Feathercrow brilliantly restores the metaphysical weight of the novel, treating evil not as a mere trope but as a systemic force that fragments the human soul. It is a sharp, necessary reminder that the most dangerous forms of malice often masquerade as pure rationality and social order.
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Ten Novels that Prove Evil is RealAdded:
These 10 novels prove that evil is real.
Because in our modern world where we are dominated by rationality, where the logic bro inside of us cannot be contained, we no longer understand that evil is an autonomous power that has control over us. Our ancestors for thousands of years understood this and personified that power in countless ways which is really one of the origins of literature of story. In our modern world where we deny anything that isn't quantifiable. Deny anything that cannot be represented by science. The concept of evil has been reduced down to oppression, abuse, political tyranny, institutions, whatever. And then in the field of art, we have been bombarded for decades now with this concept of pure evil. Michael Myers, Jason, or even worse, the story, or I should say the stories of the good character who has one inciting incident and suddenly becomes evil. These surface level analysises of evil, this simulacra rational wasteland that we are living in right now does not give representation to the power of evil. But I know something that does and it's these 10 novels, everyone. Because something that novels can do better than any artistic medium out there is go deep into the real topics into God, into evil, into the stuff that cannot be explained on the flat glow screen that cannot be explained in just one piece of art that many of us in our suburban myth uh routine lifestyles do not confront. And so where can we find it? Well, we can start finding it. we can start opening our minds to the possibility of it with some of the great thinkers, feelers, philosophers of all time and their works in the realm of literature everyone. And so today we are going to talk about 10 novels because if you do not already know my name is Ian and here on Right Conscious we talk about the best books and the best authors of all time because my goal is to create a literary renaissance. My goal is to wake up a billion new readers so we can not only change a literary culture but we can change the world. And I believe that reading is one of the integral steps of making that happen or read people reading in mass again. And so if you want to support me on that journey, please subscribe to the channel and I will not let you down because I bring this energy in every video throughout the video. And so let's now hop into it.
And so literature is so important in discussing evil because it can show evil in motion. It can show us the interiority of someone who is evil. It can show us the feeling of someone being overtaken by something older than them, this old primordial force of evil. And we can see in depth this kind of transformation over time. Because if we study psychology, we can learn about complexes. We can see journals of even sometimes these evil evil serial killers. We can do these analysises, but it's flat, you guys. A lot of the time when you watch a true crime documentary, are you just brain rotting or are you um you actually feeling the depth of it?
And the answer is a lot of the time you aren't. And I love psychology, you know, but psychology and philosophy, which, you know, debates the idea whether evil has substance or theological debates, they all fall a tad short. And so what is evil, everybody? Well, the definition that John Sanford puts out in his book, Evil, the shadow side of reality, and Sanford is an awesome union. Everyone should go check this out. It's under like 150 pages. It's a fast read that actually talks about evil in literature and art. It's really good and a must-read for anyone into Yian psychology or psychology in general. But his definition is that evil is what seeks to destroy wholeness. And he believes that good right what is good in the world is or I should say kind of promotes wholeness. And we can feel this in our heart. I already know that there are some logic bros that evil is not that right conscious. Hey, let keep the dog inside for one more sec. I'll let you. We'll unleash it in a little bit.
Everyone, don't worry. We got some characters that all theers out there are going to absolutely devour and you can school me in a little bit, everyone. But we want a practical definition. We want a definition that cannot be deconstructed and destroyed. Is wholeness quantifiable? No. But we all know what that feels like inside of us.
We all know that's what we seek.
Holistic, wholesome. When we say that about someone, when I call someone wholesome, it's someone that is generally well-rounded, balanced, and evil cannot live on really independently. It always has to it, and maybe it can for a time, but it always has to attach to something that's healthy, much like a virus, much like a typical sickness. And that's what it feels like when you've ever been taken for instance by this virus of evil. When you've been ripped out of wholeness, whether that's in a relationship where you start having doubts, when you start reclaiming your dark throne as the king of the gooners, um when you, you know, start to think about cheating, you start getting on dating these things, you start to detach from this third body that you and another person who you are in love with create. And what starts to happen is that there, and this is what we're going to see in today's presentation with many of these characters, is that what evil does is that it isolates everyone. It fragments.
It finds a weak point in the armor and then gets that and then starts to find its way into the system. And so, enough of talking about all of this. Let's now hop into our first novel of the day. And I think there's going to be some wild I want to throw in some wild cards. There are going to be some typical picks that I've discussed before because they are perfect examples of this concept of evil, but some others that may surprise you. And so, first up, of course, we have Core Matt McCarthy's Blood Meridian. And we're about to go a lot deeper than Judge Holden is the devil because McCarthy was a master of evil.
McCarthy and Blood Meridian figured out how to philosophically discuss the new evil of the world in motion, which wasn't the actions of Judge Holden.
Because simple evil is Judge Holden scalping people or abusing women and children. But the pattern McCarthy was trying to show with the three books that he was writing in the late 1970s which were Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men and The Passenger were the effects of hyperrationality.
And hyperrationality is now our reality.
Our entire world has been mapped. The magic has been removed from every everything. an animistic reciprocal connection with not just nature but with our own soul has been divorced has been removed which is the ultimate evil and McCarthy understood this and brought it out in the perfect setting because when people contemplate 19th century America you know the wild west we think about the external violence right we think about the exploitation of native people or peoples we think of the hardship of the pilgrims all these different things.
But what the Wild West really was, and this is what Thomas Pinchon explores in Mason and Dixon and Against the Day and in many of his works, was the final conquering of the soul, everyone.
Because once the West had been mapped and conquered, there was nothing out there in the external world, once all the bears and the wolves were killed, that we could no longer dominate. And thus the conquest of the inner soul which we are now the endgame victims of could begin. And that conquest started with hyperrationality.
That conquest started not with Judge Hull then hurting people. What was So if you guys don't know, I'm not really going to spoil anything. Guess what?
Blood Marines about a bunch of gang members killing a bunch of people. But the judge is the scariest of all because he isn't just an unconscious scalper who just wants to kill people and and rape and do these things. What he wants to do and he is admitting this is contain the world. He wants to understand and turn the entire world into a similacer within his notebook. He is the demiurge. he is or trying to be the master of everything. The man who can quantify everything. Honey, I think you may have borderline personality disorder cuz I can't communicate with you and you get upset. And nothing is more evil than this in everybody. If we return to our earlier definition that evil is what removes us from wholeness, trying to rip us out and create a copy of us would thus be the ultimate evil because death is final. Right? If I am killed, you do this evil act and you torture me or kill me, I still retain parts of my wholeness. But if you remove me or make a copy of me entirely and are the master of me, then what do I actually have? And this is what Corormatt McCarthy started to recognize and made the sole purpose of the second half of his career to speak out against because McCarthy was a genius you guys. He was a very talented thinker and he self-educated himself in science and mathematics um throughout the you know his entire life but very much in the late 1970s. And in 1981, he got the MacArthur Fellowship and the first one ever actually and got to go hang out with Nobel Prize winners in physics and mathematics and have this ecstatic experience. But what he started to realize of way earlier than a lot of others was, oh my god, this mentality, this hyperrationality is leading us to a reality where we are going to destroy ourselves. And when you look at the three novels that he was writing in the late 1970s in No Country for Old Men, Anton Chagur was even more detached than Judge Holden because he was quantifying through rationality people's life and death through a coin toss in Cormack McCarthy's the passenger Alicia Western who is a math and physics prodigy has gone insane has become schizophrenic because of how hyperrational she had to become to understand the you know the limits of math and physics and McCarthy knew that math and science were eventually going to conquer the inner world. And Judge Holden is the impetus of all of that, right? He is trying and removing the ability for the kid in Blood Meridian to step into his messianic roots. All of us have an opportunity for redemption, you guys, no matter how horrible our life was. At the start of Blood Meridian, the main protagonist, the kid is born under the Leonids. He is a cosmic being like all of us who has been sent here to achieve nosis because McCarthy during this time was obsessed with nasticism.
He mentions the Ogdawad oneta in blood meridian. He evokes the wordnosticism and other things in other novels around this time. And we now know through his reading list that he was very interested in nnarosticism. And in 1978, the non-commodi library was translated into English, which was a huge deal in the like the literature and thinking world.
And how many of you guys out there feel whole? Do you feel whole? And the answer is no. Many of us have had hard lives or made decisions that have, you know, let evil into our heart or have fragmented us. The whole point of this technological similac wasteland is to fragment us. We become fragmented, disenchanted. We become the talk. We become the character. We remove ourselves from the wholeness. We remove ourselves not just from our own spirit but the connection to the world, our connection to the world. But innosticism, if you don't know, it believes that the there is a God above God and that the Christian God or a God who that narcissism calls the demiurge created an illusionary world that he rules over this evil world and that we are all pilgrims here. That we are all fragmented here and the whole point of our life is to retain this wholeness.
