his faction.</p><p>And yet that&#8217;s the most successful of them in terms of any real world impact.</p><p>How did the Austrian School achieve such a coup in American intellectual life that it enjoyed such esteem among American Liberty Minded White Youth&#8230; Forming both a minor faction in American Republicanism and succeeding in taking over the American Libertarian party, explicitly, with the Success of the Mises Caucus (though the Libertarian party was not exactly functional or founders minded before hand)&#8230;</p><p>.</p><p>How did the Austrian School, an ideology that failed so completely IN AUSTRIA, dig itself so thoroughly into American political discourse?</p><p>You want the real answer?</p><h1>Libertarianism is a State Backed Ideology</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MP0k!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded9cb25-9656-4c65-834d-79332d871e36_798x527.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MP0k!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded9cb25-9656-4c65-834d-79332d871e36_798x527.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MP0k!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded9cb25-9656-4c65-834d-79332d871e36_798x527.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MP0k!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded9cb25-9656-4c65-834d-79332d871e36_798x527.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MP0k!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded9cb25-9656-4c65-834d-79332d871e36_798x527.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MP0k!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded9cb25-9656-4c65-834d-79332d871e36_798x527.png" width="798" height="527" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ded9cb25-9656-4c65-834d-79332d871e36_798x527.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:527,&quot;width&quot;:798,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:367091,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/185750965?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded9cb25-9656-4c65-834d-79332d871e36_798x527.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MP0k!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded9cb25-9656-4c65-834d-79332d871e36_798x527.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MP0k!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded9cb25-9656-4c65-834d-79332d871e36_798x527.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MP0k!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded9cb25-9656-4c65-834d-79332d871e36_798x527.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MP0k!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded9cb25-9656-4c65-834d-79332d871e36_798x527.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The Career path of Nobel Prize Winning free-market economist Milton Friedman. You will notice that despite &#8220;advocating&#8221; the Free Market, Friedman never once interacted with the Free Market. Indeed his entire Career was a study in Central Planning, even starting his Career in the &#8220;National Resource Planning Board&#8221;.</figcaption></figure></div><p></p><p>Over the course of the past few decades Westerners have had a harsh brutal reality drilled into their naive little minds:</p><p>There is no such thing as a non-profit institution. </p><p>Someone is benefiting. </p><p>And the most proximate profiteer of supposedly charitable or non-profit organizations are almost always their senior salaried employees&#8230; Who can often make 6 figures or more doing what is supposedly &#8220;Charity work&#8221; but what is in fact often largely money laundering and patronage for some political entity or influence network.</p><p>The Modern &#8220;Non-Governmental-Organization&#8221; or ThinkTank or Charity is almost always some means of corruption or influence peddling&#8230; Indeed in much of the world the &#8220;Non-Governmental Organizations&#8221; taken on a joke dimension, as so many NGOs are funded not by their own governments&#8230; but foreign intelligence agencies, or foreign billionaires who receive choice business contracts and regulatory carveouts for having acted as the tools of various intelligence agencies and national governments (Think Soros, the Addelsons, etc.)&#8230; The &#8220;Non-Governmental&#8221; is a statement of foreign allegiance.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Now apply this analysis backwards&#8230; We need not even speculate as to the funding sources of various Libertarian thinktanks and institutes in the modern day&#8230; Instead note how almost every single prominent early Libertarian got their money. </p><p>They were all professors.  [With one exception.]</p><p>.</p><p>Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Rothbard, Block none of these people survived off of book sales, a business they had built, family money, wars of conquest&#8230; None of them made like Ted Kazinsky or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gayley_Simpson">William Gayly Simpson</a> and lived like Zarathustra writing the truth no one wanted to hear from some lonely mountain top. None of them came to their intellectual careers later in life after throwing their professional reputations away on a matter of principle. None of them robbed banks to sustain themselves like communist dissidents of the early 20th century, or the Silent Brotherhood Neo-Nazis of the 80s. None of them applied their Free-Market anti-government principles and took to the lives of Drug Kingpins (though in his sincerity  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht">Ross Ulbricht later would</a>)</p><p>All of them had university professorships. Most Tenure track.</p><p>Milton Friedman&#8217;s son David Friedman, himself a prominent libertarian intellectual, completed degrees in Chemistry and Physics&#8230; Only to become a Professor of Law without EVER having completed a course credit in Law, nor having ever practiced law. How does that happen?  Well I imagine it helps when your dad is a Senior regime economist and was given the Nobel Prize for his life&#8217;s work&#8230; not least <a href="https://reason.com/2016/04/18/milton-friedman-helped-invent-income-tax/">the Income Withholdings Tax</a>.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Now I&#8217;ll admit my Bias&#8230; I&#8217;m a white heterosexual Zoomer from Canada.</p><p>The idea of EVER getting a professorship in any field strikes me as a nigh impossibility irrespective of intelligence or effort if undertaken honestly and in a spirit of intellectual curiosity. I attended the top university in Canada for my undergrad, and I knew men and women with PERFECT GRADES across the board 4.0s that could not get into Law School, Med School an MBA program, etc&#8230;. Because they were white. They were often told this to their face.</p><p>We knew what corruption, ethnic nepotism, and often open prostitution it took to become a Student at a Law School&#8230; A Professorship? Especially in a soft subject? We KNEW what it took to become a Professor.</p><p>We knew which of our Professors were HIV positive from a lifetime of bending over for &#8220;networking&#8221; and career advancement (many of them openly told us this in class as a matter of pride to &#8220;destigmatize&#8221; &#8220;queer ways of living&#8221;). We knew which of our professors had done dirty work for various political campaigns. We knew which of our professors were tied to international criminal networks. We knew which of our professors had manufactured fake crimes against various ethnicities and fake statistics to justify government policy. We knew which of our professors in international relations and at various &#8220;centers for peace&#8221; had enabled regime changes and various massacres and genocides&#8230; We knew which of the visiting professors had probably personally fellated John McCain and George Soros. (In the literal sense&#8230; She was not intelligent enough to get in those positions otherwise nor spend that much time with two such power players, even with the female diversity boost)</p><p>So maybe I&#8217;m biased&#8230; but when I see someone was &#8220;given&#8221; a Professorship (because 6 figure positions are just handed out like lollypops at parades) my very first instinct is that that they&#8217;re being compensated for crimes they committed against their countries in their previous positions, lies they propagated, ethnic nepotism networks they&#8217;re part of, or aging powerbrokers they slept with&#8230;</p><p>Or in the Case of people like <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-columbia-course-disappointing_n_6571fe8ee4b05e622ea3092f">Hillary Clinton</a>, <a href="https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/victoria-nuland">Victoria Nuland</a>, and Chrystia Freeland&#8230; all of the above. (actually I cheated&#8230; Freeland wasn&#8217;t appointed a Professorship, but <a href="https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/about/latest-news/2025/november/former-deputy-pm-of-canada-chrystia-freeland-appointed-as-next-warden-ceo/">the Chair of the Rhodes Trust</a>)</p><p>.</p><p>So I&#8217;m biased, I hear &#8220;Professor&#8221; and I think of a Diversity Hire Prostitute/Mobster/War-Criminal with ties to Ukraine and Israel. Presumably it was not always quite this overt.</p><p>But Libertarianism is remarkable even with this frame however, because of how many of their prominent thinkers were given professorships&#8230; Despite not having ever had a career in America or the Anglosphere, and having been chased from their previous positions in various states of ill will, with works that weren&#8217;t even written in English.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EB68!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1c8d429-d8b0-4465-b6a0-e15ba3b4570b_900x608.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EB68!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1c8d429-d8b0-4465-b6a0-e15ba3b4570b_900x608.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EB68!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1c8d429-d8b0-4465-b6a0-e15ba3b4570b_900x608.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EB68!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1c8d429-d8b0-4465-b6a0-e15ba3b4570b_900x608.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EB68!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1c8d429-d8b0-4465-b6a0-e15ba3b4570b_900x608.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EB68!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1c8d429-d8b0-4465-b6a0-e15ba3b4570b_900x608.jpeg" width="522" height="352.64" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a1c8d429-d8b0-4465-b6a0-e15ba3b4570b_900x608.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:608,&quot;width&quot;:900,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:522,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EB68!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1c8d429-d8b0-4465-b6a0-e15ba3b4570b_900x608.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EB68!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1c8d429-d8b0-4465-b6a0-e15ba3b4570b_900x608.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EB68!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1c8d429-d8b0-4465-b6a0-e15ba3b4570b_900x608.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EB68!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1c8d429-d8b0-4465-b6a0-e15ba3b4570b_900x608.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>For reference, usually when you lose your career or position in society&#8230; You start over in your new country near the bottom. No professors of Marxist-Leninist theory lost their job in Russia when the USSR collapsed, only to land Professorships in Chicago or New York. German and Japanese professors largely had to suffer through their countries&#8217; losses in poverty, with many even barred from teaching, imprisoned, or Executed&#8230; Yet these Professors who lost all standing in Austria when the Weimar era regime that backed them collapsed&#8230; whose only military careers were as conscripts serving in the ENEMY force of the US in World War 1&#8230; They Get prominent professorships in America and the UK almost instantly?</p><p>And just a reminder these were economists and social theorists&#8230; Not great inventors or physicists like Werner Von Braun who would justify something like Operation Paperclip.</p><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Libertarianism indeed resembles almost no other Philosophical school in its origins, funding, the Career path of it&#8217;s early thinkers&#8230; Except for one you might have heard of: The Frankfurt School. </p><p>Yes the Frankfurt School, The Weimar Era  post-Marxist German-Jewish school of Social Theorists that gave us Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse and Habermas&#8230; And which most thinkers trace the origin of woke modern Gay Race Communism to.</p><p>The Austrian School and Frankfurt School even follow the same naming convention&#8230; and yes both are over 80% Jewish despite being from Germany and Austria where the overwhelming majority populations were German and Austrian, respectively.</p><p>.</p><p>These professorships were not &#8220;given&#8221; away&#8230; any more than Professorships are &#8220;given&#8221; today.</p><p>The Early libertarian thinkers were, with one exception, state funded and backed through educational institutes, Mises himself was brought to the US with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation (now synonymous with US influence ops) and their Ideological thought was very explicitly pushed and subsidized, largely as Alternative ideologies to National Socialism, and Nationalism in General, and as ethnic allies in the contest for Dominance of the Western World.</p><p>Mises was partially employed at New York University studying currency for the Pan Europa Movement led by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi.. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan">Yes. That Kalergi.</a> Which even if we ignore conspiracy theories about Kalergi and the Great replacement, is significant because it means the most prominent and &#8220;extreme&#8221; Anti-State intellectual turned to by American Dissidents opposed to Globalism, foreign influence, and the international regulatory regime&#8230; Was himself one of the early Architects of Globalism and the EU.</p><p></p><p>There is one exception though, and that exception is Ayn Rand.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E17-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21521636-a1a9-4fff-bedc-6d00c780ba29_656x839.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E17-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21521636-a1a9-4fff-bedc-6d00c780ba29_656x839.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E17-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21521636-a1a9-4fff-bedc-6d00c780ba29_656x839.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E17-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21521636-a1a9-4fff-bedc-6d00c780ba29_656x839.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E17-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21521636-a1a9-4fff-bedc-6d00c780ba29_656x839.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E17-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21521636-a1a9-4fff-bedc-6d00c780ba29_656x839.png" width="482" height="616.4603658536586" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/21521636-a1a9-4fff-bedc-6d00c780ba29_656x839.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:839,&quot;width&quot;:656,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:482,&quot;bytes&quot;:998133,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/185750965?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21521636-a1a9-4fff-bedc-6d00c780ba29_656x839.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E17-!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21521636-a1a9-4fff-bedc-6d00c780ba29_656x839.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E17-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21521636-a1a9-4fff-bedc-6d00c780ba29_656x839.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E17-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21521636-a1a9-4fff-bedc-6d00c780ba29_656x839.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E17-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21521636-a1a9-4fff-bedc-6d00c780ba29_656x839.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h1>A Legacy Media Ideology</h1><p>I consider Ayn Rand to be one of the great American Writers.</p><p>Whatever the problems with her philosophy&#8230; <em>Atlas Shrugged</em> particularly, despite petering out towards the end, starts with maybe the best 500-800 pages of American Dystopian-Mystery-Romance-BDSM ever written&#8230;. Which you&#8217;d think would be a niche genre (and was when Rand first wrote) but is now maybe the biggest genre in the world, almost single-handedly keeping Barnes and Noble standing.</p><p>Rand defined that genre, and she did it very well.</p><p>Ayn Rand would have gotten obscenely rich off her lightning in a bottle writing in almost any era. Indeed if you look at Samuel Richardson&#8217;s <em><strong><a href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.135856/page/n7/mode/2up">Clarissa</a> </strong></em>(1748), The Marquis De Sade&#8217;s <em><strong><a href="https://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/4322115-marquis-de-sade-justine-in-english-translation.pdf">Justine</a> </strong></em>(1791), <em><strong><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-banned-fantasy-novels-feminists">John Norman&#8217;s Gor Novels</a></strong></em>, Or<em> 50 Shades of Grey</em>, you can see that Genre/mystery/suspense Sex-Danger with Philosophical musings ALWAYS sells well, even with the most extreme dissident politics.</p><h5>I should just write these books&#8230; I should do it. I should pull the trigger. Stop trying to start a revolution and just get rich off the Goon-pocalypse instead&#8230; </h5><h5>Comment below if you want me to start writing erotica instead of revolutionary theory.</h5><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-goyslop-ideology-the-lie-of-libertarianism/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-goyslop-ideology-the-lie-of-libertarianism/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p>.</p><p>However Rand made her money honestly, in the free market, and She&#8217;s not an Austrian Jew! She&#8217;s a Russian Jew&#8230;. And she never once had a career in academia. However, I&#8217;ve always found her particular level of success ever so slightly more than I could believe.</p><p>Ayn Rand was writing politically dissident, right wing, atheistic, Scifi, Sex novels in the 1950s&#8230;</p><p>And yet I can look up DOZENS of black and white and technicolor long-form televsion interviews of her from when her novels were new in the 50s, 60s, and 70s&#8230; </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hncy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd797863-bb6c-4a7a-93d4-e35ee50a95a6_1200x630.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hncy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd797863-bb6c-4a7a-93d4-e35ee50a95a6_1200x630.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hncy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd797863-bb6c-4a7a-93d4-e35ee50a95a6_1200x630.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hncy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd797863-bb6c-4a7a-93d4-e35ee50a95a6_1200x630.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hncy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd797863-bb6c-4a7a-93d4-e35ee50a95a6_1200x630.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hncy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd797863-bb6c-4a7a-93d4-e35ee50a95a6_1200x630.jpeg" width="1200" height="630" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fd797863-bb6c-4a7a-93d4-e35ee50a95a6_1200x630.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:630,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hncy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd797863-bb6c-4a7a-93d4-e35ee50a95a6_1200x630.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hncy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd797863-bb6c-4a7a-93d4-e35ee50a95a6_1200x630.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hncy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd797863-bb6c-4a7a-93d4-e35ee50a95a6_1200x630.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hncy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd797863-bb6c-4a7a-93d4-e35ee50a95a6_1200x630.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I cannot emphasize this enough: </p><p>Television was a SCARCE resource at this time. There were 3 channels, they had to cater to the entire demographic spectrum, cartoons for kids, soap operas for stay at home moms, the evening news for dad, sports, Variety shows, talk shows, westerns&#8230;</p><p>Getting an interview on TV is a massive break for a writers even today&#8230; In this era when you could have had nearly a monopoly on a 3rd of tv viewers, 10-20 Million Americans or more&#8230; That&#8217;s a huge break&#8230;</p><p>And they gave it to Ayn Rand. For a half-hour+. Multiple times. Across years!</p><div id="youtube2-Fi9DVLm_6XA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Fi9DVLm_6XA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Fi9DVLm_6XA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>(^This interview is 3 parts, half an hour on just Ayn Rand, in 1959)</p><p>.</p><p>I Cannot emphasize enough&#8230; Ayn Rand is terrible TV guest.</p><p>They&#8217;re hyping her up as a philosopher which is weird&#8230;. No Left-wing Television producer before or since would concede that of Ayn Rand (&#8220;Self styled philosopher&#8221; maybe) , but in itself the median TV watcher does not care about philosophers, so that&#8217;s weird on its own (I challenge you to turn on the television next time you&#8217;re at your Grandmother&#8217;s and find a philosopher of any sort on any channel)&#8230; . But also her philosophy is entirely contrary to most Americans, she was a free love Atheist Jew who praised &#8220;The Virtue of Selfishness&#8221;&#8230; On the face of it you&#8217;d expect the median American to get disgusted with her and turn off the television&#8230; And you expect Leftists TV producers to not WANT to put her in front of them at all.</p><p>But that&#8217;s not the real problem.</p><p>Her Russian Accent. If you had the Slightest amount of TV Static coming through your Bunny-Ears I&#8217;m fairly certain you would never understand a word she was saying. Something any Television producer would notice in the first minute of speaking with her.</p><p>And yet they&#8217;re giving her ALL OF THIS, to 20 million viewers in-spite of her being a RW extremist whose values contradict not only every political American administration, but American religion, civic values, and the politics of basically every TV producer who ever lived&#8230;</p><p>I checked. I struggled to find black and White interviews of Robert Heinlein, Rodger Zelazny, Philip K Dick, John Norman, or even fellow Jew Isaac Asimov (who seemed to have an easier time getting on TV later on) doesn&#8217;t really have any interviews before 1975. Ordinary top of their game SciFi authors simply weren&#8217;t going on TV until really the late 70s. The only exceptions I could find was Aldous Huxley who&#8217;s hit<em> Brave New World </em>was 27 years old modern classic <a href="https://youtu.be/alasBxZsb40?si=3LHyTC3QD1mFkXL3">at the time of his 1959 interview</a>, and <a href="https://youtu.be/ZpKkHCVbSyw?si=Bu_En7J0mPlDxtx5">an interview with Jewish television producer Rod Sterling of </a><em><a href="https://youtu.be/ZpKkHCVbSyw?si=Bu_En7J0mPlDxtx5">Twilight Zone</a></em><a href="https://youtu.be/ZpKkHCVbSyw?si=Bu_En7J0mPlDxtx5"> fame</a>, who was already a television staple.</p><p>Yet Ayn Rand was getting put in front of millions of Americans, thick Russian Accent and all&#8230;</p><p>And I think that this was a very specific choice.</p><p>Just as every Legacy Media outlet&#8217;s chose in 2016-17, at the same time they were &#8220;Deplatforming extremists&#8221;, to suddenly have then unknown Richard Spencer on prime time television multiple times asking him soft-ball questions about how he could be such a firebrand rebellious racist who&#8217;s attractive and doesn&#8217;t play by the rules&#8230; That was also a choice.</p><div id="youtube2-FwhnPUzLZZg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;FwhnPUzLZZg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FwhnPUzLZZg?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>In the modern day we are all trained to recognize that this is how you know a &#8220;Dissident&#8221; thinker is astroturfed&#8230; Think how Brilyn Hollyhand immediately got endless television interviews within days of Charlie Kirk&#8217;s assassination.</p><p>They get endless hours of free publicity on Legacy Media television which portrays them as dangerous, but never actually goes for the throat and tried to end their career, cancel them or cause embarrassment&#8230; Real dissidents they will studiously pretend don&#8217;t exist unless and until they can find a sex scandal, criminal behavior, or &#8220;Nigger moment&#8221; (in utterance or behavior) with which to try and destroy them.</p><p>Why would you not think this this is true of prominent figure in the past?</p><p>.</p><p>Indeed when you look at the Careers of almost all the prominent Libertarians, you find people who had extraordinary access to Legacy Media.</p><p>Milton Friedman got a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dngqR9gcDDw">multipart TV special </a><em><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dngqR9gcDDw">Free to Choose</a></strong></em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dngqR9gcDDw"> [First Episode]</a> hyping his philosophy of free market economics, with the 1990s republishing coming with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbHA76-Hi0">a very special opening introduction</a> by none other than Arnold &#8220;<strong><a href="https://youtu.be/3oRdP3SYjgM?si=nkijp9Id6YW1MfDP">Screw your Freedom</a></strong>&#8221; Schwarzenegger&#8230; You are &#8220;Free to Choose&#8221; Reaganomics&#8230; but not whether or not you put an experimental medicine in your body to fight a disease that does nothing to your age cohort. (And no, <a href="https://youtu.be/jsETTn7DehI?si=L9XJzXS-T7wOAlBI">Schwarzenegger has not stopped doing pro-regime PSAs, recently doing one to fight &#8220;Hate and Antisemitism&#8221;</a>&#8230; &#8220;Aund da shooos!!!&#8221;)</p><p>Yes this was the start of Schwarzenegger&#8217;s political career&#8230; And yes, he was this buried in Reaganomics, &#8220;Freedom&#8221;, and The American way&#8230; And then said &#8220;Screw your freedom&#8221;, get force vaxxed, and don&#8217;t be an Antisemite&#8230; That seems a good Barometer for the sincerity of the other people in that Milieu.</p><div id="youtube2-KKbHA76-Hi0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;KKbHA76-Hi0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KKbHA76-Hi0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Reason editor Nick Gillespie got basically all of his fame from appearances on <em>Real Time with Bill Maher </em>which is second only to <em>Oprah </em>and <em>Ellen </em>as a clearing house for influence peddling<em> </em>(Bill Maher is the place I first heard the name Chrystia Freeland&#8230; I swear her life is just a map of Influence networks, read <em>Red Notice</em> by Bill Browder).</p><p>Much as I respect him and think he&#8217;s an important voice (do listen to his podcast) Prominent Libertarian podcaster Thomas E. Wood&#8217;s 2004 book <em>The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History  </em>was not so politically incorrect that legacy media wouldn&#8217;t promote it on Fox News, give him reviews in prominent papers, and list it on the New York Times bestseller&#8217;s list (they will just not list far right, self-published, and other books they want to disappear&#8230; There have even been lawsuits about the lost revenue from writers not being listed&#8230; NYT successfully defended themselves that their &#8220;bestsellers list&#8221; is &#8220;editorial content&#8221; merely &#8220;informed by the numbers&#8221;)</p><p>And of course famous Libertarian podcaster and comedian Dave Smith, despite being an alleged New Media figure, and verymuch self-concieving as a punk rock podcaster breaking the legacy media monopoly&#8230; has in fact been on various Fox News and other cable shows constantly for almost a decade, and indeed his entire style of argument, presentation, inoffensive mannerism, and relatable &#8220;well come on&#8221; patient exasperation, is entirely ADAPTED to the legacy media environment. Dave Smith is very much, in temperament, style, and even subject matter (commentating on CNN and MSNBC news segments) like a libertarian John Stuart, right down to the neighborhoods he lived in and walked through to get to New York cable studios. </p><p>Again there doesn&#8217;t have to be anything menacing about any one of these figures particular careers, but consistently libertarianism is a way for figures to interface with and build careers within or attached to legacy publishing, legacy media, legacy Academia, and legacy government departments.</p><p>This is true of almost all prominent Libertarians you&#8217;ve heard of, not just the early academics. TV appearances, book reviews, academic positions, Contributions to various papers, for &#8220;dissidents&#8221; the regime is shockingly content to give them microphones.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h1>The Innocent Theory</h1><p>At its most innocent one might say that Libertarianism is in fact an ideology uniquely ADAPTED for the legacy media and academic patronage landscape.