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<blockquote data-quote="Roosh" data-source="post: 1548585" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><em>Originally posted on <a href="https://www.rooshv.com" target="_blank">RooshV.com</a></em></p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.rooshv.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/male-office-sad-1024x612.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Vintage-Classics-Fyodor-Dostoevsky/dp/067973452X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=notes+from+the+underground&qid=1637346421&sr=8-1&x=0&y=0&linkCode=ll1&tag=rooshlog-20&linkId=ff9cdcff8bd85768b9a8e5a658e8c9e9&language=en_US" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.rooshv.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/book-notes-from-underground.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Vintage-Classics-Fyodor-Dostoevsky/dp/067973452X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=notes+from+the+underground&qid=1637346421&sr=8-1&x=0&y=0&linkCode=ll1&tag=rooshlog-20&linkId=ff9cdcff8bd85768b9a8e5a658e8c9e9&language=en_US" target="_blank">Notes From The Underground</a> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a fictional memoir by a 19th-century bug man who is angry and hateful because things don’t go his way. His life is utterly void of meaning. He is petty, vindictive, and lacking love in his heart. As a character novel, this book captures the psychology of even the modern bug man who insists on living within his narrow, composite world, waiting to exert his will over others in the most cowardly ways imaginable.</p><p></p><h4>Existential sickness</h4><p></p><p></p><p>We’re seeing that come to fruition now. We are born into a world spirit of globalism, equality, climate change, and <a href="https://www.rooshv.com/modern-life-is-aids" target="_blank">gay acceptance</a>. We are not allowed to hold opinions if they clash with those of the ruling class. We cannot undergo our own search for truth if it conflicts with the agenda of the times. From the day you were born, you were groomed to hold a set of beliefs and perform a prescribed set of behaviors that serve the will of the princes of this world, and thus is born the bug man who tries to win within the crooked system and false reality.</p><p></p><h4>Civilization leads to a subtle barbarism</h4><p></p><p></p><p>Look at a man such as Bill Gates, heralded as a computer genius who for some reason is qualified to advise you on health care even though no one would describe him as looking healthy. He was integral in pushing through a vaccine that has already killed tens of thousands of people around the world, and once all is said and done, the death toll could be in the millions, and yet right now, he’s probably eating something banal, an organic avocado spread on supermarket bread, and after that he will check his email and sip on a beverage enriched with added minerals. His assistant will then present him with his fluffy lap dog, which has just returned from the groomers with a cute ribbon tied around its neck and a behavioral report card of B+.</p><p></p><h4>The scientific man</h4><p></p><p></p><p>The scientists have already figured it all out for you: what to eat, how to sleep, how to work, when to get vaccinated, and increasingly, <a href="https://www.rooshv.com/the-inversion-agenda" target="_blank">what to believe</a>. You simply have to follow their precepts for a happy life that maximizes physical health. All the petty problems and inconveniences of the bug man and soy man are ameliorated: they are permitted microdoses of pleasure that prevent them from considering the spiritual life because the tasty engineered food, pornography, and two minutes of daily online outrage satisfies them just enough, but when they die, how will God judge them?</p><p></p><h4>Fantasies of revenge constrained by bug man cowardice</h4><p></p><p></p><p>When face masks were first required, I was yelled at several times by other customers, people I would have never noticed in my daily life, who seemed to be the type that is never noticed by others either, yet go through great pains to be noticed. The face mask mandate was their moment of courage. The legal authorities were on their side. They could intrude on a person’s life with expletive-laced demands and get away with it. Mad with power, they were like a terror to me when I only needed to run <a href="https://www.rooshv.com/why-does-the-supermarket-play-pop-music" target="_blank">to the supermarket</a> to buy a ball of mozzarella cheese for my homemade pizza.</p><p></p><p>The height of the bug man “look at me” attention ploy is to commit a mass shooting. The physiognomy of the men who commit shootings immediately confirms that it’s the invisible trying to become visible through heinous destruction, even for only a moment.</p><p></p><h4>Wounded pride</h4><p></p><p></p><p>The bug man is trapped in his own head. On one hand he is viciously critical of everyone who doesn’t rise to his level of fantastical perfection, but on the other he is desperate for just one morsel of positive attention. If you want to wound a bug man, to see his face twisted in pain, simply disagree with one of his lofty ideas. The fact that he announced his opinion to you means it was rehearsed in his mind for a long time, perhaps many years, and your refusal of it is a shameful slap. How much he will come to hate you, and develop fantasies of your own humiliation at his superior hand. Every interaction is a power struggle, a way to feed his pride, to be perpetually offended at everyone and everything for not giving him the commendation he thinks he deserves.</p><p></p><p>This may be the first “black pill” novel. It has more philosophy than narrative, making it one of the hardest <a href="https://www.rooshv.com/10-favorite-quotes-from-fydor-dostoevskys-the-brothers-karamazov" target="_blank">Dostoyevsky novels</a> to fully understand, in spite of its short length. The main character is eminently unlikable, despicable, and often evil. He is the person who craves power but to whom none should be given, and yet what do we live in today but a society ruled over by petty bug men who in spite of their billions in wealth still harbor grudges for going through high school without a girlfriend. Now they get to enact their vengeance on the world using all the technology and medical toxins that are available to them. A bug man with power—a true nightmare indeed.</p><p></p><p><strong>Learn More:</strong> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Vintage-Classics-Fyodor-Dostoevsky/dp/067973452X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=notes+from+the+underground&qid=1637346421&sr=8-1&x=0&y=0&linkCode=ll1&tag=rooshlog-20&linkId=ff9cdcff8bd85768b9a8e5a658e8c9e9&language=en_US" target="_blank"><em><strong>Notes From The Underground on Amazon</strong></em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.rooshv.com/notes-from-the-first-bug-man" target="_blank">Permalink</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roosh, post: 1548585, member: 1"] [i]Originally posted on [url="https://www.rooshv.com"]RooshV.com[/url][/i] [IMG]https://www.rooshv.