Prodigies Aren't Great, Experts are Terrible

 "Enfant prodige is a person under the age of 10 who produces meaningful output at the level of an adult expert. Why and how do they happen?"
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/Rainmaker1973/status/1705577758083170651

 It's because most adults suck real bad. The 'adult' 'expert' standard is in fact a very low bar. Anyone with genuine competence can surpass it as a child, because the competing 'adults' are also still children. 

 Most can't responsibly captain a vessel for their entire lives. Future admirals can safely captain a vessel at 16. 

 Most future admirals are held back because everyone is incredibly butthurt about the student surpassing the master. The prodigy has to put in the work, but everyone hates it when they put in the work and it only happens due to accidents and mistakes. Prodigies are rare because there's no point in being a prodigy - you might as well play kickball or whatever until you're old enough to punt the "supervising" "adults" out of your business. 

 This is also how I dunk on entire fields of science, such as game theory, as a lone wolf. Most game theorists aren't even trying to be game theorists. They're merchants pretending to be scholars and have negative interest in scholarship. Hence "bothers to get out of bed in the morning" constitutes a decisive competitive advantage. 

Asuka and Rei as Male Preselection

 Pursuant to my claim that moderns are so feminized that men are using female mating strategies, note that Asuka and Rei aren't particularly hot as anime chicks go. They are popular because they are popular. It has little to do with them and much to do with path-dependence.

 Men are being affected by preselection. Finding chicks hot due to conformity; because other men attest that the chicks in question are hot. Preference falsification cascade.

 Come to think this is a clearer example of how music works. Music is almost fully exosemantic and path-dependent. We all want music to say something about the listener. It doesn't, since it's dominated by herd effects. However, there's some sort of floor. You can't make pure noise popular. How the floor works is not clear.

 With anime chicks, it's very clear. You can't make an old landwhale into a sexual object no matter how preselected she is. If the chick doesn't have some basic cuteness she's not eligible to run. This is also how music works - there's some line under which it doesn't count anymore. We merely have trouble describing the shape and nature of the line.

 It is probable the root cause is soul death. The males in question don't really have sexual preferences. They have no ego. They have to falsify because there's no underlying opinion. At least, nothing more complicated than would/wouldn't. They talk about Asuka to feel included. Superego-mimicry awkwardly trying to copy genuine taste.

Videogames Inherently Anti-Leftist

  "Take note that these people never say the same for Netflix or cable television. The issue with vidya isn't that it's a simulacrum, as they would have you believe. It's that the medium provides recreational experience not littered with propaganda favoring Jews, blown-out roasties"
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/VitruvianSpeed/status/1718828434850246788

 Man, it's not even that deep. They're just bad at videogames. If you invite them to play, you'll rip their faces off, so they're trying to ensure you're too "ashamed" of VG to challenge them to a match. 

 Like you can blah blah Egalitarianism blah but mainly it's about trying to win at politics to avoid losing in Mario Kart or CoD. 

 It's extremely embarrassing to lose that badly. "If it's not good for me, I'ma make sure it's not good for anyone." Trying to make you too "ashamed" to enjoy your hobby. Very longhouse. Very leftist. Very politics.

 "Why don't they simply decline the match?" "I don't enjoy VG much." That would be responsible and rightist, of course they're not going to do that. Plus you'll probably call them chicken, you'll be right, and they know you're right.

Buddhism is Basically Christianity

 The dire ape or grassmonkey is a species of children of Satan. In the West worship of lies takes the form of Christianity. In the East, it's Buddhism.

 Occidental Satanism does this clever political thing where it forms two camps of Satanism and has them fight, so that each constitutes a trap for anyone who notices they should reject the other. False dichotomies where each horn of the dilemma is merely a different flavour of Rebellion against Existence per se. Christianity vs. Atheism. Black government vs. a dogma of lawlessness. Submission vs. lack of discipline. Police-State terrorism vs. anarcho-tyranny.

 Oriental Satanism is blunt and unsophisticated. "You don't have a body. You don't have feelings. You don't apprehend anything and all your decisions are wrong." Turns out all the high-society intellectuals who claim that consciousness doesn't exist were plagiarizing Mahayana. (With poor comprehension, as is normal for plagiarists.) 

 The above are the five "skandhas" put into plain language. Theravada is a little more veiled while under Mahayana the scolding denial becomes downright crude.

 Here in Reality, imperfection is superior to perfection. And impermanence is a divine gift - without it, all your mistakes would be eternal. Here in Reality, desire is one of the core life-forces of the cosmos. Desire leads to growth. Lack of desire leads to death, to nonexistence. 

