WET BRAIN PODCAST SUCKS
A review of the 'Divine Intervention' wb episode w a section called 'Walter Pearce's Hell', this is about netspi catho web 3 gridlock and the negative commons. Has Wet Brain fallen off forever?
THE LITERALIZATION OF HELL
Wet Brain podcast and its rightly famous Discord server has always threatened to be little more than a hospital for deranged contemporary American Catholic retards. Everyone knows there is nothing worse than contemporary Catholicism, tradCath, neo-crypto Cath, netspi Nationalist Cath, the Catholic Internet of Money industrial casino brothel assetization complex, matthewrosary catholicism, or whatever.
There is nothing worse than modern online Catholicism precisely because it’s painful for anyone who is not a ‘retard’ to observe the literalization of heaven and hell at a niche moment in the accelerating depletion of time and resources. In fact what the naturalization of heaven and hell inherent in most forms of Catholicism indicates is that the actual future is expendable or too painful to face. Both memes forestall time, assume time, confuse resurrection with purity—they form a final judgement on human life before time. The naturalization of heaven and hell is the main allegory of the extinction of the world.
The great test for the contemporary Catholics of Discord and post-Red Scare plasticity is the following. First of all, ask a Discord Catholic if they really are Catholic. They will probably say something vague about the Church itself, how they make their own way, want to find their own way into Faith outside the imperfection of the Church (the post 1958 ‘church’ is not the Catholic church, and so on). In other words, they are a literal Catholic and a literal-minded Catholic in hiding.
But to verify this, simply ask them if they believe in Hell. Or rather, be specific, and ask them if a person may go to Hell. When they inevitably say yes, that a person may go to Hell, say the following: can I go to Hell? They will then have to say yes. They will therefore have said a person can go to Hell. But they will then also have said it directly. They will have told you You can go to Hell. They will have told you, by logical implication, to go to hell.
THE SHILLING OF HELL
In this way, Catholicism in the present age is built on a increasingly profound insult (shilling hell on the sly as entrenched ‘abuse’): a loathsome logicism that mistakes the twin sources of religion (logic and belief) for one source (logic) even as it pretends to be a matter of pure intuition beyond the latter. What virtually no Catholic ever confesses is the following: Catholicism directly—and not just accidently—implies Hell, and Hell directly situates other people in Hell. Neo Nationalist Catholicism is the ultimate sadistic top because it doesn’t give a fuck about you for eternity.
The naturalization of heaven and hell has now flooded everything, and this is why many souls are actually lost and up against it. The time deficit between heaven’s assumption and the world’s radical finitude might be called the only metaphysical sin. If we want to do polemology, really our enemy is the naturalization of heaven.
We are terribly up against it. We are flooded with this naturalization. It’s like when a body is about to die, the system floods it with natural heroin to efface the presence of total disintegration. Such is relapse into heaven (hell) in the age of extinction.
This total omnilapse into religious motifs in a time of hardcore materiality is what makes and takes the world beyond any limit of overwhelm. This is why Simone Weil said that God is best understood as limit (‘God is that which limits’). Her God was not a God, not even God herself, but God as that which limits and thereby still makes possible the beauty of the entire universe. This finitude aspect is what Weil understood as the Hellenistic impulse, which Christianity stole but took the limit away from. Modern Catholicism, in its full retarded splendour of canny denial, can’t even remember where this limit was supposed to be. Contemporary Catholicism makes human life impossible.
HELL IS NEVER SOLO
What does this deeper implication of Catholic identity’s logicism mean? We have seen that at depth it means time delay and wrongful stewardship of the future (abuse of children, simply). It does not mean that Hell is other people, it means that logically speaking one can not believe in Hell for one person alone. Hell is never solo, always an implication, implied for time, in the way of time—blocking time. To believe that I can go to hell is to believe that you can go to hell. In fact, when a Catholic says they feel they may go to hell, they are insulting you in the most powerful way in the world. ‘I might go to hell’ means you might go too, even if that is never an idea that has crossed the speaker’s mind or even yours. Best intentions really do mean nothing when it comes to an eternity of pain.
