Some Stuff I Think You Might Like: October 2025
“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts: the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art.” - John Ruskin, English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
Call it delusion, naïveté, or misplaced idealism, but for a very long while I remained unconvinced by the supposed enshittification said to be taking place across Substack. True, I was as skeptical as anyone about the rollout of the much-maligned Notes feature—a development that has ushered in all the glibness and mind-rotting ragebait users thought they’d left behind on Twitter—while the less said about the spectacularly ill-advised Reels feature, the better. Couple this with the freshly minted flower badges, algorithm-driven discovery feeds, and gamified “Top Writer” leaderboards (not to mention the sudden preponderance of AI-generated slop), and it now seems all but undeniable, even to those as pathologically optimistic as myself, that the platform no longer values the kind of dissident voices who first flocked here during the darkest days of COVID censorship.
Still, for all these questionable innovations, Substack remains, to the best of my knowledge, entirely unrivaled in its capacity to showcase otherwise unknown literary talent. Alongside new work from a few well-established stalwarts, October also introduced me to a veritable host of terrifyingly accomplished writers—only a small fraction of whom the tyrannical “post too long for email” notification has permitted me to include in this month’s roundup.
American Civil War 2.0
The Curious Existence of the Conservative “HickLib” Political Pundit -
discusses how liberal pundits and establishment conservatives alike reinforce tired (and largely inaccurate) tropes about rural, ‘fly-over’ America in order to garner credibility within elite circles.GamerGate (GG) - Now some ten years on since the phenomenon first emerged,
presents GamerGate as a foundational uprising against a progressive monoculture, where a decentralized online movement successfully exposed the mechanics of leftist propaganda.Poastocracy - A characteristically mammoth essay from
revealing how a secretive government agency, the Community Relations Service, has for decades sought to suppress and manipulate the public narrative surrounding black-on-white crime.Beating Woke with Facts and Logic - Progressivism’s underlying premise, contends
, is based on the flawed assumption of innate universal equality, its ideological structure sure to collapse if a “hereditarian revolution” were to expose the reality of natural group differences.Liberal Boomers are Savage Tribals - Drawing parallels with more primitive societies,
depicts baby boomers as impulsive, superstitious, and exhibiting “high time-preference,” their cowardice and hostility to younger generations amounting to an almost unprecedented civilizational regression.International Happenings
The Russians Love Their Children Too - A withering critique from
condemning Western elites for orchestrating yet another proxy war with Russia, sacrificing countless lives in a contrived conflict that serves a satanic agenda at the expense of shared civilizational and religious bonds.Only a Weak People Will Disappear -
explains that Britain’s ongoing crisis stems from a naive belief that humanity is inherently good, and harmony achievable through moral posturing and technocratic management—ignoring Carl Schmitt’s insight that politics is defined by inevitable conflict and the friend-enemy distinction.The firewall is making AfD the strongest party in Germany, artificially empowering the left and destroying the centre-right, who alone can tear it down - Germany’s political blockade against the AfD,
asserts, has hardened into a dogmatic ritual that cripples the center-right, empowers the left, and ironically fuels AfD’s rise as the only visible alternative.Story of the Slavs - Framing Slavic history as an epic, racially-conscious narrative of survival and expansion,
traces their ascent from Indo-European conquerors and Dnieper Basin refugees to the dominant ethnic force in Eastern Europe.Why is Europe All-In on Ukraine? - In this damning economic and geopolitical analysis,
argues that Germany and the EU are exploiting the Ukrainian war to disguise their own deliberate deindustrialization, favoring endless conflict over confronting their own structural economic failures.The War For Your Mind
The Power Behind the Curtain: How the Establishment Creates Popular Figures -
dissects the CIA’s role in promoting the Cold War as a false dialectical conflict intended to dismantle sovereign nations and advance a neoliberal world order, concluding that all mainstream dissent remains little more than controlled opposition.Sell Me a God - From COVID lockdowns to climate activism,
maintains that recent outbreaks of mass hysteria are in no way organic, but rather engineered through a century-old blueprint to replace Christianity and traditional values with a state-enforced political religion.The Vulgarization of Language - This piece by
