Le profound man who privately studies "the collective unconscious" really just jerk off fixated on capturing the profound in the vulgar, never read Jung, thinks AI procured propaganda stream (reading twitter) amounts to raw earth plot he can mine for value, really just too scared to read book in room alone lest the crowd's absence allow for him to see the immanent whip of God. Many such cases (WHJLM)
"Everything that is noble about him and his pursuit of truth, is dragged through the mud of vulgarity, because he has a chip on his shoulder about proving that 'comic books' can be 'art too'. When talking about God in his comic book, his comic book takes precedence. His comic book is more important to him, even as he’s discussing the deepest questions of the universe and existence."
Yes yes yes yes exactly. Everything people like Dave Sim do to prove that you can find the profound within the vulgar is immediately diluted by trying to prove this point. It all revolves around "the point", everything is subservient to it. What is God next to the author in his own story? Just a vehicle for "the point", apparently. It seems that because people like Dave Sim are so busy trying to prove "the point", it never becomes what he's trying to prove. Just surface level. The quality of the art also feels as though it only reaches that level to prove "the point". Probably the most tragic part, since his artistic skills are really great. (Just as a side note, this completely explains the youtube video essay cottage industry revolving around trying a sleight of hand to reinterpret vulgar childhood cartoons as having something profound)
You've put into words a vague feeling I've had about media for a long time, thank you for this. I've been a bit obsessed with finding the profound in the vulgar for a while, though I've never realized exactly what I was doing until now. Might have to finally bite the bullet and accept that I should be reading old books instead.
Kanye West was an art school dropout. When asked about why he quit, he said that he would spend days drawing something and people would spend maybe 5 seconds looking at it, go "that's cool," and move on. But when he mixed a good track, people would listen to it all night long. That's when he decided to switch life pursuits.
I am haunted by this.
If you want to impact the world, long rambling diatribes like what you and I write will get read by maybe a few thousand people if we are lucky. But a meme or a dope track becomes the collective consciousness. I used to think the answer was to turn my ideas into memes. But by its nature, a meme is incapable of engaging at the level that a post does, so I found myself writing long diatribes to explain them, which is even more useless than just writing a damn post.
Another thing: I write pop culture critiques because my parents wouldn't buy me "trash" like comics or sci-fi/fantasy novels, but a library card was okay. So I checked out all the comic book encyclopedias and academic deconstructions of Batman, Conan, Harlan Ellison, etc. I could. I rooted for the side that said this stuff was legit art and cheered when they finally put "The Dark Knight Returns" on the library shelf. Nowadays, all urban public libraries have at least two shelves devoted to graphic novels: one for teens, and one for grown-ups.
But I'm realizing too late that this isn't a victory for literacy or art at all, it's a decline. The other day I saw a little girl with her family, a thick book in her hands. She reminded me of my wife who used to bring David Eddings books to family functions. Except instead of a fantasy book she was reading the best-selling manga series, "One Piece".
Both works are schlock. They have equally preposterous premises and aren't "serious art". But one requires more intellectual work and offers greater psychological depth by nature of the fact that you can get far more across in 300 pages of text than you can in 300 pages of captioned pictures.
I wonder whether that girl will put the comics away at some point and uplevel her reading materials like my wife eventually did, or whether she's going to go on reading cartoons her whole life the way I mostly consume cultural critiques.
Either way, the world definitely feels like a less literate place than it once was.
all I'm saying is, since it is seems to us so otherworldly and borderline impossible to think about, that just a mere 100 years ago, the average university educated man could read a dozen languages including ancient greek and latin - is it really such a stretch to imagine that 20.000 years ago hyperboreans were capable of turning invisible and flying and turning into water
anyways the beauty of the meme thing you're worrying about it just just have to say one single good thing one single time, in all of your long form writing and all that, then the rest will work itself out
Thank you, yes I am trying. Maybe it just requires another level of mastery to get the one true thing into 10 words or less and on a picture of a fat cat.
Yes, 100%. The sages of the Axial Age were not so clueless as to believe they were inventing new systems of thought, they recognized that theirs was a journey of re-discovery. Buddha claimed that there had been a Buddha who lived thousands of years before him and that there will be another one thousands of years after Buddhism is forgotten again. Our own history suggests anything is possible. Tell a man living in 1700 that it's possible to master flight or travel faster than sound and see how far that gets you. Yet 200+ years later and here we are.
the language shit is not that hard lol my boyfriend and I have both fried our brains with drugs and I think we have 8 languages that we can read between the two of us…. After this summer we are shooting for 10 (me Hebrew, him Greek)…. You just gotta be consistent. University guys then were just as horrible as 80th percentile classics majors are now, they just probably misread more plotinus
i hate when men read too many great book at Colege University while being symbolically castrated by their complit cat lady professor and then they loudly sneer at DFW to try and get pusy and then THIS shit happens. It’s like dating men with small penises but the product doesn’t even get you off.
