Politics Of The Abyss — The Murder Of Charlie Kirk And Exiting The Statist Death Cult

Tragedy struck while I brainstormed with visionaries at the Radical Innovation Summit in Mexico City on overcoming the political crisis. At the peak of that conference, an assassin’s bullet ended Charlie Kirk. His untimely death fanned the flames of polarizing rhetoric and summoned ideological fanaticism. The incident highlighted a jarring contrast between people doing profoundly optimistic work and those sucked into a vortex of cultural nihilism. Thankfully, the conferencegoers kept their chins up by trying to imagine a cure to the escalating political violence.

This goal of descalating the violence and building a brighter future has been my vision for years. Let us get the glaringly obvious out of the way; then we will search for that hope and fend off black pills and deathporn along the way. Trigger warning: this article contains unapologetic condemnation of people who embrace murder and murderous ideologies.

To justify Kirk’s murder is to uphold the politics of death; politics is a death cult. Celebrating while the body is still warm is a godawful travesty; it is evil and sociopathic. It does not matter what views or philosophies you harbor; murdering someone for speaking words is deplorable. When words fail and bullets suffice, we enter a dark period of stochastic terrorism. This is true regardless of the specific combination of words that Kirk uttered.

I did not follow him personally, but intermittently saw clips of him speaking. He seemed composed but mainly articulated traditional, surface-level, and mostly moderate, vaguely shocking right-wing ideas. I tuned out his message after that. Here is the key: I never once thought he deserved a bullet. Why would he? Anyone threatened by his words was likely a puerile intellectual without a fully formed philosophy or cogent opinion. These people are so married to their politics that human life becomes an afterthought. In this sense, they extol macabre political virtues. They are murderbots. They are morally bankrupt, automaton-like creatures, as unhinged as the person who squeezed the trigger.

The fact that people celebrated and mocked Kirk’s death is a foreboding omen. The tragedy is that too many people hold the view that he deserved death and “had it coming”; specifically on social media, a groundswell of thanatophiles condoned the murder, ushering in a kind of Lovecraftian political rhetoric — a realpolitik of the abyss. The hope is that we can uncover ways to curtail any escalation and find ways to resolve this demonic crisis.

Before moving forward, we must consider empathy and compassion.

I am being critical in this article, but for good reason. All sane bystanders realize the folks who defend political assassinations are traumatized. They are stuck on an oscillating pendulum of political fervor, largely kept in motion by their tumultuous emotional worlds and fever-dream ideologies. We can try to connect with specific individuals for mutual healing, but championing assassination takes it too far. At this point, we must dispense with the odes to connection and begin criticizing these people for the pockmarks on dignity they have become.

I do not apologize for this position. Neither should you. I also want to make it readily apparent that I condemn all murders, left and right. When cops murdered George Floyd, I spoke up, decried police violence, and condemned those celebrating his death. No one deserves to die for having an opinion or engaging in peaceful activities. I do not care if it is a political perspective, something benign, or offensive. I do not care if they are on the left, right, or harbor views that do not encompass the political flavor of the day. The problem is that the left-right political paradigm purposely drives people into a dopamine-fueled trance-state, which heightens tribal loyalty and blinds a person to their violent impulses.

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Whether we like it or not, the seal has now been broken: unspeakable political horrors have inundated the world. This terrifying atmosphere exacerbates divisiveness as the rhetoric intensifies. This amplification of hate means social engineers get their way with society. The divide-and-conquer strategy is in full swing, as naive, gullible, manipulable, and duplicitous people get sucked deeper into transfixion with the left-right paradigm.

Everything being said now is just the regurgitation of party talking points, slogans, and claptrap. It is politics as usual, except darker. What does this mean for the individual's ability to comprehend and parse the situation? Their comprehension is negated and zeroed out. They are undergoing what psychologist Joost Meerloo called "menticide." In his book “Rape of the Mind,” he makes the case that when propaganda so completely diffuses throughout society, people lose their capacity for critical thinking. Their minds are annihilated. This happens on both sides of the political aisle. It is the anticipated climax of long-term, incessant media indoctrination, zero-sum political games, and university-led radicalization.

