(2023-02-18) Dysfunctional Weirdos Vs Functional Weirdos Elitism Messiah

Dysfunctional Weirdos Vs Functional Weirdos

If I had to define my “niche” – let’s say some evil internet marketers have a gun to my head – then I would say I write for functional weirdos, as opposed to the more common dysfunctional weirdos.

“Weirdos” are those unusual types of people who make up roughly 10% of the population and are not normal people, or “normies” as the kids say, but do it without affectation, trying to be edgy, or making a big deal about it

Dysfunctional weirdos are either complete losers, in jail, possessed by crazy ideas, lost in abstractions, or simply too annoying for other people to be around .

Functional weirdos are able to live a normal life in many ways, and be able to survive in the world. They have skills and are usually talented at something unusual - weird - and they have non-mainstream interests. But they can keep down a career while also pursuing weird stuff in the background. (reality hacker)

So I am writing for functional weirdos. But the problem with finding functional weirdos online is they are “inbetweeners” – between mind and body, not gym bros or spiritual bros or nerds… but some where in-between. In other words, functional weirdos are not very niche friendly

Another problem, specific to my own weirding way: I find myself selling a solution to a problem most people don’t realise they have!

So what is this mysterious problem?

How to stop being a fleshy robot and become a conscious human being.

Most people will assume they are already a conscious human being and not a fleshy robot

It turns out [Twitter] is the best place to find functional weirdos.

Reluctant Elitism

I’ve given up on the whole “reach the masses change the world” thing. Now I’m a reluctant elitist.

I’m interested in ideas and practices that don’t have mass appeal – and will never have mass appeal – it’s just the way it is. Full acceptance of this instead of struggling and fantasising about how to become more mainstream, how to get rich, how to be successful in the ordinary sense, has indeed been a liberation.

I would accept the financial benefits of mass appeal if it was offered to me – I’m not an idiot or liar – but that’s not what’s on offer. What’s on offer is to compromise and dumb it down and appeal to more people in order to feel more successful.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a messiah.

In reluctant elitism I said I’m done with the whole “reach the masses, save the world thing.” But where did that idea come from in the first place? And why do so many artists/thinkers/healers/entrepreneurs feel like they need to “save the world?”

This brings me back to where this idea of “reach the masses, save the world” came from in the first place.

When I say my messiah complex is gone, it is gone, but it’s not gone without a trace. Once a messiah always a messiah. While my false messiah-hood was obvious in the upper regions of the brain, a remnant of the feeling always remained, deep down in the middle and lower brains, and only came up out into the light in weird ways at different stages of my life.

I doubt I’m the only one with this embarrassing little secret. And it might explain why so many people who could be doing good work - in real and practically useful ways – are instead languishing and fantasying and pretending to change things they have no power over (usually by speaking their “Word” on the internet, of course!)