There is zero point in opening your mouth unprompted unless it is something that involves you and you have actual influence to leverage.
The hell you care about something someone else is failing at that doesn't affect you. People fail at things everywhere and everyday since the dawn of time.
There’s a metaphysics of do-nothing, which can be described as the virtue-signalling of the “awake”. In my experience people who believe this have no direct experience of power and a shallow perception of its reality based exclusively on watching screens.
Their belief system is a consolation prize for their ragequit from reality. It is the creed of the total loser, mocking anyone who has not given up as a fantasist. It says if you don’t believe in permadoom you are an idiot.
You can call this the condition of the self-identified “awoke” because it shares fundamental characteristics with the wokeism of others whose minds have been broken by the sponsored and virally transmitted cultural revolution by which liberal power is largely secured.
This Belief System (B.S.) says “it is all a show”. Its True Believers believe the world is captured by a permanent faction and to believe this is to ascend to a higher state of consciousness to those who believe in reality.
These BS believers know nothing of anyone actually doing anything because that would take work. Maybe years of it.
Instead, you can just identify as “awoke", resign from reality - and mock anyone who hasn’t.
This BS of Doomsmug is a permission to do nothing - ever - and call it the highest wisdom to remain a lifelong spectator. You can see how a life of watching things on screens and basing your sense of self and reality on that fosters the mentality of an audience minus participation. Its a custom of a spectator culture.
You can make money selling this BS to spectators on the internet. People who buy it will call anyone who does anything a twit, making themselves feel better about doing nothing but watching and snarking. They are enemy snipers, their killshots of “its all a show” demoralising any and everyone who isn’t in their club.
Power is part performance, and the script can be changed. Why parrot one that says it can’t? Power relies ultimately on reality. The real conditions of life are changed, changed utterly, and this has rendered the terms in which power is communicated and consolidated invalid. This is a real change in reality. This moment in time is full of potential.
There is a lot more we can do with this than nothing.
The Highest BS says anyone who tries to do anything is naive, anyone who knows what is happening directly is deceived, it claims to be the most enlightened position about the nature of power but in practice shames its captives into discarding any suspicion that the performance of power is a matter of taking part.
To believe you can change anything is folly, it says, mocking anyone who does anything, ever as a witless stooge of the Hidden Hand.
To believe this is easy. It requires no work, no understanding, and confers an instant sense of superiority over those who do and know things. It is the same as any other “virtue signal” - it self-soothes and scorns others, it says to the believer and the unbeliever “I am better because I believe my beliefs”.
And therefore I do nothing.
They do say a lot, though. If you are trying to replace this intoxicating hopelessness with anything more useful and true, they will tell you that you are a fool, a rube, a shill, are basically not as clever as those enclevered by the invincible vanity of apophenia.
The omnismug celebrate ignorance as enlightenment, voyeurism as the clearpilled ascendance. They recognise only the patterns of their beliefs, and their identity is animated by the derecognition of any other. This is one of many forms of armouring yourself against a reality too complex for you to comprehend, rendering the task of restoration futile. This is a dereliction of duty and treason to the common good. It is makeup, applied to what you prefer to witness in the looking glass.
This is also a metaphysics (and a false one) as it relies on the axiom of self suggestion as the basis of being and reality.
“The world is everything I say that is the case” identifies the sayer as supremely wise. This works in the same way a man identifies as a woman or an African as an Englishman. It is the false belief that reality is not real.
Self suggestion is the basis of being and reality here.
I am what I believe, and what I believe is reality.
Why choose to believe this freely? There are benefits to this life sentence.
People who believe this are internal exiles.
They typically have no experience of power, and just enough knowledge of its production to be dangerous. To exile yourself within yourself and from reality is to believe you have freed yourself of responsibility.
Yet you remain responsible for the bars on your window of opportunity, which you defend with your life. You live in a cage made from self congratulation. You have condemned yourself to solitary confinement in order to replace the burden of action with a doomed satisfaction.
Why is this internal exile? One, the awoke have retreated from engagement with reality into themselves, into a fantasy of an inescapable prison which frees them from the duties of thinking and doing. If nothing can be done then the wisest please themselves. This is nihilism.
Two, the lexis of laisser-aller is a life sentence. You will spend your entire life as a convict of this conviction, seeing everything as fake, nothing real but the voice in your head - which is the cop in your head you mistake for the ultimate revelation. It talks you into a locked discourse which locks you out of any meaningful action forever. It says “I am the ultimate meaning”.
