Piero San Giorgio and I discuss the possibilities. Listen to it on UATV.
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Tonight, We Launch
Tune in to Arkhaven Nights tonight. We’ll be live-launching a certain campaign that will likely be of interest to readers of Arktoons and Sigma Game.
Also, if you’re a SocialGalactic member who has had trouble accessing the site, please note that we’re now at socialgalactic.com, not social.infogalactic.com. Your User ID and password remain the same, but trying to log in to the old site is not going to work.
UPDATE: The Hypergamouse campaign is now live and is already halfway to the initial goal! Be sure to check out all the ADDON options.
Meme of the Week 20
Some excellent memes last night on the Darkstream. Several 9s and 10s. And while I really liked both the Hagrid meme and the HAL meme, this one just hits a little harder.
The September Books
- Castalia Library Book 30: JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë
- Castalia History Book 6: THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
For more detail on both of these books, their expected print runs, and the title pages of the latter two-volume set, check out the Castalia Library substack.
In other news, the UATV devs tracked down the bug that was recently preventing new subscriptions on Unauthorized. Note that this did not affect renewals.
Unauthorized.TV patch – Sep. 2nd 2024
This weekend, we patched an issue which was preventing many of you from reactivating your UATV subscription or taking out new ones. If you recently encountered a “server error” page while trying to manage your subscription, that problem has now been resolved.
If you’re not subscribed to UATV yet, make an account and sign up for a subscription!
We will be launching the long-awaited crowdfund campaign for the HYPERGAMOUSE book and the SIGMA GAME book next week. It will be a 60-day campaign, and we expect both books to be ready to ship at the end of the campaign. Speaking of campaigns, the AH:Q books are now in the warehouse and we’ll start sending them out to the backers next week.
And finally, we appear to be on a track to get the bindery fully operational in October. This is the first book to be cased, stamped, and cased-in by the newly-repaired machines; it was just completed yesterday. As you can see from the picture, we’ve been experimenting with improving both the thickness of the boards and the overhang now that these details are under our control. The key thing here is that the leather is the Italian cowhide that our previous press did not have the tonnage to stamp cleanly. Obviously, that problem has been resolved by our new 73-year-old Swiss-made beast.
Permanently Unauthorized
Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter and Susan Wojcicki died, the word has been that the unauthorized crimethinkers are being welcomed back to the converged platforms from which they were banished.
Following her death people like Robert F Kennedy Jr. and Judge Andrew Napolitano are back on YouTube which is no longer censoring vaccine truth.
That may be. However, after hearing this, I took advantage of the YouTube account review process. I doubt anyone here will be surprised to learn the result, although I was a bit surprised that the review process was so efficient, as I received YouTube’s decision in less than two minutes.
That was a remarkably fast “careful look”. And, of course, there still has never been any explanation of how it violates that “Community Guidelines” policy. Note that I’m not complaining, I’m just confirming and observing, and it’s good to know that, at least in the opinion of Clown World, I still haven’t lost my fastball.
UPDATE: Ron Unz wonders why Candace Owens is still permitted on YouTube.
Dissident circles frequently use the phrase “controlled opposition,” reflecting Lenin’s alleged strategy of creating a fake opposition movement that he himself could control and manipulate. Having watched a number of Candace Owens’ videos, she seems entirely sincere and I doubt very much that she represents any sort of “controlled opposition.” But I do think another relevant term might be “promoted opposition,” with the powerful establishment using its control over the media and major platforms to decide exactly which individuals will become its most prominent and visible public opponents. And perhaps the continuing survival and success of Candace Owens on YouTube might reflect that sort of decision.
I have what I consider to be a more likely explanation: Candace Owens is black and she’s married to a rich Englishman. YouTube probably doesn’t want to fight that battle on both PR and legal fronts, particularly given the very strong English defamation laws it habitually violates when it falsely claims the violation of its Community Guidelines.
Meme Review
We’re bringing back the Weekly Meme Review tonight. You know the drill. Limit: one meme per customer. Put MEME in the subject. This is my submission, courtesy of a commenter at Sigma Game, who coined the phrase quoted therein. It’s as flawless a piece of rhetoric as I’ve ever seen.
Veniunt, Infamaverunt, Mortui Sunt
Another platform for hit pieces aimed at the Big Bear and me is headed for the dustbin of history:
The Daily Beast is gutting its senior editorial team after implementing voluntary buyouts last month, with nearly 70% of unionized staffers leaving the outlet, TheWrap has learned.
The senior staffers taking buyouts include media reporter Justin Baragona, political investigations reporter Jose Pagliery, senior national reporter Pilar Melendez, senior reporter Emily Shugerman, and more, according to an individual with knowledge of the situation. Twenty-five unionized staffers took the buyouts, equivalent to nearly 70% of the guild, including almost all of the outlet’s senior staffers.
Additionally, non-union editorial staffers are expecting another round of layoffs at the end of the month. “We’re currently watching the collapse of The Beast,” the individual told TheWrap. “There is no doubt the site won’t be able to recover from this.”
