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4 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
1. Have social skills

A huge part of having social skills is having positive #mindset (and no, that does not mean positive only when nothing goes wrong.)
2. Acquire status.

An expert marksman is to be respected with or without a rifle in his hands, but he sure is immediately useful and more obviously to be respected if he has the rifle.

The same goes for status and social skills.
3. Fall in love with the idea of woman if that is what genuinely moves you to love.

As long as 1 and 2 are met, you are not weird, only "eccentric." People keep giving advice on how to chop off parts of your personality to fit what is acceptable in a person of normal status.
This is generally well-intentioned but terrible advice.

You are you.

Don't seek to win by being less you. Seek to bring forth the conditions and circumstances in which being you is a winning move.

#mindset
You can spend your time and mental energy on being normal, or on being a champion.

One way you get what you want and the other way you wind up a bitter, neurotic wreck haunted by your abandoned dreams.

Choose wisely.

#philosophy

4. "Get rich or die trying doesn't only end in getting rich! This is risky!"

Yes.

But at least if you die chasing your dreams, you die as who you are.

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More from @moritheil

6 Apr
Imagine:

Your ancestors took a massive L and got chased out of their land

You fully feel that pain, that anguish

And instead of working hard to become a badass corporate raider and taking back everything

You whine on video game topics about fantasy worlds.

🤔

#politics
This isn't limited to indigenous people.

Romney would have garnered a lot more respect if, when called out on the depredations of Bain Capital, he had hit back with stories of Mormons getting slaughtered and chased out of places, and said that he wanted to take back everything.
Obviously money can't make the dead come out of their graves.

But that sentiment is respectable and universally relatable.

We live in a weird inversion world where those who climb up to power are doubly expected to be nice and not make waves -

That's why things don't improve.
Read 4 tweets
6 Apr
I'm not saying it's ALWAYS the case, but most of the time people who post like this simply hate success.

"I wish artists were paid more!"

*Artist finds way to get paid more*

"Noooo you can't do that! I unfollow!"

Don't over think things.

#mindset
"This new way of making more money than I touch in a year is definitely wrong somehow. I did my 5 minutes of research and it looks like it uses electricity? So it's definitely bad for the environment. Now that I found a reason to reject it I can go back to doing what I'm doing."
"Isn't it too convenient how everything you're not into or that would require you to put in effort or get outside your comfort zone is found by you to be morally suspect somehow?"

"Hm. Well, I'm just a good person. I have good instincts!"

- A person with bad instincts

#mindset
Read 4 tweets
5 Apr
"The fact that dating apps are giving alphas a larger share of matings does not bode well for society."

In the short term, no. On the 10,000+ year horizon, occasional bottlenecks where only 10% of the men manage to reproduce are necessary and probably healthy.
1. What truly matters is offspring produced (and raised to adulthood.) Those figures are catastrophically low, to the point where officially encouraging all billionaires to form harems of 500 each would not be enough to turn our abysmal birth - death rates around.
2. The presence of selective pressure is generally healthy.

An astute reader points out that the nature of this selective pressure is unlike that of previous selective pressures; true, but I'm not fully able to say if it's healthy or not.

Read 6 tweets
28 Mar
Whatever else may be said of China, I do not think they would station 25,000 troops in a city only to have taxi drivers murdered in broad daylight.

In fact, this reminds me of a story.
There was a town in China famous for its beautiful lakes, which drew a lot of tourists. This inspired a local gang leader to try to kidnap some foreigners for ransom.

As happens sometimes when conducting international negotiations for large sums of money, the deal fell through.
This resulted in a dead foreigner, which was COMPLETELY unacceptable to the government's plans to develop the area.

The Red Army was sent in. The commander was told to fix the problem. He was not told to respect anyone's rights. He was told to FIX THE PROBLEM.
Read 6 tweets
28 Mar
This kind of thing is honestly why I don't think Chinese dissidents will succeed.

It's not a moral statement. I'm coming at it from a #marketing point of view.
1. You have an EXTREMELY narrow window of attention from the average person and must make a memorable, coherent statement in that time.

What's it gonna be?

"China bad"?

"Don't trust the CCP but trust us, we're not like those other Chinese"?

"Human rights good"?
1 is self-defeating.

2 is automatically suspect.

3 is ill-defined and opens you up to the criticism that you've been overly Westernized.

There is no hand to play that doesn't look lame to a neutral bystander.
Read 17 tweets
28 Mar
Rags to riches is nice for status but not power.

In China if you're a bureaucrat long enough you become a Party member, and if you do that well for a decade you become inner circle, and then you can order people killed.

What's the path to that in the US?
Same guy later in that thread claimed that the Kennedys (who ordered lobotomies and had them covered up) and Clintons (who may or may not have a 50+ body count) don't have REAL aristocratic power.

Sounds to me like they got away with way more than the average feudal lord 🤔
Why do people do this?

"I'm a free thinker, I think dangerous thoughts"

Followed by

"No you just can't criticize modernity, no way, that's BS and I'm muting this thread"
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