The Contemptuous Communique #2: We are a pack. We are not the crowd.

The Contemptuous
Communique #2
We are a pack.
We are not the crowd.

“For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool’s motley, partly as camouflage. It covers his spiritual freedom, which he will objectivate during such transitions. This distinguishes him from the anarchist, who, objectively unfree, starts raging until he is thrust into a more rigorous straitjacket.”
- Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil

The beautiful idea was born when its essence was obliterated. It was not the beginning of civilization which destroyed the beautiful and authentic, it was the incessant analysis of the problem – the forever tautology of problem/solution. The idea is a simulation of a phenomenon. Let the masses have the idea -- we, The Contemptuous and our kindred spirits, are the lamenting cult aimed at true resurrection of an ineffable freedom.

We are the infiltration of meaninglessness with the echo of meaning. We are interested not in convincing you, but in provoking in you the disgust which generated this journey.

We are a pack of hunters with unrelenting aim towards the enemy. Standing for so long looking out as observers on this treacherous path, we watch not so much the running away of ideas and individuals but the gathering and the circulation of them. Our ideas have become pieces of the grotesque cycle of all. From gender to ecology, from colonialism to foraging and beyond, we have watched as all ideas generated by the spark of revulsion have become assimilated into the sphere of dead value. More painfully, this is a perennial recruitment. The form of the left/right, the form of the metapolitical prison, relies on self-recruitment to gather these “radical” ideas and deploy them in the realm of its hegemonic circulation.

There is some start in each of us, some propulsion of escape and vengeance that develops as “the world” confronts us with its uniquely cruel domination. This start, this trajectory, is set for escape – the devouring of texts is in the hope of finding some path for this energy – the radical attempts to pierce the wall control. There are few of us who sit in a truly liminal position to the apparatus. But it is possible to live on the edge and hold our essences there -- against a monstrous force that pulls them away from us at all times. We find comfort only in a deep technological rejection that transcends the hypocrisy of daily decisions.

From this vantage point we watch our fellow travelers suffer distraction, manipulation, lies, deceit, just as we once suffered. And our contempt is for a recurrent failure, a failure that contains within it – and this is why it is so painful to observe – the essence of the ultimate failure, it is the continual iteration of civilization in the failure to understand the depth of its colonization. It churns through and reforms all the spiritual and symbolic. The material is simply the most obvious, the visual affirmation which conforms to our analytical biases. It quantifies and makes ugly the unique. It spits in the face of authenticity as it presents its clone as a personal digital slave. It cannot be this was just done to us -- we must also be doing it, or it would not be. Beyond complicity, beyond guilt, beyond attachment to the Leviathan’s own schematics of value – it is the colonization of our very essence which is at stake! The political chants of those who cheer for the misery of minorities in their sick self-congratulatory adulation only wipe clean their own horror.  A faint glimmer of some symbolic relief, some fundamentally denied exchange – grasping for authentic relief of this meaningless guilt we are handed only shitty woke Netflix shows and Bud Lite ad campaigns. In the belly of the Leviathan all is equally digested. Let us provoke the beast into diarrhea and escape the boiling of shit.

From this liminal space (the shit pile or the metaphorical edge of a sphere of circulation) we can observe all ideas, and the individuals who carry them, pulled into this spiral of assimilation.

It is not a coincidence that a somewhat common lineage binds The Contemptuous. We have seen it all before. The prospect for, and the project of, reactionary politics becomes absurd in a technological paradigm where daily living is revolutionized every decade! So hold any petty thoughtless accusations. The reactionaries do not go far back enough, we all know this is their one true ineptitude.

It is time that anarchists own up to their true role, their true functional form in this society. Anarchists are the incubators of all new revolutions. The radicality of anarchists is a recruiting center on the margins. Perhaps it once had some symbolic power, some even material potential – no more. In the digital age the anarchists bowed to technology, they accepted its inevitability and opened their arms to the “democratization of knowledge”. Through pure quantity there would be results! The logic of the social engineer whispered in our ear. Anarchy works! Anarchy is efficient! Anarchy will be subservient to the only true teleological pressure, it will bow before all that is functional, all that eliminates its own inefficiencies. This magic of technology will grant us Anarchy – technology will achieve the thing we all want, it is a liberation beyond the Kingdom of God.

