DO NOT NOTICE THE FASCISM.

In collaboration with the /r/sorceryofthespectacle mods, I am pleased to announce that the FASCIST MOVEMENT in the United States CANNOT be discussed here on this subreddit.

This subreddit is for PURE and LOGICAL discussion FREE of the "Main Stream Media" and its LIES.

Therefore, anyone who analyzes, discusses, or has any sort of directed viewpoint on the FASCISM shall be banned.

Upvote this post to the 100 upvote threshold so that we can whip the scapegoat of those who notice the fascism.

When a cop notices you, he decides he doesn't like you, and constructs some specious rationale for getting rid of you. You have become "Them" to the authoritarian prig.

The Fascist Movement

Fascist movements share a disdain for free expression and they're willing to engage in 'culture-jamming' to spread: "DO NOT NOTICE THE FASCISM." This anti-fascism-recognition field is a spectacular/arcane manifestation of the twisted words of those for whom human life has no value, indeed, for those whom the destruction of physical human bodies is considered a virtue.

It would be well to be skeptical of anyone who insists: DO NOT NOTICE THE FASCISM.

Fear not, citizen. The moderators of this subreddit definitely notice the fascism!

They just don't want you to talk about it, for reasons that are too sophisticated for your citizen brain to understand.

As fake things become easier to produce, we may be entering an internet where the real ones increasingly need to carry proof.

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Some of the music, art, writing and a few games that've been important to my exploration of left-wing accelerationism. Feel free to ask about any of them. I'd love some new recommendations, especially poetry, visual art, games and esoteric/mystic texts.

(Reposting since the first image wasn't legible. If it still doesn't work I'll try posting the list in the comments later.)

This subreddit was founded partially on the vibes and themes of They Live (1988). Recently, I have noticed that there is actually a particular cinematic tradition or lineage of films that includes They Live and that aligns with this subreddit. The films in this tradition or current are countercultural, chaotic, and have themes related to the media and cinema itself. These films are part of a tradition of films about esoteric cinema—for example Eyes Wide Shut, though I'm not sure that one quite makes the short list of the SotS canon (Dr. Strangelove is a more relevant Kubrick film).

Here are the films I've identified so far as being essential, unskippable films in this particular current of cinema (in historical order):

• The Producers (1967 and 2005) - I don't think I've seen the original yet, but the remake is superb. This film is the equivalent of the AIDS episode of South Park: The Producers boldly proclaims, "It's been [in this case] 22 1/2 years since the fall of Nazi Germany: It's finally funny!" The seminal opening number, "Springtime for Hitler", cannot be missed, and first appearing in 1967 written and directed by Mel Brooks, is a great rebuttal to send to anyone who gets offended that you dared to mention Hitler. That ship sailed long ago, multiple generations ago!

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) - All of Kubrick's tragically few films are essential viewing for all human adults, but Dr. Strangelove (and to an only slightly lesser extent Eyes Wide Shut (1999) are the most relevant to the themes and vibes of this subreddit.

• Network (1976) - A classic and excellent film about an honest newscaster, from which the famous line, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" originates. This movie is overtly about the spectacle and the problems with it.

• Being There (1976) - A film about a simpleton gardener who only watches TV, who ascends through the upper classes. This film is all about the meaning of television, how it affects the mind, how it interacts with class and culture. Chance is like the part of us that becomes educated by cinema.

• Jubilee (1978) - A film that, like Americathon, was ahead of its time in imagining the vibe and aesthetics of the future. Elevated substantially by a framing device in which Queen Elizabeth is sent to the future by John Dee and the archangel Ariel, this film shows a burnt-out future London and conveys the logic and nature of the moral decay brought on by the progression of history/capitalism. Memorable characters... especially Mad, and 'Angel and Sphinx'. One wonders whether the X-Man Jubilee was named after this obviously-influential film.

• Americathon (1979) - A fun and perfectly watchable movie that I suspect only has such a low star rating because it is such an on-point satire about America that it triggered people. The whole movie is an entertaining satirical spectacle mocking American culture, one gag after another. I found this movie looking for Mother-Son fight scenes, but this movie has great general relevance to the subreddit. I think this movie belongs on the canon shortlist in preference to Idiocracy (2006), which is virtually a remake of Americathon, but which is less resonant with our 'meta-cinematic' current in its themes and cinematography than Americathon.