The voice of this revelation tells you it is a waste of time trying to learn anything other than what it tells you: nothing can be changed, power is permanently and invulnerably contrived, and the belief in your complete impotence is the final stage of human realisation.
This the condition of modern political power internalised as an article of faith.
It is the creed of the defeated who call their submission liberation. It is the condition of a subject condemned by themselves as a means of escape. It does not in fact describe reality but is an emergency exit into suspended animation.
This anti-wisdom is the pressing of the pause button of your life, which continues regardless.
Power in the liberal condition is set by its terms. This means a significant foundation of the power of the international liberal system is the manufacture of belief.
If you can make people believe your power is permanent you have won, forever. It is remarkable that people who claim to understand the most about the nature of power tell you it is eternal and changeless.
It is notable they constantly tell anyone trying to do anything to replace any evil with some measure of good that they are wasting their time.
This is an excuse to really know and do nothing, ever. It is the greatest gift to a hostile power you could ever give, and it is given freely, and it claims it is the pinnacle of understanding. It is a dystopian fantasy, the preference for a living nightmare willingly entertained.
The belief that nothing can change and nothing can be done to change things is make belief, made to make people who believe it feel better about themselves and better than anyone who does anything to supply better beliefs.
It is a quasi-religious belief which worships a terrible god that does not exist.
The only power that is eternal and changeless is that of God Himself.
What has been done by men can be undone by men. Be a man. If you are free to believe what you wish, believe in something better than the conceit of the broken and defeated.
That is the difference between fake confidence and real confidence. Whether you have to tell everyone about a little thing that's irrelevant in the scope of things or whether you're doing something huge but just taking it in stride.
Well, here is something of no help at all, a little gift. Your words and some of this teller's. The style prompt was constructed wholly by grok, this teller just tried a few suggestions he had it make.
A song of this moment.
[Verse 1]
You've done so well, we really liked it, we're all big fans of what occurred!
Have you heard?
Don't you know?
Here’s a thought, let's go...
I'd just like to say...
You should do this other thing too hurray!
[Chorus]
You know the game.
You heard the parable.
You’ve exceeded your own expectations. You’ve far exceeded anyone else’s expectations.
You’ve done something worthwhile!
How infuriating, how contemptible!
You don't want to hear it...
Just one more thing...
Level one to level two. (Endless)
Conflict is the air we breathe. (Endlessly)
Wouldn't it be nice if?
SHUT UP!
The critics will always be there. The indifferent will always be indifferent, will always be indifferent. That’s as it should be. (should be)
But... (but)
[Verse 2]
Who doesn't recognise it?
Well, that's the problem isn't it?
If you've done one, you can do another!
Won't you realise their dreams, do a solid, brother!
They want you a puppet of man, but you're already playing pipe to Heaven.
Won't you be the real boy they could never be, it's annoying enough to make a man a felon!
Oh, who doesn't want to help themselves to your help?
To your help?
Help!
[Chorus]
You know the game.
You heard the parable.
You’ve exceeded your own expectations. You’ve far exceeded anyone else’s expectations. You’ve done something worthwhile!
How infuriating, how contemptible!
You don't want to hear it...
Just one more thing...
Level one to level two. (Endless)
Conflict is the air we breathe. (Endlessly)
Wouldn't it be nice if?
SHUT UP!
The critics will always be there. The indifferent will always be indifferent, will always be indifferent. That’s as it should be. (should be)
But... (but)
[Outro]
...But for the love of all that is good, for the love of all that is holy, and for the love of all that is sane, STOP FUCKING HELPING!
New, novel and nonobvious is essential for granting patents. The entire tedious process of application generation, discussion, claims, etc. submittal to patent offices is a lifetime exercise in dealing with these types. Their job is to find reasons why a patent should not be granted.
Vox, waiting for the print. Given the discipline and thoroughly executed approach and what you’ve put out there so far clearly shows it is indeed new, novel and nonobvious. Congratulations!
As for the others, unless they matter personally to you, who cares what they think or say. They are junk mail. Treat accordingly.
Another item for the list of "things now seen that cannot be unseen" crystalized by this 'stack are the unsolicited "help" discussions.
