The rumors of 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
—Ancient 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 proverb
A little tune to set the mood..
Now that we’ve got the previous subjects out of the way, we can finally talk about the real heavy substances at hand. In case you didn’t read the previous materials, we’ll summarize the gist of it here in the following text:
The People’s® ancestors built this maze of norms and all the inherent constructs we find ourselves drowning in today—modern People® know no better than to take up the maintenance of these archaic ideologies along with the culture wars of old to determine which ideologies we allow to proliferate further—to the terrible ends we’re living through today.
At this moment, human’s have the most important choice to make in the entirety of our existence, and with the littlest time to deliberate. We can continue the death spiral of ignorance inherited from our ancestors or, break the chain, and finally end the insanity by turning toward the ultimate North star, the crossroads of:
Optimism 𝚡 𝙻𝙾𝙽𝙶𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙼𝙸𝚂𝙼
Forgive 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 if any of the previous writings or the following seems outrageously negative; the 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 passion runs the deepest. It is only out of passion for the progress of humanity that we 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s offer this criticism, and freely. 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 isn’t being a contrarian for the sake of contrarianism; 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 is being a contrarian because you see a bigger picture and you ultimately care about the future of the planet and our species.
As you read this essay, try not clicking any links on your first pass. Follow the links later as you revisit patterns that resonate with you.
Sleepwalking into Oblivion
𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 is a massive topic with some of the heaviest of ideas. We’re going to dive into what 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 really means to us in this article, as well as what 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 means in today’s accelerationist hellscape nested in the real pandemic of unfettered narcissism mirrored in the rise of over-peddled People® and the sudden appearance of their seemingly unlimited poseur contemporaries in this new era of People® influenza. People®, literally paid to shamelessly promote themselves and their elite and entirely zero-sum lifestyle, twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five.
Some people have their lives made for them, by simply existing—offering nothing of value themselves while extracting what little value the downtrodden humans of the world manage to accumulate in their short lives with their awful and unfulfilling dead-end jobs. So many of these downtrodden humans adore these people, but why?
Sometimes it’s as if the people we are talking about today don’t care a single lick for the humans that they are towering over; these people are often like a pre-packaged product that the humans are sold. And these poor humans can’t help but mimic, just like their ancestor primates. Humans appropriate everything from the styles to the mannerisms to all the half-baked ideas, all of the shiny corporate packaging and try it out, walk around in its skin for their entire lives; pretending they’re the People® that they’ve been sold, because that’s gotta be the only life for you, 𝙱𝙰𝙱𝚈. The People® own your government; the People® own you—𝙱𝚄𝚃 𝙾𝙽𝙻𝚈 𝙸𝙵 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙻𝙴𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝙼!
𝙳𝙾𝙽'𝚃 𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙶𝙴𝚃 𝚃𝙾 𝚄𝙽𝚂𝚄𝙱𝚂𝙲𝚁𝙸𝙱𝙴.
But, maybe these people are just lost themselves? We can hope that one day they will wake up, but in the meantime we won’t wait for them to do so. We can take that part into our own hands, and do better, strive to make the world better—move on from their sideshows that are simply a distraction from doing better, and forget about them, like they truly deserve if they do not help the planet: To be moved on from.
What is the worst nightmare of an influencer? To be completely ignored and irrelevant. The influencer’s ego needs its fix of attention from the masses—needs validation to keep going.
Now, you may say:
“Hey 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺, these People®, they’re just humans like any of us, just trying to get by.”
And then 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 might reply:
“If they were simply humans, trying to get by, they wouldn’t be attempting to acquire and hoard unnecessary amounts of material and fame while plastering their own images on every manmade vertical and horizontal surface in sight—some of them then do nothing for the world that sustains their zero-sum existences. By choosing to persist in their entirely extractive exploits, some People® are easily causing more of a carbon footprint than the entirety of the Roman Empire. If they were simply humans trying to get by, they wouldn’t be attempting to be looked up to on a planetary scale, much like the Gods of old, complete with the fortune, fame and endless adulation. They’re a walking, talking, never-ending ouroboros of the maximal perversion of crystal blue grade capitalism.”
