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Cluseless

To hear the whispers on the wind, and
To see their writings on the wall;
To even tithe attention rewards an opulence of omniscience.
Having heard the madness warring in the voices, though,
And seen the desperate fallacies in their words,
Any person yet paying homage to any false idea—
Inevitable reality or no—will live and be and someday die
Truly poor and having never known.

Visions of sugar plums... burning alive.

The happiest moment of my life would be the day after the day humans collectively acknowledged that the actual cost of living in "societies" had long since far outweighed even the maximum theoretical potential for its benefit to us - when we finally collect our closest friends and our families, say good-bye to everyone else, and wander back to our better, older selves again.

Sadly, such a day will never come =p

— But! There is still a slight chance (within our lifetimes) that the Earth will put us very close to that ultimate goal on its own - regardless of the present state of humanity at the time. I'm excited for the likely apocalypse of the not-nearly-near-enough future! 

Imagine the beautiful chaos working to re-simplify the arbitrary organization of all of humanity's energy...

Thousand-foot tidal waves. 

Continent-wide lightning storms. 

Hurricanes the size of Texas. 

Volcanoes, and pyroclastic surges... 

New Grand Canyons, miles deep, that will explode outward from the nearest major fault line, hopefully swallowing at least a few major cities... ahhhh! 

I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE END. Let's make this happen, people! This is a goal worth achieving. The public consciousness is oblivious to its existence, but we do have the technology!

Common Sense, Made Common Knowledge

False beliefs consume the mental space that truth requires.

Unless you choose rightly, your very thoughts will harm.

sthguoht suoluben fo snoitarebrever

Society is pay-to-lose only.

Aw, shucks - all ya need to do is freedom-ize our current state of affairs/imprisonment/enslavement in the right light, and you'll realize that it's really the best thing for us.

Consider this: if the only cost of living the American Dream is that we have to live the American Dream, then everyone is technically getting their American Dream-life for free!

–and there's no "fear" in "free."

When we apply the transitive property of rhetoric and take into account the commutative property of cognitive dissonance, I personally feel all of my would-be fears assuage themselves.

Yes, life is surely good. Life must be good! –'cause if it wasn't, and we were all just pretending it was, then that would actually make life pretty fuckin' horrifying...

Solitary Confinement

A mind that can no more change is a mind no more –
Just a soul—the sole inmate—in a prison made from open doors.

"A Distillation of All Sports"

by Little Orphan Intellect.

On your cognitive dissonance regarding your genitalia

"Don't objectify me!"

- Women like this one

The Hypocrisy of Advocacy in Numbers

——The Hypocrisy of Advocacy in Numbers——

A group has no voice; members of a group trade their voices for the dumb, basic power of physical numbers - cheap, cowardly intimidation. A throng can only ever form around a core of fear, and fear can never result in anything other than more—and worse—problems for everyone.

A group cannot cultivate or participate in rational discourse, because a group can only speak through a puppet - an appointed individual or individuals that will always convey individual agendas and biases in any attempt at reason.

Next time you throw your lot in with any group of people acting under hysterical and misguided directives to "change things," do so knowing that your participation comes at the cost of any possible ideal solution to whichever problem you—now-falsely—purport to care so strongly about.

Only a truly apathetic person would ever trade his or her own voice—the only possible tool by which a person can manifest a tangible and useful identity—for any lesser compromise.

All social activism is folly and cowardice - and those who cannot learn to recognize their ignorance will inevitably doom the lot of us. What you want is not possible within a group - and society is a group. Either shut the fuck up about it and live in the bed you've made for yourselves, or do something real to change it by bettering yourself; don't hide in a crowd for protection, and don't pretend that the rest of the world—or anyone in it—is in any way obligated to change on your behalf. Social existence is a compromise. You have a right to express your rational ideas of how incredibly hollow and useless such an existence may be at times - but unless you are truly willing to forgo all reliance upon any social mechanisms whatsoever, you are a hypocrite if you challenge ANY of them with your own individual agenda(s).

If you call yourself an advocate for any idea, yet still allow fear to influence your actions... you are useless even to yourself - and you will inevitably and absolutely harm the "cause" of any otherwise-rational concept to which you attach yourself.

When they say, "It's not you... it's me" - they're actually right, even when they think they're lying.

