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The trajectory of the open internet over medium-term time is for all speech to be in some way a statement, veiled or explicit, that society must collapse because the speaker is not currently able to have sex with the type of person they want to.

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Right-wing critics seem to think he's simultaneously a kind of racial Leninist who wants to siege NYC and distribute spoils to non whites out of hatred of the West and also a nepo baby trust fund grifter with a fabricated image. I don't totally see how it could be *both*

Zohran Derangement Syndrome is clearly a thing and it's really entertaining regardless of your thoughts on the actual merits of the issue. He's the first left-wing figure who can pull off the Trump thing of making his enemies melt down hysterically while sitting back and smirking

So his strategy I guess is to try to direct as much of the extreme hatred towards him personally, so that "he" can be the walking example of the story, and then go to the media with that. One of the more impressive examples of the self-scapegoating approach to social media.

What's interesting about Will Stancil is that his crusade is that the spread of extreme racism on X "should be a bigger story" — in some sense I'm inclined to agree but what would this "story" even look like and who would want to hear it, what does the actual goal look like?

If anyone from this period of frenzy deserves to be called a genuine prophet to any degree, I guess you would have to give it to Bronze Age Shawty.

Late-stage acceleration gives rise to the impulse to imagine that tunneling deeper into your self-constructed media environment is “manifesting” some total political-theological revolution you’re theorizing. ChatGPT psychosis for intellectuals

2024 on X among precocious autodidacts etc should be remembered as “the year of the false prophets”. Hegelian E-Girls, MAGA Communism, Émilie Carrière’s “Woke Brutalism”.

MAGA fascism cackles as it pulls glowing conceptual weapons from the vault labeled "DO NOT RELEASE UNTIL ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY" and deploys them on the timeline only for them to sputter and far exhaust in the air before powering back down. Interesting ongoing dynamic.

It was always obvious that Ender's Game was meant as a prophecy and that video games were a military-industrial project to train gamers to eventually be drafted into a genocide against "bugs". Fifty years later, we have "revelation of the method", only it's not epic but retarded.

Of course you still have in the back of your mind that you’re confessing your secrets to Palantir, one has to imagine, so a trace of the old culture remains, but it is nevertheless a very radical shift.

LLM chatbots totally problematize this dynamic and, frankly, deliver us out of it. You can now confess your dirty secrets to your imaginary friend who doesn’t care and use that as your therapy, which is far more effective than the sadistic and humiliating ritual of therapy proper

This isn’t a cultural universal but is something we have totally been swimming in in modernity. It’s very Christian obviously, probably also present in Judaism?

The language of psychoanalysis relies on the backdrop of a present “culture of confession” — a culture where people are regularly demanded to confess their intentions to others — which is a task that can never be satisfied, leading to the double-bind problem & neurotic conditions

You can’t deny that it’s interesting is that the writing project in this era most successful in transmitting itself is a schizophrenic anonymous jargon that no one seems to understand what it’s about, possibly up to and including its own author?

Angelicism01 seems oddly unable to describe what his thesis around “extinction” actually is, when asked to he says his project is about anthropogenic climate change which it seems to not be, how does this relate to (micro)-celebrity culture which is what the project is about?

The only reason people single Thiel out as uniquely evil in his class is he’s more “honest”, he doesn’t engage in typical corporate whitewashing whatsoever & does this unorthodox attempt at a public humanist discourse to explain himself. Doesn’t mean there’s nothing to criticize

It’s not just Thiel, like him or not, anyone who says anything novel today or beyond a 12th grade reading level is medically pathologized by professional class type people as autistic or schizophrenic. Diabolical control society on overdrive