Quote: (10-18-2017 01:06 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:
You know what? Fuck this guy.
He's been a negative, bitter old prick for years, isolating himself off from the rest of humanity.
Yeah, he's got a fat bank account and is living in some Col. Kurz compound in the middle of Thailand. Big fucking deal. Too bad that, for all his money, he sounds like little more than a bitter old man with nothing to do with his time. At his age, and with his resources, he should be happy and wise, not a bitter old prick walling himself off from humanity.
Not my idea of a role mode.
And something else: fuck Switzerland. Biggest collection of chickenshit, two-faced snakes in Europe.
"I'm neutral. Oooo, look at me! I'm going to keep my lily-white hands clean as I hide in the mountains and manage money."
Cunts.
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I don't understand the vitriol - is this because you find racism distasteful, dislike guys leaving the West, somehow resent wealth, or just despise his personality? I'm not attacking you. Or defending his remarks about blacks. I'm seriously confused.
Because you're blasting this guy for living the same type of lifestyle you praised in your post "
Chris Langan: Extraordinary Man Living Life On His Own Terms." The only major difference is Faber operates on a much more accomplished level, building his sweet home in the tropics and flying around the world on business instead of tucking away on a ranch in Missouri.
The high IQ guy works with his hands, and that's cool - Faber doesn't strike me as that type, unless he works in his own garden with a joint hanging out of his mouth. But he spends time at home writing and thinking. And that's work I would still think you would understand, given the stock you put in these things yourself.
Judging by videos I've watched, he does seem happy and wise, and living in Thailand is a large source of the happy.
When people talk about his alleged fortress in the jungle, by the way, they're being pretty misleading. Chiang Mai is not in the middle of nowhere by any stretch of the imagination, and guys his age have a pretty rich social life there, far more engaging and satisfying than the social life I've seen them living in other places.
I don't think he's "walling himself off from humanity."
Is there no humanity in Southeast Asia? Many of us like it because the humanity and interaction is so rich in comparison to the West. After living in such places for so long, when I come stay in America, I'm often astounded by the sheer loneliness and isolation of many people who seem to be living normal lives (at least on social media).
I rarely drive far, but at least all up California and into Oregon and Washington I see the detritus of our lost humanity, methheads EVERYWHERE, plodding down the street in a daze like some kind of walking death. This entire place is losing its humanity - in Southeast Asia, you have to draw very hard lines just to get a moment alone.
He flies around the world all the time to socialize and conduct business. Then he retires back at his hideaway to spend time on his writing. When you've got that kind of cash, keeping a home base in Asia certainly does not tie you there and cut you off from anything - no more than living in many isolated places in the US would.
You say "fuck Switzerland."
So if you were born Swiss, would you want to stay there and hassle with the snakes, as a man with his kind of pull would constantly have to do? Or would you step out of the game and fuck off somewhere else?
Based on how you feel about the Swiss, would you think it fair for people to blast your decision to leave when you thought your countrymen the "Biggest collection of chickenshit, two-faced snakes in Europe"? What if you felt that way about the entire West? Or felt some other way?
It seems ironic to hate on the guy for leaving even as you spew utter contempt for everything his home country represents. Does his citizenship there rob him of the right of that same contempt, of the right to act upon it? Is he supposed to cling to those borders and somehow use his limited time on the planet to completely transform an entire country to his liking, one that has been around for 700 years, a culture that, like most, will over the ages change from one extreme to the next on its own? Or wouldn't it make more sense to take his money and stake a claim elsewhere and enjoy his short life on his own terms?
I'm not supporting his comments, though in my experience people from all races are racist and our culture is just extremely squeamish about it. But I find it strange you're blasting his lifestyle choices while praising Christopher Langan's.
And I don't get the ongoing criticism around here of men who leave the environment they were born in and do something different. This is a large part part of the human story. For those of us raised in America, leaving to strike out on our own because of dissatisfaction with government and culture is a huge part of our story.
It's just that these days there is no new ground to break, and so people like us are evolving the system to change the way they break ground. Why should he be obligated to stay in Switzerland just because he was born there? Why should we confine ourselves to the ground we were born on when there are so many other possibilities for how to live a life?
I can see why many of you find politics so fascinating, but I don't get the idea that there's some ethical obligation for every single man to take part, especially if the system has long been broken. That being said, he is taking part and making a far bigger mark doing it than a lot of people who stay home and supposedly "fight the good fight." Even if he has left, he is continually building his audience and spreading his views around the world and sounding the alarm on a lot of the bullshit that goes on. His lifestyle is an embodiment of his entire political philosophy.
He takes measures to protect himself in the meanwhile, and to me that makes perfect strategic sense. Again, I'm not espousing his views, specifically, and I don't read his newsletter so I can't say much about the substance there either.
But while those who stay home to build their communities are commendable, mankind has always had its explorers, adventurers, pioneers, and hermits who go off some place to dig in and think before they spread their ideas. As well as its radical philosophers who propose a complete about-face in the way we should live our lives in the first place.
We all play a role. This one's out planting his seed and staking a claim in Asia - and making a killing and an impact in the process. He saw the terms his society lived by and decided to make his own terms.
There's nothing inherently wrong in that, and he's probably having a helluva time doing it.