PrometheanCave

What man fears and desires the most is becoming himself. Western Civilization maximalist.

[PrometheanCave @PrometheanCave]

People don't have ideas. People follow twitter accounts that provide them with therapeutic tranquilizing interpretations out of a complex world.

[PrometheanCave @PrometheanCave]

👇99% of your favourite social media personalities (on the left and right) are of this type.

[Scorched Earth Policy @Scearpo]

Perhaps one of AI's greatest usecases is extinguishing the horde of useless parasites that incorrectly fashion the title "Artist" upon their empty meager lives. An entire swath of degenerate porn addict consumers, "self educated" by YouTube tutorials and a sparse year or two in adolescence spent doodling absentmindedly has created a generation of mediocre irritants.

They cling desperately to a DeviantArt here, an Instagram there, all dedicated to displaying forgettable content upheld by the shallow praise of likeminded flatulent "creators" all stuck inside the same bubble prison of insecurity. Bandied together out of a worker's union of scarcity, these people operating on a single vibrating frequency of unfulfilled hunger paired with delusion. They all mutually understand their own mediocrity, it's made self evident by the indifference they feel towards each other's work. Yet they grin and scream praise at their peers like fat office women around the watercooler, giving out compliments with the barest sheen of insincerity in hopes of a fair trade.

Ultimately, trading sentiments is the practice of the mediocre. In a world where you are an insignificant mote drifting in the stone floor cracks of an arena stomped on by giants, you make friends with the other flotsam out of mutual survival instinct. The premise of creativity would, on paper, demand a level of objective scale and hierarchy in denoting the quality and significance of one's work. Yet, among the unremarkable, this scale threatens total existential obliteration if fully comprehended by the creator. If you had dedicated your life and identity towards a practice that deems you unaccomplished, inferior, and mediocre by its accepted standards, you either would be forced to improve your own standing through hard work or face a crushing despair in having to face the reality of your work as the equivalent to a factory worker churning out a disposable product. The distractions of technology and pleasure have made it far too easy to ignore the harshness of truth, and thus a race of coping dilettantes is born.

These people look up to a select few greats and stand around in the audience pit, rubbing shoulders with one another, kicking stones and muttering about how one day they'll be up on stage to be seen by the world, yet simultaneously claiming how much better they are, how much COOLER it is to be an unknown, wearing their insignificance with pride until they encounter the barest morsel of wet shit to suck the moisture out of desperately, whether it be a few hundred dollars or one fleeting viral post they can latch advertisements of their "work" onto like parasitic barnacles.

Like reluctant prostitutes, you'll find that many of these self fashioned creators will resort to commissioned pornography if they truly can't find any income from a proper audience. With this imposition, they will choose between two paths: Shamefully hiding their work under an alt or embracing it fully. The latter choice will degenerate them into one of the many fallen products of modernity, fashioning bipoc queer flags and they/them handles onto their identity like communist dictators. The motifs of leftist philosophy offer many mental refuges from the shame of underachievement. Through this refuge, they can safely find comfort in their own poverty because "money is bad" and "everyone who who makes money is evil." The inexorable mathematic qualities of finance stab at the content creator with the discomfortable undeniable truth that the market numerically assigns value through revenue. Further delicious falsehoods are granted to them in this pathway of cope. Ugliness is deified, mediocrity is clever, sloth is justified into ideology through nihilism, bitterness is humorous, vice is virtue, and squalor is a palace to settle into until a quiet lonely death.