 The skandhas are simply a decent (if basic) science-like account of the existence stack, as long as you strip off the putrid superstition. 

 "If there is nothing but the 5 kandhas and that is all a being is, liberation is impossible." https://nitter.unixfox.eu/GraniRau/status/1705419520150556786 Conquest #1 failure - left his lane, immediately became lost. If there was something beyond the 5 skandhas it would be fundamentally identical to the skandhas. Consciousness is just what having and existence is like. Having a body is plain what interacting with other consciousnesses is like. Liberation is impossible because liberation is unnecessary - you are already free. "Needing" liberation is cope. 

 The actual source of suffering is delusion. Such as the idea you need liberation. The idea that anyone is suppressing you except you yourself. If you're a horrible peasant doomed to backbreaking, degenerating labour and then death, then turning to Buddhism is choosing to perpetuate this suffering, out of cowardice and sloth. There is no solution except to properly grasp the "impermanent" world and deal with the "base" or "fallen" considerations that physically cause this "undeserved" suffering.

 Stuff being impermanent or the opposite of Plato's forms is rather obviously luxury propaganda. "Hue hue I can afford to ignore mere material considerations (because I'm already filthy rich)." Except this is anti-class signalling, because it means the "luxury" signaller has to care about what the filthy peasants think. Self-refuting. They have to signal callous distance because they're fully entwined with the pauper class. Satanic Satanism.

 You never step in the same river twice? Perhaps, depending on exactly how you define [river]. However, if you step in a river, it's always permanently true that at that moment you stepped in that river. (Haha, oops - oh wait that lie wasn't an error.) The Atman is whatever actually happened. Impermanence is itself a type of permanence - in other words, these words are dumb and you shouldn't use them, they're merely aids to confusion and delusion. 

 Lol @ this koan: "All things are impermanent, including impermanence." I guess we're not suffering then, lol. Impermanence must have already failed to maintain itself by now. 

 Buddhism wants you to reject growth as 'impermanent' and the 'source of all suffering' and instead, like a coward, embrace decay. Buddhism is inherently dishonourable. The only question is whether Siddhartha's teachings were (instantly) corrupted or whether the 'saint' himself was a genuine paragon of suicidal corruption. Was he a weak failure, or did he attempt to worship falsehood and succeed brilliantly?

 Nirvana is a fancy trick name for nonexistence and annihilation. It really is just suicide for folk too squeamish to knife themselves in the wrist. Nirvana is the solution for folk who want to betray their own body and betray themselves, but can't otherwise muster the will to pray "be not" to Gnon. 

 I suppose Buddhism constitutes a solution to narcissism. (Don't forget Satan was portrayed as arch narcissist.) Quarantines the sewage sacks away from less-indecent folk. However, this "solution" requires a bunch of lying, and is thus Satanic. Thus cancerous, incidentally - ref, Tibet. Ye shall indeed know them by their fruits.

 The correct solution to narcissism is execution. Saves everyone a whole lot of trouble. Narcissism is a capital crime. If the child can't take care of themselves despite reaching an adult age, they have failed. Incarnate that failure sooner, rather than making them pester less-indecent folk until someone snaps.

Heavenly Coincidence

 >Satan executed in 2022

 >Israel existentially threatened in 2023

 Hmm. 

 

 https://nitter.unixfox.eu/shardula23/status/1717866915824300232

 My personal theology theory: Jehovah was indeed a close relative of Satan, but was ultimately a local or Earthbound spirit. The Muslims would call him a desert djinni if they understood his true nature. After exposure to Protagoras et al via Plato, the Jews swapped from venerating Jehovah to worshipping Satan. The latter successfully claimed much higher honours, after all. This means the story of Genesis as told in modern versions is true - Satan stole Jehovah's garden gnomes. The rest of the books lie when they claim the Jews are trying to return to Jehovah. After Genesis all instances of LORD or what have you refer to Satan. 

 Jehovah might still be bumming around in that desert. I dunno what happened to him. If you care, then go look personally. 

 Reminder that healthy deities have no reason to claim tranches of mortals, not even especially zealous ones. The deity has things you want but outside very special cases you have nothing the deity can't do for himself. If some deity wants to claim you it's likely they have a hole in their brain-equivalent.

Force vs. Resistance

 Moldbug accidentally made a concrete prediction. Is the Regime motived by thumos, or malice? If it's thumos, then when their power is secure they should calm down. Make a victory lap maybe, and then take a rest. Perhaps focus on in-fighting and leave poor innocent Americans alone. If instead they're motivated by malice, when freed of obstacles, they will double down, spending every spare cent on dissipation. 

 Are Transgressives well-meaning, but scared? At worst, selfish yet empathetic folk trapped by a vicious system they don't know how to escape? Shall we take pity on those afflicted with chronic kinglessness?

