For those who recognise the vigilantism in how ICE behaves recklessly and beyond the law, I'd like to once again point to this as one of the more important things I've written. Despite being about a silly little horror movie. blog.psychopopular.com/film/the-purge

Brainstorming novel solutions for the crisis of public confidence in government.

Here's something of my impressions of the Mussolini mini-series/drama after 5 episodes: it's fun to watch and has a very clear grasp on the retributive psychology of fascism. But stylistically speaking, it kinda extends too much empathy to the emotions and aesthetics of fascism.

I wrote a short thing on One Battle After Another for those who are interested: blog.psychopopular.com/film/one-bat...

Literally generic it is so over.

Fascinated by "Trump 2023" of all years, where is it pulling that from.

Hello Subahibi fans. Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock: The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi) blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...

I wrote a modestly lengthy thing on social fascism in response to the latest drama on the other site about it. Please give it a read. theorb.substack.com/p/on-social-...

Here's some quick thoughts on the right's continued failure to face-up to its fascist turn. theorb.substack.com/p/im-a-polit...

I've mirrored some of the recent blog posts to Substack. I feel like Wordpress is becoming less reliable over time so I wanted people to have alternatives. Feel free to take this opportunity to check out my recent post on Subahibi if you haven't. psychopopular.substack.com/p/subahibi

メアリ・シェリー『フランケンシュタイン』は、怪物の訴えが突き刺さる。男性学的にいえば、怪物はこの世界の根深いルッキズムの犠牲者であり、産まれてこなかったことを夢見る反出生主義者であり、異性からの「心の共感」を求めるインセルでもある。また科学技術のプロメテウス主義＝加速主義の犠牲者とも言える。 怪物には理性があり、感情や共感があり、善良な良心もあった。怪物が人間たちから怪物と呼ばれるのは、とにかく徹底的に「外見」の問題である。外見があまりに醜くおぞましいがゆえに、全人類から嫌われ、恐怖される。ただひとつの願いが「異性の怪物を作ってくれ」であるのが、あまりに悲しい。

I've added a PDF and EPUB to this essay so that people can read it in chunks. Please check it out.

This is starting in December so there's still time to join if anyone wants to. We have 8 members so far, so don't be shy.

With how abstract this got, I really want to make sure that the next thing I write will be straightforward literary criticism. That said, perhaps "straightforward" just isn't how I do things. Either way, I still want to write some more stuff about art as art next.

Hello Subahibi fans. Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock: The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi) blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...

I wish I had the confidence required to write an article that accuses others of not having "arguments," only to turn around and quite literally direct my own "arguments" at a computer-generated strawman.

I'm going to be organising a small reading group for The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. It'll be starting over the holidays and run at a relaxed pace over the whole year for the sake of the slower readers. Leave a reply to express interest. I'll DM details later.

Congrats to Mamdani. He seems like an exceptionally talented politician. I hope he's able to accomplish some good, and also able to keep applying his same pragmatism and agility to actual governance. A DemSoc who knows how to play ball this well is rare. Even AoC and Bernie had clearer limits.

I'm going to be organising a small reading group for The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. It'll be starting over the holidays and run at a relaxed pace over the whole year for the sake of the slower readers. Leave a reply to express interest. I'll DM details later.

Populism that's rooted an in amorphous "them" vs "us" already has its dangers. But notice how this particular narrative also introduces a unitary social organism, and then papers over all individuality in favour of one's "contribution" to the whole. This is a preparatory discourse for fascism.

The trend of these that's happening on the other site is so funny, because you very quickly see the giant chasm between the two kinds of leftist biographies: 1. Always left-wing, but not always radical 2. Always radical, but not always left-wing Over there, most people are in the latter camp.

What they don't tell you is that even if you write 50 words in 20 different documents, that's still writing 1000 words per day. Just a little life hack in never releasing anything.

