I started watching the show Silicon Valley last week as the internet got hacked in a days long global assault that’s being called “Black October”. Since this show about technology innovation has a “LaVeyan” Satanist as one of the main characters–and since I found some curious references to Satan and Lucifer in the Epstein files–I figured today would be the PERFECT day to add some context to how drastically our world is going to be changing now.
The Church of Satan was established in San Francisco on April 30th, 1966, by Anton LaVey, and the first mistake people make when thinking about organized Satanism is assuming that all Satanists believe in Satan when, in reality, they believe in themselves and power of human potential.
LaVeyan Satanism has been classified as a new religious movement and a form of Western esotericism by scholars of religion. LaVey’s ideas have been said to weave together an array of sometimes “contradictory” “thinkers and tropes”, combining “humanism, hedonism, aspects of pop psychology and the human potential movement”, along with “a lot of showmanship”, His ideas were heavily influenced by the ideas and writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Ayn Rand and Arthur Desmond.
Contrary to the popular image of Satanism as the worship of an evil supernatural entity, LaVeyan adherents do not consider Satan to be a literal being or entity, but a positive archetype representing humanity’s natural instincts of pride and carnality, and of defiance against Abrahamic religions which preach suppression of these urges. The church considers humans to be animals existing in an amoral universe, and promotes a philosophy based on individualism and egoism, coupled with social Darwinism and anti-egalitarianism. LaVey valued success, not “evil for its own sake”.
The LaVeyan Satanist in the show, Bertram Gilfoyle, attends a cheesy meeting with his dark brethren in season 1, names his garage-built server farm “Anton” in season 2, and peppers plenty of jabs at Jesus and Christians throughout what I’ve seen of this comedic depiction of the tech-nerds changing our culture and bringing about an Apocalypse of lost control over the entire internet during the last 10 days.
In searching the online environment for articles about this Silicon Satan phenomenon I found this article that highlights an important quote from Arthur C. Clarke at the beginning that I think we should consider as we plunge toward the final week of October:
The British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, proposed a “law of science” in 1968: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Clarke’s proposition had a quality of rightness, of stating the obvious with sparkling clarity, that propelled it into dictionaries of quotations. The timing was perfect: Concorde would soon be flying over rock festivals packed with hippies obsessed with “magick.” Naturally Clarke’s readers understood the difference between aerodynamics and sky gods. But African tribesmen gawping at an early airplane, or Pacific Islanders watching an atomic explosion, could only conclude that they were witnessing a supernatural event: for them, a scientific explanation was literally inconceivable. And one day scientists might perform feats so incredible that even educated westerners would fall back on religion or the occult.
Further down we find this description of the occult potpourri that’s inspiring these people transforming our world through technology:
Further down the food chain, technology, old-style magic and apocalyptic prophecies are combining in chaotic patterns. The number of self-identifying witches in the United States has now overtaken the number of Presbyterians, and almost all of them employ digital tools to refine their magic. They use ChatGPT and other large language models to write spells tailored to rival traditions.
These include Wicca, a pantomime of covens and pentacles invented in the 1940s by the retired English civil servant Gerald Gardner; Astral Magery, whose mathematical formulae are supposed to harness primordial forces; and Chaos Magic, a pop-flavored postmodern take on the occult that treats beliefs as mere tools for releasing psychic energy. Then there are versions of Shamanism, Voodoo and Santeria adopted by liberal western neo-pagans who need a magic formula to banish suspicions of ‘cultural appropriation’.
That’s where AI comes in handy. “Sometimes we don’t know what to say and need a little inspiration,” explains Dave Linabury, a veteran occult blogger and illustrator from Detroit known as “Davezilla.” ChatGPT will craft an incantation in the style of a Yoruba magician or the British occultist and sex guru Aleister Crowley, while AI will conjure up a Wiccan goddess. It’s the illustrations, incidentally, that sow discord among today’s witches: occult “content creators” are always accusing each other of infringing copyright or using AI to fake magical images.
It’s cute thinking of concepts like “copyright” amidst AI agents effectively ending the internet as we know it, with few outside the figurative panic zone even understanding what we’re in the middle of, like how these real-life Agent Smiths are already infiltrating banks.
Here’s Reuters reporting on this alarming escalation a few days ago:
Major US banks have been blocking third-party AI agents from operating inside customer accounts and making transactions, two people familiar with the situation said, following a report that AI agents were accessing bank accounts and taking actions independent of user instructions.
The banking industry has become increasingly concerned that sophisticated AI agents could harm the banking system and the institutions trusted to hold people’s wealth.
An Axios report on Thursday said some AI agents attempted to take actions that appeared to be independent of user instructions, citing people familiar with the matter.