— An unsurprising sentiment from what is by far the most idiotic, self-important and self-ignorant generation in human history: "There's no room in my self-righteous selfishness for your selfishness." Hilarious!

Anyone who thinks this is clever should be added to a PSA list of humans with whom everyone else should avoid accidental breeding at all costs...

A Concise Guide to Enslaving Any Human Population

Want to know how YOU can turn thousands—or even millions—of people into your happy, thankful slaves? You've come to the right place! It's tons of fun and super easy - so easy that anyone can do it with only a little bit of study and preparation! :)

Overview:

To begin with, you first have to understand that all individuals within any society perpetuate social rule by default—benign and restrictive alike—unless they take conscious steps to act against it. This is the nature of a society; it's an organism which, once birthed, exists only to keep itself alive. The key to keeping a society of people enslaved, thus, is first to get them IN a society built around rules of YOUR choice. Later on, you'll then take steps to make sure they always feel like they have a better option *within* society than any other possible option *outside* society. (People are generally pretty stupid - so this is actually quite easy). Then, once you have them invested in remaining trapped within your society, you must create a comfortable cycle of distractions and lead them to a state of self-conditioned reliance upon said cycle - so they don't decide to change their minds.

*****STAGE ONE:*****
Okay - so, you've got a population of people believing that you know what's best for them. They've all come together in one spot more or less, and are looking to you for guidance. What next? The bait and switch, that's what. The "magic trick" to herding your population into indefinite slavery is to progressively marginalize them while simultaneously flattering them to greater and greater extents. You need to start taking away their freedoms, now - but you must make certain that they're thanking you for it. With a little bit of perceptive smoke and mirrors, this is an easy task - made even easier as your population grows, as the increasing density steadily destroys any possibility of maintaining effective or useful communication between members of your society. A melting pot reduces everybody to the lowest common denominator, so open your doors WIDE and beg them to let you lead them! Your biggest ally here will be simple human nature: there is no maximum limit to the size of your populace's inflated ego - and if you steadily inflate it until it's so big that it blots out the light of the truth just by being there, you can start to do whatever the hell you want with reality while your slaves vegetate in their own little self-centric worlds. Behind closed doors, politicians affectionately call this one the "freedom shitwich." This is basically what it sounds like:

"You don't need (this)! You're the best bunch of human beings that've ever lived, and it just boils my blood to know that so-and-so is trying to make you dependent upon such-and-such that you don't need. Your lives are far too precious to be wasted on lies and false agendas! I want you to be able to focus on YOU - to put the power back in YOUR hands to make your OWN decisions, without having to cater to the demands of people or corporations who think they can own you. You aren't slaves! I'm determined to fight for your right to stay free. To start with, I'm going to promise to make sure you aren't *robbed* of the truly precious things in life at the hands of silly distractions; we're going to help you out by taking those annoying distractions away for you - as a courtesy for your being such a stand-up human being, and as a salute to your staying true to the ideals and principles that have made you all into such a uniquely righteous nation. Oh, no, it's no trouble - of course, you're welcome. More than that, though, thank YOU for just being you... because, really, at the end of the day that's ALL that matters, right?"

*****STAGE TWO:*****
This method will work well for a number of decades, but eventually a population will begin to recognize the stark absence of certain intrinsic qualities of life, and after a bit more time will then begin to question where such necessities have gone. To prevent this from getting out of hand, all that's needed is a bit of preventive maintenance. One must simply convince your populace that they deserve better than to *have* to fight for their freedoms. Convince them that just being upset and vocal about it *should* be all that they have to do - because they *deserve* to be listened to. Once they start voicing their anger, don't fight them; instead, in the first stages of public unrest you should position your voice parallel to theirs and give them the leadership they desperately need. Promise to lead them from their despairing situation - and make sure you shout your "solution" louder than the crowd cries out in complaint. It's trivially easy to accomplish this because the notion of entitlement and self-fixing problems appeals almost IRRESISTIBLY to the unchecked egos of the uncritical and under-educated masses; once you seed their minds with a subtle and indirect hint of your idea, almost everyone will immediately believe that they invented it themselves - and that, thus, it must be correct. By giving them a direction—any direction—you'll give them an outlet through which to express their frustration and air their righteous indignation; it'll make them feel better temporarily because they will feel as if they are doing *something* about (something). Their momentum will quickly fade as they begin to experience their emotional catharsis, and as your problem solves itself it will begin to preemptively prevent itself from reoccurring: courtesy of the human brain's careful chemical administrations of behavioral motivations and deterrents, they will quickly learn that they may depend upon this temporary catharsis whenever they start to feel trapped in the future. They will return to it, time after time, oblivious to other possibilities, with eagerness - at first because they become upset over something else, but eventually... because they need the short-term release, and they miss it when life is "normal." It's a self-sustaining cycle that not only fuels itself but also generates its own constantly-increasing momentum and preserves its own inertia. After numerous enough iterations they will eventually soothe themselves into a life of discordant—but silent—resignation. Cognitive dissonance is now your lieutenant; at this point, you can sit back, relax, and perfect your strategy - filling in the gaps as they arise.