The worker's union of content creators is silent and unspoken. It is a cloudy hivemind monolith of mutual paypigging. Whatever sparse commissions are captured within several months of begging and aimless network wandering are doled out between rent, weed money, and a charity budget of paying it forward. You'll often find that people in the "artist" community spend a significant amount of their own money buying their peers work out of solidarity. The purchases are almost always a symbol of hope for their own financial success. To buy your loser friend's work when you yourself can barely afford to live is like a tithe paid towards a belief that one day, a much bigger paypig will come along and reward you for a life's lazy effort towards what historically has always been a cheap hobby, a side talent meant to be mastered in congruence with an actual study or field of mastery. The renaissance man was expected to have developed a significant competence in the skills of illustration as part of a necessity in journaling their work towards studies such as anatomy, biology, mathematics, astronomy, etc. The modern illustrator barely reaches the status of an errant doodler and expects not only significant income for their scribbles, but the same respect lauded onto actual artists in history. It is a delusion spurned on by low IQ inhibitions, an incapability of absolute basic observation of both themselves and the dense oversupply of similarly unremarkable work. It is an unsolved elementary equation of supply and demand, following around the insecure creator, haunting them behind unturned corners of introspection, a horror threatening to dissolve everything they hold dear in a ghastly haunting scream that echoes forever into time: Nothing special, nothing special, nothing special.

The greatest hypocrisies of the content creator are shouted most loudly by the worst of this classification. An almost mathematic law can followed: The more unsuccessful and insignificant a content creator, the harder they will screech about authorship. Unable to parse the shifting playing field which made itself apparent nearly three decades ago by the advent of the internet, these dying lepers will cling onto Byzantine laws developed by the lobbying of and solely for the benefit of the same monolithic corporations which they claim to despise.

AI is the eternal boogeyman to the content creator. Its existence and the impending holocaust of obsolescence it threatens like a storm cloud on the horizon is heralded by a horde of uncaring third worlders which, despite their own parasitic mediocrity worsening the network, at the very least acknowledge their own work as nothing more than rote production towards a meager salary. There is some slight dignity in the ESL elevenlabs voice narrated video essayist that cranks out endless YouTube shorts like a shrimp farmer siphoning advertisement pennies in his net. At least he understands he is a parasite. The self deluded content creator, mostly inhabiting the west, carries a degree of undue pride. Their arrogance prevents them from occupying that same status of the creative world's equivalent of an Uber driver. If they should stoop to doing Fiverr work, they carry a false dream of the temporary embarrassed Rembrandt waiting to be discovered. They seethe impotently at the unstoppable threat that a computer program could not only freely replicate but exceed what they spent years to do poorly. They cry out in defense of the nameless artists by which these algorithms pilfered building blocks to create their image generations, as if art itself wasn't merely the combination of prior elements passed down generation from generation.

The lowest IQ content creators lash out most fearfully, unable to admit their own inability to parse between created work and AI generated work (a phenomenon which becomes gated to higher levels of IQ with each iteration of technological improvement) because they truthfully cannot even quantify the difference between which creative works have soul and which ones don't. They have drowned in imposter syndrome, force fed the lie that art is subjective, anyone can be artist, and that anything created counts as art. These are the dying cries of a species soon to be extinguished. They will whimper into Discord chats, getting older, stupider, and more exhausted by the year as the absolute unescapable truth of fate tightens its stranglehold over them. They are akin to nomadic diseased refugees, diagnosed with an inescapable pestilence marked upon them like boils and sores in the mediocre soulless PFPs and banners of their own "work" worn like battle standards in the war against creativity itself.

To those that occupy this category and have read to the very end here, scoffing at every word, I applaud your ability to wield your impotent rage against your own low attention span sloth. I hope you're angry, I hope you've sent this post to each of your sodomite pot smoking mutuals, I hope they read it and get angry too. You should apologize to the world for your existence. You should recognize that you are a walking imposition, a disease that haunts the lives of normal good people with the constant gatekeeping you do on behalf of corporations and state sponsored media that brainraped you into believing the dumbest ideologies, the worst memetics of authorship, and the undeserved applauding sentiments you grant yourself for incomplete work you mistakenly apply the name of "creation" upon. You are a blood sucking mosquito, sniffing out any opportunity to pilfer undeserved income from every source, including those you pretend to call friends. I can wholeheartedly encourage you to stop creating and go off to do something significantly more meaningful with your life, such as digging ditches or working in a factory, with no fear of having deprived the world of its next great artist. I know this because any true artist or talented creator who has read this will agree with me, and hates you even more.

