a system is failing
05-01-2024, 02:53 PM
One of the things I hate hearing the most with the arts is "there's always good stuff being made, you just gotta be willing to DIG man!". I hate this because it's one of those things that is maybe kind of true but it just ends up being a memetic weapon to accept a completely passive and nihilistic attitude towards mounting degradation. Like all things fragile in a properly ordered society this trueism serves a good purpose, but in a degraded society it gets corrupted along with everything else.
The most fundamental and controversial thing I believe and post about is this degradation. That if people don't want to put even the slightest effort into maintaining or growing finer arts, then things do indeed get worse as a whole on all layers. Talent and genius are generative features of a population, no matter what happens the bulk of humanity will always spit out random outliers whose innate qualities come together in a particularly compelling way. But it's still a matter of choice whether we decide to hamper them as much as possible and deliberately make their goals harder to acheive or enable them, and yes the latter has to be done at the cost of that bulk of humanity previously mentioned. Who do you choose? The bulk or the individual? For me it's never been a difficult choice and due to the framing few disagree in THEORY. In practice however is a different story.
https://twitter.com/SmittyNYK/status/178...nsatg&s=19
I choose to make this thread now because I think this guy is a particularly good example of this Prole Revolution and the masses obtaining an increasing disdain for quality, effort, refinement and so on. How do you explain this sort of thing to a person born prior to the Dada movement? How do you explain this sort of thing to Greeks or any other culture in existence that once took the things the occur in public seriously? The best counter-argument I can think of is some sophist trying to pretend such a figure is akin to Diogenes, but that doesn't work. Diogenes was not a JOINER. The stories involving him are ones where immediate sacrifices were made to his own standing and dignity especially in the eyes of the public. The maximum cost of this "performance" is people will just not pay any attention. You really aren't opening yourself to much risk in doing this. Consooming goysnacks in public doesn't take much of any commit. If anything it's something that is more easily auiqesced to than otherwise, with an absolutely miniscule caveat that there is some degree of social organizing and persistence that had to occur in order to make this into a public spectacle and you could technically call that effort. But these are both horrible things where effort should not be concentrated. A quality society does not reward people on the basis of null repetitive task completion or being able to move retarded cattle into various ends alone. As we can see from just about any popular online moobement, rightward or otherwise, moving cattle into some particular domain or structure is NOT admirable and mostly tends to result in the degradation of the person driving them in the long run.
Nonetheless we have an entire crowd showing up to watch this retard eat his cheese in a vaguely dramatized fashion. So there is some kind of appeal evidently, and as foreshadowed above what this ultimately is, is a kind of protest. Protests in our day and age tend to be some of the more highly mobilizing events. They work because they supply a feeling of meaning and movement towards bigger things to otherwise spiritually and emotionally nullified human masses. And they're easily bent towards pointless and non-challenging ends. What you get by partaking in this performance is a feeling that something is happening, and a feeling that doesn't cause the tension resultant from realizing that individuals of great worth should be enabled AT THE EXPENSE of the crowds who watch them. You don't need to offer anything to partake here. It's free, it requires absolutely no meaningful knowledge of anything to enjoy, and best of all it's ""virtues"" are all perfectly aligned with groupthink. The appeal of this perfomance is that you get contrast yourself against people who take things too seriously and aren't emotionally dead. It's sort of like a big inside joke on any potential non-normal one having chuds who would be offended at public inanity. In this crowd you can pretend that you understanding something about life that "bitter" anti-social types don't. One can imagine the reception to an INDIVIDUAL going against the crowd and smashing this container of cheeseballs and dispersing the cattle. Something that really WOULD be risky and courageous. You might even get arrested or physically harmed for doing this. The scale is small enough I wouldn't call that greatness, but such a person would be taking the first steps towards it in a way nobody in the crowd nor the person eating the cheeseballs would. Th entire thing is a way of saying "fuck anybody who thinks they are special. We think a guy eating cheeseballs is specialer, and we all agree so you can't go against our consensus."
