Why do people who possess "esoteric" knowledge not use it in any meaningful way? - Why do they spent their time posting on obscure websites instead of getting a job in the field they're interest in?

[Fek]

I would suggest that argumentative tendencies or negative trends in perception of one's self (or others) would imply one isn't ready to share what they have learned yet. Truth requires no defense, and one loses their desire to argue or be considered "right" in the eyes of their peers as this is fully realized.

 

[Private Tag Reporter]

Knowledge is on its own not valuable. Teaching is valuable, but requires a market. Writing a book is valuable, but requires a market. Making educational youtube videos are valuable, but require a market.

All of these options requires a certain fundamental cost of production for an unknown benefit. For that reason it's much more practical to keep a day job and do it as a hobby for enjoyment, or if someone's serious about it, as a side-gig.

"Don't quit your day job." is solid advice for a reason.

 

[Detective Carey]

Verisimilarity in the occult/esoterica is an ancient stumbling block. Halls of mirrors can be profitable to operate. Dispensers of information still need to eat/pay bills?

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

The hardest part of any industry is selling it. All the knowledge and skills in the world are only worth whatever you can convince someone else to pay for it.

 

[CrunkLord420]

Only people with genuinely unique knowledge will be able to prove their humanity in the face of armies of midwit redditor LLMs.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

Because you either need luck or business/monetization skill to actually make it useful, and I really hate the idea of being an e-celeb.

 

[Marc]

A lot of people aren't self aware enough to know that turning their hobby into a job could ruin their enjoyment.

This. I have experienced firsthand the loss of joy/pleasant distraction resulting from commoditizing personal hobbies or interests I've accumulated skills, tools, or insight into; and know to avoid doing so if I can. I've found volunteering or consulting to be as close as I'm comfortable getting to making a pastime feel like I'm punching a clock. That and I don't always feel like doing that shit.

 

[Yugica]

One problem is that knowledge that seems impressive to know about to the layman is either well-known to the professionals or could even be wrong/misleading. Another problem is that some of the kinds of people who may be so overwhelmingly interested in bizarre topics or researching things that others don't/won't care about is that they either lack any meaningful way to action that or there's no real market for it as has been said in the thread already(which someone already beat me to mention).

Try and convince an employer to hire the mentally ill NEET who never even finished high school that he'd be an asset because he has encyclopedic knowledge related to the field. Try and convince an investor that the crazy sounding ideas of some recluse can actually be a reality without a working prototype. Sure he can explain to you why it should be possible, but do you trust anything that some disheveled sperg says on the matter? What about random viewers? Are they going to take the ramblings of some unprofessional voice on the internet as the truth? A lot of these people are going to be autistic or schizophrenic and come with a whole load of issues.

 

[Free4Ever]

a) Because 99.999% of the time they're fakers and scammers.

b) Because if they're not, they'd be forbidden from exploiting it for money.

c) Furthermore, in the exceptional case, they would have no use for money.

No, I will not elaborate.

 

[MadStan]

Can you give an example of some of the subjects they are vastly knowledgeable in?

 

[Aoluce]

"Esoteric Knowledge" isn't rare. Everyone knows more about something than someone else. People think they are special when they are just another faggot.

 

[Jinn in the phone]

Schizo-autists are the nigger of the world...while you play, we pay, while you get in a big bed with your wife, we preserve our seed, while you enjoy dinner with your family, we are exiled to tendies upstairs. How can I start my Grotto of disciples under this demoralization?

Really though, I know of like 4 people who've done exactly as you said, but only as side-gigs. For these kind of things it takes a lot time, work and chance and most people simply won't take that leap for uncertain gains.

 

[Yamaha YM2612]

They do. Remember covid?

 

[PeachDream]

If you have so much knowledge, why aren't you monetizing it? Why don't you try to get into the field in the topic you're interested in

I mean let's be honest, most jobs are not creative or involve complex problem solving, and certainly don't require rote memorization of facts.

A lot of (non-coding) STEM jobs for instance mostly involve following pre-written SOPs or taking instructions from a supervisor. At best, you might be able to investigate why something went wrong, if something does go wrong, but even then, there's probably a QC team for that, and they probably have their own SOPs to follow, step by step.

Any actual chemistry or biology research is done at the PhD level in most fortune 500 companies. Just getting a bachelors, or god forbid, not shelling out thousands for a piece of paper, is simply not enough to be allowed to do anything or touch anything important.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

I don't think KF is that obscure...

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

Here’s the real deal. Outside of Godly acts, magic ain’t real. But that’s not the point of proper esoteric study.
The point is to glean knowledge through indirect means. Principles and teachings that, if really thought about and looked at from different angles, can be applied to many situations both in life and, most importantly for esoterics, within ourselves.

 

[VIPPER?]

Because the random lore I know is not interesting to anyone, isn't even useful to myself, and acting on it otherwise will get me excommunicated from normie-land

 

[NoReturn]

BEHOLD! I SHALL A CHAOS MAGIC RIGHT NOW!
WHAT KNOWLEDGE SHALL I OBTAIN FROM THIS RANDOM PAGE FROM THE SECRET DOCTRINE?

As in the Japanese system, in the Egyptian and every old cosmogony - at this divine FLAME, The "One", are lit the three descending groups. Having their potential being in the higher group, the now become distinct and separate Entities. These are called the "Virgins of Life", the "Great Illusion:, etc., etc., and collectively the "Six-pointed Star." The latter is the symbol, in almost every religion, of the Logos as the first emanation.

Thanks, Helena.

 

[Arthur_Schopenhauer]

Esoteric knoledge is not supposed to make you sucessful in the material world and if you think so you are a filthy hylic npc normie.
It is useful in helping you escape the demiurge and attain gnosis/nirvana/theosis/o algo.

 

[Dana scully]

First of all grifting is disgusting, and second of all the autists you talking about don’t want to be well known in the public for their controversial views, many choose to be losers in peace and not attract glows to their life.