Compare the modern human to the pre-cellphone people. Or how about the stronger ones of the 90s? And the stronger coke fighters of the 80s? And the even stronger psychedelics-graduated social critics of the 70s? And the sensitive avant-garde psychedelic poets of the 60s? And … back … back farther.
Teddy Rose...
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The Korean Sangha is the common deep concern among Koreans with education. It’s intuitional-ritual expression is the Suneung exam. But the concern permeates everything. Most notably, in the set of emoticon-characters beloved by all Koreans—and many Americans—the Kakao Friends. About a fourth of all emoticons are about studying. They show victo...
Read MoreAmerican cops know how to kill without getting in trouble. One way is to just shout STOP RESISTING while they beat, choke, suffocate, compress, taze, or shoot them to death. This usually works, even when cameras are involved (see here and here).
A better technique is to push the victim-to-be...
Read MorePoor working white Americans are willful illusionists. So is Trump. This explains why lying isn’t a problem for them.
Trump has made compensatory wishful thinking, a staple of redneck resentment culture, professional. Rednecks like him because he’s stupid and racist and loves to increase the suffering of “others.”
If you’re poor and ...
Read MoreNew theses on Feuerbach. All that good stuff that we used to displace onto God is in advertising now. The TV is God. The computer is God.
Those commercials with women smiling and spinning around in joy. “Being fully yourself; or, dancing like no one’s watching.” Oozing surplus sexiness and fulfi...
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Dear fellow idiot males —
Read MoreAll that is religious melts into self-help. Everything that used to be the property of the religious has melted into self-help. The death of God has produced more than just cultural malaise. It also led to syncretism in hopes of discovering a generic universal religious system. But what is really...
Read MorePeople love “God” in the same way they love “rich Corinthian leather”—because it’s an attractive idea, a comforting fiction.
Receiving value and being wanted
The fact that it is also an ingenious fabrication by the seller (or his trainer) makes it even more charming. Value is being evoked in the imagination...
Read MoreThe secret of human production is out in the Nordic Model countries—and it makes the biggest and most shocking cultural difference.
In Scandinavia, the working class (WC) knows that it is the WC and the ruling class (RC) acknowledges that it is t...
Read MoreWe now know that placebos work on even the most peripheral cellular systems, ones that are way outside the purview of the sensory or voluntary nervous system, even when the language-grasping organ of the organism it told, “… Oh, by the way, this is just a placebo.” (Click here for the p...
Read MoreThe video below shows a naked white man crying and quivering while crawling on his knees. He is in a hotel hallway and a cop is screaming at him with an urgency that makes no sense and portends that cop bloodlust will soon be slaked. The victim is Daniel Shaver,...
Read MoreWhen I was 11, I got a BB gun for Christmas. Along with a Panasonic Platinum ghetto blaster, a Queen The Game cassette, and a Blondie Autoamerican cassette.
A BB gun.
When you have a gun, you want to shoot something. For those of you who have never shot anything,...
Read MoreI know someone (I have mentioned him before) who actually bought a “grounding mat,” which is a mat connected to a cord that plugs into the round grounding wire in a wall outlet. This is supposed to “supply more free electrons” to your body, which you need, of course. Unlike our Ear...
Read MoreAs you all know by now, I’m fascinated by self-reinstating principles. So today I typed "self-reinstating" metaphysics into Google and here’s what I got:
The top result is a book entitled Metaphysics: Facts and Fallacies. It’s the top result! It must be an...
Read MoreI went to a birthday party last night and met a bright and charming salesman who said something so ridiculous that I became obsessed with trying to understand how he could believe it. It was an silly claim that anyone with high school physics would know to be impossible. What...
Read MoreCharles Manson just died.
The finger points to my bedroom window c. 1976. The angry face is where someone painted … it.
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Here is what cops will do to hit-and-run victims who also happen to be on fire:
Link to full story here.
Here is what the police union said about the insane display of sadism. The video, they said,
clearly shows that the officers acted quickly to extinguish the...Read More
American sex idolization/hate has been elevated to a new level. Not only is teen sex taboo, but puberty itself is taboo because it connects sex with teens, who are required to be non-sexual for the sake of cultural-legal consonance.
This is how Americans worship their demons. They take what is...
Read MoreDuran Duran was the most important culture-changing life form of 1980s America because they made faggy cool.
Had a date last night at the Union. Girl came by, said she needed a beer ASAP. I offered to get her one at the bowling alley, but she said she wanted to sit down and text first. I sat down and she sat behind me to text. Odd. 10...
Read MoreIt looks like the Chinese sellers on AliExpress and DHgate copy each others’ bad English. And at some point in their timeline, some sex toy seller added horse eye stimulation to their description and it stuck.
Here is the 2016 model of the popular male female stainless steel metal catheter s...
Read MoreIt’s better to be dead than hanging by a thread over a pit of spikes, or lions, or acid, or lava, or boiling oil. True sadists prefer that others be imprisoned than dead. The purpose of prison is to give all the people not in prison the comforting knowledge that o...
Read MoreI was just listening to NPR. Fake-wispy voiced female babbling about the power of the “stories in our national parks” and how these stories will CHANGE society by ending racism, building bridges, etc.
Normally I would piss on this for being irrelevant or counter-revolutionary. We have institutional (gun-backed) racist genocide, and...