*****STAGE THREE:*****
Maintain and hone. Focus on identifying and supporting environmental opportunities to keep your populace ignorant and content. Belief, especially, is vital if you can introduce it into your population's culture. Myths and stories of the supernatural must be encouraged, researched and publicized, and even planted for discovery; meanwhile, your regime's advances in science must be either hidden or else "spun" such that they do not interfere with the cognitive dissonance mechanisms of your population. Encourage individuals to empower themselves with trivial and arbitrary identities as they see fit - the more irrational, the better. Your most useful weapons of opportunity will be anything that can keep them focused on themselves instead of on the reality beyond themselves. They will create these delusions on their own, as a natural result of their coping mechanisms constantly adapting to your careful control over them. Simply smile, nod, and encourage it - but do not be over-eager to applaud them, or they will become suspicious and may question your motives. Gently stoke the fires of their beliefs in... whatever they come up with to believe in. The entire process of perpetual enslavement relies on cognitive dissonance - and belief is the simplest and most fundamental form of this essential slaver's tool. If enough people believe in something—in anything, really—their minds will already be primed in advance to openly receive their leaders' circuitous and meaningless rhetoric. They won't question your hollow explanations because they will "seem" reasonable upon initial appearance - and, because they are already accustomed to accepting their perceptions of initial appearance (belief) as bonafide fact, there is little or no danger of their ever digging any deeper. Belief is a tyrant's best friend! Don't neglect it if you expect your social cage to stand for more than a few hundred measly years.

Summary:

Using the above tools, you can guide people into turning their own belief, human nature and incidental emotional discord into invincible cages. Strengthen them by actively encouraging and affirming your population's sense of divine entitlement, and instead of straining at the bars they will then resolve themselves to simply yelling at the bars to open - and then yelling at each other when nothing happens. All a potential captor must do is open the door just a little bit at first, bait a careful trap, and wait for the prey to hurry inside to its doom. The rest is all down hill, as they say!

Once a population is enslaved in this fashion, the most efficient way of keeping them slaves is to guarantee that their predictable efforts to escape will instead result only in the tightening of their bonds. If a modicum of effort is invested in making this constriction *appear* instead to be a "loosening," the efficiency of the tactic is increased even further. Manipulate their environments to force them into making rash, uncalculated, instinctual reactions out of fear - and ensure that the immediate results of those reactions are perceptibly cathartic... but that the *net* result is controllable and works in favor of your agenda.

Guide their actions into a circular reality in this manner for only a few generations - and, once everyone alive can remember only the familiar orbit of your machinations, they and their future generations will practically guide themselves from that point on.

Relax! Don't do it.

No matter who you are or what particular upset or offense you're presently stewing over, if you're human, I've got some happy facts that are sure to cheer you up!

— Life itself is objectively meaningless, and you're not the exception to the rule. Why brood over anything when there's a nearly infinite diversity of other meaningless activities and ideas to pursue? Go on a shooting spree, write a letter to the editor, or punch somebody in the face - whatever gets your head back on straight. When you consider that all of humanity is utterly insignificant to the universe, dwelling on human emotion—of all things!—amounts to wasting... wasted time.
(Yes, it makes *that* little sense!)

So meta

Now that the "word"—which is actually just a prefix—"meta" has been assimilated into the present generation's social vernacular, do you think it's possible that they might someday come to understand—perhaps even pursue!—the fundaments of metaphysics... even by accident?

