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Why do we see so many contemptible and useless people in the world? Itâs because our mortality due to war and disease has never been lower.
Our lack of a war, a real war, one where vast numbers of men die, is in fact a kind of constipation, (a common side effect of opioids) and itâs not merely the case that we find our cities literally infoliated with human excrement--
In fact some large number of humans THEMSELVES are a kind of excrement which our civic or political body has been unable to expel through its usual and historical methods
But no matter how horrible our present situation is, the horrors of war are worse, who could dispute that? Indeed, does anyone have the spirit, the strength of desire, or the conviction to bring about the kind of carnage it would take to disimpact our civilization?
We lack all conviction--including the conviction needed to void our social waste--we are all the last man, we have our little pleasure for the day and our little pleasure for the night, and then, of course, a good sleep
Can you imagine believing in anything so strongly? (Of course you can, but your imagination is wrong, more on that soon) The end of war comes after the collapse of meaning, and make no mistake, meaning has collapsed.
You think you have strong belief but you are mistaken. As I have tried to convey to you already, your religious beliefs and your politics are empty, and we know this because you would not kill for them. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1068666137053810689
There is greater "piety" in the liberal atheist egalitarian than in Christian America, and this is obvious because the latter's bloodlust is marginally greater, and Jesus it burns (At least for the Christians) https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1121900804711956480
Donât worry, the piety of the atheist egalitarians is badly misplaced; they think the miracles of technology flow from atheism (wrong) and from equality (levels of wrongness that shouldnât even be possible) https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1061983839940046848
Your ability to unselfconsciously inflict death on others is the only meaningful measure of the strength of your faith or conviction--which isn't to say that strong faith is necessarily desirable
When the Spanish killed the Aztecs (at that time, Western man still retained some of his fire), the Aztecs themselves were an indictment of "us", of European man. Their cruelty and human sacrifices bore witness to the authority of their gods and the strength of their beliefs
Our gods of reason and gold are more powerful. (Jesus drove the money lenders out of the temple out of fear). The Lord can respawn after crucifixion but there are as many smartphones as Christians in the world now and guess whose conversion rate is higher
The proliferation of the smartphone is the proliferation of a structurally post-modern ideal, which is the total eclipse of the territory by the map
Religious truth is hypertruth, and what is that? Hypertruth is to truth what hyperreality is to reality; The hyperreal object appears to us as realer than real. It is an object whose material reality no longer constrains the representation of the object in the mind
Hyperreality is larger-than-lifeness, hypertruth is truer-than-trueness, truth that has broken free of observation into a world of pure reason, unmoored from reality. Our implicit awareness of the nature of hypertruth dissolves conviction https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1096449914790277120
The sense of meaning has to be imposed from without. It flows from the outside and imposes structure on the self
We think we live according to a universal law, and this has caused our convictions to evaporate, because universalism tells us there is NOTHING outside and makes each person the origin of his own self, acts, tastes, and pleasures
When the self is freed from all constraints, it spins pointlessly in a void, because the self is constructed in response to needs, and freedom from constraint is freedom from need. Desire in the absence of need is monstrous. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1078105405283131393
Fantasies about societal collapse, apocalyptic wars or civil wars, or devouring singularities all stem from the same desire: a desire for meaning to be imposed upon us by forces outside ourselves and outside our control. eschatology is a way for men to feel a feminine impulse
Really, honestly the obsession with collapse is a kind of prayer. After the collapse, you desires are transmuted back into needs Pray to Yellowstone, we can end it for all time. Was a more honest tweet ever composed?
https://twitter.com/hakonrotmwrt/status/906079706927255552
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In this world of hypertruth and hyperreality we desire to have needs again, instead of merely desires. We construct these increasingly outrageous identities and we all know that no one is ever going to act any of them out so they grow crazier and crazier https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1079434410208899072
The more stupid labels you apply to your politics, the less you understand the game. An identity you have to declare to the world is a fake identity. And yet, authenticity has to be the most foolish foolâs gold in the world.
The only authentic identities left are paypig and mimic, everything else is artifice, naturally. The desire to manufacture identities, like the desire for the end of the world, is a desire for meaning that comes from the outside.
I know you think youâre a nazi/communist/etc and look, we all think it would be nice if our ideological enemies were dead, hopefully after a lot of suffering, but man is a rational animal and no one is dumb enough to compromise their own comfort to achieve this meaningless goal
the emotion a rightist feels when itâs pride day/month/eternity is the same emotion a leftist feels when she hears about fbi crime statistics. (Impotent rage) Though perhaps there is a tiny power asymmetry, or am I hallucinating? https://twitter.com/wokecapital/status/1126142114432212992
Itâs not enough to win a vote against people with $OPINION. They need to shut up and never say or think that ever again, even in secret. Wait, someone wired a dildo to an in-game currency system & it buzzes when you pay & this girl is livestreaming it. Libidinal capitalism, eh?
Donât make that face, everyone who spends more than ten minutes online is instantly saturated with smut beyond the wildest dreams of Slaanesh and for the moment itâs still polite to pretend that isnât the case
The only way to bring meaning back to the world is to find a source of non-simulated pathos, and I have some bad news about your current supply.
You think peak oil will be a disaster? (as if oil doesnât flow endlessly from sustainable underground biochemical processes) We hit peak suffering ages ago and now we have no fuel to manufacture satisfaction
If your life feels pointless, itâs because you were supposed to be cannon fodder in a war that refuses to come
Itâs almost too easy https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1135577298587938817
More support for the above: https://twitter.com/AetiusRF/status/1372131335393918977
