“A government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, for the billionaire class.” — Bernie Sanders What does it mean when Apple CEO Tim Cook makes a personal donation of $1 million dollars to Donald Trump’s inauguration? Or when Disney CEO Bob Iger comes out to virtue signal that the hypercapitalist entertainment corporation reallyContinue reading ““F*** you, pay me.” Welcome to techbros feudalism”
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The world’s worst people have a plan
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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Why Elon Musk can never understand Iain M. Banks
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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”
The First Dystopia
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a novel written at the beginning of the future. It’s hard to remember today, after Logan’s Run, The Handmaid’s Tale and Hunger Games made “dystopia” an entertainment genre, but when Yevgeny Zamyatin was writing in the early 1920s, it was only beginning to dawn on humanity just how bad the future might be. OrContinue reading “The First Dystopia”
Terminator 2 isn’t only the greatest action movie
Terminator is an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Arnold’s physique is the star of the film The progressive decay of the Body into the Machine is his co-star With the special effects that animated the Terminator as best supporting actor Or watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfbNARASn9Y Imagine if Ron Perlman had passed his audition for Terminator? You can’t.Continue reading “Terminator 2 isn’t only the greatest action movie”
HG Wells vs Vladimir Lenin
The year is 1920. The Empires of Europe have spent the last half decade blowing each other up with bombs, guns and heavy artillery. As World War 1 burns itself out, men who survived the fighting begin to wonder if a better world, a world without empires and wars, is possible. These working class menContinue reading “HG Wells vs Vladimir Lenin”
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