It's a Slopulist World and We're All Just Living in It - Konstantin Kisin

September 6, 2026

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It's a Slopulist World and We're All Just Living in It

Konstantin Kisin opens with a darkly comic observation: he wakes up each day feeling like the protagonist of a Truman Show sequel, where the director's job is to keep raising the "retard level" until he finally shouts "stop" into the heavens. The absurdity he's describing has a name, and he's coined it: slopulism. It's the dominant mode of online discourse today, and it represents a profound degradation from the intellectual debates that defined the internet's center-right a decade ago.

The Mechanism of Slopulism

Slopulism, as Kisin defines it, is the practice of smart people saying dumb things to profit from the ignorance of the angry mob. It's not about genuine provocation in service of shaking people out of political correctness—that was the old model. Instead, it's about deliberately feeding audiences low-quality, emotionally manipulative content that they want to believe, because that content generates engagement, and engagement generates revenue.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:04) **Introduction: The Gates Foundation and ESPN Ads** - Two short advertisements play before the main content.
2 (01:05) **Thesis: "Slopism" Defined** - Kisin introduces the concept of "slopism" as the core framework of the episode.
3 (03:35) **The Shift from Serious Debate to Slop** - Kisin contrasts the old online right with the new, slop-filled version.
4 (04:29) **Case Study: The Lindsay Clancy Tragedy** - Kisin uses the Clancy case to illustrate how slopism distorts a nuanced tragedy.
5 (07:17) **Conclusion: The Slopulist World** - Kisin wraps up his thesis and transitions to a sponsor ad.
6 (07:52) **Ad: Ground News** - Kisin promotes the news aggregation platform Ground News.
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Konstantin Kisin

Show Notes

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