Infinite Onion: Twenty-Twenty-four (2024 We are coming, Expect us)

3739 Pages·2020·10.042 MB·English

by  Infinite Onion

Twenty-Twenty-four
Infinite Onion
November 2024
We are coming. Expect us.

“...Don Quixote meets al-Qaeda...”
—Matt Taibbi
“...the work of some na¨ıve Millennial Malcolm X or Gen Z ‘intellectual’...”
—Bill Maher
“...a reasoned, sober look at American Empire today...a bullet aimed at
the head of capitalism...”
—Oliver Stone
“...the Russians are at it again...now the Chinese are in on it too...”
—Hillary Clinton
“...a true grandmaster of Wing Chun...”
—Ip Man
“...a leftist Trump...be afraid...”
—Neera Tanden
“Too long...a great sleep aid...”
—Ken Burns
“...racist, white male supremacist, transphobic trash...”
—Lena Dunham
“...antisemitic...the next Hitler...”
—Benjamin Netanyahu
“...the Second Coming...Jesus has returned...”
—Rick Santorum
“A book about a leftist fanatic who writes a book about a leftist fanatic
who writes a book aiming to overthrow the capitalist empire and that’s the
book you’re reading?...brilliant...mind-blowing...”
—Leonardo DiCaprio
“...if Infinite Jest and Ready Player One and The Bible and The Com-
munist Manifesto and The Unabomber thing and so many more had an
orgy...this book would be the cum-stained sheet...”
—Seth Rogen
“Didn’t I already write this?”
—Uwe Boll

I am writing this book for all those trapped within the world’s
latest caste systems. You may be locked up or locked out of
mainstream society, but you are not forgotten. To those who
would rather be doing something useful with themselves. To the
memories of those who died. To their families. To those who
survived. To the those that suffered. To those who anguished.
To those who did their best. And to those who continue asking
what will come out of it all.

Contents
I Making You 1
1 Stories 5
One Warm Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Back Into the Cave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Great Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
An Axe for the Frozen Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
The Word Shaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
2 Please Put on Your Tinfoil Hat 203
3 Things Have Never Been So Good 209
Prehistoric Myths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Fuck Off, Steven Pinker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
4 Societal Blueprints 239
Jesus & the Volcano Virgins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Doing Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
5 Sexy Action, Ugly Reflection 285
Quiet Solitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Different Kinds of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
6 Teach the Children Well 307
Constructing Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Excellent Sheep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
The Weight of the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Brutalizing Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
7 What Do You Know? 357
Ideological Blinders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Deceiving Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
8 Fake News 409
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9 Mediated Reality 441
10 Fame Fetish 471
11 American Fascism 491
12 Consumer Addicts 503
13 Bottling Happiness 523
The Perfect Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
Your Broken Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
14 What’s Your Type? 591
15 Tyranny of Specialists 605
High-IQ Morons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
The People or a Mob? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
16 Big Brother is Watching 659
17 Human Sacrifice 699
Camouflaged Oppression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699
Owning Things Absolutely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725
18 A Hollow State 739
Democratic Delusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739
Paper Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
19 Foolish Farming 763
Big Ag’s Stranglehold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763
A Banana Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772
Our Synthetic Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776
20 The Origin of Modern Sick 789
Manufactured Illness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789
For-Profit Shitheads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814
Hearing Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821
Human Shoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832
21 Microscopic Worlds 855
Consider the Parasite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855
Dirty Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870
The Making of a Plague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885
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22 Death, Dying, The End 935
23 Owning Ideas 949
II Institutionalized Injustice 989
24 Needless Suffering 993
25 You Didn’t Earn It 999
26 The Rule of Law 1023
Measuring Civilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023
Law & Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057
27 Plant Wars 1107
28 Supreme Injustice 1119
29 Imaginary Lines 1155
30 Starving for Justice 1161
III Supremacist Ideology 1175
31 Non-Human Relations 1179
An Existential Loan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179
Other Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1196
Belonging to the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1208
32 Changing the World 1249
The Human Super-Organism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249
Boiling Frogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277
33 A Miracle of Purpose 1319
34 Horror Highlight Reel 1359
35 Resistance & Rebellion 1369
36 Other Minds 1399
The Inner Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1399
A Gently Sloping Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1418
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37 The Moral Codes of Mice & Men 1471
38 Dangerous Supremacists 1501
The Image of the Devil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1501
Carnism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1532
39 Six Flags: Wilderness 1565
Faking Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1565
Biological Bigotry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1583
40 Spaceship Earth 1601
I Ain’t No Fuckin’ Fish-Frog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1601
Fellow Travelers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1613
Druids & Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1625
IV Sci-Fi Fantasies 1637
41 Progress Traps 1641
Comedy of Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1641
Elon’s Erection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1658
Powering Our Fantasies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1666
Technological Horrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1675
42 Blind, Ignorant Tinkerers 1691
43 Atomic Folly 1713
The Most Terrible Weapon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1713
It Can’t Happen Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1728
44 The Cult of the Singularity 1755
Fruit of the Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755
Silicon Valley’s Virgins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1776
The Price of Fictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1797
Ayn Rand’s Digital Dreamworld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1834
V It’s a Trap! 1853
45 Divide & Conquer 1857
Which Noun Are You? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
Class Warfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1885
46 The Nature of Identity 1923