THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED

September 21, 2024 Mr. Sleep

The Empire Never Ended. The Empire Where The Sun Never Sets. The Roman Empire. The Empire Of Now.

It exists today through hidden handshakes, 3-letter government organizations, assassinations, laboratories that enable testing to be done on people freely and secretly, mass surveillance, coup d’états, propaganda, war profiteering, bribery and blackmail, lobbying, big banks. It exists through complicity, through complacency, idleness, overindulgence. It exists through division of people, through mass confusion.

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GOOD BYE, GOOD TIMES

September 21, 2024 Trevor Knapp

Sean Boice is an independent documentary and event photographer inspired by themes of freedom, individualism, social unrest, economics, and tongue-in-cheek patriotism.

I’ve known Sean since highschool, and we’ve both shared a love for counter culture, strange art and conspiracies. Naturally, I felt like he would be the perfect artist to feature in this first issue of Mesmer.

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FILM REVIEW - THE MATRIX

September 21, 2024 Scarlet Web

With the rise of AI, media propaganda, and the difficulty of finding truth, ‘The Matrix’ is a film of warning and hope. If you haven’t seen it, I hope this review encourages you to, in Matrix terms, take the red pill and experience this masterpiece for yourself.

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REVOLUTION IS NOW

September 21, 2024 Caitlin Johnstone

People are always asking me what we can do to fight the tyranny and depravity of the empire and create a healthy world.

“But what can we do?” they ask. “You always talk about the problems, but we need solutions! How do we solve the problems you keep pointing to?”

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FINNEGAN, BEGIN AGAIN

September 21, 2024 Trevor Knapp

I’ve found myself surrounded by death lately. Death of a friend, death of a season, death of old self, death of old ideas.

My younger self used to really struggle with change. I would wrestle within myself to maintain comfortable patterns, letting life be simple and inconsequential. Work the same job that’s comfortable, exercise my body just enough to feel balanced, meal prep the same foods for utility, enjoy the occasional movie, see some friends doing similar things. And then a dear friend passes suddenly.

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TRAM TO BUDAPEST

September 21, 2024 Wax Poetik

You can’t see me - I see you

You can’t be me - I see through

copy of myself where is the flesh and bone

It’s crowded here yet I feel so alone

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MUSIC REVIEW - NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD BY Godspeed You! Black Emperor

September 21, 2024 Mr. Sleep

Here is a band that knows exactly what it wants to say. I had been a huge fan of God’s Pee (humorously interchangeable name) since my teens without fully realizing it, but their music took hold of me not long after.

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FILM REVIEW - A MAN ESCAPED

September 21, 2024 Trevor Knapp

I saw this film recently through Criterion Channel, one of the greatest classic film channels. This film by Robert Bresson struck me in such a way due to its minimalist approach to set pieces, characters, dialogue, and everything in between.

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