1-23-25 [Interlude] lyrics

1.

23 January 2025 AD

“Can we just drop the bullsh*t: if your supporters love you and your enemies admire you, how are you not a cult?” (n.):

I just align myself with the time-stable.

If you're with who the guy the years are named after, aliens will get it.

anti-cult (n.):

I sincerely pray I’m innovating one.

Unlike every other powerful figure ever.

2.

And then I sort of destroy my ego.

I already know I'll suck.

How I suck becomes part of the story. Your story. The story you tell about mе, the cosmic narcissist.

3.
I'm so grateful for my little cornеr of cyberpunk noir modern.

It’s 2025. Doesn't this feel like 2122?

[A photo Colson Lin’s living room, his husband’s rear barely visible on the left. The massive TV—or “storytelling device,” I suppose—that dominates the center of the image shows: an icy-blue ambience: a bus stop in a modern city.]

4.

What do you think Colson Lin would rather read?

“Colson Lin Fan: Again, Another One, Hi, It's Me—I'm the Problem”

“A Chronicle of Colson Lin's Mistakes”

5.

“Honestly, you'd probably rather read yourself.”

Mistake number one!

Duly noted. Continue.

6.

I support all efforts to end war, globally, and conceptually, as the Second Coming of Jesus Christ rises out of the ashes of Babylon to ask:
“But wait. Don't you need credibility first?”

7.

Guess where poor leadership can get you.

The human cost to all this?

In addition to overlooking the underclass in our own country, aristocratic interests prop up a global war machine—the defense industry resembles the financial industry in how well its preferences are represented by the preferences of the federal government, while the troops on the ground remain largely drawn from the underclass. “Corporatism” is the name of the culture that all of the above represents, and “anti-corporatism” is the name for the movement that, in the past two decades,

has come alive to stop it.

From “What Do Anti-Corporatists Want?” by Colson Lin (2020).

8.

“Colson Lin positioning me as the Anti-Christ was all Colson Lin's fault” (n.):

a sense that’s out there, sure.

The speaker appears to be critiquing a specific type of religious response to climate change through deliberate irony. When Lin asks “We can always just pray harder, can’t we?" followed by the question about atmospheric composition, he's making this point:

Either:

1. We accept that humans have the power to alter Earth’s atmosphere (as shown by the temperature data); OR
2. We believe only God has such power.

And if we accept #2 (that only God controls the climate), then the temperature map shows God must be making the Earth hotter—which creates a theological problem for those who deny human-caused climate change while maintaining God's control over nature.

So while the language is fragmented, there is a logical trap being laid: If someone claims “humans can't affect the climate, only God can,” then they have to explain why God would be creating the exact warming pattern that scientists predict from human activities. The “pray harder” comment thus becomes a pointed criticism of using religious beliefs to avoid confronting human responsibility for climate change.

From an unrelated post by Colson Lin on X.

9.

an inability to command admiration in your opposition (n.):

a sign of very poor leadership.

10.

“Wait a minute. Is this guy premising his entire messianic claim on the reality that our actual leaders suck?” [pig snort] “That was just us ventin'! We have no real reason to believe that’s true.”

11.

Anyway, so now Christ is here during End Times like Revelation predicted.

I don't really understand what the 21st century thought was going to happen.

“Oh look. It's the human embodiment of the categorical imperative.”

“Here to taunt us.”

“Things are finally heatin' up.”

Posted on October 23, 2024 at 2:00 AM (https://x.com/colsonlin/status/1848967823810297978).

12.

It's kind of a mess right.

“He's not even one of us!”
— everyone.

“If that's true, then He's mine!”
— the Elect.

13.

the meek (n.):

“We should have all had a chance to take over the world like you could, Colson Lin.”

the non-meek (n.):

“No you shouldn't've—shut the f*ck up, humans-whose-heights-couldn't-touch-Colson-Lin's-ankles!”

14.

Colson Lin (n.):

I used to be the meekest Jon Arbuckle on planet Earth.

(Dakota Johnson finger twirl.)

“Ask… anyone.”