In this sense, Hell is not just one idea among others. One can believe in God for example without directly implying and involving others in the belief. Hell is a—for us—impossible degree of pain; to allow the idea of hell for me is to allow the idea of hell for you. ‘Hell’ is therefore an inherently implicative idea. An idea that contains its own consequences. This is marked, quite simply, by the curse language of ‘go to hell’ or (as a certain broadly Catholic podcast has it) ‘see you in hell’.
But hell can be admitted as a ‘wrong’ or ‘unreasonable’ idea insofar as it hardly seems to exist at all from a rationalist position. The relevant question therefore becomes whether believing in hell is of a completely different order to believing in other things that might also be wrong. For example, I can believe the earth is flat but believing the earth is flat doesn’t commit other people to eternal pain; but if I believe hell is possible for me I believe it is possible for you and that means at some level I am wishing on you eternal pain and not just adhering to a belief in a flat earth. In other words, the idea of hell is inherently time-sadistic and the idea of a flat earth is not really so, such that these ideas are (radically) not the same.
Is there any chance at all that an infinite expanse exists outside of human time and subatomic space, dark matter or otherwise, which we can see or not see, and in which beings reside forever in eternal pain until someone like a benevolent Being forgives them and ships them elsewhere like the United Kingdom government shifting migrants to Rwanda for them to be processed ready for some kind of onward journey (‘heaven’)?
That the given probability of hell is about 0.00000000001 at best or worst means that it might follow that most if not all Catholics are extremely irrational, considering that most of them believe in a literal hell for the sake of their confrontation with their faith.
THE HELL OF UNREADING
But can’t people believe what they want? Not so fast, perhaps—and this is why Wet Brain as Catholic podcast has reached its own limit. There are two reasons:
First, as mentioned, ‘hell’ as an idea is a kind of prime mover. It appears to be neutral like some other concepts, and yet in reality it seems to have motivated not just itself but assumed a certain impact on others. To believe in hell is to believe that hell must be possible for others. To believe in hell means that you are going to hell. In this sense, the belief in hell cannot not be imposed on others. It naturally transforms into persuasion, rhetoric, the whole arc of history as subtle and less subtle terror. Hell is campaign, acknowledged or not. It is a conduit of massive historical cruelty. Hell is perhaps the main cover for humanity’s refusal to let in a knowledge of extinction.
Second, a perhaps far more important reason, as also touched on: ‘hell’ when literalized assumes, without any metaphor, infinite reading and being and suffering time. Hell is like an exaggerated version of culture in that it assumes for itself amounts of time and externality that cannot be taken for granted anymore. In this sense, the idea of a future hell does an amazing amount of work in forestalling the future as such and in making of the real present an actual hell. Hell, we can say, is not hell (Catholic Hell), but it is what centuries of Catholic pain and sadism have made of external conditionalities and negative commons. Hell (heaven) does not happen at the end of the world; it happens instead right now as various and ignored drip feed forms of civilizational omnicide.
Attending to the first of these senses, one might say there is a right to any idea except Hell. There would be no right to believe in Hell because Hell when literalized and naturalized is the belief in eternal pain not for me but for you. Hell is an idea that moves towards you. An idea of implicative condemnation. By opening yourself to hell as possibility to sharpen the possibility of heaven, you repeat an immense drag on history and let everyone else burn.
WALTER PEARCE’S HELL
If you know anything about Walter Pearce, you know he has been through or to some kind of hell. Whether that hell was more his or artificially created for others to get off on, God only knows and should know—and who is there who doesn’t pass back in and out of the same damnation zone of ambiguity? The point is that the Walter Pearce transition to Proust and guns in Redacted is a journey from hell to the conception, inwardly, contemplatively, of other hells—hells to be warded off for other people. Walter is someone everyone should cling to for his feel for the world and for his ability to put someone down without withdrawing his respect (think Sean Monahan for example, the inventor of the vibe shift). As for Walter Pearce’s conception of hell, in what does it reside in the present? No doubt the most subtle concept of hell is birthed as a variety of test for heaven, a spur for Real Heaven. A deep motive to match heaven’s own depth. The test here is not Hell but Heaven. If heaven really is what Heaven could be (the memory of heaven, the alogical timbre of unimaginable serenity, independence and bliss) then any amount of Hell should be thinkable in order to secure its vision. Hell exists not opposed to Heaven but for its sake. This would count even more so at the end of a world.