They come, they slander, and then they die.
It’s rather amusing to see how they always assume they are powerful and influential enough to discredit, deplatform, and destroy us, and yet they’re not even capable of surviving without being constantly propped up with someone else’s money.
Our organic and unauthorized community of Dread Ilk and Bears, along with our allies in the Razorforce and the rest of the Unauthorized, is observably stronger, more resilient, and longer-lived than these organizations that are founded by billionaires, lavishly funded, and massively supported by their fellow media organs. Which is why their inevitable demises are worth celebrating when they occur.
At this point, I won’t be surprised if we outlast The Guardian, founded in 1821, despite it being the beneficiary of a massive trust fund. The Guardian stopped reporting its daily circulation in 2021 after falling from 161,152 in March 2016 to 105,134 in July 2021, and is now estimated to have a circulation of only 60,000.
UPDATE: Owen comments: “Yeah, bludgeoning is the go-to for a bear.”
46 Billion
Sometimes, I can almost empathize with the clowns whose job it is to suppress the various Unauthorized creators and prevent us from becoming mainstream figures. It’s got to be frustrating to keep us off all of the mainstream platforms, and yet see our ideas still winning out over all of their ticket-takers and approved, algorithm-pushed, and well-funded pet intellectuals. From Wikipedia:
Sigma male
Sigma male (or simply sigma) (/sɪɡmə məɪl/ ⓘ) is a term in internet slang used most often to describe archetype of a male who is a “lone wolf”. The name is a product of the manosphere message boards in the 2010s, the term has gained widespread prominence within internet culture, and since the early 2020s, has become an internet meme. Commonly regarded as the “rarest” type of male, a sigma male is typically denoted as an archetype of a male who is similar to the alpha male. Unlike an alpha male, sigma males are more introverted and seek to dominate themselves, in other words “self-mastery”. On social media, the term is often used to describe the idolization of masculine characters from films and TV shows, or celebrities.Alternatively, the term has taken on an ironic and satirical meaning, mocking the concept of the manosphere and the sigma grindset.
In 2023, #sigma gained over 46 billion views on the social media platform TikTok.
I find it more than a little ironic that a) it is deemed a “contentious topic” and b) despite it having its own page, there is no reference to it on the Wikipedia page about me. It appears the Wikipedia admins would prefer to believe that I am known for imaginary things I’ve never said than for genuine things I have.
Anyhow, this is why you should contemplate subscribing to UATV if you haven’t already. It will put you somewhere between ten and 20 years ahead of the curve, depending upon the topic.
Arkhaven Nights Power Three
If you didn’t catch last night’s ARKHAVEN NIGHTS on UATV, you’ll probably want to check it out, if only for THE VOICE, THE FIST, THE WINGS anthem that JDA’s guy produced for it. It was a VERY wide-ranging discussion.
The Intellectual Father of Clown World
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant’s comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western philosophy, being called the “father of modern ethics”, the “father of modern aesthetics”, and for bringing together rationalism and empiricism earned the title of “father of modern philosophy”.
In last night’s Darkstream, I examined what is described as one of Kant’s “major works”, “An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?” And, as I think everyone who watched it will confirm, I very easily exposed this highly-regarded historical intellectual as a verbose charlatan who substitutes rhetoric for dialectic, dubious enthymemes for valid logical syllogisms, makes wildly improbable assumptions, and gets basic observations about human nature completely and verifiably wrong.
One particularly cruel viewer even commented that Kant’s arguments sound a bit like Petersonian bafflegarble, which frankly I think is going much too far and is unfair to the Enlightenment philosopher, but while I don’t condone the observation, I can understand it.
It’s also worth noting that Kant cribbed from Aristotle without correctly attributing the concept, while changing the terms he utilized in order to make his justification of elite despotism appear to be more palatable to the public that will be enslaved, not because they are “natural slaves” per Aristotle, but cowards in a state of “self-incurred minority”. Below is just one of the several obvious flaws in what is nothing more than a rhetorical argument:
I have put the main point of enlightenment, of people’s emergence from their self-incurred minority, chiefly in matters of religion because our rulers have no interest in playing guardian over their subjects with respect to the arts and sciences and also because that minority being the most harmful, is also the most disgraceful of all.
This assertion is not only false, but downright risible, particularly in light of the way in which the rulers of Clown World are deeply and observably interested in “playing guardian over their subjects with respect to the arts and sciences” and have done so for decades in a considerably more aggressive, totalitarian, and harmful manner than any religious authority has for centuries.
Kant asserts the inevitability of the impossible, while simultaneously denying the indisputable. As with so many other intellectuals revered by Clown World, a critical reading of Kant quickly reveals him to be more of a useful fraud than a legitimately great thinker.
Kant’s Enlightenment philosophy, like free trade, evolution by natural selection, and free speech, simply has not withstood the test of time. As with those similarly outdated concepts, the more one digs into his work, the more flaws, both in theory and in practice, reveal themselves to the conscientious reader.