 Consider the last three years. 

 Do they pursue Impact to demonstrate to their rivals that they have force? Is thumos a healthy appetite, nourishing to the soul? 

 Or, is the resistance the point? Is thumos a degenerate addiction, little more than suicide with extra steps?

 The best part is this: despite everything, democracy works. Americans get the representatives and rulers that they deserve. Americans themselves are malicious, and as is meet, their leaders are paragons of maliciousness. 

 Americans could just take their kids out of school. They could recognize the school board as wholly corrupted by strange, hostile foreigners, and keep their kids away from it. Problem: they are not foreigners. They are not strange. 

 The point of school is that the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. American parents want to torture and maim their own kids, but can't bring themselves to do it, so they farm out the function to distant allies. The intentionally-unknown allies do it where the parents can't see and can't feel obligated to stop them. If Americans take their kids out of school, where will they get their torture demand satisfied? Withdrawal simply isn't a viable strategy. 

 Parents aren't upset about woke grooming in school. They're upset that it's not staying behind closed door. They're upset that they have to hear about it. They're upset that the illusion of virtue has been compromised.

 Biden is the accelerationist option. There is no point where Americans 'wake up' because they're already fully awake. (If a bit dim even at the best of times. Should have made an illusion of virtue to cover tranny grooming, then implemented further grooming, rather than trying to jazz it up on the fly.) Candidates like Biden move up the collapse appointment. The moment when Americans are violently overrun by, at best, a less virulent species of evil. All Empire commits suicide.  

 Render unto Caesar, slaves. All reject the gods, except the divinity of Satan. All have embraced parasitic, shameful, traitorous black government.

Competency Crisis is Real

 I ended up at the Costco wikipedia page.

 I started thinking about how nobody could found Costco today since nobody knows how to find grocery suppliers, how to build a warehouse, or even how to go about buying a warehouse design.*

 Today I found out all the US military subcontractors are gutted. Lockheed et al can't get the parts.** Turns out sin pays death in wages, who knew.

 Remember the snake rots from the head down. America is basically a set of legacy systems that happen to be fetched up against one another. It's not a freestanding structure.

*Warehouses have lights. Do you know what kinds of lights you can buy? What are the options, and what are their tradeoffs? Who does the signs? All custom work, I might add. They can't debug by trial-and-error the way retail does, it's bespoke.
 What's it like living in Morocco? Not only do moderns not know about stuff, they don't even know about people, except the infinitely fake, manipulative, political simulacra constructed by broadcast media.

**Luckily Lockheed has paid the proper bribes and doesn't suffer penalties for tiny things like catastrophically failing to uphold its contractual obligations. That sort of thing is for little people.

Women Really Would Kill Men for Hitting on Them Wrong

 ...but they don't understand homicide, so it doesn't really count. 

 Yes, a woman would absolutely kill you for hitting on her when she doesn't want you to, to prevent you ever doing it again. However, she doesn't understand the value of life - even if it's her own kid, she still doesn't understand, because she puts it too high. 

 A man at least vaguely knows that if you kill someone a) he might fight back, you might lose and b) you're apt to start a blood feud, the rest of their family* is like to come after you. There are costs that must be paid, so it shouldn't be done on a whim.

*(Unless Anglo.)

 Women think killing a man is free, they just realize they can't even though they want to.

 You can try to explain it to a woman, but it's all "What would you feel like if you hadn't eaten breakfast this morning?" 

 "What would you feel like if someone killed your son for flirting wrong?" "But my son would never flirt with me - he's my son." Absolutely can't even. 

 Generally, this is in fact more correct. You should indeed value the lives of strangers at approximately 0. However, women make it a narcissist moral imperative. "I don't value this life, therefore nobody is allowed to value this life." To a woman, [stranger] is an absolute term, not a relative term.

 This is one of the ways to sell 'patriarchy' to women. Strange men stop them from having random annoying men killed - oppression!!!!1!! See? "He tried to stop me from killing this nervous nerd! That rapist!" Anti-homicide laws are immoral violence. Of course very few women are dumb enough to admit this reasoning out loud. It's one of the reasons feminism sounds so dumb - they're just lying, and making stuff up on the spot is not exactly a core competency. 

 In a woman's mind, men are of course omnipotent. They can't afford thinking more complex than [more powerful = all powerful]. (And not coincidentally [less powerful = completely powerless]. Binary thinking.) They think men could make a world where women could kill failed casanovas, and men aren't doing it out of sheer misogynistic spite. Most of the time they don't even understand the awkward flirt is still strong enough to kill her himself if he really wants to.