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This is our live event at the KBG Bar in New York — recorded on June 7th. If you weren’t there in person, here’s your chance to take a passive part in our 13 Step Program: Learn how you can survive and even thrive during American decline.

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As we explain in the intro to our self-help booklet:

As people who were brought up in a more collectivist culture, we see that the biggest weakness of America is the cult of individualism.

Individualism is one of the most powerful myths here. It’s basically enshrined as one of the divine laws of the land — “Be Selfish” might as well be the 11th Commandment, handed down by Moses and ratified by Jesus Christ. This myth has made individualism synonymous with strength and vitality. The image of the perfect American is the cowboy and the industrialist. The strength of the individual vs. the weakness of the collective — this is the idea pushed by another Russian immigrant, Ayn Rand.

When society is stable, institutions function, and things more or less work as promised, individualism does seem real. You can go out and make money and then buy everything you need to survive. You don’t need to lean on friends or family or your community; you can just tap the market for goods and services: nannies, movers, shrinks… They’re all there for you to purchase, if you have the means. These transactional relationships take up all the space and are seen as normal, while friendships remain decorative and aloof. You’re not supposed to impose on people or ask them to help — you don’t want to be a drag and you don’t want your friends to be a drag either.

Americans have been psyopped into thinking that individualism is strength. We see it differently. Individualism is fragility. Individualism depends on impersonal institutions — you become dependent on a job and consumer relationships for everything. If you lose your job, your whole life will come crumbling down. Real strength lies in collectivism — in cooperation with other people.

The thing to remember is that America’s cult of individualism is a historic aberration. It came out of a very particular period of American history. It’s a product of a post-WWII economic boom and a need for a countervailing ideology in America’s fight against communism. Individualism was created by a deliberate propaganda campaign, foisted on Americans through films, books, even art. The idea that sustain individualism are ubiquitous, and yet individualistic society is very fragile. Its survival depends on post-WWII institutions — institutions that, paradoxically, are rooted in socialistic principles and were in fact created in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union…

So watch our MASTERCLASS. Don’t just survive. THRIVE!

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The NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS are back — our first video podcast from our undisclosed bunker location. We discuss Eduard Limonov as the Soviet Forrest Gump who was somehow able to in the right place in the right time to experience the entire spectrum of international boomer existence. Unlike Gump, he wrote about his experiences and was able to synthesize them into political insight and wisdom.

We also discuss the failed Limonov biopic — Limonov: The Ballad — which came out a few years ago.

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We use the occasion of Andrew Tate getting an invite to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum to discuss the big psyop that’s been waged on gender relations in America. Liberal lean-in feminism is pushed on women; alpha predator men’s rights is pushed on men — all while keeping everyone trapped in an individualistic society where you have no one to depend on except yourself.

To quote from our NEFARIOUS RUSSIAN MINDSET MANUAL FOR SURVIVAL, in which we use ancient Soviet wisdom to help Americans survive and thrive during decline (on sale this Sunday at the KGB Bar):

“Under individualism, males are exploited…Men in America will not be liberated with Men’s Rights individualism. True male liberation will only come with collectivism.”

Take a listen. And…

Come to our event: KGB Bar: Red Room. June 7th at 7PM.

We’ll have a special edition how-to manual available for sale: Use ancient Soviet wisdom to help yourself thrive during decline.

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The NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS return to discuss Wizard of the Kremlin, a new film about Putin’s rise to power, where Jude Law plays Putin. Yeah, Jude Law. While formally it’s a pretty bad film that feels like an illustrated wikipedia article, we were still surprised by it. Because, for a mainstream film, it offered a fairly honest and factual portrayal of the preconditions to Putin’s rise to power and why his reestablishment of the power vertical in Russia was popular. We didn’t expect much and it exceeded our (low) expectations on that front. This is maybe the first western film about the Soviets/ Russians that shows them not as caricatures but with a bit of humanity and respect. This feels like a seismic shift — Did Putin conquer Hollywood or does reality increasingly have a pro-Putin bias?

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I talk to Samuel Miller McDonald about his new book on the history of the idea of progress and how this idea has been used to justify parasitic super-stratified societies that have been denuding and killing our world, going back into antiquity. Pretty much everyone believes in the notion of progress these days. It’s safe to say that progress is a sort of religious belief that unifies all ideologies, even capitalism and communism. And that’s the problem.

