Axulus
Veteran Member
After reading the New Yorker profile of Curtis Yarvin, it is more clear to me than ever that we live in the age of fraud. The ultimate crisis we are experiencing is one of epistomology: a majority of people are unable to distinguish bullshit and propaganda from established science and fact.
When should someone be skepitcal about something, and when should someone accept it as likely or highly likely to he true. Not having a good foundation to distinguish between the two opens oneself up to delusion and being taken advantage of by conmen. This is an art that the conmen have perfected in recent years.
Trump, of course, is a prime example. Through sheer bluster, lies and confidence, and a victimhood mentality when someone calls him out on his bullshit, a huge swath of the population is drawn in. He is a low IQ conman but a very effective one. But we also have high IQ conmen that use a different set of con skills.
They don't quite have Trump's low IQ skillset but they excel at baffling people with sophisticated bullshit. Elon Musk, Curtis Yarvin, Eric Weinstein, among others fall into this category. They have had success and do legimately have high IQ, but they put that all to work in a grand fraud to portray themselves not merely as smart but as one in a billion geniuses.
And to the masses, unable to tell the difference between geniune brilliance and sophisticated bullshit, they take in every word as truth. These high IQ bullshiters portray themselves as geniuses through sheer sophistry. Yet any analysis of what they claim can be easily demonstrated as full of lies, half truths, pseudoscience, conspiracies, victomhood, ad-homenim attacks, among other things.
And yet, this is exactly the kind of thing the Joe Rogans of the world fall for. They are the marks. And then they become useful idiots in legitimizing these fraudsters, and the audience is of the same mind.
We must at least begin by calling out the tactics the fraudsters use, call them out for every lie, every false promise, every crybaby victimhood statement. Be relentless. Do not give them an iota of respectability. Elon has made so many false promises and told so many lies, worse than Elizabeth Holmes.
That he is treated as some genius entrepreneur whose words are taken for divine wisdom is a spell that must be completely shattered. Him and everyone else of his ilk need to be called out, laughed at, and shamed at every opportunity.
For anyone interested, here is the Curtis Yarvin profile. Do not read this after you have eaten, as the contents of your meal are likely to be regurgitated.
When should someone be skepitcal about something, and when should someone accept it as likely or highly likely to he true. Not having a good foundation to distinguish between the two opens oneself up to delusion and being taken advantage of by conmen. This is an art that the conmen have perfected in recent years.
Trump, of course, is a prime example. Through sheer bluster, lies and confidence, and a victimhood mentality when someone calls him out on his bullshit, a huge swath of the population is drawn in. He is a low IQ conman but a very effective one. But we also have high IQ conmen that use a different set of con skills.
They don't quite have Trump's low IQ skillset but they excel at baffling people with sophisticated bullshit. Elon Musk, Curtis Yarvin, Eric Weinstein, among others fall into this category. They have had success and do legimately have high IQ, but they put that all to work in a grand fraud to portray themselves not merely as smart but as one in a billion geniuses.
And to the masses, unable to tell the difference between geniune brilliance and sophisticated bullshit, they take in every word as truth. These high IQ bullshiters portray themselves as geniuses through sheer sophistry. Yet any analysis of what they claim can be easily demonstrated as full of lies, half truths, pseudoscience, conspiracies, victomhood, ad-homenim attacks, among other things.
And yet, this is exactly the kind of thing the Joe Rogans of the world fall for. They are the marks. And then they become useful idiots in legitimizing these fraudsters, and the audience is of the same mind.
We must at least begin by calling out the tactics the fraudsters use, call them out for every lie, every false promise, every crybaby victimhood statement. Be relentless. Do not give them an iota of respectability. Elon has made so many false promises and told so many lies, worse than Elizabeth Holmes.
That he is treated as some genius entrepreneur whose words are taken for divine wisdom is a spell that must be completely shattered. Him and everyone else of his ilk need to be called out, laughed at, and shamed at every opportunity.
For anyone interested, here is the Curtis Yarvin profile. Do not read this after you have eaten, as the contents of your meal are likely to be regurgitated.
