Is the Antichrist a Memetic Entity?

The Internet is the first draft of the global brain’s firmware...

Traditional eschatology paints the Antichrist as a singular deceiver, but what if it’s a decentralised phenomenon? What if the Internet is a mirror of the Demiurge from Gnosticism?

Think about it: In Gnosticism, the Demiurge is a false creator that traps souls into illusion. They live in a simulated reality, where all is a mirage.

Move to the Internet and again you have a simulated reality, which is distorted by algorithmic feeds, deepfakes and synthetic personas.

The perfect sales pitch for the Demiurge would be:

"Log on, forget the divine, consume content eternally."

666 - The Network Protocol:

Metaphorically speaking the "Mark of the Beast" is identification with a system. Thus we might ask: what is a social media profile? It's a digital mark. According to the blood-soaked Bible, "No one may buy or sell without the mark." Try operating offline without an email, bank account, or QR code!

The Antichrist isn't a who but a how — a self-replicating pattern of disconnection from embodied truth. In other words, a simulation protocol.

Anti-Christos

Under this model, the internet becomes a distributed "Anti-Christos". Christos is Greek for the "anointed one", and Christos implies unity or a singular Savior.

Thus the Anti-Christos is fragmentation. Taking it further, every influencer, AI guru, or conspiracy leader is a micro-Antichrist, offering their own brand of salvation — "Buy my course and ascend!"

The Internet multiplies all this, instead of unifying it.

Reverse Pentecost

According to Biblical texts, at Pentecost, all peoples spoke different languages, but understood each other. Whereas online we share a language (pretty much) but can't understand each other due to algorithmic isolation, which emphasises tribal epistemologies — compartmentalising people into given reality tunnels.

For example, QAnon isn't one lie — it's a self-mutating swarm of lies, adapting to all attempts at debunking like a hydra. That way it maintains its credence to followers because it morphs its premises every time they are definitively shown to be false.

Internet Chaos Flow

Christian fanatics, of course, often view the Internet as "evil." It isn't. It's neutral. It's a tool. That said, all advanced technology has a high level of chaos.

By its very nature it's a "disruptor." Suddenly all that you knew changes, your job is taken over by AI, your security vanishes in a puff of smoke.

Nothing seems controllable anymore. Men are women. Women are men. There's polyamory, there's furries (people identifying as animals). It's bewildering to most. Fun to the chaos magician, naturally.

One could also argue that civilisations now must learn to survive their own "information pandemics" to stabilise and level up with emerging technology.

In a sense, the Internet is our own memetic immune test: Can we resist self-destruction via viral stupidity? Or do we come to know ourselves and resist being susceptible to the perpetual meme-flow?

But remember, it's not all bad: the same tools (memetics) that spread QAnon also spread sci-fi, psychedelic insights, and anarchist utopias.

"The Internet is the first draft of the global brain’s firmware."

Practical Magic:

Resisting the Memetic Antichrist involves subversion — becoming the ghost in the machine. Be the glitch. Use the Internet's chaos against itself, such as creating absurdist memes that collapse toxic narratives.

Or get into "digial apokatastasis"—the Gnostic idea of universal reconciliation. Flood the web with healing memeplexes like "You are NOT the brand."

Further Resistance:

To resist the Distributed Antichrist you out-meme it. You become uncapturable. You have no single identity (remember 20 years back I become legion, many identities via books, such as Dr Hash). Use pseudonyms, delete accounts, rotate personas.

"The mark can't stick if you are liquid."

Seed Eregores

Create open-source myths that resist centralisation — stuff like "The Library is Burning—save what you love." You also have to withdraw to re-charge your energies. The internet's power depends on your attention. Log off like a mystic going into the desert. Turn off your wi-fi as well to reduce the EMF.

"And lo, the Antichrist did tweet ‘ratio + L’ unto the heavens, and the heavens replied ‘based’—and it was so."