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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

King of Crazy Town

Short post on the "PUA Hate" shooter, since I suppose there may be some use for a word or two from a female who's really got no dog in any fight: This guy was king of crazy town. How do I know? Because when I first saw a picture of him I thought I must have clicked on the wrong link, because what the hell, kid's too pretty to have trouble landing girls. Then I found out that he's rich, too. Look, I am not into young guys—I wasn't into them even when I was young—and rich-from-birth fellows these days generally annoy me with their lack of education. But a lot of girls do like rich guys per se, and are there any of us who don't like pretty ones? Yes, way underage, but until he opened his stupid mouth, I dunno, I still might have... AUGH! STOP THE VIDEO! MAKE THE NOISES NOT COME OUT OF ITS MOUTH!

Conclusion:

1. To be that rich and pretty and somehow not get laid, you have to be a the perfect picture of a sergeant major general of (I won't say douche, that word is overused, that word is dead, that word is... auugh...) cough DOUCHEVILLE.

2. You can't blame the PUA/manosphere web region for creating Sergeant Major General Crazy-Shades, because, well, for starters, he was ANTI-PUA, precisely because their advice didn't work for him—for very, very obvious reasons. Look, if someone with an eating disorder shot up a bunch of fashion models because they paid for Jenny Craig and it didn't work, would you outlaw Jenny Craig, or would you assume that person was unhinged to begin with? Jenny Craig might be a ripoff, sure. But are you going to cancel high school because of Dylan Klebold?.... Actually, that's not such a bad idea. The kids would love it, and I would finally be able to afford to buy an apartment without having to worry about paying $500 in taxes a month on the "property" I "owned." Parents, pay for your own little crazy fuckers.

3. If you really wanted to stop future outbreaks of losers such as Crazy-Shades here, you would teach rich people to raise their kids properly again. I hate to say the English are ever right about anything, but oi aristoi used to know, at least through tradition and instinct and still remembering who Heliogabalus was, that if their kids never faced any sort of humbling experience or frustrating trial, they would grow up to be shitty, lunatic monsters. If you must blame anything for this, blame it on the demise of confusing, poorly-written Latin grammars and corporal punishment in the private schools. This kid shouldn't have been given sensitivity training. He should have been beaten over the head with a copy of Smyth's Greek Grammar and humiliated till he learned to decline his mi-verbs.

Upcoming from Hopeless Books Uninc.

Soon as we get the cover all pretty, HOPELESS BOOKS UNINC. is ready to reprint Andy Nowicki's THE DOCTOR AND THE HERETIC (and Other Stories). These three novellini are strange, dark, and exotically theological; aside from Ligotti I think Andy's work with the evil heart of the universe is the most interesting I've read these days.

"The world began, she realized, when God wrote a love letter to his creation. Nothing has been the same since..."


More teaser material at: 

http://hopelessbooks.blogspot.com/2014/05/upcoming-andy-nowickis-doctor-and.html

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Trying to deny the fact that you're a ridiculous creature...

... just makes you an even more ridiculous creature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnBezIgA3ys


BONUS FEATURE: This is what I call "the sound of life."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLMMNZJOCvA

(When I hear the word "life" I usually imagine some small animal tugging at something and grunting.)

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Here's a quandary into which I have thunk myself:

Starting from the antinatalist proposition that to inflict life on another human being is a cruel and unconscionable act*, it follows that the crueler and/or more careless a person is, the more children he is likely to produce. A person who voluntarily produces zero children is therefore less nasty than the mean.

Now. To be realistic—which is where we claim antinatalism comes from, yes?—there is ZERO likelihood that the species will ever go peacefully. (Short of social measures that would make people scream all kinds of bloody murder anyway.) I've heard antinatalists yellin' that our philosophy is going to save the world... no. I'm sorry. We may be right, but what does that matter? We're freaks. I don't mean that in the derogatory sense, I mean that in the sense that we don't happen very often. Most people are thoughtless and cruel. (Most of the time, when not making a conscious decision like this, I am too, out of instinct.)

Therefore, if people who are thoughtful enough to not breed keep on not doing so, and people who are thoughtless enough to keep poppin' 'em out continue to do as they are inclined, this will have a concrete effect on human evolution: if there's a genetic profile that leads one to susceptibility to antinatalist ideas, it will become scarcer and scarcer. The race will get crueler and more thoughtless. Life will be more swamped with unnecessary, human-created misery with each generation; if genocide or physical torture aren't constant, petty bureaucrats will be ten times as sadistic.

Therefore: Does the refusal of people who are inclined not to breed for moral reasons to buck their inclinations and reproduce their genetic stock in fact create more net suffering? I may pat myself on the back for keeping my unborn children safe where they belong, but I'm leaving the souls of my ilk in a position to be more and more nightmarishly outnumbered. So... maybe I should have a kid and then apologize to it? Or murder it if it's too unhappy? Can't come up with a good answer here, folks.

I'm afraid dysgenics is going to win. Even if I decided to let my own flesh and blood step into the meat grinder, on the average, getting people who are disinclined to inflict life to breed is no more realistic than the idea of getting people inclined to multiply mindlessly to knock it off. And although I agree in the abstract that overall suffering should be reduced, I could not stomach watching my own flesh and blood suffer through even a trial as mundane as junior high, especially knowing she'll be related to me, with all the nerdliness that entails—and knowing it was all my fault.

You too?

So, again, things are just going to get worse.

Sorry.

*If you're unfamiliar with this debate, Google "antinatalist."