And McCarthy, who was born into an abusive household with a ton of pressure throughout his entire life, especially during this time, had the self-awareness to know that he was a false messianic figure, that he really wanted to become whole, but that he had these vices, whether it was the, you know, his love of young women, teenagers, whatever we want to call them, drinking, um, being a rambler, whatever it was, um, his in inability to stay consistent in relationships that never allowed him to become whole. And so what he did was write about it and philosophically write about these characters. Such the kid. I mean almost in every single one of his novels he focused on characters in an evil world trying to become whole. And Blood Meridian is beautiful because the landscape is the illusionary world. It is the liinal space. It has the false moons. It is overruled by not the devil everyone but the demiurge. the he god of the Bible himself who has created an illusionary world to contain us in according to narcissism. I'm not a gnostic but I can resonate with a lot of these ideas and understand the truth of them because in the perennial philosophy that all religions outside of you know the enforced Abrahamic religions and even within them a little bit these ideas are in there. And so this novel is beautiful because the kid is trying to find wholeness in the worst place possible and is given multiple opportunities but the judge is always there. McCarthy brings the strongest evil, the strongest level, this pattern, this force, this new evil as we see in the epilogue of Blood Meridian to hamper the kid's ability to ascend, to transcend. And now that we live in this hyperrational wasteland, there is everything. One click away, you guys. In three swipes, you could be gooning, you could be watching some violent atrocity, you could be scaring yourself, you could be almost anywhere, you guys. And the online world is crazy, but the the the real world is even more insane because there's a bunch of screwed up people out there who will want to do screwed up things with you. We have enhanced drugs.
We have traumatized men and women that we could find on dating apps or whatever. We can and we can manipulate them with, you know, pickup artistry ideas because they're unconscious. Like, there's all this stuff that you can do if you are a person on the path that can throw you off the path almost forever. I mean, it it's wild, you guys. We did not liberate our soul through the hyperrational matrix. We imprisoned it.
We didn't gain connection and access through social media. Oh, I could FaceTime my brother in Iran who's in the war. Oh. Oh, wait. Little Johnny could see his father flying the drones now.
Hey Johnny, look. Are we proud of your dad? We've traded a little bit easier access to money, to sex online and in person to these, you know, things that don't matter and lost access to God, lost access to nature, lost access to love, lost access to family. I'm not even saying you need to have just like your family. Like literally, we've moved away. We've, you know, we moved here for a job. It's like it's all gone now. And it's because it's been mapped out. The matrix is here. And that's why I wanted to start with Blood Meridian. I know I talk about it a lot. If you're new to this channel, boom. I got 200 videos on Cormack McCarthy. Go check them out.
Let's go, everyone. But evil comes and when we're looking at literature, a lot of the time it comes as a seducer. You know what's you know what's interesting about Blood Meridian is that I don't view and this is this is what I now if you go read Cormatt McCarthy's drafts at the Cormat McCarthy archives which I have and like studied it. McCarthy didn't mean for blood uh judge Holden to become this personification of all evil that all the bros online like like to worship him as like he's the devil and look at him and like like there's like all this weird Judge Holden evil fanboy villain boy worship stuff going on. But McCarthy's actual intention for his character was to depict him as a rambling seducer, as this overeducated, just rambler who was just like kind of seducing these men and like kind of doing a bit of unconscious programming on him because he'll give speeches, some of his most famous speeches, and the dudes will just look at him and spit and walk away. They're not like, "Oh my god, great talk. There was this other TED speaker that have you heard this other TED talk?" And McCarthy was trying to show that hyperrationality within a personality doesn't doesn't need to come off as you know and Judge Holden is interesting because he's embodying both. He is pure evil in his actions but then also through his words he's a manipulator. He's a container. A lot of the time, evil, as we're about to discuss, presents itself, and this is a good bridge, as freedom, as the rational side, as the, you know, the side of love, all these different things. And and one person taking bad action, one person killing 13 people is terrible.
Like a serial killer or something like that, horrible. Um, someone abusing their family, horrible. But someone who has the ability to manipulate a society into evil, which can then cause hundreds of thousands, millions of people to die in some cases, tens of millions of people to die, is a whole new level of evil. It is like the gold. It's like the, you know, the random abuser at home is playing wreck league basketball and like, you know, these new guys. Some of these crazy dictators we've seen and others are like, you know, the Michael Jordans of evil. And so my big goal right now is to create a literary renaissance everyone. And I am doing that over on Substack, which is the home of the literary renaissance. The best readers and the best writers in the world are on Substack. And my big goal right now is to help activate readers.
But more importantly, because reading just isn't enough is to help readers escape the logical constraints that we have been put in. And so on Substack I host the right conscious book club and we are reading 28 yes 28 transformative novels in 2026 which makes us the most active book club in the world. Actually blood meridian is on that list and we are reading it I think in August or September. And during that same month we are reading Fight Club by Chuck Pollenic. But I also host reading and excuse me literature and writing courses over on Substack also. Right now I am working through a William Blake course, the first prophet on how to escape the logical constraints nude and sleep. I'm also doing a course on symbolism. I just released a 90-minute video on the symbolism of dragons, everyone in literature, though, and this dives much deeper than just talking about dragons in fantasy, but the actual origins of dragons throughout storytelling for thousands of years and the true symbolism that has been lost in the past couple decades or centuries. And tomorrow, I'm releasing a video titled The Moon in Literature, which is actually going to be analyzing parts of Blood Meridian and Cormat McCarthy's use of the moon in literature. but also we are going to be studying the symbolism of how people have wrote about and told stories about the moon since the dawn of time up until contemporary novels. And so if you want to check out my Substack, I have free and I have paid content. If you are a writer, you have to be on there. Substack is social media for writers and it's really good. I have my own writing over there which you can read for free if you want to support me and that is the best place to support me. It's the only place outside of my t-shirt website if you guys want to get some cool literature street wear. All those links are down in the description below. And if not, that's okay. And there is going to be a ton of free content as always being released on YouTube. And so, let's now talk about our second book of the day. So, next up, we have a contemporary novel, The Fisherman by John Langan, by an author that's still living and not too old yet.
And this is the only novel I've read by Lang Yan, but I like it because when we talk about evil, a lot of the time it if it's about fragmenting, of it's if it's about moving us away from wholeness, well, a lot of the time we like to imagine it as I cheat on my wife, I go do the evil thing, I start slipping down the wrong path. But some of the most horrific stories out there, and this has been a technique that's been used for thousands of years, is when evil presents itself to someone who's already been fragmented, but it wasn't their fault. For instance, the synopsis, or kind of the hook, if we want to use the book's terminology, is that this novel features two men who have both who are both widowers and one unfortunately lost his kids also. And so, they have this emptiness in their heart. You know, if you have a wife and kid and let's say they die early or something happens, then it's literally creates an instant hole in your heart because they are what made you whole. And I know all the optimization bros out there will say, "No one should make you whole. You should be independent." Okay, shut up.
Sit down, idiots. And a lot of the time in stories though, what evil presents itself is something that can give us immortality, that can give us money, that can give us a second chance, that can resurrect a lost love. And one of these men, his grand uh his his grandfather, if I remember correctly, had this journal who which said that he was fishing once at in this area and saw his dead wife there. And so this guy thinks because he's a fisherman. He has this fishing buddy. I should go and fish there. You know, this we should go to this mystical kind of taboo place and see what happens. And it's kind of this fun trip. But eventually they you know on the way like many stories they get the tales like don't go there son and this is a very Hemingway Hemingwayian thing. If anyone's ever read Big Two-Hearted River and heard Hemingway talk about you know kind of healing your trauma through fishing which many men do which has been a thing all throughout time. The water the flow the trout you know in American Native American symbolism is the healer. And so of course I won't spoil really anything.
They come across a mysterious figure who basically opens up this portal to them.
But you know, I love this novel because it brings it into a modern context. You know, a lot of storytelling, a lot of especially symbolic storytelling depending is a retelling of old events.
And when you get something like a blood meridian or a brother's car mazov or some of these other novels that we are talking about that are more literary that are more classic then you can maybe dive into some of the deeper philosophical elements but the fisherman I wouldn't call it a genre novel necessarily it transcends a lot of genres but it's a retelling of the old story it's a retelling of if you ask for something that is unattainable that's one of these things that is across the line you not only probably aren't going to get it, you are also going to have to sacrifice something yourself. This is what happens in full full metal alchemist with the Elrich brothers. And something that we don't contemplate enough because what this story really brings forth at kind of a deeper level is the this the is the malignant stories and fantasies we tell ourselves. Because what we are in the world is fantasy addicts. When you look at what we've been turned into, we'll say about social media, it's not real. It's the unattainable lifestyle. But I think we're all smart enough to know that we're not going to be billionaires, right? That we're not going to be I'm not going to take a pill in Ibiza this, you know, this uh summer or something like that. But there are these smaller fantasies. There are these things. There are these daydreams that we have of our old life, of the things that we didn't do, of what we could have done, or what our life could be, what our husband would be if he actually opened up and actually paid attention and spent time with the kids, what our wife would be if she didn't yell at us, whatever it is, right? And what this is is an addiction to fantasy. This is why people smoke weed. This is why people drink. This is, you know, the root of all addiction.
This is why people are into pornography.
This is why people sometimes idolize their partner or get into the honeymoon phase. And this has been a problem all throughout time. This has been a metaphor and idea that's always been talked about. And you to be able to move into the world of fantasy, right? To go fishing for that stuff, to be lured into it is to accept the story that isn't reality. And at times it's fine, right?
But at some point it actually starts making it can make you anxious. It can detach you. And Carl Jung recognized this. Carl Jung recognized that we have this capacity for fantasy. And the thing about fantasy, um, to finish up on Carl Jung, and this is why he created his concept of active imagination. If you're going to daydream, let's at least do it through an arctiple um, system that, you know, eventually leads to some form of higher revelation, right? Which I 100% support. But the thing about daydreams, the thing about being a fantasy addict, you know, that's what Michael there's a I heard Michael Jackson say that once.
I'm a fantasy addict. Is that when you get into it, it's a stream, right? What is we call it the stream of consciousness. We call it the stream.
And eventually, this is what happens when you enter a trans state when you're watching technology. You eventually get sucked into a river. You get, you know, I don't think it's like a hole. You know, a hole is a miserable place to be, at least for the entire time. You get thrown in a hole, it's like, damn, this sucks. It's usually this. You're not digging your own grave. That that's not an app metaphor. It's like you enter a nice river. You're tubing or something and it's really nice at the start. You know, you see some hot ladies. Sup ladies. You be a wrizzler for a second.
You, you know, you fantasize getting with them a little bit later tonight.
But then for some reason your your inter tube takes a the left fork and everyone else goes right and suddenly it becomes a torrential river that you can no longer exit. And as you're going down, you're literally sustaining injuries.
And obviously books like this kind of use death as the penultimate kind of consequence. But for many of us we take these small injuries multiple times a day. We are you know hurting our own soul even hurting our body hurting our most importantly our spirit our will and that tumultuousness those injuries are what? Not making us whole, not making us complete. And we we talk about story all the time on this channel. It's a it's a channel about books. But I think if we looked at, for instance, like the smut re the smut revolution, right, in the world of literature, it hasn't been a positive. It's just, you know, it it the the way that it affects dopamine receptors is really no different than, you know, pornography. Um, outside of maybe, you know, the the the penultimate orgas orgasmic moment doesn't happen. It does a lot of the time. Um, but nonetheless, this is this cycle of addiction, this cycle of fantasy that's based in story. You know, story is what politicians and propaganda propagandists use to manipulate us and it's what we use to manipulate ourselves. It's what even the most logic broy of logic bros use to tell themselves that science or whatever else is the end all beall. And so this story I think with its metaphor of the stream and being lured and the hook and its use of uh different figures like the Leviathan and you know I don't want to give away too much but these creatures and the attempt to catch it and the remmanipulation of the life force energy and fear and all these different things I think is really potent and really good. And I think that we can look at a lot, you know, the, you know, a lot of us aren't trying to resurrect our, you know, dead wife or dead dead grandparent or something like that, right? We're not trying to even maybe, you know, maybe some crazy people are trying to be immortal and the AI is heading toward that. But in general, we are we are these stories aren't meant for that. These stories aren't meant for the kid who's trying to go make the philosopher stone and burns his eye off while trying to, you know, concoctive or kills himself from the poison, right?
Why why would we why would we resonate with these similar stories time and time again? And it's because we're doing similar things to ourselves all of the time at a much lesser degree. And so that's why I think that this novel really shows what evil is because evil can sometimes look very different. It doesn't have to be. It can, you know, if we take the classic definition of it being this the adversary, it's the adversary of our highest good, which is wholeness. But what happens when you're whole? People don't realize this. Being whole doesn't mean you're the Buddha sitting under the tree. This is why the wholesome person isn't actually that wholesome. Being good means that you're doing good, that you're helping, that you're actually doing something with that. And to help in this crazy world to actually do that requires energy. It requires will. And a lot of the time that's what a mat you know this fantasy addiction all the drugs the women the all these different things the stories that's what it sucks away first or retalent re channels it excuse me into using your will for some alter ulterior motive and so boom the fisherman a great novel um you know it's got some problems but I think you'll really like it and I think how evil is deployed is it's it's it's classic plus I want to talk about more modern authors I could literally talk about host doseki all day. Maybe I will. But let's move on to book number three. So, next up we have The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Funny enough, I was trying to make like a couple weeks ago, another video that I just kind of scrapped because I didn't feel like the energy was there featuring another Joseph Conrad novel. So, I'll recycle that another time. So, more Joseph Conrad coming soon. And I understand that Heart of Darkness is somewhat of a cliche pick, especially when I could explore other Conrad, but I've been talking about these these rational constraints that many of us have undergone being raised in the modern world because of technology and science and all this stuff that we are just all little logic bros. Even if we are trying to break free of that, because we never had an opportunity to be anything but that. We were raised in these suburban uh communities or in cities and never actually, you know, there's older people in the crowd who who did have a great, you know, early life and opportunities to do this. But nonetheless, we were all constrained by the modern world. We were not able to connect fully with the natural world and with the deeper levels of oursel unless we were really lucky.
And what we've been, you guys, is civilized into a false concept of wholeness. Right? And if we obey the rules, then as individuals, we're not evil. Right? As individuals, if I'm just a rational man, yes, I shall follow the law, pay my taxes, do this, do that, then I'm not an evil person. Don't hurt others. Don't hit Johnny. Um, you know, uh, whatever it is. But the problem is, and this is a topic of so much art, so much cinema. What happens when those constraints are lifted, right? What happens to you know Tyler Deran or I forget his original name in Fight Club right now when you know Tyler Deran liberates him right from his normal job? What what happens to him?
Does he become like an artsy fartsy flower child or like stuff like that?
No. What happens to him is more of a violent reaction? Because to be able to actually connect to the symbolic world requires effort. It requires time. It actually requires, if you've been programmed into this rationality, a slow kind of crossover. And this is why a lot of the people who become the IASA bros and the yoga bros and all this stuff, they're born again Christians. I'm Orthodox.
Um, a lot of the time what's happening to them is they're just replacing one kind of rational prison for another or they're replacing one world view for another. And that other world view may be a little bit more reciprocal. But when you actually start to listen to how they interact with it, they're doing it through rationality. They become obsessed. They try to get as good as possible. They try to read all the books. They try to be good little boys.
They follow all the constraints, all the rules. And this is why there's like Jesus Iawaska cults and like of just full of white people, you know, claiming to be of like some uh ancestral origin.
You like, but this is also true with the rational man. The rational man, the civilized man that suddenly gets the keys to the car, that suddenly ends up at the strip club, that suddenly ends up at the brothel, that suddenly ends up in Thailand, that suddenly gets to fly a drone, that suddenly gets to, you know, become univilized. Why do they always go over the edge? Why is suddenly there's an Abu Grae? Why is there a Mai? Why is there uh the Bachi Bazi? Why are there all these different like why why does it suddenly just like just go crazy? And it's you know heart of darkness really explores this idea what happens when these social veils are lifted for instance when they you know these men get to Africa and you know we the the late the the the simple readings oh Africa's evil Africa is the the the root of all evil it brings it out of everybody but it's what Africa especially in heart of darkness didn't have was any of these constraints and suddenly these these men who had been properly civilized right you know even more so than what we are today you know no emotions someone in in this video, why are you talking with your hands? You know, these these notions that we've been programmed with which are supposed to make us unemotional that all of that is actually evil. And that's what Conrad is trying to show us that the primitive people are not the evil ones. As I was talking about earlier, you know, that's the base level of evil. Like, oh, oh my god, the Aztecs, they sacrificed 10,000 people. Like, what about the Russian Revolution? What about the French Revolution? What about everything that we had been doing, you know, to all these other cultures as the civilized people and evil, the deepest level of evil a lot of the time is brought to the world by educated people that are generally polished and well spoken and believe that they are bringing light to the world. They are saving the world.
They are dropping the atomic bomb. We're going to save so many lives. We're going to, you know, we're going to we're going to Germanyy's going to be, you know, great. whatever it is, whatever lives being sold, it's through this very lighoriented idea. And why I like this novel is that Judge Holden, you know, in Blood Meridian, they find him just like sitting naked like and out in the middle of the desert and like then you get like, you know, then you get this crazy origin story like there, you know, it's it's kind and we don't even know who he was. Like there's speculation. I've made videos on like his actual like who he actually was in history. Um, but we don't have really an idea. He just showed up on a scene that really wasn't that big of a scene. You know, the the the the colonization of America was kind of odd because smallox and other various diseases just like wiped out 90% of people. And like down in Mexico, like the Spanish already took care of a lot of Mexico. And so it was kind of just like a wasteland. It was just kind of like an odd experience in general. And so people literally did just like show up on the scene. But what's interesting about Curts in a Heart of Darkness, and we could even talk about an apocalypse now, is that Curts got there through the machine. He got there through imperialism. He got there not just on a boat, but with like the entire face of colonization, with the accountants, the the the the engineers, the propaganda artists. And Judge Holden, when he's speaking, is speaking to nobody. He's speaking to a bunch of men that already believe him. He's just actualizing what they're saying. But what Curts does, which is interesting, is say what everyone actually believes, which is exterminate all of the brutes. And so Curts doesn't, you know, this is, you know, Heart of Darkness is really a a meditation on how we actually believe deep down. And this is what the internet has actually started to show, right?
Like, you know, back in the 1990s, you know, it was a little bit more kumbaya, right? But suddenly online people start saying crazy stuff like on both sides of the aisle like racist stuff. Um and you're like oh they're just trolling.
It's like no like this is how people feel deep down. This is how how people have always felt deep down but they've had to they constrain themselves because of society and social consequences. And so on one side the internet has been a blessing because we can actually speak our minds and say what we want. But it's also been, you know, somewhat shocking to see what's in our minds because we can get documented documented, excuse me, now that we have mobile phones and we can upload videos um live stream of literally everything that we are feeling or thinking during uh our most down andout moments or when we're on substances or like we get peer pressured into something like everything can now be documented which is actually super toxic for a reason people don't realize because I was a high school English teacher for eight years and so what the internet has done is create a dialectic where on one side of the aisle we have these crazy people every crazy influencer figure or just random anon profile that you can fit in. And so that is the new standard as before. Who were the crazy people, right? Like that you would actually know as a kid in your life and like you know crazy your crazy neighbor but you could see him and be like there's something wrong with him or like there's something like there's something there's something weird here.
And a lot of the time they weren't these highlevel characters. But now things have become so confusing because a lot of the top grifters, a lot of the top influencers who maybe say these radical things are very talented at communication, right? They're rich.
They're good-looking. Um maybe not all the time, but they have all these qualities going for them because they're rich. They have the hot, you know, hot women around them. Um they live in the man. Suddenly, it's a little bit harder to say, "Wait, you know, my like I had this alcoholic neighbor growing up who was like on drugs and weird and would say all this crazy stuff to me that would I'd be like, "What?" But I always knew he was crazy. I never really believed any of it. It was just kind of like he would like corner me when I was like 13. He was like, "Hey." And he'd say crazy stuff. I can't even say it. I remember one time he walked up to my friend who was like a 21-year-old virgin. You know, that friend from high school. I think I don't talk to him too much anymore, but looking back, he probably had autism. He was probably undiagnosed. Anyway, great guy, awesome friend. But this guy walked up to him.
First time he ever saw him, he just walked up like got this close to him. He said, "When's the last time you ate some good [ __ ] Looks like you've never touched a pussy." And it's like, "What?"
He called him out. Anyway, um but that dialectic actually shuts people down because now kids see that, oh, on this side these people are saying things. So if I don't want to be that, I have to be this. I'm not going to be like that. So I have to be this, which is still functioning on this dialectic of shutting us down. We're all trying to get shut down. We're trying to be monitored, profiled, externalized for, you know, copied as we were talking about earlier. That's why we had to talk about Blood Meridian. And so that's what Curts represents. It's this idea of the unshackled repression allowing itself to be out there. And you would think that we would move beyond it at some point, but it's now been decades. We have been basically we've freed ourselves. We've been out in the jungle for decades. And of course, we're not going to come out.
But who's going to come and save us?
Who's going to actually try to come and redirect us? We have not just gone out into the jungle. We have built an entire base, an entire civilization out there that everyone is participating. That's been normalized. It's insane. Everyone, this is you know the heart of darkness has in these ideas these mind this mindset you know not exactly a onetoone but the energy of it and the redistribution of the will the activation the the making of a false god you know all of us that all of us have wanted to become or are becoming is insane you guys and we should be using the tools and knowledge out there to awaken in a much different way and so heart of darkness everyone I think I've maybe talked about on this channel one time before, but very influential on me.
If you haven't read it yet, do it. And you will be hearing more about Conrad very soon in one of my new videos. And so now we need to go to a different part of the world, everyone. One of my favorite places, one of my favorite places that talks uh across the board.
You know, this Saturday we're actually reading a Japanese novel, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima in the Right Conscious book club and discussing it. And so we're not talking about Mishima, though. Instead, we are talking about an author I've only talked about one time on this channel, I think in my top 10 Christian novelist video, and that is Shusaku Endo. And he is very famous for his novel Silence, which was adapted by Martin Scorsesei into I would say a very good film. And the book is way better. Like you should, everyone should go read the book. Like when I when I read it, I was like, "Wow." And so after I read it though, Endo got on my radar and I checked out two of his other novels and this was one of them.
This one I think is just as good as silence. And this one is called The Sea and Poison. And when we're talking about evil, when we're talking about the fragmentation of the soul, we have to talk about the body. We have to talk about health, everyone. It's kind of hard to avoid it. We could, you know, go deeper into villains and these ideas and like some of these crazy people and we will, but health is the health and the medical system are really at their worst some of the most evil stuff in our entire society. I think, you know, as an American, we and if you know about America, how we let our pharmaceutical uh companies run a muck, how we've let our, you know, global world become unhealthy, addicted and dependent on so many nasty drugs and other things. The lack of regulation surrounding foods and like the and what is able to be allowed in all these all types of products and even just from skin care to deodorant.
Absolutely insane. And the sea and poison is not exactly about that. The sea and and poison medical experimentation going on in the Pacific theater in World War II from the Japanese side. We hear about, you know, the Nazi and the German experiments that were done on, you know, countless people and all the insanity over there, but a lot of the time we don't talk about some of the other sides. And you know, that's why Gravity's Rainbow is so interesting because in such a great novel because we hear about some of the insane psychological and like other wild operations that the Allies were doing because when there's one group that was much more extreme and did a lot more heinous things than everyone else and you know even in mass especially during that time period then it's easy to kind of put the focus on them because a lot of it is very extreme and basically you can get everything you need in terms psychological, medical, like even spiritual occult experiments when you look at like Nazi Germany, especially when we're looking at it from the point of view of evil. But that doesn't mean that other groups weren't also participating in that. And so authors like Pinchon, authors like Endo that reconcile that that look back and you know bring some of those stories to life. I think that it's it was it was and one could say it still is if maybe not if you're looking at World War II, but maybe some of the other things that have been done over the past couple decades. There's been a push from modern authors for a minute about, you know, talking about MK Ultra and other things.
You know, some of the now we're kind of getting stuff about the war on terror and the corruption involved in the Middle East. like there's this slow trickle of authors who are these great thinkers kind of looking back and breaking down some of the evil that their countries have committed and so the sea in the poison is about a doctor who was a part of these experiment experiments and it's in and these experiments were being done on American paratroopers and stuff like this was going on in World War II and in this specific instance they were trying to figure out how to cure tuberculosis and like you know do better things cuz that was ravaging many people in like the Pacific theater and in in uh in Japan.
And so they were like injecting saline and removing lung tissue and doing all these things to these American soldiers and basically torturing them in these excruciating ways to try and find the cure for tuberculosis, which is one of the darker elements of that entire time period that we can look and see like a lot of insane tests and data from across the map. psychological data um from psychological tests of like people who were put in circumstances that would no longer be allowed today under any circumstances. It would be it would shut down an entire university if they tried to do something like that. I mean look what happened to Tim Liry wi with uh in the late 19th mid 1960s when he gave some of his students acid, right? Like blew up everything. And compared to some of the stuff that was going on, you know, in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, and even early 50s, that stuff is lightweight.
Even the stuff that was going on with MK Ultra and Ted Kazinski and like, you know, Tim Liry just, you know, being the weird professor that's giving his students drugs is a drop in the ocean.
So, this novel, you know, the reason why, you know, I was thinking about I actually had a different list, but as you can see, I'm in a different outfit.
It's the next day. And as I was going through my day and this morning, I was like, "Wait, there are other novels I should talk about. I've talked about some of the other novels on the list."
And I was like, "Wait, I want to talk about the medical system." Cuz I was thinking about the body being whole, right? I was thinking about, wait, and it it evil needs something healthy to live off of it. It fragments something that's whole. And that's what the medical system does. It shuts our bodies down. And it, you know, being unhealthy, you know, that's another thing that not all the time, but if you are unhealthy, if you are having problems, it's much easier to fall into evil. It's much easier to be angry or do these things than if you are like a healthy awakened individual that like is going outside and is, you know, has a spiritual practice and is connected to the world.
You don't see Joseph Stalin or even any really of the world leaders actually doing very much except if it's like for some weird totalitarian like ideological um divine image stuff like you know Putin playing polo or like doing judo or something like I was like oh look at him but like he's so disconnected but when we're talking about hyperrationality you know the medical system is very rational right and you know for many things or for most things that's great Right. But what happens when the the soul, you know, the hypocratic oath get thrown out the window? What happens when everyone starts to become complicit in something negative? And this novel much more so than I think like a gravity's rainbow explores that very deeply because everyone is complicit from the nurses to the administrators to the guards.
Everybody knows that these men are basically being tortured and this is like insane. But they are told that this needs to happen in the name of science, in the name of war or that you'll get fired your career. It's all this typical order following language. And I feel like this is something when we're looking at this kind of symphony, this codeex of what we are talking about when it comes to evil. Evil, it's easy, excuse me, to look at like the military or some of these more external forces of evil, but we have not kept the medical system in check. I don't care who you are. You don't need to go into conspiracy land. All you need to go into is just how we, like I discussed earlier, the overtaking of the pharmaceutical industry in America, the overtaking of our diets. You know, when you start to, you know, look back at how, you know, the grain companies, the Kelloggs, and all these different people influence so much of how we uh conceptualize food and all of this stuff, it's wild. And another thing that really blew my mind which I think is important is that as we are heading into this when we start to if I want to maintain my wholeness right then everything has to be appreciated from the the smallest detail to the you know grandiose things they're all important I think all of us understand that that we've all seen people who maybe do the actions dress the part but they don't actually live it they don't believe it they don't understand the nuances and that makes them an imposttor, right?