warns that the normalization of vulgar language in literature, media, and everyday speech reflects a deeper cultural and spiritual decline, insisting that an impoverished vocabulary limits our ability to think precisely or indeed, virtuously.The New MSM: The Mockingbird Social Media -
critiques the posthumous exploitation of Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a case study in fifth-generation warfare, where narrative control replaces traditional combat.A Nietzschean Perspective on the Psychology of Learning: The Science of “Amor Fati.” - Synthesizing Nietzsche’s philosophical insights with advances in modern neuroscience
illustrates how true learning requires one to embrace both struggle and discipline in pursuit of long-term understanding.The Digital Prison Ghetto
Artificial Predation: Social Media Tipping Point - Social media functions not as the information economy it is often portrayed as,
suggests, but an ecological system where platforms act as predators and users their prey.God, godbots, and “friends”: Who we are depends on who is watching us -
explores how AI companions are evolving from potentially useful tools into powerful psychological presences, capable of shaping values and worldviews by exploiting our in-built need for validation and connection.Say No to Digital ID Tyranny - In vehement opposition to the UK’s planned mandatory digital ID system,
unpacks its nakedly tyrannical implications, urging the public to respond with mass civil disobedience.The BritCard Psyop: What Is True Digital ID in the UK? - Proposing that the so-called “BritCard” is little more than a distraction to conceal an already operational digital ID system,
theorizes that the existing infrastructure has effectively created a “digital twin” for every citizen.Last Week Silicon Valley Built a ‘God’ and Gave it a Superiority Complex -According to
, a series of recent breakthroughs, including the emergence of AI with superior reasoning and self-preservation instincts, demonstrate that humanity has ceded supremacy and is now accelerating toward an existential precipice.Moral and Societal Decay
Sex Was Never Meant to Be Equal - The fundamental disconnect in sexual dynamics
posits, stems from the widespread denial of the differing biological and psychological makeups of men and women—a denial which leaves the former feeling misunderstood and latter feeling used.Fathers, come save your sons - Diagnosing the “gooner” subculture as a symptom of civilizational decline,
considers porn addiction to have had a crippling effect on male psychology, replacing work, fatherhood, and virtue, and demanding society meet such degeneracy with vigorous resistance. captures the alienating reality of the modern male in a society where traditional, community-based structures have collapsed, emphatically rejecting pity and instead calling on older generations to mentor young men before their disaffection turns destructive.Letting the Weaker Sex Fight - Based on his own military experiences,
laments the integration of females into combat roles as a symptom of societal decay and a betrayal of natural order—a decadent fiction which places women in danger and dishonors the protective inclination of men.Manosphere Rhetoric is Broken - Charting the manosphere’s evolution from a pragmatic self-improvement movement into a grievance-driven subculture,
advises against blaming either women or macro-trends but advocates instead for a return to the RedPill’s original focus.History, Philosophy, and Other Assorted Good Stuff
The Mountain of Skulls: A Monument to Sequestered Vitality - While the agricultural revolution may have enabled huge advances in civilization and culture, so too did it sacrifice humanity’s primal vitality and symbiotic relationship with the natural world, a loss
views as one of the profound tragedies of progress.The Fire and the Form: Forging a Beautiful Life -
contends that beauty, once seen as a divine and ennobling principle, has today been degraded into a superficial or oppressive ideal, the renewed cultivation of which retains the capacity to elevate life beyond mere utility.How Beauty Saves The World - In his examination of Dostoevsky’s famous line that “beauty will save the world,”
reflects that modernity has debased aesthetic and artistic standards as a matter of subjective taste, thus severing them from their deeper moral and metaphysical roots.The Purpose of Myth - Why We Need it & How to Craft it -
offer a passionate defense of myth, art, and beauty as the animating forces behind civilization, highlighting their capacity to “illuminate the darkness of a nation’s soul.”The Carlyleans and Nietzscheans - In yet another essay from
, compares the political and philosophical writings of Thomas Carlyle and Friedrich Nietzsche, concluding that, for all their differences, both offer potent reactions to liberal materialism.Birth Of An Oil Man - One of my more surprising finds on Substack this month has been
