Why are You Here?

General Patterns Meet a Low-Wattage, Low Status Example

Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois, Dante and Virgil in Hell, Circle of Traitors to their Country, 1879, oil on canvas, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon

Originally planned to get to this sooner, but high status social patterns proved interesting. There’s always value in thinking through something that has become habitual. Better self/situational awareness and cleaner processes. Plus, it turns out a sharper picture is better for this post too. Showing how general patterns apply to specific cretins pulls together a lot of tells and contextual expectations. They’re connected - behavior is a tell relative to contextual expectations. And [able to adjust behavior to circumstance] is a quick way to sort intelligent, self-aware, high-status people from solipsistic, low-wattage dolts. Examples connect universal tendencies to real situations. It’s the Abstract/Material split for Band readers. Patterns are inductive abstract guides, while manifestations are what people experience. Confusing the two is a common source of low status striver unintentional comedy. But seeing the general in the specific in one case makes it easier to spot in others.

Start with the context. Why use a comment page? Simplest level, it’s to share something with the other readers. People do so for different reasons. The Gamma appeal is the illusion of a blank slate for projected delusion.

Hendrick Goovaerts (attributed to), Festivities with an Actor as a Charlatan, around 1710, oil on canvas, Wellcome Collection

Anecdote - I’ve always been polarizing and my interests and standards misinterpreted. Neither my persona nor my message are “popular” and I still find people inherently unintuitive. Building a big platform is out of the question. I benefit from being able to leverage others’ venues. It’s simple fact, not a source of psychic pain. And that has to come with respect and some sort of positivity or else I’m parasitic or manipulative. Be honest about where you are and why you’re there. It nips the path to delusions of grandeur in the bud.

Leading to Li’l Turdling. Here’s the initial exchange, reconstructed as it first took place. The screen shots were taken after a lot of other nested exchanges happened. Since the point is to explain a pattern, the sequencing is important. So first the original appearance, then the later developments. Beginning with an off-smelling response to an innocuous comment by a high status female I know from elsewhere. Some readers may wonder why I react aggressively so quickly. The answer starts with what goes into my observe and read process. It finishes with these conclusions.

We’ve already mentioned the presumption of familiarity. It’s clear from the HSF’s dismissive response that this isn’t a mutual acquaintance. So the first tell is the asymmetric address. The HSF gives a high status reply. It would be obvious to anyone with self-respect or dignity that they’re off. But in a breezy tone that tempers embarrassment with humor. Her high status projection is assuming self-respect or dignity. In reality, two completely different social worlds. In the bubble? From the last post on the Pedowood fractitype…

On a deeper level, inverted high status supports the assumption is that interaction is natural. Factions competing in a common social world. When in reality there is no competition. Or common world. Only the unwanted intrusion of an infantile a-hole and assertion of status lines.

The point of the high status socialization posts was to show why it was obvious on first glance that we’re dealing with projected delusion. Layered patterns make this jump out like the pot banger at the recital. A Gamma can build endless towers of one-way monologues and scenarios in their warped minds. Not unlike the classic obsessed fan, but with more online access. Someone you “see” all the time. Who may even have unwittingly liked a comment. It’s a lot easier to slip out of reality anonymously blending in a communal setting. We’ve all seen someone melt down who’s been around for a while. Prolonged exposure can bring it out.

Luis Lorenzana, The Agony of Popoy’s Rejection, 2008, oil on canvas. Popoy might have been a better name for the Turdling. Pity.

Except Popoy the Turdling isn’t offering a nice flower. Stay on the opening sentence. People are multi-faceted. Patterns layer. The Venn-type overlap focuses in on the personality. Add an oddly flirtatious/salacious tone with a potentially embarrassing undercurrent. High status men don’t put women on the spot publicly for no reason. And unmerited humiliation or undercutting is never the goal. It’s not “white knighting”. It’s high status. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a less high status opening that's that short with clean speech. This is another tell. Low status guys engaging women generally want to make a good impression. They fail because they don’t know how. Reactions differ - the low Delta may complain, the Gamma hate or hamster, and the Omega refuse to make eye contact with another female for 5 years. But they all wanted to be liked. The Turdling is different - obnoxious from the jump. This indicates someone with a smarmy attitude but no illusion of a positive impression. So layer that over the faux familiarity and the HSF’s dismissive reply…

Why, Li’l Turdling has managed to develop a big ol’ issue with the HSS without her awareness of its existence.

