There’s something else I noticed about Tate, which is the way he writes. I didn’t mention because I wanted to keep the post somewhat succinct.
And then I just received this e-mail from him, advertising HU 2.0, aka “The Real World”. I find it fascinating, and very rich to study. I’m considering he was the one who wrote it, and I’ll later mention why I’m confident it was him or someone who functions similarly. Here it is in full:
SUBJECT: The destructive curse
“There is only one quality which is truly FATAL for any man aspiring for greatness.
The number one quality which GUARANTEES failure.
You could be the most talented man on the planet.
God could have blessed you with absolutely every single talent and gift POSSIBLE.
And with all these gifts, if you are a quitter?
You'll remain BRUTALLY unremarkable.
Out of every quality on earth, “quitter” is truly the most destructive.
You may be reading this with nearly every curse God could bestow you, short, ugly and poor.
As long as you are not a quitter, you're going to be just fine.
Understand that the people richer and more successful than you may be much LESS talented than you are.
They simply worked much harder than you did.
If you worked as hard as they did, you'd be surpassing them.
Every world champion had doubts on their climb to greatness and every world champion ignored them.
You should feel a deep shame inside of your heart when you quit something.
When you don't work hard enough at a chance to become someone great.
Life doesn't give you unlimited chances.
You do not deserve unlimited chances.
Life gives you a few chances, and tests how seriously you dedicate yourself to each one.
DO NOT FAIL.”
Right under it, there’s a button that says “click here to escape the matrix”, that leads to this page: _
Never Give Up
I assume I’m receiving this because I quit HU. It was very useful, and I’m still applying important lessons I learned there, but I don’t see fruitful use for it at the moment.
When he was arrested, I received an e-mail supposed to be from him, almost identical in structure. It struck me: it was very similar to the writing of a confirmed pathological/transpersonified individual I worked with.
He put down his blog, so I can’t paste his writings here for comparison. Still, the above writing is indicative of significant characteristics of the functioning of who wrote it:
• Both words “destructive” and “curse” have many of their semantics aspects unexplored or not echoed in the body of the e-mail. A curse is something persistent, and mythologically must be broken, but the e-mail says little to nothing of overcoming, or of finding a cause. It’s quite explicitly a shaming attempt.
Also “destructive” is not quite explored. It’s not even clear what is being destroyed - maybe the individual themselves, or the dreams of “greatness”, but then we’re talking about very vague language.
• Many healthy or descriptive language violations (cognitive distortions, in cognitive psychology):
-emotional language marked but the caps. “FATAL”, “GUARANTEES”, etc
-Vague terms. “Greatness”, “quitter”, “DO NOT FAIL”
-All or nothing thinking: “you could be the most talented man on the planet”, “only one quality truly FATAL”,
-Complex equivalence: “if you worked as hard they did, you’d be just be just fine.
Etc, etc.
• There are erroneous statements. I’m confident there’s more than one cause to one’s lack of “greatness”.
And if one accepts these suggestions, they’ll be at a loss in find the true cause, while anxious to effect a solution - which the proposed ideology is posed as.
A prime example of “spellbinding”?
• Short sentences, without clear connection. Elements and words from the beginning of the the text not echoed later. Akin to not even remembering they were said, or a disregard for verbal consistency - what matters is the target audience’s reaction (similar to looking at the camera during the interview).
He writes as he speaks; “and with all these gifts, if you’re a quitter?”
Some phrases have an almost certainly unintended double-meaning: “you could be reading this with near every curse God could bestow you…”. Syntactically, it’s like saying some is using at least one curse to read this… and that likely god has a habit of cursing people - with nearly every one He could bestow! But would that matter? - after all, the subject of the e-mail implies there’s only one destructive curse!.. so all of the other must be constructive?
Lobaczewski talks about how most often the ponerogenic pathologies affect the linguistic parts of the brain.
I’m confident he wrote something, and a professional more verbally competent edited it. It’s curious that he wouldn’t just pay that individual to just do it from the start. Ego getting in the way?
Also raises several questions about HU’s management, since copywriting is the highly encouraged in almost situation. Interesting incongruency!
• “Every world champion had doubts… and ignored them…”. Now that’s a key one! This one indicates to me he isn’t fully pathological - Lobaczewski says “essential psychopaths” are incapable of doubt.
The destruction of “doubt” (which is probably a doublespeak for “conscience”) is a point of repetition at least in artistic depictions of ponerogenic associations:
“ah, my pupil, you harbor doubts. Doubts that stem from your impure attachment to your mother, and the old, decrepit world from whence you came! They are making you weak! Hesitant! You must burn this world… with your own hands”. Than kind of stuff.
So it seems that 1) This is typical “patholical induction” (the futile attempt to make normal people function like deviants) and 2) because it’s only said once, it might be unconscious from the writer.
I can’t guess any further than this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the author unconsciously adressing this
to himsef. Lobaczewski talks about how the spellbinding types primarily use their abilities to for
self-charm, to flood down whatever conscience they still have (conversive thinking)
“You do not deserve unlimited chances”. Typical “pathological material”(aka verbal abuse)?
“If you’re not a quitter, you’ll be just fine” typical self-soothing (response to pathological material)? Interesting he’d say this under so much legal pressure.
• Grandiosity. “Greatness”, “World Champion”. Matches his lifestyle and image he projects. The book also mentions how essential psychopaths tend to stay in the shadows pulling the strings - not Tate’s case. So whatever deviance he’s operating from, it’s something else, and it’s “Narcissistic” (using a more contemporaneous terminology not in Lubaczewski’s book.
• Of course, wishful thinking with so many erroneous statements about success and failure, and ending by “DO NOT FAIL”.
Does saying this, especially in caps, usually aid in success?
Well, well, now! Looks like Tate is answering many of our questions by his own accord.