A society needs a satyr. A man or woman to blow up convention so that the common man may laugh and point and say - ahaha. And go on with his life.
And sometimes in the week ends he goes to the drinking stables and gulps a few down and becomes ‘one with the Satyr’. It is allowed.
Except if there are more than one Satyrs. This gets dangerous. Satyrs must challenge authority to be sharp, and challenge the common man to drink beyond his capacity, but they must not challenge other Satyrs. The Satyr is ‘One’ as he connects all that is unknown with all that is unknown and links that whole fearsome gloryhole to the face of the spectacle: the human individual who is thirsty for more.
“More” can only come from “One”. Two combatting clowns are funny as a distraction but not a lure for peoples most intimates drives - the drives that make them beasts, and allows the one who holds the reigns to profit from their unyielding labor.
Animal batteries drive what can become a cathedral or a war or a trillion fold sold snack. It all depends on who’s cracking the whip. In our world that’s the consumer - the average nature of the beast. The lowest of the lowest, that’s what we get to be and that’s what we get to eat. Because of free market law, this is viable. And people profit from that and build machines on the battery - lives of perilous nonsense.
Could it be any better? No. Can it be any better? It already is.
Who is your preferred scumbag?
How does he make the world better than himself?
Ask yourself these questions.
I do not pick. The audience picks and I am only a small part of it. The audience clearly favors Smears over you and even Satyr over you. You are a lone wolf and have managed to estrange even those who are stranger than you.
But you could still try to prove yourself worthy of the publics favor.
I think you’ve got it all wrong. There’s not a contest here fixed. When someone calls me names and acts like an asshole, I do what I’d expect anyone else to do which is to try and embarrass them or mock them in some way. You get a dude who just wont stop doing that and I wont stop doing it in return. I don’t particularly care whether you or anyone else thinks its noble or whatever the term is that you use to label your preferences. I just act like myself. Why do you frame this all as some popularity contest? I don’t think I’m very popular. At the end of the day, it makes you seem a little weird that you’ve taken a non-issue of a guy creating a fake account to come here and call me names and decided to turn it into some kind of contest. I just think it’s a bit weird.
If we are referring to that guy in the other forum, Satyr, and not Pan’s buddies, authorities are often just like him.
In the business World, in the military, in politics.
He’s sharper philosophically than them and likely has more refined aesthetic tastes then many of them, though hardly all of them.
But as far as general worldview, sense of Power, its role, Dynamics in relation to other people, use of shame based morality, managing to identify as a victim while being a prick, epistemology, ontology -iow what the World is made of and how its parts interact - stress on self-control and discipline, preference for caste systems and so on, he’s typical for authorities.
I see satyrs in Power all over the Place. They are the authorities. Check out the average CEO.
He’s old hat secular authority - though these guys are just atheist versions of religious authorities. I mean seriously, Fixed, this is such a common pattern in positions of authority it’s a bit of a joke. Just because he articulates what they live and Breathe hardly makes him some kind of marginalized scapegoat.
Sure if the authorities one considers are school boards and first grade teachers and the local IRS guy, OK, he’s a maverick.
But otherwise he’s just on the smarter, more autodidactic end of the spectrum of Little and big autocrats. Except for all we know he has no practical authority and so finds it hard to turn away the flotsam the net casts on the shore of his desert isle.
Are you implying that I am so shameless, I don’t even register on the social Shame-O-Meter?
I could walk around randomly killing people in crowded city streets, frantically swinging with a knife, and people would just disregard me of not worthy of noticing, ducking under my swings and stepping over the dead bodies on their way… but WILL notice a stinky guy asking them for change with disgust…
Fuck yeah…
I’m robbing every bank without being noticed, and sneaking up every silk skirt without a blink of an eye in protest! This is the greatest news I ever got!!!
A little weird?
I’ve been here for years and this is all I seem?
Of course you’re popular. You’re at least as popular with the Satyr clan as they are with you. And that’s just your enemies. Loo at how many votes you got for the moderatorship of the christloving religion forum! Still makes me laugh. Yes, you are mr popular. Popular and reasonable are after all the same, wouldn’t you agree?
Just disagree with everyone, form no alliances, and persistently act like a smartass and cut no slack when someone actually attempts to engage you on anything. Try and have a few morally reprehensible views and convert others to them. Ask right wingers why they think starving the poor so that we can have more billionaires is a good idea. Ask left wingers why they think everyone should get to live off handouts they didn’t earn. Anyone you come across who’s in the center…just insist they’re right or left wing and argue with a strawman until you, and them are both blue in the face. If someone comes on talking about “power” then make fun of them and point out that they are more than likely powerless and that the system they advocate would eat them alive. There’s a million ways to make people hate you. Demand elaboration on any point anyone offers until you’ve got enough statements from them to draw a contradiction. Dodge questions and above all…ignore all criticism. Stay at it man I think you’ll do just fine.
This is a difficult scientific undertaking to measure the true scumminess of people and to divide it into classifications but after a morning in the lab I came up with a prototype.
