I am 62; I live in England. In 1980 it was quite shocking that a woman ordered a pint of lager rather than a half in the pub. Dying one’s hair was a bit naughty - although understandable if a girl wanted to look more glam - gentlemen prefer blondes, after all. Then, around the mid 1990s, perhaps a little later, young men began getting tattoos, mostly in places that were easily covered up - upper arms, often. Multiple ear-piercings became more common. rather than just one in each lobe (or one lobe for men). I would think, well, that’s ugly, but each to their own. Next came the inexplicably ugly lip and nose rings - these always remind me of what farmers do to pigs or oxen, talk about being led by the nose. Then, unnatural hair colours - blue, green, goth black on very white girls. Then more and more tattoos, all over arms and legs, and then, terribly, over necks, then, even worse, faces. I live in a small, northern town and I see face tattoos fairly often, and almost everyone my age or younger is tattooed. Although it is certainly a ‘class’ thing, very suggestive of being in receipt of welfare, tattoos are not confined to nonprofessionals, especially amongst those under 40. Now I am waiting to see one of the orcs walking down the High Street, complete with forehead bumps and nose and ear removal. What larks.
How will these people, even the more ‘moderately’ tattooed people, feel when they are very old - 75, 85….? Will they be ashamed, embarrassed, regretful, suicidal? Will they even be lucky enough to live so long, even with such burdensome emotions? Perhaps such modifications are a life-shortening path, does that dragon man care about his general health? Does he go to exercise classes? Does he take vitamins or try to drink only moderately? Does he avoid sugar? How about illegal drugs - do dragons like to get high, wings or no?
There has always been a place for freaks - the circus. Lydia, oh Lydia, oh have you met Lydia…But now? When will the envelope-pushing stop? Perhaps there will be a massive backlash, tattoos and other ‘modifications’ will become extremely unfashionable, rather like powdered wigs, or painting arsenic on your face to look pale and interesting. Difference is one can take off a wig, wash off the arsenic (do be careful!) I predict many, many sad, regretful old and wrinkly people walking around in the future. Oh well, behave like a sheep, prepare to be eaten by wolves.
I think there will be many wrinkly old men and women who regret their various skin scribblings and hole-punches. I came up in a place and generation where those had become fairly common (at least in certain subcultures).
But this next market phase strikes me as signaling something more horrifying and dangerous. As I mentioned to YA per his comment, the kind of people who will pay to have ink injected into their eyeballs are significantly more reckless and nihilistic than the hipster with the "tribal tats" or Japanese characters or what have you.
There's a weird web series called "Hooked on the Look" which I watched a bit of while researching this essay. For all the casualness and sunny talk out of these people, it is obvious that something very, very wrong is happening inside them. That "something wrong" is slowly eating their outside, too, and probably has many sources and expressions. But if I had to boil it down to one word, it would be "misanthropy" in its most extreme form. Hatred of Self, Other and All, manifesting as a fantasy of their own inhumanity (and pseudo-superiority, since Mankind is so lame and weak and afraid). But they can't even describe these feelings very coherently, let alone poetically, because they are largely illiterate addicts hooked on mirrors and mind-poisons. Sounds like a lot of the orc dialogue in LoTR, actually.
"....Japanese characters or what have you" Visiting in Japan I've had Japanese friends, while trying not to laugh discreetly direct my attention to other gaijin (foreigners) proudly displaying tats wherein the kanji unbeknownst to wearer, reads something like, Buy Kikkoman Soy Sauce.
Perhaps this next ‘market phase’ will only get to a very few. I think that even now there are brakes on most people’s wish to transform themselves: the physical pain of such things as injecting eyeballs and splitting tongues would put many off, surely? How long does it take a tongue to heal from such barbarity? Why risk losing one’s eyesight? But then, savages have always done awful things to their bodies, and the bodies of those they have power over- those African women with their horrifying elongated necks, the Chinese foot binding. I often think we are returning to a savage state, that the good manners of quite recent civilisation were a thin veneer that is swiftly being eroded by base human nature. In the past not even prostitutes walked around dressed like the young women of today - many look as though they have walked out in their underwear, and extremely skin tight underwear at that. I find this way of dressing as disturbing as anything else you discussed in your excellent essay (apart from the nose and ear mutilation).
A lot to unpack and chew on, here. I was thinking the same thing as you when I read this - "How many of these guys have military backgrounds?" Just from the ones you listed, apparently a lot. When I started noticing a lot of transpeople in the military ranks and trans veterans a few years ago, I was asking myself, "Why?" I remember a few years ago, in certain places on the internet where there's a lot of discussion surrounding lolcows, there was talk of "trauma-induced transexualism". The infamous Chris-chan, who now identifies as trans (and the reincarnation of Christ), is Exhibit A of this. There were several reasons for this phenomenon posited. One was that, as the victims of extreme bullying, the safety net around transexualism in the current zeitgeist provided them not just an easy-to-join in-group that they could seamlessly slip into and expect to be accepted in (spoilers: Chris-chan has not been widely accepted by the T-Bloc of the Rainbow Coalition), or at the very least, use the state-sanctioned protection offered by the rebuke of transphobia to protect themselves. Another is that all the cyber-bullying just outright broke their brains. The most logical in my opinion is that they were and are just autogynaphiliacs. But it does raise the interesting correlation between trauma and transexualism, whether that trauma be bullying, physical or sexual abuse, or watching a humvee full of your mates get blown sky-high by an IED on an Iraqi highway. That type of trauma leaves mental wounds that make one vulnerable and offer fertile breeding ground for infohazards and mind-viruses.