Nah, you're right; before that could happen, the trend would first come full circle and see "meta" assigned an artificial pejorative connotation. By that point, all forms of thought might already be stigmatized as "being, like, way too meta" to be socially acceptable, and we will have collectively returned to our barbaric pre-intellectual roots: happily accepting the fates handed to us by the effigies of ourselves—physical and ideological—that we worship as "gods," and allowing the minutiae of our lives to be arbitrated by a few of the most egocentric and loud among us.

Oh... I see what I did there.

Beep-beep, mmm, beep-beep, yeahNOOOOO!

Did you know that:
... a person is far, far more than the sum of his or her ability to produce consumable products for other people who don't need them? (First, though, one must to realize as much)!

Why the hell would I WANT to pretend there's such a thing as a "dream job?" Stop asking me what my "dream job" is, robots! I realize that most of you have become accustomed to rigid routines of beep-beeping and have even trained yourselves to assign arbitrary values to specific configurations of beeps you encounter along the way - but I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be a human being, and I'd rather not trade more of that away than I have to. I'm certainly not willing to pretend that I fantasize about any particularly-glorified idea of slavery. No human being in its natural environment would either have or need a dream job - or any job at all beyond finding food, evading predators and surviving the elements for that matter. I have all of those things in plenty, so what exactly is there to gain by giving away far more of my time, energy, happiness, personal and objective growth... for different, but no more functional, versions of those same things? — Nothing of importance, at all! 

If it's not intrinsic, it's superfluous - and if it's superfluous, I'd have to think of a damned good reason for wasting a chunk of my life on it. My "dream job," thus, is whichever job has the least impact on my actual *life* - i.e. whichever job is the least "job" and the most "anything else." The colloquial definition of "working" doesn't even satisfy the eligibility requirements for qualification as an allowable ingredient in the fundamental idea of "living." The two are mutually exclusive!

I didn't *pick* what I love to do from a list; I invented it from scratch as I grew. I'm a professional "myself," and you couldn't pay me *any* amount of money to be anything else. Once I've got a roof over my head and food in my belly, there is literally nothing else in the world that is truly worth the cost of even the slightest amount of my humanity.

Having to endure the constant "beep, beep" is compromise enough!

Femenifascism

I have to do a public shout-out to all of the feminists among you; I had an inspiring random encounter today, and I felt the impact of those feminist ideas you're all projecting out into the world. I thought I should tell people, in the hopes of educating well-meaning people who really don't comprehend the effect their behaviors have on other members of their society. Here's what happened:

I was driving home from work on the freeway at 11 PM when I saw a car pulled off to the shoulder ahead of me. Being that there was no traffic to speak of behind me, I slowed down to see what was going on. Once the other vehicle was in range of my headlights I was able to make out a pair of women looking totally confused—and clearly freezing—as they stood behind a car with a very flat tire on the rear driver's side. I looked for signs of a jack, a spare, or a lug wrench, and saw nothing; unless they were either missing one or more of those things or there was something else wrong with the car in addition to the flat tire, there was no good reason they should be just standing around doing nothing but freezing. So, as any sensible person who gave a (small) shit would do, I partially pulled over, rolled down my window, and asked if they needed any tools or help with a spare, or if they needed to use a cell phone to call anyone.

Then, as any 30-something woman—who's learned that women of any age can get away with *absolutely any* behavior toward men, short of killing them before first coming up with at least a poor excuse—would do, one of them shouted, "Fuck off, you fucking perv." Ahh, feminism at its finest. The sight and sound of a woman fully empowered to do absolutely anything the fuck she wants—because she lives in a society where a woman's individual level of sexual and individual power over men FAR exceeds any potential social power imbalance in men's favor—with absolutely not a care in the world about her objective value or qualities as either a human being OR as a member of society, or about her obligations to the standards of behavior agreed upon by her membership in said society, or about her responsibility for the consequences of any of her own utterly whimsical actions...
... that is INSPIRING!

I'm so glad, and so privileged, to get to observe yet another in an endless series of real-life examples of the reverberations of the female-entitlement-activism running rampant through our society. Please, feminists - by all means... continue your noble quest for *overt* total social dominance, even though you've already had covert total social dominance for as long as there have been men and women.

I still don't know why they were standing outside the car when there have been constant 80-90mph gusts of wind as cold as -2 F since... yesterday... but I can only guess that it must be another symptom of their obvious stupidity. Being the models of feminism that they were, it's clearly a deeply-ingrained personality trait which they celebrate at every opportunity.

