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ARX-Han’s Followers (11)
ARX-Han
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INCEL: A Novel
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published
2023
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5 editions
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“One half of me clarifies that my intent is not genocidal (it’s not like I want to kill these people, I’m not a fucking brute); nay, I am a modern, the rightful inheritor of a genuine categorical imperative; yes, a veritable gentleman standing tall and purposeful among a gaggling horde of poorly civilized peoples. My humble, singular ask is merely that I don’t want so many of them here (perhaps a token amount, at most—ideally, just the women). There is nothing malign that is proscriptive in this worldview, no piles of charred limbs and corpses, and certainly no crimes against humanity—just the sane, orderly, and humane export of these foreigners back to their native lands, like repatriating invasive geese back to the Canadian wilderness.”
― INCEL: A Novel
― INCEL: A Novel
“Standing under the ring’s harsh lights, the ink on his muscles shines wet as if it was just added to his body. Apart from the superficial reference to his Asian heritage tattooed over his arms, chest, and back, Jason has little to no actual connection to Korea or even Asians more broadly. Thanks to the overwhelming power of American memetic replication, his brain is running a thoroughly American operating system—underneath his slanty-eyed, decidedly foreign features, he is a thoroughly deracinated individual, almost exactly as white as I am. This is the foundation of our friendship, the very thing that makes it possible.”
― INCEL: A Novel
― INCEL: A Novel
“Take the example of being at a party in an open room where everyone is standing. In theory, you could talk to anyone—it’s not like there are any physical barriers limiting your movement toward any of the others, any overt rules limiting who you might be able to chat with. That’s why you go to parties, right? To meet people! But what feels like an omnidirectional, unconstrained range of motion in the space of that room is mostly a simulation of autonomy—the relevant barriers just happen to be internal to your brain (or the brains of others). Even when you’re the one making the choices, unconscious behavioral patterns and cognitive biases guide you into a self-selection process where you converge on the same relatively narrow set of possible experiences. Now multiply this general principle by everything you could ever say or do, and you arrive at the satellite view of the metastructure I described above. Your consciousness is an individual bubble being pulled along the summed path of these vectorized forces, a beach ball taking a trip down a plastic waterslide. This is why it’s so hard for us to understand each other. The natural assumption that everyone makes—an assumption sufficiently automatic so as to be invisible—is something like I am the one living in base reality, and everyone else is here with me too.”
― INCEL: A Novel
― INCEL: A Novel
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