The Funkadelic Manifesto

YouTube video by MrLazarovfan Ballet Zoom "Cats"

This ain’t Broadway, baby.
It’s Ballet Zoom’s "Cats" (1973)—and it purrs in technicolor. 🐱🌈
#FunkadelicArchives #BalletZoom #DanceRebellion #CatsButMakeItWeird #Psychedelia #RetroSurrealism

📸 In this iconic 1961 photograph, jazz legend Louis Armstrong plays his trumpet before the Sphinx of Giza, while his wife Lucille listens, beaming. The horns of Harlem meet the stone gaze of pharaohs—a moment where Black genius echoes across empires. #LouisArmstrong

Peter Sellers serving absolute Cold War absurdity in Dr. Strangelove—the film that laughed at the apocalypse before it was trendy.

Kubrick's gonzo chess match with nuclear annihilation still hits harder than most modern “serious” films.
#DrStrangelove #PeterSellers #Kubrick #SatireIsSurvival

The Doors of Perception Are Now Closed Aldous Huxley and the Death of Psychedelic Utopianism

☞ What if the revolution was never outlawed—just rebranded, wellness-washed, and sold at $399 a dose?

Huxley dreamed of psychedelic utopia. We got microdosing CEOs & curated ayahuasca retreats for influencers.

#Psychedelics #Culture #GonzoWriting #AldousHuxley #TheFunkadelicManifesto

The empire is bored with your joy.
So it sells you despair in high-def.
But the poets are sharpening their tongues.
And you, darling, are the glitch in their machine.

Keep breaking patterns.
Keep dreaming loud.

#DailyDispatch #CultureJamming #PoetsUnite

☞ What if the truth was never missing—just buried beneath the noise?

I don’t write newsletters. I write cultural resistance.

Come decode the dream:
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The Mouth That Makes the World When Words Stop Describing Reality and Start Replacing It

☞ What if the words you speak aren’t reflections of reality at all—but the very engines that create it?

This essay unpacks how language became the most dangerous machine we’ve ever built.

The Fractured Self How Identity Became a Battlefield Between Cosmos, Capital, and Culture

☞ What if the “real you” never existed?

What if selfhood is just a story—first told by the cosmos, then rewritten by capitalism, and finally shattered by postmodern doubt? This isn’t just philosophy; it’s the quiet crisis behind our politics, our culture, and our loneliness.

The War Over What’s Real Why America Can’t Agree on Reality (and Maybe Never Could)

☞ What happens when no one agrees on how truth is made?

From sacred revelation to rational science to postmodern power plays, America has always waged war over what’s real. The glitch in the frame was always there—you’re just seeing it now.

A bookmark on a black book. The bookmark has an illustration of Grover the muppet, from the book “The Monster At The End of This Book.” Grover has thrown up his hands, completely exasperated, with a speech bubble saying “YOU TURNED ANOTHER PAGE!”

I love my bookmark. It’s especially funny when I use it to read super serious books.

Hat tip to @tylerjameshill.com for letting me know such a bookmark (and socks!) exist.

No Signal, Only Shadows From Plato’s Cave to the Algorithmic Empire Where Truth Has Been Replaced by Simulation

☞ What if the shadows learned our fears, our cravings, our biases—until they replaced reality entirely? Welcome to the algorithmic empire: no signal, only shadows. Plato warned us. Nietzsche saw the void. Foucault revealed the machinery. Baudrillard told us the simulation would consume the real.

The Empire of Isms: Philosophical Reflections on the Doctrines That Destroyed America How a Pantheon of -Isms—Racism, Capitalism, Colonialism, Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, and More—Conspired to Birth and Break the American Experiment

🧠 Read the essay that autopsies the empire. 👇
thefunkadelicmanifesto.substack.com/p/the-empire...

So was the “American Dream” ever freedom?
Or just control with better marketing?

Empires don’t shatter with a bang—they rot quietly, poisoned by the very doctrines that made them powerful.

Racism was the foundation.
Capitalism was the fuel.
Colonialism was the map.
Nationalism was the mask.
Militarism was the religion.

These weren’t flaws.
They were the operating system.

🇺🇸 America didn’t fall. It was designed to decay.

The Culture Machine: A Survival Guide for the Soul How Empire Programs the Mind—and How Artists, Weirdos, and Poets Fight Back

⚠️ The Culture Machine is eating you alive. Scrolling your soul into submission. Selling you back your own reflection.

This isn’t just an essay—it’s your exit strategy.

What the Cancellation of Colbert Tells Us About a Nation in Decline The jester is dead, and the king is laughing. In the twilight of the republic, even comedy has been nationalized by fear.

☞ They didn’t just cancel a late-night show. They canceled one of the last places America could still laugh at its own absurdity.