I used to just try and let those sorts of things wash over me and through me, now I'm mentally adding those people to the naughty/mostly useless list. When I actually want advice or guidance, I will not be soliciting assistance from them.
I think solipsistic narcissism is on the nose. Even worse narcissism is, "You did something useful. It could only be improved by my own addition, even if it's just lame criticism. If you are right, then I am always righter".
When I used to go out drawing (a lot) for the purpose of just getting out of the house, I always chose my own subjects, based on my criteria. But a large percentage of evenings, invariably, someone would come along and suggest that I draw his girlfriend, or someone.
.
I don't think they're even trying to be helpful. Every time I read one of these statements from one of these people, I get the following impression:
.
"Wow! I can't even dream of doing what you just did. Now that I see it, I want something similar done, so to get it done, I'm volunteering your time and effort!"
.
They're parasites.
.
Not even, "I'm impressed with what you did there." followed by either
"I'm willing to pay you $X if can do it again on with XYX." or
"How much would you you charge to do a similar thing with XYZ."
.
It's like they think a highly skilled person's time is free, and that doing something uninteresting on behalf of some random stranger isn't draining work.
.
---
.
Finally, I found the best way to get rid of these guys, was to redirect the question, and play on their insecurities:
.
ME: Well, as you've noticed, the process is going to take at least an hour.
HIM: I'm ok with that.
ME: Is she attractive?
HIM: Of course!
ME: So you want your girlfriend to sit here, with me, more or less glued to this seat, for an hour or more, while I create an image of her that will probably make her look a bit better than any photograph, and while I'm doing it, so that she STAYS for the whole process, she and I have a conversation that's deeply probing into her life and personality, while at the same time, leaves her with the impression of me as not only talented, but also as deep, mysterious, and having substantial power over her emotional state....and, if I find her interesting enough for my purposes, continues on through the night, in my bed.
HIM: uh... er..... You don't have to do that.
ME: Well, I mean, there has to be some motivation for me, something to keep me interested. A reward of sorts. So, as soon as I have rapport with her, most likely the first thing I'll do is start undermining her relationship with you, so that even without taking her home, she'll break up with you in less than a week.
HIM: You wouldn't do that. You can't.
ME: I can, I have, and I will.
ME: You might want to just let me choose the subjects I'm interested in, and put in the time and effort and learn how to do this yourself.
.
Another common "good idea" was that I make a drawing from a photograph.
I always shot those down very quickly:
1: It's very easy to spot drawings from photographs because invariably, they come out looking "flat." Walk into any art sales gallery, and you can quickly spot those which were made by a painter working strictly from photographs rather than the subjects themselves. They tend to look like collages of magazine photographs you made in grade school.
2: I KNOW that the picture you have in mind is a lousy photograph. I know it because if it's a really good photograph, you would have already taken it to a photo-processor, and, for the price of less than an 8-back of beer, paid them to make an enlargement. Certainly less than I would charge you.
3: Because it's not a good picture, you're going to want me to change it. Then you're going to be upset that the image I produce doesn't look like the original picture. Then you resent me for it, and I'll resent you for being an ungrateful asshole. So, rather than create enemies of each other, take some good, properly-lit, well-composed photographs, choose the best one off the entire roll, and have that one made into a nice 8x11 print.
.
And sometimes, I would just say:
.
"I do this specifically to relax after work. I have found that taking on commissioned work is stressful, which is the exact opposite of why I draw. IF I happen to make a picture you really like, make me a reasonable offer, and I'll sell it to you.:
.
---
.
AT the other end are were the best ones -- "I'll give you $100 for that picture!"
It takes two seconds to ask oneself, “Does this add value to the conversation?” If the answer is clearly no, shut up. If you have to dance around the no to make a case for why your opinion or advice is somehow special, then it especially is not. Shut up, sit down, and stay quiet!
I still laugh at a comment from my delta old timer coworker. He always tells me to do things a certain way to avoid issues. I think he's being too cautious and just smile and ignore him. After like a year or two he finally had it and said to himself "he heard you, he isn't going to change, just shut up" and walked away.
I respect the shit out of him but ya, if they didn't listen to the unsolicited advice the first time you're forcing the other person to politely ignore you or to tell you to stfu. You get to discover how much they respect you with the option they choose.