But again, insofar as Hell is communal in this way and atavistic across historical vectors and dashboards, it remains residually sadistic. If heaven as something beyond earth turns out to be non existent and not just demonically or angelically inexistent, what is the scheme of heaven but a way to place a direct drag on material beings and their natural liberation and to provide an alibi for a continued symbolic remote sadism? Hell, one could say, would turn out to be not in search of lost time but instead a complete waste of history’s time. A way to stave off and thereby accelerate history’s ending through the forfeiture of a faith in neo-rationality. All that prepares for Heaven when Heaven falls off will have been a greater Hell on earth—a crucial delay.
The Wet Brain episode ‘Divine Intervention’ was, in that case, either the very worst or the very best of podcast episodes, certainly more nourishing of thought than anything Red Scare has done since Anna sold out by having a baby and Dasha sold out by pretending to need to be an actress—as well as going out with the master hermeneut of on-remote hell shilling, Mathew Obese ‘Retard’. Both Walter Pearce and Jordan Castro either harangued, loved, bullied, pressed, provoked, nurtured, or all of these, Honor Levy into thinking and feeling about Hell as a way of focusing her mind with regard to being the voice of a generation and not falling off forever. The message was: we can not have a Neo Rat Honor Levy.
In these lights, the voice of a generation is an interesting notion. How to be such a voice when genealogy itself is about to be cut off? How to be generational when genealogy is in the middle of a transcendental seizure? In fact, what the lodestar illusion of Hell succeeds in providing is enough time to come in which to still contemplate and value stardom as aesthetic lure. If people cannot read Honor Levy’s My First Book in Heaven they can at least read it in Hell and then carry it as carry-on luggage when they make the extraordinary rendition to Paradise. The point is that generations imply genealogy and genealogy time to come. Walt’s kindness can only be measured by plumbing these depths and wanting to secure their power for another out of love—otherwise what Honor levy was subjected to in this episode was not Divine but Demonic intervention that irreversibly confuses one historical time with another.
If Hell is no longer just other people, then it looks like it is the confusion of life and death with extinction. To delay is to get tangled in heaven and hell when neither seems feasibly there on the horizon. Hell is in that sense super cultural—hell is what brings on by hiding its own image. Hell is—a projection of—the world without us for all time.
TIME TO STOP CALLING THE POPE
What we are really saying now is almost cognitively uncommon: Wet Brain started as post everything but is over or will have soon been over in the same way that all culture is now what this blog calls a cover of the most important thing in the world. In being a broadly Catholic podcast, Wet Brain assumes there are centuries down the line. Not just centuries of externalities, but literally thousands of years in which you and I, many of us, the unholy, the nonconverted, will suffer.
What cultural artefacts do now is disconnect any real perception of time from the cryptically Catholic web3 assetized extinction casino time of online life, as if they are not the same at all. As if Extinction Time has nothing to do with Hell Time. As if there is no reason to even think about Extinction Time because the only thing that counts is that other time, the time of the coming, the redeemed and the damned: Hell Time.
The advantage of Hell Time overcoming Extinction Time in its entirety is that one can ignore extinction time, by definition, forever, in its entirety. For the modern online Catholic, niche finitude is nothing because there is always the infinitude of hell. For the neo-Cath or the finCath or whatever, apocalypse time can easily be denied as historical eschatology, the end of the world we have always been on the verge of ever since the book of Genesis.
Hell is actually an ideological solution to the problem of extinction qua extinction, and has likely never been anything but that. Both heaven and hell stretch time out to the point where what we can do in a lifetime about the future of worlds is replaced by less material problems of Godly election and impact—and these play out across alleged eternities. Hell is no doubt so baked-in as culture and time itself that believing in it remains imperative so that there is a drug that distracts from extinction qua extinction. Insofar as Wet Brain reveals all this with stark violence, it does not suck. Insofar as it continues to cover it, it does.
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