Long, in-depth profile of Michael Malice @ TIMCAST:
Michael Malice’s ‘White Pill’ Comes With a Dark—and Personal—Vision of History
‘So many people I communicated with thought that it's game over, that we cannot win against such insurmountable odds—something I found to be completely incorrect’ Malice told Timcast
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Chris Karr (13 January 2023)
The most prominent anarchist in the United States — if not the world — is offering a radical new cure for what ails you. It may be hard to swallow, but it has the potential to reverse your bleak outlook on the future.
After years of dishing out red pills on Twitter and YouTube, Michael Malice is now urging anyone sickened by the state of the country to take
The White Pill. His new book, subtitled “A Tale of Good and Evil,” transforms the catalogue of atrocities that occurred within the Union of Soviet Republics during the 20th century into a kind of gothic body horror page-turner. However much one may or may not know about the unthinkable evils that befell millions after the Russian Revolution, he presents them through a fresh lens.
“For this [book], I think I was targeting Americans in their innocence,” Malice told Timcast in an interview. “Those who have some idea of what the evils of government are like don’t have a good understanding of what that entails, day to day, minute to minute. I also wanted to express to people, with receipts, why I am so hopeful for the future of this country.”
For those unfamiliar, there are essentially three “pills” available to those who are “blue-pilled,” a term which Malice
applies to people who “have been trained to believe that anything that contradicts the corporate press’ narrative is thereby a conspiracy theory.”
The red pill offers an alternative to this malignant state of mind; an opportunity to wake up to the reality of the Matrix rather than roll over and go back to sleep.
“[It’s] the concept that what is presented as truth by the corporate press is in fact a carefully constructed narrative designed to keep some very unpleasant people in power,” Malice explained to author Douglas Murray on an Oct. 28, 2020 episode of the “
YOUR WELCOME” podcast. “And that they do this not hypocritically, accidentally, [they do it] intentionally and by design.”
Malice cautions people to “take one red pill, not the whole bottle” lest one overdoses to the point where they become “black-pilled” and “abandon all hope.” The person who takes the black pill subscribes to the belief that “there’s no way the West can be saved given these current trajectories,” Malice told Murray.
But there is an antidote: the white pill, which Malice said offers hope that “the good guys will win, and even if we don’t win we sure better go down fighting. And the concept that the villains, who are our contemporaries, are impossible to defeat is an absurdity.”
This belief forms the basis for his new book, which, on its surface, offers a despair-inducing reading experience.
The White Pill is a staggering feat of historical scholarship that adds vivid detail to the widescale human suffering that occurred within what Malice refers to as “the largest prison that the world had ever seen.” But by painting such a vivid portrait of hell, he offers a promise for optimism encased in a provocation. Malice’s white pill suggests that (a) no matter how many problems we have in the U.S., it doesn’t compare to life under Stalin, and (b) even though it seemed as if the USSR was a permanent regime, it ultimately “vanished from the face of the earth” in the same way that Ernest Hemingway
described how bankruptcy happens — “gradually and then suddenly.”
In some sense, this is next-level trolling from one of the greatest trolls alive. His book plunges you into the pure terror of a hellscape unimaginable to the modern Western mind in an attempt to put our national struggles into a broader, more meaningful context. This might come as a shock to most fellow countrymen who pick up and ingest
The White Pill, but that might be part of Malice’s motive — to throttle you, to shake you till your teeth rattle, to remind you of the bloodshed and mania of historical evil that you either forgot about or never truly understood.
Then, mastermind troll that he is, Malice says, in effect, “See? You don’t have it so bad. Plus, the people who run this country are so unimpressive they’re kind of destined to fail.”
But that’s me paraphrasing one of the great disruptors of our time when he should speak for himself:
I think the premise of The White Pill and my work in general is far more broader than merely the evils of government. The willingness if not downright eagerness of average people to rat out their neighbors to the authorities is another evil we have all witnessed, as well as the ease with which the media can create an outgroup that blue-pilled people can be easily driven to despise to the point of wishing them dead for no coherent reason whatsoever. That said, I was driven to write the book partly because so many people I communicated with thought that it’s game over, that we cannot win against such insurmountable odds — something I found to be completely incorrect.
‘The Willy Wonka of Politics’ vs. Midwits and The Enemy Class
One pauses before describing Michael Malice. He is entirely unlike anyone you’ve ever encountered. He’s ruthless but jubilant, acerbic but lighthearted, hostile but hospitable, savage but kind. During interviews, he can shift from cackling sprite to dead serious. It’s not uncommon for him to interrupt someone’s laughter during a broadcast by saying, “I’m not joking.”
To be fair, it’s hard to tell.
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