On the Digital Eunuchs and Their Sterile Chorus
By Caleb T. Maupin
A specter is haunting the internet—the specter of absolute mediocrity. I speak of the wretched hive of scum and villainy known as Reddit, a digital gathering of eunuchs, of chattering castrato choirboys, all singing the same sterile tune from the same tattered hymnsheet of State Department and Woke NGO talking points.
What else can one call these creatures? They have been surgically—or more accurately, psychologically—divorced from any generative, life-affirming power. They possess no capacity for original thought, no will to create, only a simpering desire to conform, to signal their virtue, and to tear down any figure who dares to stand tall, to think boldly, and to build. Their entire identity is built on a foundation of negation: "I am not that," "I hate him," "I am one of the good ones." It is a politics and an existence of pure, unadulterated passivity.
This is the epitome of midwittery—the worship of the average, the celebration of the safe, the cringing fear of anything that smacks of greatness, power, or true intellectual risk. It is the current anti-intellectual plague, a pestilence that masquerades as enlightenment while its adherents gorge themselves on the rotting fruits of consumerist decay.
Look at their culture! They line up like docile cattle for overpriced, grotesque trinkets like "Labubu" chocolate, their palates and souls so deadened they cannot tell the difference between art and corporate-manufactured slop. They flock to the latest ghastly superhero film, little realizing they are consuming Pentagon-funded propaganda designed to inculcate fascist values. Batman—a mentally ill billionaire who uses his wealth to engage in extra-judicial violence against the poor and mentally ill in a decaying urban hellscape—is their "hero"! He is not a liberator; he is the perfect fantasy for the imperial security state: a privatized, unaccountable enforcer of a rotten status quo. And they cheer for him! The farce is almost too perfect to be believed.
They call us conspiracy theorists while they swallow the most elaborate, multi-billion-dollar conspiracy of all: the conspiracy to keep them docile, consuming, and politically impotent.
While they are busy downvoting dissent in their digital monasteries, we are building. While they are writing their 10,000-word critiques of why every actually existing socialist project is "prob
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