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I wrote my opinion on huberman I named him "a man with a title", because hes simply a walking title, he wears the mask of his title, he has no merits.
But there are also people with merits who lose their mind to the dark power of grifting.
- Faust, the most known: A scholar makes a pact for unlimited knowledge, trading his moral grounding for power and insight. The trade is common in alchemy, you must trade "all what you have", your morality basically. And you have to cause pain in doing it or else isnt a sacrifice.
- Paradise lost: The character is "satan" he goes around framing his grift and corruption as "enlightenment" full of self justification. The higher the intellect, the higher the cope, the more effective the cope will be, the more you persuade yourself your grift isnt immoral.
- Frankenstein: Brilliant scientist, lost his moral compass, creates a form of life that is an aberration. But he succeeds, he was smart indeed.
- Jeckyll and mr hyde: Respected brilliant mind scientist loses it, wants to explore "forbidden impulses", achieves his result becoming a beast.
- Possession: a tale of how knowledge consumes the knower.
- The name of the rose: this book is boring, but the movie is watchable. Monks discover sense of laughter was banned... someone is curious enough to discover why.
- Saruman: For me saruman is the most fit to describe the grifters like peterson. Saruman pretends hes studying evil "to comprehend it", in reality he is manipulated. It fascinates me because he was supposed to be the best of mayas, most wise and most cultivated, he thought he had a chance to manipulate sauron and he failed. It also relates to me personally, but lucky me I dont have the intelligence to see my cope fulfilled in some way. Instead imagine if youre like saruman, if youre really really wise and smart so much you achieve some understanding of evil. Smarter people are more corruptible.
- Heart of darkness: Probably describes more incelism. A journey into "civilized" understanding of humanity reveals psychological and moral collapse in isolation.
- Secret history: What if we create a secret society? In this case, its explored what could happen when you gather brilliant minds and they get consumed by aesthetic elitism, they reason in symbols and rituals. They end up murdering and collapsing morally.
In many ways these examples describe more than the grift, and grifters like huberman dont deserve any comparison with any of these people. Huberman is more like a parody of a parody of scrooge mc duck, or some sort of vain empty normie, not even that smart to be honest. Hes a walking useless title, symbolic collapse of the ruined academia that gave him that power. Hes simpler I think, hes more like a classical abuser of power.
Institutional prestige (PhD, professorship, "expert" label), or media optimization grifts, this shit isnt anything fancy. Its simply exaggerated amount of accumulated logic and prestige, all based on hoarding. This is why huberman resonates so much with redpill logic, its an "alpha hoarder" of wealth, prestige, titles, and there really is nothing behind him, no discovery no curiosity to be tested by deep corruption, hes a simpler creature.
Maybe pic of dorian gray can describe huberman a bit, if I stretch the interpretation. Its simply external image divorced from reality, once only your pic remains and you be dead.
Gilderoy lockhart is a guy who maintains authority with borrowed credibility, performative theatrics and reputation management, precursor of the contemporary grifter like Tony Robbins (the griftman excellence).
Some of these "muh intellectual authority figures" are not examples of dangerous knowledge, they are more like "mini social systems", I mean outputs of institutional signaling systems where titles, and media presence is all there is to it. So when you observe huberman dont think "a man", think the system behind him. Hes systemic corruption, he does not seems to me a complicated fella, hes simpler.
But there are also people with merits who lose their mind to the dark power of grifting.
- Faust, the most known: A scholar makes a pact for unlimited knowledge, trading his moral grounding for power and insight. The trade is common in alchemy, you must trade "all what you have", your morality basically. And you have to cause pain in doing it or else isnt a sacrifice.
- Paradise lost: The character is "satan" he goes around framing his grift and corruption as "enlightenment" full of self justification. The higher the intellect, the higher the cope, the more effective the cope will be, the more you persuade yourself your grift isnt immoral.
- Frankenstein: Brilliant scientist, lost his moral compass, creates a form of life that is an aberration. But he succeeds, he was smart indeed.
- Jeckyll and mr hyde: Respected brilliant mind scientist loses it, wants to explore "forbidden impulses", achieves his result becoming a beast.
- Possession: a tale of how knowledge consumes the knower.
- The name of the rose: this book is boring, but the movie is watchable. Monks discover sense of laughter was banned... someone is curious enough to discover why.
- Saruman: For me saruman is the most fit to describe the grifters like peterson. Saruman pretends hes studying evil "to comprehend it", in reality he is manipulated. It fascinates me because he was supposed to be the best of mayas, most wise and most cultivated, he thought he had a chance to manipulate sauron and he failed. It also relates to me personally, but lucky me I dont have the intelligence to see my cope fulfilled in some way. Instead imagine if youre like saruman, if youre really really wise and smart so much you achieve some understanding of evil. Smarter people are more corruptible.
- Heart of darkness: Probably describes more incelism. A journey into "civilized" understanding of humanity reveals psychological and moral collapse in isolation.
- Secret history: What if we create a secret society? In this case, its explored what could happen when you gather brilliant minds and they get consumed by aesthetic elitism, they reason in symbols and rituals. They end up murdering and collapsing morally.
In many ways these examples describe more than the grift, and grifters like huberman dont deserve any comparison with any of these people. Huberman is more like a parody of a parody of scrooge mc duck, or some sort of vain empty normie, not even that smart to be honest. Hes a walking useless title, symbolic collapse of the ruined academia that gave him that power. Hes simpler I think, hes more like a classical abuser of power.
Institutional prestige (PhD, professorship, "expert" label), or media optimization grifts, this shit isnt anything fancy. Its simply exaggerated amount of accumulated logic and prestige, all based on hoarding. This is why huberman resonates so much with redpill logic, its an "alpha hoarder" of wealth, prestige, titles, and there really is nothing behind him, no discovery no curiosity to be tested by deep corruption, hes a simpler creature.
Maybe pic of dorian gray can describe huberman a bit, if I stretch the interpretation. Its simply external image divorced from reality, once only your pic remains and you be dead.
Gilderoy lockhart is a guy who maintains authority with borrowed credibility, performative theatrics and reputation management, precursor of the contemporary grifter like Tony Robbins (the griftman excellence).
Some of these "muh intellectual authority figures" are not examples of dangerous knowledge, they are more like "mini social systems", I mean outputs of institutional signaling systems where titles, and media presence is all there is to it. So when you observe huberman dont think "a man", think the system behind him. Hes systemic corruption, he does not seems to me a complicated fella, hes simpler.