The situation also represents the proliferation of bleak social trends. These trends include the creation of an idea ecology that brims with carbon copy perspectives and degenerate, low-vibe memes. Tragic figures hide in unwashed corners of the internet, spend days confirming their paranoid biases, and lash out at relatively moderate notions that upend their internal dialogue. It is a hauntingly desperate situation. Can we salvage it, help people, and escape this matrix of social decay?

Perhaps.

Sometimes, people need system shock or mental defibrillation to snap out of their culturally induced delirium. In other words, a wake-up call could be what the doctor ordered. That is the only way to exorcise the demons of the murderbot mentality.

If people are playing into the party politics and black pill games, they might consider healthier paths. They should not pretend that the dominant messages and memes circulated by the establishment are the only solutions, modalities of thought, or ways of being. They can forgo the games politicians play. All the hatred is only manifested by a political regime that is just a uniparty in disguise. Bureaucrats and social engineers do not care about values. They only want people at each other's throats. They want the masses to be complicit in government criminality.

The low-hanging fruit for everyone is to learn to think for themselves and escape the left-right dumpster fire. Become autodidactic. Explore alternative solutions. I know it is easier said than done, but all must realize that entrenched cultural values are a form of "manufactured consent," as Noam Chomsky put it. Here are some ways to self-educate and pry open new solution spaces.

The most compelling solution to our current predicament is the powerful notion of “exit,” which we will explore in detail.

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The way to contradict this oppressive, brain-rotting system is to EXIT. It might be the only feasible way to unmake tribalism and the demonic forces of moralistic political ideologies.

What does “exit” really mean, though?

Exit denotes physically, emotionally, and spiritually leaving a governmental system or nation-state. Everyone must stop supporting it in any feasible way that meshes with their unique and individual situations. This personal exit starts with introspection and rethinking conditioned values. It could also involve leaving a system that fails to meet basic economic, emotional, or moral needs. Too many people spend their days trying to argue their way into freedom or attempting to reform corrupt systems.

In the late 1950s, German economist Albert O. Hirchman wrote “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States.” The book has been highly influential in the nascent parallel society movement and tacitly supports an exit thesis. The idea is simple: When the quality of goods and services declines, people have two primary responses: emigrate or voice concern through protest or political action. The book makes the case that the dynamic interplay between exit and voice can spur renewal and regeneration of institutions. However, modern thinkers in parallel societies likely acknowledge growing appreciation of exit into various networks, systems, and alternative living spaces.

Let us break down the forms of exit.

If there is a way to begin solving our problems, it is by leaving them behind. For some, this sounds like a nonstarter or “escapism.” However, exit can be a powerful tool to teach people that we do not have to engage in dichotomous, left-right thinking. We can actively choose the societies we live in and the cultural memes we ingest. This exit also allows us to demonstrate new social and governance forms, which stoke the fire of self-education in the population. Effectively, it models freedom in action for people embedded in tribal warfare.

In my estimation, exit is the ONLY solution that resonates. It immediately liberates us individually and acts as a counter-governance measure, inhibiting the power of the state apparatus and its networks of control and subjugation.

Charlie Kirk would not necessarily endorse exit ideology. It was just not part of his talking points. He loved country, adored conservative memes, and framed his arguments around the left-right paradigm. These views only inflamed the memetic demonology of the Western predicament. However, none of that justified him receiving an assassin’s bullet. What everyone can learn from this tragedy is that to stop escalating political violence and zero-sum politicking, we must take responsibility for our own consciousness. We must realize that hallucinating the left-right paradigm diminishes our humanity.

The Lovercraftian murderbots will not relax while mentally hijacked by occult, sabatoeur memetics. We require cultural regeneration through a new turning and cycle of history. However, we do not perpetually have to relive destructive cycles. We can forge new futures by exiting history altogether, leaving sick systems, ways of thinking, and modes of interacting. In this light, we discover salvation, dismantle cultural warfare, and thwart the politics of pandemonium.