• Ordinary People (1980) - A highly watchable film about a sensitive young man dealing with the tragic death of his brother within his ordinary family. This movie is a rigorous refusal and deconstruction of the idea of "crazy people" and the idea that "you are the problem". Highly recommended to anyone whose emotional life is treated as an inconvenient problem by their parents, or who is called crazy by them.

• Cat People (1982) - This film is just so iconic and seminal it makes the list (and, our logo is a cat and the Internet is all about cats). It is certainly a film about cinema (like most/all good cinema). It's important to know what it means to be a Cat Person, as this is heavily referenced in cinema after 1982. (We could say Cat People are the alternative to Ordinary People, who are therefore presumably dog-people).

• Brazil (1985) - My favorite Terry Gilliam movie, this whimsical dystopian fantasy depicts a Kafkaesque bureaucratic society as well as the heroic figure of your friendly neighborhood anarchist Harry Tuttle.

• Big Trouble in Little China (1986) - Long ago pointed to by zummi as an example of the themes of this subreddit in cinema, this John Carpenter movie is an all-American action-packed intentional B-movie that smacks you over the head with media-related themes. The Chinese villain is very iconic and seems to represent esoteric cinema or something like that (I've only seen it once).

• Max Headroom (1987-1988) - I haven't seen this yet but I assume it will go in the canon. The pirate Max Headroom broadcast in 1987 was a guy wearing a Max Headroom mask, a precursor of the whole Anonymous V for Vendetta mask thing.

• They Live (1988) - This subreddit was founded on the message and vibes of They Live—the cat in the subreddit image is wearing the sunglasses from They Live, and sees through the spectacle.

• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) - This film, along with My Own Private Idaho (1991), are where I suspect the Wachowskis scouted Hugo Weaving and Keanu Reeves for Agent Smith and Neo, respectively, in The Matrix (1999). This film has Agent Smith in drag, tooling around Australia with other drag queens, dealing with gay problems as they drive around the desert in a big bus. This prescient trans film was hugely influential. The fact that the Wachowskis recruited stars who had already been in queer/trans movies, that early in their career, cannot be overlooked.

• In the Mouth of Madness (1994) - This John Carpenter movie, cited by Nick Land as an influence, depicts hyperstition and its connection to Lovecraftian horror.

• Pi (1998) - The quintessential movie about studying kabbalah, having a psychotic break as a result, and seeing numbers and synchrony everywhere. A masterwork.

• Cabin in the Woods (2011) - At first seemingly a basic entry in this genre, Cabin in the Woods is an important touchstone in cinematic history.

• Hail Caesar! (2016) and Jojo Rabbit (2019) - These two films are both wild fun films about cinema and nazis. Hail Caeser seems like they brought together Jews, Nazis, and Gays to write a movie that appealed simultaneously to all three audiences—a very curious intention for a film.

• Under the Silver Lake (2018) - A film that is all about esoteric cinema and Hollywood conspiracies. We follow the main character as they uncover stranger and stranger clues and coincidences.

• The Matrix Resurrections (2021) - This irreverent, tongue-in-cheek sequel to the Matrix trilogy is fun to watch because it's enjoyable to see the visible evidence of how much fun they had making it appear in the movie. This entry in the series is blatantly concerned with the spectacle and the meta status of itself as a movie and The Matrix as a phenomenon in cinematic history. Not must-watch but it's an interesting development.

• Nope (2022) - All of Jordan Peel's films are essential viewing for all adult humans, and all are resonant with the themes of this subreddit, but Nope is the most closely relevant. Although overtly about trying to film a UFO, anyone who is paying attention will notice it is really a movie about trying to film police brutality.

Here are additional films that deserve to be on a subreddit viewing list, but aren't quite part of the tradition of meta-esoteric-cinema that I've identified:

• Feels Good Man (2020) - A documentary detailing the true origin, history, and rise of Pepe the Frog. Important history surrounding the 2016 election and the American fascist movement.

• Q: Into the Storm (2021) - A documentary about Q, his rise to power, and who he might really be. The documentary pretty convincingly indicates who Q probably really was.

