Tag: archetypes

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The recent South by Southwest Film Festival saw the debut of a documentary which has left the world of cryptozoology in shambles. Capturing Bigfoot has shown that the world’s most famous footage of Sasquatch, the Patterson-Gimlin Film (PGF), was a hoax.¹ The now debunked video was first presented to the world in 1967. A pair of cowboys, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin, told astonished crowds that they’d been riding through a dry creek bed in northern California when they came across something unbelievable. Their video showed a massive “Bigfoot” casually looking back at the men before disappearing into the forest. (more…)

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Max West writes at Logical Meme, on X at @Logicalmeme, and is the author of Normism: The Philosophy of Norm Macdonald (2021).

In this essay, I argue that the movie Weapons (2025) is a latent critique of radical transgender ideology, particularly its barbaric application to children and its associated violence (e.g., Trantifa, trans-related school shootings, etc.). Whether this critique is the subtle intention of the film’s writer/director Zach Cregger or is an unconscious byproduct of his art, Weapons channels our society’s collective anxiety over the trans issue. (more…)

Carl Jung (second from right) in North Africa, 1920.

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The psychologist Carl Jung was a race realist even by the standards of his day, when a certain amount of race realism was seen as simple common sense. He was also a great man and, like all great men, he was ahead of his time in many ways. While he didn’t foresee the precise predicament white people now face, he nevertheless mentioned almost as an aside in one of his more popular essays the answer to the perplexing question of why some people fiercely resist the possibility of racial differences in intelligence, personality, or any other feature of consciousness. (more…)

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Peter Gatien
The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife
Seattle: Little A, 2020

Driving with my father one day, we passed an imposing building, the Cornwall headquarters of the Orange Lodge, the Grand Order of British North America. “What’s that, papa?” I asked.

“It’s like a club,” he answered dismissively. (more…)

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a television series that ran from 1993 to 1999. In contrast with its predecessor The Next Generation, which was inspired by an optimistic vision of a largely peaceful future, Deep Space Nine depicts a less cooperative and more familiar universe. (more…)

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Sympathy For The Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment
Director: Neil Edwards
Appearing: Malachi McCormick, Timothy Wyllie, and other former members, along with George Clinton, Lucien Greaves, John Waters, Genesis P-Orridge, and others.
1 hour, 46 minutes; 2015

“What about the Process?” I said. “Don’t they have a place here? Maybe a delicatessen or something? With a few tables in the back? (more…)

Winslow Homer, The Woodcutter, 1891.

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I read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods sometime in college. I found it more Flannery O’Connor than Marvel Studios, but it’s hardly surprising that the latter interpretation seems to have driven the new television series’ production team (but I haven’t watched). (more…)