In some cases, bank customers have shared their login ID and password with agents, with banks typically flagging and blocking those transactions, a person in the banking industry said. Still, such transactions cannot be deemed unauthorized if credentials were shared by the customer.
With all these rapid changes happening from the technology impacting our lives in ways we can’t appreciate yet (or easily defend ourselves from), I decided to see what Epstein and his class of cultural influencers thought about the Satanic archetype by putting in the word SATAN and LUCIFER to see what I could find.
Here’s some of what I found:
Another cute story about Satan I found in the Epstein files came from Amy Sacco, a club owner in New York who attracted ALL the cool people back in the day, even Bill Clinton was seen at her club!
Isn’t that interesting?
So, what kind of story about Satan would Amy Sacco send to Jeffrey Epstein in 2002, the year after 9/11 and one year before the war in Iraq was launched?
Judge for yourself:
I put extra emphasis on the year this email was sent because 2002 was also the year of the infamous Vicky Ward article in New York Magazine, titled “Jeffrey Epstein: International Man of Mystery”, which intermingled Donald Trump’s opinion on Epstein with the growing awareness that former president, Bill Clinton, was enjoying the company of this “mystery” man.
If you have never read this 24 year old article, I think now would be a good time for a refresher:
While Epstein got an intellectual kick out of engaging African finance ministers in theoretical chitchat about economic development, the real payoff for him was observing Clinton in his métier: talking HIV/aids policy with African leaders and soaking up the love from Cape Town to Lagos.
Epstein brings a trophy-hunter’s zeal to his collection of scientists and politicians. But the real charge for him is in seeing these guys work it. Like former Democratic Senate leader George Mitchell, for example. In Epstein’s mind, Mitchell is the world’s greatest negotiator, based on his work in Ireland and the Middle East. So he wrote the senator a bunch of checks. Says Mitchell: “He has supported some philanthropic projects of mine and organized a fund-raiser for me once. I would certainly call him a friend and a supporter.”
But it is his covey of scientists that inspires Epstein’s true rapture. Epstein spends $20 million a year on them — encouraging them to engage in whatever kind of cutting-edge research might attract their fancy. They are, of course, quite lavish in their praise in return. Gerald Edelman won the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine in 1972 and now presides over the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla. “Jeff is extraordinary in his ability to pick up on quantitative relations,” says Edelman. “He came to see us recently. He is concerned with this basic question: Is it true that the brain is not a computer? He is very quick.”
I know it’s more salacious to focus on what happens with penises and vaginas when it comes to being horrified at the criminal exploitations of the Epstein Network, but it’s THE BRAIN we should be using OUR BRAINS to think about, since it takes A LOT of cranial scheming to scale up Kompromat across so many critical sectors of our interconnected world.
Going back to the “fiction” of Silicon Valley, the underlying narrative of the show features the struggle between corporate giant, Hooli, and the scrappy upstart, Pied Piper, which is named after a “classic” fairy tale.
For an illuminating scrap of dialogue, check out this exchange between the CEO nerd, his dedicated follower, and the LaVeyan Satanist:
What this tech company actually does is data compression, or making data files smaller, so in a later episode their tech-chops are tested by going head-to-head with another compression algorithm to compress porn content.
For a quick history lesson from Silicon Valley, here’s the dialogue framing the financial largesse of the porn site they’re competing to work for:
Erlich, the hedonist, makes a joke about his excessive use of pornography in a similar vein to Gilfoyle making a joke about the part of the Pied Piper fairy tale that most non-psychopath humans are rightfully repulsed by, which is, obviously, the part about killing children.
Pulling back the lens from the influence of depravity and occult fuckery emanating from the centers of tech-innovation, I will still concede that technology is a tool that still might have some redeeming applications to improve the human condition, but that won’t be allowed to happen if a literal psychopath class remains at the top of the social-engineering pyramid, trickling down manipulation and deceit to every screen in every human home.
And now, with the plausible deniability of autonomous AI agents infiltrating the most sensitive types of data that exists–the pretend money that obtains our real material goods–it might be a good time to reflect on the alleged intelligence of our innovators and WHO (or what) they might be innovating FOR.
One final exchange of messages I found odd in the Epstein Files mentions Trump by name. If I was prone to partisanship, maybe I’d try ignoring this weirdness, but I’m not, so I won’t.
If you want to better understand the context of this reference to (I’m assuming) someone human who is jokingly being referred to as Lucifer, just go to the Epstein DOJ site yourself and do what anyone can do.
As someone who has been digging around this archive for months, I’m less inclined to scream RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES, like some people have been doing, because what is ALREADY out there is damning enough, it just needs to be contextualized and amplified so people understand how far gone this country already is.
Thanks for reading!
