I started this thread and immediately fell asleep on the couch
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Anyway, the latest framework is "The Black Pill" because they are nothing if not original and most certainly not derivative hacks.
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In this epistemological game of one-upmanship The Black Pill is basically just nihilistic determinism.
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From the great minds of Reddit there is this particular bit of philosophical writing,pic.twitter.com/FWsN228zrN
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Having read it, I'm not quite sure I agree with Incjaz's review "Gotta say, you write beautifully."pic.twitter.com/WtS610DAi2
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In summary, since you're not going to read it, it TBP claims to reject capitalist ideas of individual worth while buying in whole hog.
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Basically they blame 9-5 "wagecuck" jobs for society's problems but still boil everyone's value down to their economic role in society.
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This nihilist-capitalist determinism creates a framework where they are worthless b/c they are literally worth less on an existential level
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Oh there's also a truckload of racism buried in there.
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"I am going to fail b/c the universe is structured in a way that success is impossible, thus trying is pointless" https://twitter.com/The_Trash_Child/status/886771901607010305 …
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(note that this philosophy also soundly rejects the idea of re-framing ideas of success away from capitalist consumer fantasy)pic.twitter.com/S6M7v3G9Fc
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Some are. Most of their philosophers, though, are just awful people.https://twitter.com/BotchFrivarg/status/886789129090060288 …
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Some of these guys are ace or just late bloomers who don't have a healthy framework to deal with their lack of interest in sex.
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And they get sucked into these communities that quadruple down on the social pressure that Lack of Sex Means Something Is Wrong
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Esp. since these groups feed an ego-driven "intellectual" message that "you've just given up b/c you've figured out what The Real Truth is"
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The thing with Incel/Red Pill groups is that they've come in conflict w/ social expectations/messaging but absorbed it into their bones.
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I know saying "it's like Fight Club" is gauche, but it's really like Fight Club.
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Tyler Durden tells FC "we were promised we'd be movie stars and rock gods, but we're not, and we're very pissed off"
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the message absorbed isn't "this was maybe an unrealistic promise and we should maybe stop promising the unrealistic" but "gimmie my pony"
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I mean, if we want to torture The Matrix some more, they're literally Cypher.pic.twitter.com/nbWc8lXMt0
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