- In dissident spaces on the internet, a common trope is that society is “collapsing”. They don’t mean that in a global cataclysmic way, but more so in a Soylent Green-style erosion of quality of life. I think this is super common in those who are constantly bouncing around from one radical niche ideology to another (from Communism to traditional Catholicism/Monarchism/etc) and realizing that none actually have any legs or will ever become anything more than a subreddit. I can’t actually get behind the idea of our nation collapsing when our leaders are getting richer and more powerful. What’s collapsing is the amount of power we have as working people and the lack of the ability to evade their surveillance. We have talked about this alot especially on our episode “Collapse” but there seems to be a lot of coping going as far as to what the next move is.
If society and The West are collapsing, then why in the hell would you clock in at a job that you don’t really care for at work tomorrow? If you truly believe these are the end times (I don’t. We’re gonna make it.) you either need to be living for the moment and crossing off everything, or you need to be designing a based, Art Bell style, self sustaining residence away from society so you can live through it. It’s why I think the collapse narrative is more of a cope for failed political campaigns, bad investments, and yes, a decline in society since 2020. Here at RC Industries, we have noticed a decline in many aspects of the way we live, so we want to encourage people to make incremental changes with things they do regularly to better improve our quality of life, as well as our mental health so maybe some day we can, in fact, have an organically formed solidarity amongst the plebs and fight post-2020 austerity.
Psi: so true. What else in life is going to be handed to you on a silver platter? You’re going to wait for the powers-that-be to realize their grievous moral failures and correct society? This shit is in our hands. I fully intend to create an off-grid compound for me and my family once our Substack hits $380,000 in revenue per month (each). But here’s the thing: I’d be doing this even if we lived in a utopian society but the water was still fluoridated. Also even if it wasn’t fluoridated!
Because it just seems like something cool to do on principle. Imagine knowing exactly how your water was collected, treated, and filtered (no more 5 gallon jugs). Imagine taking hot showers heated by dumb little vacuum glass pipes collecting solar energy even in cold wintery climates. Or having your entire floor heated by the same exact system passively, and your living space is always the perfect ambient temperature. No more forced air heating paying the man every month. These things are just objectively better, and once again the hippies are right and correct. When will we learn to trust them.
-Bud Light Bros, did we get too cocky? As a beer snob, I have spent the week laughing at people who brag about being too cool for craft beer and choose options like Bud Light. Dylan Mulvaney (still don’t know who the hell that really is) now has a sponsorship from the light beer company and the commercials are definitely … something. There are many things you can glean from this ad campaign but perhaps the most important of which is that when you drink too much Bud Light, you end up turning into Dylan Mulvaney.
But really though, it seems like companies’ new advertising strategy is not to put someone that everyone wants to see in their ads, but to simply make an ad so polarizing that your company dominates the discourse for the next few days. EVERYONE had a take on this commercial whether or not you even drink beer, and I can’t imagine Bud Light made its target audience too happy, right? But guess what, they’re not going to lose a substantial number of drinkers after the outrage dies down, and I’ll bet that some try hard liberals that believe in things like “trans kids” and “life saving gender affirming care” might do a performative purchase of a 30 rack of Bud Light to own the conservatives they shadowbox with on a daily basis.
-A lot of people (women) reference the Moon when behaving out of the norm and that the Moon has powers that you wouldn’t believe. I’m not saying I don’t believe women, because I do think there’s something to the notion that astrology is real and can offer an explanation for a lot of human attraction and behavior, but how many people accept astrology and the sheer power of the moon, while also believing that we sent people to walk on said moon in 1969? Make it make sense.
Psi: counterpoint — that photo of Neil Armstrong looking like Aleister Crowley in 1972 — I’m having a bitch of a time finding it, it’s like it has been scrubbed from the internet. Maybe homeboy DID go and got shook super hard. Probably not though lol.
The cruel part of all this is that NASA plans to send the first woman to the Moon soon via The Artemis Missions, and if the moon is effecting women’s behavior on earth, then physically landing on the Moon will turn them into absolute banshees. I kid, of course, because I don’t believe we ever went to the Moon in the first place, so the first woman on the Moon would be the first person to ever get there. The point of this is that the 1969 Moon landing is accepted by default unless you think about it for longer than 10 minutes. I don’t think human beings can ever get close to something as powerful as the Moon.
Psi: The next Bob’s Red Pill is on the Moon. For homework, read “Our Impossible Earth and Moon” by Fred Cameron. It’s clear the Moon has powers based on it being artificially installed by hyper-advanced beings eons ago. For me, these Moon pills kind of ruin two conspiracies for me: flat earth and Moon landing conspiracies. I have huge doubts we ever went to the moon, more than anything I just hate that “Moon landing” is canonized as a scientific fact like “gravity” lol. But oh wow, humans faked going to the Moon in the 60’s and 70’s. Very boring to me compared to actually discovering what our Moon could possibly be … and flat earth, well, the conspiracies and rabbit holes that come with a spherical model of our solar system are just so much more fascinating than if it were all projections or paper cutouts in the sky. Tell me I’m wrong and why.
Make sure you check out our latest premium episode “Time” where we watch two movies “Primer” and “Coherence” and talk about time travel.
really like these roundups. and i'm excited for Moon Talk on the Red Pill!