The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Greatest Show on Earth 2,000 years in the making Radio Far Side Terence McKenna famously said,  “The truth doesn’t need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist.” Joseph Farrell, one of my favorite thinkers, says,  “The fulfillment is the deception.” I’ve spent my whole life in show business, in one form or another. When I watch a show, I only see the wires, lighting, and blocking. I see sets and transitions. I see camera movements and depth of field. When I look around these days, I see only a big show being staged. I am of the opinion that the events laid out in the Book of Revelation (a.k.a.  ἀποκάλυψις  or  apokálypsis ) were fulfilled in the years between Pentecost and the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. Halley’s Comet in January AD66, and the Blood Moon of AD 68 fit the celestial signs. The Roman-Judean War took place between AD 66-70, culminating in...

  Kill Wuffy And call your mother. Mark Bisone WARNING: The following video is an MP4 of a YouTube ad, which I captured from the debug info and downloaded from  this source . 1  It was first delivered to me via Google’s AdSense algorithm. Should you happen to encounter it in the wild, the stream will include a link to a website in the corner. DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK. I don’t care if you’re a modern day Achilles, working some Zero Trust freezer gig in sub-dungeon 17 of the NSA’s cybersec division. I guarantee whatever’s lurking on the other side of that click has been trained to bite. Now: witness this stunning masterpiece of Neo-Horror Megaslop. What makes this one interesting to me is the multilayered horrors on display. There is something like a demented genius to its construction. It bends almost all the way to funny, in the way that Freddie Krueger is almost funny until you remember he raped and killed children. By now, we’re all accustomed to the first onion peel; the...