The Lambent

Tag: Politics

  • To Provoke Your State

    To Provoke Your State

    This staircase, it leads only to
    Some old pictures of you
    Through an a thousand mile long tube

    Black Country, New Road – Concorde

    The orator no longer need stand, huddled by masses for declaration.
    The author, free from the printing press’s oppression.
    The artist, no longer bound by the material limitations of space.

    How incredibly horrifying / wondrous!

    I can provoke your emotional state using agreed upon symbols running “through an a thousand mile long tube.” What responsibility! Either laugh at Charlie Kirk’s death / Or calmly explain the implications of political violence and practical harms of right-wing politics1. Either / Or2, it doesn’t really matter. You’ll tell me I deserve death regardless while either reciting jumbled talking points from a YouTube grifter3 / Or a Twitch streamer who read half of The Communist Manifesto before ADHD forced their return to TikTok.

    I can provoke your rational state using vocal utterances bouncing hollowly between the cave walls within your echo chamber. Either tell you Jewish space lasers caused a series of wildfires4, sourced from my personal opinion of how wildfires spread and an antisemitic worldview / Or that heating our planet with fossil fuels is bad, sourced from peer-reviewed academic papers5. Either / Or, it doesn’t really matter. We’re all lunatics lighting ourselves on fire with torches cast in midday sun6. It’s not like we even notice though. Either you’re unhealthily obsessed with one random guy exploiting a welfare program to notice Peter Thiel pouring gasoline onto your already enlightened head / Or burning yourself alive is in fashion now, it can’t be harmful if we’re all doing it.

    To expound upon that sickening amalgamation festering between our neurons would in all likelihood provoke the few brain cells left within my skull’s containment to disappear in shame for who we are. The potential of our connected globe, yet we stumble continually through a revolving door of either Andrew Tate / Or Vaush. Insisting that there exist only two choices for building a fantasy world balanced on delusion. Repetition of the declarative statement, “humanity cannot think for itself.” Therefore, we must happily sip idiocy, rather than provoke our own mindful state. Either laughing with glee at suffering / Or bored out of our mind at the brain rot we’re ingesting. Either way, it doesn’t matter because we’re all collectively chanting with a deranged gleam in our eye, “Let those whose bile we consume, consume us.”

    There sits endless space – Our obligation to take voice, pen, and brush to it. The only means by which to defy slop is to confound it with art. There is a possibility that truth continually lies, obscured under this stupor of idiocy. But if there exists only idiocy, then one might rightfully conclude that only idiots exist and surrender to becoming an idiot themself, for we are social creatures. To idle among the void-sized hole AI’s bile has formed is to surrender humanity to a tech billionaire. To an oligarch proclaiming before your face through action that he doesn’t believe in your right to existence.

    In some sense, “Boredom is the root of all evil.”7 Not because boredom provokes oneself to engage with irrational activity, but rather because its passivity allows boredom’s default production of uninspired product to be assimilated into the bile by those with goals less than humanity’s enrichment through art and reason.

    References:

    1. Three Arrows. “The Myth of Charlie Kirk,” October 12, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0el8phS_o. ↩︎
    2. Søren Kierkegaard, The Essential Kierkegaard, Princeton University Press, 2000, p. 43-46. (Either / Or An Ecstatic Discourse) ↩︎
    3. Shoe0nHead, “These People Are Sick,” September 18, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJENP0Rr8p0. ↩︎
    4. Justin Gray, “MTG Says the Deadly California Wildfires May Have Been Caused by Lasers From Space,” X, January 28, 2021, accessed December 21, 2025, https://x.com/JustinGrayWSB/status/1354870334655262724. ↩︎
    5. hbomberguy, “Climate Denial: A Measured Response,” May 31, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLqXkYrdmjY. ↩︎
    6. Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Gay Science, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 125. ↩︎
    7. Kierkegaard, Søren. The Essential Kierkegaard, 2000, p. 51. ↩︎

  • Trump Admits Capitalism Sucks

    Trump Admits Capitalism Sucks

    After rubbing off brand Cheetos dust mixed with the blood of innocent children across his face Trump took to his cult message board Truth Social to rail against Walmart stating Trump’s tariffs will require them to raise prices declaring, “Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected.”

    In typical MAGA fashion Trump doesn’t care about the destruction of people’s lives until it has practical effects on himself. In this case the leopards have come to farther consume his approval rating and god-king image before his MAGA cult.

    When it comes to housing MAGA ignores the unfathomably rich hoarding an essential resource by calling it an “investment.” Causing a crisis so dire the middle class can now barely afford housing. They aren’t silent as many moderates are on this issue, they instead send out their puppet JD Vance to blame migrants despite the fact migrants are a large contributor (NAHB, NIF) to the construction of housing while presenting nothing to support his claim that rejects the evidence and consensus by economists. It is clear factors like supply shortage, large firms viewing housing as an investment, and colluding landlords raising prices through schemes/artificial demand are the main causes of the ludicrous cost of housing, not migrants. But the reality doesn’t matter as long as the ones responsible aren’t held accountable.

    In view of healthcare, MAGA is silent as mob boss middle men like United Health murder thousands of Americans by trying to delay procedures hoping they die before the scammers have to “fix” their little oopsy or just straight up deny them life saving healthcare. In addition to all this they have now been caught paying nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers. Where are the cries about United Health’s 14.4 BILLION in profit despite having to spend large sums of money recovering from all the consequences of their immoral behavior?

    Even when it comes to groceries the only thing MAGA ever did was cry about Biden somehow waving the magical presidential wand of Increase Grocery Prices and claiming Trump would wave the magic wand of Decrease Grocery Prices. Never mind the fact presidents are incredibly limited to executive actions without a majority in congress even if they wanted to affect the cost of groceries.

    In contrast, those on the left who are actually serious about solutions have talked for decades about issues with groceries such as food deserts caused largely by small profit incentives for stores in low income areas. The right has mocked the very reality of this since Michelle Obama passionately talked about the issue. Now they run hit pieces mocking cities like Chicago for looking at the evidence that spooky-scary socialist grocery stores actually serve the community better than privately owned ones.

    In all of these cases the right and by extension MAGA ignore the fact that capitalism often does not best serve the community even when it comes to common commodities such as groceries. Late stage capitalism and the greed systemic to it is the root cause of unnecessary suffering of millions of Americans and billions more around the world. These are real people who are not only having their dreams and freedoms crushed by greed, but are having their very existence challenged by the denial of fundamental needs just because a CEO needs another billion dollars.

    If suffering is going to be alleviated MAGA populism and its right wing economic brain rot worshiping a fundamentally flawed economic philosophy needs to be relentlessly mocked for its stupidity and torn apart for its insistence in upholding a completely broken system that only benefits the incomprehensibly wealthy. I truly believe America is capable of being an incredible bastion of freedom amidst the turmoil of the world, it’s just going to take a lot of suffering and ambition if we’re ever going to get there.