Quote: (05-20-2019 03:33 AM)flad Wrote:
Vox wrote fantastic books and his analysis is usually spot on.
But his constant projection of his own gamma traits to others is tiring and makes the streams less watchable.
I've debated posting about this, but I figure it's worth pointing out - the bolded isn't really accurate.
Things VD has been dead wrong about:
* Peterson's IQ
* Republicans holding the House in 2018 - how much he kept shitting on people who were concerned about R losing
* The result of the 2008 economic crisis. Like most libertarians, he expected the Return of the Great Depression. In reality, we had a stock market that's been booming since 2009.
And then this recent post on his blog really takes the cake:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2019/05/no-on...thing.html
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As it happens, I've occasionally taken part in the project as one of the forecasters, although I haven't even logged in to the system for years. The one time I was moderately active, my team was in second place, although that was largely thanks to one guy who was easily the best in our group. If I recall correctly, I was better than the average forecaster, but not in the top ten percent. I still get emails from time to time asking me about the prospects for a Russian attack on Estonia before September and so forth, but I lost interest in it pretty quickly.
Anyhow, the article is right. Everyone is wrong about the future and most people are actually much more reliable as negative predictors, which I interpret as meaning that events proceed in a non-linear manner that is contrary to normal human expectations. That's my best guess as to why the future is so hard for everyone to predict, or even anticipate.
Also Vox Day:
* The alt-right is inevitable
* The US will break apart before 2032
* Trumpslide 2020
At some point you start realizing what a big baller troll Vox Day really is.
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Let's imagine that Vox lived to the right of you and these ROT Cis fags lived to the left.
Leonard, I'm not entirely sure what your point here was. But another perspective:
If someone like Dalrock lived to the right of me, I would have no problem. Dalrock is very clearly an honorable man, and someone that everyone here would feel privileged to have as a neighbor.
Vox Day? I actually might help out Antifa because the alternative is listening to Vox Day incessantly talk about how he's such a genius, how MPAI, how everything he says is correct and if you disagree, well you must just not have the same IQ. Bla bla bla. And heaven forbid you actually point out how he can't do math.
VD's main problem is that his arrogance is insufferable. At least if he was right most of the time, you could give it a pass.
As for VD at least trying or doing something...I'm 50-50 on this.
Sure, it's better to have tried than to have done nothing.
But nothing he's done so far (Infogalactic, his comic books, his publishing house) has had a real impact on the culture.
His real claims to fame seem to come from attacking other people (that weird SciFi awards thing, attacking JBP, etc).
Dude is so absolutely petty, he actively worked towards sabotaging Gab.ai - because 2 randos online called him a pedo.
And that's always been his fatal flaw: he goes super deep on what he thinks is right and never checks in with what the Tribe wants
Carl Jung was dead on with his personality typing and 8 functions. In a relevant nutshell:
VD is Ti first - Ti means "what works for me" - it's all about that logic and what makes sense to you. Identity.
People who are Ti first have Fe last. Fe is "what does the community value". Tribe
I need to make a post about personality typing, because it's actually extremely crucial.
But VD - he's 50 years old and keeps blowing up like this.
He keeps going super hard on Identity and then blowing up on the Tribe thing.
Once you see the pattern, it's almost sad to observe.
He'll do something he thinks is right (Identity). Never checks in with what the community (Tribe) wants. Never compromises or adjusts his messaging to the Tribe. Tribe finds someone they do like (Peterson, Rogan, take your pick). Day goes full gamma envy on the Tribe favorite.
If he doesn't fix it, he'll keep having this problem of "I have this solution" vis-a-vis "Fuck the tribe", and then having zero real effect.
Case in point: before doing Infogalactic, he might've checked in with the Tribe to see if anyone actually gave a fuck about a Wikipedia replacement.
Had he done so, maybe he would've realized people nowadays check social media far more than Wikipedia for information. JBP actually gets this better than VD - Peterson was on Quora and Youtube, both of which although not perfect, are much better ways to spread your message than building an alternative to Wiki.
I honestly believe he got lucky as hell that SJWs Always Lie ended up aligning with what the Tribe was looking for. Otherwise Castalia House would have been a complete dud.
Even his blog....voxday.blogspot.com. He would get far more traffic and be able to have a larger impact if he just got his own domain, got a WordPress site and added a functional searchbar and menu.
The day he figures this shit out is the day he becomes unstoppable.
I truly believe this.
I believe Vox Day has it in himself to become a mammoth of cultural change.
That's the day he actually becomes useful and not just a petty adult with a blog on an outdated blogging site.
But until that day, my prediction is that he'll blow up every 2-3 years, consistently alienating people.