Do you have the capacity to respect this man for attacking busker scum as they rightfully deserve? One important instrument in mass sadism and protest of quality is LOOKSISM. Proles necessarily lack the force of will to simply invent things ENTIRELY from nothing. Even the cheeseball performance, which forsakes any notion of beauty, implicitly rests on social cohesion as its main driver. We're all just trying to get along and have a good time, and anybody offended by this or anybody who interrupts it is trying to stop us from having innocent fun. The important thing to note about masses is they are shallow and when left to their own devices can only emphasize shallow factors due to group stupidity. The two most common arguments in prole revolution are "you're just mad that you're ugly / can't get laid" (Appeal to Glands) and "we're just trying to have fun, stop overthinking it" (don't have a silly name for this one yet).
Looksism above all being the most potent in the family of normie cultural forces, because it has it's basis in something that can even offend the recipient themselves and is one of the only times they broach objectivity. Objectivity being something that tends to appeal MORE to higher minds and Individuals. In all but the rarest cases, the primary sufferer in a situation of being born ugly is the person who is ugly themselves. Many people who aren't even necessarily ugly, but fail to be particularly attractive even suffer from thinking they are hideous and that this says something bad about their soul. By contrast, social cohesion is not quite as brutal. You can get your feelings hurt over being excluded, but any individualistic person comes well-equipped from the start with the idea of being the one right person in a crowd of wrong people and how that's virtuous. On the other hand, it's literallty impossible to spin being the ugliest person in a group of beautiful people as virtuous. The best you can do is attempt to say looks are superficial, but as per the above tweet normies ALSO are well-equipped with arguments to justify their looksism and gaslight you.
This all matters quite enormously because reconstruction and maintainance of finer culture requires a destructive approach to all of the above or we won't get to have it. This stuff is NOT going to sort itself out on its own without us having to do anything. The only reason people really gravitate towards the latter is because in this particular conflict you see the most direct and profound expression of spiritual rot. It's so deeply demoralizing and distressing the vast majority of people would rather just ignore it and hope for the best. And many of these people eventually graduate into outright COLLABORATORS who will join in on the isolation and gaslighting against anybody who takes issue with by attacking them from newer and more thoughful angles, maybe hoping themselves to secure a middle-position in the great protest against quality by adding an intellectual edge to the stupidity of the cattle. In the end this may by just be the very most important front in the anti-communist war. And almost nobody is willing to fight it. It's virtually impossible to imagine a correctly-oriented culture being rotted through politics and economics alone. As even many redpillers know, the most important domino to fall first is the culture. Demoralize people on the level of their most intuitive and immediate cultural engagement and political, economic and even physical battles are won quite easily.
The most fundamental and controversial thing I believe and post about is this degradation. That if people don't want to put even the slightest effort into maintaining or growing finer arts, then things do indeed get worse as a whole on all layers. Talent and genius are generative features of a population, no matter what happens the bulk of humanity will always spit out random outliers whose innate qualities come together in a particularly compelling way. But it's still a matter of choice whether we decide to hamper them as much as possible and deliberately make their goals harder to acheive or enable them, and yes the latter has to be done at the cost of that bulk of humanity previously mentioned. Who do you choose? The bulk or the individual? For me it's never been a difficult choice and due to the framing few disagree in THEORY. In practice however is a different story.
https://twitter.com/SmittyNYK/status/178...nsatg&s=19
I choose to make this thread now because I think this guy is a particularly good example of this Prole Revolution and the masses obtaining an increasing disdain for quality, effort, refinement and so on. How do you explain this sort of thing to a person born prior to the Dada movement? How do you explain this sort of thing to Greeks or any other culture in existence that once took the things the occur in public seriously? The best counter-argument I can think of is some sophist trying to pretend such a figure is akin to Diogenes, but that doesn't work. Diogenes was not a JOINER. The stories involving him are ones where immediate sacrifices were made to his own standing and dignity especially in the eyes of the public. The maximum cost of this "performance" is people will just not pay any attention. You really aren't opening yourself to much risk in doing this. Consooming goysnacks in public doesn't take much of any commit. If anything it's something that is more easily auiqesced to than otherwise, with an absolutely miniscule caveat that there is some degree of social organizing and persistence that had to occur in order to make this into a public spectacle and you could technically call that effort. But these are both horrible things where effort should not be concentrated. A quality society does not reward people on the basis of null repetitive task completion or being able to move retarded cattle into various ends alone. As we can see from just about any popular online moobement, rightward or otherwise, moving cattle into some particular domain or structure is NOT admirable and mostly tends to result in the degradation of the person driving them in the long run.