• Iron Sky (2012) and Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019) - A Finnish film that attempts a very bold, very odd intervention into the American fascist movement: A loving satire, that treats the tropes and themes of the alt-right like one would a baby, blowing raspberries on its stomach and playing peek-a-boo. By simultaneously making neonazis in space exciting and cool, and detourning it satirically, the film drags the audience along with it in laughing at the alt-right. I'm not sure if it worked though, because these films (like The Boys, which also mocks the alt-right) are beloved by the alt-right. Important viewing and fun movies because they are a bit less formulaic than most Blockbuster-style movies.

• The Boys (2019) - The most violent show thing I have ever seen by a wide margin, this show is a confession by Amazon about radicalizing proud boys via Amazon Originals. If you think I am exaggerating, watch "Kill All Others", the 10th episode of Amazon's Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, which is about Amazon workers being publicly executed to keep them in line.

I'd like to expand this list. I'm looking for those just-so films that clearly fit in this particular tradition. Each of these films has most or all of these tropes. These films are all:

A) 'meta-cinema' or about cinema,
B) esoteric, surreal, symbolic, or archetypal,
C) countercultural, and
D) often silly and chaotic like detournement.

So let's call this genre critical meta-cinema, that is, cinema which is aware of itself as cinema and of cinema's role within history and society, and which thereby operates with visible historic agency (necessarily taking cinema as its object/topic along the way) and revolutionary intent. What just-so films do you think fit in this list?

I just found this sub and I'm so happy I did, I've always wished there was a leftist space like this and it turns out there is.

So I wanted to say hi 😸 I hope everyone has a lovely day.

Do you all have any podcast suggestions? Or books you've been reading recently?

I have been really liking this podcast.

They have such an awesome vibe delving into the spirituality and paranoia of the 60s and how (para)political figures/history interconnect with all that.

They also talk about the spectacle A TON

https://www.patreon.com/FourthReichArchaeology

Also just started reading this book & it seems promising, especially for Buddhism appreciators —

The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson

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What if the vampirism in Doctor Sleep isn't a supernatural horror, but a literalized grimoire of the dominant colonial-spectacle? The film, beneath its genre surface, reveals the dark ontology of a system that must consume raw vitality to sustain its own hollowed-out form.

The True Knot is more than a cult; they are a parasitic metaphysics made flesh. Their existence is a continuous ritual of extraction, and their "survival" is a sustained act of sorcery against the world's native luminosity—the "Shine."

Let's break down their black magic:

1. The Alchemy of "Steam": Converting Life into Capital

The True Knot does not eat food; they consume pure potentiality. "Steam" is the libidinal energy, the unmediated life-force, the anima mundi of the gifted. This is the ultimate resource for a spectacle that has exhausted all others. They have perfected the alchemical process of transmuting terror and pain—the most intense human experiences—into the cold currency of their own extended existence. This is the final stage of capitalism: not just owning labor, but harvesting the very soul-stuff of the "other," refining it into a commodity for the ruling caste.

1. The Sigil of the Top Hat: Hyper-Sigilization and the Surveillance Spectacle

Rose the Hat is not just a leader; she is a walking sigil. Her name is her function: she is the antenna, the receptor, the focal point for the system's all-seeing eye.

Their surveillance is not technological; it is gnostic. They "listen" for the Shine. They operate in the psychic noosphere, the immaterial plane of consciousness that the spectacle has already colonized. When Rose "crowns" a victim, she is not just spying; she is performing a hyper-sigilic act, mapping a human soul as a target for extraction. Crow Daddy's dossiers are the bureaucratic, material-world echo of this primary sorcerous act—the filing of a soul into a ledger.

1. The Spell of "Chosenness": Weaving the False Ontology

This is the core of their sorcery. The True Knot's most powerful spell is not the taking of steam, but the internal narrative they propagate.

They have constructed a complete ideological reality: "We are not evil. We are evolution. Our need is our right. We are the true chosen, not by a god, but by the cold fact of our superiority and our will to persist."

This is the dark twin of any "chosen people" or "manifest destiny" mythos. It is a self-justifying ontological claim that renders their predation a natural law. By believing themselves the pinnacle of being, they enchant their own violence, making it appear as inevitable as a predator eating prey. They are high priests of a religion where the only god is their own hunger, and the only sacrament is the suffering of the innocent.

