The method
What REM is
Racial Esoteric Moralization. The preface calls it a lens: a way of seeing that can be pointed at almost anything, because almost everything is culture. This page is the lens in plain speech. The proofs are in the book.
The claim
The book does not treat myth as a dream the people had together. Campbell, as they describe him, maps the unconscious. They reverse that. The myths that last were designed. A priestly class set them into a people. What begins as a fable, the preface says, becomes a fact.
The first worked case is Genesis 30. Jacob will take the speckled sheep. He peels branches, sets them where the flock drinks, and the young are born streaked. The volume reads the sheep as people and the branches as culture. Whatever holds the eye governs breeding. That is the sentence they want remembered.
Art, on this account, is a mating song. It proposes a moral type and a desired mate: fair and open, like Apollo, or concealed and dark, like Vulcan or Yahweh. They argue the effect is strongest on women, as choosers. Parenting and the old neighborhood slow the process. They do not stop it.
Words they use
REM
Racial Esoteric Moralization. Their name for a made symbolic language: myth, religion, and art used, knowingly, to moralize one kind of person and unnerve another, and thereby to steer mating. The preface calls it a lens, not a closed history.
JEM
Jewish Esoteric Moralization. The same craft, in the form the book attributes to a continuing priestly line. The volume treats JEM as the dominant case, not the only one. It also says Aryan art can be REM.
Apollonian transmission
Reading the code in the open. Set against what they call Promethean, or hidden, transmission. The old website takes its name from this.
Fossilization
A religio-culture that can no longer make work at the strength of its earlier forms, and keeps the shapes anyway. They apply the word to late Hollywood and to later temple art.
Bride-gathering
Their claim that the deepest effect of the art is on women as choosers, so that a certain man is positioned as the one desired. David’s name, they note, means beloved.
In the cinema
Films the volume actually names. A line here is a pointer, not the chapter. If a plot is not in the pages already read, it is not invented below.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Where the collaboration started. Brahmin sent Spencer a reading of Spielberg’s film, from a Kubrick project. The preface says the essay found a Jewish frame under the science fiction, signaled by the boy’s name, David. Many of those ideas recur in the book; some were dropped.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The opening is read as REM. Ape-men change when a black monolith, a medium, arrives. The bone club becomes a ship. The book’s line is that the leap is not “mere evolution.” It is an outside teaching, which they are willing to call religion.
Pygmalion, and My Fair Lady
The first chapter’s myth. Ovid, Shaw’s play, the 1956 musical. The artist makes a woman truer than the living ones around him, and Venus grants that she live. Their use of it: art breeds a type. Life follows.
Figures that return
Heracles, Moses, Jesus, Superman, Luke Skywalker are named together, not given a full plot reading on the first pages. The claim is that a character who comes back, in temple or theater, is a cult.
Avalon (1990), and Pinocchio
Named when the book refuses to treat pagan reference in Jewish-made films as simple theft. Levinson’s Avalon recasts the Arthurian afterworld as America. Spielberg and Kubrick, they say, remake Pinocchio as A.I.
What not to do with a villain
The volume warns the nationalist reader who sees Judaism in every adversary. Skynet and Darth Vader are the examples it gives of figures it reads as Aryan, not as a code for the other.
How to use it
- Read Groundwork first. The later parts assume the names.
- When a parenthesis appears, such as (I, §3), go to that part and chapter. The book is built to be crossed.
- In a film, ask who is desired, who is fair, who is hidden, and which name keeps returning. Then check whether the book already made that move, before you make it yourself.
- Do not treat every villain as the same code. The volume says that habit blinds the reader.
The current essays are at Alexandria. The older film notes, with Brahmin’s own 2022 caution attached, are at The Apollonian Transmission.