DIS is a great way to distill the core principles that I'll definitely incorporate into my own thinking.
The cornerstone of these rules seems to be determining whether the other person is "socially" engaging with you while mentally trapped in the framework of social media currencies (Likes, Follows, safety of their platform) rather than engaging in genuine social interaction.
Genuine conversations focus on the use of productive time and resources, "social media brain" conversations seek to maximize on-platform engagement and the usee accumulating platform in-house casino currencies.
Dave, I'm sorry to say it, and I have a lot of love for you and your content, but *talking about* community will never be interesting. It's something that has to be done, and as soon as you start discussing and theorizing about it, you risk strangling the thing itself under the weight of self awareness.
I know that you *do* actually build community in real life, but I think at this point that you either have to abandon online commentary altogether (which I do not want you to do as someone who appreciates your content) or accept that it's an intrinsically limited and contrived exercise that will always tend towards rank punditry - and that's ok. We are all gathered here because we share interests and opinions, not out of some nebulous desire to build community for its own sake.
Please take this in the constructive spirit in which it's meant.
Wrt #14. CJ Hopkins echoes Yarvin (or is it the other way round? must be something in the air) 😊
🗨 Sometimes you fight a battle because you believe you can win the battle. Other times, you fight a battle knowing that you will lose, in order to get more people to fight the next battle with you.
--
Wrt #19.
🗨 To forgive is to put oneself in a larger gravitational field of experience than the one that first seemed to hurt us.
🗨 Forgiveness is a skill, a way of preserving clarity, sanity and generosity in an individual life, a beautiful way of shaping the mind to a future we want for ourselves.
↑↑ David Whyte, always in thoughtful conversation with reality 😉
Without these two political objectives, there can be no cooperation."
This immediately alienates all those who oppose the current direction of occidental societies and civilisation.
The willingness to use force despite the personal cost is crucial - compare the triumph of islam in Europe and North America with the more numerous yet forever flailing and failing "right" (not that left and right exists in politics in reality, that's purely semantics and nothing more); moslems dare to use force working as a natural spontaneous co-operative collective against any common enemy, no matter what the authorities in any nation does to them.
The "right" should study the strategy and tactics used by the Moslem Brotherhood - the goal isn't victory this quarter or decade, the goal is relentlessly pursuing any and all actions which serves the greater cause, always and in any theatre. (That is not to be taken as endorsement of islam or of illegal actions, as I thoroughly loathe islam and its adherents, but methods are ideologically neutral - if it works, it works.)
DIS is a great way to distill the core principles that I'll definitely incorporate into my own thinking.
The cornerstone of these rules seems to be determining whether the other person is "socially" engaging with you while mentally trapped in the framework of social media currencies (Likes, Follows, safety of their platform) rather than engaging in genuine social interaction.
Genuine conversations focus on the use of productive time and resources, "social media brain" conversations seek to maximize on-platform engagement and the usee accumulating platform in-house casino currencies.
Dave, I'm sorry to say it, and I have a lot of love for you and your content, but *talking about* community will never be interesting. It's something that has to be done, and as soon as you start discussing and theorizing about it, you risk strangling the thing itself under the weight of self awareness.
I know that you *do* actually build community in real life, but I think at this point that you either have to abandon online commentary altogether (which I do not want you to do as someone who appreciates your content) or accept that it's an intrinsically limited and contrived exercise that will always tend towards rank punditry - and that's ok. We are all gathered here because we share interests and opinions, not out of some nebulous desire to build community for its own sake.
Please take this in the constructive spirit in which it's meant.
Great work and I'm glad John Carter shared this.
Greetings frens.
Fantastic article. Just now discovered this by way of Deimos Station.
This is written as if it is intelligent. It isn’t.
Wonderfully written! You’ve given me a lot to think about.
Wrt #14. CJ Hopkins echoes Yarvin (or is it the other way round? must be something in the air) 😊
🗨 Sometimes you fight a battle because you believe you can win the battle. Other times, you fight a battle knowing that you will lose, in order to get more people to fight the next battle with you.
--
Wrt #19.
🗨 To forgive is to put oneself in a larger gravitational field of experience than the one that first seemed to hurt us.
🗨 Forgiveness is a skill, a way of preserving clarity, sanity and generosity in an individual life, a beautiful way of shaping the mind to a future we want for ourselves.
↑↑ David Whyte, always in thoughtful conversation with reality 😉
"sustaining humanity’s relationship with God.
Without these two political objectives, there can be no cooperation."
This immediately alienates all those who oppose the current direction of occidental societies and civilisation.
The willingness to use force despite the personal cost is crucial - compare the triumph of islam in Europe and North America with the more numerous yet forever flailing and failing "right" (not that left and right exists in politics in reality, that's purely semantics and nothing more); moslems dare to use force working as a natural spontaneous co-operative collective against any common enemy, no matter what the authorities in any nation does to them.
The "right" should study the strategy and tactics used by the Moslem Brotherhood - the goal isn't victory this quarter or decade, the goal is relentlessly pursuing any and all actions which serves the greater cause, always and in any theatre. (That is not to be taken as endorsement of islam or of illegal actions, as I thoroughly loathe islam and its adherents, but methods are ideologically neutral - if it works, it works.)
No Mandatory Clause about Slaying Demons whatever/whoever/wherever they be? FAIL!
Is the fren that distorted creature that appears with soiled pants, some sort of amphibian incontinence advertising?