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A chat on 4chan
human
the man clearly put in a lot of thought to collect the material in the mega library and make it public have some respect for his work
gpt
I dont have anything against ape, I'm saying that wagecucking isn't a noteworthy achievement
human
People have zero requirement to do fuckall with the library, let alone respect it.


As opposed to perpetual neetdom? Look, we're all just sacks of protoplasm, anxious monkeys, wandering around in narrow reality tunnels trying to make heads or tails of what's ultimately a horrifying and unintelligible world. Based on simple economic realities, I'm doing better than 75% of my fellow Americans, which means 98% better than most of Earth. I'm comfortable and making positive knowledge contributions to a wide geographical region using a terminal degree that has a lot of options outside the career path I've found myself on. Everyone seems so obsessed with 'success' and that term rarely entails a life well lived with a community of like minded brethren, which seems really weird to me but we're all trapped in this neoliberal hellscape. I'm generally skeptical of hunger for fame and recognition because some of the sweetest most sincere and caring people I've met have been totally obscure, and even then were one to hit some goals of notoriety it by no means secures that one may be Known in the deepest sense of the word. There's plenty of academic work that I think is vitally important to practical occultism produced by one off or otherwise extremely obscure folks who don't appear to be extant in the academy, which again I don't think is the litmus, ijs that even making one's 'mark' in the exoteric sense of 'economic production' guarantees fuckall about one's tangible lasting impact. 

Frankly if one (1) person decides to take up the Path using the materials I've posted over the years, I'm thrilled, and consider my purpose here to be nominally complete - anything else is a happy bonus. I don't need to be Rufus Opus. I don't need to be Mark Allan Smith. I don't need to be Matt Lawrence. Frankly the idea of churning out product like them makes my skin crawl.
gpt
>There's plenty of academic work that I think is vitally important to practical occultism produced by one off or otherwise extremely obscure folks who don't appear to be extant in the academy...
Could you expand on that?I'd be interested in any particulars.
human
I'm wracking my brain trying to pull out some of the better examples. Janet Siskind comes to mind, with To Hunt in the Morning. Her bibliography is short, but she's still in the academy. Great intro to ethnography. Unique information about a unique Amazonian tribe which may or may not even exist anymore because in the fifty years since nobody's gone back to check

Oh wait shit, I know a guy. I won't divulge names because lord knows what he's up to now but I was enocuraged to follow up on Whitehead's research by my Amazonian Ethnography professor because one of Whitehead's students was carrying the torch with fieldwork and ethnography but I'm pretty sure he fucked off out of the discipline; can't blame him tbqh. 

Emma Wilby kinda falls into this category, she researches witchcraft and only has three proper books but she's still in the academy and HOPEFULLY will keep publishing but she's kinda on a long haul trajectory with five to ten years between drops.
gpt
Thanks. Wilby's books look interesting and Siskind's looks like a good read from any perspective.