And so we know the rest, you are reading this online. Who among us has strong connections? Friends of more than a few years? Who has disassociated from family? In search for some affinity, we joined the crowds, we built the infrastructure adapted to the disaffected. So it is no wonder that we see the same arguments over and over again. The ideas which anarchists incubate are deployed to satisfy, by way of apparent alterity in content, the need for a different form of life (or a life without form) but by their deployment they become the form. Anarchist struggles devolve into a pathetic idealism, total compromise, and the enemies of tomorrow.
 
There is no saving us. Even those of us who have attempted to find a distance are without hope. Clearly, we can find no true reference to reflect our ideas off of. Here we are back at anarchists and their inept ranks.

So we are lost. Yet the disgust remains – the reverse of the disgust remains too, the beauty and cruelty of the authentic still draws us forward toward some interaction, some potentiality. Perhaps the best sign for you is that you never read this but already know what it says.

as the famished vultures circle,
we smell tomorrow’s sweet vitality
in the decay of today’s prey

The Contemptuous
contemptuous@riseup.net

Howl

The howl winds out into the night.
It is the tearing in my voice,

the tearing in my eye.

I seek for the wisdom
of the rattle that warns,
the rattle that dreams

the coiling darkness ...

I am the wolf, the dreamer,
the owl, the hunter,
the sorrow.

Yesterday I imagined

that I was something small,

a human, a child ...

And small perhaps I am,

and childish, and dreamy ...

but I am the fangs of the wolf,

the beak of the owl,

the venom of the viper ...

and the music of the demonic piper ...

My beloved, have you met the devil?
The fiery monster of the darkest nights?
Have you met the deadly beauty

that cannot be tamed?
This is what I carry in my bag ...

What cannot be carried,

what ever runs free,

because it is me,

unyielding to rule,

ever yielding to

sensual pleasure,

and howling, sweet wolfling,

into the night.

I dream
and I burn
and I want you ...

I want you here

in my arms,

devoured by my kisses,
immersed in an ecstasy
of lust infernal
and beautiful.

The monstrous dances
my heart unbound.

I howl without end

in the moon.

Here ... Here I will end
the weeping,

begin
the waterfall,
and know this flood

shall flow beyond the stars.

I have lost my tears.
They flow out free

to flood the world,

and they are laughing.
Yesterday, they sang

to save themselves.
Today they devour

the organs of the night.
I fly into the feathers
of a peacock.
They are my lovers
and the wisdom
of an angel

who refused to bow.

And I believe

that there is little else to say ...
Wordless, can you sing?
Can you play?

Can you revel, wordless,
beyond the stars?
Then let us go,

forever whirling

through the stars.

And there, beyond all form,
I shall love you ...
I shall love you.

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two quick questions:

1. Have you considered that you're expecting way too much glitz and glamour from life? You seem a little drunk on the despair...
2. If it's all meaningless, you might wanna take yourselves less seriously. Oh, unless this is you creating meaning in your life through the construction of an antagonistic narrative, oh how rude of me, carry on

1. Glitz and glamour, no, those are domesticated wants and needs. It is the dazzling beauty of authentic living and creativity that we cherish and desire. As far as despair, we never touch the stuff, as it is just as dangerous and unhealthy as hope. Honesty, critical thinking, creativity, and freedom are our choice of elixirs.
2. All is not meaningless in our hearts and lives, just out here in the post-modern cyber-reality and all of the agendas, politics, and trends which fill it with detached, dislocated, dispirited, and empty nothingness. We should all take ourselves MORE seriously and live as if we are serious, and that our lives depend on it (‘cause they do), and rejecting this garbage world along with all of its meaningless and shallow buzzers and whistles. Antagonism is just one meaning we embrace, one side of our multi-facetted diamond, but unless we are deeply connected in relationship, perhaps the only side we show you here in the trash heap.

Yeees, this reinvigorates the anarch spirit of Jünger's Eumeswil.