[PrometheanCave @PrometheanCave]

@ChrisWillx Wrong. They were dealing with it. Everyone was an alcoholic.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

AI videos are incredible.
One of the best yet.

🔊

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Marxist bias on social media platforms comes from the administrators.

Capitalist bias on social media platforms comes from the users.

It is no longer possible to turn the majority of functional first-world people against capitalism. The system self-evidently works too well for that.

There are simply too many chances for advancement. Competent people, regardless of whether they competent through diligence, intelligence, charisma, fortitude, or whatever, see that they have a better chance of getting ahead by plying their gifts than by overthrowing the system.

They know they won't become billionaires. But that's irrelevant, because they know they can and will do better tomorrow than they did today.

So socialism, as a populist movement, is dead. So they have to cheat.

Modern socialists consist of three types: Losers, grifters, and dupes.

Losers are socialists who can't get ahead even in a capitalist utopia, either because they have no useful capabilities, or they are too mentally ill to effectively use them.

Grifters are socialists who don't actually care whether socialism works or not, they've just realized that it's easier to make a buck off stupid or crazy people than smart sane people. So they tout the benefits of socialism in order to collect money from poorer, dumber socialists, while using that money to enjoy the benefits of capitalism.

Dupes are those who are not losers, they have abilities, but they have been conned into thinking socialism works.

These last are critical to a socialist movement, because grifters are too few, and losers can't do much of anything.

But if, as I just explained, capitalism works too well, how are dupes to be created?

Simple. There's a two-pronged approach.

One, capitalism must be sabotaged, so it appears to work less well than it does.

This tactic is both a driver and a measure of progress, because every socialist policy you implement makes people poorer, unhappier, and more stressed out. So all you need to do then is convince them it's capitalism's fault.

Two, the illusion of consensus must be created.

Since some people understand economics, and can't be convinced that it's capitalism's fault that you need six business licenses and an environmental impact study to sell handcarved wooden trinkets at the county fair, you need to shut the smart people up by making them think their views are socially unacceptable.

The point of social media censorship isn't to persuade you, it's to make you think you are alone.

It's to prevent you from realizing that the majority of the country, and the vast majority of the actual smart, useful people who get things done, are capitalists.

And these days, they are all voting republican.

How do we know that? How do we know the polls are fake?

Simple.

First reason... when you stop censoring any social media platform, it immediately becomes dominated by the right. No only because most users are right wing, but because the most eloquent, insightful voices are even more predominantly right wing.

No censorship is required or used to make the right dominate X.

Second reason, the left is committing widespread election fraud. We know this to be the case because they vehemently oppose any measure that would make election fraud harder to commit, harder to get away with, or less effective.

If the left had the numbers, this risky tactic would not be required.

Ruling a population as large and as heavily armed as the United States citizen does not actually require the consent of the governed.

It only requires the illusion of the consent of the governed.

Without that illusion, any attempt at thwarting the will of the people results in mass noncompliance as the soft option, and possibly guillotines.

With that illusion, huge populations of nonconsenting people, even those with the weapons and courage to make huge amounts of trouble for the regime, can be pacified by the belief that they are alone.

This belief is self-fulfilling, because when those majorities remain silent and passive, those who resist really are alone, and can be singled out and destroyed by the regime.

To resist tyranny, a population needs not only the means of resistance, but the means to communicate with each other, not even to organize, but simply to realize their own strength in numbers.

Those are amendments one and two for a reason.

This is why you must not play it too safe. Why you must not practice so much "opsec" that people believe you are consenting. This is why you must not bury your radical opinions so deep that you, and others, don't get the chance to realize that they aren't radical opinions at all, but the mainstream.

Stand up and be counted.

[Dandalf @DanTalks1]

Then you don't believe in anything. To be against all conflict is to believe in nothing.

Virtue signaling. Using Christianity for his latest gimmick, the braindead commies and leftist well ran dry, so he's come to the right for a cash grab.

Fools and their money parted.

