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Sunday, 1 November 2026

Right Wing Optimism: How Not Why.

I'm optimistic about the future of the right wing. How can anyone be optimistic about the right wing? That is the question: how not why. #vegan #vegans #veganism

LINK: https://youtu.be/ZzIX7A2EXHM

Megaculturalism: the Right Wing Alternative to Multiculturalism… IS INEVITABLE.

Quite a lot of material on the "next steps" in the philosophy of education in this one, too, I note… the nihilist philosophy of education or otherwise… something that might not easily be guessed from the title.

LINK: https://youtu.be/LHGM6sEDHG4

The Right Wing Will Win in the End: Not How But Why.

"Each of us has to distinguish ourselves from the norm through ten thousand tiny forms of rebellion."

Part three of a trilogy, criticizing the right from the right ("Visto Da Destra").

LINK: https://youtu.be/05ETNlwR8D4

Everything I do is esoteric: Blood in the Snow is neither about blood nor snow.

[Torn from the comment section below my most recent video. In this case, you are seeing my reply without wasting any time in reading the comment I was replying to.]

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You're "reading" this video as if it were a pamphlet for a political party that doesn't exist: you're interpreting what I'm doing at too low an intellectual level, as if the transcript were iterating and reiterating one simple meaning to you, directly. It isn't.

Everything I do is esoteric: my book, Blood in the Snow, is neither about blood nor snow. The real meaning of this video is not expressed directly.

And —nevertheless— I can say, sincerely, that the A.I. summary of this video (generated by Youtube's star-shaped "Ask" function) comes closer to a correct understanding of the text than you do.

I don't feel any emotional need to be easily understood, and I am not upset by being misunderstood: I do not know to what extent members of my audience are upset by misunderstanding me —or by discovering, in retrospect, what they've misunderstood, and its implications for their own motivation and character. Just one of my viewers ended up in a prison outside of Luhansk because he misunderstood what I had to say about democracy, the war in Ukraine, and, I suppose, the meaning of life. Just one that I know of.

[Other voices:] The life-altering effects of Shadow of the Beast.

Just seeing and hearing Shadow of the Beast inspired many people to change their lives for the ensuing decade.

This is a game I now own, on cartridge, but I never played it in my youth, and I have still never played it now, aside from checking to ensure that the cartridge was working when it arrived.

There is a difference here, between the generations, worth pointing out in brief.

I do not mean to ridicule her, but I recently saw the dating app profile of a rather obese woman shown holding a newborn baby in her arms —thus, we must naïvely assume she is a single mother, if we do not cynically assume she's married but looking for a supplemental relationship. She described herself as a massive fan of Skyrim and Baldur's Gate 3 —presumably because the kind of man she'd find attractive would (she imagines) find this confession attractive, also. To play Baldur's Gate 3 is an enterprise that consumes at least 100 hours. The estimate for Skyrim is approximately 350 hours. People who are "massive fans" of the genre may well spend more time than this.

The aesthetic effect that Shadow of the Beast had on so many members of my generation transpired in the blink of an eye: it was a game that almost nobody played for more than one hour —but an extremely motivated person could compel themselves to play it for three hours (per incarnation) at most. I can honestly say that unless my assessment of Buddhist philosophy proves false and I really am reincarnated as an entirely different person, there's no chance I'll be tempted to play it for 30 minutes inside this earthly prison of too perfect flesh or any other.

Inspiration burns so brightly, and for such a brief moment, while idiocy, smoldering dimly, can occupy a hundred hours or more.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the life-altering effects of Shadow of the Beast.

Original title: Atari ST vs Amiga: how I lost the war
Channel name: Learning Lorraine
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYMNx0H5q5s

Monday, 26 October 2026

[Other voices:] Left wing women marrying right wing men… or else not getting married at all.

Nobody wants to blame marijuana, nobody wants to blame psychiatric medication… everyone wants to blame the internet… but, to be fair, this video is more sincere and more well-intentioned than 99 percent of what you're going to hear from the mainstream media.

Is it really any surprise that people who start smoking marijuana at age 16 (or —gasp— even earlier) put shockingly little effort into developing "face to face relationships"? Is it really any surprise that drug addicts put shockingly little effort into preparing for the duties and drudgeries of marriage? It is a surprise, because so many of us wanted to pretend that we could grow up as drug addicts and incongruously end up developing all the same qualities of character that can only result from sweat-drenched stridency and sandpaper-dry sobriety.

And you do realize that neither strident nor sober has positive connotations in our language, leaving aside entirely the connotations of sweat and sandpaper: in the process of invigilating the translation of my book (Blood in the Snow) into so many different languages, I discovered that this problem crosses quite a few borders (and this was an especially baffling problem in the Hebrew translation —i.e., one that still remains unpublished and incomplete). Vae victis and in vino veritas: misconceptions about happiness and how to attain it are implicitly expressed, like a barely audible drumbeat, a thousand times a day in the languages we use to think and speak.

People are either sincerely or insincerely surprised, now, because they have some personal history of pretending that this wouldn't be a problem, either for themselves or others —possibly for their own children —possibly for their own parents. People perceive me as unusually mentally sharp (and they say this to my face), people perceive me as having an unusually high sex drive (and they say this to my face), and people perceive me as unusually highly motivated to create and maintain friendships —but perhaps all of this is just the shadow cast by sobriety itself. The vast majority of people who surround me have developed through each and every stage of their lives with a serious drug dependency —even if all the drugs involved were legal— and they neither know how to socialize without it, nor even how to to live alone.

Virtue cannot be taught. Love cannot be learned.

Kokaiinijäävuori: Newfoundland, Kanada.

It isn't too hard to figure out how to say "Cocaine Iceberg" in Finnish: this was easier to translate than Blood in the Snow. ;-)

Amazingly, I do not see a single google search result for Kokaiinijäävuori prior to my upload of this video —whereas I am certainly not the first author of a book titled Verta Lumessa. Nor, for that matter, am I the first author of a book titled The Future of an Illusion. ;-)

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eEieBg1i5U

The Right Wing Has ADVANTAGES and DISADVANTAGES…

"There are ethical components to political reasoning…"

LINK: https://youtu.be/cP2STp38kjg

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The Right Wing is Anti-Racist: Metatron Visto Da Destra.

Recorded around 1:00 AM when I was too ripped up from the gym to fall asleep: I am finally making progress in terms of the sheer amount of weight I can lift, after many setbacks (many cases of coronavirus, many spinal injuries, etc.). Alas, I will have to revive my slogan from season one: if I look exhausted, it's because I am exhausted. ;-)