</p><p>That Libertarianism&#8217;s &#8220;Evolution&#8221; of the original American Patriot ideology: doing away with all ethnic, national, and racial language to create a universalist language of &#8220;individual liberty&#8221; (Itself not exactly a concept found in 1776, more later) that can justify things the founders never even contemplated or indeed might not have ever in a million years have supported such as Homosexual Marriage, Drug legalization, Abortion, interracial marriage, no fault divorce, anti-discrimination as a moral good but debatably a legal good, pornography, decriminalization of drugs (George Washington waged a land-war against American citizens over a Whiskey rebellion)&#8230; So as to appeal to Leftist TV producers and academics to allow them into elite institutions&#8230; Whilst selectively appealing to &#8220;antiwar&#8221; values, &#8220;Civil Liberties&#8221;, &#8220;Christianity&#8221;, &#8220;Empathy&#8221; what have you so as to dodge or denounce anyone such as McVeigh or any other extremist &#8220;Patriot Militia&#8221; types that might think the values of the founders, or &#8220;Inalienable liberties&#8221; ought be defended with the violence of the founders. </p><p>Live Free or Die&#8230; but come on, we don&#8217;t we don&#8217;t want anyone to get hurt.</p><p>Rather Libertarians disappear into geopolitical, economic, and legal obscurantism (my god the hundreds of hours I&#8217;ve wasted on legal and economic theory)&#8230; not because these are at all effective levers with which to actually alter society, or elevate the fact that they are subjected to thousands of intolerable tyrannies every day&#8230; But because these are matters dry enough and obscure enough that until relatively recently you could take dissident positions on them and still have a career in the Media, Government, or Academia (as long as it wasn&#8217;t a dissident position on the Civil Right Act, Antidiscrimination, women&#8217;s suffrage, or really anything touching any of the regime&#8217;s pet interest groups.. Libertarians even get very quiet when you ask about just outright abolishing welfare or any of their &#8220;mean&#8221; policies or obvious implications: Ask a libertarian if &#8220;taxation is theft&#8221; and &#8220;all taxes are enforced with violence&#8221; whether or not it is self defense to assassinate IRS agents? The Founding Father&#8217;s actually said &#8220;Yes&#8221; with regards to British Tax Collectors, though the first wave they just seared their flesh with hot tar then covered them in feathers.</p><p>Thus Libertarianism is an evolved ideology&#8230; Not to ever effect politics or achieve anything regarding political outcomes, nor even, as it might at first present itself, as a realistic political philosophy about the nature of state violence&#8230; but rather it basically exists as a way for RW intellectuals to talk themselves into obscurantist positions which was permitted in legacy media and academia, such that you could have a career whilst sincerely deluding yourself you were having a slow but important effect on high level politics&#8230; when your actual effect, unknown to you, was that you were being employed and subsidized by the regime to dissipate populist energies and rebellious intellectual youths into wasting their time on irrelevant legal and economic theories with which they&#8217;d never alter the world&#8230; Whilst consciously and unconsciously directing them away from the actual Patriot ideology of the founders, and certainly the classical Renaissance, Roman, and Greek writers on Warfare, politics and violence that have traditionally allowed one to alter the world&#8230; Nor the 20th century Extremist writers like Lenin, Trotsky, Hitler and Mussolini&#8230; Who themselves were reading those classical authors (Trotsky even brought back the Ancient Roman practice of &#8220;Decimation&#8221; for his Red Army conscripts after reading about it in Livy and Plutarch).</p><p>That is the innocent theory&#8230; That Libertarianism just organically evolved to outcompete Patriot ideology and wear the trappings of the Founding as a skinsuit over anti-discrimination and anti-violence, because those were the incentives academia and the media created. </p><h5>Note: In America there are ZERO laws preventing you from advocating discrimination or violence. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio">Brandonberg V. Ohio</a> held in 1969 that even KKK marches advocating &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l0RMGid6vo">Revengeance</a>&#8221; on Blacks and Jews was legal as long as it remained the abstract advocacy of violence and law breaking&#8230; not &#8220;Imminent Lawless Action&#8221; against a proximate specific target such as a mob boss ordering a hit or a revolutionary partisan ordering a mob to kill a specific individual standing in front of them. Indeed you will notice communists in the past and to this day have never held back from openly demanding abstract violence, and do not endure legal consequence because all their theory and words are abstracted&#8230; ICE and NAZIS must be punched and face violence, and the bourgeois,reactionaries, and counter revolutionaries killed&#8230; but at the actual specific moment in proximate contact they consciously lie and shout &#8220;Hands up don&#8217;t shoot&#8221;, &#8220;Peaceful protest&#8221;, &#8220;Just be a good person&#8221; even as those about them throw molotov cocktails and try to cave in a cop&#8217;s skull, or beat and kill a 17 year old.</h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h1>The Conspiracy Theory: An Iron Curtain with Painted Fields</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q3HI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb244ac57-fb51-4934-9eb1-21b7af493ff4_959x1360.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q3HI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb244ac57-fb51-4934-9eb1-21b7af493ff4_959x1360.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q3HI!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb244ac57-fb51-4934-9eb1-21b7af493ff4_959x1360.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q3HI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb244ac57-fb51-4934-9eb1-21b7af493ff4_959x1360.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q3HI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb244ac57-fb51-4934-9eb1-21b7af493ff4_959x1360.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q3HI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb244ac57-fb51-4934-9eb1-21b7af493ff4_959x1360.jpeg" width="296" height="419.7705943691345" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b244ac57-fb51-4934-9eb1-21b7af493ff4_959x1360.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1360,&quot;width&quot;:959,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:296,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q3HI!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb244ac57-fb51-4934-9eb1-21b7af493ff4_959x1360.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q3HI!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb244ac57-fb51-4934-9eb1-21b7af493ff4_959x1360.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q3HI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb244ac57-fb51-4934-9eb1-21b7af493ff4_959x1360.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q3HI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb244ac57-fb51-4934-9eb1-21b7af493ff4_959x1360.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>That&#8217;s the Innocent Reading&#8230; but lets take it back to Ayn Rand in 1959.</p><p>For reference it is NOT the case that Far Right thinkers with or without odd sexual proclivities are or were just invited on to have friendly longform political discussions on television today or on 1950s television (as much as I&#8217;m sure your grandmother would love to hear from me). Even modern libertarian figures who are really skilled at television like Dave Smith usually only get a few seconds on a panel, or like Fuentes on Pierce Morgan are brought on in the hopes that a skilled hatchet man and Smear merchant can take them down a notch (this is interpreting Fuentes as innocently as possible).  Most far right thinkers often struggled to even get published at all (which might not be surprising to anyone who has tried to get published today&#8230; Thus the revolution in self-publishing)</p><p>Indeed one of the most prominent Right Wing political books of 1950s &#8212;depending on the source, the second best selling non-fiction Right Wing book of 1950s (After William Buckley&#8217;s Astroturfed &#8220;God and Man at Yale&#8221;)&#8212; Was <a href="https://dn720001.ca.archive.org/0/items/beaty-john-the-iron-curtain-over-america/Beaty_John_-_The_iron_curtain_over_America.pdf">Colonel John Beaty&#8217;s </a><em><strong><a href="https://dn720001.ca.archive.org/0/items/beaty-john-the-iron-curtain-over-america/Beaty_John_-_The_iron_curtain_over_America.pdf">The Iron Curtain Over America</a></strong></em><a href="https://dn720001.ca.archive.org/0/items/beaty-john-the-iron-curtain-over-america/Beaty_John_-_The_iron_curtain_over_America.pdf"> [FULL BOOK]</a>&#8230; a work he commented on struggling to get published at all.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W65f!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bd8af6e-a0ce-4ec2-a9c0-c4528d6d1c2d_665x834.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W65f!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bd8af6e-a0ce-4ec2-a9c0-c4528d6d1c2d_665x834.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W65f!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bd8af6e-a0ce-4ec2-a9c0-c4528d6d1c2d_665x834.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W65f!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bd8af6e-a0ce-4ec2-a9c0-c4528d6d1c2d_665x834.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W65f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bd8af6e-a0ce-4ec2-a9c0-c4528d6d1c2d_665x834.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W65f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bd8af6e-a0ce-4ec2-a9c0-c4528d6d1c2d_665x834.png" width="567" height="711.0947368421052" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5bd8af6e-a0ce-4ec2-a9c0-c4528d6d1c2d_665x834.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:834,&quot;width&quot;:665,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:567,&quot;bytes&quot;:226910,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/185750965?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bd8af6e-a0ce-4ec2-a9c0-c4528d6d1c2d_665x834.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W65f!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bd8af6e-a0ce-4ec2-a9c0-c4528d6d1c2d_665x834.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W65f!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bd8af6e-a0ce-4ec2-a9c0-c4528d6d1c2d_665x834.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W65f!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bd8af6e-a0ce-4ec2-a9c0-c4528d6d1c2d_665x834.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W65f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bd8af6e-a0ce-4ec2-a9c0-c4528d6d1c2d_665x834.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Yes that is 4 Retired WW2 Flag Officers praising a dissident RW Book as the most important work on US Politics and Communist Infiltration.</figcaption></figure></div><p>John Beaty&#8230; Despite being a Best selling Author, University Professor, US Army Intelligence Colonel, his work being praised by Flag Officer after Flag Officer, and Getting 11 printings in 3 years&#8230; Was NEVER Interviewed on Television as far as I can tell, despite being a seasoned university lecturer who spoke unaccented English.</p><p>And when you know what his book is about you will immediately see why.</p><p>Beaty was a pre-war professor of Eastern European languages, history, and ethnicities. (this is why he got promoted so fast in WW2) and after the war he wrote <em>Iron Curtain over America</em> on the Role of German-Jewish (&#8220;Khazar&#8221;)-American relations in the war&#8230; And specifically the role of Jews, Communism, and Zionism in running American foreign policy (yes it was a thing all the way back then).</p><p>Beaty&#8217;s work is the Rosetta Stone of basically all conspiracism and rightwing dissidence. Basically everything that was thought by the pre-war old right about forbidden subjects and everything that was thought about the post-war dissident right about those subjects finds its connection in Beaty&#8217;s book. Indeed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill,_Hitler,_and_the_Unnecessary_War">Pat Buchanan&#8217;s book on WW2</a> even partially shares a title with one of Beaty&#8217;s chapters.</p><p>Beaty even discusses in depth what US Intelligence knew and concluded about the Holocaust and the 6 Million figure&#8230; Going into vastly more detail than Churchill, Eisenhower, or Charles De Gaul even did in their books, and even most Jewish scholars didn&#8217;t really tackle til the 60s. Indeed I think almost all non-standard takes on the Holocaust and Final Solution basically trace their origin to Beaty&#8217;s book.</p><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>But whatever one concludes about his specific theories and sourcing on this or that, the Main focus of his book, where he gets the title&#8230; Is the subject of privately enforced state-backed cartelized censorship in American publishing, Newspapers, Radio, and Television.</p><p>I don&#8217;t think I need to inform or insist at all forcefully that Legacy Media is, was, and remains a tightly controlled tool of government, intel agencies, billionaire, and special interest censorship, propaganda, and control&#8230; this is so obvious that even famed (alleged) Epstein Client, Noam Chomsky has written a (punch pulling) book on how the News Media &#8220;Manufactures Consent&#8221; for the regime&#8217;s propaganda goals, wars, etc.</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B6lC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca7756c5-4ac1-4a8d-af08-63e9a3fb73a0_1475x626.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B6lC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca7756c5-4ac1-4a8d-af08-63e9a3fb73a0_1475x626.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B6lC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca7756c5-4ac1-4a8d-af08-63e9a3fb73a0_1475x626.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B6lC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca7756c5-4ac1-4a8d-af08-63e9a3fb73a0_1475x626.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B6lC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca7756c5-4ac1-4a8d-af08-63e9a3fb73a0_1475x626.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B6lC!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca7756c5-4ac1-4a8d-af08-63e9a3fb73a0_1475x626.png" width="1200" height="509.34065934065933" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ca7756c5-4ac1-4a8d-af08-63e9a3fb73a0_1475x626.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:618,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:1913896,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/185750965?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca7756c5-4ac1-4a8d-af08-63e9a3fb73a0_1475x626.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B6lC!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca7756c5-4ac1-4a8d-af08-63e9a3fb73a0_1475x626.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B6lC!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca7756c5-4ac1-4a8d-af08-63e9a3fb73a0_1475x626.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B6lC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca7756c5-4ac1-4a8d-af08-63e9a3fb73a0_1475x626.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B6lC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca7756c5-4ac1-4a8d-af08-63e9a3fb73a0_1475x626.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The OG Glowniggas</figcaption></figure></div><p>But whereas we now basically accept that this period of <em>Manufactured Consent</em> existed, the propaganda &#8220;Matrix&#8221; was real, and we&#8217;re all more or less &#8220;Red-Pilled&#8221; that like Neo we were living in a dream world maliciously designed to enslave us&#8230;and possibly still are via social media astroturfing and censorship&#8230; See my recent post:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;f38b4b1c-23fb-47c9-9062-8f4f75989b18&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;You&#8217;ve never done anything&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Cry Havoc and Bray for Blood&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10T04:44:58.940Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:183456395,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:151,&quot;comment_count&quot;:53,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>Colonel John Beaty predicted it, documented its rise, documented the early censorship&#8230; And identified who, how, and why people would be censored for the next 80 years. IN 1951!</p><p>And he Identified this with Jewish influence networks and ideological circles cornering the market on Film, Publishing, and Television.</p><p>Now you may object to his theory&#8230; but the simple fact is he predicted EXACTLY that antisemitism, Jewish involvement in Bolshevism, &#8220;Discrimination&#8221;, and Jewish WW2 deaths would be the subject of the the fiercest censorship&#8230;. At a time when this was not at all Obvious.</p><p>In 1951 you might logically think that Anti-communist McCarthyist censorship might dominate US media. Or that the Existing Hay&#8217;s Code enforcing restrictions on sexual content might simply expand into a hyper-puritanism. Even Brown vs. Board was still years away&#8230; you might logically think in 1951 that the US government might conclude that questioning Jim Crow or racial agitation would be too destabilizing and ban it.</p><p>Instead in 1951 Colonel Beaty predicted that Anti-Semitism and leftist sacred cows, something on no American&#8217;s radar, would become the subject of the most aggressive censorship regime in American history, he accurately predicted that this would be carried out not by the government, but by the network of owners, producers, and financiers of Jewish heritage cornering the market on the industrial means of mass media distribution.</p><p>And he named the individuals actually implementing it. He described this Jewish/Leftist censorship regime as an &#8220;Iron Curtain Over America&#8221;.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>What he did not predict however! Was that &#8220;dissident&#8221; Jewish intellectuals professing right wing ideologies would be astroturfed, given wildly fortunate breaks, given kushy jobs in academia and elsewhere, and tolerated to say things that any Gentile would lose his Job over. To this day you can hear boomer and Gen X pundits &#8220;This thinker&#8217;s so important BECAUSE HE&#8217;S JEWISH, and that lets him criticize them&#8221;&#8230; No, THEY LET Jewish pundits criticize Leftism, Israel,  Antidiscrimination, what have you because they believe, either implicitly or with explicit assurance,  that such a Jewish pundit even professing &#8220;Far Right&#8221; values, will have ultimate loyalty to their ethnicity.</p><p>And indeed they consistently do. </p><p>Thus figures like Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Walter Block, etc. Are consistently allowed to criticize communism in the harshest of terms because they never under any circumstance identify the Ethnic component that all pre-war anti-communists identified as the core factor of Marxist-Leninism (two Jews). </p><h6>Lenin&#8217;s paternal grandfather was Jewish. Saying he&#8217;s not ethnically Jewish is like say the Prince of Wales&#8217; son in not a Royal&#8230; he&#8217;s in direct line of descent!</h6><p>.</p><p>All these supposedly vehement anti-communists have never and will never use the 1920s right wing term for communist subversion &#8220;Judeo-Bolshevism&#8221;&#8230; either out of malice, or personal ethnic embarassment they&#8217;re keen to obscure the fundamental ethnic character of basically every communist revolution (not just the one&#8217;s led by Jews, the Cuban and Vietnamese revolutions were highly ethnic), as were the American communists of the 20s through 70s&#8230; indeed their focus on economic theory, basically exists to obscure this timeless tribal struggle.</p><p>Likewise despite preaching anti-discrimination and multi-ethnic universalism in America, in direct contradiction of the actual Founder&#8217;s own explicit words&#8230; A shocking percentage of Jewish libertarians (yes &#8220;not all&#8221;) are avowed Zionists! Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Walter Block all publicly opposed American Segregation&#8230; but had nothing but praise for the segregationist regime of Israel.</p><p>.</p><p>This is why EVERY SINGLE mainstream Right Wing ideology seems to be dominated by a 40-80% Jewish influencer and intellectual class, despite Jews making up only 2% of the American population.</p><p>There is extraordinary ethnic nepotism, subsidization, favoritism, toleration of variation from American Taboos&#8230; Etc. If you are Jewish.</p><p>Whereas if you are a Gentile, all those Jewish owned and controlled institutions of Legacy media inherently see you as a threat, and inherently suspect that you are an Antisemite or Fascist hiding your power-level because good Goys don&#8217;t become Patriots and Right Wingers. And they&#8217;ll be damned if they let some Goyish Nazi have a platform at their Television station, university or publishing house.</p><p>Thus the EXACT SAME ARGUMENTS. THE EXACT SAME WORDS might be spoken by a Jewish Right Wing intellectual on legacy media from 1950-2025 with maybe a kerfuffle but almost never long term career impact&#8230; whereas when spoken in private or published in an article will get a Gentile intellectual cancelled and cast out of public society.</p><p>And people wondered why libertarians, where your authenticity and seriousness is communicated by your willingness to violate taboos, somehow wound up at 70-80%+ Jewish intellectual class.</p><p>Because everyone else was cancelled, bankrupted, and lost their teaching contracts.</p><p>This was by conscious design. Indeed even leftwing Jewish thinkers like Chomsky say that this was conscious design&#8230; They just say it was &#8220;the corporations&#8221;.</p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-goyslop-ideology-the-lie-of-libertarianism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Anarchonomicon! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-goyslop-ideology-the-lie-of-libertarianism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-goyslop-ideology-the-lie-of-libertarianism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><h1>In Conclusion: Towards A New Patriotism and a New Classical Education</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Fs3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe18877db-c3c9-434d-b52f-df0cdcb72eef_458x548.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Fs3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe18877db-c3c9-434d-b52f-df0cdcb72eef_458x548.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Fs3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe18877db-c3c9-434d-b52f-df0cdcb72eef_458x548.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Fs3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe18877db-c3c9-434d-b52f-df0cdcb72eef_458x548.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Fs3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe18877db-c3c9-434d-b52f-df0cdcb72eef_458x548.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Fs3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe18877db-c3c9-434d-b52f-df0cdcb72eef_458x548.png" width="458" height="548" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e18877db-c3c9-434d-b52f-df0cdcb72eef_458x548.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:548,&quot;width&quot;:458,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Fs3!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe18877db-c3c9-434d-b52f-df0cdcb72eef_458x548.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Fs3!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe18877db-c3c9-434d-b52f-df0cdcb72eef_458x548.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Fs3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe18877db-c3c9-434d-b52f-df0cdcb72eef_458x548.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Fs3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe18877db-c3c9-434d-b52f-df0cdcb72eef_458x548.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Libertarianism is NOT America&#8217;s founding ideology.</p><p>Indeed if you ever point to any of the founder&#8217;s actual policies:</p><p>-Scalp Bounties on violent Indian tribes (Analogous to Illegals with ICE Detainers)<br>-Restricting the Franchise to Male Landowners<br>-Zero state provided welfare<br>-Slavery for African Americans who haven&#8217;t been explicitly freed as someone able to provide for themselves<br>-Zero Police Force (New York City didn&#8217;t get a police force until 1845), all disputes decided private dueling, deputized posses, open bounties, or Militia deployments<br>-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790">Restricting Naturalization to &#8220;Free white persons&#8221;</a></p><p>Or doing away with all Desegregation Era made up &#8220;rights&#8221; such as: </p><p>-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_v._Alabama">The &#8220;Right&#8221; to have an attorney paid for out of state coffers</a><br>-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_v._Wainwright">The &#8220;Right&#8221; to be informed of your right to stay silent, even if you&#8217;re too stupid to know what&#8217;s in the sixth amendment</a><br>-The &#8220;right&#8221; to not be discriminated against in employment<br>-The &#8220;right&#8221; to be able to enter other&#8217;s private property even if they don&#8217;t want to do business with you because of &#8220;muh discrimination&#8221;<br>-The &#8220;right&#8221; to an abortion<br>-The &#8220;right&#8221; to practice Sodomy and other obscene sexual practices (which both Americans and the British hanged people for)<br><br>And the defacto &#8220;Right&#8221; to not be expediently executed, but instead force the people to spend millions going through decades of Appeal&#8230;</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>All of these were MADE UP by 20th century progressives entirely out of the Treason of the Judiciary, and bear ZERO relation to how the Founders lived, the policies of the Founders in office, or law as it was enforced in the founding period.</p><p>.</p><p>Yet Libertarian will defend it, and if you point to what the founders actually said and did and the policies they actually implemented Libertarians will reveal their true stripes as 20th/21st century Liberal Progressives and talk about &#8220;evolving&#8221; or &#8220;progressing&#8221; or &#8220;Expanding the scope of liberty&#8221; or &#8220;universal values&#8221;&#8230; betraying that not only are Libertarian NOT continuous with the values and ideology of the Founders&#8230; their ideology is not even of the same ideological Genus and species. And share none of the ethnographic, historical, philosophical, or metaphysical assumptions of the founders&#8230;. Foremost, as the founders and classical scholars all believed, that history is not &#8220;progressive&#8221; but &#8220;cyclical&#8221; that the great concern is not that the Morals of America &#8220;improve&#8221; towards some Libertopia, or gay race communism&#8230; but that American Morality not become DECADENT and lose the manly frontier resolve of VIOLENCE that safeguards a people from foreign subjugation, occupation, and invasion&#8230; As we are seeing now. </p><p>.</p><p>And the thing is the Jews actually got this right.</p><p>One of the Most incredible things is that even as American Whites stopped reading  the founders, and even more importantly stopped reading the Classical Greek and Roman writers the founders themselves had read in favor of various Jewish thinkers Talmudically debating across thousands of pages how many Austrian Business cycles can dance on the head of a pin&#8230;  </p><p>Actual Zionist Jews in America did what the Japanese did in the Meiji period&#8230; And started reading what works!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Xac!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F311982ee-d5cc-4970-8691-e2a29005703b_287x220.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Xac!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F311982ee-d5cc-4970-8691-e2a29005703b_287x220.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Xac!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F311982ee-d5cc-4970-8691-e2a29005703b_287x220.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Xac!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F311982ee-d5cc-4970-8691-e2a29005703b_287x220.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Xac!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F311982ee-d5cc-4970-8691-e2a29005703b_287x220.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Xac!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F311982ee-d5cc-4970-8691-e2a29005703b_287x220.jpeg" width="287" height="220" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/311982ee-d5cc-4970-8691-e2a29005703b_287x220.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:220,&quot;width&quot;:287,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Xac!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F311982ee-d5cc-4970-8691-e2a29005703b_287x220.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Xac!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F311982ee-d5cc-4970-8691-e2a29005703b_287x220.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Xac!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F311982ee-d5cc-4970-8691-e2a29005703b_287x220.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Xac!