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I was somewhat clued into the stuff with Kek on 4Chan around the time Trump got elected by a buddy who’s into that scene. I was, therefore, at least a little familiar with it when I read John Michael Greer’s blog posts on Pepe, the alt-right, and the meme magicians who seemingly tapped into an archetype… or rediscovered a sleeping god who has awakened. Is there a difference? I don’t really know.
A lot of people think that Kek is now involved with the Open Covid posts on Greer’s blog. This is being hypothesized due to “gets”, which are repeating numbers that pop up after JMG puts batches of comments through.
Personally, I am not into the whole “get” phenomenon. It leaves me cold. On 4chan the computer randomly assigns the numbers, so maybe that has more significance, but it seemed different on the open posts. To me anyway. I notice them, but… Meh.
I’m going to relay a story. It’s a pretty dumb story. I’m a psychologist, so this story has me thinking that maybe I’m paranoid, or maybe I developed schizoaffective disorder at some point and I’ve gone a little bonkers. Maybe I had the seed of craziness in me and the pressures of the last few years have allowed it to take root. I dunno. But I think about Carl Jung and archetypes and synchronicity and… isn’t that why I’m a magician, to figure this kind of thing out, to explore the unseen reality that lies behind appearances?
I am reminded of the phrase “the psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight”.
My story isn’t that dramatic and mostly involves me reading and looking at websites and the like. Fair warning in case you got real excited you’d be reading about some high level Gandalf shit. It’s just… weird.
It starts with the song Informer by Snow. It doesn’t really, but that was the thing that sort of kicked off the weird. A couple weeks ago, it started “playing in my head”. I thought it was a stupid song when it came out in the 90’s. I gave it a listen on Spotify. It’s still just as bad. I “hearted” it and put it on my rap playlist, which is mostly 90’s gangster rap and a little pre-Jesus freak Kanye West. It pops up from time to time, I get annoyed and skip it, and that’s the end of that, but I keep it on my playlist.
A few years ago I saw and enjoyed a movie titled “John Dies at the End.” It’s really quirky and odd. I’ve seen the movie a few times. It’s written by someone using the pen name David Wong. He used to write for Cracked, a website I visited with some frequency before it became awful for some reason. David Wong wrote an insightful piece on Donald Trump that JMG linked to at one point or another on his blog.
That’s all just backstory. It’s hard to write about this sort of thing. There are many weird threads.
I’ve been trying to think about things that aren’t Covid and politics and how messed up everything is at the moment, so I remembered the movie and recalled it was a book first. I knew this because one of my old stoner co-workers had been reading the book at work and I’d seen the movie so we had a conversation about it. I probably also knew it was a book because I’m pretty sure David Wong had written about it on Cracked. This was before the election, before Trump was even a political figure, maybe back in 2014 or so. Maybe two weeks ago, I ordered a copy on Thriftbooks.
On Sunday, while the Sun was conjoining Neptune, I was reading the book. It was pretty funny, sort of like the movie and sort of not. In one of the scenes in the book, a person who speaks with a fake Jamaican accent explodes at a party. In the book, the song “Informer” by Snow is playing during the scene.
In the book, but not the movie.
So, that was pretty weird.
Yesterday, at work, I was going into the breakroom and one of my coworkers said “It smells like soy sauce in here. Bad.”
In the book, there is a drug that opens portals to Hell. It’s called soy sauce. Several of the characters get injected with this drug intravenously, through a syringe. The soy sauce has to be kept ice cold in the book.
I chuckled and mentioned the book to her, and later I had a text conversation with the only childhood friend I still communicate with about synchronicity, the book, and how other people get cool synchronicity stories and mine are apparently really dumb. Something is stirring in the back of my mind though, and I’m thinking about the “gets” on JMG’s blog.
Last night, I was reading more of the book. I read pretty quick and John Dies at the End is 465 pages or so but it’s a page turner so I’m devouring the thing and then I get to page 231 and there’s Kek.
Wong spells it Kuk but he’s the Egyptian frog headed bringer of light from the darkness, sure enough.
So now I’m getting this really uncomfortable bad trip type feeling but I keep reading. In the book, the antagonist, a demonic creature, is named “Kor’rok”, although it’s spelled different ways in the text and is usually just Korrok. I’ll spell it that way because it’s easier to type. Korrok is said to be a son of Kek, a reckless and cruel slavemaster who uses men’s bodily desires to lure them to their destruction.
As far as I can tell, Wong made Korrok up for his story and he isn’t really a part of Egyptian mythology. Kek doesn’t appear in the story at all, beyond this one mention.
