The reason why it is viewed that certain movie characters are great ("kino" "sigma males") is because most of them manifest traits of middle class autism and/or narcissism. Does anyone remember how self-aggrandizing Patrick Bateman is as an upper middle class stock broker? But here is the kicker for the distinction between Batman and Riddler: genuine autists are strong and diligent a-social types, whilst the quasi-autists (might as well call those "ADHD") are more likely to be pro-social vulnerable narcissistic types. If Riddler isn't so socially maladapt he would have been a wordcel bureaucrat (upward looking gentry), and Batman would have been a proper entrepreneur (downward looking elite). https://archive.ph/Dvxsxhttps://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/wordcel-before-it-was-cool-verbal
Autistic messiah vs Faustian pied piper, anyone? "I have God" vs "I am God"? Thiel's techno-future vs LARP-centric edenism? Introspective heroism vs Liunatic anti-heroism? Or am I just seeing things? https://eggreport.substack.com/p/anti-antiheroism
> optimistic messaging of the final act serves only to reinforce the hopelessness
Thanks for the "courage of hopelessness", bud. This sounds like the same logic as the corporate Shirky Principle: the temporary solution (treatment) justifies the maintenance of the problem (sickness), and further distances oneself from mitigation strategies (cure). This also explains at a world-building level why Penguin is needed, he acts as a Robert Moses Effect of using capitalist incentives to stabilize society. At a personal level it plays out the same way, as Batman needed Joker to NOT die to justify his behavior. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGswozUpp8https://www.theifod.com/beware-the-shirky-principle/
This is going to be an intellectual field day. Non-transitive memes abound. https://archive.ph/KJVqH https://archive.ph/jRVgP https://archive.ph/WjUSR
The reason why it is viewed that certain movie characters are great ("kino" "sigma males") is because most of them manifest traits of middle class autism and/or narcissism. Does anyone remember how self-aggrandizing Patrick Bateman is as an upper middle class stock broker? But here is the kicker for the distinction between Batman and Riddler: genuine autists are strong and diligent a-social types, whilst the quasi-autists (might as well call those "ADHD") are more likely to be pro-social vulnerable narcissistic types. If Riddler isn't so socially maladapt he would have been a wordcel bureaucrat (upward looking gentry), and Batman would have been a proper entrepreneur (downward looking elite). https://archive.ph/Dvxsx https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/wordcel-before-it-was-cool-verbal
As society develops, the corporate leaders gather MOPs and the artists gather narcissistic fanatics. It peaks when the two institutions blends, and dies when narcissism dominates corporate environments and leaders-turned-grifters end the art "scene". Rich wordcels are always the cleansing fires that does the "great reset" for others. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths http://www.zzzptm.com/lss-002.html https://novum.substack.com/p/elite-overproduction-a-story-of-russia/comments
Moral of the story: Never trust a chinless wordcel accelerationist, but do have fun watching the trainwreck. https://archive.ph/SwWLS https://archive.ph/FIhzc https://archive.ph/yQRmk
> Batman as a Christ figure
Autistic messiah vs Faustian pied piper, anyone? "I have God" vs "I am God"? Thiel's techno-future vs LARP-centric edenism? Introspective heroism vs Liunatic anti-heroism? Or am I just seeing things? https://eggreport.substack.com/p/anti-antiheroism
> optimistic messaging of the final act serves only to reinforce the hopelessness
Thanks for the "courage of hopelessness", bud. This sounds like the same logic as the corporate Shirky Principle: the temporary solution (treatment) justifies the maintenance of the problem (sickness), and further distances oneself from mitigation strategies (cure). This also explains at a world-building level why Penguin is needed, he acts as a Robert Moses Effect of using capitalist incentives to stabilize society. At a personal level it plays out the same way, as Batman needed Joker to NOT die to justify his behavior. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGswozUpp8 https://www.theifod.com/beware-the-shirky-principle/
Wow. Thank you for this deep exploration. This is so much of what I’m trying to unpack these days with people