People are motivated to "find the profound in the vulgar" exactly so they don't find the profound by themselves, which is to say they cower behind the human meat shields of mass interpretation so that the inevitable armour of consensus can make the light of God digestible to the eyes, they put the blindfold on then seek the light. All motivated subconsciously because in a room alone with non-descript-Russian-authour the brush with the terror of God may approach, and they may see what cannot be reified back into vulgar discourse, they may have to risk madness and repent. Too frightening. That's why I read the eggreport and abuse people who do exactly what I do without knowing it. Good article exposing how much of a PUSSY I am ty Randy time to log off (after this commercial break) :)
P.S It makes sense why Pagans have a public God - why a Divine Augustus inevitably appeared amongst the once Republican Romans, for the exact same reason of having a god so you don't have to worry about a God. Bait and switch. Since we're enlightened modern man(tm) this switch cannot take place in the heart of a man of authority but in the heart of the plebs of authority - the vulgar is the substitute of the public divinity of the Emperor for Gladiatorial serfs to bow towards. How divine is Augustus! How profound is Marvel Movie #32 etc
Why yes I am repeating the exact point of the article in my own words to see if I have understood it correctly and I believe in traditional methods of learning how could you tell?
The only reason I don't want to kill myself after reading gay faggot WIlliam Guppy's "Pedestrian" blog about how electric scooters are cool, bodybuilding isn't cool because he's a weakling and how his dad has a good memory from watching 6 million Hitler documentaries on the History channel, is because someone left a link to this article in the comment section. It ALMOST make's Mr Guppy less worthless, like an inch above Twitter retard R.Cam. Bravo.
finding the profound in the midst of the vulgar is basically how i justify the wasting of my time and mind, so it is good that you are calling it out.
yeah same I'm basically telling on myself
Read Ellul, take a smoke break to go Psychoanalyse the capeshit soyboys or chauvin trial fanatics, go back to your hentai, ????, profit
Le profound man who privately studies "the collective unconscious" really just jerk off fixated on capturing the profound in the vulgar, never read Jung, thinks AI procured propaganda stream (reading twitter) amounts to raw earth plot he can mine for value, really just too scared to read book in room alone lest the crowd's absence allow for him to see the immanent whip of God. Many such cases (WHJLM)
needs more hentai funny boy
"Everything that is noble about him and his pursuit of truth, is dragged through the mud of vulgarity, because he has a chip on his shoulder about proving that 'comic books' can be 'art too'. When talking about God in his comic book, his comic book takes precedence. His comic book is more important to him, even as he’s discussing the deepest questions of the universe and existence."
Yes yes yes yes exactly. Everything people like Dave Sim do to prove that you can find the profound within the vulgar is immediately diluted by trying to prove this point. It all revolves around "the point", everything is subservient to it. What is God next to the author in his own story? Just a vehicle for "the point", apparently. It seems that because people like Dave Sim are so busy trying to prove "the point", it never becomes what he's trying to prove. Just surface level. The quality of the art also feels as though it only reaches that level to prove "the point". Probably the most tragic part, since his artistic skills are really great. (Just as a side note, this completely explains the youtube video essay cottage industry revolving around trying a sleight of hand to reinterpret vulgar childhood cartoons as having something profound)
You've put into words a vague feeling I've had about media for a long time, thank you for this. I've been a bit obsessed with finding the profound in the vulgar for a while, though I've never realized exactly what I was doing until now. Might have to finally bite the bullet and accept that I should be reading old books instead.
I read a lot of Dostoevsky when I was about 16 because he was referenced in Lost (a horrible TV show). It ruined me, or saved me. One of these.
I havent really read the russians myself, it's just a very easy first move to make
Second move?
Kanye West was an art school dropout. When asked about why he quit, he said that he would spend days drawing something and people would spend maybe 5 seconds looking at it, go "that's cool," and move on. But when he mixed a good track, people would listen to it all night long. That's when he decided to switch life pursuits.
I am haunted by this.
If you want to impact the world, long rambling diatribes like what you and I write will get read by maybe a few thousand people if we are lucky. But a meme or a dope track becomes the collective consciousness. I used to think the answer was to turn my ideas into memes. But by its nature, a meme is incapable of engaging at the level that a post does, so I found myself writing long diatribes to explain them, which is even more useless than just writing a damn post.
