He also yaps about being "redpilled" and being attacked by The Matrix...both Marxist metaphors.
Reactionaries like Fuentes are thriving because the problems, like alienation, are real. And they provide fake solutions to people who can't find better answers.
If you want to understand the craziness of a our world as it is coming into 2026 read Marx. Read Foucault. Read Baudrillard.
Jean Baudrillard is, famously, the origin of the ideas of simulation and hyperreality that became The Matrix and the "Red Pill".
Reactionaries mangle these metaphors. But nonetheless, over the last 20 years, our culture has been saturated with radical symbolism.
That's ready to ignite like a Molotov cocktail.
The next major video essay on the Science Fiction channel takes on the Redpill, the Matrix, and the mixed metaphors of the Wachowski's other movies head-on.
It's fundamental to conservatism to believe that the world cannot be made better.
True change can only come in the next world, that can only be reached via the "end times" or "last days".
A belief in apocalypse, armageddon and other "last days" scenario became known as Eschatology, and the end times themselves as
THE ESCHATON
People literally stop me in the street and ask what it means when I wear this tshirt, and I keep geeting DMd by you folks about it, so here is the explanation.
Liberalism fundamentally believes in the possibility of a better world in this world. Via technological progress, or the development of moral values.
The phrase "Do Not Immanentize The Eschaton" was popularised in the 1960s by conservative gadfly William F Buckley...a kind of proto-Jordan Peterson...as a mockery of liberal utopianism.
The deeper critique is that any attempt to create a better world means bringing forth or "immanentizing" the eschaton, and will inevitably result in apocalyptic outcomes. Which conservatives evidence by handwaving at the outcomes of socialist utopianism in the USSR.
The failure of utopian projects has even left most liberals with a skepticism towards immantizing the eschaton. But as non-utopian capitalism also seems to be hurling us towards apocalyptic end times, it might be time to ressurect more ambitious visions of a "better world".
Hence the tshirt. DO Immamentize The Eschaton. While we still have time.
The prophet is a figure who lives outside the symbolic order of humanity.
They can look at the human the way a human can look at the ant hive. An ant doesn't know what an ant is. A human doesn't know what a human is.
But the prophet can see.
Prophets are rare because they rarely survive. Most humans struggle our whole lives to stay comfortably inside the symbolic order. The shared narrative. The mythos. The trauma of being outside the symbolic order is so painful we run back inside as soon as we can.
The prophet lives out there for long stretches at a time.
Philip K Dick's life had all the signs of the prophet. An outsider. Married and divorced many times. Drug addicted. But while for most this is a spiral to self destruction, PKD was able to transmute that trauma into prophetic visions.
9 of which we explore in this podcast episode from the Science Fiction archive.
Conspiracy theories come in a few different flavors.
At the top level are the theories we can reject as absurd. The moon landing was faked. The Earth is flat. Alien visitations.
Then there are the more credible kind.
Basically, there is no evidence that Kubrick made Eyes Wide Shut about Epstein. There are numerous coincidences, but these aren't in themselves evidence.
But these coincidences do exist for a reason. Which we get into in this recent video on the channel.
Science Fiction with Damien Walter
Science Fiction with Damien Walter
Most people can tell you when they fell off the Silicon Valley hype-wagon.
Maybe it was learning tbe CIA had backdoors to all our social media. Maybe it was Elon buying Twitter. Maybe it was AI.
Even back in 2015 most people still believed "big tech" was making the world a better place.
Now heading into 2026 that's a minority belief.
They promised us Star Trek. But underneath the casual clothes and scifi fantasies, it's just the same old oligarchy.
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LINK https://youtu.be/_LQa28X-1AQ
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Nick Fuentes loves talking about "alienation"
I suspect he doesn't know the idea is MARXIST🤣
He also yaps about being "redpilled" and being attacked by The Matrix...both Marxist metaphors.
Reactionaries like Fuentes are thriving because the problems, like alienation, are real. And they provide fake solutions to people who can't find better answers.
If you want to understand the craziness of a our world as it is coming into 2026 read Marx. Read Foucault. Read Baudrillard.