"But do these lazy, low-status do-nothings simply not have any idea how infuriating, how contemptible, and how much it makes people want to literally kick them in the head that sort of thing is?"
I would bet against it.
The boys and girls who learn how knock on neighbours' doors to come out and play learnt how consent works before puberty. It's a very subtle dance. You have to be in the know to spot that dance. The losers haven't got an idea of what not to fucking do, because they've never gotten it right once. Delta are innocent, but they fucking ask the girl, because they've seen not what to fucking do. A man from a delta's home doesn't do that. Because coach, dad or mom or fucking something.
Losers haven't gotten it right once, so they throw whatever might stick.
If I may make a humble suggestion, especially since I have observed in most things you are far more patient than I am, yet, on this particular idiot-NPC action, it has never bothered me too much, so perhaps my approach might be of use in lowering your blood pressure if not the contempt for these drooling retards.
And I am not speaking hypothetically, I do know what you mean, as I had that very thing happen and even worse, people telling me to take notes from people who plagiarised my work and half-assed it. Even then, at most, I merely stated the fact: “Mr. X’s work is a badly copied derivative of mine, which if you had paid attention he references in small print while still getting it all wrong.” But even when I did not, I remained relatively placid, by the simple expedient of merely noting that such a person is an irredeemable know-nothing NPC retard, and getting upset at his behaviour would be as pointless as screaming at the sun for rising in the East. I usually satisfied myself with a smile and possibly a “sure.” Or if I wanted to entertain myself a bit at their expense I might suggest that I could never! It was THEIR idea and they should publish it themselves, on my honour, I could not steal their valorous idea!
I love how the potato chip bag has been generated by AI to say "Lacy's" rather than "Lay's". Happy mistake, or intentional tweaking?
There is zero point in opening your mouth unprompted unless it is something that involves you and you have actual influence to leverage.
The hell you care about something someone else is failing at that doesn't affect you. People fail at things everywhere and everyday since the dawn of time.
There’s a metaphysics of do-nothing, which can be described as the virtue-signalling of the “awake”. In my experience people who believe this have no direct experience of power and a shallow perception of its reality based exclusively on watching screens.
Their belief system is a consolation prize for their ragequit from reality. It is the creed of the total loser, mocking anyone who has not given up as a fantasist. It says if you don’t believe in permadoom you are an idiot.
You can call this the condition of the self-identified “awoke” because it shares fundamental characteristics with the wokeism of others whose minds have been broken by the sponsored and virally transmitted cultural revolution by which liberal power is largely secured.
This Belief System (B.S.) says “it is all a show”. Its True Believers believe the world is captured by a permanent faction and to believe this is to ascend to a higher state of consciousness to those who believe in reality.
These BS believers know nothing of anyone actually doing anything because that would take work. Maybe years of it.
Instead, you can just identify as “awoke", resign from reality - and mock anyone who hasn’t.
This BS of Doomsmug is a permission to do nothing - ever - and call it the highest wisdom to remain a lifelong spectator. You can see how a life of watching things on screens and basing your sense of self and reality on that fosters the mentality of an audience minus participation. Its a custom of a spectator culture.
You can make money selling this BS to spectators on the internet. People who buy it will call anyone who does anything a twit, making themselves feel better about doing nothing but watching and snarking. They are enemy snipers, their killshots of “its all a show” demoralising any and everyone who isn’t in their club.
Power is part performance, and the script can be changed. Why parrot one that says it can’t? Power relies ultimately on reality. The real conditions of life are changed, changed utterly, and this has rendered the terms in which power is communicated and consolidated invalid. This is a real change in reality. This moment in time is full of potential.
There is a lot more we can do with this than nothing.
The Highest BS says anyone who tries to do anything is naive, anyone who knows what is happening directly is deceived, it claims to be the most enlightened position about the nature of power but in practice shames its captives into discarding any suspicion that the performance of power is a matter of taking part.
To believe you can change anything is folly, it says, mocking anyone who does anything, ever as a witless stooge of the Hidden Hand.
To believe this is easy. It requires no work, no understanding, and confers an instant sense of superiority over those who do and know things. It is the same as any other “virtue signal” - it self-soothes and scorns others, it says to the believer and the unbeliever “I am better because I believe my beliefs”.
And therefore I do nothing.
They do say a lot, though. If you are trying to replace this intoxicating hopelessness with anything more useful and true, they will tell you that you are a fool, a rube, a shill, are basically not as clever as those enclevered by the invincible vanity of apophenia.