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F311982ee-d5cc-4970-8691-e2a29005703b_287x220.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Leo Strauss</figcaption></figure></div><p>At the same time Communist Jews in American education were &#8220;decolonizing the classroom&#8221;&#8230; Zionists like Leo Strauss and the Neo-Cons started reading Machiavelli, Hobbes, Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Livy, Plutarch, Tacitus, Caesar, Deo, and all the Classical writers the American founders had on their bookshelves.</p><p>My edition of &#8220;The Landmark Thucydides&#8221; has a Donald Kagan Quote on the back promoting it&#8230; Who is Donald Kagan? He&#8217;s a Lithuanian-American Jewish Professor of Greek History at Yale&#8230; He&#8217;s also the Father of Arch Neo-Conservative Robert Kagan and Father-in-law to Robert&#8217;s wife Former Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NAXw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F763d9a1e-b462-4875-8dce-3ef5c9c7498c_1111x401.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NAXw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F763d9a1e-b462-4875-8dce-3ef5c9c7498c_1111x401.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NAXw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F763d9a1e-b462-4875-8dce-3ef5c9c7498c_1111x401.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NAXw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F763d9a1e-b462-4875-8dce-3ef5c9c7498c_1111x401.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NAXw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F763d9a1e-b462-4875-8dce-3ef5c9c7498c_1111x401.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NAXw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F763d9a1e-b462-4875-8dce-3ef5c9c7498c_1111x401.png" width="1111" height="401" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/763d9a1e-b462-4875-8dce-3ef5c9c7498c_1111x401.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:401,&quot;width&quot;:1111,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:212283,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/185750965?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F763d9a1e-b462-4875-8dce-3ef5c9c7498c_1111x401.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NAXw!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F763d9a1e-b462-4875-8dce-3ef5c9c7498c_1111x401.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NAXw!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F763d9a1e-b462-4875-8dce-3ef5c9c7498c_1111x401.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NAXw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F763d9a1e-b462-4875-8dce-3ef5c9c7498c_1111x401.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NAXw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F763d9a1e-b462-4875-8dce-3ef5c9c7498c_1111x401.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>At the same time the Libertarians were disappearing down rabbit-holes of Economics and Legal theory, the Neo-Cons and Arch-Zionists trying to secure the state of Israel and Israeli-American relations were obsessively studying the exact same Classical texts the Founders themselves had all read and poured over.</p><p>Many of these people have read the entirety of Thucydides IN GREEK, and Livy IN LATIN &#8230;  and could, off the cuff, volunteer an interesting and unique Critique of George Washington&#8217;s identification with Cincinnatus, Rome&#8217;s Reluctant Farmer-Dictator citing from memory oddities of Cincinnatus&#8217; life not otherwise found in secondary texts. So BURIED in classical texts were this school of highly successful Neo-con conservatives.</p><p>Indeed you yourselves probably follow one such figure&#8230; <a href="https://www.bronzeagepervert.yoga/">Costin Alamariu, better known as Bronze Age Pervert</a>&#8230; Is himself a Ph.D of Classics from the Straussian tradition and in addition to poorly imitating a Russian accent, he&#8217;s a Romanian Jew who can read and recite Homeric Ancient Greek with an admirably melodic Dactylic Hexameter verse tempo.</p><p>It&#8217;s really weird that the only prominent RW Twitter personality who can do that is Jewish. (I can&#8217;t)</p><p>.</p><p>So did these Neo-Cons&#8217; and Straussian Zionists read all these classical texts informed by a love of the American founders and a newfound appreciation for the True non-cucked non-lolbert tradition of American liberty? Are the people behind the Patriot Act the true Patriots?</p><p>No. God no.</p><p>I mean, I assume there exist some of them that kinda like America. I&#8217;m certain for many it might manage to even take their slot for &#8220;Second Favorite Country&#8221;&#8230; But these are devoted Zionists and the trick to getting the &#8220;Straussian reading&#8221; of Strauss is just remembering that &#8220;The Ancient City&#8221; he talks about is always the Jewish people and Modern Israel. Heaven help the Melians.</p><p>.</p><p>Rather Straussians and Zionists and a whole lot of people associated with the Conservative Israeli party Likud specifically, all read the Greek and Roman classics from people Jews traditionally consider their ancient ethnic enemies&#8230;Because they work. </p><p>The exact same reason the Japanese copied every European technology, mode of dress, and institution they could figure out. It worked.</p><p>The Ancient Classical Tradition of Power Politics is the single most effective theoretical framework, dataset, and training tool ever devised for people who actually want to win and hold onto real power. And 2300 years after Alexander first conquered them and the Maccabees threw a fit, the Jewish nationalists finally figured out that Alexander was right and the Hellenic tradition is just THAT overpowered.</p><p>They took to the Ancient Classics obsessively not because the Founders liked it, but because it worked. They saw the examples of Frederick the Great, Washington, Napoleon, Nelson, Wellington, Roosevelt, Hitler, Lenin, Trotsky&#8230; All WINNING. Just as the entire European Gentry-class had been winning for almost 200 years&#8230; And they wanted in. They wanted the secret sauce.</p><p>And if Liberty minded Americans want to stop losing and start winning, they need to go back to the works and commentaries not just of the founders, but that the founders were in tradition with&#8230; Not of Free-Market Economics or originalist legal theory, which are tertiary concerns, but the Western Classical Political tradition that the founders themselves were steeped in.</p><p>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UBVh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c52a6c4-7501-4999-822e-6df89b4b228c_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UBVh!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c52a6c4-7501-4999-822e-6df89b4b228c_1920x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UBVh!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c52a6c4-7501-4999-822e-6df89b4b228c_1920x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UBVh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c52a6c4-7501-4999-822e-6df89b4b228c_1920x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UBVh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c52a6c4-7501-4999-822e-6df89b4b228c_1920x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UBVh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c52a6c4-7501-4999-822e-6df89b4b228c_1920x1080.png" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8c52a6c4-7501-4999-822e-6df89b4b228c_1920x1080.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UBVh!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c52a6c4-7501-4999-822e-6df89b4b228c_1920x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UBVh!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c52a6c4-7501-4999-822e-6df89b4b228c_1920x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UBVh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c52a6c4-7501-4999-822e-6df89b4b228c_1920x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UBVh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c52a6c4-7501-4999-822e-6df89b4b228c_1920x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The &#8220;Don&#8217;t tread on anyone&#8221; rephrase of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Tread on Me&#8221; is the greatest longhousing downgrade you&#8217;ve ever heard. A violent commitment by the speaker to fight to the death and kill or poison their enemy and would be Tyrant&#8230; And proclamation of personal Freedom, Honor, and will to fight. Transformed into the hectoring lazy moralistic scolding of a irate female kindergarten teacher &#8220;Billy! stop treading on Suzy. We don&#8217;t tread on anyone&#8221;.</figcaption></figure></div><p>The Pacifistic Progressive Anti-descriminatory AntiWar Ideology that libertarianism has morphed into is NOT IT. And the preening about &#8220;Individual Liberty&#8221;&#8230; Is not a pre-requisite of actual liberty, rather individual liberty is a consequent byproduct of National Ethnic Self-Determination and COLLECTIVE Liberty won through war, daring, guile and struggle. Such as you might find discussed in Aristotle, Thucydides, Livy, or later thinkers like Machiavelli, Hobbes, or Carl Schmitt.</p><p>And you might think I&#8217;m smuggling something in&#8230; That these values and this conception of Liberty that I present are slightly off and that I&#8217;m deceiving you, and that actually politics is some other-way&#8230; But that&#8217;s the beauty of classical text&#8230; There aren&#8217;t that many, only a few hundred, and maybe a few dozen total relevant ones and they&#8217;re ~2000 years old, and some good Translations are 400 years old&#8230; Its really hard to hide something in something that old&#8230; It&#8217;s really hard for Thucydides to know what lie he should propagate to appease the American regime or what political facts of life are taboos that you&#8217;re never supposed to discuss. </p><p>Indeed, arch-globalist Canadian Prime Minister <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_TaVo?si=_SsACkdh65ODDe-j&amp;t=182">Mark Carney recently gave a speech at the world economic forum denouncing Thucydides and Trump</a>&#8230; Classical truths are so eternally offensive to regimes of lies.</p><p>.</p><p>Every single western nation&#8217;s Founding father: From Washington in America, to Macdonald in Canada, to Napoleon in France, to Bismarck in Germany, or Nelson and the Duke of Wellington in Britain&#8230; all of them were intensely educated in the Classical western Hellenic/Roman tradition, the subsequent thinkers that came to it, and their own national heroes.</p><p>That this is no longer the Case of the educated classes is the proximate cause of our civilizational decay.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>We can make the original real ingredient unadulterated American Patriotism anew with the same classical education and reading the Founders&#8217; actual words.</h3><p>We don&#8217;t have to accept a modified food starch, canola oil, Soy-Protein, Corn Syrup amalgamation with a Gadsen Flag on it and call that &#8220;Liberty&#8221;.</p><p>Austrian and Chicago school Economists and legal theorist who have called themselves Libertarians must be politely but firmly reminded that they are a Tertiary addition to the various national traditions 100-250 years later than the Actual primary sources. And that their arguments and works will be assessed by how relevant, accurate, contributory they are to the original values, intent, lives, stratagems, and deeds of action, of those heroic founders. </p><p>To the extend they are valuable and contribute, they will be praised&#8230; And to the extent they have led astray they will be criticized.</p><p>Too many people have read to many hundred pages of Mises and too few single digit words of Washington.</p><p>.</p><p>Whether you think that is a cultural accident, a side-effect of a broader censoring of the founders, or an intentional substitution and EnSlopification&#8230; It is a problem that needs to be corrected.</p><p>PhD University level Macro-Economics and Legal Theory is the equivalent of rushing to Desert, without the main course of what the 19th century would have considered a teenager&#8217;s level of Political Theory, Classical History, and National History.</p><p>Eat your meat and eat your vegetables.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short Take: A Case Study in Demoralization Bots]]></title><description><![CDATA[Follow me on Twitter: @FromKulak]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/short-take-a-case-study-in-demoralization</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/short-take-a-case-study-in-demoralization</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:22:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRtV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sgBf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f5f22b8-35a8-4710-b282-42e74cd3a3d3_653x594.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sgBf!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f5f22b8-35a8-4710-b282-42e74cd3a3d3_653x594.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sgBf!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f5f22b8-35a8-4710-b282-42e74cd3a3d3_653x594.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sgBf!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f5f22b8-35a8-4710-b282-42e74cd3a3d3_653x594.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sgBf!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f5f22b8-35a8-4710-b282-42e74cd3a3d3_653x594.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sgBf!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f5f22b8-35a8-4710-b282-42e74cd3a3d3_653x594.png" width="545" height="495.7580398162328" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2f5f22b8-35a8-4710-b282-42e74cd3a3d3_653x594.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:594,&quot;width&quot;:653,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:545,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sgBf!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f5f22b8-35a8-4710-b282-42e74cd3a3d3_653x594.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sgBf!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f5f22b8-35a8-4710-b282-42e74cd3a3d3_653x594.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sgBf!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f5f22b8-35a8-4710-b282-42e74cd3a3d3_653x594.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sgBf!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f5f22b8-35a8-4710-b282-42e74cd3a3d3_653x594.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In case any of you wanted a prime example of what a lot of the state and NGO run demoralization bot/Indian Poster farm  look like, or how extensive it is.</p><p>This is a poster who after 4 months follows no one and is followed by no one, has made exactly 20 comments in 5 months of basically no substance in that time&#8230; Yet is intimately interested somehow in my personal screentime. And is commenting specifically with details that no one casually following would really have a feel for (Most of my followers go months not seeing a single post of mine because I&#8217;m shadow banned so often) but would be available to a botfarm scraping data, or with access to internal twitter metrics.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uq9y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbc1161-bf6b-4fa9-96f9-534606201d44_508x575.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uq9y!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbc1161-bf6b-4fa9-96f9-534606201d44_508x575.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uq9y!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbc1161-bf6b-4fa9-96f9-534606201d44_508x575.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uq9y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbc1161-bf6b-4fa9-96f9-534606201d44_508x575.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uq9y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbc1161-bf6b-4fa9-96f9-534606201d44_508x575.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uq9y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbc1161-bf6b-4fa9-96f9-534606201d44_508x575.png" width="508" height="575" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1cbc1161-bf6b-4fa9-96f9-534606201d44_508x575.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:575,&quot;width&quot;:508,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:79591,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/184245810?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbc1161-bf6b-4fa9-96f9-534606201d44_508x575.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uq9y!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbc1161-bf6b-4fa9-96f9-534606201d44_508x575.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uq9y!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbc1161-bf6b-4fa9-96f9-534606201d44_508x575.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uq9y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbc1161-bf6b-4fa9-96f9-534606201d44_508x575.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uq9y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbc1161-bf6b-4fa9-96f9-534606201d44_508x575.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">I actually am away from my phone way more often than most people&#8230; My mother bitches and complains that I&#8217;m unreachable for days on end. But this bot doesn&#8217;t know that because I use the Tweet Scheduling feature so that there&#8217;s always new content on my account, and it looks like I&#8217;m terminally online to anyone scraping data. Notice also that it references events years before it&#8217;s account was created.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Notice that no matter HOW active Left wing commentators or Centrists, or what have you are&#8230; They NEVER get posts like this and certainly not from such odd and plainly botted accounts. </p><p>I&#8217;ve never seen any of these snide, passive aggressive, really calculated post like this except against accounts and posters the regime would really just rather shut-up and go away.</p><p>Such posts are calculated not to piss you off and make you comment back, but to second guess yourself and post less. It&#8217;s really out of trend with all posting that&#8217; you&#8217;d naturally get.</p><p>And you see the same thing with cheep demoralization calling you a &#8220;Fed&#8221; or &#8220;Glowie&#8221; or whining about &#8220;The Optics&#8221; or that you&#8217;ll &#8220;Get in trouble&#8221; if you say anything spicy.</p><p>See my latest long-take:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;6222ce7d-4571-4df1-945f-7289bdb956c7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;You&#8217;ve never done anything&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Cry Havoc and Bray for Blood&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10T04:44:58.940Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:183456395,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:101,&quot;comment_count&quot;:28,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>.</p><p></p><p>Likewise this post does not even match the context.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o2zT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34cbe3f8-7345-4def-9e51-740e94011f93_656x263.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o2zT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34cbe3f8-7345-4def-9e51-740e94011f93_656x263.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o2zT!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34cbe3f8-7345-4def-9e51-740e94011f93_656x263.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o2zT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34cbe3f8-7345-4def-9e51-740e94011f93_656x263.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o2zT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34cbe3f8-7345-4def-9e51-740e94011f93_656x263.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o2zT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34cbe3f8-7345-4def-9e51-740e94011f93_656x263.png" width="538" height="215.6920731707317" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/34cbe3f8-7345-4def-9e51-740e94011f93_656x263.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:263,&quot;width&quot;:656,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:538,&quot;bytes&quot;:42419,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/184245810?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34cbe3f8-7345-4def-9e51-740e94011f93_656x263.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o2zT!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34cbe3f8-7345-4def-9e51-740e94011f93_656x263.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o2zT!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34cbe3f8-7345-4def-9e51-740e94011f93_656x263.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o2zT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34cbe3f8-7345-4def-9e51-740e94011f93_656x263.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o2zT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34cbe3f8-7345-4def-9e51-740e94011f93_656x263.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This post is in response to a funny VIDEO MEME I edited with ZERO commentary, no text whatsoever. Not even on News or anything of the sort.</p><p>The video is actually pretty rad:</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;04d086f3-c820-4d38-a7e4-59b3723151ca&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h5>(BTW please download and repost this&#8230;. I&#8217;m Shadowbanned ATM)</h5><p></p><h5>Also Note: that somehow I&#8217;m wasting MY LIFE by spending one hour editing and combining a recent viral piece of UK propaganda with a meme I liked&#8230; but the teams of government employees, artists, programmers, etc. who spent MONTHS making the dystopian propaganda aren&#8217;t wasting their life?</h5><p>.</p><p>Nor do any of the subsequent replies vary from the most default&#8212;fit any situation&#8212; cliches that you could pre-program, or give to a dollar an hour Indian who posts 10k times a day on 10k different accounts via some cheap workflow GUI like Call-centers useso there workers can make 400 calls a day (If you think my screentime is miserably wasting my life now, you should see some of the jobs I&#8217;ve had&#8230; Canada is terrible country).</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bYkY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8f4a782-3148-4f81-8831-0a6ce34eeccd_493x588.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bYkY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8f4a782-3148-4f81-8831-0a6ce34eeccd_493x588.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bYkY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8f4a782-3148-4f81-8831-0a6ce34eeccd_493x588.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bYkY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8f4a782-3148-4f81-8831-0a6ce34eeccd_493x588.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bYkY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8f4a782-3148-4f81-8831-0a6ce34eeccd_493x588.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bYkY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8f4a782-3148-4f81-8831-0a6ce34eeccd_493x588.png" width="493" height="588" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8f4a782-3148-4f81-8831-0a6ce34eeccd_493x588.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:588,&quot;width&quot;:493,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:209202,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/184245810?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8f4a782-3148-4f81-8831-0a6ce34eeccd_493x588.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bYkY!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8f4a782-3148-4f81-8831-0a6ce34eeccd_493x588.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bYkY!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8f4a782-3148-4f81-8831-0a6ce34eeccd_493x588.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bYkY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8f4a782-3148-4f81-8831-0a6ce34eeccd_493x588.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bYkY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8f4a782-3148-4f81-8831-0a6ce34eeccd_493x588.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>BTW Please read my latest article:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;7375ba68-e74d-4b27-a8c2-95974318d8e6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;On Demoralization&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Cry Havoc and Bray for Blood&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10T04:44:58.940Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:183456395,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:98,&quot;comment_count&quot;:28,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>.</p><p>And yet in spite of all the markers of being a bot even at the Metadata level, No follows, No followers, zero top level posts, less than 20 replies in two months, not verified, no backsplash image, not media files  (photos, video, etc.) ever uploaded&#8230;  </p><p>All things that the most naive anti-bot effort from 2017 would cause to rank lower, rank in the &#8220;probable spam&#8221; comments, or get auto-removed&#8230;.</p><p>This person. Who does not even follow me. Got ranked HIGHER than verified accounts with 10k followers in the replies.</p><p>Because the bot farm running it is from a NATO/&#8221;ally&#8221; country or associated NGO, and X&#8217;s algorithmic carve-outs let even something so naked slide right through. </p><h5>Note: Defense, &#8220;De-Radicalization&#8221;, and &#8220;digital security&#8221; contractors are selling invisible products to old boomer Generals and DEI hires in government who don&#8217;t need to produce results&#8230; So they tend to actually be kinda shit&#8230; And if you have a carve out and cheat codes why would you spend money to do a job well?</h5><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Anywhere you see weirdos online acting and posting completely discordantly and frustratingly oddly&#8230; Whilst trying to be low energy, passive aggressive, weakly-confrontational, or whose sole proposal is &#8220;Do nothing&#8221; or &#8220;Nothing will work and you shouldn&#8217;t try&#8221;&#8230; It is a probably a demoralization bot.</p><p>If they think you&#8217;re wasting your time, why are they wasting their time commentating on you wasting your time? Shouldn&#8217;t THEY be employing THEIR time more productively? Do YOU troll the forums of people you disagree with just to be a low energy wet blanket and not even confrontational or triggering? Do YOU go on Reddit, Tumbler, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Just to tell people you don&#8217;t know to stop wasting their time?</p><p>remember most people are high energy, angry, aggressive, and high confrontation when engaging with someone they don&#8217;t like online&#8230; Because they&#8217;re safely in their home and feel secure in venting their spleen and giving themself a feeling of power. There&#8217;s a big internal mental reward if you can get someone to react or crash-out, that&#8217;s fun, you feel like you did something.</p><p>Just repeating limp wet blanketisms that no one reacts to? That&#8217;s not fun. That&#8217;s the least rewarding thing you could do. You&#8217;d be focusing on misery, low energy crap, and probably getting no reply to even give feel-good feedback.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYhA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d169776-d923-4cfb-9579-33c17daf7962_2370x1350.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYhA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d169776-d923-4cfb-9579-33c17daf7962_2370x1350.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYhA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d169776-d923-4cfb-9579-33c17daf7962_2370x1350.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYhA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d169776-d923-4cfb-9579-33c17daf7962_2370x1350.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYhA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d169776-d923-4cfb-9579-33c17daf7962_2370x1350.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYhA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d169776-d923-4cfb-9579-33c17daf7962_2370x1350.jpeg" width="1456" height="829" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8d169776-d923-4cfb-9579-33c17daf7962_2370x1350.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:829,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Yes, And: Improv's Most Important Rule | Backstage&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Yes, And: Improv's Most Important Rule | Backstage" title="Yes, And: Improv's Most Important Rule | Backstage" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYhA!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d169776-d923-4cfb-9579-33c17daf7962_2370x1350.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYhA!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d169776-d923-4cfb-9579-33c17daf7962_2370x1350.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYhA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d169776-d923-4cfb-9579-33c17daf7962_2370x1350.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYhA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d169776-d923-4cfb-9579-33c17daf7962_2370x1350.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The &#8220;Yes, and&#8221; rule of improv is also how people behave when they&#8217;re just having fun, or feeling important</figcaption></figure></div><p>People like to &#8220;Yes, and&#8221; on social media, even if it&#8217;s negative they&#8217;ll subconsciously play up the importance of an account and them interacting with it&#8230; because it makes them feel important if Destiny, or Fuentes, or Radfemhitler really is a threat the balance of western civilization or Our Democracy or the Relation of the Sexes. Then by posting against them they&#8217;re heroes defending what is just and good.