On the Devil and Ants
Some excellent Substacks from the past week
Mark Bisone just launched a new Substack. With a bang. I recommend you subscribe, because his first post is out of this world. I can’t wait to see how it continues.
If you enjoyed some of the ideas in my recent post on the “other god,” you’ll love this.
Inspired by the above, John Carter spies the dark motives of the death cult. Choose your own apocalypse: fire or ice.
In my “other god” post, I mentioned Dostoevsky’s idea of the human anthill. Doc Hammer knows his ants. He takes this idea in a somewhat different direction, however. Whereas Dostoevsky argued that socialism wishes to turn society into a primitive anthill without individuality, Doc Hammer observes the ways in which the anthill is already similar to a functioning human society. They are both emergent superorganisms. (Socialism seems to desire humans become more like ants, and less human.) Interesting food for thought when contemplating ideas like the “body of Christ.”
On the subject of deviant anti-sexuality, a devoted reader sent me this piece, not on Substack:
‘House of Hammer’: See the Most Shocking Messages Armie Hammer Allegedly Sent to Women
If anyone has seen the documentary, let us know in the comments if it’s worth watching. As the article states, the texts are all “unverified.” Either way, Hammer’s alleged texts remind me of Ira Einhorn:
“You were the most intense and extreme version of that I’ve ever had. Raping you on your floor with a knife against you. Everything else seemed boring,” one text read, which was allegedly written by Hammer to the woman behind the anonymous social media account, House of Effie. This woman, known as Effie, accused Hammer of rape during a press conference alongside her attorney, Gloria Allred. It became the basis for an LAPD sexual assault investigation into Hammer.
“You crying and screaming, me standing over you. I felt like a god,” the alleged text read. “I’ve never felt such power or intensity.”
“I’m not gonna lie,” Hammer wrote in another alleged message. “You crying and crawling away while I stalked you down your hallway was so exhilarating.”
On a lighter and completely unrelated note, here is one of the greatest YouTube channels to cleanse the mental palate: KLR Productions. Are you not entertained?
I feel somewhat compelled to point out "NO RELATION."
Not even a distant branch of the family tree. Different tree, of a different species.
The KLR productions videos made my morning.