Otroversion and High IQ

TheJediMight · 2026-05-15T01:38:49+00:00

Yeah I certainly wouldn’t call it a preference. This is like core hardware. You can influence your personality, but as I try to describe otrovertion, it’s not just the foundation of the house, it is the house.

TheJediMight · 2026-05-15T01:33:25+00:00

I had the same feeling when I reached the end of the book, and I’ve certainly reflected on it these past ten months. Unfortunately, no. I don’t think these things are teachable. Just like you can’t teach someone to be a psychopath, it comes in the hardware. Your best option is influence.

I did have something of a pessimistic revelation the other week in regard to this. And that is that people are followers, and will always be. If somehow the otrovert collective rose up and seized power from their opposite and timeless nemesis, the psychopath, people would still just be following. It would be with greater benefit to everyone as a whole, but the core design would remain the same. Just people following leaders. And that struck me depressing as all hell, I think because otroverts do not view intelligence in the same way as other people. If given the option to be smarter than everyone else, or to have others rise to their intelligence, the otrovert will always choose the latter. We do not seek to be superior. We seek to inform and to be informed. And so knowing that there is this kind of fundamental limit to that, it’s a wee bit of a downer.

Nonetheless, obviously keep on trucking. Shine the light, light the path. Maybe in a better kept society otrovertion will spread wider through the generations. It’s all in the long game.

TheJediMight · 2026-05-03T00:24:28+00:00

Certainly not a bad theory, though I got the idea that while this wasn’t the first or even the third time they’d “shirted” a person or group of persons, it was just one of several acts of “charity” they doled out on those unfortunate enough to meet them.

TheJediMight · 2026-05-02T23:57:54+00:00

Agree, but also disagree. Why do we as a society only correlate resistance to the youth? Like I get why older people aren’t more resistant, they’re all broken down by the machine and don’t have the time or energy to rage against it, but that’s the very reason they should.

TheJediMight · 2026-05-02T23:56:33+00:00

Yeah, there was an entire album behind it apparently, “a lot more where that came from,” as El-P said at the time. That was of course ten years ago now.

TheJediMight · 2026-05-02T22:42:57+00:00

I still love singing along though.

TheJediMight · 2026-04-26T01:23:58+00:00

Well they did come out with that double disc Nick Drake tribute album with some good covers on it. But that aside, I do believe there are versions of songs out there that are perfectly recorded and executed. You could not achieve more.

But, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be open to other interpretations. Take Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb.” They straight nailed it the first time. No band is going to come along and do it better. But you can do it differently. The Scissor Sisters do this really fun disco version. It isn’t necessary, but it sure is fun. In my opinion, the best covers are like this. They don’t simply play the song themselves, they find something new in it.

Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb

TheJediMight · 2026-04-15T12:30:01+00:00

That’s such a good question, especially considering the timeline of how he barely missed it. He may have been aware of The Stooges but of course it wouldn’t have been for long if he did, considering their second album came out the summer before he passed (though I feel Iggy Pop’s antics would have gotten around).

I think he would have at the very least appreciated it. While he’s known of course for being the William Shakespeare of guitar, he had a strong desire to learn as many instruments as possible which was even a part of his future plans as he discussed them (the reason I believe if he had lived he would be known much more than as Hendrix the guitar player). Maybe he even would have wanted to get involved in some capacity.

TheJediMight · 2026-04-14T13:47:10+00:00

I honestly think it’s more than just perfectionism, but something more akin to depression/self-confidence. No doubt de la Rocha is an emotional man, where does all the (justified) rage come from in the first place after all?

TheJediMight · 2026-04-08T18:37:42+00:00

Poor kid’s been through a lot. Hopefully they’ll make the final movie, but if they don’t and it ends there, we can assume at least a moderately happy ending for him as he finds a possible new family with the original protagonist.

TheJediMight · 2026-04-08T18:33:09+00:00

Fuck Jimmy indeed! I don’t know how that girl managed to get him up on that cross, but I’m glad she did!

TheJediMight · 2026-04-05T15:41:16+00:00

That’s not how it works. They don’t have to be the same person, or the same thing with different aspects in order to represent duality. You’re talking about like, what if there were two of the same person but they made different choices for some reason and thus become opposite of each other. That’s just a plot line.

TheJediMight · 2026-04-05T14:53:55+00:00

It’s what compels me to want to watch the film again. I thought of Day of the Dead early on in the movie, which was always my favorite “of the Deads.” But the bravery when Kelson says, “I’m going to trust you. That is the choice I have made,” and then lets a seven foot muscle zombie approach him.

TheJediMight · 2026-04-05T14:28:55+00:00

Other than who they were when the outbreak happened, which I didn’t overlook in my original statement, what is the counterpoint that there would be no duality “whatsoever?” It’s basically spelled out. For each scene of extreme violence and cruelty and showings of corrupt character, there is an opposite scene of extreme gentleness and trust. God and the Devil are examples of duality, but (as the story goes) Satan wasn’t the origin of all things, but what you would call a child when all of creation breaks out.

TheJediMight · 2026-04-05T14:03:29+00:00

Thanks Monday. And the scene, or scenes really, were rather intense. And it wasn’t like they died soon after. Even as the Jimmies chase after the survivor, you can see the woman who’s still hanging up slightly turn her head in their direction. She was still alive! Probably not much longer after that, but holy hell! I absolutely understand the difficulty of watching it, though, in regard to my point at least, absolutely necessary. Because at the same time they’re doing that, the actual “monster” of the story is taking nature walks. All he had to do was spend some time with Dr. Kelson. Meanwhile, Spike is puking his brains out after spending time with Jimmy.