All in all, I think body-modding is overall deleterious to a person's psyche and generally a bad sign. I get flack for this opinion a lot because piercings and tattoos are in vogue right now, and, believe me, many of my friends have a lot of a ink, but the thing is, talking to them, it never just stops at one. There is an addicting quality to it. They've all told me that themselves. Is it that ridiculous to think that most of the people showcased here probably started off "just getting one" and chased that high until they are were they are now? It starts off with something "meaningful" and devolves into getting a bunch of cheap, shitty scratchers all over your body until you look like the interior of a truck stop bathroom, riddled with graffiti. It's hard to even have a rational conversation about it because so many get so defensive when the topic of tattoos and piercings even come up.
All in all, excellent piece. And the opening bit about the slow transformations is the stuff of Cronenbergian body horror nightmares. I suppose it's not too far off from what we're looking at, here.
Yes, tattoos and other body mods very clearly have addictive properties. But it is a strange sort of addiction, isn't it? More akin to an obsession or mania than something like heroin or even gambling. There seems to be an aspect of frustration, just beneath the surface. It's like cosmetic surgery. It's not right! Not finished! Not yet! One more!
I also grew up in an age and subculture where tattoos and body piercings were prevalent. Not just noses and ears for the latter, but nipples, eyebrows, tongues, and genitals. For tattoos, we were just starting to dip into faces, but I knew plenty of young men and women with "sleeves" and huge tats that covered their chests and/or backs. Also, this is when "tramp stamps" hit the scene, which should give you a clue about our sexual mores, as well as our disintegrating perception of ourselves.
What seems to be the hot thing right now (and in South America in particular) is sclera tattooing. I didn't mention it in the article (thought I'd let the pics speak for themselves), but this strikes me as much more than just a rebel posturing or daredevil game. Paying someone to literally inject ink into your eyeballs, so you can look like a "demon", strikes me as someone so utterly nihilistic and reckless that you can't trust them in any way whatsoever. Of course, the DoD and DARPA might have different opinions on this.
That's exactly how it seems, talking to them. They always have one more piece. One more addition. Grand ideas of their body as a giant canvas... they just need a little more money to get it done, or a little more space. It never ends. And, as I said, these are my friends. I care for them. I hope it doesn't consume them (or in some cases, drive them to bankruptcy). Interestingly I know a lot of them also tell me that, if they could go back and not get them, they would, but in for a penny, in for a pound - might as well go the full nine yards. I only know one guy who's getting his removed and that, too, is costly (and apparently painful).
As for sclera tattooing, that is something deeply more sinister. Face tats are stupid, but eyeball tattooing? That's quite literally insane behavior. Also, I can't imagine that won't have immense health ramification in the future. It's interesting that's popular in South America. I thought about bringing this up in my original comment but I noticed that a lot of the heavily body-modded individuals featured had Hispanic last names. I'd be interested to see the breakdown on what percentage they constitute in this motley "community", and, if they are in the majority, why? Mexico is infamous for people doing off-the-wall shit (i.e. when the Mexican Supreme Court had to issue a list of banned names because people were naming their kids "Scrotum" and "Email" and "Google"). Is it a product of their culture? I remember when "Aztec Corn Demons Still Influence Latin America" was a prevalent half-joke on Twitter, but when it comes to inking sclera to look like a demon... well, it doesn't sound too outlandish.
Indeed! Off the top of my head, everyone i know that gets a tattoo gets stuck on that path. Always one more! Probably because they permanently marred their skin in the first place, they are compensating for the loss by seeking more ink-based "art" to display on their now damaged exteriors.
As another person who has seen many people I know go down the long path towards looking like a Truck Stop Bathroom, your comment here was insightful and cathartic!
Back in 1960, Maxwell Maltz wrote Psycho-Cyrbernetics. He believed that his patients often returned for multiple cosmetic surgeries because changing their appearance didn't change their perception of themselves.
“The most important opinion you have is the one you have of yourself.”
The uncool, unathletic, unattractive and none-too-bright kids, any of them, can now become "stunning and brave" if they/them/zhir/zhim/zhe/zher choose the transgender myth. They'll be protected, promoted and celebrated.
Yes, that's part of what makes the ideology so appealing to people who are low on the social food chain. It also imbues a sense of power in that protection - pronouns are largely a way that they can project their control onto other people's speech, even when they aren't around. As I always say, do you often refer to someone by their pronouns when you're talking with them?
"As I always say, do you often refer to someone by their pronouns when you're talking with them?"
This. As I've tried to explain before, the use of pronouns means that you are definitionally *not* speaking to the pronoun's subject, but to a third party or generic audience, whether they're in the room or not. It's a pure power play, even if it's a particularly insipid, childish and sociopathic one.
You nailed it with this one Mark. As Tolkien stated Orcs were made as a mockery of elves, if you take that statement and plug it into our current times trannies and whatever these reptillian like assclowns call themselves are made as mockeries of humanity by the "elite"; this is the only plausible explanation for why this type of psychosis is encouraged and celebrated. Best part is that Southpark nailed all of this shit 20 years ago in the episode where Randy wants to become a dolphin, yet another reason I think Southpark is a prophetic show.