Another thing: I write pop culture critiques because my parents wouldn't buy me "trash" like comics or sci-fi/fantasy novels, but a library card was okay. So I checked out all the comic book encyclopedias and academic deconstructions of Batman, Conan, Harlan Ellison, etc. I could. I rooted for the side that said this stuff was legit art and cheered when they finally put "The Dark Knight Returns" on the library shelf. Nowadays, all urban public libraries have at least two shelves devoted to graphic novels: one for teens, and one for grown-ups.
But I'm realizing too late that this isn't a victory for literacy or art at all, it's a decline. The other day I saw a little girl with her family, a thick book in her hands. She reminded me of my wife who used to bring David Eddings books to family functions. Except instead of a fantasy book she was reading the best-selling manga series, "One Piece".
Both works are schlock. They have equally preposterous premises and aren't "serious art". But one requires more intellectual work and offers greater psychological depth by nature of the fact that you can get far more across in 300 pages of text than you can in 300 pages of captioned pictures.
I wonder whether that girl will put the comics away at some point and uplevel her reading materials like my wife eventually did, or whether she's going to go on reading cartoons her whole life the way I mostly consume cultural critiques.
Either way, the world definitely feels like a less literate place than it once was.
all I'm saying is, since it is seems to us so otherworldly and borderline impossible to think about, that just a mere 100 years ago, the average university educated man could read a dozen languages including ancient greek and latin - is it really such a stretch to imagine that 20.000 years ago hyperboreans were capable of turning invisible and flying and turning into water
anyways the beauty of the meme thing you're worrying about it just just have to say one single good thing one single time, in all of your long form writing and all that, then the rest will work itself out
Thank you, yes I am trying. Maybe it just requires another level of mastery to get the one true thing into 10 words or less and on a picture of a fat cat.
this keeps me up at night
Yes, 100%. The sages of the Axial Age were not so clueless as to believe they were inventing new systems of thought, they recognized that theirs was a journey of re-discovery. Buddha claimed that there had been a Buddha who lived thousands of years before him and that there will be another one thousands of years after Buddhism is forgotten again. Our own history suggests anything is possible. Tell a man living in 1700 that it's possible to master flight or travel faster than sound and see how far that gets you. Yet 200+ years later and here we are.
the language shit is not that hard lol my boyfriend and I have both fried our brains with drugs and I think we have 8 languages that we can read between the two of us…. After this summer we are shooting for 10 (me Hebrew, him Greek)…. You just gotta be consistent. University guys then were just as horrible as 80th percentile classics majors are now, they just probably misread more plotinus
but can you manipulate vril
I can’t read
sorry I was drunk earlier and read all the emails at once
graphic novels can be fine but only if they’re homestuck and only if you’ve read the western and Indian canons beforehand uwu
i hate when men read too many great book at Colege University while being symbolically castrated by their complit cat lady professor and then they loudly sneer at DFW to try and get pusy and then THIS shit happens. It’s like dating men with small penises but the product doesn’t even get you off.
Another Banger Mr Randy another banger
People are motivated to "find the profound in the vulgar" exactly so they don't find the profound by themselves, which is to say they cower behind the human meat shields of mass interpretation so that the inevitable armour of consensus can make the light of God digestible to the eyes, they put the blindfold on then seek the light. All motivated subconsciously because in a room alone with non-descript-Russian-authour the brush with the terror of God may approach, and they may see what cannot be reified back into vulgar discourse, they may have to risk madness and repent. Too frightening. That's why I read the eggreport and abuse people who do exactly what I do without knowing it. Good article exposing how much of a PUSSY I am ty Randy time to log off (after this commercial break) :)
P.S It makes sense why Pagans have a public God - why a Divine Augustus inevitably appeared amongst the once Republican Romans, for the exact same reason of having a god so you don't have to worry about a God. Bait and switch. Since we're enlightened modern man(tm) this switch cannot take place in the heart of a man of authority but in the heart of the plebs of authority - the vulgar is the substitute of the public divinity of the Emperor for Gladiatorial serfs to bow towards. How divine is Augustus! How profound is Marvel Movie #32 etc
Thank you Randy
Why yes I am repeating the exact point of the article in my own words to see if I have understood it correctly and I believe in traditional methods of learning how could you tell?
when I realized that sloth was the core sin of the 21st century, and not pride or greed or lust, the world revealed itself to me
but "revealed itself" as in, like a flasher, it opened it's trenchcoat and flashed it's cock at me
The only reason I don't want to kill myself after reading gay faggot WIlliam Guppy's "Pedestrian" blog about how electric scooters are cool, bodybuilding isn't cool because he's a weakling and how his dad has a good memory from watching 6 million Hitler documentaries on the History channel, is because someone left a link to this article in the comment section. It ALMOST make's Mr Guppy less worthless, like an inch above Twitter retard R.Cam. Bravo.
you just dont know him like I do, william is a good boy he didnt do nothing