archive link: https://archive.ph/ONKkm
contextualizes the topic beautifully. you might learn a lot about how american racism relates to capital and art from this article
highlight: most of these guys are into classical art fascism but one of them, a bitcoin guy looking to build a 450 foot tall statue of prometheus, appears to be specifically into italian fascism. his favorite aesthetic is futurism and he hired a futurist sculptor with this “manifesto” on his website:
We need to fight capitalism with giant mechs modeled after wealthy white leftist intellectuals. Here’s my proposal for project Friedrich Evangelsion Unit-00
Anno was cooking when he predicted that the tech elite (seele) would try to melt down all of humanity into amorphous data (orange tang) and control the “superintelligence” singularity (third impact)
What he got wrong is that the emotionally stunted boss man in charge of executing the plans of the shadowy elite conspiracy was a grieving widowed wife guy and not just the most divorced man in the world.
https://youtu.be/5X9RUOEOoNQ
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Meme template is the scene from the tv show “The Good Place”, where Michael is expressing disbelief about someone notably stupid figuring something out.
Michael: “Alex Jones figured it out? Alex Jones? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.”