“Separate yourself from that which separates you from others.” —Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
I had an inkling after posting on Sunday about the Groyper Army/Movement that I might have been jumping the gun and just adding more noise to a world where we are seemingly in constant escape velocity information streams.
I simply went with my personal knowledge (or lack of) regarding the memes, because they clearly represented the farthest right of the dark web…the “Black Pilled” community of Nick Fuentes and the INCEL Groypers.
I give credit to Adam Mockler for helping an old timer see it through the eyes of a 22-year-old.
If, and that is still a big if, the alleged shooter of Charlie Kirk was/is not an avowed Groyper…then it seems that he is sadly just another young man who was disillusioned and twisted in his brain.
This is not to say that the alleged shooter isn’t Black Pilled. This may yet be the case. The memes originate in the nihilistic culture of INCELS and “Doomers.”
This is also known as “Accelerationism.” Accelerationism knows no ideology left, right, red, blue…none of that matters to the Doomer Accelerationists.
Credit in this topic goes to journalist Ken Klippenstein who tracked down and posted the chat messages between the alleged shooter and his friends, while stating the government has new acronym called Nihilist Violent Extremist (NVE).
“Nihilist Violent Extremist has to be the most ridiculous term since the FBI warned of the looming threat of “involuntary celibate (Incel) violent extremists (IVEs)” in a joint intelligence bulletin in 2020. Was Joker-fied Violent Extremists already taken? Or was a Batman reference too lowbrow for whatever dork government bureaucrat came up with this?” –Ken Klippenstein
The right-wing media echo system is seizing on the fact that the alleged shooter was in a relationship with another male (who supposedly is transitioning) and that feeds their immediate ‘trans’ narrative.
True or not, the Groypers have many gay and trans relationships because they contain a large percentage of INCELS who thoroughly detest women. “Femboy” partners are common in the Groyper community. Learn more about this on the Cult College channel.
All death and harm toward each other are a violation of our relationship with Spirit. Yet, the ratcheting up of vitriolic language makes fertile ground for the expanded police state that Project 2025 laid out in its manifesto in 2024.
The Boy Crisis
The alleged shooter is 22 years old. This means that the only politics he has known his entire young adult life is the world of MAGA.
I have tried many times to explain to younger people that the country was never like this. The country had differences, but we never had someone in power who spoke in dehumanizing language that mimics every single tinpot dictator of the past century.
The type of person that Alexander Hamilton warned us of in Federalist Number One, October 27, 1787:
“It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is too apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten, that the vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us, that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism, than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their carreer, by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing Demagogues and ending Tyrants.” –Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton was wise enough to foresee a demagogue and a tyrant, and yet the founders did not have the vision to put laws in place to stop such a person from taking power of the young country.
You would think that the men who were building a nation in opposition to a monarchy would have set bulwarks in place to stop “illiberal distrust” in their new democracy.
At a moment where we desperately need good young men to carry this experiment forward…all they have known since middle-school is a toxic demagogue who uses divisive and dehumanizing language.
This behavior feeds directly into the nihilistic, black-pilled culture. How dangerous is this type of behavior and rhetoric? Read through some of the quotes in this piece: We Mustn't Compare Them to Nazis by Greg Olear.
We are leaving young men in the dust. Youth Unemployment is at 10.5% right now, heading back toward Covid levels. Historically, when Youth Unemployment leads like this, it is a harbinger of some hard times to come as the overall employment environment starts to spin out of control. Youth Unemployment is a canary in a coalmine for general employment.
In this whirlwind/maelstrom of insanity that is today’s world, what can we offer young men who feel disaffected and dissociated from our society?
Project 2025 wants the answer to be religion. Jesus. “Prager U.” More cults.
MAGA is a cult. The Groypers are a cult. The black-pilled meme-boys are a cult. Religion is a cult.
This is the Transcendent: Signal to Noise
“Man, I'm losing sound and sight
Of all those who can tell me wrong from right
When all things beautiful and bright sink in the night
Yet there's still something in my heart
That can find a way to make a start
To turn up the signal, wipe out the noise”
--Peter Gabriel: Signal to Noise
How do we break through the AI generated reality that dominates the world today to help these young men see, as Rumi states: “The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.”?
We need to move beyond the visible, beyond language. Is faith important? Maybe.
Joseph Cambell told us that “God is your ultimate barrier to truth.” In other words, the perception of God, or a God, as Campbell says, keeps us from “experiencing the Transcendent.”
It is not “left-wing radicals,” or “right-wing radicals.” Bawa says “Separate yourself from that which separates you from others.” This is the Transcendent.
What would a new myth or a new meme be that could represent the Transcendent for the young people in today’s world?
The myth must inspire seeking. Nihilism tells us there is nothing to seek. A modern myth needs to invite the next generation to seek awe and meaning.
Our world is filled with Signal. How can we “Send out the signals, deep and loud and Wipe Out The Noise?”
“This is an opportunity for people to galvanize and recognize their strength in numbers. We still haven't done that as a species.” –Pharrell Williams
Practical and temporal answers would be leaders who are not divisive and vulgar but as was always the case in the past, urge us toward our “better angels.” Another would be regulating algorithms to stop pulling young minds into the dark crevices of the internet. Five U.S. companies control those algorithms. Collectively we must demand that they are regulated.
We should build a world of young artists, musicians, authors, poets and creators of Grace. Pharrell Williams said it best here: