The Politics of Postmodernity in Russia ... and Not Only

Lies create new political paradigms.

I’ve found that most people struggle to understand words. As a writer, you can never assume that a reader understands a key term that is central to your analysis. If you do, it will become clear sooner rather than later that you assumed too much too quickly. I encounter this problem whenever I write about metaphysics. I simplify what I am writing about by saying, “just think magic, bro” but that leads some peasants to think “fairy-tales” like they find in their religious texts instead. This is wrong, of course, but this is about as close as we can get as far as defining terms for anything not directly related to chasing money and moral posturing — the only two things that the peasants care about or think that they can understand.

So I’ve got quite the task in front of me, trying to define postmodernity and then explaining how it pertains to politics in Russia.

The best way that I can define it is to say, “it just means lies, bro”. Postmodernity is basically the realization that lies can change reality within society through the use of technology and social conditioning. The best example of this is probably the transgender phenomenon in the West. Through the use of surgery, propaganda, and social coercion, the reality of sexual differences between men and women has been rendered a hateful and regressive attitude that is eschewed by favored members of society.

The underlying thinking at the core of this school of thought is that there is no such thing as objective reality, really or that objective reality can be created through artificial means.

Every phenomenon’s realness (or lack thereof) depends on our perception of it and on our technological limitations. So, with the right tools, the social engineers can make their own reality. In the interim transition period though, it is important to “fake it until you make it,” and to force as many people as possible to partake in the lie to expedite it becoming reality. This kind of thinking is presented as being “philosophical” and there are some boring French poufs who are credited for popularizing these ideas like Derrida (ethnic postmodernist) or Foucault and others, I’m sure.

But these “new” ideas are actually to be found in much older schools of occultism, which is where these philosophers got the idea in the first place and then reverse-engineered it by applying the language of continental philosophy to it.

Most visibly, in the New Age movement, there is a lot of emphasis put on “reality creation” whereby the practitioner can manifest wealth, friendship, sexual appeal and do away with all their problems by not thinking about them. There is something to be said about the power of positive thinking and the law of attraction, to be sure, but the New Agers take it to the level of the absurd with their dream boards and denial of the existence of Evil in any shape of form. The bad things that happen to a person always end up being their own fault because they themselves manifested it and must have secretly wished for it which is why the calamity manifested. If the calamity is on a society-wide scale like a genocide or a flood, the New Agers insist that positive thinkers will be able to somehow shirk off these bad things if they keep a good attitude. I distinctly remember a New Ager getting in trouble for saying that the power of manifestation might have been able to save a Jew or two from the Holocaust, which triggered an avalanche of righteous kvetching and a caveat* being added to New Age thought.

*no amount of positive thinking will save you from the wrath of the ethnic victims once they decide to cancel you and ruin your life

But this kind of thinking is actually fundamentally spiritually Hebraic (Christian) because Christian metaphysics, just like New Age thought, denies the existence of Evil. “Saint” Augustine was the architect of this revolutionary, backwards and incoherent metaphysics and he created it in defiance of the ancient metaphysical traditions of the gentile world as a form of spite and subversion. New Agers, despite their ostensible openness to non-Abrahamic metaphysics, basically believe everything that Christians believe and keep to the underlying structure of religion sans the desert fairy tales, which, admittedly, is a marked improvement.

But I digress.

A postmodern society then is a society that has taken several New Age or occult concepts to heart and runs with them. Mostly, it is the elite who understands and implements these policies, but the cleverer peasants also pick up on this and begin imitating the example of their social betters. This leads to a behavioral sink society-wide as bad behavior is encouraged by bad example on the part of the ruling class. Then, once the bad habits are adopted by the masses, change becomes impossible because there no longer is any reason to oppose the elites seeing as the masses are now no better and deserve their rulers!

But this essay has been very abstract and probably hard to follow so far. So, let’s make it more concrete and understandable. Take the specific example of the Putin project that I have written extensively about before:

Surkov is both a living example of postmodern principles and an adept of them as well.

To really understand what I am saying in this article, you really do have to read the article about Surkov first that I linked above. This is kind of a part two, really, so go do that now if you haven’t already.

In other words, as regards Surkov, he is a master of lying about himself and at lying to others to get them to change their perspective of reality. Case in point: Surkov isn’t even his real name. Nor is he Russian. Nor is he a patriot. His greatest achievement is the “manifesting” of the whole “Patriotic 5D Chess Putin” narrative, or “ZAnon” as I like to refer to it. The persona of this man — a Rossiyan patriot fighting globohomo — is a postmodern construct i.e., a lie that many people believe in, which almost makes it a postmodern reality i.e., a belief based on a lie. In reality, Surkov is a Chechen? banker who was hired by the West to run the propaganda for the Western occupation government in the 90s and then beyond.

There is no proof or any actual concrete measures that have been taken by Surkov and Putin to prove any of the claims about them being locked in a mortal struggle with the West in the name of traditional values. All the evidence seems to show the exact opposite, actually. But, by lying and hiring people to lie and repeating the lie, they have manifested a “reality” in which millions of Westerners believe in the absurd ZAnon narrative. The brilliance of the postmodern project is the realization and then the proof of concept that neither truth, nor results, neither any grounding in the previous pre-manifestation reality is needed to create a new narrative/reality.

All you really need to create a fake reality is to have control of the levers of power.

This is actually pure NEETshian will to power made manifest. Does 2+2 really equal 4 if the spooks throw you in prison for saying it? That is, will anyone really insist that 2 +2 equals 4 when the incentives support saying 5 and the consequence for saying 4 are so dire? And, when the bestial masses are taken into account, the concept of objective truth flies out the window immediately, because the masses are only ever capable of repeating what powerful people tell them to believe. They have no conception of the concept of truth that is independent of authority whatsoever. If the priests tell them to believe something, and they can back it up with force and threats, then this becomes the new reality. Simple as.

For example:

A rabbi rose from the dead for your sins and all the graves of Jerusalem opened up with him in 33AD and that means that you have to become “Spiritually Israeli” now and worship a foreskin-gobbling volcano demon who thinks the world is flat and covered by a dome.

Once Christianity collapsed, it was only a matter of time before clever people figured out that all the past historical and religious narratives were simply made up and “meme’d” into reality through repetition, coercion, and Demiurgic power. It was only a matter of time before the cleverer ones realized that it was their turn to become gods and to shape their own realities going forward.

And yet, the Bronze Age NEETshians in Ukraine and the West alike dislike Putin for some reason, even though he and his government are the best living examples of the realization of the ideals of their prophet. Putin’s ZAnon and Trump’s QAnon and the new effort to shill that Argentinian Zionist as these great cosmic saviors engaged in spiritual, inter-dimensional battle with the forces of Satan to fulfill theological prophecies (Zionism) — these are all postmodernist projects.

And how can you tell if something is postmodernist?

Simple: if there is no proof for a claim and the evidence that does exist points in the complete opposite direction, and yet there is sustained narrative to claim the opposite, well, you are seeing an occult ritual at work in which an alternative reality is being manifested in arrogant defiance of the existing reality.

It is like Stalin trying to get water to flow in the opposite direction with his great White Sea canal project. This is a material and crude manifestation of the same revolutionary metaphysical spirit. And, not to get too technical here, but within the broader school of occultism in general, using huge amounts of spiritual energy and repeated rituals to go against the grain of reality is considered “black” or “bad” magic. This is the correct definition by the way, because it is grounded in a correct metaphysical framing. Christians, of course, define Satanism as everything that isn’t in the Bible, so they cannot understand the nuance that I am bringing into the discussion, sadly.

But we forge on ahead without them.

An interesting bit of news came out of Russia recently. Yet another leak. This time, it was the email correspondence of Andrei Kolesnikov — the editor of the Kommersant journal, from a decade ago. The correspondence, if real, which it certainly seems to be, is still being sifted through now, Wikileaks style, but there are already some interesting revelations to mention. Here:

Shoigu is looking for Shambhala, and Chubais was interested in the occult?

Colleagues began to exhibit (https://t.me/black8mirror/6804) an archive of letters from Andrei Kolesnikov, perhaps the most famous Kremlin journalist. He is the author of numerous articles about Putin, a book-interview about the president “In the First Person,” and a confidant of the Supreme Commander. Popularly known under the nickname “Putin’s chronicler.” We must agree that the mail of such a person is of interest not only to hackers, but also to historians, political scientists, and sociologists.

