Jarmor

Amphibian dwellers welcome. Frog culture enthusiast. Christ is King.

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

Actually, needing a king is the normal healthy state of man

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

When I was a child, my grandfather would sometimes solemnly intone at the dinner table: "The purpose of socialism is to organize scarcity."

As a kid it sort-of didn't register in my brain as meaning anything beyond "socialism bad", but eventually when I was 12 or something, I did ask what he meant by those specific words.

And he said: socialists establish control of valuable resources and then create an artificial scarcity of these resources, so that they can then use them as a tool of control by deciding who gets and doesn't get those resources.

And I thought that was wrong. I mean, are socialists misguided? Sure. But to claim that they deliberately create scarcity as a means of political control? That seemed far-fetched.

But, of course, he was entirely correct.

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

I’ve been telling people this for years.
GRRM pissed off millions of customers but he don’t give a shit. He got his bag. But his legacy is being such an epic bum ass bum that he crippled an entire genre, ruined consumer sentiment, and killed off an entire generation of epic fantasy authors.

Romantasy and LitRPG grew as a direct result of filling the smoking crater George left in the industry. New writers could no longer get deals to write epic fantasy unless the entire series was in the bag, and nobody can afford to gamble that much time to write that many books they may never sell.

Publishers no longer took chances on new series because customers had got burned by lazy shirkers like George and Pat. Agents wouldn’t represent new epic fantasy unless the whole thing was done. It hurt Indy because dudes had to convince customers that they weren’t bums too. Except when book one makes $50 total, because customers said Im not starting a new series until it’s done! they sure as shit ain’t writing book two. So it’s a self fulfilling prophesy of suck.

In the comments Dunning-Krugerands are saying this isn’t true. Look at guys like Brandon Sanderson. Wrong. Guys like him, or me, who already had established names, reputations, and fan bases were fine. We had enough customers who trusted us we could still do new things and people would come along to make it economically viable.

For example, the only reason my epic fantasy series got picked up is because I was already successful and could guarantee a viable level of sales off my existing fans. Newbs don’t have that. And over the ten years it took for me to write the six books to finish it, the entire time I heard from potential customers, nope, not gonna start a new series that might not finish because of George.

I am fine during this because I’m still gonna make a couple hundred grand off each of those just off my existing fans. Newbs make two bucks an hour, say to hell with being a writer I’m going back to my day job, and you all missed out on the next great author and his absolutely brilliant series, because you were too mad at billionaire George shoving twinkies in his mouth instead of writing.

Nope. Guys like me and Brandon are fine. George’s profound laziness screwed over the new guys. Customers and the industry quit taking chances on new guys. We will never know how many excellent fantasy series we missed out on, robbed by George’s laziness burning so many customers.

Some writers gave up, but others moved into different genres. Which is good. But it sure does suck if epic fantasy is your jam. LitRPG is close but different enough it blew up during this time frame because that’s where the talented went.

Being such a pretentious, bloviating bum that you damage an entire industry and strangle a generation of aspiring artists is quite the legacy.

Kal (who is a good writer btw, check out his books) asks what can we do about this? For me personally I’m just gonna continue mocking George’s work ethic in the hopes more normies realize what an outlier he is, and how they should expand their horizons to read other authors who aren’t stuck up, know it all, dickheads.

And before anybody starts barking at me that I’m such a hypocrite because I’ve not finished all my series, sorry I’ve only finished three of eight so far, and have only written THIRTY books since George’s last one, the next MHI comes out in December, and the last two books are next year, and I’m not planning on retiring anytime soon (if ever).

[𝐒𝐌𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐈𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐃 @swizardcore]

how i disappear from peoples lives after being the best temporary person they’ll ever meet

[Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن @EveKeneinan]

Postmodernists like Butler do not ask questions like Socrates asking "What is virtue?" He actually wants to find out, as much as he can.

No, they're like Pilate asking "What is truth?" He doesn't actually care about the answer; he just wants the whole thing to go away. So he has it crucified.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

The best of men lack all conviction,
While the worst
Are full of passionate energy

[R.Сам 🦋🐏 @Logo_Daedalus]

The American Aristocracy are “lifelong moderate democrats.”

[𝑵𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆 @Nobleheart]

Narrow is The Way...

[Dave Greene @GreeneMan6]

An eternally interesting archetype is the corrupted "Black" knight, whether in the 40k Chaos Space Marines or in Cormac McCarthy's Villains.

All men feel, at some level, that something about Divine justice requires that human civilization be burnt to the ground. But, justice or not, woe betide any soul who follows the ruinous banner and becomes an agent of Chaos.

[R.Сам 🦋🐏 @Logo_Daedalus]

Back to the Backrooms

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

No curiosity whatsoever about how this happened or what can be done about it.

When you have Just World Syndrome, it feels sufficient to realize the world is unjust. This alone will make it just, since the world is, ultimately, just. Yeah I don’t get it either

[Jarmor @FrogAdmirer]

@MysteryGrove This is me.

[Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter @JoshuaLisec]

I remember the backrooms creepypasta

They’re real btw

That’s why it went so viral

Old abandoned offices with 1980s aesthetics. Shuttered shopping mall-like retail shops. Liminal spaces.

Real. We have met the horror and it is us.

[Johann @LookAtMyMeat1]

In Disco Elysium, the main character uses drugs, alcohol, and political ideologies to mask his depression and give himself a sense of self-worth.

This is a reference to you, the player.

[Dave Greene @GreeneMan6]

This is a problem for everyone. But it hits women particularly hard. They’ve psy-opted themselves into virtual insanity through exposure to the worst one-percent bad actors.

[Dave Greene @GreeneMan6]

The fact that this video is titled “The internet is Failing the Left” tells you a lot about the psychological / ideological differences between left and right, much in the mode of Zizek.

If I (or any other right-winger) were to make a video, similar to Burns, criticizing some larger creator like Matt Walsh, we would never title it “The internet is failing the right”.

It’s not even that my arguments against Walsh would necessarily be different than Burn’s arguments against Wynn. It’s that “The internet is failing the right” reads like a GRAMMATICALLY incorrect sentence. The non-volitional object is the active subject. The political agent is the passive object. This is not correct, linguistically. The correct language would read “How the right is failing to use the internet!” or “How our enemies who run the internet are attacking the right!”

All of this goes to show that the modern left sees itself as a passive object that is acted upon. It cannot fail, it can only be failed. Capitalism and Oppression happen to the left, and that’s bad. Maybe, in the future, change and revolution will happen to the left and that will be good. But the left doesn’t DO things. Doing things is not what the left does. It isn’t that kind of thing.

The left is like a tree in the storm that is capitalism / modernity. The rain and the wind are happening to it. Maybe it survives or doesn’t, but the action is that of the storm. The right is like a ship sailing through the storm that is Capitalism / modernity. It cuts through the tempest. Maybe it survives or doesn’t, but the action is on the part of the ship.