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[W]e all use the tools available to us to attempt express our will to power (demand for agency). I have built a bunch of companies now, and am building a body of work. I’ve studied every field that I can study without getting my hands too dirty. I amuse myself teaching men of various agencies, as a way testing my work and improving my ability to communicate novel ideas. My ‘availability’ for ‘the students’ is simply necessary for my work (and somewhat entertaining since I have either been in a foreign country with limited circle, or here in the states with limited circle since I started working publicly) and my work relationships have always provided my social circle. I have had a thousand or more conversations with men and women from all walks of life who think using different words to change meaning is the same thing as acting to cause change in reality. And every individual does the same thing – try to make a story where the world fits his or her needs rather than adapting to the world such that one can seize the opportunity in it. So, we are not above a story we tell ourselves (yourselves) because selling a story is the only offering we have to attract attention with. If you have no capital, no organization, no income stream, no power relationships, are not politically engaged or engageable, not strong, athletic, or martial, then you have nothing to sell but stories. And if that is the case, then you probably are not willing or able to work hard enough to acquire any of the above. You can spend your prime years attempting to tell stories, and sell them. You do what you can with the rather good mind you (y’all) have. And with enough practice over six or ten years, you will either abandon it or find some use for it. But you could be working in craft, commerce, entertainment, education, or politics instead – and while you have probably lost seven to ten years of life to maleducation, you can spend another six to ten selling a story until your consequent failure is sufficient evidence for people your age to dismiss you. I’m a scientist, and those of you who sell stories, well, you need, want to be, and admire the priesthood- or rather the secular version of it – just as do all members of the academy. If you are on the libertarian or right end of the spectrum, you are just on the outside of the mainstream, and cannot employ it in the academy and are not knowledgeable enough yet to employ it in the media (might happen). . I understand this. But I have an approach to the problem of the present era, and that is to move the world forward, IN THE TERMS OF THOSE WHO HAVE AND MAINTAIN, POWER. Those people with whom I have understanding and experience. So, you know, if you want to tell yourself stories or create an english speaking version of the european new right, then I think you will need to work pretty hard at it. I will just move forward with ‘if it isn’t true, then how to I satisfy market demand truthfully’. And provide a solution that is in the material economic and kinship interests of enough of my people to cause them to demand that implementation by force. Cheers
[W]e all use the tools available to us to attempt express our will to power (demand for agency). I have built a bunch of companies now, and am building a body of work. I’ve studied every field that I can study without getting my hands too dirty. I amuse myself teaching men of various agencies, as a way testing my work and improving my ability to communicate novel ideas. My ‘availability’ for ‘the students’ is simply necessary for my work (and somewhat entertaining since I have either been in a foreign country with limited circle, or here in the states with limited circle since I started working publicly) and my work relationships have always provided my social circle. I have had a thousand or more conversations with men and women from all walks of life who think using different words to change meaning is the same thing as acting to cause change in reality. And every individual does the same thing – try to make a story where the world fits his or her needs rather than adapting to the world such that one can seize the opportunity in it. So, we are not above a story we tell ourselves (yourselves) because selling a story is the only offering we have to attract attention with. If you have no capital, no organization, no income stream, no power relationships, are not politically engaged or engageable, not strong, athletic, or martial, then you have nothing to sell but stories. And if that is the case, then you probably are not willing or able to work hard enough to acquire any of the above. You can spend your prime years attempting to tell stories, and sell them. You do what you can with the rather good mind you (y’all) have. And with enough practice over six or ten years, you will either abandon it or find some use for it. But you could be working in craft, commerce, entertainment, education, or politics instead – and while you have probably lost seven to ten years of life to maleducation, you can spend another six to ten selling a story until your consequent failure is sufficient evidence for people your age to dismiss you. I’m a scientist, and those of you who sell stories, well, you need, want to be, and admire the priesthood- or rather the secular version of it – just as do all members of the academy. If you are on the libertarian or right end of the spectrum, you are just on the outside of the mainstream, and cannot employ it in the academy and are not knowledgeable enough yet to employ it in the media (might happen). . I understand this. But I have an approach to the problem of the present era, and that is to move the world forward, IN THE TERMS OF THOSE WHO HAVE AND MAINTAIN, POWER. Those people with whom I have understanding and experience. So, you know, if you want to tell yourself stories or create an english speaking version of the european new right, then I think you will need to work pretty hard at it. I will just move forward with ‘if it isn’t true, then how to I satisfy market demand truthfully’. And provide a solution that is in the material economic and kinship interests of enough of my people to cause them to demand that implementation by force. Cheers
We all use the tools available to us to attempt express our will to power (demand for agency).