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/male-office-sad-1024x612.jpg[/IMG] [URL='https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Vintage-Classics-Fyodor-Dostoevsky/dp/067973452X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=notes+from+the+underground&qid=1637346421&sr=8-1&x=0&y=0&linkCode=ll1&tag=rooshlog-20&linkId=ff9cdcff8bd85768b9a8e5a658e8c9e9&language=en_US'][IMG]https://www.rooshv.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/book-notes-from-underground.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Vintage-Classics-Fyodor-Dostoevsky/dp/067973452X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=notes+from+the+underground&qid=1637346421&sr=8-1&x=0&y=0&linkCode=ll1&tag=rooshlog-20&linkId=ff9cdcff8bd85768b9a8e5a658e8c9e9&language=en_US']Notes From The Underground[/URL] by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a fictional memoir by a 19th-century bug man who is angry and hateful because things don’t go his way. His life is utterly void of meaning. He is petty, vindictive, and lacking love in his heart. As a character novel, this book captures the psychology of even the modern bug man who insists on living within his narrow, composite world, waiting to exert his will over others in the most cowardly ways imaginable. [HEADING=3]Existential sickness[/HEADING] We’re seeing that come to fruition now. We are born into a world spirit of globalism, equality, climate change, and [URL='https://www.rooshv.com/modern-life-is-aids']gay acceptance[/URL]. We are not allowed to hold opinions if they clash with those of the ruling class. We cannot undergo our own search for truth if it conflicts with the agenda of the times. From the day you were born, you were groomed to hold a set of beliefs and perform a prescribed set of behaviors that serve the will of the princes of this world, and thus is born the bug man who tries to win within the crooked system and false reality. [HEADING=3]Civilization leads to a subtle barbarism[/HEADING] Look at a man such as Bill Gates, heralded as a computer genius who for some reason is qualified to advise you on health care even though no one would describe him as looking healthy. He was integral in pushing through a vaccine that has already killed tens of thousands of people around the world, and once all is said and done, the death toll could be in the millions, and yet right now, he’s probably eating something banal, an organic avocado spread on supermarket bread, and after that he will check his email and sip on a beverage enriched with added minerals. His assistant will then present him with his fluffy lap dog, which has just returned from the groomers with a cute ribbon tied around its neck and a behavioral report card of B+. [HEADING=3]The scientific man[/HEADING] The scientists have already figured it all out for you: what to eat, how to sleep, how to work, when to get vaccinated, and increasingly, [URL='https://www.rooshv.com/the-inversion-agenda']what to believe[/URL]. You simply have to follow their precepts for a happy life that maximizes physical health. All the petty problems and inconveniences of the bug man and soy man are ameliorated: they are permitted microdoses of pleasure that prevent them from considering the spiritual life because the tasty engineered food, pornography, and two minutes of daily online outrage satisfies them just enough, but when they die, how will God judge them? [HEADING=3]Fantasies of revenge constrained by bug man cowardice[/HEADING] When face masks were first required, I was yelled at several times by other customers, people I would have never noticed in my daily life, who seemed to be the type that is never noticed by others either, yet go through great pains to be noticed. The face mask mandate was their moment of courage. The legal authorities were on their side. They could intrude on a person’s life with expletive-laced demands and get away with it. Mad with power, they were like a terror to me when I only needed to run [URL='https://www.rooshv.com/why-does-the-supermarket-play-pop-music']to the supermarket[/URL] to buy a ball of mozzarella cheese for my homemade pizza. The height of the bug man “look at me” attention ploy is to commit a mass shooting. The physiognomy of the men who commit shootings immediately confirms that it’s the invisible trying to become visible through heinous destruction, even for only a moment. [HEADING=3]Wounded pride[/HEADING] The bug man is trapped in his own head. On one hand he is viciously critical of everyone who doesn’t rise to his level of fantastical perfection, but on the other he is desperate for just one morsel of positive attention. If you want to wound a bug man, to see his face twisted in pain, simply disagree with one of his lofty ideas. The fact that he announced his opinion to you means it was rehearsed in his mind for a long time, perhaps many years, and your refusal of it is a shameful slap. How much he will come to hate you, and develop fantasies of your own humiliation at his superior hand. Every interaction is a power struggle, a way to feed his pride, to be perpetually offended at everyone and everything for not giving him the commendation he thinks he deserves. This may be the first “black pill” novel. It has more philosophy than narrative, making it one of the hardest [URL='https://www.rooshv.com/10-favorite-quotes-from-fydor-dostoevskys-the-brothers-karamazov']Dostoyevsky novels[/URL] to fully understand, in spite of its short length. The main character is eminently unlikable, despicable, and often evil. He is the person who craves power but to whom none should be given, and yet what do we live in today but a society ruled over by petty bug men who in spite of their billions in wealth still harbor grudges for going through high school without a girlfriend. Now they get to enact their vengeance on the world using all the technology and medical toxins that are available to them. A bug man with power—a true nightmare indeed. [B]Learn More:[/B] [URL='https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Vintage-Classics-Fyodor-Dostoevsky/dp/067973452X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=notes+from+the+underground&qid=1637346421&sr=8-1&x=0&y=0&linkCode=ll1&tag=rooshlog-20&linkId=ff9cdcff8bd85768b9a8e5a658e8c9e9&language=en_US'][I][B]Notes From The Underground on Amazon[/B][/I][/URL] [url="https://www.rooshv.com/notes-from-the-first-bug-man"]Permalink[/url] [/QUOTE]
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