Unfortunately, the published archive is old. It contains letters from 2005 to 2012. But these nuggets of knowledge about the “behind the scenes” of the Kremlin are important. It turns out (https://t.me/vchkogpu/42160), Shoigu financed the search for Shambhala in Tuva. They wanted to invite Chubais on TV as an expert on the occult. Back in 2010, Kandelaki dreamed of becoming a big media manager, but her ambitions got in the way of her team. That same year, the conflict between Putin and Medvedev began to grow. And Pelevin and Surkov may turn out to be (https://t.me/rusbrief/159962) one person.

And all this information was provided only by a few published letters. The authors of the channel promise to continue to delight us with “artifacts of the past” next Saturday. It is interesting that the archive began to be published shortly before the presidential elections. Apparently, we can expect sensitive leaks of information about Putin himself.

The most interesting part of the leak isn’t the claim that Shoigu is looking for Shambalah or that Chubais is into Kabbalah — all of Russia’s elite are occultists who go to Torah-reading circles or who promote transhumanism like their Western counterparts. The interesting part is that a long-standing rumor that Surkov is Pelevin was supposedly confirmed. The true identity of Pelevin is a long-running conspiracy theory and, if you read my article on Pelevin, you will know that Surkov is the main hero of Pelevin’s Generation P and that he appears in other stories as well. The character of Surkov goes by the name of Tatarskiy and he basically “reveals the method” to the Russian people about how they are being duped, mocking them all the while and explaining that it’s all a form of postmodernism i.e., lying on an industrial scale to manifest a new reality.

If Pelevin is actually Surkov, then it explains how Pelevin had access to all that insider info about the Kremlin elite that he included in his stories and why he wasn’t ever arrested. That being said, I find it hard to believe that Surkov had time to write books while hard at work making propaganda. It might be that the journalist was simply told a sensational fib, which made its way into the emails.

Now, one of the people who clearly understands what postmodernism is and how it lies at the heart of the lies surrounding the Slavlands civil war like a thick miasma, is the modern-day Slavlands Diogenes, Arestovych.

He has often tried to explain, with growing exasperation, to Ukrainians and Russians both, that they are living in a live laboratory of postmodern experimentation and that the reality that they are being fed by the media is totally fake.

He left a cryptic post on his Telegram recently explaining his latest series on the topic of social engineering that he is going to be discussing through the prism of science-fiction:

- “Eden” is one of the strangest and most controversial works of Stanislaw Lem.

A two-body civilization controlled by procrustics - the science of managing society through the creation of programmed social groups and total control over information flows.

The study of information theory outside special institutions is prohibited. All official information comes from certain rulers who, according to official information, do not exist.

The two-body political elite controls civilization through social control, the very existence of which is denied.

Swap the term “social control” for “occult power” and you have an accurate description of our reality. It doesn’t matter the justification — materialist indoctrination or Christian anti-spirituality — the result is the same. A materialist refuses to consider non-material realities and a Christian believes that he will go to hell if he does. The goal is the same though — to keep knowledge of the elites out of the hands of the powerless peasant masses.

(…)

It is difficult to clarify without context; but I invite all lovers of strange worlds, in the cracks of which true knowledge emerges, to an exciting adventure.

One of my readers commented once that Arestovych is like a self-aware Dostoevsky character who is able to embody a living contradiction within himself and also to spout off philosophy at the same time. This is the best explanation of who and what Arestovych is. However, I would like to add that Arestovych is a former Duginite, who, despite all his shortcomings and lack of personal bravery, understands these concepts and writes about them. Most people dismiss him and his writing because they are, again, either materialists or Christians.

But Dugin’s project had some prestigious alumni, that much is undeniable.

For better or worse, Dugin’s project was the only organization that was having these conversations and educating Slavlanders on what the great “philosophical” debate of our time was. That is, again, in reality, the debate such as it is among the cognitive elites is actually about occultism, but the peasants who have been subjected to centuries of material atheism whether of the Christian or the Communist variety, do not understand this. Dugin speaks both the language of philosophy and occultism and, like Jordan Peterson, has tried to sound the alarm about the postmodern religion of the Kremlin elite i.e., them using their power and coercion to lie to the Russian people all the time.

Speaking of Dugin, he made a post recently about the Z-symbol. Before I get into that, I’d like to point out that my guest and I discussed the Z-symbol as well.

We concluded that it stood for “ZOG”.