I have built a bunch of companies now, and am building a body of work. I’ve studied every field that I can study without getting my hands too dirty. I amuse myself teaching men of various agencies, as a way testing my work and improving my ability to communicate novel ideas.
My ‘availability’ for ‘the students’ is simply necessary for my work (and somewhat entertaining since I have either been in a foreign country with limited circle, or here in the states with limited circle since I started working publicly) and my work relationships have always provided my social circle.
I have had a thousand or more conversations with men and women from all walks of life who think using different words to change meaning is the same thing as acting to cause change in reality. And every individual does the same thing – try to make a story where the world fits his or her needs rather than adapting to the world such that one can seize the opportunity in it.
So, we are not above a story we tell ourselves (yourselves) because selling a story is the only offering we have to attract attention with. If you have no capital, no organization, no income stream, no power relationships, are not politically engaged or engageable, not strong, athletic, or martial, then you have nothing to sell but stories.
And if that is the case, then you probably are not willing or able to work hard enough to acquire any of the above.
You can spend your prime years attempting to tell stories, and sell them. You do what you can with the rather good mind you (y’all) have. And with enough practice over six or ten years, you will either abandon it or find some use for it. But you could be working in craft, commerce, entertainment, education, or politics instead – and while you have probably lost seven to ten years of life to maleducation, you can spend another six to ten selling a story until your consequent failure is sufficient evidence for people your age to dismiss you.
I’m a scientist, and those of you who sell stories, well, you need, want to be, and admire the priesthood- or rather the secular version of it – just as do all members of the academy. If you are on the libertarian or right end of the spectrum, you are just on the outside of the mainstream, and cannot employ it in the academy and are not knowledgeable enough yet to employ it in the media (might happen). .
I understand this. But I have an approach to the problem of the present era, and that is to move the world forward, IN THE TERMS OF THOSE WHO HAVE AND MAINTAIN, POWER. Those people with whom I have understanding and experience.
So, you know, if you want to tell yourself stories or create an english speaking version of the european new right, then I think you will need to work pretty hard at it.
I will just move forward with ‘if it isn’t true, then how to I satisfy market demand truthfully’. And provide a solution that is in the material economic and kinship interests of enough of my people to cause them to demand that implementation by force.
Cheers
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—“CURT NEEDS TO READ [INSERT NOVELS, ESSAYS HERE].”—
Sci Fi? I read Herbert (Both Dune, and the White Plague – which I bet you haven’t) and Heinlein, and Clarke, and Asimov, and Bova and Ellison, and Bear, Anderson, and Pohl, and NIven, and Lem and Crichton, and Lem, and Forward, and Weber, and Saberhagen, and Steakley, and le Guin and Moorcock, and Lieber, Ballard and del Ray, and Stephenson and Sterling and and Gibson and Dick, and the Anthologies, and subscribed to Galaxy, and Isaac Asimov’s Science FIction, and Creepy, Eerie, Epic, 1984, Heavy Metal Magazines, and everything in the Splatterpunk Movement, saw 2001, silent running, star wars, alien, aliens, blade runner and dune in the theaters on first run. And I played the (and wrote) the first generations of video console games, computer games, and had a Z80, a commodore 64/128, a tandy color computer (still my favorite), a heavy-to-carry compaq portable computer, an IBM PC (Original). I played Wizardry when it came out, the Bard’s Tale, Doom, Quake, Unreal, and Counter-Strike. I didn’t even touch Horror and Mystery, or Military FIction, or Spy novels in that list.
I also read pretty much everything in the top 100 books of literature, the majority of the Great Books Series, (in hardcover), every encyclopedia (Britannica is best), Roget’s thesaurus, multiple dictionaries, history, science, most everything ever written in and on artificial intelligence, software design, programming, and only began to look at philosophy through the philosophy of science (popper and kuhn) which led me to Hayek, and economics, and that combination was ‘the key’ to my understanding ‘what had gone wrong’ in intellectual history during the 20th century. I only read philosophy to falsify it.
