Happy New Year!
Welcome to 2026 — the year we politely ask the universe to get its act together, or at least to trip more gracefully when it doesn’t.
If the year behaves, wonderful.
If it doesn’t, well… chaos does tend to make the best material. Writers have to eat too.
So here’s raising a glass (or pointing it accusingly) at the year ahead:
May your days be long, your laughs be loud, and may only the interesting relatives figure out where you moved.
The rest can enjoy the mystery. It builds character. Theirs, not yours.
In any case — a very Happy New Year from Purpleism.
Around here, we don’t chase the absurd; it comes knocking on its own. Usually uninvited, occasionally tracking mud.
And as long as the universe keeps tossing nonsense our way, we’ll keep answering with a grin and a raised eyebrow.
Here’s to the wonderfully ridiculous year ahead.
Now...
I’ve spent my entire life wanting to eliminate irritations to the human experience.
TV commercials is one of those issues. Not so much that they exist, but in how they abuse us.
Reduce.
Manage.
Eliminate?
About Purpleism
A faithful farce for a ridiculous world.
Those little intrusions that chopped up movies, drowned out mood, and slapped a logo bug in the lower corner of the screen like an uninvited houseguest who refuses to leave. That was the original spark — the primal irritant — that gave birth to Purpleism, the absurdist religion my son and I created long ago as a joke, a philosophy, and a protest movement against everything that unnecessarily irritates human existence.
And for a while, it felt like we were winning.
Streaming arrived.
Commercial-free shows.
No bugs.
No screaming ads.
Just content.
Bliss.
But of course, as with all victories in modern life, corporations eventually decided we were having too much happiness. So the streaming platforms did what corporations do: they re-engineered the old irritations, packaged them as “features,” and sold them back to us.
Ads returned. Bugs returned. Mandatory previews returned. Even the pause screen became a billboard.
It’s like they reverse-engineered Purpleism just so they could violate us more efficiently.
Purpleism: A Religion Built on the Irritation of Being Human
People sometimes assume Purpleism is political. Because it speaks out, against the abuse. Not politics at large, but as example, the Trump administration, Donald Trump, his MaGA nonsense and abuse.
But it really never was. That just happened because of the abuses of the Republican Party these past decades and then their embracing crime and autocracy in Donald Trump.
When my son and I came up with this in 2006 (Urban Dictionary), it was about the absurdities of life — the little grains of sand that get wedged under the eyelid of daily existence. Commercials that scream at you. The microwave that beeps eight times instead of once. The spoon that falls into the bowl every single morning.
If it unnecessarily irritates the human experience, it falls under Purpleism’s purview.
So naturally, when you have an administration as absurd as Trump’s — one so committed to chaos, grievance, incompetence, and the rebranding of nonsense as national policy — well, yes, Purpleism must acknowledge it. It’s not politics. It’s irritation at scale. A governmental-level bug in the corner of the national screen.
An absurd administration qualifies as a Purpleistic violation until it is rectified. Once he and it are gone, back to absurdism at large!
But politics is only a subset. Purpleism is bigger.
It includes:
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The autoplay trailer you didn’t ask for.
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“Are you still watching?”
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Apps that update their interface every two weeks for no reason.
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People who clip their nails in public.
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Microwave beeps.
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Corporations that remove features you paid for and sell them back to you under a new name.
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Ads that talk louder than God.
It’s a worldview — humorous, lightly philosophical, occasionally exasperated — that recognizes the fundamental truth of modern life:
We live in an absurd time, and the absurdity deserves a name.
Purpleism Today
Purpleism.org exists because, frankly, reality keeps providing material. Technology creates conveniences that instantly become irritants. Politics produces leaders who behave like malfunctioning pop-up ads.
Culture elevates nonsense to spectacle.
Yet Purpleism isn’t cynical.
It’s observational.
It’s amused.
It finds the ridiculous in both the good and the bad.
If life insists on being absurd, we may as well acknowledge it, name it, and laugh at it — even when the laugh is a little exhausted.
So yes, I lived my whole life trying to eliminate TV commercials…
And now the commercials are back, wearing new clothes, embedded in systems designed to be ad-free.
But that’s exactly why Purpleism exists.
Because the universe refuses to stop being ridiculous.
Because absurdity is eternal.
Because every time we solve an irritation, someone monetizes its return.
And in that chaos — that deeply human, deeply annoying chaos — Purpleism thrives.
Visit: Purpleism.org or Facebook, or Instagram.
As our contact form says:
Location: Earth (so far)
Hours: Always
Call us? Nope.
Where irritation meets enlightenment, and humor reminds us...we’re all sharing the same absurd little planet.
So be nice to one another, Absurdities notwithstanding. They can sit.
Cheers! Sláinte! Na zdravie!
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