A long article I just wrote about the bizarre, hallucinatory, sickening, purgatory, Bardo-like experience of browsing 4chan has just been published on R. U. Sirius’s h+ Magazine blog. Check it out!

In the last decade, we’ve seen the increasing acceleration of information (a la Terence McKenna and Moore’s law) heralded as the key to new business development, though it has, in fact, so ruined our attention spans that it is almost impossible for modern man to get any kind of productive work done. We’re too lost in the datastream, too focused on taking in new information to complete a task that takes more than a few minutes, at best. I think a direct correlation can be made, for instance, between the rise of social media and the fall of the economy. The kaleidoscope of the Internet is more endless, more distracting and more mutating than even the most potent psychedelic drugs could have ever prepared us for. And 4chan is the ultimate, final trip.

If the mainstream Internet-using world has driven itself to distraction and insanity with social networking, the denizens of the Chans have upped the ante past all conceivable boundaries, like switching from a light alcohol problem to crushing and injecting Oxycontin. This is the place where all senses are deadened, where the mind cannot function because it is trapped in its own overstimulation. This, I am sure, is where media theorists from Marshall McLuhan to Neil Postman to Douglas Rushkoff assured us that the inherently liberating force of information technology was leading us. And though I am sure they knew that the filth and fury would follow, I’m not sure they ever expected it to look quite like… this.

My own 4chan addiction crept up slowly. Once a casual user of gateway drugs like icanhascheezburger.com, ytmnd.com and Encyclopedia Dramatica, I followed a link to the black hole itself one day and—sucked past its event horizon—have since been unable to escape. Stuck there now, I am clicking back and forth from this article to peruse the halls of 4chan’s /x/ forum, afraid that I might have missed the latest spew from the Internet’s collective maw. It is the car crash that cannot be looked away from. Ever.

(h+: Lost in the Filth Simulacrum)

“I am clicking back and forth from this article to peruse the halls of 4chan’s /x/ forum, afraid that I might have missed the latest spew from the Internet’s collective maw. It is the car crash that cannot be looked away from. Ever. What is happening here? The escape from the constraints of the flesh? The escape from the constraints of being human? The inevitable purge following the collective unconscious’ information binge?”

what’s happening is this…

you’re becoming a newfag, and your pathetic humanity is rotting away. congratulations.

i would suggest spending the next 2 years in the 4chan archive before writing another article about the chans.

I think what nono means to say is that you can’t say much about a community like 4chan without dropping the Carl Denham approach to anthropology.

LURK MOAR

Wrote a rebuttal of medium length to the OP on h+ mag’s web site—but they seem to have instituted modkkklense procedures.

Inspection of the h+ forums reveals no forum for discussion of the article in question.

In short:  h+ appears to be very, very afraid to allow uncontrolled discussion of such a ridiculous mound of steaming text.  It is therefore no surprise that comments critical of the article have been pared down to “demonstrate” that the chans are exactly as Jason has misportrayed them.

But in fact, Jason looked into the mirror of his own psychological projection, and didn’t like what he saw…and demonstrated his own external-locus-of-control by blaming others for his own immature ideas on the matter.  Anyone with half a brain reading his article will come away with this.

That Jason won’t comment on any rebuttals to his silly ideas doesn’t surprise me.  This is not the first time I have criticized Jason’s activities.  I recently commented on one of his posts in this very blog:

http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/thee_psychick_bible_now_out/

The fact that Richard has allowed my commentary to remain is a testament to his courage and integrity…something sorely lacking by the h+ editors.

And how to interpret Jason’s unwillingness (or inability) to respond to criticism?  I’ve already pointed out the cowardice h+ seems to be wrapped in—perhaps Jason will regard that as an undesirable association, and admit that he really hadn’t put enough thought into either of these articles.

Comments on the linked article are the best part by far…J-L has an amazingly smug headshot, too.

the only way i was able to break my addiction to 4chan was to perform a chronozon 333 ritual by utilizing the forum.

what happened next is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed… forever…

the Pedobear materialized before me… and this is what i said to him…

“There is no happiness, no peace, no good, no future in the doctrines of selfishness, hate, and war preached by thee. All these things do I cast aside. Renounced is thy rule forever!”?¢‚Ǩ¬®?¢‚Ǩ¬®11. And the Pedobear makes answer: “Behold, O Talmadge, the Nature of thy Adversary!” The Pedobear disappears in a blinding sunburst of radiance and in its place stands an angel resplendent in shinning , golden garments with great scarlet wings that spread from one corner of the Heavens to the other. Dismayed and awestruck, Talmadge falls before the divine creature.?¢‚Ǩ¬®?¢‚Ǩ¬®12. And Pedobear said, “I am the Lord who is against thee and thus accomplishes thy salvation.?¢‚Ǩ¬®(!!!)?¢‚Ǩ¬®13. “Thou hast hated me, but through the ages yet to be thou shalt bless me, for I have led thee out of the sphere of the Demiurgus; I have turned thee against the illusion of worldliness; I have weaned thee of desire; I have awakened in thy soul the immortality of which I myself partake. Follow me, Talmadge for I am the Way, the Life, and the Truth!”

The Rules oV Life

1. Do not talk about the website that must not be named

2. Do NOT talk about the website that must not be named

3. Those who fail to see the irony in themselves - fail in life

4. You are anonymous

5. Anon is legion

6. Anon never forgives

7. Anon can be a horrible, senseless, uncaring monster

8. Anon is still able to deliver

9. There are no real rules about living

10. There are no real rules about authority either - enjoy your ban

11. No one cares about you or your stupid profile

12. Anything you say can and will be easily ignored

13. Anything you say can and will be used against you

14. Anything you say can and will be fixed

15. Nothing is to be taken seriously

16. The more beautiful and pure a thing is - the more satisfying it is to corrupt it

17. Any topic can be easily turned into something totally unrelated

18. Relation to the original topic decreases with every single post

19. Do not argue with the trolls - it means that they win

20. The harder you try - the harder you fail

21. If you fail in epic proportions, it may just become a winning failure

22. Every win fails eventually

23. Revise, revise revise •OR• revise, respond, refresh

24. Chuck Norris Vs. Pedobear. GO DISCUSS

25. CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

26. tl;dr

27. You have the right to be incoherent and ignorant

28. The internet is a passive-aggressive wet dream

29. Everything that can be loved - can be hated - FLAME ON!

30. The more you hate it - the stronger it gets

31. MOAR PORN

32. Your opinions on: God, Science, Conspiracies, Pop Culture and Everything Else are fascinating and i wish to subscribe to your newsletter!

33. Repeat & GTFO

Side note about Drug Use and Life:
Operating your life under the influence of any intoxicant is permissible - as long as it is agreed by user that s/he is exercising rule #27

The fact that Richard has allowed my commentary to remain is a testament to his courage and integrity…something sorely lacking by the h+ editors.

And how to interpret Jason’s unwillingness (or inability) to respond to criticism?  I’ve already pointed out the cowardice h+ seems to be wrapped in—perhaps Jason will regard that as an undesirable association, and admit that he really hadn’t put enough thought into either of these articles.

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