GENIUS FORUMS

Canadian piano prodigy Glenn Gould said of composer Richard Strauss' work: "It presents and substantiates an argument which transcends all the dogmatisms of art - all questions of style and taste and idiom - all the frivolous effete proccupations of the chronologist. It presents to us an exampl...

I think the Age of Schism/s is due in large part to the increasing disparity between the actual "outside" and the now-venerable ideas and perceptions of both the "outside" and the "inside". People are simply doubling down on what has hitherto seemed to work, or failing...

Do you hoard anything else? Or just books? If it is everything, then probably only a doctor/specialist can be qualified to help. If it is only books, it reminds me of the story of a medical doctor in charge of treating heroin addicts in Vancouver, B.C. He wrote that the addicts couldn't stop themsel...

Matt, Yeah, I'm familiar with the parable of the sower, but maybe throwing seeds all over the place where most of them are wasted isn't such a great idea. Maybe burying the seeds with care is the best way to go. In particular, what you do not do and do not say has to point to Truth as much as what y...

Matt, It's not possible to tell someone something until they are ready to hear it. And, going further, it's of little merit to get better at holding people's attention (maybe by cold-reading their interests, for example) in order to get them to agree with a philosophical point. Occasionally, I do me...

I think the entire anti-SJW movement is, very crudely, a pro-skeptic movement. It's far from perfect, but many people are promoting skeptical modes of thinking, and are being relatively consistent in their thinking. Jordan Peterson or Gad Saad are good examples. Relative is indeed the critical qual...

Not for the sake of being rich, but for the means it provides as far as financial freedom goes. It depends what you mean by financial freedom, which in my observation, as commonly defined, is usually an illusion of financial freedom. Yes it would most definitely seem that way if the price of gold i...

What do you guys think? Is there no way China could pull this off? Is bitcoin the future of money? A giant scam? Why worry yourself about international currency issues? Is wisdom too boring for you? Do you want to get rich? Has a scrumptous siren tempted you to provide for her with gold? If there i...

I'm in the non-conspiracy camp on this for the following reasons: a) searches with common terms give rather poor results anyway. b) google doesn't have algorithims that understand meaning, only statistical combinations, so there are bound to be coincidences. c) people are biased to find coincidences...

Jupiviv: A good example of this are the alt right/race realist chicks like the one Alex is besotted with. As the economy declines, the number of men who can indulge their bloated senses of entitlement also decreases. They are doing the tradcon/race realist makeovers to increase their chances of land...

Diebert, For sure some image is being protected but the question remains open if that's the actual Google branding. "Brand goodwill" is a catch-all phrase for the premium placed on a stock for which there is no consensus explanation. No accounting practice thoroughly explains goodwill. Thi...

What all of these explanations overlook about Damore's firing is the real reason he was fired. Modern business theory states that branding is the irreplaceable component in generating premium stock value. This theory may or may not be valid, but it is the theory in widespread practice, and dictates ...

Diebert, we can only be in a post-truth era if we were ever before in a truth era, which I would dispute. So the quote is ironic, but not because a deep truth is known and denied, rather that it is that every era is effectively one of non-truth and finds scapegoats for the illusory change from truth...

Among people who attribute worldly success to talent (and in that respect use the colloquial sense of the word "genius"), they are egotistically dazzled by scale. The demands of business require the conscious manipulation of patterns of emotional behavior in others. Think of advertising fo...

It was said earlier (and not by me, for I believe it was jupiviv) (edit: it was Diebert) that a positive effect of Trump's behavior is the recent flurry of "letters between enemies" here on this forum. In my view, this demonstrates two truths. One, the future lives of our actions have far-...

You forgot to add that about a third of his shtick is hockey mask, combat vest, Mad-Max apocalypse preperation for the supposed impending collapse due to hyper consumerism caused by Feminists that are cashing government checks. He does talk about civilisational collapse due to gynocentrism, but I d...

For example, in the realm of anti-feminism we have the MGTOW (men going their own way) movement, which rejects feminism and conservatism in favour of celibacy, VR cum silicone hobbit torso -based masturbatory systems or non-romantic sex. They even have their own version of Geraldo now: Single mothe...

Perhaps, but I think that this theory of consciousness is off. It seems that's what everyone that doesn't understand Jaynes' theory says about it. If you paraphrased the theory to understand it and said you had evidence against it and perhaps even an alternate theory of the development of conscious...

Glostik91, I never quite understood Jaynes' idea of bicameralism considering there are people alive, walking around, seemingly just as conscious as you and I who only have half a brain. There is a surgery called hemispherectomy where they go in and literally remove the entire left or right half of t...

Glostik91 (and others who are interested), As far as I am aware, Julian Jaynes never wrote about wisdom and genius. If he did so, please point out the relevant passages. Julian Jaynes worked on a theory to explain the empirical evidence of the development of cognitive functions in humans. His defini...

Santiago / Alex / etc. etc., In my view, Occidental man must become conscious of his own metaphysical underpinnings, and this absolutely means to fathom and comprehend the Christian metaphysic as a model of perception and understanding of *the World*. Without it, one cannot understand, with it a Key...

Eric, If I read you right, you suggest that a similar attitude on *our* part (that of Diogenes) is a good and necessary one? There is a luxury offered to a man who has relinquished any ownership interest, at any level, to all things and to everything. But from my angle at least it is just a fun ane...

Eric, I think it is more fair, and accurate, to say that the masculine, highly discriminating, elitist, 'genius-oriented' program of GF would attract people whose minds work similarly to Weininger. I agree with the use of the terms masculine and discriminating, but not elitist or program. Guessing ...

It was inevitable that this thread would attract race-realists. And we have an example of Poe's Law in action. This exemplary individual, awiseman, states ideas that are indistinguishable from their parody.

But let's not distract the main concern. You don't actually believe that anything you value will survive if we flood The West with the genetic stock of people who have made ZERO contributions to Western Civilization and have ZERO potential for wisdom and enlightenment, do you? Speaking of zero. htt...