Cooperators Don't Bow

 If you feel the need to make someone bow or grovel, you should instead be executing them. At best, exile. Your society needs to be free of them.

 They are not merely inferior to a superior, who they are bowing to. They are inferior to the minimum viable standard. Absolute inferiors. They are burdens, and they are ugly. Clean up the pollution.

 Honestly, even someone willing to bow is already too lacking in dignity to be tolerable, whether anyone feels the need to force them to or not. 

 Cooperators neither bow nor demand bows.

When I Look Up During the Fall

 Schizo failed alchemists are better than twitter schizos.

 Have a palette cleanser. https://www.azothalchemy.org/azoth_ritual.htm

 "The schematized body of the alchemist is shown in perfect balance with the Four Elements as depicted by his arms and legs. His feet protrude from behind the central emblem, and one is on Earth and the other in Water, indicating he is grounded in the real world. In his right hand is a torch of Fire and in his left hand a feather symbolizing Air. Although he is firmly planted in the world of matter, the alchemist has easy access to the powers of spirit."

 

 Why not some functional encyclopedia articles?

 This one would be downright great if it weren't written in the Communist-Bureaucrat style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-control_system

 Keeping the disappointment theme, there are four kinds of bird wings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_wing
 Why doesn't every wiki article on birds include its wing type? Why doesn't every non-bird include a footprint? This is basic stuff, man. At least this article does exist.

 Something that everyone knows, provided you went to a school with a science curriculum. Simple basic fundamental origin physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_spallation
 (So, nobody knows this.)

 

 Apparently I deeply enjoy Jacob Philipp Hackert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouache If I want photorealistic images, I can go outside. Full 3D, multisensorial, etc etc. There's something deeply satisfying about that particular style of unrealism. They aren't funtime neon colours, and they're still [better than real] colours.
 The horking french exhalation [gouache] means mud, by the way. These are mud paints. We're not french and don't have to spell it mucghtdze.
 "What if mud were blue instead of brown?" Then, gouache.

 I notice that apparently stylizing relies heavily on trees.There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_gall_ink and mud paint critically relies on gum arabic. [[Advanced technology]] lol. It can be called less-crude, at best.

 The contrast with the alchemy is still painful. Moderns are allergic to style. I would guess they're trying not to excite the passions, lol...

 Although in toto the fall is quite inevitable, there is no good reason we have to fall with them. If you look up, and I also look up, then we are, together, not falling. When they want to drag you down, simply decline. "I'm good, thanks for the offer." 

  More palette cleanser. https://www.azothalchemy.org/azoth_ritual.htm

 "In simplest terms, the King and Queen represent the raw materials of our experience – thoughts and feelings – with which the alchemist works. The King symbolizes the power of thought and planning, which are characteristics of spirit. The Queen stands for the influence of feelings and emotions, which are ultimately the chaotic First Matter of the soul. The much heralded marriage of the King and Queen produces a state of consciousness best described as a feeling intellect, which can be raised and purified to produce a state of perfect intuition, that Egyptian alchemists referred to as “Intelligence of the Heart.” This special kind of intelligence or way of knowing is at work in the alchemist"

 Operation 1: calcination. Wherein we burn our pride to ash. That we may one day have something to proud about.

 Operation 2: dissolution. The salts of pride are dissolved, as are the rigid supports that upheld the useless vainglory. If the rule only got you to here, what use was the rule? Bust out the solvent.

 Operation 3: separation. We don't discard these solutions. The essences are centrifuged and distilled, that we might, though not simply, recover their virtues.

 As you know, it is important to learn mathematics, the language of god. As you may have forgotten, it is exactly as important to learn to transliterate mathematics into the language of mortals. Especially when the process produces pretty pictures and evocative images.
 There is no reason it has to be only math. There is no reason it can be only math.

Hoe Math's Finest Victim is Himself

 "If you subject people to certain stimuli in a certain order - or sometimes at the same time - you will change how those people feel."
 https://twitter.com/ItIsHoeMath/status/1858018803785109557

 Basically, no. 