Shall the jungle mirth of Ernst,
Real in the despondent cries of victims,
Who cringe 'neath the spectacle of status,
In their meak abodes of enslavement,
To the State and its mythical promises,
Of immortal life?
Nay! We anarch Eumeswilians shall ride forth,
Upon our amoral stallions of defiance,
And forge a path of rebellion,
Throughout the merchant Christian boredom,
And cut our way,
Through the mundane trivialities,
Of property ownership,
And meetings about citizens,
Being cared for by vuardians,
Dressed in starch stiff uniforms,
And armed with plastic batons,
Which terrified the voters,
Into electing their repugnant leaders,
In a snivelling democratic gathering,
Seething with ressentiment,
And an unsatisfied appetite,
For candy and chocolate!

Gotta laugh. The USA folk was "allowed" to have guns in case of authoritarianism and still you don't get it is still happening via NGOs such as CFR, WHO, IPCC etc. NGOs of all shapes and sizes taking from you. Elections may be rigged; NGOs are not even elected. Why do have guns... to shoot each other? Wake the fuck up!

Where are guns coming in to this? Watch out AI on the prowl.

Opens with a quote from Eumeswil, immediately “starts raging”. How rigorous a straitjacket would satisfy this pack’s appetite for contempt?

another snoozefest from hipster nihilists who don't actually understand nihilism but have a vulgar awareness of Nietzsche...

is nihilism ever even mentioned in the piece? i don't think so, but please go on.....tell us what they mean.

nor does this feel hipster. it seems very serious and self-reflective compared to the brutal, yet warranted, first communique.

say what you're talking about, that is, reference your comments, or it's just empety assertions all the way down.

what in the text is hipster (extra credit, what does hipster mean), and what exactly is self-reflective here. c'mon people, do you just like to see your words on the screen? SAY something or go outside.

The only specific complaint here is about “woke Bud lite ads”. Um okay… if you’re not literally conservatives then you’re a bunch of jokers either way. What an empty and meaningless rant.

we thought that one might separate the turds from the sphincters, gotcha. and don't forget to wipe.

not as empty as your head or apparent politics.

can someone link me to the first communique?

No. We are not your personal search anons. Don't be so entitled.

omg do you want me to act more contemptuous? show me the communique. Fsociety. Down with the things. I laugh angry.

Of course they quote Ernst Jünger....... Of course.

So fucking cringe.

as the famished vultures circle,
we smell tomorrow’s sweet vitality
in the decay of today’s prey

I am embarrassed for you.

“of course... of course” virtue signal much? Have you read him? Ernst Jünger is of great value to anarchists, but that’s right, we are not supposed to read it, like an entire library of other books. let’s just read more David Graeber and make more domesticated excuses or regurgitate opportunistically anarchists from a completely different time, or better yet, virtually any of the almost completely Leftist AK Press catalog. damn, i forgot about the North American anarchist reality.

“cringe” “cringe” “cringe”…. you are the embarrassing ones with your pop culture abbreviated nothingness comments. anarchy is embarrassed by you. Renzo Novatore and all the great ones would despise every last one of you.

death to anarchism, long live anarchy!

This site is home to anarcho-edgelords and has been condemned by leftist projects for allowing such discussions to even take place. Your communiqués got posted here, unlike all the other anarchist sites. Odd that'd you'd try and play the moral panic card here.

Take the feedback and fucking move on!

Every year there's a new crop of edgelord anarkiddies that think they're gonna shock we nihilesq anarchists with their cringe tryhardism with things like Junger and Redbeard or Uncle Ted. Silly gooses. We we anti-virtue-signaling lOoooong before you got turned out by #readthebreadbook LOL

"moral panic card"??? how's that?