But that’s just Rurik and Rosca speaking. And Rurik is a well known NATO-NAZI-SATANIST whose opinions can be discarded as pure disinfo. Instead, here is what Dugin had to say about Z:

Z is a bad symbol. It doesn't mean anything. This is a PR fake. We are fighting under the banner of the Savior Not Made by Hands. Under the banner of Vladlen Tatar: I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the next century. They don't die for Z. They die for Rus', for Christ, for our people. That's what we need to tell everyone. It’s time to discard the husk of the “Russia corporation”. Holy Rus', the great Empire, returns to history.

But you and I both know that Dugin can’t be trusted! He is a well-known SBU agent! Anyone who criticizes the mighty Z! is an enemy of the Worldwide Freedom Coalition! A Fascist! A Nazi! Well, a Naz-Bol, actually.

Also, a pro-Wagner channel came back with an even better and more edgy analysis though that I thought was worth sharing. Here:

Dugin's post is actually funny, but it has deep meaning. Z is really a swastika for impotent people. This is a symbol of shame for the Russian invincible soldier. For under the symbol Z we were defeated at Kiev, Kharkov and Kherson. Z - has become a symbol of insignificance, impotence and weakness. I also hate all these miserable abbreviations like LPR, DPR, KHUI, PZDTs and so on. Why do I need your soulless, impersonal abbreviation if I have beautiful Novorossiya?

Z is truly an extremely unfortunate symbol, which was deliberately lowered from above to the Russian people in order to prevent a repetition of the Russian Spring, and Alexander Dugin absolutely correctly sensed the emptiness and falsehood behind this symbol. Z is a swastika for lowlifes. Alexander Dugin: Z is a bad symbol. It doesn't mean anything. This is a PR fake. We are fighting under the banner of the Savior Not Made by Hands. Under the banner of Vladlen Tatar: I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the next century. They don't die for Z. They die for Rus', for Christ, for our people. That's what we need to tell everyone. It’s time to discard the husk of the “Russia corporation”. Holy Rus', the great Empire, returns to history.

And I’ve written my own 2 cents about the progenitor of the Z-symbol as well.

I made the alternative claim that it was wasn’t the late Vladlen Tatarskiy, but actually the late “Bereg” who came up with the symbol. Bereg is a nom de guerre for a pro-Russia mercenary by choice, an ethnic propagandist by blood and a paid internet troll by profession also waxed poetically about postmodernism in Russia on his social media.

But just so you understand how surreal this all is, get this — Tatarskiy, the blogger and the alternative claimant on the Z-brand, was a fake name picked out by Maxim Fomen because of his affinity for Pelevin’s Generation P.

Tatarskiy is the main character of this book about occultism, postmodernism, and Putin.

Tatarskiy is based on Surkov.

So, a pro-Putin propagandist takes the name of a fictional pro-Putin propagandist from a book that may have been written by the propagandist that the book was supposedly about!

Is this a simulacra? Is this hyperreality?? Or is this a fever dream???

Either way, both Bereg and Tatarskiy were both very similar in their views, their careers and their deaths at the hands of assassins under very suspicious circumstances.

Personally, I both agree with the postmodernists and also want to do everything in my power to oppose them. Yes, it is objectively true that the truth has no bearing on our shared societal reality. We believe a collection of lies about our history, about science, about social relations and so on simply because we were told to do so by people who control the three levers of power in our Demiurgic reality: martial might, financial power and religious faith. That doesn’t mean though that the truth doesn’t exist, only that society is antithetical to it. To a certain extent, all truth-tellers are either hypocrites or mislead, because there is some element of reality that they have misperceived or that they simply cannot speak openly about.

I get pretty close to that very real red line with my blog (not to be confused with Shoigu’s fake red lines) and I am punished by the braying masses for it. They want to believe lies and hate people who refuse to believe in their absurd religious narratives about secret patriots and secret nazis and secret plans to save the world by ending the world. And for that, I am punished. The part of me that can appreciate postmodernism also scorns the modern sorcerers who engage in it because it is the easy road to take. Tricking the peasants is easy because the masses hate the truth, and would tear apart anyone daring to say the truth if given half the chance. That is why I have gone paywall only.

And, like I have said before in my various shakedown appeals for new paid subscribers, the Slavlands are a mysterious place in the grips of dark, arcane, occultic forces. You need a good guide to be able to navigate your way through them!

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