I remember seeing this, and variations of this; and basically stopping myself from going down this path.
Was never too big into esoteric shit, though Ive had curiosities about Buddhism and other weird political things;
Even before that used to spend much of my time shitposting while in university in the early 2010s;
But this stuff, unless you actually
monetize it, does nothing for you and you will be left with a bunch of shitty memes, in your mother's basement, with nothing to show for it. Shitposting, esoteric shitposting, can be fun to pass the time, but don't waste your life with a
hobby.
I'll go autistic here, and give you a further example to show what I mean. Look at the edgiest successful youtubers of the mid 2010s. People like Filthy Frank. Anyone who stumbles (or makes some success) on internet troll spaces, forums, through shitposting, funny videos, etc should realize that internet fame, internet laughs, etc, are temporary.
Smart people use their shortfound fame, capitalize it, and move on. Maybe they get into music like Joji. Maybe they jump over to actual careers, doing social media work for a brand (a few of my smarter friends jumped into this back in the day). Maybe they wind up like PewdiePie.
The internet is temporary, but the problem is, for so many people- the hobby is their entire life, and they either fail to monetize it off the web, never try, or just waste their time away. Could be worse I guess, you could go from shitposting to trying to make a woke right wing podcast.
For the esoteric people you see on twitter- theyre attention seeking, they want validation, they spend all their time arguing about obscure tradcath, buddhist, or weird texts that noone outside of their own little circle care about. Theres literally no benefit, other than validation points in their own communities. Even then, their own communities barely understand the shit they talk about.
"Hur hur hur, but with apotheosis, we can"
Im just like, you realize 90% of this shit was ruled out by various vaticinal councils, right?
They have nothing, a natural yearing for religion, truth, or what have you has been combined with being an outsider and trying to force yourself to look at religion in a different way for fear of 'being a normie' or turning into their boomer parents;
and they are wasting their time. Unless you can monetize a hobby, you need to keep it in a place and focus on your own life. I'm not saying embrace the hustle culture, but if youre spending 9 hours of the day debating Tibetan tulpas with basement dwellers, instead of trying to get a basic life, you've fucked up. Unless the tulpa is paying the bills, stop. Break the addiction, and all that.
Whenever I see esoteric guys, I think think of this KOTH episode
They're the same archetype, and they will wind up the same.
Its like the dumbest way to waste your life. Like okay, youre cool to your 30 online friends and 'online community'
But Id take being Hank Hill, maybe getting into god when Im retired, and otherwise actually
living life before then any day.
Ironically, I think
thats more
zen than anything the esoteric shitposters do.
I don't like calling people losers, and Im not saying 'having this esoteric' knowledge can't be cool enough for your own community I guess, but you see people like this, still living in their mother's basement, and its like- if they actually had a job, lived on their own, paid their bills, had their own place and did this on the side, maybe Id respect them a bit more. They never do though, their priorities are completely skewed because they have 'control' of their life in this one specific area, whereas in others they do not- and instead of seeking to better their actual life, the delve deeper into schizo land. That is
actually loser like. Thats lolcowdom.