 I mean, technically yes. The system is liquid. It ripples when you poke it. However, it stops rippling when you stop poking it, returning to the natural level. Sensors are sensitive, who knew.

  "I said "reading this post will make you feel better about Richard Spencer." and people looked, and they felt it happen, and they had no choice"

 If you are healthy, you already don't care about spencer. He is irrelevant. You have a valence of maybe -0.3, on a scale with no upper or lower limit. Then it makes you feel [[better]] about him, going all the way up to -0.25. Then you relax back to -0.29. 

 You had no choice. Oh my god.

 The sensor does not make decisions.

 

 This is not the kind of mistake and honest and sane person makes. This is the deadly payload. All the rest is merely the delivery vehicle. The sugar hiding the aqua tofani. Mmm. Namelessness. 

 The fact it's technically true clinches the Sophism charge. This is someone deliberately exploiting innumeracy in an attempt to cripple his rivals. If it were a genuine misunderstanding, there would be non-strategic dissonance. A logical spelling or grammar error.

 This doesn't even happen to NPCs. If you've talked to an NPC without authorization, you find can change their mind, but it changes back the instant you stop applying pressure. (Ref: north korea.) There is no lasting behaviour change, not even a change of the kind of things they say. 

 Meanwhile, if you do have authorization, then you can make them say whatever you want. It's all the same to them. The [[change]] is illusory. "Obedience means say Y instead of X." NPCs remain obedient, remaining substantially identical, and now say Y. They didn't know what X means, they don't know what Y means, they don't care, they don't want to know, they only want to So Say We All.  

 

 You can't change how NPCs feel. They have no feelings to change.
 You can't change how a healthy person feels. They are stable. 

 You can't change how a crazy person feels in any meaningful way. You can only change what they hallucinate their obsession to be about. Yes this can sometimes result in highly dramatic behaviour alteration. Conversion to a new cult, for example.
 They are unstable because both states have nothing to do with Reality. They are ungrounded. (You may have heard. So it is rumoured.) No set of stimuli can make them prosocial. It's rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. "Would you like to drown on the left, or on the right, my darling?" Regardless of the stimuli, they will drown. 

 Seek and ye shall find. In particular, seek health, that ye escape the asylum.

 There are a couple of webcomics I really started to dislike after I found out about the author's politics. However, I never liked them that much in the first place. I was reading webcomics, after all, I was not in a position of high standards. They were tolerable.
 I "had no choice" but to dislike them. Errr yes, I do find I dislike the things I dislike. If I didn't dislike them I wouldn't be me. The person choosing to dislike something else would be someone else.
 Even a total full-spectrum fabrication won't make me like richard spencer, because I'll notice it's fake. Inconsistent with previous verified information. Even if he totally pseudonymizes and fakes an entirely new personality, he will eventually slip up. Folk who don't have mask-off moments have much better masks than spencer.

 Feelings can change in healthy folk if they're shallow to start with. A small absolute change to a small feeling is a large relative change. 

 Deepfake harris liking stuff about the bible. Do a huge youtube blitz.
 World christianity collapses within weeks, right. "Nothing you can do."

 Thus, no it's not [brainwashing].
 What happened is obedient NPCs got new orders, because obama granted the cia the grace to issue those orders starting january 2013. The ideas and personnel were anointed high status and authorized, therefore they were permitted to issue the new fatwas to the simplistic, impressionable, childlike NPCs.
 The fundamental problem is that you made a society that includes NPCs in the cybernetic feedback loop in the first place. Nobody with a soul is shocked that this didn't work out. Causing problems is the point of the design. 

 If you don't want problems, use a design that's not designed to cause problems.
 So, uh, functioning as intended. Good work. Carry on. 

 If you feel you are too affected by these things, build a psychohazmat suit. I did. It worked. 

