Category Archives: AScience Fiction : writing the 21st century mythos

Unicron debunks the Fermi Paradox

From the dying breath of Orson Welles to the terrifying silence of the Fermi Paradox, this video essay explores how a 1986 toy commercial accidentally birthed the ultimate symbol of late-stage capitalism: Unicron. We dive deep into the Hasbro marketing psy-op behind The Transformers: The Movie, the bleak reality of the Great Filter, and why the “Machine God” isn’t lurking in the cosmos—it’s already here running our economy.

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A very important video essay on Skibidi Toilet

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00:00 The Horizontal Scream of the Feed
13:58 Dreams of the Biological Bootloader
22:02 The Full Stack Architecture of the Machine
32:56 The Autonomous Builder
43:12 Capitalism OS
45:42 Prophets of the Machine
50:56 Saints, Sinners, Priests and Madmen
53:55 The Logos of Capital
1:15:32 Capitlaism as Intelligence
1:27:30 The Politics of the Overwrite
1:38:30 The Lossy Compression of the Soul
1:42:16 The future that Capitalism wants
1:46:56 The Emancipation Problem

Featuring @TheoVon, Sam Altman, Yanis Varoufakis, Terence McKenna, @TheDangerousMaybe, @ThreeBillionNances, Elon Musk, Nick Land

Who killed Star Trek Wars?

Star Trek and Star Wars are both dying. Star Trek turns 60 in 2026 with nothing in production. Star Wars just posted its lowest box office opening ever. So. Who killed Star Trek Wars? HINT: it’s not JJ Abrams, “woke” or Rey!

Featuring: Star Trek at 60, Star Wars, Andor, Disney, Paramount Skydance, Rey, the Prime Directive, Romulus and Remus, and the Pledge of Allegiance.

Prompted by @FeralHistorian’s video on Star Trek at 60 – https://youtu.be/TQEIHGM-EyQ?is=oSTnY8_V681sd0xH

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Ed Zitron killed the god of AGI

This is how a god dies, not with a cosmic explosion, not with a descent into eternity, but with the face of a pissed off Englishman calling it a big pile of bollocks. If five years ago you had asked me for a single symbol to express the first meeting of Humanity and AI, IContinue reading “Ed Zitron killed the god of AGI”

Aldous Huxley gave away the game of Transhumanism

Silicon Valley billionaires like Peter Thiel are obsessed with living forever, making transhumanism the unspoken ideology of the 21st century. From the cyberpunk dystopias of Altered Carbon to the real-world data empires of Palantir, the push to upgrade our biology and upload our consciousness isn’t just science fiction—it’s the blueprint for a techno-feudal nightmare. As the technocratic elite increasingly treats the human body as a depreciating asset to be engineered away, what is the ultimate, mind-expanding philosophical answer to the transhumanist trap?

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The most overrated director VS the greatest myth

Science Fiction with Damien Walter is a search for the 21st century mythos. You can watch some of the channels best episodes here :

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AI is a mass psychotic delusion

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Backrooms is avant-garde art for normies

It’s 1990. This morning I found an open door in the shopping centre of the dull commuter town I live in. Beyond the door are a series of large empty rooms, poorly lit, with large boxes. Backrooms. I phoned my friend Matthew Woods. Woodsy. He pedaled over his BMX and together we’re going to exploreContinue reading “Backrooms is avant-garde art for normies”

Why do Leftists always lose? A (partial) defense of Contrapoints

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2026 : the year World War 3 begins

To my Gen-X compatriots, to the Boomers and Millenials, and to Gen-Z who will have to clean up this mess we all made… …can we agree that Star Trek is the future we would all like? A future in which poverty is eradicated, disease is a mere curiosity of the past, humanity has put asideContinue reading “2026 : the year World War 3 begins”

You don’t understand science fiction

There is a single narrative technique that connects almost every multi-billion dollar science fiction franchise ever made. It is the invisible engine powering the most successful stories of the last century. And yet, if you ask ten working Hollywood screenwriters what it is, nine of them will give you a blank stare—and the tenth willContinue reading “You don’t understand science fiction”