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2017-04-09 at 10:14 PM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshin
Originally posted by Lanny OK, so how exactly is that supposed to challenge my original assertion that we are largely born into our economic class?
Malice seemed to think the relative ease with which I've moved through my society posed some issue to my position that social mobility in modern america is extremely limited. I responded by saying that just as limited social mobility keeps the poor poor, so to does it pin me to my comfortable position. Poverty isn't a product of personal moral failures of the lower class just as my (relative!) means are not a reflection of personal virtue. They're symptoms of the economic class we're born into.
"pinned him to his position" As if he was inescapably being swept along by the current of life, his cultural programming, and his own internal constitution had nothing to do with it. Gave me a good chuckle.
Leftists always seem to have a problem with the idea of man not being moldable as they'd like, with aspects of human nature/reality that interfere with their utopian ideals. -
2017-04-09 at 10:10 PM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshin
Originally posted by Lanny I think it aligns with a postmodernist model of wealth distribution in capitalistic societies quite well. My position in society was inherited rather than earned. Despite a number of setbacks, both self-caused and external, it was piss easy for me to regain my parents' position in the upper middle class even without any transfer of material wealth from them to me. My class isn't a function of my bank account but an inherited cultural artifact. I was indoctrinated, entirely without choice, into the american middle class culture: one which conflates intelligence with moral worth, that values education, property rights, and work ethic highly but which makes limited concessions to these things, and which sees itself as justified by its ability to file itself into certain positions in society.
An amusing ideological contradiction that exists in my caste and distinguishes us from the one immediately below: we have this notion of work ethic, like it's good to work hard and always give it your all, the career almost always comes before personal gratification. We attach moral weight to the fact that we work for, and moreover "earn" a living through personal merit (at least this is how the story goes). Yet we see investment as an acceptable practice, despite the fact that it's income that's not gained by selling labor, which is the hallmark of our kind. If you go down a little bit on the economic ladder excess income isn't invested, if you go up a little bit investment starts to become a primary economic activity. It's hilarious to see how this plays out, in cases where my kind mobilizes upwards they start to experience some mild social ostracization, when your primary source of income is no longer selling your labor you start to be somewhat mistrusted, while if you have no investment income you're seen as capricious or short sighted (again, playing into the intelligence/moral worth thing), because honestly it's just common sense that you should have investments.
In any case, all the causative forces of my class are social, not material. I make the wages I make for the same reason most people do: I was born into the culture that serves as the primary qualification for the position in society, any other credential is largely a side effect of that fact.
"it's dey culture" What a pathetic trite excuse. This has been disproven, and central aspects of culture can arise from genetics, theoretically, so you may be committing a fallacy.
What kind of culture did uneducated Chinese peasants working manual labor and facing discrimination via statist mechanisms have that allowed them to still be underrepresented for crimes? You can see success from East Asian groups that were sizeable minorities in some areas, such as the Japanese in Brazil or Chinese in Malaysia.
Do you really feel they had that strong of an impact on you? Because in studies, it's the non-shared environment, which is an unknown variable,largely, rather than mommy and daddy that account for the the non-genetic component. -
2017-04-09 at 4:12 PM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshinOh, then I had a thought about economic predictions, mainly automation and how unemployment is the lowest it's been in decades, particularly for those with a 4 year degree, the data showing that it pretty much guarantees you employment right now, although not necessarily a good job.
Lanny, how exactly do you reconcile your life trajectory with the common leftist narrative? It didn't seem to be very hard for you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, make sensible decisions, and achieve an income in the top percentile of the world population at your age and in a field you're passionate about?
It brings to mind this scene from American Psycho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbGJ7p6t6yE
I can just picture you one day, when you're older, lecturing art majors and people who had children, a rural setting, Whites only, seems most satisfying, about their own personal failings and how they deserve their lot in life.
I mean, come on people, get it together. Someone has to say it and be honest about the stupidity inherent to vast majority of the human race.
Fucking poor people, am I right?
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2017-04-09 at 3:56 PM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshin
Originally posted by Lanny lol, sup SC. So far so good though.
I had a thought about your life in bed that gave me a good chuckle.
Gets sent to high school for delinquents due to misinterpretation of paper on post-mandatory education goals (thought you wanted to be a bum/street kid as opposed to travelling the world.
Curriculum doesn't even meet Cal requirements. School doesn't even have grades, pass/fail system is based on attendance.
Manages not to get shanked or raped (AFAIK). Gets into SFSU due to SAT score. State covers cost of most of education. Doesn't have to try very hard.
Graduates with one of the highest paid/in demand majors that will pretty much guarantee him well paying employment for life, good job straight out of school, is able to manage alcoholism, rapidly moves up to 100K+ gross range (before taxes, includes benefits) in his early 20s.
Lives in one of the most expensive regions in the world paying 2K+ for studio, San Francisco. Strong ideological leftism. Feels guilt at what he perceives as undeserved income, capitalist system that enabled this.