The omnismug celebrate ignorance as enlightenment, voyeurism as the clearpilled ascendance. They recognise only the patterns of their beliefs, and their identity is animated by the derecognition of any other. This is one of many forms of armouring yourself against a reality too complex for you to comprehend, rendering the task of restoration futile. This is a dereliction of duty and treason to the common good. It is makeup, applied to what you prefer to witness in the looking glass.
This is also a metaphysics (and a false one) as it relies on the axiom of self suggestion as the basis of being and reality.
“The world is everything I say that is the case” identifies the sayer as supremely wise. This works in the same way a man identifies as a woman or an African as an Englishman. It is the false belief that reality is not real.
Self suggestion is the basis of being and reality here.
I am what I believe, and what I believe is reality.
Why choose to believe this freely? There are benefits to this life sentence.
People who believe this are internal exiles.
They typically have no experience of power, and just enough knowledge of its production to be dangerous. To exile yourself within yourself and from reality is to believe you have freed yourself of responsibility.
Yet you remain responsible for the bars on your window of opportunity, which you defend with your life. You live in a cage made from self congratulation. You have condemned yourself to solitary confinement in order to replace the burden of action with a doomed satisfaction.
Why is this internal exile? One, the awoke have retreated from engagement with reality into themselves, into a fantasy of an inescapable prison which frees them from the duties of thinking and doing. If nothing can be done then the wisest please themselves. This is nihilism.
Two, the lexis of laisser-aller is a life sentence. You will spend your entire life as a convict of this conviction, seeing everything as fake, nothing real but the voice in your head - which is the cop in your head you mistake for the ultimate revelation. It talks you into a locked discourse which locks you out of any meaningful action forever. It says “I am the ultimate meaning”.
The voice of this revelation tells you it is a waste of time trying to learn anything other than what it tells you: nothing can be changed, power is permanently and invulnerably contrived, and the belief in your complete impotence is the final stage of human realisation.
This the condition of modern political power internalised as an article of faith.
It is the creed of the defeated who call their submission liberation. It is the condition of a subject condemned by themselves as a means of escape. It does not in fact describe reality but is an emergency exit into suspended animation.
This anti-wisdom is the pressing of the pause button of your life, which continues regardless.
Power in the liberal condition is set by its terms. This means a significant foundation of the power of the international liberal system is the manufacture of belief.
If you can make people believe your power is permanent you have won, forever. It is remarkable that people who claim to understand the most about the nature of power tell you it is eternal and changeless.
It is notable they constantly tell anyone trying to do anything to replace any evil with some measure of good that they are wasting their time.
This is an excuse to really know and do nothing, ever. It is the greatest gift to a hostile power you could ever give, and it is given freely, and it claims it is the pinnacle of understanding. It is a dystopian fantasy, the preference for a living nightmare willingly entertained.
The belief that nothing can change and nothing can be done to change things is make belief, made to make people who believe it feel better about themselves and better than anyone who does anything to supply better beliefs.
It is a quasi-religious belief which worships a terrible god that does not exist.
The only power that is eternal and changeless is that of God Himself.
What has been done by men can be undone by men. Be a man. If you are free to believe what you wish, believe in something better than the conceit of the broken and defeated.
Lower status people explain their ideas and processes because they’re trying to prove intelligence and competence.
When a higher status person doesn’t explain everything, they assume something was missed. They don't realize no input is wanted, hence no explanation.
That is the difference between fake confidence and real confidence. Whether you have to tell everyone about a little thing that's irrelevant in the scope of things or whether you're doing something huge but just taking it in stride.
Is this article just an A.I version of your points?
No, it's not AI at all.
Well, here is something of no help at all, a little gift. Your words and some of this teller's. The style prompt was constructed wholly by grok, this teller just tried a few suggestions he had it make.
A song of this moment.
[Verse 1]
You've done so well, we really liked it, we're all big fans of what occurred!
Have you heard?
Don't you know?
Here’s a thought, let's go...
I'd just like to say...
You should do this other thing too hurray!
[Chorus]
You know the game.
You heard the parable.
You’ve exceeded your own expectations. You’ve far exceeded anyone else’s expectations.
You’ve done something worthwhile!
How infuriating, how contemptible!
