Hyperborean Meme Rite (Democratic Noms Edition), 2019

social sculpture working (as documented in the The Hill and the Independent)

In 2019 I mobilized a group of occultists in an online sphere originally started as a joke page to make memes mocking 2020 democratic primary candidate Marianne Williamson. Marianne Williamson was an early field candidate who met the threshhold for the first round of Democratic debates and espoused the dangers of dark psychic forces on the debate stage, becoming known ironically as the orb queen in the online sphere, a reference to the crystal ball emoji. The occultists pulled from the group to perform the social sculpture ritual gesture begun as her ridiculers, parsing her quotes to make meme content about the absurdity of her esoteric discourse delivered plainly on a stage designed to isolate the US’s next democratic presidential candidate. In the process of making memes to laugh at the orbqueen the mood of the online group shifted from ironic to post-ironic. The goal of the occult working was to get Marianne Williamson airtime in a bid to advance the proliferation of the occult zeitgeist and accelerate our transition into the Hyperborean Age, by bringing visibility of discussion of esoteric topics to the presidential stage for the first time in US history. This ritualistic social sculpture gesture was reported on in The Hill and The Independent, and mentioned in the Washington Post and The New York Times. The documentation in the form of these reports in major global news outlets are the only tangible fragments that remain of the working.