2026-08-21
I believe in status hierarchies based on dominance, not prestige
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- personal
- target audience - strictly myself
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- This is yet another reframe for a lot of stuff I have already said before.
- I want to learn how to shoot. I want to learn endurance taught in infantry combat. I want to learn to pilot a drone swarm. I want to learn hacking. I want to learn to break people at their core. Figure out what principles (if any) they will actually hold in times of crisis, and then dismantle those principles head on.
- I am less interested in learning music or art or dance or even politics (a lot of which translates in my head to, kissing ass and avoiding most conflict). The only reason I am even a little motivated is because I tell myself stories that okay I'll meet more women, will be more fun. And like yes, it is more fun to meet women ofcourse.
- In the long run though, imagine hypothetically I did meet someone this way. Imagine hypothetically we eventually got married. Imagine hypothetically some years later there was some core value conflict. This is when it will truly matter.
- I believe in status hierarchies based on dominance, not prestige.
- The highest levels of power in this civilisation run based on dominance, not prestige. Name the world leader of any of the 9 nuclear-armed states. (I don't want to point any specific names, but seriously. Name any one out of the 9 people.)
- Yes some countries are more authoritarian than others. And hence the status hierarchies at their highest levels of power are more dominance-oriented as compared to other countries. (Not naming names.) But even after accounting for these differences, even if you pick the least dominant world leader out of these 9, they still very much act as if they believe in status hierarchies based on dominance, not just prestige.
- Side Note - TIL Sebastien Lecornu wanted to become a soldier, just like me lmao.
- I want to be on top, motherfucker.
- The only reason I am not entering politics already is because I don't want to play this stupid kiss-ass memetic warfare game these people play.
- I want the Truth to be elevated to the highest levels of power, by violence if necessary.
- My values are honesty and violence. And when I say violence, what I actually mean is I want a status hierarchy based on dominance (not prestige), where honest people are at the top.
- I'm not saying this is what utopia looks like. I'm saying that in the real world, man's capacity for violence is unbounded. Violence is the only way to prevent even more violence. I want stable hierarchies of violence and I want them to be based on the Truth. Otherwise +4 SD schemers like Altman will co-opt all of these heirarchies to their favour.
- Be honest when you will be violent, against whom, under what circumstances, and actually back up your promises. Don't just be a chamcha for a schemer. If you are going to be violent, be honest with others and with yourself about who you are.
- This world is full of schemers who can't live with themselves, and are hence happy to elect even bigger schemers to run all their violence for them. Just say the nice words and you can fool the public because holy shit The People are Retarded. I don't mean your neighbour, I mean you. Yes, you, motherfucker. Not your neighbour.
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