What kind of extractive business model does this influenza remind you of?
What is this? This is where we are? Children being used as puppets in YouTube scams.
Let’s move on from this stuff, humans, it’s enough.
It’s almost as if the 24/7 news cycle of never-ending violence and doomerism we’ve been exposed to from birth has opened a chasm of nihilism so deep and so ingrained that humans only want to sleepwalk and daydream through the rest of their short anxiety-ridden lives.
Humans simply can’t handle the doom anymore, it’s depressing and defeating; what’s the point of trying to do anything good in life if the world is just going to hell and there’s nothing they can do about it? And why do the People® get all the materials and money while we suffer with so little? And so humans don’t do anything about it, they focus on themselves, they turn to escapism in the forms of:
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Gaming
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Binge watching
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Self-Medicating
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Conspiracy spotting
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assuming interconnected, imagined patterns from world noise
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attributing bad luck, or the low status of oneself to these imagined patterns
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Doomscrolling
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being exploited by web2 social networks for personal data
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throwing hours of one’s daily life away to feed the algorithm and line the pockets of privately owned web2 companies that will dispose of their account in a second(at their discretion) and never financially compensate any of the countless millions of humans whom they exploited over the last decade
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feeding the algorithm more inputs so that it gets better at knowing what to show to keep a human doomscrolling
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Retail therapy
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being exploited by corporations for what little money they have
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in order to feel like the subject of the next bullet point
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The envy and adoration of materialistic People®
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People® who seemingly get to enjoy their lives with all of those lovely possessions—if that’s indeed even what these People® really get to do.
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It is the utmost goal of most wandering humans, to become People®
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How is it that these People® types have become cult leaders to a population of humans, or more precarious yet, our contemporary youth? We’ve lost the plot. As proto-𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 George Carlin once described the American mainstream politik:
Garbage in, garbage out.
Show the youth nothing but garbage People® and the youth will want to be nothing but garbage People®.
𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 is the movement we need in dark times like these. When the entire culture gets to stinkin’ up to 𝙷𝙸𝙶𝙷 𝙷𝙴𝚅𝙽 and nearly entirely composed of garbage, 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 arrives just in time to take out the trash.
𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 was the response to the maniacal manufactured materialism of decades past, and it’s precisely what we need today—𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s to stand up and say: 𝙴𝙽𝚄𝙵 𝙸𝚂 𝙴𝙽𝚄𝙵.
𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s don’t have short and miserable lives because they see there’s way more to the chaos than materialism and endless nihilism—there’s 𝚆𝙴𝙰𝙿𝙾𝙽𝙸𝚉𝙴𝙳 𝙾𝙿𝚃𝙸𝙼𝙸𝚂𝙼, for starters, and 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s bring it, in spades.
In the following section, we’re going to walk through what it means to be 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 today, as well as who helped define this new lifestyle of 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺.
The Proto-𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s
Look, let’s get this part out of the way, if you’re here reading this, you’re curious and you might be or you want to be a 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺.
Over the centuries, there have been a few accounts of 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s and sometimes even some truly heroic 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s. Without running through the entirety of history today, we’re going to describe a few of the proto-𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s that inspired this new age and movement of 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 that we believe can carry humanity into the future with the largest amount of weaponized optimism we can possibly muster.
Most of the core ideas of 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 were seeded by proto-𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s of times long gone. However, there are some proto-𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s alive today that have also inspired threads that we will extend and explore within this movement and forever onward into the future and to the stars.
They’re all undoubtedly 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺, though to varying degrees. They all dared to lead expeditions on the frontiers of humanity by putting aside their fear and being unapologetically themselves—persisting in the face of death, criminal prosecution, or a lifetime of persecution—typically always at the contempt of their peers as well as the masses. Why did these proto-𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s dare to explore the frontiers of humanity facing the extreme social costs of doing so? They all had a deeper conviction in humanity than any directionless crowd could ever be capable of, and a true belief that they sought to improve the whole of our existence in whatever ways they had available—because they saw an opportunity to say or do something about the madness they observed in the world. 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s focus on the absolute best parts of humanity and seek to amplify these parts while leaving the People’s® garbage out of it.
