Some Stuff I Think You Might Like: February 2023

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." - H. L. Menken (1880–1956)

As regular readers of Midnight at the Matinee are perhaps aware, over the final few months of 2022, real life rather compelled me to take a temporary (and very reluctant) hiatus from writing. Mercifully, this period seems to have passed (or at least, abated sufficiently to again permit a steady stream of scribbles) and so it seems as good a time as any to relaunch my Some Stuff I Think You Might Like series, albeit with a slightly rejiggered format and schedule. Unlike the weekly round-ups of old, I will now be sending you much more comprehensive collections of the best long-form content and in-depth analysis I stumble across each month, allowing me to concentrate on the kind of work you come here for while also providing that big ol’ brainbox of yours with plenty of sustenance in between times.

And so, to kick things back into gear, here are some of the most informative articles and illuminating interviews that probably didn’t make your newsfeed in February:

Technocracy, Transhumanism and The Great Reset

1. Countdown to Gigadeath: From AI Arms Race to Artilect War - Substacker Joe Allen charts humanity’s face-first charge toward technology that will ultimately ensure its own destruction.

2. What is Transhumanism? - A pretty exhaustive deep-dive into both the history and philosophy behind the transhumanist movement as well as the evil lurking at its center.

3. A Toxic Tyrannical Train Wreck - East Palestine, Ohio was once the testing ground for a controversial medical ID system. Is the crisis there purely a coincidence?

4. Sympathy for the Devil - Substack stalwart John Carter discusses how the rise of the administrative class has precipitated our ongoing societal stasis.

5. Mental Jigsaw: How AI Carves Out Space In Your Brain - Another piece by Joe Allen, this one highlighting the cognitive and creative cost of AI.

Ukraine and the Threat of Nuclear Armageddon

1. How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline - Seymour Hersh’s earth-shattering but tragically overlooked article proving beyond all doubt the US sabotaging of Europe’s gas supply.

2. We are Already in WWIII - The Geopolitics and Empire Podcast is joined by Professor Steven Starr to address the impossibility of "limited nuclear war" as well as Washington’s suicidal hubris.

3. Billions to Ukraine for War, and Why We Need to Stop It - The Free Thought Podcast talks to antiwar legend and Ron Paul's right-hand man, Daniel McAdams on how humanity might fend off the apocalypse.

The COVID Hoax

1. Covidianism Inverts the Heroic Archetype  - Haley Kynefin delves into the deep-seeded psychological reasons behind the effectiveness of COVID-era propaganda.

2. Corruption and COVID: We Are Not ‘All In This Together’ - Like the mantras of collective responsibility repeated at the start of lockdowns, the establishment are now hoping we will share responsibility for the crimes committed during them.

3. The Desire to be God - Dr. Robert Malone details the monstrous arrogance at the heart of the medical establishment.

4. How the “Unvaccinated” Got It Right - A good summary of the totality of information which persuaded the unvaccinated to remain just that.

The American Civil War 2.0

1. I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle - “There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.”

2. UFO Psy Ops and Illusion of Oligarchical “Power” - Excellent longform interview with the ever-insightful Matt Ehret regarding Washington’s UFO mind games as well as the parasitical nature of oligarchism.

3. Unchastened by Russiagate, the NY Times doubles down to dismiss Durham - The Grayzone journalist Aaron Maté uncovers yet more shameless propagandizing from the NYT.

4. Joe Biden: America's Trafficker-in-Chief - Liz Cronkin analyses how the Biden regime is aiding and abetting the child sex trafficking industry.

International News

1. Head of the European Commission Has a Nazi Pedigree She Does Not Want You to Know About - The superbly-researched family history of corrupt war hawk and globalist mouthpiece, Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen.

2. Black Hand: A Match Made in Hell - Journalist Johnny Vedmore investigates connections between the British government and Horace Dibben, club-owner and host of satanic-themed sex parties (fourth in series).

3. The Curious Case of the Croatian Commander-in-Chief - Portrait of Croatian President Zoran Milanovic, a heterodox leader in the midst of a binary conflict.

4. Why Shinzo Abe Was Assassinated: Towards a ‘United States of Europe’ and a League of Nations - An intriguing, far-reaching theory of the reasons behind the Japanese Prime Minister’s assassination.

Philosophy, History, and Other Assorted Good Stuff

1. The Principle of Competence - In the latest part of his nine-part series, Harrison Koehli’s unpacks Dr. Andrew Lobaczewski’s concept of “Logocracy.”

2. Gun Control is a War on Heritage America - Theophilus Chilton has a way of making modern events resonate within a historical context. This is one such piece.

3. The Socialist Phenomenon 2.5 - According to Winston Smith, writer of Escaping Mass Psychosis, socialism is less a political movement as it is a psychological and historical phenomenon, this installment focusing on Ancient China.

4. The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Enlightenment - On the myth of progress and the rise and fall of orthodoxies.

Some Shameless Self-Promotion.

1. The Winter of Western Civilization - My attempt to superimpose the Strauss-Howe Generational Theory onto today’s political and cultural landscape.

2. Natural, Willing Slaves - How Nietzsche’s concept of Master-Slave Morality articulates the meek servility of the modern left.

3. Carlos Moreno: The Man Behind the 15-Minute City - Profiling the architect behind our forthcoming digital prison-ghettos.

4. The Pathologizing of Dissent - Psychiatry has long been weaponized by the political establishment to deride those critical of its ambitions. This article is my effort to show how such techniques are being revived today.

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