besides I will literally go insane if I cannot find someone to talk to about how Herscht 07769 made me cry like twice

the most rewarding thing about publicly reading a bunch of books last year was having people come up to me and go "you know I read such and such book from your recommendation and really loved it." It's something we've lost as reading becomes less frequent & the variety of books continually increases

Yeah. You see normies who learned of Moldbug's existence like a year ago and they're (rightly!) horrified but they're like "oh my god who is this sinister genius respected by the Vice President, is he a supervillain, blah blah." Like, it's weird and scary.

But if you've been around it's just EMBARRASSING. You just feel ashamed on behalf of the INTERNET that this utterly brain-poisoned creepy nerd is somehow Normie Famous now. It makes us ALL look lame.

It's late 1993. A solitary tear slides down the face of the single man who purchased a Big! Big! Bucket to eat alone while watching a season 1 episode of "X-Files", as he reads step 4

Finally, I say this as a therapist...in 1994, eating a Little Caesar's Spaghetti Bucket while listening to Pure Moods would have gotten empirically similar results to a CBT/SSRI combo