Most humans hope the madness will fade on its own, or that they won’t even live long enough to see the terrible ends the madness brings, or better yet: that someone else will take care of it. Humans can’t be bothered, life is hard enough already. Why put another target on your back? It’s better to be adored by the humans and be People® than to be hated and excommunicated for expressing the objective truth—the truth that we all know deep down, but the People® won’t publicly admit—that all of the People®’s junk culture is horrific, unsustainable, and enough is enough.
And who flies that lil baby airplane spoon full of bright and shiny, fresh new courses of People® straight to the drooling mouths of the humans? Why, the mainstream media, all the acroynms: all of the media you’ve been subjected to your entire life—it all peddles in the purely pre-packaged programming, the gated-institutional narrative.
What narratives are they peddling these days? Oh, crypto and blockchain are the devil? Or, it’s all one big scam? These technologies will never amount to anything? It’s all just a fad? It’s destroying the environment? What preexisting condition will they blame on the blockchain next?
If the blockchain is destroying the environment and it’s way less of a carbon footprint than a couple over-peddled jet-setting People®’s footprints put together; why is the mainstream spreading a condemning narrative about the blockchain more than condemning the awful extractive lifestyles of the People®? Because the People® own the mainstream media.
It doesn’t take a bloodhound to smell the desperation that the advent of modern decentralization has spurred in the People’s® fearful little monkey brains. Their lil gated institutional narrative, long since controlled by generations of wealthy nepotists: their lifetime of nonconsensual experimentation on you is nearing its end of days. They won’t have control, anymore.
Quick, let’s do some 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 maths, here:
What is the mainstream?
Centralization = Centralized Narrative, Centralized Control, Groupthink, popularly accepted stereotypes and archetypes
What is the natural foil to the mainstream?
Decentralization, the unknown, the 𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙽𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁.
Decentralization = 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺
That’s the math. It’s plain and simple. No lies here. No kayfabe.
But don’t take that the wrong way, 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s aren’t decentralization maximalists. There are planetary goods that should be decentralized, and then some planetary goods that provide the most benefit to us through centralization.
What can stop the mainstream of madness—what is the treatment for the lead in the water supply that drove the Roman’s mad?
𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺.
𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s take up the charge and say in one way or another: “Enough is enough; I will do something, or at the very least, try to do something.” A 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 overcomes any of the fears the People® peddle that stop humans from trying to make the world a better place. A true 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 will speak out against the noise of the People®, and call it as it is. True 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s hear the signal through the noise and never fail to answer the call.
Now, you may be thinking:
Welp, I could never be a 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 because I can’t do anything even remotely like the great things the Proto-𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s have achieved within my lifetime..
Maybe you’re wrong, maybe you can? Or at the very least, maybe you can support and boost the confidence of 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺s who are attempting to do great things in the service of humanity—and if you hold yourself accountable in life, you’re already on the path to being a great 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 and leagues ahead of some other humans and People®. You can simply be a 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 by choosing authenticity and conviction in yourself, and your own independent thought over readily accepting any of the groupthink or following the masochistic and manufactured trends of the People®.
Forget their influence, forget your fear, embrace the optimism.
Even if you feel you lack the resources or abilities to do truly great things, you can put out that artwork, broadcast the positive ideas that come to you, contribute and care about the rest of humanity and the sustainable health of the planetary consciousness.
If you merely have the resources to care for your pod, or your community and not much more than that, that’s 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺. In the mainstream world where it feels like no one cares at all, those who do care and show it, are certainly 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺.
𝙵𝙴𝙰𝚁 𝙸𝚂 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺 𝙺𝙸𝙻𝙻𝙴𝚁.
𝙵𝚁𝙴𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙿𝚄𝙽𝙺.
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