Something to keep in mind for later. For now, see how it works? One sentence and we know exactly what it is. In case anyone wondered why I find most social engagements tedious…

What’s going on with a pathology like this? Fixating on strangers without even a dream of positive social connection goes from pathetic to senseless. Motivation has to come from outside the encounter. We know assumption of familiarity comes from pre-existing obsessing - that is, outside the encounter. Looping back to the public nature of organic internet socialization. Traffic to comment ratios show reading is way more popular than participating. There’s a reality tv dimension, where personalities and voices become familiar. Harmless entertainment, and sometimes a source of good information. But universal accessibility lets people who can’t handle social stratification lurk and fester. Sometimes they find each other and bond over their obsession with strangers. Two observations

The inverted high status fractitype is the link between the dim, low-status resentment and acting out publicly.

Gammas can’t fathom the purity of high status contempt because their identities depend on the people they hate.

Ignorance, stupidity, and resentment is just the primordial soup for Pedowood and other House of Lies inversions. Li’l Turdling thinks it’s engaging in some sort of conflict - trolling or disrupting like a movie prank. There’s a good chance it’s performing for other losers. All the more reason to flip the off switch.

Leo Posillico, Flasher’s Convention, 1987, limited edition print 3/295 – Martin Lawrence Ltd. Edition

This is where intelligence assessment comes in. A brighter Gamma usually tries to posture as an authority. All the tiresome achshullying and yeah butting we’re familiar with. LT had a smarmy lowlife vibe from the start. High social tone deafness plus the quality of its content shows it it isn’t a brighter one. Dull-witted passive aggression instead of smart boy. I expected the same resentment for betters bubbled under the surface. But I wasn’t 100% certain from the opening line. So I came in hot with over-the-top dismissiveness to reassert status lines between peers and blow up its routine. But don’t acknowledge the Gamma. Talk over it, as you would someone’s disturbed child. The Gamma psychodynamic hates exclusion, probably over all else. Deny it the phantasy there’s a common social ground. Show that what it says is irrelevant - it’s its presence that irritates. You don’t chat with a mosquito. It’s intruding in your space. Its removal is inevitable. So take advantage of its brief existence to demonstrate some things to quality reader.

Its reaction to me is another tell. From the last post - Note who comes to who in these encounters, and who needs to be thrown out of where. Seriously. It’s all projected.

This one barnacles onto my comment to the HSF with a low status attention-seeking tactic. Several posts on high status social attitudes should make the absurdity of that instantly obvious. And the ignorance. Correlating contempt in a third-party conversation on a comment page with courage or cowardice is too illogical to treat as a rational response. And no relation to reality means we’re back in the realm of projected delusion. Delusion is much more revealing than conversational interaction. Dialog is limited by the topic and sentences you’re replying to. Free association blurts the first thing that comes to mind. In Li’l Turdling’s case, that’s fear response. It also confirms the low intelligence assessment - brighter ones don’t lapse into non sequitur until they’re triggered. Then there’s the fractitypal assumption that I register the inclinations of a spot of dog shit on my shoe. I might mention it to someone. But talking to the stain?

Delusion colliding with reality from the jump. Just a very small exchange is sufficient to confirm the hypotheses. Part Two will show how the rest of the exchange is proof of concept with some general conclusions. Until then, focus on how general patterns play out in specific cases. And why whatever it is they’re gibbering about is of no consequence. Shunning them altogether is the path to higher status social groups.

Slim Aarons, Pool at Lake Tahoe, January 1, 1959, C-type photographic print