We've all been there, too. We want to change our identity. We want to go and do something beautiful or fun or, you know, new. And so, we, you know, suddenly are doing it, but we don't know all of it yet. We haven't integrated everything. And that's fine. And that's a process. But with the hyperrational mind in this world that we are in right now, if you are trying to optimize everything, if you are trying to become the Renaissance man or woman or do these things, what you are trying to do is control way too much, you are not viewing yourself as a holistic wholesome organism that can grow and become, you know, something beautiful organically and in a natural process. And if you start, you know, in our, you know, in your personal life, it may seem harmless to start viewing yourself as an experiment, viewing yourself as the optimization king, like trying to do every single little hack and thing, right? But what that starts to create, and like I said, it may be harmless in an individual, but when more people start to take it up, and then when they're put under duress, what that starts to do is create a hierarchy in terms of the body. Because in this novel, before any of the torturing and experimentation goes on, the hospital is already in disarray. There's, you know, it's dirty. There's people with tuberculosis everywhere. And the doctors are having to make these decisions of who are we going to say. They're save, excuse me. They're they're already, and this is what happens in a war. This is what happens in a society that's under duress. We start to rank humans. We start to say, "Well, this person's more important than this person for the cause, and so we have to let this person die." And maybe from the outside that's not that big of a deal if you're not involved in it. But if you are the one making the decisions and carting off Genie to die a slow death because she can't get, you know, even if she gets well, she's not going to be as big of a contributor to the war as Johnny, then it starts to make you view humans as fragmented, right? Not as these wholesome beings because the only way that you can do that is seeing people for these singular qualities, the fragments of them. strong man verse, you know, 45year-old woman, mentally handicapped guy versus someone who is just an average IQ. And then when you start to add in that there's this tuberculosis going on and that things aren't good. And the people who can figure it out, the people if there can be some change, if there can be some innovation, then we can get over the edge, suddenly problems start to occur, right? And this is what happens in our society. So maybe it's not as, you know, dramatic as a tuberculosis ward or a hospital in disarray in a war with no food, but there's some tension. There's some, you know, um, fallout going on.
And what people need to g gather more funding to get more grants or do whatever is push the limits. And it may not be experimentation on other humans, but it may be the creation of new viruses. It may be the, you know, experimenting on animals. It may be, you know, some of these extreme measures.
Because if that succeeds, then you are going to be the one who's safe. You're going to be the one who gets the new promotion. And when you go back in time, a lot of this stuff could be jipped, right? You know, in modern medical environments, I hope, you know, I don't know how much, but I hope that at least in the reasonable places that there's a bit of surveillance and reporting and that like you can't get away with too much too much of false reporting. But in some of the, you know, in the old world, even back in the 1940s, you could lie.
you could basically get away and like you know make stuff up and say this works or this doesn't work and basically send things down a path and that's what happens in this novel and that careerism is also a very evil thing right you detach yourself detach from the whole to gain some deeper deeper reward and something that I've kind of learned studying history and in my own life is that when these moments come up a lot of the time they are gross grossly exaggerated um like in this novel the basically the excuses everyone's going to die anyway, right? These people, they're going to die or these prisoners, they're going to die anyway. We're not going to let them live. So, let's just experiment on them, right? But in life, these kind of situations in a much less extreme degree always come up. Well, we could cut some corners or if we don't do it, if we don't, you know, chop down the forest, then Johnny Bee's company is going to go chop down the forest, right?
There's always some excuse but if no one made the excuse and took up that opportunity and wasn't think that if I don't do it someone else will then I feel like we would start to heal ourselves because if you look at like capital the theory of capitalism that is what competitiveness is right that you know I see an opportunity and if I don't take it Johnny you know Johnny's going to take it but the higher level capitalism if we were living in an educated society would be constrained by some form of morality. would have some limit, have some barrier and that and there would be you know an incentive not to do those things because of social pressures or just other things. But because we've created a system that where you can graduate and gain power with almost no education and exist freely and just drive things through even if there are regulations and just deal with them later, you know, deal with the lawsuit later on because you made a ton of money. It's it's horrible.
And all of this this mindset is the real some of the real slow decay the the dark underbelly of the west and what's actually being corrupted what's going on you know it's easier to focus on the external enemy right it's easier to focus on oh look at all these immigrants oh the trans people oh like whoever right and point the finger but long you know if you go back 25 years ago 30 years ago when no one was talking really about immigration or trans people or any of these things all of that stuff was already there. All the towns, all the stuff that is now, you know, blowing up now. The foundation was being set, the exploitation of people and the environment, you know, the, you know, corporations ready to to being ready to blow up and ruin small towns and all these things. All of that was being set underground away from our eye. And so now it's become so big and so powerful that we would rather just not focus on that because it's, you know, and focus on these external enemies because to defeat these mega powers would be such it would require such an awakening from all of us. And so yeah, I absolutely love the sea in Poison. It's a dark novel, you guys. I mean, it's pretty nihilistic. It's pretty wild. If you like dark novels, um, it's really World War II novels, stuff from Japan. You know, Endo is a great writer and I highly recommend this one. So, really fast, we have to discuss Lolita because, and I'm going to take a new angle on this that you guys have never heard me talk about. I've probably talked about this book five, six, maybe seven times on this channel over the past, you know, two years in some of these ranking videos, but we've been kind of building some pressure, right? And I want to analyze this in a different way. I don't want to look at the actions of Humber Hbert and his relationship with Lolita.
I want to look at is how language has fragmented us. You know, you guys have heard me talk about before how lang the alphabet is the strongest form of animism, right? That it ruined all, you know, our animistic connection with the world because I can open this page, you know, blood meridian, and I by reading ink on a page can have visual hallucinations and have auditory hallucinations of Judge Holden's voice, which is not my voice, speaking, you know, in my head, right? like absolutely wild technology. And so language has always been used for good and for evil, right? Like honestly mostly for evil when you look at like administration stuff and like you know all wars are built off of administration and the alphabet and you know uh tallying supplies. But something more subtle has happened in our culture that I think Lolita speaks to which is the what I well I'll just off the top of my head call internet speak. And so long before AI, I don't know if you guys remember this, but you guys remember like, you know, this was going on from about 2005 to about 200 2016 or 2017 when like Tik Tok and social media kind of started to boom with short form video. There was that certain type of language of copywriting, right? advertisement writing in the online world where all these same power words were being used, all the same phrases, all the same like copywriting um ideology which was which had you know had a deep understanding of human emotions were were being used.
This idea of always talk about the benefits, never talk about the features like all of this stuff, right? Like I'll read it. Amazing secret discovered by one-legged golfer adds 50 yards to your drives. eliminate hooks and slices and can slash up to 10 strokes from your game almost overnight. And you may be wondering, Ian, what the hell does copyrightiting have to do with Lolita?
Well, what Nabikov knew a long time ago when he wrote Lolita? What the novel is really about is how we allow language to entrance us so that we don't see the reality of a situation. Hbert Hbert was a pedo, right? He pedo, right? like terrible person should be shot, right?
Like not not a great person in any way.
But throughout the novel, he's referencing the journey. He's referencing us. He's in in the Ford, he has already seduced the the psychiatrist who's read his memoir and like this intriguing man and like all of this stuff. And in our culture where we love true crime documentaries, where we worship serial killers, where we worship authors who are terrible people and all of their words and their letters and all of this stuff, we love to be seduced by words, right? We love to have that veil thrown over our eyes so that we can exist in disbelief. And this has always been somewhat of the point of story, right? This is what you know people all across the world through all of time have used to exploit and manipulate others. I am Ian feathercrow. I am Ian the great. I am descended from Achilles.
Right? Like all of this story and then you know all all of the presentations with the the the garbs and the incense and things all throughout time are just displays of power and displays of story and are always backed by language.
There's always some internal and external story that's working on the unconscious of people. And some of that is fine, you guys. Like I love a good story. I love a good character. I love, you know, Tail Sun in the UFC and like all this stuff. And it's it's not bad.
Like, you know, if we live in a society that rejects that completely, suddenly we were coffee zilla. Everyone's a grifter. THE GRIFTERS EVERYWHERE. Join my Patreon. um you know and so becoming hyperrational and hypervigilant about any form of story or any form of even advertising or stuff like that is dumb.
I sometimes it's good to be sucked in and be able to believe and not just be like a dick about things. But what Nabokov knew was that we were reaching a point though that as a as a as a global community, especially in the west, people, random people were becoming so literate and so good at writing, so good at creating their own story and that and their this presentation of themselves and all this stuff that they could get away with whatever they wanted, you guys. Like they they could suddenly become way too powerful even though they had no power, right? even if they were just like a random professor or writer like Humber Hbert. And now we're in a situation with language on the internet where anybody including non-human entities like AI can gain power and do whatever they want through language, through manipulation on the internet.
They can restory and create false narratives, reach out to anyone, make as much money as they want. like you could do whatever you want now through the internet and activate yourself without any realworld integration. And I want you guys to imagine a reality where we continue to evolve without the internet, without social media. What would that utopic reality look like if we continued to progress? Well, we would realize that a lot of the abuse that maybe we had been um in uh pushing upon others since the dawn of time was no longer satisfactory to us, which was already starting to happen in the late 20th century and start evolving out of that.
Start moving towards something but actually doing it in person because now we've delegated our entire life to this entity to the internet. delegated our entire range of emotional experience to short form content which is so addicting and all it's doing is fragmenting us.
All it's doing is manipulating us. All it's doing is of what Nalbakov was trying to tell us in Lolita that language can be a mask to something much much evil. Hbert Hbert is as evil as can be. But if you read the language and read how he tells the story, um there's at like there is at times where you know there's stuff not related to him being a pedo and you're like oh my gosh this is an injustice. You're like wait he's like no no no this this dude's on a journey to do the like what's happening here and when you start to look at many of our online relationships and how we interact with what we are doing online a lot of the time it has a very dark underbelly.
