Thread by @0x49fa98

People are thinking too small these days. What would you do if you had a BILLION dollars? (other than 2 chicks at the same time, obv) Small amounts of money are only enough to buy hedonic tickets to oblivion; a truly rich man can buy a camel a trip through the eye of a needle

Our problem in modernity is that we have lost the ability to believe that stories have happy endings

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Everyone consumes the same media, so we all end up with the same broken stories in our heads

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You are the average of your five closest friends. The idea of Dunbar numbers shows is that we just can’t fit very many people in our heads. Our parasocial relationships to characters in media shape our view of the world as much as our IRL friends

When we look for templates and archetypes for our behavior, we imitate the people that populate our lives

The characters and the stories we meet in our media shape our moral attitudes, but the people who write our stories are optimizing for attention through clickbait style outrage and edginess

When a man needs behavioral scripts for how to act in society or with women, he pulls from his experiences. This is why there is so much overlap between “incel” and “weaboo”: anime provides a truly horrible model of how to act towards women

If we want to live in a righteous culture, we have to disseminate righteous stories to the masses. TV is here to stay, and most people watch it. Right now it's working as an enemy, but it could be a friend

If I had the money I would start a competitor to Netflix with a charter to make only wholesome content. None of the stories would be explicitly ideological or political or religious, they would simply show good people fighting worthy struggles

That means all of the stories would be heteronormative, there would be no divorces or “modern” families, women would be pretty and feminine and men would be strong and forthright, but neither would be cartoonishly so

Evil would not be depicted in a way that is titillating or cool or “badass”. Fathers would be strong and admirable. Mothers would be honored for their selflessness instead of pitied for their hardships

Finding talented writers and producers who could build these kinds of tv shows would not be easy. Given the lay of the land, we would have to take careful steps to ensure that the organization remained conquest-compliant

Conquest’s 2nd law: Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.

But in the current year, right wing organizations are illegal. We will have to find some ways to bend the rules. Corporations outsource the business of intelligence-discrimination to schools. Can we find a similar loophole?

The only people who have a stake in the future are those who are married and have children. In many states it is legal to discriminate against the unmarried. As a first order filter, this will do, although it will raise our labor costs

As a second order filter, we need a way to maintain our goal integrity as the organization scales. The ability to scale an effective culture is the most underrated asset of successful large companies.

Curating human capital is the implicit instrumental goal that all good companies have in common.

Tenet-based corporate culture elicits a lot of groans, but a well-designed list of tenets can be used to get potential employees to self-select without creating legal liabilities.

Here are some example tenets that will repel the wrong sort of people. In order to be effective, they must be cited routinely and uncynically by employees at every level of the org.

1. Children are the future of humanity
2. Respect must always be earned
3. A moment of weakness can negate a lifetime of genius
4. We do not let addictions control us
5. Become worthy

I could go in on in this vein. The important properties of these tenets are that none of them are politically incorrect, and they contradict core leftist values in a way that is hard to articulate without sounding like a paranoid loon

The implicit assumption, which must not be stated, is that discipline is morally superior to licentiousness, which implies that moral superiority is possible. This unspoken ideal, two levels of removal from the letter of the law, can ward away evil

A morally bad person will find these tenets to be unsettling, perhaps “creepy,” but they will not harm a righteous man.

I think the market for this kind of content is dramatically underserved, but in order to succeed, this network would need more than one "hit". That's hard even with no additional constraints, harder still to do with integrity.

Part of the trick is not to market yourself as Christian or wholesome, but to silently stick to your principles. Morality plays and effete sanitized imitations of pop culture are not going to cut it. This is not the 90s Christian bookstore model

Take a lesson from Chinese or Indian cinema, where writers feel free to mix comedy and drama into a single production. Part of our collective failure as story tellers has come from our attempt to orthogonalize comedy from tragedy

People are so sick of antiheroes and degenerate urbanites quipping about their ennui. Cowboys are coming back into fashion because we are filled with longing for what we used to be.

Most of all, normal people need to be given a license to feel proud of their normalcy. Out of a desire to elevate the worst among us, we have beaten down the center, and the people who are the backbone of our society now feel like objects of contempt

For this most defamed American demographic, the displacement they feel has been primarily cultural, and only secondarily financial or political. What they want most in the world is a positive cultural identity, and they get it through stories