In short, all of you self-mistitled feminist "activists" hawking compulsory "equality" on your pseudo-philosophical blogging communities and internet social networks, ejaculating fallacious rhetorical bullshit while egomaniacally masturbating your daddy issues and profound lack of both useful historical education and intellectual competence... are actually just *singularly oblivious fucks.* I'm calling you out.

Feminism = willful adversely socio-repercussive egotism.

A friend of mine brought up an important fact that I may take for granted: almost everyone who uses the word "feminism" has NO CLUE what they are actually saying - so I should probably do my due diligence and explain it to them and/or you.

You have to first understand that I'm referring to *actual* feminism when I write about "feminism." I'm aware that it is popularly misused in the form of a misnomer for a significantly-lopsided and naive—but probably originally well meaning—version of "egalitarianism," but that's not the (mis-)definition I'm referring to when I invoke the word... and, honestly, that popular misuse is one of the reasons I feel it's so important to bring it up. I have no argument against egalitarianism or social *equality,* (at least in theory, though that's another matter entirely), and I have no problem with the generally constructive ideas referred to by otherwise well-meaning people when they incorrectly use the word "feminism," as I think many so-called "feminists" probably do. However, the example I described in my original post illustrates one of many inevitable behavioral consequences that follow the inappropriate misappropriation of one word—with its own very specific and strong connotations—for use as a container for quite different ideas - in this case with contradictory connotations. Language does change people's behavior, both as they use it themselves and as they are exposed to it in their environments; I think it's important to scrutinize the net results of language in general, and even more vital to do so when those results are... for lack of a better term, horrific.

Notwithstanding the vernacular misconception of its meaning, actual feminism is something else entirely different from "egalitarianism" and, in fact, exerts a force in society that is literally opposite to the notions of equality or socio-sexual balance. If the damaging and marginalizing ideas of feminism weren't so easily conveyed along with the affirmative ideas that most people *intend* when they misuse the word "feminism," I wouldn't consider it more worthy of mentioning than any other modern linguistic corruption - but sadly that's not the case. A hundred years from now, if kids started misusing the word "fascism" when they actually mean "patriotism"—an approximately equivalent analogy of "feminism" vs "egalitarianism," and, (to a well-meaning but inadequately-educated person, as are most members of modern society), a likely mistake if some faceless marketing executive decided to re-brand an old idea for a new generation after "fascism" had faded from the social vernacular—the resulting inference of anyone adjacent to such misuse will inevitably contain fundamental aspects of both - and the contradictory nuances of meaning will still be both significant and tangible... despite their invisibility to some or even most of the population.

More than anything else, the point I'm making is that misusing language—even by accident as the result of ignorance—can actually be damaging, with the potential for damage having a positive correlation to the strength of the language misused - and that said damage finds its way into real life interactions between people. Sadly, good intentions are now one of the most dangerous aspirations a human being can possess - unless they are administrated and moderated by an uncommonly critical and altruistic intellect. How many human beings would you describe as being primarily "uncommonly critical and altruistic intellectuals" above anything else? – because those individuals are your only real coefficient of constructive potential by which any social activism can be multiplied to produce a net-positive social effect. The investments of anyone and everyone else will bring about a net deficit in short order. The actual net social effect of feminism is particularly damaging - despite the good intentions of many women (and men) who don't know better. While I recognize those good intentions, in this case I cannot in good conscience *enable* the inevitable damage perpetuated by the—admittedly sincere—ignorance from which such intentions are derived.

Feminism's story isn't especially different than other historical instances of linguistic usurpation, and it could easily be considered a cliche in our current era. Even if I try to ignore the powerful ramifications of the language itself, though, the pragmatic reality stands on its own: very few spiritually-benevolent social movements in the present day are actually moving in a constructive direction, due not only to the behavioral law of numbers but also to the utter dominance of marketing in the public sphere of thought. Generally speaking, any mobilization of individuals that originated beyond the individual level will inevitably result in the corruption of its significance and consequence to and for said individuals. For more on this and other tragic social advocacy fails, see Google.