[Ryan McBeth @RyanMcbeth]

And @TheInfiniteDude, I want you to know that I think you are a vile human being, and this example of CPT will be taught as an example in classes on how to fight bad actors like you who engage in INFODOMWAR for years to come.
I hope you live forever.

[Ryan McBeth @RyanMcbeth]

This is a new kind of DIP or Deceptive Imagery Persuasion might call “Counterfeit Proof Tactic” or CPT. Where an actor creates a fake, used by a consumer precisely to manufacture debunking articles about the fake after the fake spreads by users who believe that it is real.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is indeed the most powerful message to young men in this whole campaign.

But it doesn't say what you think it says.

It says several things.

First, it says:

You are not fully human to us. That which is good for you is not inherently good, it is only good if it also produces some second order benefit for women, which is not only our real motive for anything we do for you, but also the only reason we see for your existence.

This is why we tell women, over and over, that they deserve more and better from you, and why we tell you, over and over, that you must give more to women.

Second, it says:

We will never do anything directly for you.

When asked what we can do for you, the only thing we can come up with is a rationalization about how what we offer women also benefits you.

The idea of giving you anything directly, for your own benefit, is anathema to us.

Third, it says:

We see you as a walking cluster of appetites, and the only problem you have that we understand is your libido. We believe that if there is an ample supply of promiscuous women, no matter how undesirable and full of contempt for men, and of pornography, no matter how empty of emotional validation and human connection for you, then you will be content to be ruled by a coalition of women.

Fourth, it says:

We see pleasure as the only positive function of sex. Intimacy is beside the point, and fertility is a drawback to be avoided at all costs.

Fifth, it says:

We see pregnancy and fertility as a sexually transmitted disease rather than one of the essential functions of a healthy species. How there will be a next generation of human beings is someone else's problem, and we are perfectly content to kick the can down the road and let someone else deal with it.

We are perfectly happy to do everything we can to make young women afraid of pregnancy and motherhood if it helps us to gain and hold political power.

And any long-term damage to the species, or to those women and their happiness, is not our problem and we do not care.

In short, it tells young men that the left is:

Rudderless
Morally bankrupt
Intellectually bankrupt
Profoundly misandrist
Only concerned about the welfare of a few selected members of the political class

[Sceptre of Reason @Spectrumofreas1]

@Raytional Most "empathy" is just soothing one's own latent guilt. In that respect it's narcissistic.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

https://t.co/AkrJgh58L2

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

"Canadians dont even have a culture"

F$ckin right we do, bud.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Classical Liberalism fully embraces the concept of (scientific) universality, which I think is one of the most interesting and important ideas to repelling arbitrary power and thus unleashing peace and prosperity. It's important to understand this principle. 🧵

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Left: Climate change

Right: Government weather machines

[PrometheanCave @PrometheanCave]

Follow him.

[The Counter Signal @TheCounterSgnl]

BREAKING: Danielle Smith announces that the UCP Government will be introducing legislation to amend and strengthen the Alberta Bill of Rights.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

In the back of my 9th grade English class, there was a poster hung on the wall by my boomer English teacher.

It said "What if they gave a war and nobody came?".

A simple boomer hippie sentiment.

I always wondered about that poster. Fourteen year old me didn't know the words "game theory", but I still understood some basic concepts of the field just from being alive.

And so I knew that if "they" gave a war, and only one side showed up, that side won, and could do whatever they wanted to the losers.

And that not showing up for a war doesn't do a thing to prevent the other side from showing up. In fact, it incentivizes them to do the opposite.

So I wondered... why weren't they putting that poster in the enemy's school classrooms, instead of mine?

I quickly learned that asking this question of boomer adults produced nothing but a blank look. The TV never told them how to answer questions like that.

So I continued wondering, and thinking about it.

Why weren't they putting that poster in the enemy's school classrooms, instead of mine?

It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I figured it out.

They were.

They were putting it in the enemy classroom.

Because I was the enemy.

We, all of us, the white western children of GenX, were the enemy they wanted to defeat.