</p><p>Leftist activists will call Fuentes a Nazi and develop bizzare psycho-sexual attachments and fantasies of him&#8230; Some of these even lead to violence. You know what none of Chubby Blue Haired women will say about Fuentes though? That he&#8217;s a terminally online 1990s Republican Moderate, that his content doesn&#8217;t matter, and he&#8217;d really get more out of life if he traveled more and recorded less. </p><p>That might be true, that might even be devastating if you could get Fuentes to believe it and actually stop&#8230;  But if you believed it, then how little do you matter that you&#8217;re a negative-Nancy with 5 followers going after a Moderate with a million followers who himself doesn&#8217;t matter? What&#8217;s 00.0005% of Nothing?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg" width="331" height="333.45185185185187" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:680,&quot;width&quot;:675,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:331,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The Conservation of Indifference is an Iron Law. If no one actually cares and it actually doesn&#8217;t matter, and its actually a waste of time, then not a soul will waste their time saying so. No one goes into your room and harasses you to touch grass when you&#8217;re just lying in bed sadly. You have to actually go online where they&#8217;re already online for them to tell you that you shouldn&#8217;t be online.</p><p>Now consider:</p><p>What type of person goes up to a 67k follower account, with dozens of podcast appearances, a large blog/website, someone successfully living off their poasting and writing&#8230; A professional commentator/philosopher with the following to show it&#8230; and Says &#8220;you&#8217;re on your phone a lot&#8221; in the most passive aggressive manner that almost certainly won&#8217;t get a response?</p><p>You wouldn&#8217;t&#8230; If you thought a person didn&#8217;t matter you&#8217;d ignore them like 99.999% of the human race, or if you thought they did matter you&#8217;d try to attack them&#8230;</p><p>Only if you assume coordinated campaigns of demoralization behind the scenes does stuff like this make sense&#8230; And boy is there a lot of stuff like this to support such a theory.</p><p>Now again I just find stuff like this bizzare when it&#8217;s posted at me&#8230;</p><p>I meet Special Forces, Military Officers, Senior Tech People, Adventurers, Major commentators,  Outlaw Bikers, aids to politicians, Tech Oligarchs,  Ministers of State for odd countries, and other assorted people who read my blog. (now if only they&#8217;d become paid subscribers)&#8230; It does not fit the context at all of talking to me. </p><p>If you were going to attack me (which many have) there&#8217;s a whole lot of shit you&#8217;d say Sexual, Political, Ideological, ethnographic, national what have you&#8230; That if you said in the right way you might get to bite&#8230;</p><p>But look at how really UNTARGETED this is&#8230; Look at how you could say basically the same thing to anyone on twitter under any tweet, have a little bot changing the time variable (11 years, 5 years, 3 years, 6 months), and then have just that much demoralization.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Imagine how insidious and cloying this demoralization is for small accounts, ordinary poasters, meme makers with maybe 500-5k followers, how insidious this is for activists  and dissidents who do this in their spare time and don&#8217;t see any reward from it except the feeling of a job well done.</p><p>Imagine how if you had bots tweeting this context-less demoralization at 10s of thousands of your ideological enemies how you could get 1-4% to post less, or stop posting at all, or conclude that what they were posting about didn&#8217;t matter&#8230;Imagine if you were in sad funk&#8230; That you were having a bottom 1-5% day or series of days. A lot of people do their posting and creative work when they&#8217;re feeling down like that, or buried in the darkness of winter.</p><p>Imagine how effective and high reward you could be if you got those people to stop or lose their energy, or just doubt themselves. We have memes and pieces on the devastating impact of demoralization going back to the cold war.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZNE7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5730cb6-1b8c-49db-8805-36f97e9c1c87_425x339.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZNE7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5730cb6-1b8c-49db-8805-36f97e9c1c87_425x339.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZNE7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5730cb6-1b8c-49db-8805-36f97e9c1c87_425x339.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZNE7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5730cb6-1b8c-49db-8805-36f97e9c1c87_425x339.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZNE7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5730cb6-1b8c-49db-8805-36f97e9c1c87_425x339.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZNE7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5730cb6-1b8c-49db-8805-36f97e9c1c87_425x339.png" width="425" height="339" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e5730cb6-1b8c-49db-8805-36f97e9c1c87_425x339.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:339,&quot;width&quot;:425,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:282974,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/184245810?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5730cb6-1b8c-49db-8805-36f97e9c1c87_425x339.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZNE7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5730cb6-1b8c-49db-8805-36f97e9c1c87_425x339.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZNE7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5730cb6-1b8c-49db-8805-36f97e9c1c87_425x339.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZNE7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5730cb6-1b8c-49db-8805-36f97e9c1c87_425x339.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZNE7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5730cb6-1b8c-49db-8805-36f97e9c1c87_425x339.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr5sTGxMUdo">Yuri Bezmenov is a legend</a>.</strong></p><p>.</p><p>This is the real bot and astroturf game, not posting about Trump, not even commentary on Ukraine, or the Middle East&#8230; Posting these demoralizing nothings in a high enough volume that you suck the energy, optimism, and resolve out of your opponents.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Until Death All Defeat is Psychological&#8221;</p></div><p>You don&#8217;t need to out-meme, out-argue, out-fight, out-reason, out-organize, out-think,  out-art, or even out-last your opponent.</p><p>If you can just convince them that what they&#8217;re doing doesn&#8217;t matter and to walk away&#8230; You win by default.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Notice they will say this to posters doing this in their spare time off work&#8230; Yet none of them say this to the paid de-radicalization experts who got 4-10 years worth of degrees, and work 40+ hours a week just to watch and commentate on the poasters?</p><p>Notice they never say this State employees or local politicians or company media accounts being run by Purple Binder Girls making $20-30 an hour to stare at a screen 40hrs a week and be the voice of Texas-Compliance-Solutions instead of having kids?</p><p>Somehow people purely expressing what they mean to express to people who want to hear them on the topics and subjects that they care about most and want to pour their creativity, rage, whismy, knowledge, research, passion and effort into, at the exact moments they care to,  for its own sake&#8230; Those people are wasting their time.</p><p>But the people going through the motions, dragging their feet, lying, putting out boiler-plate, phoning it in with chat-GPT,  repeating a company line, generating political filler, repeating NGO buzzwords, and marking their time til the weekend&#8230;</p><p>Those people somehow AREN&#8217;T wasting their lives.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!htVB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf16f5b5-3ee5-4eeb-9cf3-448b12f27984_2240x1260.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!htVB!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf16f5b5-3ee5-4eeb-9cf3-448b12f27984_2240x1260.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!htVB!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf16f5b5-3ee5-4eeb-9cf3-448b12f27984_2240x1260.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!htVB!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf16f5b5-3ee5-4eeb-9cf3-448b12f27984_2240x1260.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!htVB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf16f5b5-3ee5-4eeb-9cf3-448b12f27984_2240x1260.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!htVB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf16f5b5-3ee5-4eeb-9cf3-448b12f27984_2240x1260.webp" width="534" height="300.375" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/af16f5b5-3ee5-4eeb-9cf3-448b12f27984_2240x1260.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:534,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Social Media Manager &#5125; So profitiert Ihr Unternehmen von einem Social ...&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Social Media Manager &#5125; So profitiert Ihr Unternehmen von einem Social ..." title="Social Media Manager &#5125; So profitiert Ihr Unternehmen von einem Social ..." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!htVB!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf16f5b5-3ee5-4eeb-9cf3-448b12f27984_2240x1260.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!htVB!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf16f5b5-3ee5-4eeb-9cf3-448b12f27984_2240x1260.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!htVB!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf16f5b5-3ee5-4eeb-9cf3-448b12f27984_2240x1260.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!htVB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf16f5b5-3ee5-4eeb-9cf3-448b12f27984_2240x1260.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>All the social media managers could be having sex, playing with kids, or working on a passion project instead of Lying 40 hours a day for their companies in their &#8220;Jew Daycare&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qG75!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dd5fcf6-b4be-48ef-98b9-6d79d6141962_1080x1277.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qG75!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dd5fcf6-b4be-48ef-98b9-6d79d6141962_1080x1277.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qG75!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dd5fcf6-b4be-48ef-98b9-6d79d6141962_1080x1277.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qG75!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dd5fcf6-b4be-48ef-98b9-6d79d6141962_1080x1277.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qG75!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dd5fcf6-b4be-48ef-98b9-6d79d6141962_1080x1277.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qG75!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dd5fcf6-b4be-48ef-98b9-6d79d6141962_1080x1277.jpeg" width="360" height="425.6666666666667" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2dd5fcf6-b4be-48ef-98b9-6d79d6141962_1080x1277.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1277,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:360,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qG75!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dd5fcf6-b4be-48ef-98b9-6d79d6141962_1080x1277.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qG75!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dd5fcf6-b4be-48ef-98b9-6d79d6141962_1080x1277.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qG75!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dd5fcf6-b4be-48ef-98b9-6d79d6141962_1080x1277.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qG75!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dd5fcf6-b4be-48ef-98b9-6d79d6141962_1080x1277.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>And yet you expressing exactly what you mean on exactly the subject you care about at exactly the moment you care? That&#8217;s the waste of life? </p><p>And its not a waste for the people who go around harassing you and snidely sniping at you?</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Again I&#8217;m very convinced that the wider demoralization posting is almost all astroturfed and botted, with maybe 1 AI, or Indian, or Quebecois (There are so many call centers in Quebec&#8212; lowest minimum wage denominated in Canadian dollars) to 1000 bots working on the back-end to try and cover if the bots get into trouble, or a conversation goes 4-5 replies deep.</p><p>We&#8217;ve seen social media and influence companies hire physical people at minimum wage to do even more indignant things.</p><p>So ya I thinks its bot and influence ops&#8230; Classic demoralization.</p><p>But think to yourself? What if it&#8217;s not?</p><p>What if there are actually this many miserable regime-loyal centrist wet-blankets with nothing better to do than go on social media, seek out people who care about things and are expressing themselves, and then pretend to &#8220;not care&#8221; at them or criticize their use of screentime?</p><p>Wouldn&#8217;t that be even sadder?</p><p>.</p><p>But again I think its bots, and I can recall a time very recently when such comments did not exist, and such demoralization was not anywhere in the meta of replies and concern trolling (as The Conservation of Indifference would predict) and we already basically know such things are happening because we have the example of how governments and social media do this to demoralize in relation to violence:</p><p>Read My Piece:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;1959bdb9-cde0-4cdb-954c-899c7cc46b16&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;On the importance of Womanly Screeching&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Cry Havoc and Bray for Blood&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10T04:44:58.940Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:183456395,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:101,&quot;comment_count&quot;:28,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: </em><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:766459,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;17df2086-433c-4439-a11a-12428c3f51c1&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRtV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRtV!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRtV!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRtV!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRtV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRtV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png" width="538" height="307" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:307,&quot;width&quot;:538,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:74336,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/184245810?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRtV!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRtV!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRtV!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRtV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe85e88ea-9742-4b25-a56f-b5b9a6254cc3_538x307.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cry Havoc and Bray for Blood]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the Importance of Womanly Screeching]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 04:44:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_yL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e96df6e-b4b1-4466-a7b2-8b74e592e9c2_923x464.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_yL!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e96df6e-b4b1-4466-a7b2-8b74e592e9c2_923x464.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_yL!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e96df6e-b4b1-4466-a7b2-8b74e592e9c2_923x464.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_yL!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e96df6e-b4b1-4466-a7b2-8b74e592e9c2_923x464.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_yL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e96df6e-b4b1-4466-a7b2-8b74e592e9c2_923x464.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_yL!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e96df6e-b4b1-4466-a7b2-8b74e592e9c2_923x464.png" width="1200" height="603.2502708559047" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8e96df6e-b4b1-4466-a7b2-8b74e592e9c2_923x464.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:464,&quot;width&quot;:923,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:871305,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/183456395?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e96df6e-b4b1-4466-a7b2-8b74e592e9c2_923x464.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_yL!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e96df6e-b4b1-4466-a7b2-8b74e592e9c2_923x464.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_yL!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e96df6e-b4b1-4466-a7b2-8b74e592e9c2_923x464.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_yL!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e96df6e-b4b1-4466-a7b2-8b74e592e9c2_923x464.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_yL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e96df6e-b4b1-4466-a7b2-8b74e592e9c2_923x464.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><div class="pullquote"><p>You&#8217;ve never done anything<br>You&#8217;d never do anything<br>You&#8217;re mentally unwell<br>No one&#8217;s listening to you<br>You&#8217;re wasting your life shouting into the wind<br>You should feel embarrassed<br>Touch Grass<br>Nothing ever happens<br>Nothing will happen<br>You&#8217;re going to do nothing<br>No one&#8217;s going to do anything<br>You&#8217;re an [insert identity]<br>No one cares</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GmV3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad72386a-a99d-49aa-9a25-04236e831fff_1200x627.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GmV3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad72386a-a99d-49aa-9a25-04236e831fff_1200x627.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GmV3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad72386a-a99d-49aa-9a25-04236e831fff_1200x627.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GmV3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad72386a-a99d-49aa-9a25-04236e831fff_1200x627.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GmV3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad72386a-a99d-49aa-9a25-04236e831fff_1200x627.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GmV3!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad72386a-a99d-49aa-9a25-04236e831fff_1200x627.jpeg" width="1200" height="627" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ad72386a-a99d-49aa-9a25-04236e831fff_1200x627.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:627,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GmV3!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad72386a-a99d-49aa-9a25-04236e831fff_1200x627.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GmV3!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad72386a-a99d-49aa-9a25-04236e831fff_1200x627.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GmV3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad72386a-a99d-49aa-9a25-04236e831fff_1200x627.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GmV3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad72386a-a99d-49aa-9a25-04236e831fff_1200x627.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;Marc Antony&#8217;s Oration at Caesar&#8217;s Funeral&#8221; by George Edward Robertson</figcaption></figure></div><p></p><p><strong>NOTE: Everything that follows I wrote BEFORE the minneapolis ICE Shooting of that Lesbian woman. Even the ending. So relating the two and commenting on the specific event I leave as an exercise to my readers.</strong></p><h1>The Paradox of &#8220;Indifference&#8221;</h1><p>Dear reader&#8230; I have a lot of bad takes. A shocking number of bad takes. An embarrassing number of bad takes&#8230;</p><p>The funny thing is, none of these are the ones people say are bad takes.</p><p>When you compose lots of tweets and articles and mini-essays and actual essays, and podcasts&#8230;. you inevitably have good and bad takes, Essays, and Tweets especially, follow a power law distribution. The most important thing in a lot of tweets is what is NOT in the tweet. <br>With a maximum of 4 images and 280 characters, a tweet&#8217;s power largely depends on its ability to reference larger concepts, and bigger cultural touchstones in some unexpected manner, and join them in some meaningful way. Sometimes your risque sexual observation, rephrasing of a Kipling poem, invocation of 90s anime, and reference to Obama Era Urban Food Policy&#8230; All line up perfectly with the absurd visual, and you get 12 MILLION IMPRESSIONS and you can cover your rent for the month on the Elon-Bucks from that one tweet.</p><p>More often however your particular observation involving an 80s Czechoslovak horror movie, Samuel Richardson&#8217;s 18th century BDSM novel <em>Clarissa</em>, Operation Desert storm, and <a href="https://youtu.be/AYC2FUutdKA?si=CukFNv-7ZVIJorsh">3OH!3&#8217;s collaboration with Ke$ha</a>&#8230;</p><p>No one gets it. </p><p>You put it out physically giggling. Conclude that it&#8217;s your masterpiece. Hit tweet. And then it sits there getting no engagement at all after 1000 impressions, only to finally get its first like from some Malaysian who thinks your Profile Pic is hot, and doesn&#8217;t speak English to realize that you&#8217;re retarded.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>This is how it works&#8230; Spray and pray. Only a very few rare things you do are going to be hits, and you just have to accept that even a SUPER-MAJORITY of your best effort, is going to come to nothing.</p><p>Then you quietly delete the most ill-conceived confusing messes no one cared about.</p><p>.</p><p>You know what never happens?</p><p>People don&#8217;t show up to comment &#8220;No one gets it&#8221;, &#8220;Another miss&#8221;, &#8220;You aren&#8217;t funny&#8221;, &#8220;You&#8217;re wasting your life on Twitter&#8221; [as they tweet at you], &#8220;No one loves you&#8221;, &#8220;You never get laid&#8221;, &#8220;you&#8217;re a whore&#8221;, &#8220;you know nothing about BDSM Romance in Desert Storm, nor how that relates to Czech Surrealism&#8221;, &#8220;No one cares&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xbfg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa426f337-0512-4846-a525-ab2d171ef5d9_923x685.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xbfg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa426f337-0512-4846-a525-ab2d171ef5d9_923x685.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xbfg!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa426f337-0512-4846-a525-ab2d171ef5d9_923x685.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xbfg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa426f337-0512-4846-a525-ab2d171ef5d9_923x685.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xbfg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa426f337-0512-4846-a525-ab2d171ef5d9_923x685.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xbfg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa426f337-0512-4846-a525-ab2d171ef5d9_923x685.png" width="514" height="381.4626218851571" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a426f337-0512-4846-a525-ab2d171ef5d9_923x685.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:685,&quot;width&quot;:923,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:514,&quot;bytes&quot;:672292,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/183456395?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa426f337-0512-4846-a525-ab2d171ef5d9_923x685.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xbfg!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa426f337-0512-4846-a525-ab2d171ef5d9_923x685.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xbfg!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa426f337-0512-4846-a525-ab2d171ef5d9_923x685.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xbfg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa426f337-0512-4846-a525-ab2d171ef5d9_923x685.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xbfg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa426f337-0512-4846-a525-ab2d171ef5d9_923x685.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The Czech &#8220;Alice in Wonderland&#8221;&#8230; One of the most terrifying films ever made. [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK_l74cSPGY">Full Film on Youtube</a>]&#8230; My repetoir of references is very eclectic.</figcaption></figure></div><p>When you are actually wasting your time and getting no traction, Not a soul alive is going waste their own time EVEN MORE-SO to sit there and commentate your embarrassment and failure. </p><p>Think about it, No matter how much Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses or street preachers are wasting their lives and no one is listening, you&#8217;d be wasting your life even more so to sit there trying to persuade them of that fact. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Indeed the ONLY times you&#8217;ll EVER get comments like these&#8230; Is when you ARE getting traction.</p><p>It&#8217;s really amazing! Countless times you&#8217;ll tweet or post something you thought was clever, insightful, drole, important, philosophically or spiritually relevant&#8230; And nothing.</p><p>Then one of them Moon-Shoots, takes off to 6, 8, 10 MILLION impressions, 10s of thousands of likes&#8230;, thousands of retweets&#8230; And suddenly THAT ONE you start getting &#8220;No one cares&#8221;.</p><p>I&#8217;ve seen THOUSANDS of comments, &#8220;No one cares&#8221;  &#8220;you&#8217;re weird for caring&#8221; all on the same tweet,  RETWEETS from accounts with  a MILLION followers &#8220;Who cares what this person thinks!? No one&#8217;s listening to them&#8221; They tweet out to a million people.</p><p>YOU DO!</p><p>Otherwise you would have just kept scrolling. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg" width="487" height="490.6074074074074" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:680,&quot;width&quot;:675,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:487,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gvYF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e49e758-00ce-4604-9696-fec2bbc32fc0_675x680.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Its actually really remarkable the amount of effort, collective work, and social organization that goes into this.</p><p>I&#8217;ve seen Tweets with THOUSANDS OF COMMENTS, getting hundreds of retweets and hundreds of comments that &#8220;No one cares&#8221;&#8230; Sometimes these retweets themselves get comments and conversations going in circles &#8220;These people really think we care what they think?&#8221;, &#8220;I know right? They&#8217;re obsessed with us, as if we care&#8221; and if you&#8217;re looking closely you can actually see various followers of the people who &#8220;don&#8217;t care&#8221;, Comment themselves that they &#8220;don&#8217;t care&#8221; beneath their favorite E-Celebrity &#8220;not caring&#8221; that they also &#8220;don&#8217;t care&#8221;, and then follow their way back to your original tweet to say &#8220;We don&#8217;t care&#8221;, before Retweeting you themselves to say &#8220;God, these people. They actually think we care!?&#8221;</p><p>Indeed there&#8217;s an entire MEME FORMAT &#8212;the only meme as far as I can  tell the left has ever successfully created for themselves&#8212; That exists solely to express that they &#8220;don&#8217;t care&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s8DB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17c72862-3de2-420f-84bc-4df815cfff39_501x583.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s8DB!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17c72862-3de2-420f-84bc-4df815cfff39_501x583.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s8DB!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17c72862-3de2-420f-84bc-4df815cfff39_501x583.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s8DB!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17c72862-3de2-420f-84bc-4df815cfff39_501x583.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s8DB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17c72862-3de2-420f-84bc-4df815cfff39_501x583.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s8DB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17c72862-3de2-420f-84bc-4df815cfff39_501x583.png" width="353" height="410.7764471057884" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/17c72862-3de2-420f-84bc-4df815cfff39_501x583.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:583,&quot;width&quot;:501,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:353,&quot;bytes&quot;:96836,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/183456395?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17c72862-3de2-420f-84bc-4df815cfff39_501x583.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s8DB!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17c72862-3de2-420f-84bc-4df815cfff39_501x583.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s8DB!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17c72862-3de2-420f-84bc-4df815cfff39_501x583.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s8DB!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17c72862-3de2-420f-84bc-4df815cfff39_501x583.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s8DB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17c72862-3de2-420f-84bc-4df815cfff39_501x583.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;Giant Thumb Guy&#8221;, Look at us Cool people in our group collective, and you outside it, and how we just barely acknowledge you then go back to ignoring you.</figcaption></figure></div><p>You see you can tell it&#8217;s a leftist meme format because they didn&#8217;t use any wojaks or existing memes&#8230; Also it&#8217;s poorly constructed and uses a redundant three panel format that has been on its way out in memes since 2015.</p><p>I&#8217;ve seen various leftists create elaborate Photoshops of this meme&#8230; Just to respond how little they care, because that&#8217;s what you do when don&#8217;t care.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SKsz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaebef00-c35e-4327-a46a-18d21a321379_889x1175.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SKsz!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaebef00-c35e-4327-a46a-18d21a321379_889x1175.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SKsz!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaebef00-c35e-4327-a46a-18d21a321379_889x1175.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SKsz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaebef00-c35e-4327-a46a-18d21a321379_889x1175.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SKsz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaebef00-c35e-4327-a46a-18d21a321379_889x1175.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SKsz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaebef00-c35e-4327-a46a-18d21a321379_889x1175.jpeg" width="296" height="391.22609673790777" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/aaebef00-c35e-4327-a46a-18d21a321379_889x1175.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1175,&quot;width&quot;:889,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:296,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Giant Thumb Guy meme comic, stick figure yelling at a crowd that gives them a big thumbs up and ignores them.\n1: Stick figure yelling liddle lefty's tweet: \&quot;Strive added a character so now we all have to pretend it's big news. Whatever story ABA had is going to be erased like basically every other popular character. Her design is a downgrade as usual, and barely anyone plays Strive. I already see the bot farms out on every ABA post.\&quot;\n2: Crowd labeled, \&quot;guilty gear fans in between five million fanarts of elphelt making out with ABA, and developing new tech with them,\&quot; gives liddle lefty the big thumbs up.\n3: Crowd ignores liddle lefty as she yells, \&quot;you gotta listen to what I have to say about how Daisuke ruined guilty gear!\&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Giant Thumb Guy meme comic, stick figure yelling at a crowd that gives them a big thumbs up and ignores them.