You don't want to hear it...
Just one more thing...
Level one to level two. (Endless)
Conflict is the air we breathe. (Endlessly)
Wouldn't it be nice if?
SHUT UP!
The critics will always be there. The indifferent will always be indifferent, will always be indifferent. That’s as it should be. (should be)
But... (but)
[Verse 2]
Who doesn't recognise it?
Well, that's the problem isn't it?
If you've done one, you can do another!
Won't you realise their dreams, do a solid, brother!
They want you a puppet of man, but you're already playing pipe to Heaven.
Won't you be the real boy they could never be, it's annoying enough to make a man a felon!
Oh, who doesn't want to help themselves to your help?
To your help?
Help!
[Chorus]
You know the game.
You heard the parable.
You’ve exceeded your own expectations. You’ve far exceeded anyone else’s expectations. You’ve done something worthwhile!
How infuriating, how contemptible!
You don't want to hear it...
Just one more thing...
Level one to level two. (Endless)
Conflict is the air we breathe. (Endlessly)
Wouldn't it be nice if?
SHUT UP!
The critics will always be there. The indifferent will always be indifferent, will always be indifferent. That’s as it should be. (should be)
But... (but)
[Outro]
...But for the love of all that is good, for the love of all that is holy, and for the love of all that is sane, STOP FUCKING HELPING!
(STOP HELPING)
(HELPING!)
https://suno.com/s/PrGzGKgqFJ7Xap3S
Thanks for all you've done.
But have you considered that you could...
There's this wonderful idea too...
New, novel and nonobvious is essential for granting patents. The entire tedious process of application generation, discussion, claims, etc. submittal to patent offices is a lifetime exercise in dealing with these types. Their job is to find reasons why a patent should not be granted.
Vox, waiting for the print. Given the discipline and thoroughly executed approach and what you’ve put out there so far clearly shows it is indeed new, novel and nonobvious. Congratulations!
As for the others, unless they matter personally to you, who cares what they think or say. They are junk mail. Treat accordingly.
"Here's a thought..."
I literally felt the anger rise in me at this very phrase.
In ye olden days they'd offer, "Penny for your thoughts?" and you could say no.
I read a story about how that phrase triggered rage in one of the characters. In another, it was the word "anent".
I never say either now. Permatriggered
Another item for the list of "things now seen that cannot be unseen" crystalized by this 'stack are the unsolicited "help" discussions.
I used to just try and let those sorts of things wash over me and through me, now I'm mentally adding those people to the naughty/mostly useless list. When I actually want advice or guidance, I will not be soliciting assistance from them.
"You did something useful. My reward for your efforts is to suggest you put in more effort to do something I want."
The ridiculous solipsistic narcissism of the masses.
I think solipsistic narcissism is on the nose. Even worse narcissism is, "You did something useful. It could only be improved by my own addition, even if it's just lame criticism. If you are right, then I am always righter".
When I used to go out drawing (a lot) for the purpose of just getting out of the house, I always chose my own subjects, based on my criteria. But a large percentage of evenings, invariably, someone would come along and suggest that I draw his girlfriend, or someone.
.
I don't think they're even trying to be helpful. Every time I read one of these statements from one of these people, I get the following impression:
.
"Wow! I can't even dream of doing what you just did. Now that I see it, I want something similar done, so to get it done, I'm volunteering your time and effort!"
.
They're parasites.
.
Not even, "I'm impressed with what you did there." followed by either
"I'm willing to pay you $X if can do it again on with XYX." or
"How much would you you charge to do a similar thing with XYZ."
.
It's like they think a highly skilled person's time is free, and that doing something uninteresting on behalf of some random stranger isn't draining work.
.
---
.
Finally, I found the best way to get rid of these guys, was to redirect the question, and play on their insecurities:
.
ME: Well, as you've noticed, the process is going to take at least an hour.
HIM: I'm ok with that.
ME: Is she attractive?
HIM: Of course!
ME: So you want your girlfriend to sit here, with me, more or less glued to this seat, for an hour or more, while I create an image of her that will probably make her look a bit better than any photograph, and while I'm doing it, so that she STAYS for the whole process, she and I have a conversation that's deeply probing into her life and personality, while at the same time, leaves her with the impression of me as not only talented, but also as deep, mysterious, and having substantial power over her emotional state....and, if I find her interesting enough for my purposes, continues on through the night, in my bed.