, a writer who articulates quite poignantly the immense satisfaction and intellectual fertility to be found in physical labor, in his case, within the grueling surrounds of the Alberta oil patch.Spiritual Warfare
Memento Mori - This deeply personal essay by
recounts how two encounters with death—the loss of a student and the slow passing of her father—shattered her once-sunny Evangelical worldview and drew her toward a more ancient form of Christianity and a deeper understanding of mortality and resurrection.Fractal Ragnarök - With poetic urgency and eschatological depth,
envisions history as a series of endless, fractal cycles, in which humanity repeatedly reenacts the Fall until all myths and symbols converge in the final reckoning.Why A Pagan Revival is Necessary -
asserts that Christianity’s universalism and reliance on unquestioning faith make it incompatible with European identity, Paganism, by contrast, offering a cohesive, tradition-rooted worldview that unites culture, history, and spirituality.Some Shameless Self-Promotion
LATEST ARTICLE: I first came across the story of Alphonse Laurencic while researching the Spanish Civil War, and more specifically, the atrocities committed by Republican forces prior to Franco’s rise to power. In these accounts, his “psychotechnic cells” amount to little more than a footnote within a wider reign of terror visited upon the citizens of Barcelona; however, upon delving deeper, it soon became clear that his inventions constituted a uniquely insidious and wholly unprecedented form of psychological torture—transforming modern art into a weapon designed to dismantle the human mind and ultimately, a grim precursor to the disorientating emptiness of our own aesthetic landscape.
Aesthetics of Torture: The Man Who Turned Art into a War Crime
It is by now all but an open secret, after decades of establishment obfuscation and deliberate desecration of our culture, that the modern art movement, far from a daring new chapter in human creativity, in truth represented an intricately engineered psyop hatched deep within the bowels of the CIA.
MISCELLANEOUS MUSINGS: Following Trump’s reclassification of Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, I decided to revisit Mark Bray’s Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook—often considered the movement’s closest approximation of a manifesto. Drawing directly from the text, this article demonstrates how the group’s brazen rejection of free speech, wholehearted justification of preemptive violence, and strategic use of psychological warfare fully warrant this new designation, despite ongoing political and media efforts to downplay Antifa’s intrinsically violent nature.
The Terror Manual: Antifa, in Their Own Words
In the wake of Trump’s long-overdue (but still largely toothless) Executive Order labeling Antifa a domestic terrorist organization—and amid renewed and potentially far more consequential calls to designate the group a foreign terrorist organization—leftists of all shapes, sizes, and degrees of mental enfeeblement have responded with a chorus of predict…
FROM THE ARCHIVES (Preview only): First published some three years ago, prior to my involuntary hiatus from Substack, this essay remains among my proudest works on the platform. By comparing the exploitation of child drag performer Desmond Napoles to the fate endured by the subject of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, this piece articulates that, whether through the importation of Islamic grooming gangs, the proliferation of transgender lunacy, or our collective tolerance for media-enabled degeneracy, our society continues to sacrifice children at the altar of progressive delusions—a tragedy for which we all bear some measure of responsibility.
Progressivism's Sacrificial Lambs
Of all the monsters to have slithered out of society’s closet over the last few years – from the Molotov-hurling peaceful protestor to the surgically-mutilated victims of transgender mania, from the aspiring medical tyrant to their unthinking armies of mask zombies
VIDEO ESSAY: Unquestionably among my most ambitious and comprehensive projects to date, this latest video explores how the distinctly European trait of altruism was forged in the continent’s harsh prehistory, cultivated by Greek philosophy and Roman law, refined through Christian teachings, and at last universalized by Enlightenment ideals. In it, I examine how these same impulses, once the source of civilizational strength, have since been metastasized, in the wake of World War II, into a suicidal doctrine of guilt and atonement which has left the West facing nothing less than self-imposed annihilation.
Thanks for the kind words, Carson. Many interesting articles in here . . . As for further ‘improvements’ I am only hoping that Substack will add red font colour so that I can be even -more- ironic in notes… but not very hopeful they shall.
This took a lot of work; appreciated!