1: Stick figure yelling liddle lefty's tweet: &quot;Strive added a character so now we all have to pretend it's big news. Whatever story ABA had is going to be erased like basically every other popular character. Her design is a downgrade as usual, and barely anyone plays Strive. I already see the bot farms out on every ABA post.&quot;
2: Crowd labeled, &quot;guilty gear fans in between five million fanarts of elphelt making out with ABA, and developing new tech with them,&quot; gives liddle lefty the big thumbs up.
3: Crowd ignores liddle lefty as she yells, &quot;you gotta listen to what I have to say about how Daisuke ruined guilty gear!&quot;" title="Giant Thumb Guy meme comic, stick figure yelling at a crowd that gives them a big thumbs up and ignores them.
1: Stick figure yelling liddle lefty's tweet: &quot;Strive added a character so now we all have to pretend it's big news. Whatever story ABA had is going to be erased like basically every other popular character. Her design is a downgrade as usual, and barely anyone plays Strive. I already see the bot farms out on every ABA post.&quot;
2: Crowd labeled, &quot;guilty gear fans in between five million fanarts of elphelt making out with ABA, and developing new tech with them,&quot; gives liddle lefty the big thumbs up.
3: Crowd ignores liddle lefty as she yells, &quot;you gotta listen to what I have to say about how Daisuke ruined guilty gear!&quot;" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SKsz!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaebef00-c35e-4327-a46a-18d21a321379_889x1175.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SKsz!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaebef00-c35e-4327-a46a-18d21a321379_889x1175.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SKsz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaebef00-c35e-4327-a46a-18d21a321379_889x1175.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SKsz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaebef00-c35e-4327-a46a-18d21a321379_889x1175.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Now admit it, Can you tell a redditor created this?  Look at the alt-text that came embedded in the image. (No I don&#8217;t actually know what Guilty Gear is&#8230;but we&#8217;ll be charitable and assume its just a fun and well enough written game and not barely concealed porn)</figcaption></figure></div><p>And of course other times their innate violent impulses infect the meme:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3rk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3492408-fe40-4a0c-8664-8a4903aab44e_500x660.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3rk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3492408-fe40-4a0c-8664-8a4903aab44e_500x660.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3rk!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3492408-fe40-4a0c-8664-8a4903aab44e_500x660.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3rk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3492408-fe40-4a0c-8664-8a4903aab44e_500x660.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3rk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3492408-fe40-4a0c-8664-8a4903aab44e_500x660.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3rk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3492408-fe40-4a0c-8664-8a4903aab44e_500x660.jpeg" width="372" height="491.04" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a3492408-fe40-4a0c-8664-8a4903aab44e_500x660.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:660,&quot;width&quot;:500,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:372,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Giant Thumb Guy - Imgflip&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Giant Thumb Guy - Imgflip" title="Giant Thumb Guy - Imgflip" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3rk!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3492408-fe40-4a0c-8664-8a4903aab44e_500x660.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3rk!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3492408-fe40-4a0c-8664-8a4903aab44e_500x660.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3rk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3492408-fe40-4a0c-8664-8a4903aab44e_500x660.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3rk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3492408-fe40-4a0c-8664-8a4903aab44e_500x660.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Because escalating immediatley from words to threats of violence shows how cool and unconcerned you are.</figcaption></figure></div><p>&#8220;But Kulak!?&#8221; I hear you say, in a bout of inner-Redditor cleverness,  &#8220;You&#8217;re a hypocrite! You clearly care too! You&#8217;ve written this entire piece so far just going on about how you don&#8217;t care, about them not caring, about your thing that you did that they didn&#8217;t care about!!! Would you have done that if you don&#8217;t care?! A-Ha! We got you!&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Ugh&#8230; Of course I care. This is fascinating. My anthropological instincts are tickled to the core!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xw6V!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7b822c0-2bfe-4add-9eb0-02fc22129e05_848x480.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xw6V!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7b822c0-2bfe-4add-9eb0-02fc22129e05_848x480.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xw6V!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7b822c0-2bfe-4add-9eb0-02fc22129e05_848x480.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xw6V!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7b822c0-2bfe-4add-9eb0-02fc22129e05_848x480.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xw6V!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7b822c0-2bfe-4add-9eb0-02fc22129e05_848x480.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xw6V!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7b822c0-2bfe-4add-9eb0-02fc22129e05_848x480.png" width="848" height="480" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f7b822c0-2bfe-4add-9eb0-02fc22129e05_848x480.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:480,&quot;width&quot;:848,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xw6V!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7b822c0-2bfe-4add-9eb0-02fc22129e05_848x480.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xw6V!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7b822c0-2bfe-4add-9eb0-02fc22129e05_848x480.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xw6V!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7b822c0-2bfe-4add-9eb0-02fc22129e05_848x480.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xw6V!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7b822c0-2bfe-4add-9eb0-02fc22129e05_848x480.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Simply fascinating.</figcaption></figure></div><p>My working hypothesis is that leftists, a wide cross-section of women, effeminate men, the SSRI&#8217;d, men who&#8217;ve suffered genital trauma, the unintelligent, the weak willed, and just generally those of poor inner conviction, reason, hormonal health, and disagreeable virtue (but then I&#8217;ve repeated myself many times now)&#8230; Interpret their emotions and ideas via a complex communicative social environment they maintain with each-other.</p><p>Their minds and reasoning depends on a group, or longhouse, or &#8220;Community&#8221;, or &#8220;friends&#8221;&#8230; whereas the superior Chad, Chadette, Chud, and Chudette western autists are able to forgo, for extended periods, any need for such a social mental framework or even forego such &#8220;friends&#8221; and &#8220;community&#8221; entirely.</p><p>Thus, like the apex predators they are, these noble solitary creatures are able to rely upon their own superior reason and judgement. Inside of you are two wolves&#8230; and one of them is fallacious and gay, and the superior rational man should ignore him.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g4v_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60ff2a93-b2d2-4932-af0e-40159022ddbe_800x452.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g4v_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60ff2a93-b2d2-4932-af0e-40159022ddbe_800x452.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g4v_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60ff2a93-b2d2-4932-af0e-40159022ddbe_800x452.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g4v_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60ff2a93-b2d2-4932-af0e-40159022ddbe_800x452.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g4v_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60ff2a93-b2d2-4932-af0e-40159022ddbe_800x452.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g4v_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60ff2a93-b2d2-4932-af0e-40159022ddbe_800x452.png" width="800" height="452" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/60ff2a93-b2d2-4932-af0e-40159022ddbe_800x452.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:452,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:291922,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/183456395?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60ff2a93-b2d2-4932-af0e-40159022ddbe_800x452.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g4v_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60ff2a93-b2d2-4932-af0e-40159022ddbe_800x452.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g4v_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60ff2a93-b2d2-4932-af0e-40159022ddbe_800x452.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g4v_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60ff2a93-b2d2-4932-af0e-40159022ddbe_800x452.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g4v_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60ff2a93-b2d2-4932-af0e-40159022ddbe_800x452.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Get the behind me Satan. This wolf walks alone.</figcaption></figure></div><p>However for those unfortunate souls who, via accident of birth, one too many crack benders, or boomer senility, slip below the superior threshold of 117 IQ and above, and instead fall into the midwit tier of 116 and beneath&#8212; Or who develop the crippling spiritual and hormonal condition known as &#8220;Being a Pussy&#8221;&#8212; True logical reason and inner resolve becomes an impossibility.</p><p>Thus their noble solitary apex existence as rational animals ends or never truly begins&#8230; And they outsource their thinking. They pass their judgement from the Godlike rational faculties and individual instincts passed down to them via blood memory from their rapey/homicidal Heroic War-God Ancestors&#8230; and instead entrust their thinking to a &#8220;Longhouse&#8221; or &#8220;Society&#8221; or &#8220;Experts&#8221; or &#8220;Being Normal&#8221; or &#8220;Getting a Job&#8221;.</p><p>But in order to outsource your thinking and feeling to a group, you need to actually be communicating your thoughts and &#8220;talking about your feelings&#8221; back and forth. (this may be an incomprehensible and unbelievably alien experience to civilized rational superior people such as yourself dear reader, but I can assure you, from my own terrified observation of this revoltingly obscene and antediluvianly primitive ritual, it does happen&#8230; they do talk about their feelings)</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Thus we get the absurdities of networks of hundreds of people communicating, coordinating, organizing, and messaging each-other, following links, and returning to threads and tweets all to tell each-other, and inform others, and inform you that &#8220;They don&#8217;t care&#8221;.</p><p>Lacking judgement, intelligence, logic, will, or resolve of their own&#8230; the presence of any sufficient irritant or effective logical messaging will agitate them and beget a cognitive dissonance.</p><p>They do care, but with sufficient social effort and mutual social enforcement they can make themselves &#8220;Not Care&#8221;&#8230; And more importantly, they intuit that by repeating this over and over insistently with memes, they can make other people not care&#8230; Since, obviously, if they saw everyone around them aggressively insisting they didn&#8217;t care, they&#8217;d feel subconsciously compelled to follow the herd and cease caring themselves. It&#8217;d be too socially dangerous and low status to care. And intuitively they experience such social danger and low status the same way superior 117 IQ autistic super-geniuses experience being wrong itself. Just as you would not repeat an obvious lie and would argue against a wicked absurdity&#8230; They will find it the height of moral and spiritual wrongness to &#8220;Care&#8221; about something their social reality has decided doesn&#8217;t matter or that only bad people care about, and they will rally their fellows in response to any cognitive dissonance, especially in the event that it appears to be receiving support or interest from a group of people.</p><p>The greatest threat is that a rivaled faction, or critical mass of people will form an opinion or &#8220;care&#8221; such that the weak willed starts to feel social pressure to accept the offending idea&#8230; Thus the absurdity that the MORE something is obviously gaining traction and has a lot of interest&#8230; the More aggressively and insistently such vast networks need to loudly and aggressively &#8220;Not Care&#8221;.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EDrY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9508f2-4c05-4cfd-95b5-7a3cba56cdcf_780x438.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EDrY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9508f2-4c05-4cfd-95b5-7a3cba56cdcf_780x438.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EDrY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9508f2-4c05-4cfd-95b5-7a3cba56cdcf_780x438.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EDrY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9508f2-4c05-4cfd-95b5-7a3cba56cdcf_780x438.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EDrY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9508f2-4c05-4cfd-95b5-7a3cba56cdcf_780x438.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EDrY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9508f2-4c05-4cfd-95b5-7a3cba56cdcf_780x438.jpeg" width="608" height="341.4153846153846" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7d9508f2-4c05-4cfd-95b5-7a3cba56cdcf_780x438.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:438,&quot;width&quot;:780,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:608,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EDrY!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9508f2-4c05-4cfd-95b5-7a3cba56cdcf_780x438.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EDrY!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9508f2-4c05-4cfd-95b5-7a3cba56cdcf_780x438.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EDrY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9508f2-4c05-4cfd-95b5-7a3cba56cdcf_780x438.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EDrY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9508f2-4c05-4cfd-95b5-7a3cba56cdcf_780x438.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Thus, Like Children watching <em>Dragon Ball Z</em> and throwing their hands in the air to send their energy to Goku for his spirit bomb&#8230; Or <a href="https://youtu.be/xwqj1QCkr5g?si=dPPY0VxdMfo9e2f2">the Longnecks extending and straining to make the sun return</a> in <em>The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration</em>. By the combined effort of their psychic and social compliance, they may defeat the threat of anyone &#8220;Caring&#8221;.</p><p>.</p><p>What a strange sociological reality.</p><p>This dear Readers is what i Call &#8220;The Paradox of Indifference&#8221;.</p><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h1>The Supreme Exception</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zLs8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb20c75e1-778b-46ab-a975-95b04d20d7bf_2402x1833.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zLs8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb20c75e1-778b-46ab-a975-95b04d20d7bf_2402x1833.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zLs8!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb20c75e1-778b-46ab-a975-95b04d20d7bf_2402x1833.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zLs8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb20c75e1-778b-46ab-a975-95b04d20d7bf_2402x1833.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zLs8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb20c75e1-778b-46ab-a975-95b04d20d7bf_2402x1833.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zLs8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb20c75e1-778b-46ab-a975-95b04d20d7bf_2402x1833.jpeg" width="1456" height="1111" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b20c75e1-778b-46ab-a975-95b04d20d7bf_2402x1833.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1111,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zLs8!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb20c75e1-778b-46ab-a975-95b04d20d7bf_2402x1833.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zLs8!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb20c75e1-778b-46ab-a975-95b04d20d7bf_2402x1833.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zLs8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb20c75e1-778b-46ab-a975-95b04d20d7bf_2402x1833.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zLs8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb20c75e1-778b-46ab-a975-95b04d20d7bf_2402x1833.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I was rather proud of my little exercise in anthropology and social psychology. My extraordinary confusion and bemusement that only when I actually was gaining traction and getting talked about by millions, that only THEN would people show up to comment that they &#8220;Don&#8217;t Care&#8221; now had an explanation.</p><p>This also explained several in person conversations across the years where after an extended and decent enough conversation, I&#8217;d finally get my interlocutor in a true lock where they&#8217;d have to admit I was right, and accept my conclusion, or abandon one of their core values&#8230; Only for them to suddenly and finally insist &#8220;I don&#8217;t care&#8221;, in an animated and angry manner that immediately communicated they did care, implied you were some freak who was &#8220;obsessed&#8221;, and they deeply resented you for damaging their comfort and beliefs&#8230; (Now, too be fair, at least one or two times I was genuinely autistically pestering the person, but this was very much the minority of instances&#8230; They just couldn&#8217;t deal with facts and logic).</p><p>The conclusion was tidy, simple, amazingly funny, and really quite explanatory once you started looking for it.</p><p>The Paradox of indifference: That the &#8220;Appeal to Triviality&#8221; or &#8220;Appeal to Indifference&#8221; is a marker of attempted social manipulation and status regulation, and conveys not indifference, but indeed DEEP CONCERN. The unconcern expressed is always ANTI-CORRELATED with how concerned the speaker is. </p><p>If they really didn&#8217;t care, they would not be commenting on the matter. In the same way I&#8217;m sure that none of my readers troll the <em>Harry Potter</em> Erotica Forums to tell horny femcel shut ins that they&#8217;re completely delusional freaks, and no one cares about their stupid Luna-Lupin fanfic. You&#8217;d have to really CARE about <em>Harry Potter</em> Erotica to do that. Besides you don&#8217;t need to do it because it&#8217;s already so stupid it doesn&#8217;t warrant such a comment&#8230; I mean her name is a Moon and he is a Werewolf. How the hell is that going to work Cindy?!</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Yet if you are in the Online Right you might notice there is a major exception to this. An instance in which you get immediate pushback, immediate insistence that no one is listening. Immediate insistence that no one respects your opinion. Immediate insistence that no one cares&#8230;</p><p>Even when your take or comment is poorly formed and you&#8217;d be otherwise inclined to conclude that no one was listening.</p><p>It doesn&#8217;t matter  if you flare out at 100 impressions and zero likes, and no retweets&#8230; People will show up to comment anyway that &#8220;No one cares&#8221; or something to the effects, seemingly in violation of all laws of sociology, the algorithm, and convervation of attention and energy&#8230;  If your comment at all touches on violence.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Mention violence AT ALL or hint towards kinetic action in some manner, and no matter how little engagement you were getting or how completely cold and silent the internet and algorithm were towards you that day&#8230; 3 characters will show up.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OMHo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87b71375-2354-41cc-b1e8-4bf63692dbc7_766x636.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OMHo!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87b71375-2354-41cc-b1e8-4bf63692dbc7_766x636.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OMHo!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87b71375-2354-41cc-b1e8-4bf63692dbc7_766x636.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OMHo!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87b71375-2354-41cc-b1e8-4bf63692dbc7_766x636.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OMHo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87b71375-2354-41cc-b1e8-4bf63692dbc7_766x636.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OMHo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87b71375-2354-41cc-b1e8-4bf63692dbc7_766x636.jpeg" width="422" height="350.38120104438644" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/87b71375-2354-41cc-b1e8-4bf63692dbc7_766x636.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:636,&quot;width&quot;:766,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:422,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Glowjak | Know Your Meme&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Glowjak | Know Your Meme" title="Glowjak | Know Your Meme" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OMHo!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87b71375-2354-41cc-b1e8-4bf63692dbc7_766x636.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OMHo!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87b71375-2354-41cc-b1e8-4bf63692dbc7_766x636.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OMHo!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87b71375-2354-41cc-b1e8-4bf63692dbc7_766x636.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OMHo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87b71375-2354-41cc-b1e8-4bf63692dbc7_766x636.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>A Paranoiac will show up to accuse you of being a Fed or Glowie; a leftist or centrist will show up to tell you &#8220;You&#8217;ll do nothing&#8221;, &#8220;No one will do anything&#8221;, &#8220;Keep posting from your mom&#8217;s basement&#8221;; and some blackpiller will show-up to say something like &#8220;If only they would! But [the Jews/Society/Christianity/Comfort] has brainwashed too many. It&#8217;ll never happen. We have no choice but to sit back and watch the world die.&#8221;</p><p>And these are common enough sentiments or patterns of thought that you&#8217;d usually dismiss them as someone restating what others have said a million times&#8230;</p><p>Unless you already knew about <strong>The Paradox of Indifference</strong>, and had a large enough platform to have an intimate feel for how crowds and forums respond to tweets and posts, you almost certainly wouldn&#8217;t notice this&#8230; When you have a small account there&#8217;s a lot of noise to that signal.</p><h6>When I was Smaller account I&#8217;d repost the exact same twitter threads (which looking back some were really slop-grade) and it&#8217;d be really random, some would die immediately and get no engagement, and then other times the exact same thread (being reposted! After your giga-fans have already seen it) would go to 6 million impressions just off randomness&#8230; When you have only a few hundred or 1000 followers, it&#8217;s just way more random what does and doesn&#8217;t get engagement&#8230; Whether or not a &#8220;larger account&#8221; of 5k followers, retweets or doesn&#8217;t has a way bigger effect&#8230; It&#8217;s way harder to notice trends or objective quality when your small and depending on that first 20 impressions.</h6><p>.</p><p>But now that I&#8217;m a larger account It&#8217;s really easy to see what is and isn&#8217;t organic or what does and doesn&#8217;t match the dataset of what you&#8217;ve seen before&#8230; And basically none of the Glowie Demoralization strikes me as organic.</p><p>It&#8217;s way too consistent on things that should not generate a response. Again, I have A LOT of bad takes. For all the good Tweets that go out that I assume a lot of my followers see and like, there&#8217;s a LOT of ill conceived garbage that gets no response from anyone, that I quickly realize is ill conceived and delete&#8230; AND YET consistently, anything that touches on violence&#8230; No matter how little reach it generates, or how little engagement it gets, always&#8230; Always&#8230; ALWAYS. Somehow generates a &#8220;glowie&#8221;, a &#8220;you won&#8217;t do shit&#8221;, and a blackpiller.</p><p>Indeed I&#8217;m not the only one who&#8217;s noticed this&#8230;. The obscure Hacker known as 4chan has philosophized about this phenomenon on and off for the past decade or so.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V08v!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea0aab1e-7e94-4017-8a34-9aa61cee2dd9_1024x837.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V08v!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea0aab1e-7e94-4017-8a34-9aa61cee2dd9_1024x837.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V08v!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea0aab1e-7e94-4017-8a34-9aa61cee2dd9_1024x837.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V08v!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea0aab1e-7e94-4017-8a34-9aa61cee2dd9_1024x837.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V08v!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea0aab1e-7e94-4017-8a34-9aa61cee2dd9_1024x837.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V08v!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea0aab1e-7e94-4017-8a34-9aa61cee2dd9_1024x837.jpeg" width="1024" height="837" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ea0aab1e-7e94-4017-8a34-9aa61cee2dd9_1024x837.