A lot of the time it leads to sweat shops in um you know, China. It leads to data centers being built in Utah and ruining the water supply. You know, Boxelder County, shout out Boxelder County, you know, unanimously approving in Utah some massive data center that's going to ruin a lot of things. Oh, bring a couple jobs to the community. the janitor and the and and what's the scariest now of all is that AI has been training itself not just on all the books of all time from shadow libraries but how we've manipulate been manipulating each other on the internet and we've been being flattened. What's so interesting is that the point I was I'm really trying to make here to speak about fragmentation is that transformation is about shedding a skin, right? It's about a good story, a good fable, a good go sit down by the fireside and the the elder tells a story. A part of you is is supposed to be lost, right? A [ __ ] in your armor is supposed to be somewhat removed, but it's supposed to be replaced with something new. And if you're in a community, if you're in a culture, you are you are all being raised in the same place, seeing the same things. There's a pretty high percentile that the thing that gets replaced is actually going to work. But if I am, let's say, clearing ground for you, but you are a, you know, I don't know, some random person who has had a totally different life than me, then there's a much lower percent chance that maybe this slash that I've put inside you is actually going to be healed properly by what I'm going to give you in return. And so what's interesting is that when we look at the great novels when I look at like the brothers Karamazov when I look at Ana Karen I look at blood meridian I look at even Lolita and some of these novels that we're looking at I feel like when I am cut that the the ointment of you know finishing the novel and and and and contemplating it over weeks months years the rereading process fills that in with something better right it's like working out but since the influencer revolution since the manipulation revolution ution through the internet. I feel like a lot of these wounds that we are taking have never healed and what we've been given instead is poison because what get what what what fills in the depth some of the time. Sometimes you'll read a very dark novel like Blood Meridian. You're like what the hell was that about? But slowly in your unconscious what's being filled in is the unconscious layering and programming that McCarthy put in. what's being layered in to your to that wound is the language and the beauty and the the King James uh uh evocations, right?
And that's the same with a lot of these novels. There's like a lot of stuff going on that can happen behind the scenes. But with the internet, so much of this has been flattened that once we've consumed it, it we no longer chew on it. How the thing of the if you watch short form content, how many short form reels have you seen? How often can you remember some of them? Like I can remember some of them, but I've loved so many. So many have been so good, but they are all lo so many are lost into the void. The same is true with all the blog posts, all the things I've ever read. Some have been impactful. Some there are a couple I can look and say, "This changed my life." A lot of the time they were literary or very well researched and like, you know, would would be in a book anyway if it was 50 years ago. But now we've reached the point with AI though because LLMs write in one manner. Even if you train I I I love the people. They're like, "Oh, train it. You got to you got to change the temperature. Uh make different constraints, train it." Even if you train it, it still writes just like one human. It just write it writes in a very similar pattern. It's easily recognizable. But the problem is that so many people are using artificial intelligence. Now, you know what's crazy, you guys? I don't know how many how many people like like I like you know there there's someone I know and he uses AI for everything like you know his wife's yelling at him AI his his uh dishwasher's broken AI just types in the chat GBT gets the solution his entire life and I asked him recently I said when was the last time you read a book he's like not since high school I was like do you ever read like online do you ever read like he's a Republican you read Fox News or go check out CNN and see the other side of the issue? you or uh I don't know, read whoever. Do you read anything? He's like, "No." I was like, "When's the last time like when do you like do you ever read articles?"
He's like, "No, do you read the newspaper?" "No." "How do you get your news like Tik Tok like reals and like um headlines and stuff?" And it's like, "Okay." So, this guy has been reading this guy is on his phone reading Catchy PT every single day. He's got a pro account, all this stuff. And what's so crazy is that across the world right now, the most red voice is the LLM just flat in voice. And we are all moving toward that norm. And the reason I caught on to this because I was listening to him speak and it felt like, dude, am I talking to a robot right now?
It feels like I'm talking to Chad. Feels like one of my old students is like writing me an essay. And I was hearing him talk to his wife and I was like like the solution. I was like, what is happening here? here. And I was like, "Wait, this guy's been trained for 2 years and he's only read one book. He's like a nerd who only reads like Tolken like endlessly. Like he just reads the same book a thousand different times.
But that's even worse. There's now the wound is being cut by something that's so good at cutting and it's not even human. There is no nourishment to give to give back to us. And it's always there. It's literally the succubus. It's the leech. It's always on us. is I always being used. It's fatiguing you guys. Like back in the day, like I wouldn't come across an internet sales page, especially pre-social media, very often. Like you guys, if you were on the internet, how often you you we all landed on sales pages. Maybe we bought something, maybe we didn't. 99% of the time, no. But almost never I found myself there like maybe once every every couple weeks at most, once a month, if that. And so it's scary to think that we are now just being fragmented. And I think that's the ultimate evil. I think that Nabokov was kind of diving into this, diving into what happens suddenly when everybody gains that power and eventually everybody becomes the globe and with global communication and then eventually AI. And so really scary stuff. I mean, you know, like I said, you guys know where all this leads. I don't need to lecture you on that, but I know that this is a unique take that I don't think I' I've never heard that anywhere else.
And if you guys don't know me, a lot of the time I focus on serious literature, transformative literature, the classics, right? But right now, I want to introduce an author that I very rarely talk about in terms of breaking down their books, but who I am a fan of. You know, I've made some videos that have been critical of Stephen King, but in every single one of them, you guys, I have discussed Stephen King's merits.
And the worst thing that Stephen King ever did, you guys, in in my opinion, is write too fast. Because when you're young, you can do that. When you're on drugs, you can do that. But at some point, especially after his uh uh the when he got hit by the van, but even before that, I had wished that Stephen King had slowed down because when Stephen King did slow down, when it took him 3 years to write the stand and then he did a revision of it when he released the uncut version, we got I would say some of the most penultimate work that we ever got out of kink. The idea of trying to release a book or even a book and a half every single year is nice and can work for some people, but it only can work for so long. But outside of all that, we have The Stand, which is, in my opinion, probably Stephen King's best work. And even though this is technically genre literature, I consider this serious um serious literature.
There are, of course, times in all Stephen King novels where it's cliche, it's a little bit silly, like things aren't explored at depth. I was just talking about poor Matt McCarthy. You're about to we're about to talk about a lot of serious canonical authors here in a second. But outside of all that, what I am most interested in is ideas, you guys. And I don't care how I get it. I don't care if it comes in a manga, an anime, a horror movie, a romance novel, whatever it is. If people are progressing, what is the novel? It's about progress. It's about having an independent mind be able to do something over a, you know, 500 pages or whatever without any control. The sole art form outside of, you know, the visual arts where we can, you know, and even the visual arts don't do this. The sole art form where we can watch an artist independently work at length with not many outside influences. Plus, it has access to interiority. So, if you don't know, The Stand is about a plague that basically kills 99.9% of the world. But King adds a supernatural element into it. He adds this almost uh he adds this good versus evil binary that all the people who are still left in the United States are having these dreams. One of a black lady living in Nebraska, if I remember correctly, and another of a man, this devilish figure that's a reoccurring character in Stephen King novels, this representation of the devil named Randall Flag who's calling them to Las Vegas. And what I like about this novel is that King gives himself the space across over a thousand pages to let characters become whole because you know in this novel everyone dies in the course of like 2 weeks and then everyone's dealing with the trauma but people are living in these very um primitive ways, right? But they still have access to everything they need. A lot of the animals die, a lot of the predators die. And so outside of humans, you know, there's food everywhere, canned food and water and even cars or motorbikes, but you know, um, manual bicycles to ride around. So, everyone's basically able to sustain themselves, but they are camping. They've had to reconnect to the world while the runes of the world are all around them. And it's a genius concept because we start to see people return, some of these characters return to the earth. We see some of some of them become whole. We see some of them, you know, have a a sense of restoration, a sense of hope, a sense of purpose, you know, a sense of individuation, which is great because for some of them, um, who are, you know, minor characters in their earlier life who are just, you know, random workers at a factory, they step into these larger roles that determine the fate of humanity. But then on the other side of the aisle we have you know people who are just random high school students or teachers or other things who step who you know suddenly become characters on this stage but then they become fragmented. Then they are taken away from themselves. They are disjointed by evil by a walking force rand flag who has this supernatural ability to communicate through dreams or through other various mechanisms to corrupt people to slowly break them away. And the way that King describes it and the actions that many of these characters take kind of rely or you know I could we could say call back to this earlier definition of evil that we've been discussing. And the novel cuts down to this idea of evil being a sense of order because we once again think that evil is this singular force, the singular serial killer. But in the novel we have these two camps, the good and the evil side or whatever. But on the evil side, a false order is created. And many of the people who fall into the evil side are generally, as King shows through, you know, by humanizing and other things, good people who are just kind of stoked by fear and appreciate the order by whatever for whatever reason came to Las Vegas. But by tearing everything down, we see what is ingrained in our hearts so much. You know, when we talk about evolution, when we talk about utopia, when we talk about a better world, what we are really talking about is, you know, if we're talking about maintaining wholeness is the lack of domination.