I finished reading the book today. It was profoundly weird, weirder than the movie. 2+2= petunia weird.
I’m not sure I want to know what happens next but I guess I’m going to find out anyway.
A lot of people think that Kek is now involved with the Open Covid posts on Greer’s blog. This is being hypothesized due to “gets”, which are repeating numbers that pop up after JMG puts batches of comments through.
Personally, I am not into the whole “get” phenomenon. It leaves me cold. On 4chan the computer randomly assigns the numbers, so maybe that has more significance, but it seemed different on the open posts. To me anyway. I notice them, but… Meh.
I’m going to relay a story. It’s a pretty dumb story. I’m a psychologist, so this story has me thinking that maybe I’m paranoid, or maybe I developed schizoaffective disorder at some point and I’ve gone a little bonkers. Maybe I had the seed of craziness in me and the pressures of the last few years have allowed it to take root. I dunno. But I think about Carl Jung and archetypes and synchronicity and… isn’t that why I’m a magician, to figure this kind of thing out, to explore the unseen reality that lies behind appearances?
I am reminded of the phrase “the psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight”.
My story isn’t that dramatic and mostly involves me reading and looking at websites and the like. Fair warning in case you got real excited you’d be reading about some high level Gandalf shit. It’s just… weird.
It starts with the song Informer by Snow. It doesn’t really, but that was the thing that sort of kicked off the weird. A couple weeks ago, it started “playing in my head”. I thought it was a stupid song when it came out in the 90’s. I gave it a listen on Spotify. It’s still just as bad. I “hearted” it and put it on my rap playlist, which is mostly 90’s gangster rap and a little pre-Jesus freak Kanye West. It pops up from time to time, I get annoyed and skip it, and that’s the end of that, but I keep it on my playlist.
A few years ago I saw and enjoyed a movie titled “John Dies at the End.” It’s really quirky and odd. I’ve seen the movie a few times. It’s written by someone using the pen name David Wong. He used to write for Cracked, a website I visited with some frequency before it became awful for some reason. David Wong wrote an insightful piece on Donald Trump that JMG linked to at one point or another on his blog.
That’s all just backstory. It’s hard to write about this sort of thing. There are many weird threads.
I’ve been trying to think about things that aren’t Covid and politics and how messed up everything is at the moment, so I remembered the movie and recalled it was a book first. I knew this because one of my old stoner co-workers had been reading the book at work and I’d seen the movie so we had a conversation about it. I probably also knew it was a book because I’m pretty sure David Wong had written about it on Cracked. This was before the election, before Trump was even a political figure, maybe back in 2014 or so. Maybe two weeks ago, I ordered a copy on Thriftbooks.
On Sunday, while the Sun was conjoining Neptune, I was reading the book. It was pretty funny, sort of like the movie and sort of not. In one of the scenes in the book, a person who speaks with a fake Jamaican accent explodes at a party. In the book, the song “Informer” by Snow is playing during the scene.
In the book, but not the movie.
So, that was pretty weird.
Yesterday, at work, I was going into the breakroom and one of my coworkers said “It smells like soy sauce in here. Bad.”
In the book, there is a drug that opens portals to Hell. It’s called soy sauce. Several of the characters get injected with this drug intravenously, through a syringe. The soy sauce has to be kept ice cold in the book.
I chuckled and mentioned the book to her, and later I had a text conversation with the only childhood friend I still communicate with about synchronicity, the book, and how other people get cool synchronicity stories and mine are apparently really dumb. Something is stirring in the back of my mind though, and I’m thinking about the “gets” on JMG’s blog.
Last night, I was reading more of the book. I read pretty quick and John Dies at the End is 465 pages or so but it’s a page turner so I’m devouring the thing and then I get to page 231 and there’s Kek.
Wong spells it Kuk but he’s the Egyptian frog headed bringer of light from the darkness, sure enough.
So now I’m getting this really uncomfortable bad trip type feeling but I keep reading. In the book, the antagonist, a demonic creature, is named “Kor’rok”, although it’s spelled different ways in the text and is usually just Korrok. I’ll spell it that way because it’s easier to type. Korrok is said to be a son of Kek, a reckless and cruel slavemaster who uses men’s bodily desires to lure them to their destruction.
As far as I can tell, Wong made Korrok up for his story and he isn’t really a part of Egyptian mythology. Kek doesn’t appear in the story at all, beyond this one mention.
I finished reading the book today. It was profoundly weird, weirder than the movie. 2+2= petunia weird.
I’m not sure I want to know what happens next but I guess I’m going to find out anyway.