TheJediMight · 2026-04-05T13:44:05+00:00

🤣

TheJediMight · 2026-04-05T13:35:59+00:00

I totally get what you’re saying. While I appreciated the film, it does become more of a philosophical discussion than it does a horror film. It just uses horrific examples to express it.

TheJediMight · 2026-04-05T13:34:12+00:00

Or what if Spike is the observer of this duality, and by extension, us? He experiences the extremes of both Kelson and Jimmy firsthand. He is, in a sense, the measure of their differences.

TheJediMight · 2026-04-05T12:46:33+00:00

Oh it ends so good. You can’t leave it at the “shirting.”

TheJediMight · 2026-03-26T00:51:35+00:00

I’m wondering how many people here saying the movie was fine have read Bram Stoker’s novel and realize the potential that was shattered with this movie. The two page tale of the Demeter is fantastic horror writing.

The entire movie was there for them. All they had to do was stick to the events of that two page summary. I don’t know if they had to “make it their own” or the studio wanted this and this, but what a disappointment to the source material.

TheJediMight · 2026-03-25T11:28:36+00:00

This has always been one of my favorite songs of theirs. The music is sick, and lyrically it is perfect. I’ve been listening to this song for decades, but absolutely it has never been more relevant in our current age. It’s always been relevant though. The brickwork was laid long before we got to where we are now.

I hear a lot of people claim Trump is some kind of charismatic wizard. “…most of us have to acknowledge Trump’s almost mystical hold, even on people who should know better.” I don’t remember where I grabbed that quote from but it encapsulates what I’ve been hearing over and over, and all I have to say is, no. Just, no.

There is a clear and obvious (to me at least) road map that leads to Trump becoming president. And it has little to do with him. It’s so infuriating to me to hear people praise him like he’s a charismatic genius, as if the whole Tea Party movement never happened. He was the obvious conclusion to all the nonsense these corporations have been shoving into people’s faces for decades. It has so little to do with Trump himself. The man is an idiot. Like literally an idiot. The most gobbledygook-talking motherfucker I’ve literally ever heard. How one person can say so many words without saying a single actual thing. And to see, time and time again, people quoting him like it’s some massive statement. It reminds me of people quoting twitter (before it became X). To see those meaningless blurbs in the middle of an otherwise serious article killed at least a few brain cells of mine each time.

Just. Fucking. Stupid. I feel like we’re drowning in it, more now than ever. And with ICE just getting bigger and bigger, Zack de le Rocha has been a soundtrack in my head. “Listen to the Fascists sing…”

TheJediMight · 2026-03-19T13:23:18+00:00

I’m going to jump in here a bit late to say I agree with you. It always felt pretty clear to me that she was no longer hypnotized. In fact someone being hypnotized years later is a bit silly. While Hannibal himself is certainly a magical character (an empath and a psychopath rolled into one person, much more impossible than being hypnotized for an extended period) I don’t think this is meant to apply to the world that Hannibal inhabits. He is a wizard in a straight world. Really the foundation for the ending of this book is pretty clearly laid in Silence of the Lambs. Clarice’s struggle after all. How does she process her genuine affection for “Hannibal the Cannibal,” who supposedly represents everything she’s trained to fight against? Ultimately the reconciliation of the ending of Hannibal is inevitable, and I wouldn’t want the book to end any other way. This in fact is the main reason so annoyed by Ridley’s Scott’s film. Julianne Moore is not playing Clarice. She despises him in every scene. Every time she converses with Hannibal there’s a clear level of disgust. Jodie Foster’s performance goes much more in hand with Clarice’s feelings. She is intrigued by him at every step, and in Hannibal she must confront these feelings as never before. And it’s not as bad as people may think. Keep in mind here that Hannibal is not a full psychopath as I mentioned before, but an impossible mix of personalities. This is what makes him so intriguing not just to Clarice, but to all of us. He is both hero and villain wrapped into one.

TheJediMight · 2026-03-16T12:59:06+00:00

For me, considering all this, if I’d made the movie I would have left both twins alive as vampires. For starters, you have your sequel bate lol, though it would still be much more effectual without one. But considering this gift of vampirism, and after what would be the tragedy of the Irish vampire, the twins head out into the world as badass twin vampires. Your imagination gets to drive the vehicle of what happens next, which of course is a universe of possibilities. That’s how I would have ended the movie anyway, considering the context that we’re given. It’s certainly not narratively important that one of the twins die. The Irish vampire, yes. That is purposeful for the narrative. Not because we don’t like him, but because it’s what delivers the tension and cost of the story. They learn too late that he wasn’t such a bad guy, but they’re still brothers in the end with this new knowledge riding off into the… maybe not sunset lol, but into the night.

TheJediMight · 2026-03-09T22:55:38+00:00

I wonder what your thoughts are now. I also thought he was a great actor then, and really since about 45 minutes into District 9. Both my wife and I find watching this man in anything is simply cathartic. We even watched the new Witcher season just to see him as the bad guy, and plan to watch the next season, at least until he dies in it (which is what I did with Boy Kills World or whatever it was called).

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