Because when you dominate someone, you guys, when you dominate someone physically, you are literally not allowing them to be free and be whole in their uh, you know, uh, physical autonomy. But on a spiritual level, when you're manipulating someone, you're taking across, you're taking out fragments and putting your own, you're weaving a web, right? But it's all about domination. And when we start to look at our uh political structure, even in a country that's free like the United States or whatever other western country, when we start to look at our familial structures and how most people parent, how crappy most people parent, when we start looking across the board, we still have a very anim animalistic mindset. We have a mindset that's still rooted in domination. and King shows that both sides of the aisle are using domination, are using these tactics, are eventually not able, you know, not really a spoiler alert here, but still fall into the same traps. So, even though I could pick many other literary novels that I've talked about before or I could bring into the mix, I feel like The Stand is important because it is readable. We've it's been tested so many times and so many people have enjoyed it and not no one book can solve anything, you guys. like you can't just read one book or even five books and be like hey I'm done I understand everything I need to know about literature this isn't a course or something that you can achieve but reading self-education is something that we do over time and it starts to snowball and eventually we you know have these quantum leaps and these revelations and in my opinion through in the contemplation of evil you know I know that for me seeing things in a little bit more of a Stephen King's lens with a little bit more one could say a genre lens and has been very valuable and you know made me contemplate a lot about a lot of things and so I assume most people would get that benefit also.
So, for our next book, can we do a throwback? Everyone, can we do something a little bit fun? You know, I've talked about this novel, I think, in my ranking every classic novel video, and I've mentioned it a couple times, but can we do the Lord of the Flies, everyone?
Like, I just want to talk about this one. This one's so fun because for my ma for my worst classes and just a couple times with I made this book work in some of my classes and it was like a revolution. I had the kids like all riled up about this book and the movie and like the audiobook soundtrack like ah and then then I could get them to read it out loud and actually care cuz they wanted to see what happened and then they would peer pressure the other kids who suck at reading. You know, one of the worst problems as a teacher is that, you know, you you want to make the kids read out loud because their parents never do it. Their parents are just on their phones all day and don't give a [ __ ] about them. Most kids that graduate, I literally taught a bunch of seniors if you just gave them any one of these books and said read a paragraph, they would get it like 70% of the words right. Not even, you know, I'm not great at pronunciation. I screw stuff up all the time. But like it it was pretty bad.
But the problem is with reading out loud is that some kids are so bad at reading out loud that it's impossible to listen.
like you can't comprehend it because there you just have to zone out because it's like and they went to the the star star store and then we're it's like oh my god we're not this isn't fifth grade everyone this is the 12th grade. So in some of these classes though the kids would you know we'd be reading out loud and some of the kids would say Johnny stop being so [ __ ] dumb. Like come on man read. Like let's go. Like I could never say that. I could never say like what please try like do something a little bit of energy a drop of energy like literally if you try you'll automatically get better like that's what's crazy about reading out loud like if you just try suddenly if you just are confident and you just keep carrying it through even if it isn't the right pronunciation you're at least making it work and we're will be interested and what I want to talk about with this is you know hey haunt virus everyone communicability right like we we just talked about the stand but evil a lot of the time is a ritual. It's a feeling. It's communal. So, if we want to get a little bit woo here, you guys, you know what's funny enough about Cormatt McCarthy? I think in the crossing, I know he references in a lot of his books, McCarthy said that like evil walks on its on it on two legs in Mexico. And like when you look at like Mexican lore with like the dwende and like stuff like that, not Lurca's dwende, but the like the fairy tear killing dwende down in Mexico. Go look it up. Really cool deep dive. um they really believed in this conceptualization of evil. And what I love about the Lord of the Flies is that we before a lot of the you know scary deaths or not scary, some of the deaths, sacrifices, whatever we want to call them, start to occur, a force takes over the boys and it's this force of evil.
But once again, we get back to this idea that the boys don't want to confront the darkness within their own soul. Not to get too yian here, but it's the same with us. this society that we've we've externalized to everything, externalized everything online and given ourselves over to the rational AI god because we don't want to confront the darkness within you guys. We don't actually want to have to go through the motions of life and the hardships of having we want shortcuts to it all, right? We want the passive income. We want the online girlfriend that we just [ __ ] meet and she's fine and it's all good. We don't have to go through the process of dating or any of this stuff. We don't want to go through these rituals of old um because it forces us to confront the darkness. It actually forces and makes us grow. But what's been going on when that actually happens you excommunicate the darkness though you eventually lift it out of yourself. And I know throughout time in memorial people have done all types of stuff and never ended up being good people and had problems.
But I'm just talking about today. I feel like there was a point where we were about to reach a point that if we didn't fall down into this trap that a lot of this stuff, a lot of this world that we had built over thousands of years and what we knew worked and what didn't work would be able, we saw this in the 60s and 70s and 80s and even the '9s with some people um and people today if they're lucky and have a good life or just whatever, you know, have this opportunity. And many of us have to refine this that if we can exercise these things by actually going out into the world or taking action or going in going in you doing spiritual stuff in the internal world then we don't have to externalize it. We don't have to make the false enemy. We don't have to find the pure evil out there the beast as it is in Lord of the Flies. And so I believe that by delegating all of this stuff as we were talking about earlier that it's all slipping beneath the surface. And what it does is not make us instantly crazy. What it does is create a loop. It creates this whirlpool within us that never sleeps that continues on and on. Like I said, evil never sleeps.
And when and when enough of us get into it, we can commune with each other. We can commune in on the medium uh online right with each other and while we're there we can engage in rich the most insane ritualistic nonsense that we want because as always this is this is what occultism kind of is about. This is what all the movies, all the old stories tell us is that the shadow begins as an exploration of personal darkness with all which all of us should do. But eventually, if you go too far or you don't know what's going on, what happens is that you hit a deeper archetype of evil. This is what happens in you know um what's it called? The minds of Moria with the ballro, right? That's eventually you if you go too deep, you hit the archetypal primordial force. And that's what's so interesting about us all swirling around. And this is why there seemingly is, you know, and I, you know, it's people who can just fall off a cliff or things can happen so fast.
And it's always been like this. Read McBth, read Shakespeare. But I think in the modern world even more so, because at any moment, boom, you can get possessed. Any moment you can get sucked down and just take one step too far and then you're too you can't get back out.
And what's interesting is that when you look at this novel, when you look at like what Simon does, right? When you look at, you know, the people out there that understand the truth, they what they become martyr. They aren't listened to you guys. Like I'm not I'm not saying I need to have 5 million subscribers, but you know, 90 98% of people have already dipped out who clicked on this video and this video isn't going to get distributed out to the world, right?
Because it needs to be external. This is it's it's crazy. If I made all my videos and you know, oh, you know, we got to review, we got to renew the classics, oh, all the book talk slop, oh, we got to, you know, if you, if I just made it all about that, I would have 10 times the success. But if I say this is internal, you guys, that the literary renaissance starts from within. It starts from us going outside. It starts with us knowing that, you know, this isn't a great line for book, but Miguel Hernandez, who was killed by the Franco Fascist, beautiful Spanish poet, said that my lemon tree outside has given me more inspiration than every author ever.
And that's some fire. But I love that I'm here with you guys. I love that we've all been divided and conquered, but at least we can actually still speak. At least over here in the book world, at least most of the time, unless you find yourself on book talk or the flat and classic books. Hello. Let's talk about the classics today. It's like and I love all of you guys. The best part about Substack is that you get to know people. Like I've read literally thousands of my fans or people who like me's like writing and like I'm like damn all you guys are weird as hell, bro.
Like all right, let's get Russia into the mix. We got Japan, America, we got everybody involved. But now we have to bring in the Russians. And we're going to talk about Petersburg by Andre Belly, which you know, let's bring in a wild card here, right? And funny enough, Nabokov, who we just talked about, believed that this was one of the four greatest novels ever written. And if you know anything about Navacov, he hated a lot of people. He thought that Doski was trash, which, you know, I know a lot of people who read Russian who, you know, somewhat agree, but that's a conversation for a different video. And so this is one of those kind of annoyingly long Russian novels, you guys. Like I remember in our book club last year, I said, "We're going to read every Dovski novel." And I started putting them in there and it was like every month 700 pages, 850 pages, 500 pages. Oh my god, we get to do The Gambler, 200 pages. Um, but you know, it's a lot. But the reason why that's important though is that what this one shows is of all the books we were going to talk about even more so than like the stand which is 500 pages longer than this kind of this epic fragmentation at scale. And so Petersburg is about a political radical who has been tasked to kill his own father which is like this big eatable moment right and when we're talking about fragmentation there's so much that you know we can talk about there right like not excuse me through this novel so we have the simple father and son like the familial detachment we have society and the people detaching we have the life of the city the city the workers detaching from actual reality. We have people losing their identity, losing attachment to their body, um politicians losing morality, um words no longer having any meaning. Like these were all the things that were starting near and you know brewing up toward the Russian Revolution, right? Like and this is a novel about terrorism. And you know when we think about the fragmentation of our soul, this is a pre-terrorism novel. You know, Don the Lilo, my boy, in his novel Mau said that terrorism killed the novel because novelists were always meant to be the complex people that could blow minds and transform people. But terrorists have basically taken that because they are irrational. They can do things that can be broadcast everywhere and make people think and can change everything in an instant and make things progress in an instant, even if it's in a malignant way, right? And so, um, Belly was on to this with this novel.
The idea of the bomb, the uh the assassination bomb or you know um you know whatever terroristic event is the ultimate use of fragmentation, right?
