Wow, who would think that propaganda of antisocial individualism would generate a following of people who are easily aggravated, prone to infighting, and obsessed with redefining a progressively smaller ingroup that ends up being just one person?.

I think there was a Tate quote a few months ago about how *enjoying* sex with a woman was insufficiently masculine -- and like you say, it's because enjoying something is letting another person affect you. To be impenetrable is to be uninfluenced by anything that happens to you. Like being dead.

This is also why they dislike analysis of media so much. It's not just leftist or progressive readings that they abhor; any recognition of nuance or complexity in art and entertainment would immediately contrast with their vacuous personhood.

Chuds don't have lived cultural roots, only symbolic ones. They have experienced very little and with no community, so their ties are purely imagined, inserting their deflated selves into a bigger, more likeable entity. "Look at how admirable I am for liking big manly things".

It's ridiculous that they want -everyone- to perform for and conform to these beliefs.
Satan, hell, and demonic possession are the only religious beliefs that I genuinely think are never to be respected. They're explicitly coercive concepts, and are only brought up to dehumanise the other.

*This* is what the people of Pompeii, and Herculaneum, and many other hapless souls saw—this is what a pyroclastic density current looks coming RIGHT at you.

Filmed from a CCTV camera during the Mount Semeru eruption on Java, Indonesia on 4 December 2022.

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Yes!, they share methods and motivations: an obsession with maintaining the "purity" of a concept that is clearly arbitrarily defined, a reoccurrence of naturalistic fallacies to defend it... And they all stink of classism, appealing to people who want to preserve hierarchy.

This is what happens when you don't root environmentalism in people's well being but in ecological purity. Kinda spiritual, in the sense that it's a cardinal sin to have any kind of impact in the biosphere. Weirdly nihilist too, that the best we can be is nothing.

He's very Christopher Nolan-coded. Vibes guys who are upheld as some sort of sociological prophets. The Dark Knight Trilogy and MGS both touch on serious topics, but refuse to engage significantly with them beyond the aesthetics they provide. Both culminating in an entry that is torn by that tension

Look at it sideways: the US is a capitalist nation where stalling social reform and poisoning public discourse is a profitable career path.

"This is true because I know it's true because it's true because it's true. If you don't agree you are anti truth. God God god god."