I vaguely recall the episode. But, yeah, quite a bit of prophetic vision in that show. As for the military's psychotic-outreach program, I expect it will only accelerate in the coming years. Prepare for #ReptoidLivesMatter (and maybe a big ol' apology letter to David Icke).
Some people grow pig snouts even without cosmetic surgery, and then recruit their friends and become a mob of pigs. You can see it on their faces, too. Especially the ones who attack children of those people who didn't put a "like" on their comment online. This is a true story. Happened here on substack.
I believe it. And, to paraphrase Orwell, some of those pigs are more equal then others. They will eventually turn against each other, too. Like those who mark themselves outwardly, we can turn this to our advantage.
I don't think it is hyperbolic to say this might be one of the most prescient articles I've ever read. So often transhumanism is presented as cool, slick, sexy even, but it's much more likely to be an extension of this body mod stuff just as you've highlighted here.
It'll look dirty, visually blasphemous and it will be very difficult to understand the appeal of it despite it's growth within our culture if you're not it's next victim (notwithstanding deracinated ingroup protective factors). It also already has an uncanny demonic denominator amongst it's participants--now why might that be, materialists of the world?
Anyhow, I think you have very coherently connected a lot of dots here and any literate person could read this article to get a sense of what the next stage of transhumanism is going to look like in reality. Cyberpunk is gonna be a whole lot uglier than we were told to imagine! Cheers!
What do you make of the fact that some of these self-made orcs were, prior to their transformation, attractive? In my, admittedly shallow, view I could believe that someone who is naturally ugly, and suffered from early life abuse because of it, might choose to become truly horrific in appearance, but to completely obliterate one's natural good looks screams that they are mentally and emotionally ill, and incapable of inhabiting reality. Oh, and very possibly, just evil at heart.
Every day, it seems like some once-impossible-sounding bit of end-times doomsday prophesying becomes literal, prosaic reality before our eyes. I used to think the "mark of the beast" was metaphorical. Now, I am not so sure.
I think it functions at multiple aligned levels. I get the sense that's the only way to assess truth these days (and maybe always was). Not just "Does it work with this definition?" but "How many definitions does it work with?"
“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don't think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined and twisted them, and if they are to live at all, they have to live like other living creatures.”
Which is why they hate hate HATE being laughed at.. or the memes and why they MUST seek to shut it down. Because that which you can laugh at? Cannot control you...
If people would object to these behaviours openly and strongly, it would help lessen the normalization of deviancy. Whatever it is, it can't be good for us a a society.
Still reading (thanks for the praise btw), but I see less contradiction between my Note and your take than you. What I meant was not that I take the Orcs to be a mere "symbolic representation" of evil--in Tolkien's world, they are obviously very real. On the contrary, I meant that on Middle Earth, they are a direct, fleshified, bodily *instantiation* of evil for all to see. Which, in our own current reality, doesn't exist as such (although it could! I'm not making a metaphysical claim here). Here, when two armies fight, it takes a great deal of discernment and knowledge to decide who are the good guys and who are the bad guys; when an Orc army fights, things are more obvious, both on the individual and collective levels. (Tolkien's work is obviously more complex than that, my Note was really just one specific insight I had, quickly blurted out.)
Well, at least that's how it used to be. Clearly, we are witnessing a thinning of the veil, a blurring between dimensions, or if you like the manifestation of a possible future where the basic principles of the Cosmos are accessible and visible more directly. Jesus, now take these pictures out of my head!
"Here, when two armies fight, it takes a great deal of discernment and knowledge to decide who are the good guys and who are the bad guys; "
But there, too. Recall that the Riders of Rohan first took Aragorn and his companions for enemies, and that tense initial showdown between them. And, as I mentioned, the human armies of Easterlings, Haradrim and Dunlendings were not marked as the orcs were. And while their nations were in league with Satan, they weren't exclusively evil as peoples (thanks in large part to the missionaries Alatar and Pallando, according to Tolkien's lore).
I agree that when you spot an Orc army on the march, you essentially know what you're dealing with (unless a Wormtongue is whispering in your ear, of course). You know, for instance, that you cannot parlay, or sue for peace, or offer surrender, or any of the "normal" things we can and do attempt when faced with human foes. You also have certain advantages, in that the marked enemy has put on a uniform it can't remove. There are no orc "irregulars", hiding in plain sight. This has all sorts of implications for the 5GW (soon to be 6GW) battlefield that swirls around us.
But... maybe we can reserve the rest of that conversation for "The Podcast Was Never Found" (or whatever dumb thing I end up calling it)?
I think Mark makes several great cases for the instantiation (love that word!) of mind-stunning evil right here in our midst, walking among us. They don't have to be self-mutilate transhumans either. Ever see Christy Tiegen (John Legend's wife) post online about her thirst for sexual interaction with children? Ever see Tom Hanks morbidly obsess over debris found in isolated areas that show wear and tear... oh... and are also *always* child's clothing items? How about the herds of women who squeeze their 300lb bodies into ever-tightening sausage-casing-like spandex leggings and pair those with a crop top to walk boldly down the sidewalk with their purple hair, bull ring and spike ear piercings and sneer at those who have to veer out of their way because the sidewalk's no longer big enough for passing? Or the growing trend of men who spend drug-fueled hours in the gym to achieve the physique that makes them feel "jacked" only to then drug their next victim in a bar to further their rape agenda because winning consent and risking any human connection (even to satisfy their sexual predation/cravings) just isn't fun anymore. These are all orcs.
