Great, good, small

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Short minds discuss shelves. Green minds discuss chlorophyll. Dark minds discuss lamps.

I am loathe to say it but I think I finally understand the antichrist. The realization came for me when I was watching a YouTube documentary on Andrew Tate. It was almost 100 degrees outside, okay? Give me a break. I had honestly no idea what level of nonsense this guy was up to, but it’s actually quite dark; a deep smog.

I don’t care about Tate (I thought he was pretty funny, to be honest, when I would see clips), but I thought it was interesting how tightly close to the zeitgeist his grift is. I recalled that he was interviewed by Tucker Carlson, and taken seriously, and then I recalled an image I saw recently of Russell Brand onstage with Carlson kneeling in a performative prayer and a newfound love of Christ.

I reflected on the wave of performative religiosity I have seen for the past few years, and contrasted it against the hypergrift of Tate, which paints a grimdark vision of the world (sure it is, and I think you do need an iron will and a platinum physicality to withstand it) but fumbles it due to an excessive, pathological cruelty. Not to mention the scamming. I thought about how the increased fake religiosity didn’t seem coincidental, nor planned or conspiratorial, but somehow indicative of something. Then I thought about ‘the end of history’, the Fukuyama principle of liberal democracy being the ‘endgame’ system of governance.

I realized then that the antichrist is the ‘many’; it is the egregore, or miasma of the people’s collective conscious mired in darkness, and it is in contrast to the ‘one’, the ‘monad’, or the Logos. It is mimetic, and stands in contrast to the Word.

I thought then that God acts outside of history, occasionally and deliberately but in single instances, and everything else occurs due to the principle of free will. But the ‘antichrist’ is history itself, and is always acting to produce outcomes in a sort of inertial way. It seemed that, then, despite the red heifers of Israel, no matter the society or individual action, someone was always going to try to create the bio-robot messiah (inside joke).

Something something Dark Souls. But I did wonder then, if it wasn’t a coincidence that the ‘end of history’ meme had come about and then faded away amongst ‘serious thinkers’, though it had lingered in my mind as a powerful idea that represents a confluence of many factors. Anyway, I don’t think we are living in ‘the end times’ or anything. I just felt that for a moment, I had glimpsed a large, impossible construct.

Great minds discuss antichrist, average minds discuss Andrew Tate, small minds discuss great minds discussing antichrist.