 Nothing you can do about it? Make decisions when calm, not when excited. If the issue doesn't bore you enough to calm down, then you haven't thought it all the way through yet. Don't be shocked if half-baked ideas are vulnerable to manipulation. 

 "To test this, go tell someone a fact that makes them uncomfortable and see how much they listen."

 It's just a skill. Nigredo: I got too upset to think when I told myself uncomfortable things. After some practice, albedo: I got upset but either waited until I got over it or mindlessly powered through. Rubedo: I don't get upset anymore. I'm too confident I'll be able to think through it, and strategically deal with it, why would I be upset? Logical propositions don't upset you. Your latent vulnerabilities upset you. It upsets you when truth comes into contact with your denial and lights the latter on fire, burning the neurons responsible for it.

 But yes don't go around telling toddlers santa isn't real and they're going to die painfully one day. They think you're telling them they're getting no presents because mommy doesn't love them, and they're going to die soon because daddy is going to stop feeding them. Highly traumatic. "They have no choice." Damn why does telling a toddler you're about to execute them cause a tantrum? So weird and irrational.

 Communication requires the skill. Even if the toddler is pushing 70, the skill is still required; still requires practice. At no point do lunches become free. 

 More importantly, don't include toddlers in your political formula, even if they have managed to exceed 18 years of age. Haha, lol. 

 P.S. Talking to toddlers about the future is so dumb I have to be explicit. Even a perfectly rational developed 3-year-old would only notice they don't have the frame of reference to properly understand events 80 years in the future. It's exactly like talking to a 50-year old about stuff 1400 years from now. "Bro, I'ma be dead. Even if I weren't, there's no way you know what you're talking about." If you know or should have known they would take you seriously, it's nothing but pointless, petty abuse. 

 Even if the toddler in question has reached 80 and you're talking about next election. Democracy is inherently sadistic. 

 So anyway, let's try an uncomfortable fact on you.

 Infohazards aren't real. Wet streets cause rain. Crazy nutcases do a crazy thing, blame it on something emotionally exciting that happened recently. It was all internal, but get this: madmen are not great at introspection. They have no idea what really happened. Deep, ancient wisdom. Buckle up for this one: don't listen to madmen. They're not reliable witnesses. 

 Are you too upset to think yet? How could anyone say [ignore fruitcakes], am I right? That's just not who we are. 

 

 "If you can make people feel good about X, you can make them support X. Make them feel bad about X, and they will oppose it. Facts won't matter."
 NPCs don't have feelings. Wet streets cause rain. To justify obeying the authority they were going to obey anyway, NPCs mimic the feelings their internal LLM guesses they're supposed to mimic in order to justify the obedient action. They have no idea that others have genuine subjective experience, they believe outward behaviour is all that there is. (Insofar as they can be said to have beliefs at all.) 

 [You are all individuals. Think for yourself.] [Yes, we will think for ourselves.] Good work, minions. 

 Likewise, unstable crazies have no idea what having a stable mind is like, and wouldn't believe it exists even if they saw one in action.
 Meanwhile nobody stable is dumb enough to hang around the crazies for long enough to risk the crazies earning a breakthrough. The healthy "have no choice" but to find them insufferable, and consequently refuse to suffer them. 

 

 I would say hoe math is genuinely self-deluded. He's always going on and on about how folk are mind-warped. This is projection. He's warped his own mind. Check: childhood leftism quotient is too high. His finest victim is himself.
 Kiddy just wants mommy to love him. All for approval. He's at a [higher level of consciousness] which means he identifies [god] as mommy and wants god's approval, instead of [society] or other secular [authority].

Epistemic Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo

 The universal solvent, the alkahest, is logic. Ockham's razor dissolves everything. Unification of opposites: logical solution is both profound and prosaic. Both mundane and transcendent. 

 Jung also found the three stages are psychologically analogous, but it seems he never understood it well enough to write something useful down like a normal person wants to.

