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Dec 12, 2022Liked by Egg Report

Interesting food for thought .

I sometimes freeze, other times I take care of whatever I can do to help .

You're mostly right about the bigger picture .

-Nate

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i'm glad you still found a way to show off what you did by posting this and creating a narrative in which you're superior

jk u did a good, dear andy/spidermang

(it's ok to feel good about it)

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TSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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From my experience you're right. I've had to haul enough of my buds to the hospital after getting in drunk fistfights or falls down the stairs that it really does seem like more of a chore than some heroic stuff. That said when I look at the guys who did the same for me when I nearly died of a brain infection I can't help but feel the opposite way about them. I think the humble man's perception of himself is usually a lot lower than his friend's perception of him.

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Dec 12, 2022Liked by Egg Report

Ur on fire lately

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Dec 13, 2022Liked by Egg Report

You’ve highlighted why Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man will always be the best version of that character. It reflects the essential arc of Stan and Steve’s original run. The truth of Peter Parker is that he’s a little pervert. A creepy nerd who wanted to get rich off his insane powers by beating up wrestlers on TV for money. But then his uncle gets shot so his power fantasy turns into a nightmare and the only way to keep justifying running around in spandex and Peter Panning away his life is to beat up criminals in dark alleys for free. He stays a dick and grapples with the fact that people think he’s a bigger dick for saving people and even quits a few times before deciding he’s not quite ready to grow up (justified as “the city needs me”) and returning to his real life video games.

Unlike the rest of the marvel universe, who either find a way to make superheroing their job or at least get grownup life handled enough to make it their hobby, Spidey is perpetually using the Vulture or Doc Ock as his excuse for being a terribly unreliable friend, bf, employee, student, nephew, etc…

Steve and Stan recognized that the fantasy element isn’t as real as the responsibilities Peter has as a human. I believe the comics were initially trying to teach something of actionable value. Uncle Ben’s speech isn’t about being obligated to save the world because you have the abilities of a spider, he probably thought Peter was skipping school to masturbate (which he basically was). The responsibilities and powers he was referring to were those nearly all humans have, I.e. using your brain to be a morally accountable individual to friends, family, and society.

The problem is that they made the comic for money, and it turned out that there would be no end to the story so long as they chose to cater to man-child fantasies of being secretly awesome in order to keep making it. Just imagine if this had been a European comic, or a pre-90s Japanese manga. Each villain battle or monster of the week fight would get less fantastic and more gruesome aka “real” until Peter realized that there is no acceptable way to be a violent lunatic, that his fantasy of being “The Amazing Spider-Man” is just porn and thus unsatisfying when enacted for real.

The deeper epiphany for Spidey would have been that at some point every true man has to give up his little perversions which he enjoys in private and go out into the light as an example to be followed. At this point he would undergo a great struggle and either lose the powers or give up using them, because the point of adulthood is realizing that you don’t need an imaginary edge over everybody else to be special, you just need to be fully yourself with the bodies who matter.

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Dec 13, 2022Liked by Egg Report

Very awakening! The concept of "cost-benefit analysis" AKA cost-cutting is particularly unvirtuous.

> If you do a “good deed”, that doesn't mean you “deserve” or “get a good deed in return”. It means you did violence upon Nature, and Nature, seeking equilibrium, will punish you.

In essence, the natural order is how it is, but not how it ought to be. For some reason the same mistake has been made for both hedonism/modernism (ignoring pain) and waldenponding/anprim thinking (escaping responsibility). https://archive.ph/JZYPk https://archive.ph/QM1zn https://archive.ph/qlOsn

> The concept of heroism is only really attractive without a victim... these things are not ways to try aim at the Good – they are ways of avoiding the Good. They are not ways of serving the most Good possible, but ways to determine “what is the least amount I have do to, to qualify as good”.

Here is the assumption that one would make if the people who are compelled by "EA" are just normal people, I highly suspect that the adherents are partially brain-dead idiots who need some ways to do good, not that they are unwilling, but more so they are incapable or inept. There are some characteristic of these peoples: they are more likely to be: paranoid neurotic wordcels (having high "verbal tilt" and low chance of classical autism), lacks self-awareness and kindness (conscientiousness and agreeableness), are prestige-driven but have "no class" in the cultural sense (lower gentry or working middle class background), believe in credentials and bureaucracies over autodidactic excellence, prefer content and products over art and beauty, half-asses on everything, have simultaneous tone-deaf delusions and excessive envy of technology (especially AI), and have excessive desire to drive crowds.

A weird problem emerges for these midwits/clueless/idealists/gentry/"nerds": They want to be given a "Marvel Hero's Journey" to be a good person, but at the same time IF they have the physical ability to do so, it is the lack of mental and social fortitude that is the main problem, and worse is that there may never be a true cure for this. This explains why people worship Peterson's persona (or any e-dads), or follow Tate's antics (or any self-help grifter), before just "doing the acts of living". The opposing side to this is of course everything from social justice to wokeness to neo-altruism, instead of "instant heroism" the only alternative is collective anti-villainy, where virtue is almost impossible to act upon correctly.

Regarding their behavior: they are narrative/subjectively driven, not skepticism/empiricism driven, yet masquerading the latter as the former. This leads to faking both disabilities for sympathies (self-diagnosis, ADHD as "illness") and genius for their try-hard pride ("head girl syndrome"), whilst discriminating those who are in need of help and hating the sincerely wise. Fear of Being Ordinary (FOBO) is narcissistic but vulnerable and not grandiose, as it cannot tolerate being cleaved from the populares and pursuit greatness for its sake. Solitude becomes its form of half-baked anti-heroism ala "we live in a society" types.

Q: would it be reasonable that there is an ideology that are fit to cage those that are mentally broken like this? Villainy proper as per "the system" bare naked, or pseudo-antiheroism, where they are being promised ways of boasting their own ego but duped into acting in a more sane and virtuous way? Or is this too idealistic as well?

https://halfassed.science.blog/2021/09/25/is-ea-a-mental-illness/ https://www.secondbest.ca/p/why-im-not-exactly-an-effective-altruist https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of-social-class/ https://normielisation.substack.com/p/personal-cheems-mindset https://graymirror.substack.com/p/there-is-no-ai-risk https://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-head-girl-syndrome-opposite-of.html https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01829-x

P.S. For another windbaggy breakdown https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/im-trying-to-figure-out-why-i-dont/comment/11024373

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Dec 14, 2022Liked by Egg Report

"Talking to a cute girl, and realising that she has discovered something about who you really are? That is terrifying." Some real truth there.

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Dec 17, 2022Liked by Egg Report

Wtf randy. You never talked about how big the punishment would be.

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Congrats, good job saving a life

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