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I Schizopost: What Schizoposting Is

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This is meta-schizoposting: It's a schizopost about schizoposting.

As an article, it's exactly what it's trying to be, therefore as a piece of art, it's... subjective, but appears to have achieved the author's goal.

i'm not appearing to schizopost about schizoposting. the only goal was to outline and illustrate schizoposting.

Schizopost: A made up term for insecure laymen who cannot comprehend that sentences and paragraphs can have multiple methods of being written, whilst still being completely comprehendible to people other than themselves.

Synonyms: Word Salad.

Antonyms: N/A, yet. Give it time, these idiots will come up with something.

You don't understand what schizoposting is. It's not whatever pseudointellectual gibberish you wrote up top. It's a drawing of a crazed gunman aiming at children getting off a bus, but calling the children gangstalkers and the school bus a surveillance van. It's a mix of sardonic and absurd humor.

Basically this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gangstalking/

Yes but ironically

Small data point: on some parts of 4chan, calling people schizos is basically the new way to call out some trolls/haters that rely on wild theories and stuff like that. Considering there are multiple archives, it's probably easy to retrace the origins of the terms and their usage. The article engages in wild speculations, so I'll do the same here: I think part of the idea is removing the intention in other people. Trolls choose to be trolls, people suffering from schizophrenia don't choose this. Outside of that, it's the classic "framing people a certain way to dismiss what they say instead of replying to the arguments", which is already what's done when calling someone a troll.

Another way the schizo stuff/aesthetic manifests itself is through memes. There's the trollge, the "I hate the antichrist" stuff, and now you can see some of the influence in the sigma/incel memes.

I always wonder if people are studying this seriously, and if it's worth studying seriously. Does this stuff has any influence? Does this have any meaning? Is there a precise origin that tells a lot about society or people? Or is it just because it's funny?

I was not familiar with the term.

Apparently, there is a subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/schizopostingmemes/comments/qy0ch6/

So... people imitate the posting patterns of legitimately afflicted by schizophrenia people? To defend themselves against capitalism? Wait, did I just fall for one such post?

I don't think you've exactly fallen for one such post, although, it's hard to say.

However, I think that if you were to look for it, you'd find a lot of this stuff. Psychedelic culture, anarchist culture, etc are heavily wound up in this kind of dis-communication. It's culture jamming.

If you're confused by it, that's the point. Is it effective? Could it possibly accomplish anything?. Probably not, except that it makes the writers feel more free.

I was going to post a response to this arguing that it isn't really culture jamming, but I'm not 100% sure.

A great deal of 4chan "schizoposting" reads (to me) like normal shitposting mixed with with the "chaotic energy" of actual sufferers of schizophrenia, like Terry Davis. There's also an incel/"NPC" element, where people suffering from extreme isolation de-realize the others around them to rationalize their perceived harms. Mixed together, it's less "dis-communication" or culture jamming and more a confused complex of digital alienation. But maybe that's just alienation under capitalism, and brings us right back to culture jamming.

You've hit on what I danced around, and have exposed why I am now so against this kind of thing:

It's unwillful dis-communication. It is wretched and hateful.

One can spout forth unstructured writing that is abstract, confusing, but also beautiful, uplifting: something that draws you in and smothers you with warmth and living heat.

Alternately, there is dis-communication which proactively deconstructs, intelligently dissolving the stuff of thought into a primordial goo from which new life can spring.

This type of thing is none of that. It is a moaning for death.

And I'll have none of it.

Haptic gnostic charismaniac glossolalia.

Wait, how is it haptic?

I say haptic because a keyboard is operated by touch.

I don't know how I missed that. Love it!

W̶h̶a̶t̶ Why does that site make you drag the text when you try to highlight it?

Maybe just search for exact that question: https://kagi.com/search?q=What+does+that+site+make+you+drag+...

That login page tells me nothing. Nor does a Google search for that matter.

Very interesting.

I switched to Kagi yesterday: it is a alternative search engine, sorry I forgot it needs registration.

Using the exact same search (your original question) in Google does not give any relevant result at all on the first page.

But the very first result on Kagi is already very relevant: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5429827/how-can-i-preven...

Kagi is clearly much better than Google in this case!

(You changed your question to 'Why ...' from 'What ...' originally)

Yes, sorry, I meant "why". Quite an annoyance for those of us who idly highlight stuff while reading.

I hadn't heard of Kagi. I haven't found meta search engines like Duckduckgo to give me as good results as Google (or as Startpage, which just uses Google). Is Kagi better in that regard? Looks like it requires an invite though, and will eventually be paid.

I only switched to Kagi yesterday. So far so good, this search was a very good example.

I also tried DDG for a while but for me Google worked better.

Kagi is not a meta one, I believe, but I do not know much more. Yes, I got an invite some days ago. Maybe because I signed up for it a while ago, but I do not remember.

I do not mind paying for a search engine that actually works. I value my time. Google nowadays reminds me of Altavista back in the day. Lots of results but mostly irrelevant.

There is a saying about writing, you are allowed to break the rules provided your errors are consistent. Randomly messing up there and their just makes you look stupid.

I was remarking tonight on schitzo-founders and how we couldn't find a way to separate them from founders.

This is not even remotely schizoposting

It's like neo beatnik philosophy or something

For just 10 cents a day, you can send a lobster away on a cosmic trip.

A simple example of schizoposters are the people who think proprietary software is the devil, and is spying on them, and has backdoors, etc. They have a twisted, warped view of reality.

This thread really shows that a lot of HN just really do not understand people unlike them.

yeahh tech-bros can suck. i'm not offended that people don't like my stuf tho. shout out you homie

What? Half of what happens on HN is schizoposting.

I am fairly sure that pretending to have a mental illness is a sign of having a mental illness.

Or a sign of 'genius'? Meet the Residents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsEz1OAUBBM

Depends a lot on the context. Is an actor who plays a mentally ill person therefore mentally ill?

Also, there are many kinds of mental illness. Perhaps a person who is depressed and anxious pretends to be a person who cannot think coherently.

The author is reading a script. In the second sentence, you proved his point.

Also, as someone who had depression at one point and has an anxiety disorder that is medically treated, but not cured, yes, people with anxiety disorders cannot think coherently. One of the many symptoms of panic includes the inability to use your brain. Think dear in the headlights type stuff.

Anxiety disorders are a part of much of the world, FYI, so people with an anxiety order aren't rare by any means.

> In the second sentence, you proved his point.

I'm not sure how I did that.

> FYI

pops a pill

Indeed

Of course it’s meant in the context of the op…

This post sucks

Sorry :(

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