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There is no reason to watch or read vlogs or blogs.
Written: 2023-02-02
Addition:
2023-03-31
Addition:
2023-04-01 (2023-05-30 [Paragraph re. Heitzmann.])
Addition:
2023-12-24 (is IQ alone responsible for feeling alienated?)
Since the Alt Right
failed,
there really is no need to pay people give their opinions online. Here,
I also agree with aarvoll
(Eric Orwoll): we merely pay single individuals to lead a comfortable
life. I remember Jay Dyer praising his existence as an entrepreneur
instead of getting yelled at by some moron. As if everybody could live
such a life; and I would not even want to.
Learning Latin and Greek, reading the Classics, high literature or
even learning a practical skill certainly is of more value.
The argument that those on the Right are isolated is true, and I, too,
have no one who’d share my political outlook as some do online.
But even here, what did I get out of following some on the Dissident
Right, as they call themselves?
I usually am irritated by many of their vulgar views, the best that
came out of it was my conversion experience to Christ due to following
Vox Day’s blog for some time. And I don’t even know anymore if
this is such a good outcome anyway, given that I am still depressed and
suicidal, not wanting to live in this horrible world.
Obviously, you don’t need to read this site either. It was written as a
reaction to the many horrible views I had to endure on sites I thought
were Right or even reactionary. I do not follow anyone online
anymore, I see no reason to or value in it.
Most of their life advice, obviously, is even worse and not to be taken
seriously. If one is a Christian, you’d read the Bible anyway and maybe
a mature Christian thinker or two. An atheist like Schopenhauer had
deeper insight as well. (Vox Day’s
advice consists of “get married and have children, you gammas.”)
Another remark regarding the really oft-repeated advice of getting
married: there will be people having children until the end of time,
if you’re Christian, at least, you should know. Further, their
“advice” would be less problematic if they defended monogamy against
living a promiscuous life. They don’t, though, or only partly.
Secretly, even Vox Day thinks highly of “alphas” using women for
their vulgar “pleasure”. Yet, the law of a civilized society would
not allow for such behaviour.
Aside from this, and disregarding our current decadent culture
where monogamy has been pretty much destroyed, one first has to
find someone with whom you connect, otherwise such a marriage
won’t last long. This is becoming harder the more intelligent
you are, and the more your own character, temperament and
sensitivities are removed from the mainstream.
High IQ is no good (at least in today’s society.)
Cf.
Nils M. Holm:
“Bridging the Gap. The Reconciliation of Intelligence and Culture”
[epub] or his article
about two high IQ individuals struggling in life:
“Where Do The Failed 0.1% Go?”.
Also by Nils M. Holm:
What to do with a high IQ?.
I do not agree with his
worldview,
since I am a Christian (would otherwise kill myself); for me, life is
not about happiness and I reject utilitarianism.
Neither am I sure that alienation already begins with an IQ of above
145, or if IQ itself may be the sole reason. I know people who claim
to have IQs within 120-130 who feel alienated already.
Still, there are
quite a lot of cases of highly intelligent people who did not have
the careers one would expect from a person with a rather high IQ.
The current regent of the Triple Nine Society, Thorsten Heitzmann,
attempted to complete his dissertation (in medicine) six times.
It was not important enough for him.
Chris Langan, too, had to meet his wife, who has an IQ of 169
or so, online. He does not have children, however, because
he married too late in life, did not have much money and so on.
I don’t know my IQ. I do know, though, that I am an outlier of
some sort regarding intellectual interests, character, temperament.
Vox Day himself said his wife is smart (in an interview with
Jesse Lee Peterson), and Andy Nowicki’s wife at least took some interest
in his writing, as far as I know. For a Christian, one ought to marry
in the Lord only, making it even more difficult.
Don Colacho mostly read books in his house in Santa Fe de Bogotá:
When dialogue is the last resort, the situation is already hopeless.
Not all defeated men are decent, but all decent men end up being defeated.
Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.
It is not easy to discern whether contemporary journalism is a cynical
way to get rich by corrupting man or a “cultural” apostolate carried out by
hopelessly uncivilized minds.
The cultural propaganda of the last decades (scholarly, journalistic, etc.)
has not educated the public; it has merely obtained the result, like so many a
missionary, that the natives celebrate their ceremonies in secret.
The cultural rickets of our time is a result of the industrialization
of culture.
It is fine to demand that the imbecile respect arts, letters, philosophy,
the sciences, but let him respect them in silence.