They hate you. They hate me. They hate each other. The only thing they love is the hate that fuels them.
Just seeing these people is a bit traumatizing. If one of my sweet little children saw one of these freaks in Wal-Mart they'd be deeply disturbed... which opens the gates for more trauma, which leads to more orcs...
As within-so without. I blame parasites. The ones in us and the ones who invaded us from the outside.
If parasites can induce a mouse to get eaten by a cat for the parasite’s further growth up the food chain, then are parasites causing this ‘orc’ behavior in humans?
Are there beings slipping into our realm from the lower realms?
It would be interesting to see what kind of food & drugs these people have been consuming.
The lizard-like modifications all appear be intended to create rigid, inexpressive features, and to intimidate. That suggests that they are intended to hide vulnerability and keep potential attackers at bay. It is striking that nobody it trying to look like Bambi.
Yes and no. To be fair, ex-SEAL Chris Beck was trying to look like a “Bambi” (i.e. less threatening), and so is Maj. Rachel Jones. Then you have nightmare fuel like this new trend:
Point taken, though I confess I find Beck and Jones far scarier than the lizard people rather than cute, and that unfortunate Manga woman in the Daily Star link looks like obscenity made flesh. Many of the other articles at that link are about female pedophiles.
Mark, You must have had to take a hot shower after you finished editing this pile of shite.
Thank you for pulling it together. Your comparing these people to Tolkien's writing was inspired.
But let's not forget, they are still people. and not mythical creatures And have serious mental health issues. That fact is most concerting to me. The fact that doctors are supporting their delusions is most troubling.
It all simply reinforces my premise that western society is on the wain and has already collapsed. The fact that these people grew up so disconnected from their families and normal life is just another example of it.
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Hi, Rene. I’ve just read your preview portions of “Transgender Killers: The monsters that walk among us.” We are indeed entering harrowing terrain, and unfortunately many people seem as blind to the dangers as ever. This goes doubly for the Frankensteins who profit from this dark business,
I do not deny that these are still people, still vessels for human souls however deeply possessed. I am happy that you have found your way back, but I think you might agree that it could not be done without God’s intervention, as some wounds cannot be healed by earthly methods.
That isn’t to say they cannot be healed. Even Tolkien wasn’t willing to go that far in his assessment of the orcs:
“[God]gave special 'sub-creative' powers to certain of His highest created beings: that is a guarantee that what they devised and made should be given the reality of Creation. Of course within limits, and of course subject to certain commands or prohibitions. But if they 'fell', as the Diabolus Morgoth did, and started making things 'for himself, to be their Lord', these would then 'be', even if Morgoth broke the supreme ban against making other 'rational' creatures like Elves or Men. They would at least 'be' real physical realities in the physical world, however evil they might prove, even 'mocking' the Children of God. They would be Morgoth's greatest Sins, abuses of his highest privilege, and would be creatures begotten of Sin, and naturally bad. (I nearly wrote 'irredeemably bad'; but that would be going too far. Because by accepting or tolerating their making — necessary to their actual existence — even Orcs would become part of the World, which is God's and ultimately good.)”
In any case, God bless you and I wish you well in your own investigations. We should keep in mind that this is unfortunately the sort of “dirty work” that must be done, if only to warn others of our findings and hopefully steer them away from these grim fates.
Recently at a beach in SC we saw a jacked-up truck with the vanity license plate “DARKSYD.” The owner was just getting out. You guessed it, every visible part of his body was tattooed.
It’s like a Monty Python skit, honestly. All these Dark Sids stalking around with their tats, trying to shock people. It will fall even flatter when they’re 70. Vanity license plates can be changed but tattoos are forever!
Maybe it won’t be as funny when they have laser sights built into their eyes and Gauss-action pistol jacks instead of hands—but I think it’ll be even funnier, actually. We’ll just have to look harder to see the joke.
"Maybe it won’t be as funny when they have laser sights built into their eyes and Gauss-action pistol jacks instead of hands—but I think it’ll be even funnier, actually. We’ll just have to look harder to see the joke."
Good man! That's the spirit! The Devil hates being mocked most of all. And mock him we shall.
I am 62; I live in England. In 1980 it was quite shocking that a woman ordered a pint of lager rather than a half in the pub. Dying one’s hair was a bit naughty - although understandable if a girl wanted to look more glam - gentlemen prefer blondes, after all. Then, around the mid 1990s, perhaps a little later, young men began getting tattoos, mostly in places that were easily covered up - upper arms, often. Multiple ear-piercings became more common. rather than just one in each lobe (or one lobe for men). I would think, well, that’s ugly, but each to their own. Next came the inexplicably ugly lip and nose rings - these always remind me of what farmers do to pigs or oxen, talk about being led by the nose. Then, unnatural hair colours - blue, green, goth black on very white girls. Then more and more tattoos, all over arms and legs, and then, terribly, over necks, then, even worse, faces. I live in a small, northern town and I see face tattoos fairly often, and almost everyone my age or younger is tattooed. Although it is certainly a ‘class’ thing, very suggestive of being in receipt of welfare, tattoos are not confined to nonprofessionals, especially amongst those under 40. Now I am waiting to see one of the orcs walking down the High Street, complete with forehead bumps and nose and ear removal. What larks.