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:837,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V08v!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea0aab1e-7e94-4017-8a34-9aa61cee2dd9_1024x837.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V08v!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea0aab1e-7e94-4017-8a34-9aa61cee2dd9_1024x837.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V08v!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea0aab1e-7e94-4017-8a34-9aa61cee2dd9_1024x837.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V08v!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea0aab1e-7e94-4017-8a34-9aa61cee2dd9_1024x837.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Anarchonomicon! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p></p><p>Indeed i wish i could find the original (link if you have it, I&#8217;ll edit it in and sing your praises) but there was even a famous post from a self-declared actual glowie &#8220;DeRadicalization Expert&#8221; who was a regular racist 4channer in his free time.</p><p>In the post he said that basically the entire De-Radicalization sphere was run by women, boomers, and foreigners (this is where the feds stuff their Nepo-babies and  DEI hires while white guys do important things)&#8230; And most all of them have zero sense of humor or real counter-cultural awareness. Allegedly it takes them forever to interpret the most basic memes and jokes&#8230; And every single attempt at actually manipulating the young online right has basically failed. This probably won&#8217;t shock you, but directing or manipulating the online right, and especially the Far-Right is basically like herding cats. Even with the strongest bot-ing efforts and possibly millions in expenditures&#8230; they&#8217;ve never gotten really anything to take off or manipulate the online right. (With the probable exception of QAnon, which was someone claiming to be a Federal agent and really only boomers and non-internet natives fell for).</p><p>However there was one exception this self-declared glowie identified&#8230; The glowies realized they could make the online right fight each-other, by themselves accusing people of being Feds and Glowies.</p><p>That the only thing they could consistently do is make the unherdable cats act ever more like unherdable cats&#8230;</p><p>Which in itself is devastating enough.</p><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h1>Effective Political Movements Use Violent Rhetoric</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IAkt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc83b197-7923-4a84-9c72-52fcdc690461_507x705.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IAkt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc83b197-7923-4a84-9c72-52fcdc690461_507x705.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IAkt!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc83b197-7923-4a84-9c72-52fcdc690461_507x705.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IAkt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc83b197-7923-4a84-9c72-52fcdc690461_507x705.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IAkt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc83b197-7923-4a84-9c72-52fcdc690461_507x705.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IAkt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc83b197-7923-4a84-9c72-52fcdc690461_507x705.png" width="401" height="557.603550295858" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc83b197-7923-4a84-9c72-52fcdc690461_507x705.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:705,&quot;width&quot;:507,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:401,&quot;bytes&quot;:370754,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/183456395?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc83b197-7923-4a84-9c72-52fcdc690461_507x705.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IAkt!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc83b197-7923-4a84-9c72-52fcdc690461_507x705.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IAkt!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc83b197-7923-4a84-9c72-52fcdc690461_507x705.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IAkt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc83b197-7923-4a84-9c72-52fcdc690461_507x705.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IAkt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc83b197-7923-4a84-9c72-52fcdc690461_507x705.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The Charlie Kirk Shooting celebrations were amazing anthropological studies.</figcaption></figure></div><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;Ah Yes. Heer ve may zee zee scweeching vwite vwoman in herr natural habitat of zee social media &#8230; Prwactacing her twraditional mating cwall, Of rwevelling in zee blood of a swlain apex male. She twies to wure her desirwed wvarlike mate awvay from zee &#8220;boy-pussy&#8221; vwich has &#8220;trwans&#8221;-fixed him (pardon ze pun), sadly howevwer she vill not succeed&#8230; due to zee polution from zee Xenoestrogens, und zee SSRIs, und zee disturbances of zee &#8220;Feds&#8221;, ze twaditional vwite mating rituals have become more und more stwained and perwilwous ewery year. Her wvomb is weft barwen und her fwustrated arouwal wvasted on zee &#8220;Litewary ewotica&#8221; und zee ever more ewaborate pwastic monstwocities.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>I am convinced that a significant percentage&#8230; Likely a MAJORITY of all the  &#8220;Glowie&#8221;, &#8220;You won&#8217;t do shit&#8221;, &#8220;We can&#8217;t do anything&#8221; posting&#8230; is actually the result of federal bot farms and internal Manipulation systems run by Twitter and other forums. </p><p>Despite how paranoid, self-sabotaging, defeatist, and preeningly morally-faggotous the average &#8220;CoNsErVaTiVe&#8221; is&#8230; I am convinced that mere stupidity, cowardice, and self-righteous uselessness really does not explain the phenomenon of &#8220;Glownigger Demoralization&#8221;. It simply does not match the pattern of any other posting&#8230; It&#8217;s too consistent a response on too buried and irrelevant posts.</p><p>And for any of you who doubt how self-defeating and damaging this reflexive response to violent rhetoric, or mere hypothetical speculation more often, truly is&#8230;  Let us briefly digress through the example of movements that ARE effective in modern politics.</p><p>.</p><p>Whenever I want to see what an apex hyper-effective political movement would do, I look at 4-5 examples of truly S-Tier modern political movements that have out-competed others in &#8220;Republics&#8221; and international politics&#8230; At-least in terms of their effectiveness in gaining and maintaining political power, these are the greatest there have ever been.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ICnJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feca6e157-ed69-4143-bafb-c7e8a4f98081_1024x768.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ICnJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feca6e157-ed69-4143-bafb-c7e8a4f98081_1024x768.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ICnJ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feca6e157-ed69-4143-bafb-c7e8a4f98081_1024x768.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ICnJ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feca6e157-ed69-4143-bafb-c7e8a4f98081_1024x768.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ICnJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feca6e157-ed69-4143-bafb-c7e8a4f98081_1024x768.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ICnJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feca6e157-ed69-4143-bafb-c7e8a4f98081_1024x768.webp" width="1024" height="768" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eca6e157-ed69-4143-bafb-c7e8a4f98081_1024x768.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:768,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;The Big Five - Yu-Gi-Oh! - Wikia&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="The Big Five - Yu-Gi-Oh! - Wikia" title="The Big Five - Yu-Gi-Oh! - Wikia" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ICnJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feca6e157-ed69-4143-bafb-c7e8a4f98081_1024x768.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ICnJ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feca6e157-ed69-4143-bafb-c7e8a4f98081_1024x768.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ICnJ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feca6e157-ed69-4143-bafb-c7e8a4f98081_1024x768.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ICnJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feca6e157-ed69-4143-bafb-c7e8a4f98081_1024x768.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">By our powers combined we become&#8230; The Twentieth Century.</figcaption></figure></div><p>These 4-5 are: </p><p>1. OG German National Socialism of the 20s and 30s  <br>2. 20th Century Communism<br>3. Zionism<br>4. New Left Woke-Progressivism<br>5. Neo-Conservatism</p><p>Now some of my more &#8220;pilled&#8221; readers (we can debate the nature and color) might argue that I named the Nazis, then Judeo-Bolshevism and then just repeated myself 3 more times&#8230; Some real old-school conservative 90s conspiracy cope-maxxers might argue I repeated myself 5 times&#8230; but that is neither here nor there. </p><p>These are the apex players&#8230; The top of their game. The Big Five of modern political ideologies, and if they&#8217;re doing something you&#8217;re not, you&#8217;re just asking to lose.</p><p>So how do these 5 ideologies respond to the Question of violent rhetoric? They all have the same answer. Every one of them encourages it without limit.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>All 5 of them allow their followers limitless violent ideation and expression, as long as it is pulling in the right direction.</p><p>No Neo-Con ever told a Rush Limbaugh or Bill O&#8217;Reilly type to &#8220;Shut the Fuck up&#8221; about wanting to nuke Mecca in retaliation for 9/11, or just kill them all and take the oil, or cool it about wanting to punch their fellow Americans in the face. Even if he might have thought it, actual war-vetran and POW John McCain never ONCE told Hillary Clinton (who only ever served the Commander and Chief in bed (and not well)) that she had &#8220;no idea what the fuck she was talking about&#8221; and to leave it to Men who had seen combat, nor did he ever impersonate Jack Nicholson in <em>A Few Good Men</em> to call Lindsay Graham a Lawyer in a Uniform, and a pussy who had never deployed and had to shut the fuck up about combat and war&#8230; Neo-Cons don&#8217;t undermine the most shameless ChickenHawks on their own side. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M8O!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13e1f0b9-54c9-44cd-a83d-2718cdfbdda4_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M8O!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13e1f0b9-54c9-44cd-a83d-2718cdfbdda4_1280x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M8O!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13e1f0b9-54c9-44cd-a83d-2718cdfbdda4_1280x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M8O!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13e1f0b9-54c9-44cd-a83d-2718cdfbdda4_1280x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M8O!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13e1f0b9-54c9-44cd-a83d-2718cdfbdda4_1280x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M8O!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13e1f0b9-54c9-44cd-a83d-2718cdfbdda4_1280x720.jpeg" width="556" height="312.75" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/13e1f0b9-54c9-44cd-a83d-2718cdfbdda4_1280x720.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:720,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:556,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Bill O'Reilly gets angry at Shia Labeouf - YouTube&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Bill O'Reilly gets angry at Shia Labeouf - YouTube" title="Bill O'Reilly gets angry at Shia Labeouf - YouTube" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M8O!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13e1f0b9-54c9-44cd-a83d-2718cdfbdda4_1280x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M8O!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13e1f0b9-54c9-44cd-a83d-2718cdfbdda4_1280x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M8O!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13e1f0b9-54c9-44cd-a83d-2718cdfbdda4_1280x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M8O!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13e1f0b9-54c9-44cd-a83d-2718cdfbdda4_1280x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">As long as you&#8217;re advocatiog more war you can yell whatever you want on TV. You can openly express your wish to see warcrimes committed or your desire to personally punch named individuals in the face.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Likewise, Woke-Progressives NEVER go after their own obese armchair guerillas shouting &#8220;Punch Nazis&#8221; or &#8220;Resist ICE&#8221; nor do they go after the 70 year old white, black, and jewish activists posting &#8220;Kill All Whites&#8221;&#8230; They don&#8217;t tell sickly 16 year old mixed race girls and 60 year old black women to "Shut the hell up" about Punching Nazis or shooting Trump or ICE Agents since they&#8217;re weaklings who never could&#8230; They don&#8217;t post that the "eliminate Whiteness" 78 year old Jewish professor glows and that no one should listen to her, and she&#8217;s going to get black men in trouble if they follow her advice and actually go after whitey. ANTIFA and the Gay Race Communists don&#8217;t undermine the people promoting violence on their side.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;11ae0c93-2e43-4cbc-bf9a-80262e4e141f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>No IDF member in history, as far as I can tell, has ever posted beneath a 50 year old Upstate New York Zionist lady and told her to shut her damned mouth about Gaza, that she has no idea what real war is like, and she is completely unqualified to talk on the matter&#8230; On the contrary the IDF and former IDF members often retweet or promote shameless American Zionist activists who&#8217;ve never seen combat, and don&#8217;t even pretend that they ever have or would see combat themselves. Zionists don&#8217;t undermine Zionists calling for Zionist violence. They don&#8217;t even tell US politicians to step the breaks on calling for Nuking cities defended only by insurgents with small arms.</p><div id="youtube2-Y6a_sPujvy0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Y6a_sPujvy0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Y6a_sPujvy0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>No communist admonishes another communist that they&#8217;ll &#8220;Get people in trouble&#8221; for calling for violence. And the last Communist to ever call another communist a coward and keyboard (quill?) warrior were some early socialists who bitched and complained the Marx had taken such prominence inspite of not fighting in the Revolution of 1848. After that not a single Communist ever publicly told eachother to shut up about violent revolution. Che Guevera, an actual violent revolutionary, lived long enough to see his image become a symbol of student revolution in the US in the 60s&#8230; He NEVER called the American student movement posers and pussies for endorsing revolution none of them were actually shooting over.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BEKw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c81ea87-d2dc-468e-b5c2-b41a90687eb8_1024x1132.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BEKw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c81ea87-d2dc-468e-b5c2-b41a90687eb8_1024x1132.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BEKw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c81ea87-d2dc-468e-b5c2-b41a90687eb8_1024x1132.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BEKw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c81ea87-d2dc-468e-b5c2-b41a90687eb8_1024x1132.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BEKw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c81ea87-d2dc-468e-b5c2-b41a90687eb8_1024x1132.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BEKw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c81ea87-d2dc-468e-b5c2-b41a90687eb8_1024x1132.png" width="330" height="364.8046875" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7c81ea87-d2dc-468e-b5c2-b41a90687eb8_1024x1132.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1132,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:330,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Che Guevara : de la photo &#224; l'ic&#244;ne | Lelivrescolaire.fr&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Che Guevara : de la photo &#224; l'ic&#244;ne | Lelivrescolaire.fr" title="Che Guevara : de la photo &#224; l'ic&#244;ne | Lelivrescolaire.fr" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BEKw!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c81ea87-d2dc-468e-b5c2-b41a90687eb8_1024x1132.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BEKw!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c81ea87-d2dc-468e-b5c2-b41a90687eb8_1024x1132.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BEKw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c81ea87-d2dc-468e-b5c2-b41a90687eb8_1024x1132.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BEKw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c81ea87-d2dc-468e-b5c2-b41a90687eb8_1024x1132.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Likewise the Nazis NEVER implied any of the fat, aged, or female of their movement were to have no opinions on the violence and street-fighting necessary to advance their movement&#8230; Only that they were to have the correct opinion&#8230; Which is that they wish they could smash them all.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Effective movements do not undercut their own supporters endorsing violence to advance it. They encourage this, because it gives moral support and cover to their actual fighters, and establishes an extreme bargaining position for any &#8220;Mostly-Peaceful&#8221; negotiations they might want to enact.</p><p> Even if the 90 year old Grandma saying &#8220;Revolution Now! Punch Nazis!&#8221; has not punched a soul in her life and never will, and knows not even how to form a fist properly, ANTIFA LIKES having aging old women endorsing their violence because it helps normalize them and create cultural and moral cache, and Democrats like having a violent vanguard to intimidate their enemies and give them negotiating power and a backstop to any of their policies being undone. No Democrat politician is going to denounce ANTIFA, and if they&#8217;re cornered they&#8217;ll do so in the most mealy mouthed manner and only that one time and equivocating as they do it&#8230; And absolutely NO  ANTIFA activist is going to attack the 90 year old lady telling her she&#8217;s never done anything and knows nothing about violence and won&#8217;t do shit and needs to shut the fuvk up because she glows and is going to get someone in trouble.</p><p>.</p><h2>Violent Rhetoric Works</h2><p>And even more violent rhetoric works even better.</p><p>Or to quote Tucker:</p><div id="youtube2-0FGLLRbMoBM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;0FGLLRbMoBM&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0FGLLRbMoBM?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>For this reason I was already 90% convinced all the &#8220;Glowie&#8221;, &#8220;You haven&#8217;t done anything&#8221;, &#8220;you won&#8217;t do shit&#8221;, &#8220;No one will do anything&#8221;, &#8220;You know nothing about fighting&#8221;, &#8220;no one cares&#8221;  posting was a demoralization PsyOp&#8230; And as soon as I noticed these posts consistently violated the Conservation of Indifference&#8230; I knew it had to be the case.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h1>Screeching Women Work</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OXDR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5bbd2cb-2a73-4d63-bd0e-cf4b8de05386_1579x845.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OXDR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5bbd2cb-2a73-4d63-bd0e-cf4b8de05386_1579x845.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OXDR!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5bbd2cb-2a73-4d63-bd0e-cf4b8de05386_1579x845.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OXDR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5bbd2cb-2a73-4d63-bd0e-cf4b8de05386_1579x845.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OXDR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5bbd2cb-2a73-4d63-bd0e-cf4b8de05386_1579x845.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OXDR!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5bbd2cb-2a73-4d63-bd0e-cf4b8de05386_1579x845.png" width="1200" height="642.032967032967" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b5bbd2cb-2a73-4d63-bd0e-cf4b8de05386_1579x845.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:779,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:159175,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/183456395?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5bbd2cb-2a73-4d63-bd0e-cf4b8de05386_1579x845.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OXDR!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5bbd2cb-2a73-4d63-bd0e-cf4b8de05386_1579x845.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OXDR!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5bbd2cb-2a73-4d63-bd0e-cf4b8de05386_1579x845.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OXDR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5bbd2cb-2a73-4d63-bd0e-cf4b8de05386_1579x845.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OXDR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5bbd2cb-2a73-4d63-bd0e-cf4b8de05386_1579x845.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">I was as shocked as anyone to find out the Meme Unit from &#8220;Rome: Total War&#8221; is basically accurate to history, and attested in multiple primary sources and histories across hundreds of years&#8230; If anything Rome: Total War downplays it&#8230;  </figcaption></figure></div><p>The Braying for Blood of otherwise non-violent people is VITALLY important to effective political movements. Indeed its shocking effect has been known since ancient times.</p><p>Germanic and Celtic armies would load up their women and children with them when they practiced their migratory warfare and these would form rear blocker units in the line of the  battles that followed&#8230;</p><p>Women and girls would shout invectives calling their men cowards and effeminate, that if the men lost they&#8217;d rather die than be enslaved, and mothers would shout, brandishing the knife, that they&#8217;d rather gut their babies then and there in their arms than let them be captured&#8230; and young girls would stand with spears vowing to skewer any man that ran that they were more man than any that broke&#8230; And on more than one occasion (Notably Vercellea) their army did break and they followed through on their threats: Teenage girls running their fathers, brothers, and betrothed through with spears&#8230; And mothers bashing their babies brains out with axes.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZAwc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4078444-b5e7-485b-9f67-0cc689a2b8e0_930x608.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZAwc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4078444-b5e7-485b-9f67-0cc689a2b8e0_930x608.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZAwc!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4078444-b5e7-485b-9f67-0cc689a2b8e0_930x608.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZAwc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4078444-b5e7-485b-9f67-0cc689a2b8e0_930x608.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZAwc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4078444-b5e7-485b-9f67-0cc689a2b8e0_930x608.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZAwc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4078444-b5e7-485b-9f67-0cc689a2b8e0_930x608.jpeg" width="930" height="608" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c4078444-b5e7-485b-9f67-0cc689a2b8e0_930x608.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:608,&quot;width&quot;:930,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;undefined&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="undefined" title="undefined" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZAwc!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4078444-b5e7-485b-9f67-0cc689a2b8e0_930x608.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZAwc!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4078444-b5e7-485b-9f67-0cc689a2b8e0_930x608.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZAwc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4078444-b5e7-485b-9f67-0cc689a2b8e0_930x608.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZAwc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4078444-b5e7-485b-9f67-0cc689a2b8e0_930x608.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;The Women of the Teutones Defend the Wagon Fort&#8221; (1882) by Heinrich Leutemann</figcaption></figure></div><p>On most occasions however, this was highly effective, and basically all English, Germanics,  Scandinavians, and some Slavs, are descended from people who practices similar things.</p><p>The violent blood curdling undulations of women are very good motivators. You fight that much harder when your teenaged crush is watching, your wife is threatening to disembowel you child and herself, and your mother is threatening to disembowel you if you turn around.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REjY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F246e1ee9-9246-4b39-9f27-b294c19a8b1e_1600x1047.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REjY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F246e1ee9-9246-4b39-9f27-b294c19a8b1e_1600x1047.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REjY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F246e1ee9-9246-4b39-9f27-b294c19a8b1e_1600x1047.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REjY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F246e1ee9-9246-4b39-9f27-b294c19a8b1e_1600x1047.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REjY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F246e1ee9-9246-4b39-9f27-b294c19a8b1e_1600x1047.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REjY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F246e1ee9-9246-4b39-9f27-b294c19a8b1e_1600x1047.jpeg" width="468" height="306.32142857142856" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/246e1ee9-9246-4b39-9f27-b294c19a8b1e_1600x1047.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:953,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:468,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REjY!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F246e1ee9-9246-4b39-9f27-b294c19a8b1e_1600x1047.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REjY!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F246e1ee9-9246-4b39-9f27-b294c19a8b1e_1600x1047.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REjY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F246e1ee9-9246-4b39-9f27-b294c19a8b1e_1600x1047.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REjY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F246e1ee9-9246-4b39-9f27-b294c19a8b1e_1600x1047.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>But the profound military and cultural force of womanly braying for blood certainly did not stop with the Ancient Germanics or the British Boadicea. Whether Joan D&#8217;Arc in the Hundred Years War, female fanaticism for Abolitionism in the lead up to the US Civil War, or the White Feather Movement in WW1, or the women in the new left and student riots and terrorist movements of the 60s and 70s&#8230; The Bloodlust and fanatical screeching of girls, women, and &#8220;men&#8221; who would never fight in a million years is consistently a necessary part of any political built up to either violence or the credible threat of violence, from which negotiation can occur. Ukraine famously had countless cringe and some dignified, moments of Ukrainian women braying for blood making war promo videos, and vowing to fight to the death (something at-least a few thousand of the women actually did)&#8230; And in spite of the Chud instinct to autistically (and understandably in the modern west) denounce such women as whores and regime shills for demanding and manipulating unequal sacrifices from men whilst demanding equal or greater privileges elsewhere&#8230;</p><p>The simple fact remains that this is EFFECTIVE. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Political movements are empowered and supercharged by the Bloodlust of people who have never and never expect to fight, or would only do so in the most dire extremity.</p><p>Their cries for blood and cheers for violence matter&#8230; because they are basically PRECOMMITTING to give status, standing, moral license, and sexual access to the men who MIGHT decide to commit violence.</p><p>We can see this from the left with the Case of Luigi Mangione. Where hundreds of thousands, if not millions of leftist women, have made it clear through their public statements and actions that any leftist assassins will be treated as rockstar sex symbols.