Total Meme Death

     The entire concept of Kek as the Egyptian God of Primordial Darkness intervening in the internet to get Donald Trump elected has been parasitic on my brain ever since I witnessed it as a teenager. 

    You know, I have been very troubled over the state of the politisphere lately; went to the first protests of my life a few months back, got shot by plastic rounds, ate pepper gas, the deal. Had a lot of my friends get arrested for short time periods, nothing really came of it. Honestly, ever since I've been surrounded by more "normie" people, no one has really been at a genuine risk of dying. I remember when that was different, and people I talked to were always bordering on suicide. I suppose this is better, but sorry, I'm getting off track.

    I don't like postmodernists, I don't like being defeatist about the fact that no substantive change can happen anytime soon. I want the state of affairs to change, I want world communism! And I want the whole world to do it! I want all the proles of the world to come together in a last stand and take over everything! Kumbaya kumbaya, χαίρετε χαίρετε!

     It won't though, not now, not when people are comfortable doing politics like they pick and defend football teams. In fact, it won't happen for a while more, things are very rigid now, and this text is not the most coherent thing written either. Look, here's what I'm talking about, I'll put it in a clean format and you can *judge* it for its contents.

     The Mandate of Kek is a phenomenon driving the arc of the political landscape. It is a progressive "force" that I believe was exemplified at the culmination of the 2016 US elections; so that's what it's named after. The reactionary memeball that was Pepe and Kekistan, which gives it's name does not, however, define it's purpose. I choose to view the whole Kekistan schtick in a positive light, in the way where you feel a lot better after vomiting, if you've been nauseous for a while. It came as a mascot for the rise of far-right presence in the online mainstream, but this whole event is not tragic, it was inevitable, like a cyst popping. It was a progressive event in that it carried the state of the internet to the next stage.

    This whole theory is not very thought through, but I do believe that the 'Mandate of Kek' is useful to think of the way things are headed, and what movements take the mantle on bringing things forward. It is meant to be a playful term though, it's not theoretically solid.

    'The Mandate of Kek' is received by certain movements and groups of people emerging which end up leaving a sizable mark on the landscape. Lots of the descendants of the risen alt right have enjoyed it in short bursts, though I believe it now lies with the Accelerationist crowd. The pessimistic right wing variety, at least, seem to dominate a lot of the vibes around here; everyone is a doomer about technology, the future, capitalism. Of course, this is just a vibe following the global economic recession; but honestly, all of this is derived from the basic material reality we all follow.

     It's just a concept I've been playing around with for ages, and I find it useful to point out an arc with a goal for the online sphere. The slow death of all memes, if you wish to call it that. I think this out-of-context quote from the Communist Manifesto sums it up:

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind." This one is nestled in talks about the contant revolutionizing of the modes of production overseen by the bourgeois, and it applies in this sense:

The chaos of the internet, its consuming of every viewpoint and rhetoric; its reducing of every understanding of the world into noise; its slaughter of every meme that gives man hope, its schizophrenization of culture, its feeding all that is sacred to the maws of attention-eating companies; will only serve to make the obvious more obvious. 

    This is what the Mandate is headed towards; a reduction of everything into meaningless gutter, just as Kek was there to desanctify the overwhelming liberal sentiment, the Accelerationists are here to annihilate optimism. The left is very dead, so it cannot hold the mandate; if anyone on that ambigious space will hold the Mandate, I think it will be the left-communists with their vendetta against doing stuff (since doing stuff doesn't work) and I don't know what'll come after that. Do you think there'll be a big ol juicy revolution, Mal?

Anyway, hope you found this interesting enough.

-Aya