"move on" yes sir, right away! on the double....

anews was set up as a post-left anarchist discussion board, and has been consumed by the activist, leftist, and even progressive tendencies....that's what The Contemptuous is railing against.....

including a NONSECTARIAN space, within the context of worker's scathing yet generous humor.

that means that activists, leftists, and progressives have always been able to post here. not that they're taking over, you fucking catastrophists.

reminding me of leftists your own selves, with this "the enemy is at the gate, it's now or never, buy my brand!" bullshit.

sectarian does not equal leftists

Hold your horses, jabroni notabot. Ernst Jünger is of great value to anarchists? how? You don't explain before you start whinging about leftists and the people that live in the same area or country you live in. Enlighten me. I can see his issues with modernity and technology, and the criticism of it in "The Glass Bees" and in "On Pain" being of some value to some anarchists besides "Eumeswil," but that's about it. I don't particularly see how Ernst Jünger's conservative, nationalistic ideals that's littered throughout his work are of great value to anarchists.

Shucks. It's the Renzo Novatore and the "other greats" dead people would dislike moi and other anarchists. Apparently, they'd whinge about anarchists over whether people followed notabot mother's demands to not read Ernst Junger and other writers. Doesn't seem like Novatore would bother spending time on whinging about anarchists, but hey, I'm not notabot and have never met the guy's ghost, so I can't say.

well, of course, the quote used by The Contemptuous is from "Eumeswil", his most relevant work to anarchists. i would agree it has great value to anarchist discourse, in particular the difference between the anarch and the anarchist. very informative and challenging. just starting glass bees, look forward to it. as far as people's mothers telling them not to read junger, no, its most contemporary anarchists who say that. i have watched people take his books off of other anarchist's bookshelves (do people even have books out there anymore?). i learn more from people who have divergent opinions that overlap in some spots than from party-line thinking. and actually novatore wrote a lot on how his contemporary anarchists were failing.

These comments are very entertaining. I like watching the collective idiocy (of which I am now implicated - hoist by my own petard) swarm around under the sign of grimacing condemnation. It's so bad, so dumb, so problematic I must state it! Everyone must know that it is bad, that is not us. Very great to see anarchist associative logic come through...nihilism is found in the piece -- a reveal of the empty stupidity at the back anarchist thought -- when the piece speaks of processes of fulfillment and satisfaction! We all know the anews crowd wanted a quasi right-wing corruption of the best...they wanted more like Communique 1 where they could hyperventilate into a euphoria of hallucinatory distance. To question the horde of condemnation professionals in just the right way gives them more power so the contemptuous must always be careful.

No u.

not us? who are we?

remember how the first one wanted to stir up a discussion? it worked!

points to the contemptuous but stirring the pot is easy

now we get to decide if it aged like milk or wine

like fine whine, sparkling in its toxic effervescence, off-putting in its stench of righteous superiority, haughty in its belief that it has escaped civilization when it can hardly fathom one tiny step away from a modernity flailing in its death throes.

"toxic", you sure you don't want to throw a few "cringe"'s in too?

"it can hardly fathom one tiny step away from a modernity flailing in its death throes."

yeah, ok....unfathomable.

you really pegged them. have you read any of this or the first communique?

your "vibes checking" really sucks

(firstly, why do the contemptuous hide behind anonymous? )

secondly, separability is one of the pillars of modernity and peppered throughout #2 are such phrases as:

"looking out as observers..."

"from this vantage point we watch"

"from this liminal space we can observe all ideas"

it would appear from this that you, the contemptuous, are invested in the position of outside observer. this puts you squarely within the ontological & epistemological purview of modernity.

"(firstly, why do the contemptuous hide behind anonymous? )"

wow. that's so original. really? are you fucking serious? they state this clearly in the communique, and i would also add to that, based on what i see in the anti-fa/former anarchist space is the fasc-jacketing that is growing and growing to a horrifically erroneous and unprecedented level

and your evidence of that the contemptuous, are "invested in the position of outside observer. this puts you squarely within the ontological & epistemological purview of modernity."

is weaker than your first comment. they are obviously inside anarchy and perpetually frustrated by anarchists. the liminal space they seem to inhabit is one of inside, but leaving. i can totally relate to them here. i think there are many who can.

your elevator doesn't go all the way up & you're several sandwiches shy of a picnic, but still it should be clear i am referring to "anon" posting on this site, contemptuous-anon. no one believes that these anon posts defending "the contemptuous" are from anyone except "the contemptuous" so why not just sign them? are you afraid of making your already badname worse?

