Gents,
I have been out of circulation. I've been required for other things, so I have had less time to be creative as I wish. I plan to use this weekend to get some posts I've promised done, including the first paid post.
Please note I intend to only use twatter for links and some spaces coming up. If you need to get a hold of me, I will check there rarely, or you can catch me on e-mail or telegram.
A few brief words on this Hyatt series and some related guests we will have on.
Many people in these circles - or whatever shape you ascribe to it - talk a big game.
The “take your prick” of pixelated gurus and experts refer to self-overcoming, superiority, and not being part of the herd consistently.
As part of their case, they typically refer to "going to the gym" or walls of text written by long-dead persons to justify their abstract conception of self-superiority.
This is generally coloured by the opposite: their personal preferred abstraction of what constitutes inferiority. These abstractions are, of course, always insisted upon in objective terms. Sometimes justifiably, more often not.
But this is all it is, an abstraction. As I always say, words have no value beyond what they actually point to. 99.999% of the time, the words we use have no relation to something tangible. They are noise pollution, the chance result of clouds of sensation and energy that burst into our scattered consciousness chaotically and uncontrollably, a geyser from our primitive non-rational biology and hind brains.
For example, some of our most RIGHTEOUS WELL THOUGHT OUT ANGER could simply arise from our organisms’ reaction to too much sunlight in our room. Not making the connection, we assume our abstraction is a mighty work of analytical prowess.
One of the most shocking things about conducting this work successfully is becoming aware of such things.
In this way, such abstractions are rarely self-generated how we think they are. As I've clarified in other posts, this type of self and self-control is a grand illusion. And yet, the unconscious and its byproducts we hold so dear. We’re doing it all.
The content of most of these creators shows they haven't yet understood the first thing about self-overcoming.
Self-overcoming has intellectual elements, but it is not an academic or intellekshual process. It is an organic process, of which the ability to analyse effectively is a part.
For someone like myself who has gone through work and faced personal unpleasantries, it is immediately apparent who has and hasn't experientially grasped this. I can see it instantly in their writing and character.
If such people truly understood what it is and what it takes, they wouldn't want a bar of it.
Most of them don't seek or want the things they talk about. They want to feel special and liked. They're more interested in speaking and being seen as intelligent and important members of an abstract grouping.
This is the great irony here - all of this is chronic herd behaviour obviously can't touch the true essence of what the process of being a bio-individual truly is. There is nothing wrong with groups; nothing is wrong with anything - there is something wrong with not understanding something but building your platform on it.
The most egregious part is that such a person has missed the point and is worse off wearing it as clothing and choosing not to work with it.
Our intention is to stand in stark contrast to such people.
Many large accounts on Twitter are understood by younger men as being "luminaries" who are "reinterpreting important thinkers", often advising or asserting that if you read this, you’re superior. Read this to not be normal. Some do a reasonable job of this, and I like some of the material.
In general, I make no qualms about being disgusted by the platform Twitter in particular. It is a 90% diminishing or harmful waste of precious life hours at absolute best. It is in terms of health, as I have mentioned before there is no doubt of this bad news; I can assure you I have measured it on various people.
Indeed, it has another very sneaky and more insidious purposes:
It induces the most offensive of all the character traits: being a legend in your mind.
This is a favourite quote of Dr Hyatt's.
This is the general problem with all of us as humans. Our propensity for imagination and just talking utter drivel that is wholly disconnected from the reality we live in. Convincing ourselves the entire time that this isn't the case. In writing this, I don't pretend to be above it, but I do say that I am always on the lookout for it. I realise it is the great enemy of the true self-overcoming of nihilism.
Posting politically is a useless activity in which people who say they care get to pretend being lazy is a virtue.
Being naturally repulsed by such shabby behaviour, as of late, I've tended to use the platform as a rhetorical hammer - to try and show people that there is another, more fruitful, way to live and exist. Beyond the momentary compulsions that social media and life tend to create in us.
Even if you remain a committed political lunatic, which is what everyone says they care about, it is crucial to make decisive, intelligent and well-conceived actions within the reality we inhabit towards your ends.
Being a legend in your own mind neuters you. It makes you pathetic and unthreatening - no threat to anyone who understands the things you clearly do not.
Avoiding this is the whole point of the work. Yet, if you undergo the work, you may find that you didn't akshually care about politics at all!
Many surprising things can happen during this process.
It is true that as the more prominent individuals of such movements like Hyatt passed away, their ideas often became lost - for a time.
But you must understand that these ideas have been around for as long as I've been alive (500 years at this point), and there was even a vibrant era even fairly recently. In the early 2000s - 2010, such ideas took root and were experimented with online. Well before Twitter.
Much was learned about everything I talk about; I was a product of such a foment. Kevin and I have both been through the work from such origins, not that there's an endpoint, and made all the mistakes you can make.
I see potentially strong and active young men making the same mistakes I did. Wasting their time on dead ends. On not intelligently acting on the politics they profess to care about (I hate politics, by the way, mass politics is quite disgusting). On living in their imaginations online. In some ways, we want to save these types, in particular, the trouble of realising they've been cocks for the last x-decades and to direct their energies to the gaining of power. Better to start young.
Often, it's usually too late for great potential to unfold on reaching maturation and its (occasional) accompanying understanding, particularly these days. On having a wife and child in the current societal context, which is often encouraged by wholesome people online, you can forget about this kind of work.
The key is this: talking, reading and fantasising does not make you powerful, special, or happy. You need to understand what drives you and precludes you from being well-rounded and satisfied. Not understanding yourself drives you to embrace absurd means to feel unique or superior to your supposed adversary. Your main adversary will always be yourself. This is true.
So, if you're going to waste any of your time today, throw that wretched doge app in the bin, and get a hold of this series so you can understand what this process is and what it will require from you.
Don't bother with the pretenders.
I will have part 2 up tonight/tomorrow, where we went deeper into analysing his conversation.
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