</p><p>Read my piec on the Mangione Case here:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;40c46992-8707-4586-8e89-1e7c67d5f835&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The United-Healthcare Assassin Has Been Caught (Allegedly)&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Getting Away With It: The Art of Urban Infiltration and Exfiltration. Or the Tragedy of Luigi Mangione&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-02-21T03:13:09.702Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53cbe2d5-9519-4f7c-a6aa-70b865f64ac7_945x599.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/getting-away-with-it-the-art-of-urban&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:152862583,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:148,&quot;comment_count&quot;:43,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>This has an incredible effect on political life beyond any immediate violence. It means that Politicians, judges, police, lawyers, media&#8230; All of them, act hesitatingly towards violating leftist sacred cows, even if they say they won&#8217;t, in the exact same manner that politicians throughout the Commonwealth and Europe baby Islam for fear of the credible violent threat behind any Islamic claim of offense.</p><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>By contrast look at how the Right Wing relates to violence. Unlike Nazis, Communists, Zionists, Progs, and Neo-Cons&#8230; The American right DOES NOT encourage violence where it can, hold its tongue where it can&#8217;t, and say the exact bare minimum denouncing violence with mouthed words and equivocations of &#8220;both sides&#8221; in the rarest of instances where a gun is held to their head and they&#8217;re forced to denounce&#8230;.</p><p>Instead RW politicians, influencers, and even ordinary poster run and jump to denounce violence from their own side as fast, frequently, aggressively, and uniquely as humanly possible.</p><p>Nick Fuentes responded to the Charlie Kirk assassination by denouncing HIS OWN FOLLOWERS if they even THOUGHT about violence as a response&#8230; This was before he even had denounced the left for killing Kirk. </p><p>This is why the Right has no negotiating power&#8230; Because there isn&#8217;t even a threat they&#8217;ll even think about doing anything. Indeed Fuentes&#8217; reaction to the Kirk assassination, the reaction of what is supposed to be one of the most extreme voices on the American right, is probably the best argument the &#8220;Fed&#8221; accusations against Fuentes are True, that they so perfectly align with what a government case officer woulld wish him to say.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;38c95f9b-056b-486e-94f4-1a1e7c50442f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Anarchonomicon! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p></p><p>By contrast a leftist in such a position would focus EXCLUSIVELY on Right Wing violence, and even play footsie with whatever violent rhetoric or commie euphemisms they could get away with&#8230;. Or even push it til they were forced to &#8220;Clarify&#8221; that &#8220;Direct Action&#8221; and &#8220; Revolutionary Contest&#8221; simply meant &#8220;Peaceful Protest&#8221; and &#8220;Political Organizing&#8221;../</p><p>All protest, all political action, all Democracy is simply simulated tribal warfare&#8230; And it only works to the extent it acts as a proxy for the actual will and spirit to have such warfare. &#8220;Peaceful protests&#8221; achieve nothing without the credible implicit (or explicit) threat of them turning violent. Ask doctor King.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vw79!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff23d1b54-bea2-48b1-ac72-185a0c889ae3_1242x1855.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vw79!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff23d1b54-bea2-48b1-ac72-185a0c889ae3_1242x1855.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vw79!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff23d1b54-bea2-48b1-ac72-185a0c889ae3_1242x1855.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vw79!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff23d1b54-bea2-48b1-ac72-185a0c889ae3_1242x1855.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vw79!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff23d1b54-bea2-48b1-ac72-185a0c889ae3_1242x1855.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vw79!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff23d1b54-bea2-48b1-ac72-185a0c889ae3_1242x1855.jpeg" width="294" height="439.1062801932367" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f23d1b54-bea2-48b1-ac72-185a0c889ae3_1242x1855.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1855,&quot;width&quot;:1242,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:294,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vw79!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff23d1b54-bea2-48b1-ac72-185a0c889ae3_1242x1855.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vw79!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff23d1b54-bea2-48b1-ac72-185a0c889ae3_1242x1855.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vw79!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff23d1b54-bea2-48b1-ac72-185a0c889ae3_1242x1855.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vw79!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff23d1b54-bea2-48b1-ac72-185a0c889ae3_1242x1855.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>How devastating is it then when exactly ONE half of the political equation and exactly one ethnicity is effectively policed and persuaded that the violent rhetoric which creates that will and spirit is itself illegitimate?</p><p>I Hear endlessly and endlessly:</p><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no chance whites will do anything, Right Wingers don&#8217;t do anything! It doesn&#8217;t matter, they lack the will and spirit.&#8221;</p><p>Really?!</p><p>You think Fuentes had to go on his show and denounce his own audience after Kirk because there was No Chance of a real response to the Kirk assassination?</p><p>You think Kier Starmer is arresting 30 Britons a day for &#8220;Hate Speech&#8221; and &#8220;incitement&#8221;, and <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/uk-men-get-over-2-years-in-jail-for-social-media-posts-deemed-racist-apparently-in-wake-of-deadly-child-stabbings">giving them 2+ year sentences over Facebook posts</a>&#8230; because there&#8217;s NO CHANCE of it turning into real action? The British state is just expending Hundreds of thousands of dollars and weeks of magistrates time to combat random citizens heated two minute posts&#8230; Because they feel like it?</p><p>You think the British state was fighting to get Minders in pubs listening to men&#8217;s idle conversation&#8230;. because they&#8217;re Randal from <em>Recess</em> and they just really like snooping?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PN-j!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fade2ab3e-6e65-406b-b973-535aef1f5cbe_1192x872.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PN-j!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fade2ab3e-6e65-406b-b973-535aef1f5cbe_1192x872.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PN-j!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fade2ab3e-6e65-406b-b973-535aef1f5cbe_1192x872.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PN-j!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fade2ab3e-6e65-406b-b973-535aef1f5cbe_1192x872.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PN-j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fade2ab3e-6e65-406b-b973-535aef1f5cbe_1192x872.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PN-j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fade2ab3e-6e65-406b-b973-535aef1f5cbe_1192x872.webp" width="448" height="327.7315436241611" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ade2ab3e-6e65-406b-b973-535aef1f5cbe_1192x872.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:872,&quot;width&quot;:1192,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:448,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Randall J. Weems | Recess Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Randall J. Weems | Recess Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia" title="Randall J. Weems | Recess Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PN-j!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fade2ab3e-6e65-406b-b973-535aef1f5cbe_1192x872.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PN-j!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fade2ab3e-6e65-406b-b973-535aef1f5cbe_1192x872.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PN-j!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fade2ab3e-6e65-406b-b973-535aef1f5cbe_1192x872.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PN-j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fade2ab3e-6e65-406b-b973-535aef1f5cbe_1192x872.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>No. They&#8217;re Afraid.</p><p>Western Governments sure think baseline chatter is at high risk of tipping over into actual violent revolution&#8230;. And indeed we have a control test that proves they&#8217;re right.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h1>The Revolution Machine</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZkWc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68a7d042-3661-41e6-9898-82d43468309d_1200x512.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZkWc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68a7d042-3661-41e6-9898-82d43468309d_1200x512.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZkWc!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68a7d042-3661-41e6-9898-82d43468309d_1200x512.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZkWc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68a7d042-3661-41e6-9898-82d43468309d_1200x512.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZkWc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68a7d042-3661-41e6-9898-82d43468309d_1200x512.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZkWc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68a7d042-3661-41e6-9898-82d43468309d_1200x512.jpeg" width="1200" height="512" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/68a7d042-3661-41e6-9898-82d43468309d_1200x512.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:512,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZkWc!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68a7d042-3661-41e6-9898-82d43468309d_1200x512.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZkWc!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68a7d042-3661-41e6-9898-82d43468309d_1200x512.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZkWc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68a7d042-3661-41e6-9898-82d43468309d_1200x512.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZkWc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68a7d042-3661-41e6-9898-82d43468309d_1200x512.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Twitter was only five years old when it killed its first governments, and it&#8217;d killed its first million people before age 10. This is eons ago in internet time, but in 2011 Twitter was almost entirely GENUINELY a Free Speech platform, Jack Dorsey himself was running around calling himself and Twitter &#8220;the Free Speech wing of the Free Speech party&#8221;. the Feds hadn&#8217;t even really wised up to the relevance of social media&#8230; </p><p>Then the Arab spring took off overthrowing or starting civil wars in Tunisia, Lybia, Egypt, Syria, and spreading to Iraq&#8230; And abortive protests in about a dozen other countries.</p><p>A lot of commentators like to confuse the initial protests with the subsequent US Saudi and Israeli interferences and interventions&#8230; but to be frank&#8230;. call me naive&#8230;. I&#8217;m quite convinced the original Arab Spring protest movements and revolutions were organic and actually just spread on social media&#8230; for the simple fact that I cannot imagine ANY intelligence agency or even series of intelligence agencies being hubristic enough, reckless enough, and getting approval to overthrow a half dozen governments at once! Not the least because 2011 simply wasn&#8217;t a high risk or particularly active moment in Geopolitics that any were desperate or impatient enough to try something so insane. The first Obama administration was simply not a time that the CIA, Mossad, MI6 or any of the others were shakey and looking to stir things up.</p><p>Put simply I&#8217;m 80-90% sure that the initial Arab Spring (not unlike the fall of the Berlin Wall and Warsaw Pact) was a genuine mass outpouring of protests and public rage across the Middle-East that subsequently got US support and interference. And if you&#8217;re skeptical, we know that these mass multi-country revolutionary cultural events happen because there was no CIA, MI6, Mossad, or KGB to make the revolutions of 1848 happen.</p><p>And at the center was Social Media. 9 out of 10 protestors said that they used Facebook and Twitter to organize their protests and actions, indeed after the election of Barack Obama, this was probably the most immediate demonstration of the sudden importance of social media to international politics&#8230;</p><p>And at least at the time (as far as I can tell) Social Media was genuinely basically uncensored and algorithmically unsuppressed&#8230; Indeed Progressive-Liberal triumphalism probably stopped the most immediate conclusion from percolating into pop-culture&#8230; because <em>ObViOuSlY </em>free speech is only a threat to &#8220;Authoritarian&#8221; backwards countries&#8230; Then Intel Agencies freaked out completely when Trump won at social media hard enough to become President of the US, and they learnt that Social Media will overthrow their fake and gay propaganda regimes just as easily as they can overthrow the government of Tunisia.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>The exact same effect that makes German screeching women, or New-Left easy hippy chick protesters highly effective at rallying and herding people for political demonstrations and violence,  makes Social Media probably the most effective weapon ever devised for overthrowing political regimes and governments.</p><p>This is why censorship, bot-ing, algorithmic suppression, and outright arrests have been ratcheted up to unimaginable levels around the west&#8230; and why Tiktok was forced into sale by the US government.</p><p>Kier Starmer knows that if Britons were allowed to say what they really think of his regime he&#8217;d probably be sodomized to death with a sharp bayonet just like Qaddafi.</p><p>Imagine the thread if Britons were allowed to speak freely?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DZ8a!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8b2ffea-e047-479c-8396-6311fbb6bf8a_809x527.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DZ8a!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8b2ffea-e047-479c-8396-6311fbb6bf8a_809x527.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DZ8a!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8b2ffea-e047-479c-8396-6311fbb6bf8a_809x527.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DZ8a!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8b2ffea-e047-479c-8396-6311fbb6bf8a_809x527.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DZ8a!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8b2ffea-e047-479c-8396-6311fbb6bf8a_809x527.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DZ8a!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8b2ffea-e047-479c-8396-6311fbb6bf8a_809x527.png" width="544" height="354.3733003708282" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f8b2ffea-e047-479c-8396-6311fbb6bf8a_809x527.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:527,&quot;width&quot;:809,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:544,&quot;bytes&quot;:80190,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/183456395?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8b2ffea-e047-479c-8396-6311fbb6bf8a_809x527.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DZ8a!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8b2ffea-e047-479c-8396-6311fbb6bf8a_809x527.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DZ8a!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8b2ffea-e047-479c-8396-6311fbb6bf8a_809x527.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DZ8a!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8b2ffea-e047-479c-8396-6311fbb6bf8a_809x527.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DZ8a!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8b2ffea-e047-479c-8396-6311fbb6bf8a_809x527.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>[Some British girl is raped to death by migrant gangs]</p><p>OP: Fuck this country. Fuck these people. People should just start killing them and politicians for sport. We should give out Knighthoods, Titles, and Crowns according to whoever kills the most.<br>&gt;Reply 1: That&#8217;d be so based.<br>&gt;Reply 2: That&#8217;s basically how British history worked.<br>&gt;Reply 3: I&#8217;m an old man, and a pussy, but I&#8217;d buy drinks for life for anyone who did it.<br>&gt;Reply 4: I&#8217;d name my kid for anyone who did. Due in October.<br>&gt;Reply 5: Congratulations! Hope its a boy. &#8220;Steve the StarmerSlayer&#8221; would be a weird Name for a girl.<br>&gt;Reply 6: I&#8217;d marry my daughter to Steve.<br>&gt;Reply 7: (Replying to 4) That&#8217;s so sweet. I envy your wife. I&#8217;ve yet to find my Steve.<br>&gt;Reply 8: Screw my Libtard kids. I&#8217;d leave my estate to build statues of Steve.<br>&gt;Reply 9: I&#8217;d leave my estate to Steve.<br>&gt;Reply 10: I&#8217;d blow Steve every day.<br>&gt;Reply 11: Shut your mouth slut! Have some dignity around Steve.<br>&gt;Reply 12: Hail the once and Future Steve!<br>&gt;Reply 13: I&#8217;d die for Steve.<br>&gt;Reply 14: If it took 30 years of misery I&#8217;d still fight for Steve.<br>&gt;Reply 15: Pour one out for Steve.<br>&gt;Reply 16: What an amazing guy.<br>&gt;Reply 17: I hope he kills them all.</p></blockquote><p>.</p><p>Of course such discourse naturally progresses until some man or men listening concludes that maybe they could be Steve the StarmerSlayer and in fact they&#8217;d rather like to be.</p><p>This is the natural organic progression of politically aligned, mono-ethnic, open political/moral conversation. Political language and moral language in general is evolved to organize violence, create violent hierarchies, and communicate loyalty within them. Or did you think your complex moral logic and rhetorical skills evolved to turn you into a hesitating self-doubting pussy? Why would that be adaptive?</p><p>The natural progress of any moral-political conversation amongst healthy intelligent like-minded people of the same ethnicity is to organize a coalitional conspiracy to commit ultra-violence against their ethnic, sexual, and political enemies. Look at Communists, Fascists, Zionists, the American Founders, the Jacobins, The Black Power Movement, Football Clubs, the Rationalist Community, or the Peace Movement (Yes, the rationalist community and the peace movement both escalated to violence, this social dynamic is so irresistable).</p><p>The &#8220;Yes and&#8230;&#8221; dynamic of agreeable discussion, improv, and "LARPing" has a natural logical conclusion&#8230; and that conclusion is IRL slaughter.</p><p>This is the purpose of moral language. The only time it doesn&#8217;t happen is frontier societies where even processing the resources they already have is challenge enough, or in the immediate aftermath of violent conflagrations, in which the gender ratios, economic realities, and age demographics are if anything even more conducive to peace than in the Virgin territory of the frontier (no matter how plentiful the fish, game or resources, there aren&#8217;t a surplus of women on virgin territory (despite the name)).</p><p>Thus where-ever you see organization for violence NOT happening. Spontaneous coalitions NOT forming. Wishes for a violent warlord to unite them NOT being expressed. Eyeing of rivaled ethnicities as people to be driven out, conquered, slain, or enslaved NOT being done. </p><p>You can rest assured something profoundly artificial is preventing that from happening.</p><p>And NO not even the traitorous spiritual poisoning and child abuse carried out by Priests, School-Teachers, and Television, is sufficient to explain it.</p><p>Again <a href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/labour-pub-banter-ban-lords">Starmer wants to legally force British  pubs to ban patrons who partake in political banter and have inspections to prevent ordinary conversation</a>. Western Governments with access to intel agencies and analysts are so convinced that mere banter could snowball into ethnic conflict or regime overthrow.</p><p>So why does this not happen on the online right via social media and seemingly quite free forums when we can plainly see Antifa and Trans activists regularly talk each-other into violence that they have  seemingly no capacity or hormonal temperament to effectively carry out?</p><p>.</p><p>Because the government has MILLIONS of bots all telling right wingers they&#8217;re &#8220;Glowies&#8221;, &#8220;you won&#8217;t do shit&#8221;, &#8220;no one will do anything&#8221;, &#8220;Resistance is impossible they have AI&#8221;, &#8220;People are too comfortable&#8221;, &#8220;Nothing ever happens&#8221;, &#8220;But the optics&#8221; &#8220;You&#8217;re going to get people in trouble&#8221;, &#8220;No that would play into their hands! Don&#8217;t you see? They want us divided!&#8221;, &#8220;No one cares&#8221;</p><p>Why would anyone feel compelled to express such canned sentiments for the 10th time? Why would they feel compelled to express these sentiments ENTIRELY out of trend with all engagement metrics, and all indifference curves, and all trendlines and know rules of what makes people engage?</p><p>Because they&#8217;re government bots that exist to suck oxygen out of any organic right wing political movements capable of exercising real resistance, or real negotiating power.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DFNy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4384ab2-2f26-4b97-8110-07fa3e73e58e_400x400.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DFNy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4384ab2-2f26-4b97-8110-07fa3e73e58e_400x400.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DFNy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4384ab2-2f26-4b97-8110-07fa3e73e58e_400x400.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DFNy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4384ab2-2f26-4b97-8110-07fa3e73e58e_400x400.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DFNy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4384ab2-2f26-4b97-8110-07fa3e73e58e_400x400.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DFNy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4384ab2-2f26-4b97-8110-07fa3e73e58e_400x400.png" width="322" height="322" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b4384ab2-2f26-4b97-8110-07fa3e73e58e_400x400.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:400,&quot;width&quot;:400,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:322,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Hold on while I check my glownigger.&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Hold on while I check my glownigger." title="Hold on while I check my glownigger." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DFNy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4384ab2-2f26-4b97-8110-07fa3e73e58e_400x400.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DFNy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4384ab2-2f26-4b97-8110-07fa3e73e58e_400x400.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DFNy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4384ab2-2f26-4b97-8110-07fa3e73e58e_400x400.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DFNy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4384ab2-2f26-4b97-8110-07fa3e73e58e_400x400.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>They are a retardant being sprayed across American and European social media endlessly&#8230; And whenever a US administration wants to exercise pressure on a client state, or Iran, or any other country&#8230; They can just turn off bots or turn them down, or tell them to start braying for blood and calling for the death of the Ayatollah, and 2011 style social  crowd dynamics follow suite.</p><p>The &#8220;Public Will&#8221; is a collection of bots largely hard coded in US Social Media Companies. This is why  notoriously Free speaking, highly armed, fanatical, and disagreeable Americans are somehow the people who resist Globohomo the least&#8230; Because NSA &#8220;Anti-extremism&#8221; experts are really sensitive to any American resistance to their government&#8230; But things like Irish Anti-migrant sentiment or Canadian Truckers fed up with lockdowns and hateful of Trudeau are really outside their attention and they have to play catch-up after they get into the news. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h1>The Warlike Animal</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fnSO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78e66b50-d707-479a-aee8-878c0a35423e_1080x767.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fnSO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78e66b50-d707-479a-aee8-878c0a35423e_1080x767.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fnSO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78e66b50-d707-479a-aee8-878c0a35423e_1080x767.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fnSO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78e66b50-d707-479a-aee8-878c0a35423e_1080x767.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fnSO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78e66b50-d707-479a-aee8-878c0a35423e_1080x767.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fnSO!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78e66b50-d707-479a-aee8-878c0a35423e_1080x767.png" width="1200" height="852.2222222222222" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/78e66b50-d707-479a-aee8-878c0a35423e_1080x767.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:767,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:1786704,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/183456395?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78e66b50-d707-479a-aee8-878c0a35423e_1080x767.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-large" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fnSO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78e66b50-d707-479a-aee8-878c0a35423e_1080x767.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fnSO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78e66b50-d707-479a-aee8-878c0a35423e_1080x767.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fnSO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78e66b50-d707-479a-aee8-878c0a35423e_1080x767.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fnSO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78e66b50-d707-479a-aee8-878c0a35423e_1080x767.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">A Germanic assembly [thing[, by Charles Rochussen (1814-1894)</figcaption></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>All warfare is based.<br>-Sun Tzu</p></div><p>This may be hard for most people to comprehend, but people are really violence machines&#8230; crowds of people especially. From the Assembly of Athens, to mobs of Ancient Rome, and the Ancient Germanic &#8220;Things&#8221; or &#8220;AllThings&#8221; (General political meetings of freemen), to the crowds, riots and protests of the late medieval and early modern period&#8230; It&#8217;s really hard to get any crowd of ethnically homogeneous people together in any political setting without them more or less rationally concluding that they should coordinate aggressive complex violence against their enemies right then and there.  Part of the reason Public executions were stopped in the 19th and early 20th century is because the crowds were getting too large, and the immediate mood of righteously killing someone in front of a group, that might call for another person to be killed, was too concerning.</p><p>Moral language, reason, and oratory more or less evolved to coordinate violence at the group level of a tribe or crowd&#8230; and you can see how much extraordinary effort actually goes into mainstream politics at political rallies and other events to keep things boring and keep more ancient crowd dynamics from forming. This is actually the thing that distinguished Trump, not any especially remarkable oratical skill&#8230; But rather that he&#8217;d just say the obvious high energy things that would make a political group want to fight and unlock the ancient excitement and power of crowds &#8220;Lock her up&#8221;, &#8220;Build the wall&#8221;, &#8220;Drain the swamp&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;This whole system&#8217;s rigged&#8221;&#8230; All things that flirt with the more ancient and obvious rhetorical and crowd dynamics that end with coordinated group violence against their enemies.</p><p>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>And the most effective rally-er of that group cohesion, and the most immediate marker of where the status is to be gained for the people who might commit violence or might dedicate months of their lives to organizing, herding, threatening, aproaching violence, and then negotiating successfully (just like the founding heroes of every nation in history)&#8230;. Is the public expression of rage and desire&#8230; The braying for blood, The cry of Havoc. </p><p>Especially of women.