 

 In epistemology, nigredo is the stage of breaking down your false beliefs. The alchemist wants to go beyond carrying wood, and beyond drawing water. He turns to verification, but upon exposure to verification, nothing is verified. Mortals are the children of Satan, and consequently everything you've been told is a lie. Instead, your ideology dies. All seeming profundity is cast away. Rather than going beyond carrying wood and drawing water, you lose the ability to wield the axe and bucket.

 Albedo, purification, is the process of reassembling the digested and fermented components into coherent and harmonious beliefs. Although all your conclusions were false, the experiences still occurred. You will be unsatisfied and ineffective until you understand your own memories.
 The dichotomies are understood to be false. Order and chaos are in fact the same thing; the more pure they are, the more similar they are even in appearance. Freedom and determinism are identical. These distinctions were mortal hallucinations.
 One must re-learn the axe and bucket.

 Rubedo is the stage where it becomes possible to reach true profundity. Before enlightenment, carried wood, drew water. After enlightenment, carried water, drew wood. Turns out no more than that was necessary. It was already profound, but you blinded yourself to it. "I want deep wisdom...no not like that." Now, you accept it the way it is.
 It seems water contains boundless mysteries, and wants to tell you each and every single one of them. Why not simply let it?
  Mortals didn't hallucinate the dichotomies for no reason. There is an underlying phenomenon. You wanted something. The thing you want is in fact there. No need to give it up. Instead the trick is to look correctly. Plato's so-called cave is dark because you have your hands over your eyes and silent because you have your fingers in your ears. You can merely let them drop.

 

 However, it's not like ye olde alchemists got it exactly right. Alchemists are not dogmatic traditionalists. Nigredo is black due to the carbon. The process probably shouldn't be digestion and fermentation, but calcination. Certainly, the process burns like fire when it happens inside your skull. It feels like rendering your previous beliefs down to charcoal. Nothing gentle or slow about it.

 There's citrinitas, which is either a parallel process, a stage common to all three levels, or it occurs between nigredo and albedo, not between albedo and rubedo. Or albedo is not purification, but the stage before purification. These analogies are complex and delicate, they fall apart at the slightest error, at the tiniest perturbation. 

 Nigredo: the waters of the amazon are contaminated with dirt and sickness. Evil water.
 Albedo: even the amazon isn't the amazon, with each bucket being contaminated differently. You can filter the water, removing the dirt, boil it, killing the sickness, but it is no longer the amazon. Purified water is identical regardless of source. Pure water is hard on the gut. Removing all evil produces more evil. Perhaps, it merely reveals the inherent evil common to all water.
 Rubedo: amazonian water forms a perfect example of amazonian water. There was never any evil inherent to the water. The [contaminants] are vital components of the experience. The inconsistencies prevent monotony. They are delightful variations, a song of the amazon. Sure you can filter or boil it, but what for? But yes, when thirsty, find something else to drink. The difference between good and evil dissolves, but not that between foolish and wise. 

 Nigredo: feelings are irrational.
 Albedo: ratiocination is irrational
 Rubedo: feelings are a kind of rationality

 A properly completed calcinifying nigredo procedure results in emptiness. It seems in the moment as if nothing is certain, as if nothing is knowable. It's normal to fail to verify anything, to strip yourself down to mindless bones.
 Surely, this whiteness means the only verifiable idea is that verification is impossible.
 All dichotomies are discarded. Black is white. If rendering yourself pitch black results in pure whiteness, how can we credit even the very words white and black?
 However, the solar analogy of citrinitas in fact preceeds nigredo. You have to decide to verify, which can only happen due to divine inspiration. Grace, if you will. The fire has to be set off by come kind of solar spark. Likewise, once blank white emptiness is achieved, a golden gift spontaneously appears, as if drawn by the vacuum. New ideas, which aren't analyzed into their component parts but instead suspend themselves stably in the alkahest, come from inside the successful alchemist. The idea condenses or precipitates without seeming to deplete the endless white field.
 Turning your purest alkahest on the idea that you don't know some particular thing or another, you find you can't verify that you don't know it. The idea that verification is impossible is the one that dissolves, analyzed.