I didn't realize that at first, because I thought of that English teacher, who hung the poster, as a full and complete human being, equipped with her own ideas and opinions, who decided to hang that poster.

But she wasn't.

She was a boomer.

Which means she was a programmable tool in the hands of those who wished to rob western civilization of the will to commit violence in our own interests.

She had no idea what she was dong. She wasn't thinking philosophically. She probably thought philosophy was a bunch of books written by Wittgenstein about the "nature of selfness" or whatever.

She had no mental tools to think about game theory. She had simply been programmed by books, newspaper, magazines, and television, to think of certain things as "bad".

War? Bad.
Violence? Bad.
Colonialism? Bad.
Racism? Bad.
Patriarchy? Bad.

Talking back to the teacher and asking uncomfortable questions that the TV didn't tell her how to answer?

Bad.

This fully programmable unit, equipped with no more sophisticated thinking mechanisms than assigning a binary "good" or "bad" label to various concepts, was simply acting out a program written by someone else when she hung that poster.

But who wrote those TV scripts, news stories, magazine articles? Were they the enemy, or were they more idiots?

And who programmed them? Still more idiots?

I had no way of knowing.

I only knew that there was a chain of programmable NPCs, and at the other end was the enemy.

I couldn't trace the chain back, of course. I was an impoverished twentysomething, not a team of investigative reporters.

But I knew damn well it had to be the Soviets on the other end. Who else would want the children of the West to be unconditional pacifists, and had the money, organization, power, and above all, patience, to spend decades manipulating the Western media that the boomers uncritically sucked down?

And later, when the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its own socialism... oh, look, I was right.

The USSR is gone, of course, but that web of useful, progammable idiots still exists, ready both to be idiots, and to teach children to be idiots. And there is no shortage of people who hate Western civilization and are willing to plant themselves in the programmer's chair.

Chase Oliver is a programmable idiot.

He has been programmed to abhor violence under any circumstances, even in defense of Western civilization, and to program children with his pacifism.

He has been programmed not to reproduce, and to groom children into sterility.

He has been programmed not to defend the borders of our nation, and to program others not to do so.

He has been programmed to prefer other races and cultures to what is nominally his own, and to program others to denigrate their own culture as well.

He has now successfully been integrated as the candidate of a party whose original philosophy was the very antithesis of everything he stands for.

By himself, he is a joke... a mincing little queer who couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag. But in concert with other useful idiots, he managed to infiltrate and destroy the Libertarian party, to render it no longer libertarian.

A drop of water is weak. But a flood can wash away anything.

These people are dangerous, and to oppose them, you need the proper philosophy. How are you to know what that is?

Simple. It's everything they are trying to program you against.

You must be willing to commit violence, rather than unwilling to defend what you claim to value.

You must unashamedly prefer your race, culture, and civilization to other races, cultures, and civilization, rather than being too broadminded to take your own side.

You must reserve your compassion, and your loyalty, for those who make common cause with you, rather than valuing all humans equally.

You must have children if you can, and find ways to support others of your tribe having children if you can't, rather than being sterile and allowing yourself to be replaced.

You must raise those children to be strong, willing to commit violence, and able to understand and pursue their own interests, rather than reflexively obedient... even if reflexive obedience on the part of your children would make parenting easier.

You must treat useful idiots of the enemy as enemies, remembering Grey's First Law:

Any insufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

and Grey's Second Law:

Any sufficiently subtle malice can be disguised as incompetence.

Your civilization is under threat from those who wish to use the Chase Olivers of the world to accomplish what they could never hope to do with military force.

Do not reject political violence.

Be willing to fight.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This comment led to a 38 month prison sentence.

Wouldn't it be funny if that simple fact led people across the globe to repost, quote, or simply copy-and-paste this picture everywhere?

[PrometheanCave @PrometheanCave]

@charliekirk11 https://t.co/LWTeQLHvQF

[PrometheanCave @PrometheanCave]

@Spectrumofreas1 @micsolana Are you saying it is impossible to master the art of reloading a BB gun with one hand while holding a soymilk decaf latte with the other?!