A single word cannot convey any meaningful philosophy, either. Women who want to focus on the affirmative aspects that have been colloquially/recently injected into the otherwise-contrary ideas of "feminism" should do so - but the first step should be defining those ideas properly. Even if feminism didn't mean what it actually means, using it as it is currently used would still be a problem. Actual feminism is intrinsically insecure, maliciously rhetorical, fundamentally political, and reflects an utterly demeaning and marginalizing concept of men; it is egocentric rather than altruistic, proudly hypocritical rather than reservedly intelligent, and radically fundamentalist in ways that, truthfully, are rarely seen even in the worst extremes of *male* ideology more recently than the past few hundred years. Even being the cynic that I am, I'm reasonably confident none of that reflects what otherwise reasonable people—who erroneously refer to themselves as "feminists"—actually consciously believe in.

As for me, I'm a proud supporter of conscientious, altruistic egalitarians of no political affiliation - and of no particular demographic.

— and note how I'm not calling it "masculinism."

Raising the Social Curtain: Narcissism

As a conscientious sometimes-narcissist, I feel it is my duty to set the rest of society straight on the topic of narcissism.

For those who favor fact over opinion, it might interest you to know that narcissism is a purely social pathology - and absolutely no *causal* factors whatsoever are contributed from either genetics or any other objective characteristic. In fact, narcissistic personalities are inevitable products of badly-constructed and/or -managed societies. Given that human civilization in its present form cares little for exerting meaningful control over any social fundaments, the existence of narcissistic personalities in any society is just as predictable and unavoidable as homosexuality, belief in god or any other fundamentally-irrational yet widely tolerated behavior.

Narcissists derive from a range of particularly environmentally-sensitive psychological sub-type of the "high intelligence" parent archetype from which they also inherit significantly elevated analytical and observational talent and skill levels relative to the median person. It is the extent of this somewhat rare ability to "see through" social machinations juxtaposed with their specific environmental precipitates that allows them to intuitively—and generally unconsciously—reflect the sum total and scope of insecurities projected onto them by other social elements. The logical culmination of these behavioral mathematics are highly versatile control patterns which are typically opaque to the average member of society - i.e. "narcissism."

In a sentence, narcissism is a highly functional externally-focused coping mechanism precipitated by the less successful internally-focused coping mechanism(s) of the average moron. The only *rational* way to "deal with" narcissists is to teach yourself to recognize those failings of your own that attract you to them - because they ARE failings. Your insecurities are the catalyst that narcissistic personalities require for their behavioral chemistry. No person gets disadvantaged by entanglements with a narcissist except as the result of one or more of said person's own unresolved personality flaws. Because the incidence of narcissistic personalities will always correlate directly to the prior incidence of dysfunctional insecurities, the only practical way to "cure" narcissism would be to eliminate society entirely - and that solution would likely be considered too inconvenient by the prevailing social supermajority—average morons—for them to seriously consider implementing it.

As an alternative to either global annihilation or the universal elimination of stupidity and willful ignorance in every imaginable form, you can simply cultivate broader and more useful intelligence; if you do, damaging narcissists will disappear from your life forever - alongside a few of your own horrific personality flaws of equal or greater social significance.

Assimilate to futile resistance

It is the inescapable fate of a society to make of each of its members an actual victim, and to diminish to lesser comportment what should be a life. The inevitable relegation of individual liberty is to the rote circumnavigation of shallow communities that cannot be policed for lasting betterment. Prison of this sort is only survivable through great exertions of profound insanity; it is thus the legacy of any society for its progeny to aspire to eclipse, by greater progressive failure, those same which birthed them.

Unless HELD to egalitarian terms, society is only useful to trivialize the task of basic physical survival. Our society isn't even close to that basic ideal - and, failing that as it does, every instance of individual compromise beyond basic physical survival constitutes a violation of that individual's rights to live freely. This right, I feel I should mention, is not one derivative of society, but is rather an intrinsic right that existed before the very notion of "society" was even a remote possibility. This is essential to keep in mind; if society doesn't improve upon anything we would all already have, then what rational, *actual* benefit does it offer?

People's choices can prevent solutions to the problems they create for other people - and at some point, the *objective* value (within a community) of any person's right to live can be exceeded by that person's objective toll on others of said community. This is the intrinsic truth upon which the concept of "crime" is based, and for which systems of social justice attempt to compensate. Unfortunately, existing laws are so overwhelmingly short-sighted and naive that all crime beneath a certain blatant spectrum is simply ignored; only a small fraction of "crime" is actually pursued as such - primarily in the form of a choice selection of ancient and ridiculous taboos dating back centuries, or else in the form of utterly arbitrary impositions for the sole purpose of generating economic revenue. Members of society are overwhelmingly not held accountable TO society for ALL of their actions and choices - and until that changes, no society can ever succeed in protecting individuals from the damage of other individuals proximal to them. Willful ignorance should be a social crime; lying to the public should be a social crime, etc. Instead, the present guidelines for "crime" include only those behaviors which are harmful only to single individuals or entities - i.e. they ignore the context, which of course is that we don't live as single individuals or entities.