</p><p>At least in the European male imagination, the heroic instinct to organize effectively, form a coalition, stand up to enemies for what he believes in, and fight if need be&#8230; </p><p>He experiences that mentally as an altruistic desire to help people, his people&#8230; And also if he gets rich and gets a hot wife and mistress out of it&#8230; that&#8217;ll be his just reward, but he&#8217;ll let that work itself out with time (it be gauche and mercenary to talk about it upfront)&#8230;</p><p>The reciprocal preforming of daring heroic deeds and the rewards of it are both expressed as altruistic generosity&#8230; The hero charges into danger even when no reward is promised, and the people he aids shower praise and rewards on him even when no payment is demanded&#8230; and the fact that there is no agreement, and either could have reneged or stiffed the other but didn&#8217;t, becomes the basis of High Trust community formation in the wake of their victory.</p><p>You&#8217;ve seen this story play out in fiction, and game design 1000 times&#8230; you&#8217;ve seen sly Hollywood propaganda slipped into it hundreds of times. But this is the organized violence/community formation/mating reward loop of western man&#8230; Heed the cry for help, do heroic deeds expecting no reward, and reap over-joyous rewards and choice marriages from the genuinely high trust good people who are worthy of your long term alliance.</p><p>How easy is it then to Poison this loop and lock western man out of his violence&#8230; by simply fucking with the cry for help?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gCtY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48df1c3-0b7a-45a7-82a6-140b2d597a6b_747x1000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gCtY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48df1c3-0b7a-45a7-82a6-140b2d597a6b_747x1000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gCtY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48df1c3-0b7a-45a7-82a6-140b2d597a6b_747x1000.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gCtY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48df1c3-0b7a-45a7-82a6-140b2d597a6b_747x1000.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gCtY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48df1c3-0b7a-45a7-82a6-140b2d597a6b_747x1000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gCtY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48df1c3-0b7a-45a7-82a6-140b2d597a6b_747x1000.jpeg" width="490" height="655.9571619812584" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b48df1c3-0b7a-45a7-82a6-140b2d597a6b_747x1000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1000,&quot;width&quot;:747,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:490,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gCtY!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48df1c3-0b7a-45a7-82a6-140b2d597a6b_747x1000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gCtY!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48df1c3-0b7a-45a7-82a6-140b2d597a6b_747x1000.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gCtY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48df1c3-0b7a-45a7-82a6-140b2d597a6b_747x1000.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gCtY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb48df1c3-0b7a-45a7-82a6-140b2d597a6b_747x1000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Stop Lancelot! Don&#8217;t! She&#8217;s a Glowie!  (Sir Frank Dicksee 1853-1928 &#8220;Chivalry&#8221;)</figcaption></figure></div><p>If for every &#8220;Won&#8217;t somebody do something&#8221; or &#8220;Save us&#8221; or &#8220;We should fight these people&#8221;&#8230; You get a &#8220;Glowie&#8221;, a &#8220;They want us divided&#8221;, a &#8220;but what about the optics&#8221;, a &#8220;Nobody will do shit they&#8217;re too comfortable and don&#8217;t want to&#8221;,  a &#8220;But the AI Tracking!?&#8221;, a &#8220;Trust the Plan&#8221;, a &#8220;No that&#8217;s what they want you to do&#8221;, a &#8220;Shut up woman, you know nothing about politics and war&#8221;, a Nick Fuentes saying &#8220;If any of you take up arms: I disavow you. I disown you.&#8221;, a &#8220;No one cares&#8221;.</p><p>You destroy the feedback loop.</p><p>Like bucks who, when the doe has lead them together for their battle, are broken up and prevented from fighting by some insane peacenik old lady, or birds interrupted mid mating dance by the sounds and lights of a recently constructed theme park&#8230; The necessary adaptive socio-sexual feedback loop that tell apex violent western men when and how and for what causes to fight and how to gain sexual access by doing so&#8230; All those signals are being fucked with and blocked, intentionally&#8230;and this is the core source of rot in our civilization. </p><p>The necessary orgy of blood, and young white people mating, and the violent restructuring of western society into something non-suicidal cannot occur until we can find some effective means to silence the false signals, route around the damage, and get the rites of spring going again.</p><p>To Cry Havoc and Bray for Blood, in a manner that will be heard. </p><p></p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Ah Yes. Und now vee may zee zee apex vestern vwhite male. <br>Vwhile zee goyslop &#8216;as poisoned many of &#8216;is kind into un hermaphroditical soy induced &#8220;Guay&#8221;, &#8220;Wreddit&#8221;, or Obese &#8220;Fatso&#8221; sexual non-viability&#8230; zis one, vith &#8216;is superior 6'1'' height, und  5" genitalia, und bmi of 28, stands&#8230; not metaphorically&#8230; head und shoulders above zee &#8220;males&#8221; of zee other species whom his traitorous governmants und elderly have imported in a fit of zee narcicism und zee misaplied parenting principle&#8230; not un-lyke zee Cookoo Bird.</strong></em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em><strong>Zis vwarlike buck, zough flabbier und more sedentary zan zee great vwhite vwarriors of old, still demonstrates his vwarlike instincts und ambitions&#8230; However zees are vwasted on zee video game und zee historical media debate forum&#8230; his natural strategic brillience unseen, his vwarlike insincts und desires&#8230; like his sexual appetites, are Fwustrated.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Wreaching into his noble natuer, he breaks zee spell und turns to zee politics und zee&#8220;Wreal wvorld&#8221; only for un confusing caucophony of artifi&#8217;cial cries to greet him&#8230; Some-vwhere in zee artifi&#8217;cial lights und sounds his natur-ral comrades cry &#8220;Join us bwother, vee have great fwighting to do&#8221; und elsewhere zee female doe makes her screech &#8220;Fwight for me oh wvarrior! Zuch disgusting zuitor I cannot staaond. Zlay zee old ones, und zee brown ones! Zhey are 5&#8217;3&#8221;!? Szave me! Szave me!&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Alas, ze cannot hear. For everyvwhere is zee deafening caucophony &#8220;Glowie&#8221;, &#8220;But ze optics&#8221;, &#8220;Trust ze plan&#8221;, &#8220;You won&#8217; do Shiite&#8221;, &#8220;Zey want us divided&#8221;, &#8220;Zee AI zis twacking you&#8221;, &#8220;Violance zis neva zee answar&#8221;, &#8220;zee voices zat cry for help, zey arre ze Feds&#8221;, &#8220;Zey are twying to provoke you&#8221;, &#8220;toucha zee grass&#8221;.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>His bewovwed cwies for him, cwies zat he must fight&#8230; but ze does no hear.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>His nobler eldars, zey cwies that zhis zis not vwat zhey fought for&#8230; Zhat zhe must fight und slay zees 5'3" brown monstrosities beseting zher granddaughters&#8230; But zhe does no hear&#8230; Zhee cwies of zee &#8220;wracist&#8221; und &#8220;zee optics&#8221;, und &#8220;No one cares&#8221;&#8230; Zhey make him to hessistate.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>On Zhis fwustrated face you may zee zee torn instincts und fwustration. Zee instinct for zee violence vwhich ist zee meaning of his being zis torn by zee false cwies of zee &#8220;Fed-bot&#8221; und zee Ju-bird, und ze &#8220;Con-Inc. Cuck&#8221;, zhey have thowoughly confused him. Zhus Ze commits no violence.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Zhe is frustrated. Zis pained face zhow zhat his mood is blue, zee downcast look zhow that his ball are blue&#8230;z he passes un woman on zee street, who might &#8216;ave been his bewovwed&#8230; her hair is blue.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Without a mate, she has taken to zee despewate extwemity of twying to mate vith another doe&#8230; Zat zis ist zee least awful zuitor zat hast found zher. Zis Blue Zee Warmest Color? <br>Mes non!  But it ist ze warmest zees does have found. Zee fwigid dying wesbian bed, vwivh atwacts no buck.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Zhis Fvate ist und lesson for us all. Zis is vhat occurs vhen ve forget ze simple twuth:</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Ze Violence zis alvvays ze anzwer.</strong></em></p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i6GU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad998b15-3cf1-4b08-b56d-b10009bbc275_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i6GU!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad998b15-3cf1-4b08-b56d-b10009bbc275_1280x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i6GU!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad998b15-3cf1-4b08-b56d-b10009bbc275_1280x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i6GU!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad998b15-3cf1-4b08-b56d-b10009bbc275_1280x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i6GU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad998b15-3cf1-4b08-b56d-b10009bbc275_1280x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i6GU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad998b15-3cf1-4b08-b56d-b10009bbc275_1280x720.jpeg" width="684" height="384.75" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ad998b15-3cf1-4b08-b56d-b10009bbc275_1280x720.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:720,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:684,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i6GU!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad998b15-3cf1-4b08-b56d-b10009bbc275_1280x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i6GU!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad998b15-3cf1-4b08-b56d-b10009bbc275_1280x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i6GU!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad998b15-3cf1-4b08-b56d-b10009bbc275_1280x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i6GU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad998b15-3cf1-4b08-b56d-b10009bbc275_1280x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">BTW &#8220;Blue is the Warmest Color&#8221; is an amazing documentary of the Lesbian relationship, but not for any reason the creators intended.</figcaption></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/cry-havoc-and-bray-for-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p></p><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png" width="956" height="693" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:693,&quot;width&quot;:956,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:688734,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/i/183456395?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eOE2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80830661-8fb5-4679-b448-7f9f3b5609db_956x693.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short Take: On "Universal Truth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;You pagans reject universal truth, you only believe in particularist conditional morality and truth.&#8221;]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/short-take-on-universal-truth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/short-take-on-universal-truth</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:32:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ds4S!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F758c3968-3b89-46aa-b77f-b214536b3c95_363x474.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ds4S!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F758c3968-3b89-46aa-b77f-b214536b3c95_363x474.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ds4S!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F758c3968-3b89-46aa-b77f-b214536b3c95_363x474.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ds4S!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F758c3968-3b89-46aa-b77f-b214536b3c95_363x474.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ds4S!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F758c3968-3b89-46aa-b77f-b214536b3c95_363x474.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ds4S!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F758c3968-3b89-46aa-b77f-b214536b3c95_363x474.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ds4S!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F758c3968-3b89-46aa-b77f-b214536b3c95_363x474.png" width="363" height="474" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/758c3968-3b89-46aa-b77f-b214536b3c95_363x474.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:474,&quot;width&quot;:363,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ds4S!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F758c3968-3b89-46aa-b77f-b214536b3c95_363x474.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ds4S!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F758c3968-3b89-46aa-b77f-b214536b3c95_363x474.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ds4S!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F758c3968-3b89-46aa-b77f-b214536b3c95_363x474.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ds4S!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F758c3968-3b89-46aa-b77f-b214536b3c95_363x474.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>&#8220;You pagans reject universal truth, you only believe in particularist conditional morality and truth.&#8221;</p><p>Ok, Name a single universal truth.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p> Gravity doesn&#8217;t hold beyond the limits of mass wells, time breaks down arround blackholes,  physics don&#8217;t hold at the extreme closeness to the Big Bang.</p><p>There is not a single identifiable universal truth. Philosophers have searched for the fount of all knowledge, the unconditional axiom which cannot be doubted or is not probabilistic or dependent on other assumptions... And the closest they ever found was Decartes Cogito &#8220;I think there for I am&#8221; the sentiments of an individual man in history WHO DIED, and is no longer thinking, and is no more. </p><p>To the extent it was true of Descartes himself it was a very particular and conditional truth to his time which he was solely? uniquely? in a position to judge for himself at that moment, to the extent he existed.</p><p>This is a matter of most basic metaphysics, and it could be argued as an outside probability that even this most funamental undeniable truth, was not even true in its core example, if one wanted to argue a conspiracy Descartes did not exist or was a pen-name of another philosopher, or that in his example Descartes himself was not saying it but rather his hypothetical decieved philosopher. &#8220;I think therefore I am&#8221; said the ficitional character. Even this requires prior assumptions and support from less grounded worldviews.</p><p>This for a matter of basic metaphysics that was supposed to assume away questions of matter and physics because Descartes worried he might be decieved...</p><p>then you get to questions of morality and it is plain no universal truth applies, given no axiom is even posited to universally bind both the Christian Saint and the Female Praying Mantis eating the head of her lover.</p><p>All truth, morality, culture, etc. Is fundamentally relational to one&#8217;s own judgement, will, values and closeness to others...</p><p>&#8220;I think therefore I am&#8221; is not an argument that can be used to pursuade another of the existence of your concienciousness... A fictional Character or AI can repeat the words just as easily. A P-Zombie or uncomprehending brain-damage patient can mouth the words.</p><p>It can only have value in one&#8217;s relation to oneself, as a matter of one&#8217;s own judgement, will, courage and confidence.</p><p>Any God or truth one can actually experience is a relation of one&#8217;s own head, their subconcious deep nature (genetic, ancestral, or otherwise), their values, and will.</p><p>If you are not at the center of your own universe then you are nowhere and nothing is anywhere. Everything you experience is particular to you. Why should your Gods be elsewise?</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ep22 The Cold and The Dark, Prologue: "To Build a Fire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Start of a New Series on Arctic Survival, the Human Will, and the Limits of Man&#8217;s Hatred for the Government]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep22-the-cold-and-the-dark-prologue</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep22-the-cold-and-the-dark-prologue</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:23:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/182536463/bbe3d7f3967fe2a412b10cd8e27319a4.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="pullquote"><p><strong>&#8220;I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.&#8221;<br>-Jacques Cartier</strong></p></div><p></p><p>A New Anarchonomicon Reads Series  &#8220;The Cold and The Dark&#8221; begining with a close reading of Jack London&#8217;s Classic 1908 Horror Story &#8220;To Build a Fire&#8221;.</p><p><a href="https://ia802800.us.archive.org/10/items/ToBuildAFire/To%20Build%20a%20Fire.pdf">Read the full Text of &#8220;To Build a Fire&#8221; HERE.</a></p><p>.</p><p>Intro song: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhWy6eVbsUk"> &#8220;The Thing Theme Cover&#8221; by State Azure</a></p><p>Outro: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBYVBJ5bPow&amp;list=RDWBYVBJ5bPow&amp;start_radio=1">&#8220;Metal Gear Solid Title Theme New Remix&#8221; by XendRaven Productions</a></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ep21 H.P. Lovecraft's THE RATS IN THE WALLS]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Anarchonomicon Read-Through]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep21-hp-lovecrafts-the-rats-in-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep21-hp-lovecrafts-the-rats-in-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:45:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/181853472/2945610d551b90f1cc96c9047b2f954d.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[Skip to 14:21 for Just the Story]</p><p>Click the &#8220;&#8230;&#8221; On the Substack Player to download or get the rss feed.</p><p>.</p><p>H. P. Lovecraft&#8217;s classic 1923 short story read and with commentary by Yours Truly.</p><p>And Yes&#8230; The Cat is Named for Lovecraft&#8217;s own little black feline.</p><p><a href="https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/rw.aspx">Read the full text here.</a></p><p>.</p><p>And Checkout my tangentially related hit piece: </p><p></p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;3a0f6c6c-8ad8-4211-98f2-a5a1e6ee2a33&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow Me on Twitter: @FromKulak&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Feral Aryan Femininity: Blonde Women as Bioweapons&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2024-03-14T23:07:33.407Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zIiM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd279d376-e2cb-419c-b7bf-add37f45febc_1142x824.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/feral-aryan-femininity-blonde-women&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:142035981,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:214,&quot;comment_count&quot;:59,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>Outro &#8220;Eternal Night&#8221; by Karl Casey, White Bat Audio</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ep 20 Hobos and More w/Lord Woodmouse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tie in to my hit Piece &#8220;Tactical Espionage Dollarstore Hobo&#8221;]]></description><link>https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep-20-hobos-and-more-wlord-woodmouse</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep-20-hobos-and-more-wlord-woodmouse</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kulak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:34:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/180636111/d04ba049aa04ea5e78b147b5aa05aa1b.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tie in to my hit Piece &#8220;<a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/tactical-espionage-dollar-store-hobo">Tactical Espionage Dollarstore Hobo</a>&#8221; </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;1d161f6a-677d-44b3-8dd7-061a2a23082e&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow me on Twitter: @FromKulak&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Tactical Espionage Dollar-Store Hobo&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-05T20:34:51.927Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P_mq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf77c4e0-d315-4e6e-adc2-99f215f0e6ee_809x495.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/tactical-espionage-dollar-store-hobo&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:171483630,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:113,&quot;comment_count&quot;:40,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p><a href="https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/out-of-paywall-tactical-espionage">Watch the VIDEO!</a></p><p></p><p>Follow <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Lord Woodmouse&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:392130666,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7bec8fdd-2254-498d-8f2a-855934b178f7_860x860.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;9e3f1ecf-2d74-458e-b569-e53eb641a5c3&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> here on Substack.</p><p>Also Mentioned:</p><p>Checkout My piece </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;f17d98ae-eb0c-4eb3-9215-423e6ef7a4eb&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The United-Healthcare Assassin Has Been Caught (Allegedly)&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Getting Away With It: The Art of Urban Infiltration and Exfiltration. Or the Tragedy of Luigi Mangione&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:79262163,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kulak&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Extremist in Extremis\n\nThe Tactical is Political&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae74e0c-329e-4f15-bb2c-570ca99eae75_542x590.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-02-21T03:13:09.702Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53cbe2d5-9519-4f7c-a6aa-70b865f64ac7_945x599.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/getting-away-with-it-the-art-of-urban&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:152862583,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:146,&quot;comment_count&quot;:44,&quot;publication_id&quot;:766459,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Anarchonomicon&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eRzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ab32102-a68f-44d2-81e9-b795f9663d3c_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>And the other &#8220;Getting Away With It&#8221; by <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;HEXENTEXTE&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:287494134,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/871915ac-2c1e-42f3-9e20-c758a016df9e_432x432.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;c6f0e883-e5be-4265-a1f1-1baacd2d7d30&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> :</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:173504024,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://hexenkartothek.substack.com/p/getting-away-with-it&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:2748705,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;IC&#216;N&#216;CLAST&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_q2F!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4aaef867-e8f1-4242-b390-9fa546addf72_587x587.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Getting Away With It&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;You know what this is about. In fact, you're probably abundantly aware of every detail of this case because it's consumed all remotely political discourse for the last few days. Contrary to what some Ritalin&#8482; addled conspiracy theorists are trying to sell you, this was not some expert level assassination that could only be carried out by some Mossad hit&#8230;&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-09-13T11:30:07.295Z&quot;,&quot;like_count&quot;:84,&quot;comment_count&quot;:9,&quot;bylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:238991204,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&#5862; Roxy &#5862;&quot;,&quot;handle&quot;:&quot;hexenkartothek&quot;,&quot;previous_name&quot;:&quot;Der Einzige&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1b393a3a-1e67-4963-b8d7-05e66e54ec2c_822x822.jpeg&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;23M, American Anglo, background in military &amp; counterterrorism. Nietzschean Futurist, Revolutionary NatSoc, Wotanist. Ex-USMC &#127482;&#127480;, current 12th Special Forces Brigade &#127482;&#127462;&quot;,&quot;profile_set_up_at&quot;:&quot;2024-06-21T16:39:58.370Z&quot;,&quot;reader_installed_at&quot;:&quot;2024-06-21T16:21:05.204Z&quot;,&quot;publicationUsers&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:2790287,&quot;user_id&quot;:238991204,&quot;publication_id&quot;:2748705,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;admin&quot;,&quot;public&quot;:true,&quot;is_primary&quot;:true,&quot;publication&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:2748705,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;IC&#216;N&#216;CLAST&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;hexenkartothek&quot;,&quot;custom_domain&quot;:null,&quot;custom_domain_optional&quot;:false,&quot;hero_text&quot;:&quot;Newsletter to spread the word of Revolutionary National Socialism &amp; monitor the Collapse. Hail Victory.&quot;,&quot;logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4aaef867-e8f1-4242-b390-9fa546addf72_587x587.png&quot;,&quot;author_id&quot;:238991204,&quot;primary_user_id&quot;:238991204,&quot;theme_var_background_pop&quot;:&quot;#FF0000&quot;,&quot;created_at&quot;:&quot;2024-06-30T08:05:45.297Z&quot;,&quot;email_from_name&quot;:null,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Hexenkartothek&quot;,&quot;founding_plan_name&quot;:null,&quot;community_enabled&quot;:true,&quot;invite_only&quot;:false,&quot;payments_state&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:null,&quot;explicit&quot;:false,&quot;homepage_type&quot;:&quot;magaziney&quot;,&quot;is_personal_mode&quot;:false}}],&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null,&quot;status&quot;:{&quot;bestsellerTier&quot;:null,&quot;subscriberTier&quot;:null,&quot;leaderboard&quot;:null,&quot;vip&quot;:false,&quot;badge&quot;:null,&quot;paidPublicationIds&quot;:[],&quot;subscriber&quot;:null}}],&quot;utm_campaign&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;,&quot;source&quot;:null}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://hexenkartothek.substack.com/p/getting-away-with-it?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=post_embed&amp;utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_q2F!,w_56,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4aaef867-e8f1-4242-b390-9fa546addf72_587x587.png" loading="lazy"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">IC&#216;N&#216;CLAST</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">Getting Away With It</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">You know what this is about. In fact, you're probably abundantly aware of every detail of this case because it's consumed all remotely political discourse for the last few days. Contrary to what some Ritalin&#8482; addled conspiracy theorists are trying to sell you, this was not some expert level assassination that could only be carried out by some Mossad hit&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">9 months ago &#183; 84 likes &#183; 9 comments &#183; &#5862; Roxy &#5862;</div></a></div><p>.</p><p>Also checkout the Masterminds episodes <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPFyNg5Oq8k&amp;t=32s">"Printing Money"</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/n7le8Du3nKw?si=WF0h88PnLBW3hwVD">&#8220;The Phantom Bandit&#8221;</a></p><p></p><p>Theme Song &#8220;Lord of War&#8221;, Outro &#8220;War Games&#8221; by Karl Casey, White Bat Audio</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.anarchonomicon.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Anarchonomicon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Tip:<br><br><strong>BITCOIN: bc1qdhj7637sgcssxgxygjaa3ddljwy8tzg5mzw325<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png" width="145" height="145" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:145,&quot;width&quot;:145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:935,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z1CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8932f55b-83be-4881-aa93-a7edb0bd3eeb_145x145.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>MONERO: 8AhA3g9hbtDcAJE5MPmeQsFwwGsf3H9fq9tC6giQ4a6vKnTXv4J4MivKXrPKDpXyEeNc9mfFejbq84kSWkC8pjuj18rAEij<br></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png" width="196" height="196" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:196,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgSQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77afe118-f392-4231-815c-e0db471aad98_240x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FromKulak">@FromKulak</a></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>