Nonetheless we have an entire crowd showing up to watch this retard eat his cheese in a vaguely dramatized fashion. So there is some kind of appeal evidently, and as foreshadowed above what this ultimately is, is a kind of protest. Protests in our day and age tend to be some of the more highly mobilizing events. They work because they supply a feeling of meaning and movement towards bigger things to otherwise spiritually and emotionally nullified human masses. And they're easily bent towards pointless and non-challenging ends. What you get by partaking in this performance is a feeling that something is happening, and a feeling that doesn't cause the tension resultant from realizing that individuals of great worth should be enabled AT THE EXPENSE of the crowds who watch them. You don't need to offer anything to partake here. It's free, it requires absolutely no meaningful knowledge of anything to enjoy, and best of all it's ""virtues"" are all perfectly aligned with groupthink. The appeal of this perfomance is that you get contrast yourself against people who take things too seriously and aren't emotionally dead. It's sort of like a big inside joke on any potential non-normal one having chuds who would be offended at public inanity. In this crowd you can pretend that you understanding something about life that "bitter" anti-social types don't. One can imagine the reception to an INDIVIDUAL going against the crowd and smashing this container of cheeseballs and dispersing the cattle. Something that really WOULD be risky and courageous. You might even get arrested or physically harmed for doing this. The scale is small enough I wouldn't call that greatness, but such a person would be taking the first steps towards it in a way nobody in the crowd nor the person eating the cheeseballs would. Th entire thing is a way of saying "fuck anybody who thinks they are special. We think a guy eating cheeseballs is specialer, and we all agree so you can't go against our consensus."
Do you have the capacity to respect this man for attacking busker scum as they rightfully deserve? One important instrument in mass sadism and protest of quality is LOOKSISM. Proles necessarily lack the force of will to simply invent things ENTIRELY from nothing. Even the cheeseball performance, which forsakes any notion of beauty, implicitly rests on social cohesion as its main driver. We're all just trying to get along and have a good time, and anybody offended by this or anybody who interrupts it is trying to stop us from having innocent fun. The important thing to note about masses is they are shallow and when left to their own devices can only emphasize shallow factors due to group stupidity. The two most common arguments in prole revolution are "you're just mad that you're ugly / can't get laid" (Appeal to Glands) and "we're just trying to have fun, stop overthinking it" (don't have a silly name for this one yet).
Looksism above all being the most potent in the family of normie cultural forces, because it has it's basis in something that can even offend the recipient themselves and is one of the only times they broach objectivity. Objectivity being something that tends to appeal MORE to higher minds and Individuals. In all but the rarest cases, the primary sufferer in a situation of being born ugly is the person who is ugly themselves. Many people who aren't even necessarily ugly, but fail to be particularly attractive even suffer from thinking they are hideous and that this says something bad about their soul. By contrast, social cohesion is not quite as brutal. You can get your feelings hurt over being excluded, but any individualistic person comes well-equipped from the start with the idea of being the one right person in a crowd of wrong people and how that's virtuous. On the other hand, it's literallty impossible to spin being the ugliest person in a group of beautiful people as virtuous. The best you can do is attempt to say looks are superficial, but as per the above tweet normies ALSO are well-equipped with arguments to justify their looksism and gaslight you.
This all matters quite enormously because reconstruction and maintainance of finer culture requires a destructive approach to all of the above or we won't get to have it. This stuff is NOT going to sort itself out on its own without us having to do anything. The only reason people really gravitate towards the latter is because in this particular conflict you see the most direct and profound expression of spiritual rot. It's so deeply demoralizing and distressing the vast majority of people would rather just ignore it and hope for the best. And many of these people eventually graduate into outright COLLABORATORS who will join in on the isolation and gaslighting against anybody who takes issue with by attacking them from newer and more thoughful angles, maybe hoping themselves to secure a middle-position in the great protest against quality by adding an intellectual edge to the stupidity of the cattle. In the end this may by just be the very most important front in the anti-communist war. And almost nobody is willing to fight it. It's virtually impossible to imagine a correctly-oriented culture being rotted through politics and economics alone. As even many redpillers know, the most important domino to fall first is the culture. Demoralize people on the level of their most intuitive and immediate cultural engagement and political, economic and even physical battles are won quite easily.