Jean Baudrillard is, famously, the origin of the ideas of simulation and hyperreality that became The Matrix and the "Red Pill".
Reactionaries mangle these metaphors. But nonetheless, over the last 20 years, our culture has been saturated with radical symbolism.
That's ready to ignite like a Molotov cocktail.
The next major video essay on the Science Fiction channel takes on the Redpill, the Matrix, and the mixed metaphors of the Wachowski's other movies head-on.
Let's see if we can strike a match 😈😈
🔗👇👇
LINK https://youtu.be/LVMXAcSLULU
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 🤣
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https://youtu.be/LVMXAcSLULU?si=Xq6XT...
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Quick shout out for new channel sponsor
Later today maybe
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John Boorman was the first director hired to make Lord of the Rings. His version was to include.
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Frodo and Galadriel were to have a sexual encounter.
Aragorn would heal Éowyn on the battlefield with a sex act.
Musical numbers and Kabuki-style theatrical elements.
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It never happened.
But instead we got Excalibur.
PS - there's no point complaining about the armour, Arthur is a myth not a history.
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https://youtu.be/MimO6BOT5U4?si=YZtok...
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"But how can there be so much smoke if there's not any fire?"
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It's fundamental to conservatism to believe that the world cannot be made better.
True change can only come in the next world, that can only be reached via the "end times" or "last days".
A belief in apocalypse, armageddon and other "last days" scenario became known as Eschatology, and the end times themselves as
THE ESCHATON
People literally stop me in the street and ask what it means when I wear this tshirt, and I keep geeting DMd by you folks about it, so here is the explanation.
Liberalism fundamentally believes in the possibility of a better world in this world. Via technological progress, or the development of moral values.
The phrase "Do Not Immanentize The Eschaton" was popularised in the 1960s by conservative gadfly William F Buckley...a kind of proto-Jordan Peterson...as a mockery of liberal utopianism.
The deeper critique is that any attempt to create a better world means bringing forth or "immanentizing" the eschaton, and will inevitably result in apocalyptic outcomes. Which conservatives evidence by handwaving at the outcomes of socialist utopianism in the USSR.
The failure of utopian projects has even left most liberals with a skepticism towards immantizing the eschaton. But as non-utopian capitalism also seems to be hurling us towards apocalyptic end times, it might be time to ressurect more ambitious visions of a "better world".
Hence the tshirt. DO Immamentize The Eschaton. While we still have time.
🔗👇
Tshirt damosays-shop.fourthwall.com/products/fcuk-bukcley
Essay https://youtu.be/1KUfWP7zC-I
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The prophet is a figure who lives outside the symbolic order of humanity.
They can look at the human the way a human can look at the ant hive. An ant doesn't know what an ant is. A human doesn't know what a human is.
But the prophet can see.
Prophets are rare because they rarely survive. Most humans struggle our whole lives to stay comfortably inside the symbolic order. The shared narrative. The mythos. The trauma of being outside the symbolic order is so painful we run back inside as soon as we can.
The prophet lives out there for long stretches at a time.
Philip K Dick's life had all the signs of the prophet. An outsider. Married and divorced many times. Drug addicted. But while for most this is a spiral to self destruction, PKD was able to transmute that trauma into prophetic visions.
9 of which we explore in this podcast episode from the Science Fiction archive.
🔗👇
https://youtu.be/f2LNhNS_UFE?si=ibkB3...
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Conspiracy theories come in a few different flavors.
At the top level are the theories we can reject as absurd. The moon landing was faked. The Earth is flat. Alien visitations.
Then there are the more credible kind.
Basically, there is no evidence that Kubrick made Eyes Wide Shut about Epstein. There are numerous coincidences, but these aren't in themselves evidence.
But these coincidences do exist for a reason. Which we get into in this recent video on the channel.
🔗👇
LINK https://youtu.be/eFJhR6fM3vU?si=iOtVP...
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Finally
After many years of study
Immersing my consciousness in the deepest arcane secrets
Seeking out the dark masters of the craft
Communing with beings whose names shall not be muttered here
I have MASTERED the art...
...of the YouTube thumbnail 🤣
🔗👇
LINK https://youtu.be/1KUfWP7zC-I
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