Read MoreEscher
What is more delightful than beholding an image wherein opposites have been artfully merged? What is more fascinating than an impossible object, like the ones appearing in Escher paintings, wherein two contraries come to be combined or even identified.
Complementarity
Read MorePeople love the suffering of others. In particular, we love what psychologists call public display of failure (PDF). When someone experiences disaster in public, we cannot look away. First, we want to enjoy the physicality of the destruction—the burning down or demolition of a building, the bombing of a city o...
Read MoreFara just wrote an essay on Sauron for her Tolkien and Morris class. The topic: Sauron and property law. And it got me thinking …
Who is Sauron really? Sauron represents the all-for-one without the one-for-all. Sauron is not just the corporeal Sauron, but thousands of friends—where friend here means gua...
Read MoreI just realized that AC/DC really is the official HELL band. They have “Highway to Hell” with Bonny Lad Scotty, and “Hell’s Bells” with acid throat Briany McJohnson. No other band at the time even had one hell song, except KISS, but the meaning of KISS-hell was the opposite of the Satan...
Read MoreTo see adults give up and conform to ready-made societies and their little sub-identities. As a kid you do see it—the fakery, the pain disguised as some esteemed meme or air. To see faces (attitudes) plainly invented by actors on TV on the faces of people you know is chilling a...
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Why do I love cults? Why are the Hubbard, Rand, and Erhard organizations so damn fun for me? I mean, walking into Scientology is like walking into a brightly lit (sex) toy store. Or an incense and penis-candle filled occult book store. Promises of power and happiness everywhere!
Nothing is...
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But in the town it was well known when they got home at night … [that smoking is sexy].
As everyone knows by now, smoking conveys the essence of a kind of hardcore sexiness. People start smoking in order to look a certain way. Self-destructive is the b...
Read MoreFeel what others feel!
Put yourself in others’ shoes!
Familiar but underappreciated.
It’s in the movie The Innocents.
At 1:02:20–59, the new governess and protagonist (Miss Giddens) nearly swoons at the mere thought of lust-based involuntary suicide. She was just told the story about how the previous governess (Miss Jessel) commi...
Read MoreJust met a bunch of converts to Camp No Counselors.
The social world is now being app-ified.
Men’s groups, authentic relating groups, life-party think-healthy groups, Law of Attraction groups. And outside here are four people who just met at this camp. “No phones allowed!” they tell me, wide-eyed with surprise at su...
Read MoreAdmiration is the gold standard of value. It is the determinant of the highest pleasure.
Admiration is spontaneous, gut-level love but going outwards as a bath that wants to be seen as a giving-up of life-force to another as a gift of genuine love.
Of all the pleasures the monkey...
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Dude: When people pair-bond they try to make each other betas. But alphas are too dangerous to have children with in your home, so you want to make a home with betas. People ought to be equal and all, but there are a lot of power differentials out there.
CSH:...
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People! We are changing in a big way and the only thing we can consciously discern is increased look-up satisfaction. A question comes to mind, and nowadays we have a certain feeling: I can know the truth in a few seconds. We’re different because we know we can easily look s...
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CSH: Heidi was talking about a girl who was outside that was on the phone with a team of people watching and texting her. And my thought was, “The reason this is repulsive is we think that a normal human is a body with a single unitary will. So when y...
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Here is an example of an effective therapeutic conversational style. If you know that your friend is fucking herself up by doing behavior X, then start by saying that you yourself are fucking yourself up by doing behavior X.
The form is:
YOU: Hey you [person who does X]!...Read More
We are born into this world with a communications problem. On the one hand, I seem to posses an inner self. I take my self to be deep, interesting, and all-important. Which is the same thing as saying that I want my self to be valued and loved by others....
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The things that hurt us the most in this life are usually people. Over time, we develop a grudge against others. Unless we are talking about on-duty service industry employees, strangers generally arise as threats.
I am guilty of already being mad at you when I first meet you. And...
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It’s amazing that a group of people can “exist” as a single person. The whole Borg idea really does have a disturbing feature, one that hurts us to consider. What would it be like to be a member of One Borg Mind?
What is most startling is that if you were ...
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CSH: “Take my ejaculate into your essence.” When I walk into a room, with spine straight and one eyebrow arched, I am saying: “Take my ejaculate into your essence” to everyone in the room.
The male attitude is one of semi-suicidal self-throwing, away from self and into the other. In the mei...
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How to choose among competing worlds; that is, competing cultures; that is, competing placebos?
The distinctions—the linguistic conventions and categorizing practices—that carve up my world and populate it with identities are already placeboic. Things are what we say they are, and every view is true, to some degree—i.e., to the degre...
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CSH: The easiest way to get rid of the anxiety of separation and isolation from other people is to adopt a familiar persona. There is a repository of very well-known personae that you can try on—i.e., the fictional characters of television and film. Here you will find a well-known glossary o...
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[Editor’s note: This is what happens when you talk over someone and guess what they’re taking about from a handful of words, instead of listening to them. I have a bad habit of doing this.]
CSH: So we’re talking about chain letters. And you are angry at the person who sent ...
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Scaring people is fun. And scaring people with scary stories is really fun—because you get to create fake facts and tell with with a straight face. But scaring people with outlandish or impossible stories is really, really fun. It’s more fun because it requires better acting and the ability to kee...
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