The fabulous comedian David Cross, whose comedy decades ago first raised our eyebrow to lowest common denominator political American stupidity, has a great bit where he says “I would like to officially change and substitute 'casting spells and chanting' in place of 'thoughts and prayers'. Hilarious and even more American!

This is not only wonderful and delightful because it draws attention to the fact that language itself is micro magic. When a likely fake Christian politician stands at a podium after a 2nd Amendment related tragedy and utters that eye roll worthy, tired, and empty phrase, “thoughts and prayers,” instead of passing very popular common sense policies to help reduce gun violence, what they are actually doing is a kind of spiritual bypassing substituted for spell-casting, though a spell so worn down, so emptied of intention, that it has become little more than background noise. The words drift out, ritualistically, to soothe and placate, but not to transform a culture into something better.

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Doomy titles, those grim little prophecies scattered across the scrollable wasteland of social media such as “It’s over” “The end is near” “We’re cooked” "This country is done".

These are not messages; they are emotional tripwires, engineered in the same factories of attention where clickbait is synthesized like a psychic plastic.

The culture has learned something very old and very potent: fear is the most efficient solvent of attention. Long before corporate news and controlled algorithms, sub-optimal priests and kings understood that if they can convince people the sky is falling, they can rearrange the ground beneath their feet.

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Since the toothpaste is not going back in the tube with gen AI, meaning generative artificial intelligence, we've started a new production venture. It's called Artificially Resurrected and can be found primarily at artificiallyresurrected.org or .net or .com will also get you there so please navigate there and to our Substack and channel and give it a look over and sub if you will.

AI is inherently a set of unbelievably sobering and eye opening tools, and while it should be heavily regulated, duha, one of the many concerns with it, let alone in regards to potential future machine self-aware superintelligence, is primarily who controls it and who benefits from it. So we're trying to do our small part to use these tools in a more conscious way to create content that would be essentially 30 second to 3 minute long on camera single mostly single shot pieces of resurrecting evolved minds from the past to speak on the imbalances and injustices of the present. And we promise, with just the first three videos that we've created so far of Martin Luther King Jr, Neville Goddard, and Carl Jung, they are on camera looking quite photoreal.

This insight is a good one to watch on the YouTube channel, because here's the initial launch video, or obviously as audio only for the podcast, which gives more insights on ART RES:

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One of the many great things about "No Kings" is the variety of messaging we saw. Which means a variety of thoughts. For the progress side of America this is both good and bad because messaging can be scattered. As historically, there will always be the "free Tibet" Berkeley hippies there with those fighting for civil rights, affordable healthcare, and upholding the constitution. For the regress side of America, they're messaging is often more homogenized because there is less variety of thought. This unfortunately means its messaging can be parroted and echoed quicker.

When we look at the phenomenon of theocratic fascist cults, whether they arise in the deserts of the ancient world or the digital jungles of the modern mind—we are observing the triumph of ideology over experience. These people, who we've said it before and we'll never stop saying it, in their latest incarnation, are in a fascist MAGA cult, nested in a regressive red cult, nested in a faux Abrahamic supremacist religious cult. So these thrice cult fervent disciples speak in unison because the narrow structure they inhabit demands it. Language, that great frontier of the individual spirit, within these tight canyons is commandeered, reduced, and weaponized into a tool of control. The spontaneous bloom of personal insight is replaced by the same dozen tired selfish asshole tropes, "You Marxist", "You Communist", "We're a Republic, not a democracy", "You wanna raise my taxes", etc... SNORE!!!

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The other day, on some of our content, we had a troll attempt to sling mud. They abided by the same exact pattern we see with every troll, who were triggered because what we were saying threatened one of their underlying fictional operating systems. Not to mention one of their multiple nested cults which they are in. We encourage you to listen to our previous insight titled "Regressive Reactionaries" because that is the pattern. Which is that we have never seen an American imperial advocate, meaning regressive, otherwise called a heavy "right winger" leave a proactive, or insightful, or considerate comment. Instead, the comments are always, always, always reactionary.

The term reactionary is very precise, and when applied to those who claim to call themselves conservatives helps us overstand what is really happening beneath their false slogans and their terrible policy which hurts the average person, including themselves. A reactionary is not simply someone who holds traditional values. A reactionary is someone who defines themselves by opposition to change, someone whose entire political energy comes from the desire to reverse history, to roll back the clock, to resist the forward momentum of culture.

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Complacency is a comfortable little narcotic of the mediocre mind. It’s the warm blanket people pull over themselves when they’ve decided that the status quo, however absurd, will do just fine. Complacency is not merely laziness; it’s moral sedation. It’s the smug conviction that because things are tolerable for someone, they must therefore be tolerable in general. A comfortable mental prison cell of negative certainty — well-upholstered, climate-controlled, and locked from the inside.

Evolution, whether biological, psychological, or social, doesn’t favor comfort. It favors adaptability, curiosity, and the capacity to update one’s reality tunnel when the data changes. But complacency is the refusal to update.

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The No Kings protests are a marvelous eruption of the human spirit into the political landscape. To see people in the United States of America, a society long habituated to the theater of managed choice and the soft hypnosis of consumerism, awakening and dancing in the streets beneath banners that declare the blatantly obvious “No Kings” — well, that is the body politic rediscovering its pulse and deeper spirit.

Democracy, in its truest sense, is not a system of bureaucratic rituals or a cold architecture of laws. It is an ecstatic phenomenon. The collective imagination made flesh, the many realizing they are, like an ant hive or mycelial network, one organism with countless voices and are the most powerful. More than pedo oligarchs, or a nightmare fuel supreme court, or a deeply mentally ill criminal shitler clown president gone rogue. The No Kings movement, in its humor, in its refusal to genuflect before the false idols of authority, is a reclamation of humor and joy as a political act. And joy, my friend, is one of the most subversive forces in the cosmos. Tyrants and bureaucrats cannot understand it, for it arises from a source beyond fear or control so the MAGA cult of fear is so jealous of their joy because they have no joy and will have no joy until they leave the cult.

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The fascist psyche of growing up in cults of lovelessness, sexual repression, internal fear and weakness, and shadow thrives on the fictional creation of an enemy so vivid, so grotesque, that violence against it can be justified. They long not merely to demonize the majority that aren't in their minority cult of dark imperial fake supremacy, but to provoke that other into striking back. Because the moment the patriotic people of dissenting voices are baited into violence, then the fasct clowns can don the mask of the victim and say, “See, we were right all along. They are dangerous. They must be controlled.”

It is the same game that schoolyard bullies play, but writ large upon the political stage. They taunt, they insult, they try to strip away dignity, all with the hope of eliciting a punch. And the punch is then the justification for escalation, for repression, for the tightening of the wanna be authoritarian yet actually pathetic grip. Fascism requires chaos to sell order, it requires violence to sell security. Without the spectacle of blood and broken glass, its promises fall flat.

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