Check out the book Samuel wrote: Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It. It’s a really wonderful book. I’d go straight to the first chapter.

—Yasha

I’m doing these weekly Vampire Valley streams about technology as part of my research for the Vampire Valley doc series I’m working on. Live streams are available to the public but recorded streams are only available to subscribers. Reminder: If you give $100 or more to the Vampire Valley doc project, you will automatically get an annual sub.

The NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS return to discuss their favorite topics: fame, movies, morality of media, power, cults, collapse, similarities between the Soviet Union and the United States… We also discuss Evgenia’s ongoing precog abilities: she sensed that there would be a White House correspondents’ dinner shooting the morning before it happened and talked about it.

Due to technical issues (aka sabotage), the episode cuts off mid-sentence. We apologize and promise to hold those responsible (Yasha) accountable.

—NF

We’ll be doing a NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS LIVE event at the KGB Bar in June. Look out for an announcement soon. And, as always, support Vampire Valley if you can!

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For this Vamp Valley stream, I speak to Josh Golin about how commercialization and consumerist brainwashing of children, already dominant in American society before the internet, has been very consciously turbocharged by the tech overlords that mediate our reality. We discuss problems facing children in the age of the internet: alienation, bullying, sexual harassment, addiction, self-hate, suicide, destruction of critical thinking — all them being knowingly inflicted on kids just to keep them on these platforms as long as possible, wasting their lives and destroying their minds in the name of better ad metrics and rank consumerism. We also talk about attempts to regulate social media, the power of the tech lobby, and the baffling attempt of “left-prog” influencer Taylor Lorenz to protect vampiric mind control monopolies from even the tiniest bit of democratic control.

I’m doing these streams to talk to people about the tech that’s destroying our minds and destroying our world — as part of my research for a doc series I’m working on, Vampire Valley. Live streams are available to the public but recorded streams are only available to subscribers. Reminder: If you give $100 or more to Vampire Valley, you will automatically get an annual sub.

Josh Golin is an Executive Director at Fairplay. They’re great. Check them out here.

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Today I chat with Joe Costello about the backlash to data centers and why he thinks this national grassroots movement just might be the very first time Americans are engaging in politics in many, many decades. Joe recently published a great book — The Politics of Ape and Machine. Also check out his newsletter: Life in the 21st Century.

I’m making a doc series about the internet called Vampire Valley. The first ep will look at data centers. It should be out closer to May. If you want to help fund this film, give here. Or if you’d like to make a tax-deductible donation, write us at [email protected].

Joe’s been on the show a few times before. Check him here:

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Married with podcast, we catch up on some topics dear to our hearts. Among things discussed: Evgenia’s films, the ghettoization of feminist (and minority) filmmaking in a liberal society, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kathryn Bigelow, Sophia Coppola…Then we move on to discussing the saga of the Feiyue sneaker and how it illustrates the rise of China and American/European collapse and hubris. It all ties together. Trust us.

Have a great week. Pray with us that Trump does not nuke the world. Praying is all we got left. 🙏

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For this vamp valley stream, I had Peter Korotaev on to talk about drones and war. Drones, which I see as very much related to the internet, have made big leaps in battlefield adoption in the last few years: first in the Russian-Ukraine war and now in the Israeli-American war on Iran.

The United States pioneered drone technology. In fact, as I mentioned on the stream, the same ARPA program that funded the internet was at the same time funding research into drone technology for use in the Vietnam War…a small helicopter operated by a remote control so big it barely fit on an Army jeep. But even though the U.S. security state has been pumping money into drone technology for more than half a century, it hadn’t explored the use of drone technology to its fullest potential yet. It’s been up to peripheral states like Ukraine and Iran (and also Israel) to take drone warfare to the next level. And what’s happening on the periphery of the empire is going to be coming home soon…there is no doubt about it. Drone tech is just too easy to use, too effective…like smartphones. It makes me think of Philip K. Dick’s wonderful novella, Second Variety, which is about autonomous robotic weapons that were designed to kill people…until they ran out of people and started fighting each other. I’m pretty sure Second Variety inspired Terminator, even though it was never credited.

Anyway, Peter writes the great Events in Ukraine newsletter. I highly recommend reading his stuff. He’s a funny writer and covers the subject with the respect and black humor that it requires.

See you next week!

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