“Internet philosophers” are almost worse than fornicators.

They know who I mean. Guys who talk into their camera* for hours on end, thinking they have something profound to say. When often enough many of their points are typical boilerplate “philosophy.” Also very telling that despite trying to appear serious and credible, they make use of foul language. Maybe they don’t even notice; it’s pretty ridiculous, though, when they simultaneously lament the West’s decadence and downfall.

This being the only reason I checked them out in the first place — at least they understand that we are living in a decadent culture.

However, claims like “if you’re an average joe, not that charming, you won’t get the supermodel. Sorry.” (By a certain IvanTheHeathen.) Apart from the condescending tone — the guy in question not being a Cary Grant either —, it is not only not his opinion that matters in any way in these matters (as if social relations are a trivial matter); but passing this off as some kind of “insight” should be punished with throwing such a person into the penitentiary. Together with all the fornicators. Further, it is just more boilerplate type of “thinking“, if any thinking took place here at all.

Charms are of little importance; what use is charm if you’re a hunchback? As F. Roger Devlin wrote in Sexual Utopia in Power, women want such qualities in a man they find physically attractive. More importantly, I don’t care about women anyway, because I’d never bring someone into this world, forcing my horribly broken genetics onto someone else. Why would I do that? If a “supermodel”* begged me to marry her, even paid me to do it, I would not. See also Kierkegaard’s brilliant journal entry.

Which brings me to another point: they sit there completely detached, no sign of mental anguish at all, but then they cite Nietzsche or Spengler or any other thinker who suffered a lot in his life. Nietzsche and Spengler, for example, were suicidal, hated their lives.

Almost as repugnant when such guys talk about thinkers — french ones in this case — whose names they cannot even pronounce! Hilarious! And you want me to take you seriously? Worse still, they dabble in theology but are not even Christian, and during their babble they — of course … — defend their highly cherished fornication. This was not even a topic worthy of consideration in previous times, apart from Schopenhauer’s brilliant essay “Metaphysics of Sexual Love” and other remarks. Such prose being of a way higher quality than their crude waffle praising base lust.

I repeat Gómez Dávila’s disgust from another entry.

The modern mentality’s conceptual pollution of the world is more serious than contemporary industry’s pollution of the environment.

Just as in our society the dregs of society triumph, so too in our literature the dregs of the soul triumph.

The hand that has not learned how to caress does not know how to write.

It is fine to demand that the imbecile respect arts, letters, philosophy, the sciences, but let him respect them in silence.

Systematic reductions to single terms (pleasure and pain, self-interest, economics, sex, etc.) fabricate likenesses of intelligibility that seduce the ignorant.

Man, until yesterday, did not deserve to be called a rational animal.
The definition was inexact as long as he invented, according to his preference, religious attitudes and ethical behavior, aesthetic tasks and philosophical meditations.
Today, on the other hand, man limits himself to being a rational animal, that is to say: an inventor of practical rules at the service of his animality.

The cultural rickets of our time is a result of the industrialization of culture.

In no previous age did the arts and letters enjoy greater popularity than in ours. Arts and letters have invaded the school, the press, and the almanacs.
No other age, however, has produced such ugly objects, nor dreamed such coarse dreams, nor adopted such sordid ideas.
It is said that the public is better educated. But one does not notice.

The majority of men have no right to give their opinion, but only to listen.

We should ask the majority of people not to be sincere, but mute.

This goes for bloggers, too, but their posts usually don’t take an hour or so to read.

And I reject the notion of “model” looks; men are horny, they have sex with almost any woman of any age. There are enough women out there who are attractive but will never become models. Just more brain-dead nonsense you guys force down our throats. Only because you latch on to topics and thinkers of interest, otherwise no one would listen to you even once.
This is comparable to people who write horrible prefaces or afterwords to great works; I have no interest in the slightest in some unimportant scholar’s opinion, I wanted to read the work of a great author. And without this great work, no one would have paid any attention to the unimportant scholar’s useless opinions (Gilbert Merlio’s obscene viewpoints regarding Spengler are a good example of this behaviour.)