HIM: uh... er..... You don't have to do that.
ME: Well, I mean, there has to be some motivation for me, something to keep me interested. A reward of sorts. So, as soon as I have rapport with her, most likely the first thing I'll do is start undermining her relationship with you, so that even without taking her home, she'll break up with you in less than a week.
HIM: You wouldn't do that. You can't.
ME: I can, I have, and I will.
ME: You might want to just let me choose the subjects I'm interested in, and put in the time and effort and learn how to do this yourself.
.
Another common "good idea" was that I make a drawing from a photograph.
I always shot those down very quickly:
1: It's very easy to spot drawings from photographs because invariably, they come out looking "flat." Walk into any art sales gallery, and you can quickly spot those which were made by a painter working strictly from photographs rather than the subjects themselves. They tend to look like collages of magazine photographs you made in grade school.
2: I KNOW that the picture you have in mind is a lousy photograph. I know it because if it's a really good photograph, you would have already taken it to a photo-processor, and, for the price of less than an 8-back of beer, paid them to make an enlargement. Certainly less than I would charge you.
3: Because it's not a good picture, you're going to want me to change it. Then you're going to be upset that the image I produce doesn't look like the original picture. Then you resent me for it, and I'll resent you for being an ungrateful asshole. So, rather than create enemies of each other, take some good, properly-lit, well-composed photographs, choose the best one off the entire roll, and have that one made into a nice 8x11 print.
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And sometimes, I would just say:
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"I do this specifically to relax after work. I have found that taking on commissioned work is stressful, which is the exact opposite of why I draw. IF I happen to make a picture you really like, make me a reasonable offer, and I'll sell it to you.:
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AT the other end are were the best ones -- "I'll give you $100 for that picture!"
Reward creation if you cannot do it.
A good final point.
It takes two seconds to ask oneself, “Does this add value to the conversation?” If the answer is clearly no, shut up. If you have to dance around the no to make a case for why your opinion or advice is somehow special, then it especially is not. Shut up, sit down, and stay quiet!
I still laugh at a comment from my delta old timer coworker. He always tells me to do things a certain way to avoid issues. I think he's being too cautious and just smile and ignore him. After like a year or two he finally had it and said to himself "he heard you, he isn't going to change, just shut up" and walked away.
I respect the shit out of him but ya, if they didn't listen to the unsolicited advice the first time you're forcing the other person to politely ignore you or to tell you to stfu. You get to discover how much they respect you with the option they choose.
AI can make up some pretty interesting scenarios. One from my upcoming book:
"You're getting snot all over my Armani suit! I don't care that your mom's in trouble. Get me another coffee Daron!"
"But do these lazy, low-status do-nothings simply not have any idea how infuriating, how contemptible, and how much it makes people want to literally kick them in the head that sort of thing is?"
I would bet against it.
The boys and girls who learn how knock on neighbours' doors to come out and play learnt how consent works before puberty. It's a very subtle dance. You have to be in the know to spot that dance. The losers haven't got an idea of what not to fucking do, because they've never gotten it right once. Delta are innocent, but they fucking ask the girl, because they've seen not what to fucking do. A man from a delta's home doesn't do that. Because coach, dad or mom or fucking something.
Losers haven't gotten it right once, so they throw whatever might stick.
If I may make a humble suggestion, especially since I have observed in most things you are far more patient than I am, yet, on this particular idiot-NPC action, it has never bothered me too much, so perhaps my approach might be of use in lowering your blood pressure if not the contempt for these drooling retards.
And I am not speaking hypothetically, I do know what you mean, as I had that very thing happen and even worse, people telling me to take notes from people who plagiarised my work and half-assed it. Even then, at most, I merely stated the fact: “Mr. X’s work is a badly copied derivative of mine, which if you had paid attention he references in small print while still getting it all wrong.” But even when I did not, I remained relatively placid, by the simple expedient of merely noting that such a person is an irredeemable know-nothing NPC retard, and getting upset at his behaviour would be as pointless as screaming at the sun for rising in the East. I usually satisfied myself with a smile and possibly a “sure.” Or if I wanted to entertain myself a bit at their expense I might suggest that I could never! It was THEIR idea and they should publish it themselves, on my honour, I could not steal their valorous idea!
Anyway… just lending a helping hand! Hahahha