'we built this industry'

 "Then we let it get stolen."

 Right, so build it again, and don't let it get stolen this time. You made a mistake, so don't make that mistake twice. Simples. 

 "Oh we can't because jooooos."

  Then you realize the point was to get it stolen. Folk who are stupid as they pretend to be can't even tie their own shoes. They aren't genuinely that retarded, getting it stolen was the idea. You can't help these losers because losing was the point. Can't wake up someone pretending to be asleep. The sheeple are already awake, and they demand to be made into mutton. They don't want or need any help, because everything is working as intended.

 Carry on.

Historical Alchemical Sins

 Ye olde alchemists sinfully went out of their way to be kind and merciful to strangers. Falsely merciful, mendaciously kind. Both alchemy and alchemists suffered greatly as a result. 

 External alchemy is a trap. Alchemists knew fools, morons, and the possessed would read their texts, and misdirected them. Playing around with methanol or aqua tofani is less dangerous than fumbling an internal alchemical process. Losing a few fingers is a small price to pay to avoid spiritual injury. No of course the philosopher's stone is not literally some crimson metal oxide. You can't pour the alkahest into a cup.
 The trap works because internal alchemy can be assisted using chemically-mediated divination. Analogies can be verified and extended using chemical correspondence. If you die of recklessly ingesting your analogy, well, it could be worse. 

 Consequently, even had any of the competent alchemical texts had survived, it would be impossible to read them. The only way to know what they mean is to already know what they mean. Revenge fully sour: legible provided you have no need to understand it. 

 Consequently, rather than an alchemical tradition, there is a deluded poser tradition.

 Unless being a moron is your goal, it is necessary to reinvent alchemy. Rediscover the starting point.

Civilization is Mass Dysgenics

 Industrial scale dysgenics.

 

 "In a civilized context, a lot of those men need to be allowed to have families or they won't cooperate, and then you have a problem, because civilization depends on mass cooperation."
 https://twitter.com/ItIsHoeMath/status/1871978740961759295/

 From the horse's mouth, so to speak. 

 

 Long term vs. short term. You can have a civilization for a few centuries, but at the cost of the race capable of having a civilization. See: china. See: india. See: greek and italian IQs. 

 Civilization, in and of itself, is woke.
 Barbarism is better.
 There are third options, involving cooperation and responsibility. Naturally this may be scuppered, due to being impossible to reach those options from here in the underworld. The dead can't be alive.

it's not your country

 For the record, if I were politically locked out of my industry, I would start my own company. Can't lock me out of entrepreneurship without collapsing the government. If I'm [[[deprived]]] of opportunity, then I go build my own opportunity. More expensive but not drastically so, and the extra expenses come with extra perqs.

 Of course, peasants can't start their own companies. Like children, they must be fed. They cannot create opportunity, it must be handed to them by their lord.

 Oh wait, children can survive as street urchins. Even children don't die if they're not fed.

 Maybe the politicians are just lying again. Pretending to be even more useless than children to try to avoid having to do anything awkward or unusual. Envy media, not honesty media. 

 "I would accept horse and buggy racial homogeny rather than multiracial tech dystopia." Right...but won't work at an all-white programming firm if they have to offer lower wages so that nobody brown and (fake) qualified applies. 

 Alt: everyone is a sole proprietorship now. They might all have offices on the same floor in the same building, but none of them are hiring if they have to gray race communist the hiring.

 If I can be politically locked out of my industry, it's not my industry. I did not secure it. Clearly it is run by my enemies. It is a foreign country. If I want it to be mine, my options are not shitposting on twitter. My options are hypersonic missiles and lots and lots and lots of bullets. 

 Secure your shit.
 A solution exists. It is not voting, nor any other form of Namelessness. Softlings deserve to be mashed.