I really wasn't lying. Sorry but I will continue having nothing interesting to say for awhile. I am reading and rereading a bunch of very dense books and it will be years before I can promise any results from this time wasted.

Correct as far as it goes—deserves a passing mark. But people need be more critical of the mechanical naturalism and utilitarianism that is so often taken as the default ethical framework, beyond just pointing out the hypocrisy of anti-AI arguments. Even if that hypocrisy is apparent.

It's a very lonely place being "anti-AI" but also reminded endlessly that "anti-AI" people are often metaphysically incoherent and dependent upon magical/spiritual thinking. The only categorical gap between people and computers* that holds up for me is humanity's embodied being-there in the world.

I'll try explaining Kiyoshi Kasai's "Phenomenology of Terrorism" in "basic" terms and link it to Charlie Kirk: There is of course a sense of revolution that means a historical phenomenon. It is the sudden and explosive action of a mass of people based on the particular circumstances of the moment.

It's interesting that Kiyoshi Kasai is so stylistically distinct as an essayist vs fiction author. The essays are contemporary whereas the fiction is retro and naturalistic. And yet, their content mirrors and supports each other at a pretty deep level, such that they ought to be read together.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

The fact that someone in the Trump admin thought "notices bulges OwO what’s this?" was a reference to "transgender ideology" confirms something that we already knew: We live under a Gooner Occupied Government. God help us.

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Today in particular, I'd appreciate if people read this to understand my disgust with vigilantism and the worship of death. You don't need to perform empty sympathy for bad people. But you must not let yourself marinate in exterminationism. It's evil. blog.psychopopular.com/film/the-purge

The reasons Hitler had to die had nothing to do with retribution or deserving it. Hitler had to die to end National Socialism. Holding onto this conservative idea that justice is punishment will be lethal to the left in the fullness of time, as it concedes the concept of justice to the right.

This form of political violence shows impotence, not power. Violence destroys because it cannot build. Its main purpose is catharsis for that animalistic part of us that wants karmic justice and revenge. It risks losing real politics so that nihilists can soak in the aesthetic experience of hate.

Unfortunately for anyone who enjoys anything I write or do, I just bought a bunch of books on Ancient Greek and Medieval economic theory. The value theory arc may be just around the corner.

People seem to forget that a major part of why the eroge/doujin sphere was as highly valued as it was is because it was capable of tackling subject matter which would be ruthlessly pinned down by censorship elsewhere. It might not be "clean", but they could talk about anything without repose.

As time goes on, I just become more and more Arendtian in my outlook. This is fine for what it is, but it comes with the side effect of becoming more Heideggerian, which is the opposite of fine.

It's far less depth than the game deserves and maybe not my best post ever, but I wanted to talk about Cross Channel, masculinity, and gender norms. blog.psychopopular.com/other-media/...

Here we see the American progressive cultural critic speaking in their mother tongue: moral majority conservatism. Inspiring.

Honestly, at this point Powell should raise rates in September to assert the independence of the Fed. The effect on long-term real interest rates would probably be negative, at least compared to caving and cutting in this context. Monetary dominance has to become a goal in and of itself.

It's far less depth than the game deserves and maybe not my best post ever, but I wanted to talk about Cross Channel, masculinity, and gender norms. blog.psychopopular.com/other-media/...

People say that Bluesky is more left-wing than Twitter. But I don't think that's quite true. The hard left are still over there. It's just that Twitter is a more hateful place. So much of what gets currency over there is about seeming cool, detached, and superior. This post is pretty representative.

Everything I try to write has so much mission creep that I'm starting to understand Donald Rumsfeld.

“Death gives life meaning,” is cope born out of the utter hopelessness of doing anything about it for the vast majority of human existence

I appreciate when people are kind enough to include spoiler warnings in their death threats. Just because you wish death upon someone, you shouldn't ruin a perfectly good movie.

I wrote a review of 1998's film "Love & Pop" directed by Anno Hideaki. natsukawacottage.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/l...

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