How will these people, even the more ‘moderately’ tattooed people, feel when they are very old - 75, 85….? Will they be ashamed, embarrassed, regretful, suicidal? Will they even be lucky enough to live so long, even with such burdensome emotions? Perhaps such modifications are a life-shortening path, does that dragon man care about his general health? Does he go to exercise classes? Does he take vitamins or try to drink only moderately? Does he avoid sugar? How about illegal drugs - do dragons like to get high, wings or no?
There has always been a place for freaks - the circus. Lydia, oh Lydia, oh have you met Lydia…But now? When will the envelope-pushing stop? Perhaps there will be a massive backlash, tattoos and other ‘modifications’ will become extremely unfashionable, rather like powdered wigs, or painting arsenic on your face to look pale and interesting. Difference is one can take off a wig, wash off the arsenic (do be careful!) I predict many, many sad, regretful old and wrinkly people walking around in the future. Oh well, behave like a sheep, prepare to be eaten by wolves.
I think there will be many wrinkly old men and women who regret their various skin scribblings and hole-punches. I came up in a place and generation where those had become fairly common (at least in certain subcultures).
But this next market phase strikes me as signaling something more horrifying and dangerous. As I mentioned to YA per his comment, the kind of people who will pay to have ink injected into their eyeballs are significantly more reckless and nihilistic than the hipster with the "tribal tats" or Japanese characters or what have you.
There's a weird web series called "Hooked on the Look" which I watched a bit of while researching this essay. For all the casualness and sunny talk out of these people, it is obvious that something very, very wrong is happening inside them. That "something wrong" is slowly eating their outside, too, and probably has many sources and expressions. But if I had to boil it down to one word, it would be "misanthropy" in its most extreme form. Hatred of Self, Other and All, manifesting as a fantasy of their own inhumanity (and pseudo-superiority, since Mankind is so lame and weak and afraid). But they can't even describe these feelings very coherently, let alone poetically, because they are largely illiterate addicts hooked on mirrors and mind-poisons. Sounds like a lot of the orc dialogue in LoTR, actually.
"....Japanese characters or what have you" Visiting in Japan I've had Japanese friends, while trying not to laugh discreetly direct my attention to other gaijin (foreigners) proudly displaying tats wherein the kanji unbeknownst to wearer, reads something like, Buy Kikkoman Soy Sauce.
I somehow forgot to subscribe to your blog. Corrected.
Perhaps this next ‘market phase’ will only get to a very few. I think that even now there are brakes on most people’s wish to transform themselves: the physical pain of such things as injecting eyeballs and splitting tongues would put many off, surely? How long does it take a tongue to heal from such barbarity? Why risk losing one’s eyesight? But then, savages have always done awful things to their bodies, and the bodies of those they have power over- those African women with their horrifying elongated necks, the Chinese foot binding. I often think we are returning to a savage state, that the good manners of quite recent civilisation were a thin veneer that is swiftly being eroded by base human nature. In the past not even prostitutes walked around dressed like the young women of today - many look as though they have walked out in their underwear, and extremely skin tight underwear at that. I find this way of dressing as disturbing as anything else you discussed in your excellent essay (apart from the nose and ear mutilation).
A lot to unpack and chew on, here. I was thinking the same thing as you when I read this - "How many of these guys have military backgrounds?" Just from the ones you listed, apparently a lot. When I started noticing a lot of transpeople in the military ranks and trans veterans a few years ago, I was asking myself, "Why?" I remember a few years ago, in certain places on the internet where there's a lot of discussion surrounding lolcows, there was talk of "trauma-induced transexualism". The infamous Chris-chan, who now identifies as trans (and the reincarnation of Christ), is Exhibit A of this. There were several reasons for this phenomenon posited. One was that, as the victims of extreme bullying, the safety net around transexualism in the current zeitgeist provided them not just an easy-to-join in-group that they could seamlessly slip into and expect to be accepted in (spoilers: Chris-chan has not been widely accepted by the T-Bloc of the Rainbow Coalition), or at the very least, use the state-sanctioned protection offered by the rebuke of transphobia to protect themselves. Another is that all the cyber-bullying just outright broke their brains. The most logical in my opinion is that they were and are just autogynaphiliacs. But it does raise the interesting correlation between trauma and transexualism, whether that trauma be bullying, physical or sexual abuse, or watching a humvee full of your mates get blown sky-high by an IED on an Iraqi highway. That type of trauma leaves mental wounds that make one vulnerable and offer fertile breeding ground for infohazards and mind-viruses.
All in all, I think body-modding is overall deleterious to a person's psyche and generally a bad sign. I get flack for this opinion a lot because piercings and tattoos are in vogue right now, and, believe me, many of my friends have a lot of a ink, but the thing is, talking to them, it never just stops at one. There is an addicting quality to it. They've all told me that themselves. Is it that ridiculous to think that most of the people showcased here probably started off "just getting one" and chased that high until they are were they are now? It starts off with something "meaningful" and devolves into getting a bunch of cheap, shitty scratchers all over your body until you look like the interior of a truck stop bathroom, riddled with graffiti. It's hard to even have a rational conversation about it because so many get so defensive when the topic of tattoos and piercings even come up.