My Recommended Reading List contains books and papers I have read. But only a FRACTION of them. Even today I sift through volumes of information (Mostly papers) and the odd book (almost all books in the sciences are as predictable now, as are books of fiction), as well as produce thousands of words of output myself. I process information.
Yeah. I’m THAT GUY with six books under his arm, reading at every possible moment, that thinks every other person is a fucking moron, and barely domesticated (dangerous) animal (zombie, or what we call an NPC now), and that teachers and professors largely fill the function of keeping them in a corral we call the class room, and few are worth the air they breathe. The difference is I was in fights on a regular basis, back when things were ‘what boys do’ – particularly in farm towns. I am, to my knowledge, other than what I learned in art theory, self educated – entirely. School, university, library, bookstore, and the internet are simply nice places to consume information without worrying about the peasantry doing something too stupid.
Unfortunately, the optimum means of protecting yourself from Zombies is to run a business, accumulate capital and revenue streams, and surround yourself with humans. This is the problem for my ‘kin’. They are not allowed to create voluntary disassociation to protect themselves from the zombies. and so unless they can earn enough money to do so they are exposed to the zombies and cannot create safe spaces we call ‘neighborhoods’ and ‘civil society’.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-03 20:54:00 UTC
—“CURT NEEDS TO READ [INSERT NOVELS, ESSAYS HERE].”—
Sci Fi? I read Herbert (Both Dune, and the White Plague – which I bet you haven’t) and Heinlein, and Clarke, and Asimov, and Bova and Ellison, and Bear, Anderson, and Pohl, and NIven, and Lem and Crichton, and Lem, and Forward, and Weber, and Saberhagen, and Steakley, and le Guin and Moorcock, and Lieber, Ballard and del Ray, and Stephenson and Sterling and and Gibson and Dick, and the Anthologies, and subscribed to Galaxy, and Isaac Asimov’s Science FIction, and Creepy, Eerie, Epic, 1984, Heavy Metal Magazines, and everything in the Splatterpunk Movement, saw 2001, silent running, star wars, alien, aliens, blade runner and dune in the theaters on first run. And I played the (and wrote) the first generations of video console games, computer games, and had a Z80, a commodore 64/128, a tandy color computer (still my favorite), a heavy-to-carry compaq portable computer, an IBM PC (Original). I played Wizardry when it came out, the Bard’s Tale, Doom, Quake, Unreal, and Counter-Strike. I didn’t even touch Horror and Mystery, or Military FIction, or Spy novels in that list. I also read pretty much everything in the top 100 books of literature, the majority of the Great Books Series, (in hardcover), every encyclopedia (Britannica is best), Roget’s thesaurus, multiple dictionaries, history, science, most everything ever written in and on artificial intelligence, software design, programming, and only began to look at philosophy through the philosophy of science (popper and kuhn) which led me to Hayek, and economics, and that combination was ‘the key’ to my understanding ‘what had gone wrong’ in intellectual history during the 20th century. I only read philosophy to falsify it. My Recommended Reading List contains books and papers I have read. But only a FRACTION of them. Even today I sift through volumes of information (Mostly papers) and the odd book (almost all books in the sciences are as predictable now, as are books of fiction), as well as produce thousands of words of output myself. I process information. Yeah. I’m THAT GUY with six books under his arm, reading at every possible moment, that thinks every other person is a fucking moron, and barely domesticated (dangerous) animal (zombie, or what we call an NPC now), and that teachers and professors largely fill the function of keeping them in a corral we call the class room, and few are worth the air they breathe. The difference is I was in fights on a regular basis, back when things were ‘what boys do’ – particularly in farm towns. I am, to my knowledge, other than what I learned in art theory, self educated – entirely. School, university, library, bookstore, and the internet are simply nice places to consume information without worrying about the peasantry doing something too stupid. Unfortunately, the optimum means of protecting yourself from Zombies is to run a business, accumulate capital and revenue streams, and surround yourself with humans. This is the problem for my ‘kin’. They are not allowed to create voluntary disassociation to protect themselves from the zombies. and so unless they can earn enough money to do so they are exposed to the zombies and cannot create safe spaces we call ‘neighborhoods’ and ‘civil society’.