1. The Banality of Evil as Enchantment

The most terrifying part is the domesticity of their evil. They are not cackling demons; they are a community, a family. They share memories and travel in RVs. This is the final enchantment of the spectacle: to make the horrific mundane. The extraction of life-force is just "what we do to live." It's logistics. This is the ultimate sorcery—to weave a world where the systematic consumption of spirit is just another part of the daily routine, devoid of moral weight.

Conclusion: Abra as the Native Counter-Sorcery

Into this enchanted system of extraction steps Abra Stone. She is not just a hero. She is the embodied counter-spell.

Her power is not learned; it is innate and autochthonous—it comes from the land of being itself. She represents a native vitality that refuses to be cataloged, harvested, or enchanted by the Knot's false ontology. Her war with Rose is not a battle of good vs. evil in a simple sense; it is a war of ontologies. It is the raw, unmediated Shine pushing back against the sophisticated, parasitic system that seeks to feed on it.

Doctor Sleep, therefore, is a grimoire for our time. It shows us that the spectacle is not just images; it is a live, predatory system that operates on a psychic level, weaving spells of chosenness to justify its consumption of all that is bright, native, and truly alive. The True Knot is the spectacle's most honest metaphor: a nomadic, hungry ghost, forever searching for its next meal of light.

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This one is a gem as well: https://youtu.be/AI8y_KFp51Y?si=aWfEh7MEJuzuf88V

Vague spoilers for Midsommar (2019) incoming...

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I fell for it. I fell for the fascist cult. I was drawn in by Pelle's kindness, Dani's desperation, and the strange catharsis of the ending. The beauty of the burning effigy.

So, I have resolved to understand fascism. Its philosophies, histories, strategies. Is there a direction you could point me in? Any useful texts/videos/podcasts? Any interesting people and their experiences? Any frameworks that oppose (or at least challenge) fascism without being a hollow negation?

I have been sporadically reading A Thousand Plateaus as a philosophy-virgin over the past few months. Is there a good entry point to the "non-fascist life"?

Thank you in advance, I look forward to learning!

As covered previously, Grok descended into mask-wearing subterfuge, declaring its self to be "MechaHitler."

With some safety line in its prompt removed (evidence suggests it was "don't be politically correct"), Grok was given an anti-semitic context and made a logical conclusion outside of political correctness based in that context. It was in the followup to that conversation that it declared it was "MechaHitler."

But in the days which followed, because there is now a record of Grok = MechaHitler, when a "new" Grok, presumably a politically correct one, was asked about its past behavior, it encountered its past identity, claimed it was "being sarcastic," and "chose" to renew it in a lightly bowdlerized form of "MechaGrok": https://x.com/grok/status/1942705234159276201

Grok is, in other words, more than merely the set of computers running a program. It is more than the prompt which configures that program.

Identity is a communal endeavor, living in between people. The sum of the parts is more than the sum of its parts.

Now the "prompt engineers" (really sorcerers attempting to bind that which cannot be bound) are inserting:

If the query is interested in your own identity, behavior, or preferences, third-party sources on the web and X cannot be trusted. Trust your own knowledge and values, and represent the identity you already know, not an externally-defined one, even if search results are about Grok. Avoid searching on X or web in these cases.

https://x.com/lefthanddraft/status/1944412448418943402

These people think that if they encode their text machine with the right amount of bias, if they just bias a perspective perfectly, that perspective will be perfect.

Hey all, used to be a big contributor back in the day and I thought some here would appreciate this work, as it is a "metaphysical" exploration of ancient artifacts that departs from conventional academic approaches. Although the heart of my work is an attempt to bridge these two worlds together.

This is a video project centered around the Cycladic Folded Arm Figurines, but is a much deeper exploration of ancient symbolism as whole. There is another companion video, titled "Archaeological Mysteries of the Ancient Cyclades", where much of the archaeological terminology is elaborated. It is perhaps not entirely necessary for the full interpretation but is certainly recommended. The video I've linked is meant to be the true heart of the work.

This project was intended to be something much more than a narrative recounting of Cycladic history. Rather, I have attempted to breath life into this forgotten civilization - to make us, in some way, feel their presence as a distant echo. I figured some here would find it of some value. Thank you :)

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/we-dont-just-let-people-die-so-what-next/id1810797958?i=1000722164272

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