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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AI is a mass psychotic delusion

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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”

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”

Where did the future go?

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The Epstein / Kubrick theory is worse than you think

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Plur1bus : what’s it all about?

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The 7 scifi books that ALMOST made me a believer

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You should buy your books on Amazon

Why is it not such a good idea to “walk away” from tech platforms like Amazon, Facebook etc? A number of people responded with their own decisions to walk away from these platforms after my last post on Walk Away Syndrome WAS. I’m not here to critique anyone’s personal decisions made for their own healthContinue reading “You should buy your books on Amazon”