All in all, excellent piece. And the opening bit about the slow transformations is the stuff of Cronenbergian body horror nightmares. I suppose it's not too far off from what we're looking at, here.
Yes, tattoos and other body mods very clearly have addictive properties. But it is a strange sort of addiction, isn't it? More akin to an obsession or mania than something like heroin or even gambling. There seems to be an aspect of frustration, just beneath the surface. It's like cosmetic surgery. It's not right! Not finished! Not yet! One more!
I also grew up in an age and subculture where tattoos and body piercings were prevalent. Not just noses and ears for the latter, but nipples, eyebrows, tongues, and genitals. For tattoos, we were just starting to dip into faces, but I knew plenty of young men and women with "sleeves" and huge tats that covered their chests and/or backs. Also, this is when "tramp stamps" hit the scene, which should give you a clue about our sexual mores, as well as our disintegrating perception of ourselves.
What seems to be the hot thing right now (and in South America in particular) is sclera tattooing. I didn't mention it in the article (thought I'd let the pics speak for themselves), but this strikes me as much more than just a rebel posturing or daredevil game. Paying someone to literally inject ink into your eyeballs, so you can look like a "demon", strikes me as someone so utterly nihilistic and reckless that you can't trust them in any way whatsoever. Of course, the DoD and DARPA might have different opinions on this.
That's exactly how it seems, talking to them. They always have one more piece. One more addition. Grand ideas of their body as a giant canvas... they just need a little more money to get it done, or a little more space. It never ends. And, as I said, these are my friends. I care for them. I hope it doesn't consume them (or in some cases, drive them to bankruptcy). Interestingly I know a lot of them also tell me that, if they could go back and not get them, they would, but in for a penny, in for a pound - might as well go the full nine yards. I only know one guy who's getting his removed and that, too, is costly (and apparently painful).
As for sclera tattooing, that is something deeply more sinister. Face tats are stupid, but eyeball tattooing? That's quite literally insane behavior. Also, I can't imagine that won't have immense health ramification in the future. It's interesting that's popular in South America. I thought about bringing this up in my original comment but I noticed that a lot of the heavily body-modded individuals featured had Hispanic last names. I'd be interested to see the breakdown on what percentage they constitute in this motley "community", and, if they are in the majority, why? Mexico is infamous for people doing off-the-wall shit (i.e. when the Mexican Supreme Court had to issue a list of banned names because people were naming their kids "Scrotum" and "Email" and "Google"). Is it a product of their culture? I remember when "Aztec Corn Demons Still Influence Latin America" was a prevalent half-joke on Twitter, but when it comes to inking sclera to look like a demon... well, it doesn't sound too outlandish.
Scrotum Gonzalez and Google Gutierrez are for sure going to be cartel hitmen in one of my future novels.
Indeed! Off the top of my head, everyone i know that gets a tattoo gets stuck on that path. Always one more! Probably because they permanently marred their skin in the first place, they are compensating for the loss by seeking more ink-based "art" to display on their now damaged exteriors.
As another person who has seen many people I know go down the long path towards looking like a Truck Stop Bathroom, your comment here was insightful and cathartic!
Truck Stop Bathroom is pithy and on point to describe the conditions of their minds, bodies, and souls.
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Please, take the analogy and share it. Together we can end the tyranny of shitty scratcher tats. We can end it here. We can end it for all time.
Back in 1960, Maxwell Maltz wrote Psycho-Cyrbernetics. He believed that his patients often returned for multiple cosmetic surgeries because changing their appearance didn't change their perception of themselves.
“The most important opinion you have is the one you have of yourself.”
The uncool, unathletic, unattractive and none-too-bright kids, any of them, can now become "stunning and brave" if they/them/zhir/zhim/zhe/zher choose the transgender myth. They'll be protected, promoted and celebrated.
It really is the most diabolical trap imaginable, when you factor in the youth and inexperience of its prey.
Yes, that's part of what makes the ideology so appealing to people who are low on the social food chain. It also imbues a sense of power in that protection - pronouns are largely a way that they can project their control onto other people's speech, even when they aren't around. As I always say, do you often refer to someone by their pronouns when you're talking with them?
"As I always say, do you often refer to someone by their pronouns when you're talking with them?"
This. As I've tried to explain before, the use of pronouns means that you are definitionally *not* speaking to the pronoun's subject, but to a third party or generic audience, whether they're in the room or not. It's a pure power play, even if it's a particularly insipid, childish and sociopathic one.
Fortunately, i haven’t had the need to ask such a question up to this point. But i am sure that day will come.
You nailed it with this one Mark. As Tolkien stated Orcs were made as a mockery of elves, if you take that statement and plug it into our current times trannies and whatever these reptillian like assclowns call themselves are made as mockeries of humanity by the "elite"; this is the only plausible explanation for why this type of psychosis is encouraged and celebrated. Best part is that Southpark nailed all of this shit 20 years ago in the episode where Randy wants to become a dolphin, yet another reason I think Southpark is a prophetic show.