Because the bomb symbolizes something bigger. This is what Stephen King deployed in the stand famously when he said that he was like had writer's block for 6 months and boom, he's like, "Oh, I need to add a bomb. I need to add an assassination, you know, subplot into all this and that will change everything." There's actually two bombs in the stand um that change everything and like you know create this whole new level of meaning. And in in this novel it's the same thing. And with terrorism, a lot of terrorism is very rationalistic, right? Even if you listen to like Osama bin Laden talk about like his reasons, um, you know, or whatever, whatever it is, a lot of the time it's it's rationalism that's been detached from actual life, which is crazy, right?
And what's interesting about revolutionary energy and revolutions in general is that evil takes over because a lot of the time it's the strong who are able to manipulate the weak that end up winning. and the ones that take power and hold power and are never the ones who are the best leaders after all the revolutionary stuff is done. And I feel like this dives deeper into the actual psychology of the oppressed, of the revolutionary, of the demonic at scale in mass than something like the stand, which is just more showing us an overview of of it all in a modern context. And so if you're interested in terrorism and revolutionary um ideals, you know, the Russian Revolution is the one of the best places to look at to see kind of the impetus of that. You know, political assassinations and stuff like that, revolutions have always been a thing all throughout time. But in the modern world, they take a different context when they are being watched by the world stage in almost real time and with, you know, machine guns and other things which make it, you know, um e easier to overthrow power. And then if you have enough of enough people believing you, e much easier to hold on to power also. And so yes, this one is wonderful and I would 100% check it out.
So now let's move back into the well whoa, sorry that's in the way into the woo realm with one of my favorite novels of all time, Valis Val by Philip K.
Dick. And this is a once again a Gnostic novel. This idea that what if the sin is not inside us or not inside an action but actually in the landscape of the world. And what Val does is bring many of the ideas I discussed at the start of the video on Blood Meridian. And that's why I'm bringing you at the end. I think it's very important to the forefront in a more modern and you know I don't want to say dystopic but a more modern example. And I think this book is more relevant than ever because and so what happens if we keep going? What happens if we be keep becoming more rational?
The more rational we get, the more aruck we are going to be when a mythic power when something wild enters into the mix.
Right? And that's what happens in this novel. an intuitive prophetic force starts making certain individuals who wake up start to realize that all these ideas about innosticism mostly and they actually literally are talking about narcissism like Sophia and arch archons and demons and angels and all these things are not just you know metaphors or art types or like you know kind of these primitive energies that we can't recognize but they're actually real and you know this is this is the scary thing you guys like what do we do with this information because I believe that this is accessible to everyone. I believe that like if you are an atheist still that is it is 100% your fault that if you want to try hard enough that you can access the mysteries of the world that I could never accept and explain that you have heard all over the internet that people talking about all that stuff can be found at least in a a certain form and it's available to you but if you look at your life you have done nothing close to what you have needed to done to do excuse me to go make that happen.
Some people get lucky and spirituality comes to find them and it's just a whatever experience. But for some people, some people are born weak, you guys. Some people are born super weak and have no strength and they have to dedicate their life to strength training to get to a point where they can maybe bench 225 as there was the jock in high school at 16 who could just bench 225, no big deal, right? And that's the same.
And when you look at the constraints we've been put in in our society, I believe that's true too. That if you are willing to put in the effort and willing to go far and try to find these deeper deeper levels of spirituality by any means necessary, you are going to find it and a lot lot more. And you know, I've never met an atheist who I've sat down and talked to who if you give me 25 minute 20 minutes, I could sit and tell you why that why you're an atheist. Like it's not hard. Like we can literally point you out like you know it's like someone that's overweight like okay let's sit and talk about okay well look at what you're eating way too much you sit down all day you're stressed all the time you don't sleep like it's the same things in the realm of spirituality also and what's crazy though is that the deeper and deeper we get the more insane the old world is going to be. It's wild, you guys. Like talking to adults, talking to people. People have just shut off this video, guys. Like the retention rates dropping right now discussing this. But that's what happens in this novel. You know, we think it's conspira like we think it's just conspiracies that like, oh, it's just the conspiracy people that like we all disregard. But they are right. They and they were right. Like people have been people like Epstein files. People have been talking about that for decades, you guys. Like where have you guys been? Like really?
like it's been almost 20 years since the sweetheart deal in Florida. Um anyway, when people look though at people seeking truth, we have created an entire culture around flattening and like making them seem stupid and like you know when you start to look even at the CIA and like their involvement in like yoga and like with eastern philosophy and the implementation of it in the west and like it's really sketchy you guys.
But it's the point of this novel that everyone views these people who are trying to figure this stuff out, this group who understand this and are actually having these real experiences as wacko. And that's how the common median individual sees someone who is literally experienc experiencing reciprocity with the earth who isn't even like a hippie like going crazy, but who has just got into like the next level, which is where everyone used to be. Someone who actually restores the self. And so this novel explores that.
That's the real evil, you guys. Like, right now, the evil is our entire society. The evil is that we can no longer even allow or see the truth or allow others to show us the truth anymore. We automatically demonize them.
We automatically raise our children to think that they are dumb. And so, if you haven't checked Val out, then you absolutely need to. It's it's a wild novel, you guys. You you you're going to love it. I need to do a we need to read this in the book club. So, last but not least, let's talk about the metamorphosis, you guys. is like I don't talk about Kofka enough. I've read almost every major Kofka work and I know that this isn't a novel but you know I want to start you know working through a lot of my Kofka knowledge. We've been reading him in the book club over the last year and um let's hop into it. And so the metamorphosis is really important. And I wanted to end it here because guys, our friends, our family is are all that we have. And maybe you don't have friends or family right now.
But earlier, if you guys were here, I was talking about Endo's, the sea, and poison. And talking about the effects that eventually led these doctors to performing these experiments on American prisoners. And in this novel, the evil starts to begin when we when when um Greor's family reduces him to just a problem, you guys. He now has become the nuisance. And something that I learned as a teacher and something that I've noticed in my life, you know, knowing, you know, growing up with my extended family being religious and my other side of my family kind of being a bit snoody and um, you know, a very high expectation is that people that, you know, the people that did not conform to that, you know, my cousins or whoever became the problem, became the nuisance.
you know, the ones that didn't end up getting married, the ones that didn't end up making a lot of money or just wanted to, you know, do something they were passionate about that only paid $40,000 a year suddenly became the sore spot sore spot. And our society functions in a very similar way that we view utility, we view value and worth usually just from this capitalistic viewpoint of the will, of what someone is able to do. And you know, here I am you guys. I'm Let's go. We're promoting the literary renaissance, everyone.
Like, I need doers out there. I need people to make it happen. But I know also that as a writer myself, as a thinker, as a feeler, as a lover of the world and of nature and of all things, that the moments of silence, my my greatest moments are not here on screen in front of you guys or when I'm playing with my daughter. But in in in these smaller moments, in these moments where I have no function or utility to the world at all, in these moments of silence that eventually are what make me become the person that um can help others. You know, I spent years of my life, guys, detached. I spent years of my life back when I was younger in my early 20s, like not dating, not really doing anything. Like, you know, I was doing martial arts and writing and like other stuff, but wasn't being, you know, not really barely working, not being useful to society at all. And like people treated me that way. You know, I hitchhiked across the country and, you know, it blew my mind how I was being treated, you know, and how, you know, how people look down on me. I mean, I can imagine, you know, how home I I lived in my car for a long uh for a while in Oregon. And, you know, the the treatment that I got, it was dehumanizing. Even though I was, you know, I felt like doing profound things doing it. I wasn't like a drug addict like I was doing what I'm doing now outside of making videos. And evil is going to win when we we think it's when we give up on the weak. Everyone will say, "Oh, we no one has strong children anymore."
For a while, for a long time now, we've given up. And this has been a problem all throughout society to be. But now that we are conscious, the one thing that we cannot do is fall into this trap of utility. Fall into the trap that we have to be slaves to something.
Everybody has worth. Everybody can be.
You know what I was going to say earlier is that during that time when I wasn't doing anything, you guys, I was still me. I knew that I'd be doing this one day. I could speak like this. I was more of a firecracker than I am now. And I have a friend, his name is Nick. And Nick saw me and looked at me not as a kid who wasn't didn't have a didn't have a girlfriend and lived with his parents and like barely had any didn't have any money and was kind of a deadbe. He didn't view me like that. He gave me a chance and I I I'll say I changed that dude's life. I don't think he was expecting to meet this guy that was reading 200 books a year and was like I suddenly I got him into martial arts and reading and like taking psychedelics and all this stuff and his life changed dramatically and it's because he gave me a chance. It's because he had love in his heart and there were other people during that time who I know I touched and you know there have been people who I've given chances out there or who I've talked to who've changed my life. There are some of you guys who've reached out to me who I've become friends with or you know had small interactions with and you know who are in the world of literature and YouTube and Substack and all this stuff.
Nobody's right like you know just a random dude who live like literally lives with his parents or is just working a a job and like doing his thing and has never really showed his work to the public and have like have changed how I thought you guys like some of you guys have changed my life. many of these books that we've talked about today, like the the sea and poison, um Petersburg, The Fisherman, shout out my boy Phil, like for giving that recommendation, like I I can think of more. There's probably one or two other of these novels that have been recommended by somebody else. And so that's what I want to focus on that we can't let these people like Greor slip away. They are all important. We need everybody. The point of a literary renaissance is to reach the highest goal of all, which is that when one suffers, we all suffer. We will have to suffer in life. But if we can take a step toward lessening the unnecessary suffering in the world, then we are taking a step in the right direction. And that is our goal, everyone. And so if you want to support me, here is how you can do it.
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