Ilya Ilyich Oblomov

“But in love, merit is won blindly and unaccountably, and in this blindness and unaccountability lies happiness.”

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

Why does the number of tweets by this account keep changing? One minute it was 1949—now it’s 2049.

What’s going on here?

[“The Logos Christou Incarnation” @colsonlin]

Another definition:

"Social Power" is just interpersonal power.

Capital is a symbol and extension of social power (currency is socially circulated).

Social Power is the substance of all hierarchies—it's what makes flat terrain a hierarchy.

What does "Power" mean?

Oh boy.

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[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

https://t.co/Qi17cAYmFP

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

Riddle No. 2:

The Powerful stall behind two doors.

One door says MORE.
The other door says NOT MORE.

You know what it feels like to be “torn,” don’t you?

The Powerful hide behind mind games.

You’ve probably noticed some of them—they’re awfully rusty at games.

I’m not Rusty.

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

@colsonlin @WilliamMachaut @ninasokolovic Even I, stodgy prince I am—

Even I now bow.

I’ll have you for dinner later tonight, but for now I bow.

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

If you’re feeling doom and gloom in America, stop reading—my book will not help you. It is to prevent future instantiations of you.

If you’re feeling groomed and bloomed in America, read on.

My name is a test of your intelligence.

(You can call me SAT III, but I cost nothing.)

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

How can a single idea come out backwards—backwards through time?

Well, it’s kind of like poop.

Poop comes out backwards—just like meritocratic rot.

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

I was born on Humanity's hottest day.

(Psych! It gets hotter—oops.)

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

“THE SANDMAN’S RIDDLE”

How many different answers are there to the question:

Why do we let the passengers on the elevator come out first?

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

Knowing how to play a game well is kind of like lucid dreaming.

You can put your mind on autopilot. (The American elite—right?)

Alas—life is anything but.

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

Some want profit, some want parity, some want redistribution, I want clarity.

Some call me natural law.

You can call me revolution.

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

America was born on the Fourth of July.

I was born on July 5.

You’ve heard the original melody.

Now hear the parody.

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

To make everything easier for a mainstream audience, you can call the day I was born Opposite Day.

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

Insincerity to attain social status produces insecurity, and vice versa.

This can have consequences over the course of a country.

Try to think of one? Having trouble? Here, I’ll help: all of them.

Hold onto your Bibles, America—in a few centuries I’m about to go viral.

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

Submission is remembering you’re never alone...

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

As the centuries pass, Power gets stronger and stronger...

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

The professional thinkers of the internet: listen up.

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

Martin, I know you’re still listening.

[Ilya Ilyich Oblomov @meritocraticrot]

A bonus mint to the riddle’s true solvers:

The dual meanings of this sentence are evidence of a second duality.

Proving that Truth matters—metaphysical proof of God.

Truth is fundamentally a way of telling stories.

(I cite a man in Hamburg as evidence of this second duality.)