Thanks, Rev.
I vaguely recall the episode. But, yeah, quite a bit of prophetic vision in that show. As for the military's psychotic-outreach program, I expect it will only accelerate in the coming years. Prepare for #ReptoidLivesMatter (and maybe a big ol' apology letter to David Icke).
Some people grow pig snouts even without cosmetic surgery, and then recruit their friends and become a mob of pigs. You can see it on their faces, too. Especially the ones who attack children of those people who didn't put a "like" on their comment online. This is a true story. Happened here on substack.
I believe it. And, to paraphrase Orwell, some of those pigs are more equal then others. They will eventually turn against each other, too. Like those who mark themselves outwardly, we can turn this to our advantage.
I don't think it is hyperbolic to say this might be one of the most prescient articles I've ever read. So often transhumanism is presented as cool, slick, sexy even, but it's much more likely to be an extension of this body mod stuff just as you've highlighted here.
It'll look dirty, visually blasphemous and it will be very difficult to understand the appeal of it despite it's growth within our culture if you're not it's next victim (notwithstanding deracinated ingroup protective factors). It also already has an uncanny demonic denominator amongst it's participants--now why might that be, materialists of the world?
Anyhow, I think you have very coherently connected a lot of dots here and any literate person could read this article to get a sense of what the next stage of transhumanism is going to look like in reality. Cyberpunk is gonna be a whole lot uglier than we were told to imagine! Cheers!
What do you make of the fact that some of these self-made orcs were, prior to their transformation, attractive? In my, admittedly shallow, view I could believe that someone who is naturally ugly, and suffered from early life abuse because of it, might choose to become truly horrific in appearance, but to completely obliterate one's natural good looks screams that they are mentally and emotionally ill, and incapable of inhabiting reality. Oh, and very possibly, just evil at heart.
"What do you make of the fact that some of these self-made orcs were, prior to their transformation, attractive?"
You noticed that too, eh?
My short answer is: "What do you think the Devil would like to vandalize more, the Venus de Milo or a Funko Pop doll?"
This!!!! Brilliant wit alert! Perfect
Every day, it seems like some once-impossible-sounding bit of end-times doomsday prophesying becomes literal, prosaic reality before our eyes. I used to think the "mark of the beast" was metaphorical. Now, I am not so sure.
I think it functions at multiple aligned levels. I get the sense that's the only way to assess truth these days (and maybe always was). Not just "Does it work with this definition?" but "How many definitions does it work with?"
“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don't think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined and twisted them, and if they are to live at all, they have to live like other living creatures.”
interesting.
alinsky #4 man’s most potent weapon. mockery.
Interesting how it all seems to align, isn't it?
prolly coinkydink
Which is why they hate hate HATE being laughed at.. or the memes and why they MUST seek to shut it down. Because that which you can laugh at? Cannot control you...
Good lord, this is frightening stuff.
If people would object to these behaviours openly and strongly, it would help lessen the normalization of deviancy. Whatever it is, it can't be good for us a a society.
Still reading (thanks for the praise btw), but I see less contradiction between my Note and your take than you. What I meant was not that I take the Orcs to be a mere "symbolic representation" of evil--in Tolkien's world, they are obviously very real. On the contrary, I meant that on Middle Earth, they are a direct, fleshified, bodily *instantiation* of evil for all to see. Which, in our own current reality, doesn't exist as such (although it could! I'm not making a metaphysical claim here). Here, when two armies fight, it takes a great deal of discernment and knowledge to decide who are the good guys and who are the bad guys; when an Orc army fights, things are more obvious, both on the individual and collective levels. (Tolkien's work is obviously more complex than that, my Note was really just one specific insight I had, quickly blurted out.)
Well, at least that's how it used to be. Clearly, we are witnessing a thinning of the veil, a blurring between dimensions, or if you like the manifestation of a possible future where the basic principles of the Cosmos are accessible and visible more directly. Jesus, now take these pictures out of my head!
"Here, when two armies fight, it takes a great deal of discernment and knowledge to decide who are the good guys and who are the bad guys; "
But there, too. Recall that the Riders of Rohan first took Aragorn and his companions for enemies, and that tense initial showdown between them. And, as I mentioned, the human armies of Easterlings, Haradrim and Dunlendings were not marked as the orcs were. And while their nations were in league with Satan, they weren't exclusively evil as peoples (thanks in large part to the missionaries Alatar and Pallando, according to Tolkien's lore).
I agree that when you spot an Orc army on the march, you essentially know what you're dealing with (unless a Wormtongue is whispering in your ear, of course). You know, for instance, that you cannot parlay, or sue for peace, or offer surrender, or any of the "normal" things we can and do attempt when faced with human foes. You also have certain advantages, in that the marked enemy has put on a uniform it can't remove. There are no orc "irregulars", hiding in plain sight. This has all sorts of implications for the 5GW (soon to be 6GW) battlefield that swirls around us.
But... maybe we can reserve the rest of that conversation for "The Podcast Was Never Found" (or whatever dumb thing I end up calling it)?
