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Courage, therefore, is not the re-introduction of hope in a different form. We earnestly uphold the slogan which our friends foist in irony: Hic Nihil, Hic Salta. Here is nothing, jump here. Hope is the idea that you must wait for something to materialize before committing to the leap, as if the road to socialism might someday emerge from the darkness on the other side. Courage, in contrast, is the name for jumping without any guarantee—for the act performed in darkness. Rather than a secret “way out” of nihilism, courage is simply the name for procedures undertaken with a cool head in the face of the abyss. Dice plummeting off the precipice.

Dead Reckoning

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Never trust the excited. Communism is and should be a buzzkill.

Dead Reckoning

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Why Riot?

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“There is plenty more to talk about here—which you can explore if you please. But the basic problem, cut to the size of a tweet, is that the economy is the name for a hostage situation in which the vast majority of the population is made dependent on a small minority through implicit threat of violence.If we challenge the system’s capacity to infinitely accumulate more at a compounding rate, it goes into crisis—this is basic definition of crisis: when profitable growth slows, stops, or, god forbid, reverses. Whenever this accumulation is challenged, whether by contingent factors such as poor location, or intentional ones, such as a resistant populace, those who hold the power (the wealthy) will start killing hostages.”

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When we lose people to Hellworld, and we really come to terms with that death, it distills the essential problem of what life is for us here and now. If Hellworld, or capitalism, or whatever you wanna call it, is the death of the shit we love, then we must kill Hellworld. We must turn the world upside down, shake the joy out of it and crush whatever else remains. Let’s develop a magic that can do that.

Hellworld, Harper Ferry

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The magic circle has its own limitations, though, and rather than the souls of our loved ones, I think what we summoned was a catharsis: one we could try to share. What we summoned was one more day borrowed from our terrifying future. Whatever helps me get through to the next day is good enough for me. What I’m really interested in is looting everything I ever wanted and flaying the rich kids of Instagram alive, but I’m gonna need a few more days to make that happen.

Hellworld, Harper Ferry

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Together, our dead friends represent a continuity in the history of Hellworld, its weight carelessly pressing bodies into the dirt as a necessary fact of its existence. The river Styx, which runs through this Hell, is just all those sips we poured out for our homies.

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Happy Halloween! Here's a semi- spooky new thing I wrote for Ultra! Death's door is hella creaky, friends. This is all very personal to me and writing this was sort of hard. This essay was, for me, an attempt to clarify some of my feelings about life and death and what that stuff really means in the pressure cooker of Hellworld. RIP Emily Smalls. RIP Hesh Paul. S/o to the witches. S/o to ultra. S/o to Phil Neel for editing my occasionally awful writing so y'all don't have to see it in it's organic state. "Whatever helps me get through to the next day is good enough for me. What I'm really interested in is looting everything I ever wanted and flaying the rich kids of Instagram alive, but I’m gonna need a few more days to make that happen."