1. The author of the comic does actually seem to have succeeded in his art--this, in that he's produced an evocative portrayal of his history and his inner life
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2. Do many people live like this? Experience the world in this way? If so, why? I wonder whether he's unhappy from his own perspective or on his own terms.
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3. It made me think of some family members who are struggling. There's a kind of flailing about, maybe. A sort of rootlessness.
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5. I wonder if there's a kind of social analogue of ZMP workers and what exactly it looks like if so
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6. Most of the responsibility I feel has more to do with actions I need to take to ensure Plans come to fruition than with immediate needs I think about Visingsö a lot What oak forests are you planting today?https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/visingso-oak-forest …
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The unsettling part is the dripping misanthropy of the Moldbuggian edgelord, who sees a reflection of his own fantasy life in the author's profound loserdom.
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I was thinking about that too
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This sort of life was was examined fictionally by both Melville and Huysman. The type has been around for a long time. Don't see this as being the indictment of a generation any more than anything else you might dissect. That person is pretty damaged in any case
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What you should make of that thread is that Moldbugman is a moralizing scold who should mind his own business and let others mind theirs.
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he definitely seems to be a scold and it's sad to me that his response to someone (perhaps?) being unhappy was to shit on them rather than empathy or at least reflecting
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