I think Mark makes several great cases for the instantiation (love that word!) of mind-stunning evil right here in our midst, walking among us. They don't have to be self-mutilate transhumans either. Ever see Christy Tiegen (John Legend's wife) post online about her thirst for sexual interaction with children? Ever see Tom Hanks morbidly obsess over debris found in isolated areas that show wear and tear... oh... and are also *always* child's clothing items? How about the herds of women who squeeze their 300lb bodies into ever-tightening sausage-casing-like spandex leggings and pair those with a crop top to walk boldly down the sidewalk with their purple hair, bull ring and spike ear piercings and sneer at those who have to veer out of their way because the sidewalk's no longer big enough for passing? Or the growing trend of men who spend drug-fueled hours in the gym to achieve the physique that makes them feel "jacked" only to then drug their next victim in a bar to further their rape agenda because winning consent and risking any human connection (even to satisfy their sexual predation/cravings) just isn't fun anymore. These are all orcs.
They hate you. They hate me. They hate each other. The only thing they love is the hate that fuels them.
Just seeing these people is a bit traumatizing. If one of my sweet little children saw one of these freaks in Wal-Mart they'd be deeply disturbed... which opens the gates for more trauma, which leads to more orcs...
Great write-up, Mark. Thank you.
As within-so without. I blame parasites. The ones in us and the ones who invaded us from the outside.
If parasites can induce a mouse to get eaten by a cat for the parasite’s further growth up the food chain, then are parasites causing this ‘orc’ behavior in humans?
Are there beings slipping into our realm from the lower realms?
It would be interesting to see what kind of food & drugs these people have been consuming.
The lizard-like modifications all appear be intended to create rigid, inexpressive features, and to intimidate. That suggests that they are intended to hide vulnerability and keep potential attackers at bay. It is striking that nobody it trying to look like Bambi.
Yes and no. To be fair, ex-SEAL Chris Beck was trying to look like a “Bambi” (i.e. less threatening), and so is Maj. Rachel Jones. Then you have nightmare fuel like this new trend:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/manga-anime-japan-cosplay-fetish-17016994
(which maybe deserves it’s own article, but I think I’m done with the transhuman freak show scene for awhile).
Point taken, though I confess I find Beck and Jones far scarier than the lizard people rather than cute, and that unfortunate Manga woman in the Daily Star link looks like obscenity made flesh. Many of the other articles at that link are about female pedophiles.
Have you seen the satire ''The furry infection''?
No. Will look it up. Thanks! Looks like lizard people are furries without the fur. Scalies!
Mark, You must have had to take a hot shower after you finished editing this pile of shite.
Thank you for pulling it together. Your comparing these people to Tolkien's writing was inspired.
But let's not forget, they are still people. and not mythical creatures And have serious mental health issues. That fact is most concerting to me. The fact that doctors are supporting their delusions is most troubling.
It all simply reinforces my premise that western society is on the wain and has already collapsed. The fact that these people grew up so disconnected from their families and normal life is just another example of it.
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Hi, Rene. I’ve just read your preview portions of “Transgender Killers: The monsters that walk among us.” We are indeed entering harrowing terrain, and unfortunately many people seem as blind to the dangers as ever. This goes doubly for the Frankensteins who profit from this dark business,
I do not deny that these are still people, still vessels for human souls however deeply possessed. I am happy that you have found your way back, but I think you might agree that it could not be done without God’s intervention, as some wounds cannot be healed by earthly methods.
That isn’t to say they cannot be healed. Even Tolkien wasn’t willing to go that far in his assessment of the orcs:
“[God]gave special 'sub-creative' powers to certain of His highest created beings: that is a guarantee that what they devised and made should be given the reality of Creation. Of course within limits, and of course subject to certain commands or prohibitions. But if they 'fell', as the Diabolus Morgoth did, and started making things 'for himself, to be their Lord', these would then 'be', even if Morgoth broke the supreme ban against making other 'rational' creatures like Elves or Men. They would at least 'be' real physical realities in the physical world, however evil they might prove, even 'mocking' the Children of God. They would be Morgoth's greatest Sins, abuses of his highest privilege, and would be creatures begotten of Sin, and naturally bad. (I nearly wrote 'irredeemably bad'; but that would be going too far. Because by accepting or tolerating their making — necessary to their actual existence — even Orcs would become part of the World, which is God's and ultimately good.)”
In any case, God bless you and I wish you well in your own investigations. We should keep in mind that this is unfortunately the sort of “dirty work” that must be done, if only to warn others of our findings and hopefully steer them away from these grim fates.
Like the Reavers in Firefly. Had been through so much, seen so much, could do nothing but start to self-mutilate.
Recently at a beach in SC we saw a jacked-up truck with the vanity license plate “DARKSYD.” The owner was just getting out. You guessed it, every visible part of his body was tattooed.
It’s like a Monty Python skit, honestly. All these Dark Sids stalking around with their tats, trying to shock people. It will fall even flatter when they’re 70. Vanity license plates can be changed but tattoos are forever!
Maybe it won’t be as funny when they have laser sights built into their eyes and Gauss-action pistol jacks instead of hands—but I think it’ll be even funnier, actually. We’ll just have to look harder to see the joke.
"Maybe it won’t be as funny when they have laser sights built into their eyes and Gauss-action pistol jacks instead of hands—but I think it’ll be even funnier, actually. We’ll just have to look harder to see the joke."
Good man! That's the spirit! The Devil hates being mocked most of all. And mock him we shall.