OooOooo nOoooo we are everywhere and anonymous contemptous beings of liminal inhatitations. Our number are immeasurable didn't you read our their communique fuck!

i have posted anon here and am NOT The Contemptuous.

bad name worse?

i have talked to quite a few people offline who love them and can't wait for the next installment.

i have a question for you, oh great keeper of the peace, when did it become an anarchist principle to be nice???

Captain Beefheart has a song on his provocative “Doc At The Radar Station” album called “ A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond”. sowwy siwwy wabbit, I think you should take this song to heart and go eat some carotene before you choke on your beta words.

notice how anon still uses phrases like "beta words" unironically... yet they ALSO claim to have spoken to "quite a few people offline"

WHICH IS IT ANON?! DO YOU GO OUTSIDE OR NOT?!

Notice how they reference, Captain Beefheart? LULZ Totally a "how do you do, fellow kids" moment. ToOootally not The Cuntemptuous.

what the fuck does any of this mean???

old geezers are grouchy and hate young people and think they're superior. whats new goof balls

way to box people up and dismiss them rather than engage in the essay. if you have nothing to add of substance, just ignore it or go outside and play in the dirt.

You are the dirt

No u.

Irregardless of race, gender and age, if you make a menacing approach with a knife in your hand towards a cop, YoU aRe gOing dOWn!!

> Irregardless

thank you

Regardless of race, gender and age, but guaranteed if it is the rarer case of --suicide by cop---

thank you

this one, the rest is highly abstract and doesn't make a whole lot of sense. You are boasting about how great you are, but in a way that's fairly incomprehensible to me. You also try to pass yourselves off as individualists, but i'm not seeing any individuals in the writing besides the Junger quote...plus The Contemptuous has always been about some extremely vague us and them. Who is The Contemptuous? I think with the them it appears to be "the liberals and leftists", and i always find myself confused when i spend too much time discussing the liberals, leftists, right wingers, fascists, etc.

"We find comfort only in a deep technological rejection that transcends the hypocrisy of daily decisions."

No, i think what you mean is the hypocrisy of your own trollish/provocative writing. Your judgments about "daily decisions" is just another form of moralism which you think you are using against "the herd".

who are you, take off your masks and show yourselves!!!

They Jünger quote sticks with the communique's theme, the angry foolish young individualist anarch displaying their raw adolescent rage and contempt, a few clichés end up being parables on rebel innocence as it engages reactionary forces forged with experience and cynicism. A poetic tirade of glorious disdain and repugnance for social order.

Dunno who you're asking to, but reactionary originally meant a pro-status quo position held against revolution, the labor movement or other forms of social change, and can be defined generally as "anti-progressive". So there is some "anarchist" element here who might be fitting to these views.

THANK you.

Also, i don't think it's ever stopped meaning that? any confusion would be from all those people who assume it just means ... when you react ... cuz they don't know what the word means.

Someone should invent a thing that lists the meaning of words. They'd get so rich!

so, how are folx applying it to the contemptuous?

i'll try a brief summary cuz i'm stubborn like that

personal view, subjective: there's an inherent toxicity and slippery slope problem when doing these shrill anti-leftist screeds. first of all, it's a gross generalization, just like any other lazy, sweeping stereotype about hundreds of thousands of people. it might be partly true sometimes but mostly it's a fallacy like any other generalization. but that's not the real problem! it gets worse.

it's a flame that draws the worst kind of moths. lots of similar examples with topics like age of consent or conspiracy theories in general, where if you've been to this party dozens of times already, you should know damned well which kind of drooling ghouls will show up. so that's the space you're creating, even if you're not making direct threats or doing anything except complaining about whichever personal slights you're assuming i should care about, that's a responsibility i cheerfully hang around your neck and i don't fukin care whether you like it or agree.

tl;dr you know who inevitably shows up to i-hate-all-leftists parties? why you keeping that sort of company? i sure as fuck don't accidentally invite stalinists to my parties. this is me being generous btw

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