Basically, for society to be worth the price we pay for it, every single member must be both accountable to and equivalently subject to the social rights AND responsibilities of every other member. That's the "fix" to the problem of all crime. Presently, it's impossible - so talking about fixing things, while commendable ideologically, has the net actual social value of naivete. At a certain level of cognitive duress, *anything* is better than accepting the role of a victim. It's not difficult to extrapolate the inevitable behavioral results from there; it's a cycle, and one of the inevitable logical remainders of this equation is violence.

Punch-card brainwave

The real problem with fear isn't that people succumb to it - it's that people lack the intellectual conviction to let it drive them to its ROOT so they can yank it out.

Put that in your happy-ignorance receptacle and collate it, ya backwards fucking nincompoops. 

The folly of feminism

When was "appreciation and cultivation of intellect" usurped by "celebration and masturbation of idiocy?" Knowing the answer to that question is an essential prerequisite for understanding the complete context that cultivates profoundly erroneous social commentary like "feminism," and which—worse—allows it to pass itself off as anything other than the pseudo intellectual effigy to uncomfortable truth that it actually is. Part of the problem is a stark lack of factual education and critical reasoning ability, but other major players in this crime include "I don't give a shit" disorder and the ubiquitous "I believe that my perceptions determine reality" syndrome.

The collective behaviors of individuals create "society" - not the other way around. A major shortcoming of feminism—or any other deliberate perceptive bias falsely marketed as egalitarianism—is that it completely undermines any potential for possible social benefit by failing to observe the simplest, easiest, and most fundamental tenet of human intellect: open accountability of self. One and only one person is ultimately completely and utterly responsible for every single thought, action, and inaction to which you give birth: YOU.

Even the best-intentioned generalization of "men" or "women" in "society" can only ever amount to a certain sort of naive ignorance at its very best. Every individual man creates his own life from the moment he decides to do so, or else never does at all - just as every single woman creates her own life from the moment she decides to do so, or else never does at all. Simply demanding to be given what you want amounts to merely more trivial noise resonating uselessly throughout a spectrum of human cacophony already brimming with egotism and self-ignorance. Any person—man, women, or anywhere in between—who ever finds cause to feel that they have not lived the life they deserve... are probably right to feel so.

–and the sole fault lies with their own failure to create such a life - not with the failure of any other human being to donate it.

As I've said before, "privilege" is a moot non-point; it's a hipster whiner's trophy. Only profoundly ignorant sheeple can become upset about who is or is not awarded or allowed access to the "best" slops in their current pasture of life. Intelligent human beings, on the other hand, simply move to a better pasture - or, when the best option is not good enough, create a new one that only they control. They continue to do so until the result is exactly what they want.

Feminism is moot. Social activism is moot. All of their incarnations are simply one more form of willful self-enslavement in an endless sea of similar terrible options - all just as inane, dehumanizing, and intellectually paralyzing as the rest.

The entire notion of society is in fact irrelevant where the rights and life of an individual are concerned. A person either chooses to be subject to the laws, whims and injustices of society or else s/he lives as a free person. You can't have both - so make your choice—feel free to change it at any time—and in the mean time, take a modicum of responsibility for every single aspect of your own life and shut the fuck up about it. Don't complain that you sometimes feel like the slave you chose to be, and that you continue to choose to be every time you wake up in the morning and choose not to live better.

The best things in life have always been available in limitless quantity for the most reasonable price possible: your will to have them. They always will be. No human factor can ever change this truth.

In the mean time, women *should* be free to keep chasing that D, or else the arbitrary economic status they desire from a man, or any combination of the two in any configuration. Of course, they *should* also be aware that those are simply different sides of the same meaningless coin; neither choice is either good or constructive, and both ensure that what could otherwise be "women" remain mere slaves - to themselves. If they continue to allow those options and others like them to define the boundaries of their lives, then I expect their self-enslavement will continue for quite some time - aided in no small way by the "feminism" encouraging it.