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Just really funny when you compare it to what a fuckup nearly everyone on this site is and how it aligns to the leftist narrative, the struggle of the poor. A minority (the brown/non-Asian ones) would have been given a carte blanche excuse for the rest of his life merely from the first misstep.
I've laughed about this general concept before, but the grading system was a new bit of info. Outlined as such the mockery of the general human condition it presents is magnificent.
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2017-04-09 at 3:40 PM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshinHappiness is the primary emotion that keeps us tethered to the cycle of life and prevents us from attaining the eternal peace, cessation of suffering and desire, that suicide provides by evoking an irrational fear of death.
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2017-04-09 at 2:55 AM UTC in I can't feel anything and I fuck up people's livesWe need drugs in order to be able to function and momentarily escape suicidal desire.
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2017-04-09 at 1:43 AM UTC in If you could be in NYC 2001I wouldn't, I'd rent/steal a massive portable sound system and vehicle and blare Disco Inferno from as close as safely possible, near major gathering points, dancing on the rooftop.
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2017-04-09 at 1:31 AM UTC in Would you go to church for a girl?The brain activity of people in love is very similar to multiple mental illnesses. Sex is one of the most animalistic and fleeting acts there is.
I would say it clouds your vision and conditions you to be tethered and generally more strongly controlled by base human impulse. There are countless intractable problems involving sex and relationships, in general I have a strong dislike of this biological drive that arose primarily to promote the creation of life, my most hated act in existence. -
2017-04-09 at 12:34 AM UTC in Would you go to church for a girl?Why did Buddha recommend celibacy?
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2017-04-08 at 11:08 PM UTC in Would you go to church for a girl?
Originally posted by Open Your Mind I remember a time when you had never tried smoking pot. You thought you were above such savage behavior. Now you're a pothead.
It's not hard to imagine you having a similar reaction to sex. There is a reason why the great civilizations of our ancestors celebrated sex.
This possesses profound fundamental differences. And why on earth would I care about the views of the masses? -
2017-04-08 at 11:03 PM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshinIncrease in suicidal thoughts, particularly morning and night.
Also used the Japanese thermal reconditioning permanent hair straightening method again. Everything done more forcefully; extending the application time to the max, having my hair slicked back while waiting, leaving neutralizer for longer than usual while hair is slicked back. Kept hair in same position while being moisturized with baby oil and a brazilian keratin moisturizer. Haven't even tried the "Brazilian blowout" straightener, which would be best for longer hair, at least 2 more inches than what I have. So this is what having straight hair feels like. It's so smooth and shiny, and there's so much volume. Not that it makes any real difference in my life, just a short project, modulating your physical avatar to a form you find aesthetically pleasant. Definitely interested in the eye surgery that turns your eyes blue.
There's a showing tonight of Kizumonogatari 3 at the New People's Cinema, inside a Japanese mall. If I were to go, I'd want to get stoned beforehand. Better prepare an edible just in case. And of course I'll have my drug cache to deal with the experience, mainly clonazepam and poppy seed tea. -
2017-04-08 at 7:32 PM UTC in Would you go to church for a girl?
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2017-04-06 at 3:54 AM UTC in THE OFISH 2017 COLLAGE THREAD!!!
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2017-04-05 at 7:22 AM UTC in THE OFISH 2017 COLLAGE THREAD!!!What a stupid pointless thread. Lanny, why do you encourage this?
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2017-04-05 at 1:29 AM UTC in THE OFISH 2017 COLLAGE THREAD!!!
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2017-04-05 at 1:15 AM UTC in THE OFISH 2017 COLLAGE THREAD!!!Lanny, post a closeup of your eyes. A good one.
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2017-04-05 at 1:10 AM UTC in Riser is a fag?Very high chance he is deeply repressing it, IMO.
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2017-04-05 at 1:07 AM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshin
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2017-04-03 at 5:17 PM UTC in Goddamn you Lanny! What did you do this time?!Well?
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2017-04-02 at 9:39 PM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshinTried Japanese thermal reconditioning permanent straightening. Basically it breaks whatever protein is responsible for twists/curls in hair, then you rinse it out, dry your hair about 90%, then use a straight iron, finally applying the neutralizer to lock it into the new configuration.
Should have shampooed before using it, as recommended. Didn't do so because I only use a small amount of baby oil and I later learned that the strong formulation is rarely used by itself, but mixed with the normal formulation. Apparently my hair is so strong it needed the full undiluted effects.
My hair is indeed straighter, feels much smoother and healthier, but has excessive volume and still needs to be straighter. I also wasn't at the minimum 4 inch requirement, rather around 2, but that would have been quite the afro, so I'll just redo it in the future, when it will be easier to work with using the straightening iron. I will decide whether to try the brazilian keratin/blowout technique afterward, for increased health/strength, or volume if the application time was excessive and the hair becomes too lifeless.
Has anyone here ever taken advantage of their natural European genetics and gone for something of this level?
I'm sure Lanny has seen some great hair on men in SF. Have you ever attempted it, or have you just stuck to simple electric clipper style cuts?