GritCult in 2018

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GritCult in 2018
“Her: he's been acting weird all week Him: time is money, bitcoin is money, then bitcoin is time. what if we…” (14 June 2018)
In 2018
Portal	Chronology
Posts	20,081
Original posts	6,785
Replies	13,296
Retweets	13,376
Likes	67,918
First post	4 January 2018
Last post	31 December 2018
Posts by month
Jan916
Feb1682
Mar1522
Apr1423
May2302
Jun2213
Jul1881
Aug2481
Sep1280
Oct1868
Nov1652
Dec861
Related
Crypto Evolution Goethe Marcus Aurelius Memes & Memetics

GritCult in 2018 is the first year in the archive and, by raw volume, the busiest: 20,081 posts, of which 6,785 were originals and 13,296 replies. The voice is lower-case and restless, thinking out loud about evolution, memes and the attention economy, with crypto already in the mix.

2018 in review

Posting began on 4 January and built through the year, peaking at 2,481 posts in August before easing to 861 in December. Roughly two posts in three were replies, the mark of an account that lived in conversation. Evolution was the most-matched subject (900 posts), ahead of Memes & Memetics (670) and Social Media (578), and the evolutionary frame coloured everything. A new profile picture was captioned with humans as "sentient meat" and "gene engine vectors" ^[1], and even bedtime stories got the treatment: myths and fables, he argued, are "a memetic emergent phenomena of culture" for passing mental models down the line ^[2]. The broke/woke/bespoke meme was a favourite way to smuggle a theory of culture into a joke.

The attention economy was the other obsession. His most retweeted aphorism of the year held that "The ability to ignore is priceless" ^[3], and he described social media as a Truman Show in which you are "both watching truman, and are truman", your life "mirrored back with metrics" ^[4]. The mood was often bleak. He called himself "sceptical of the future" and predicted that "quality of life will go down" even as technology improved ^[5]. It is a pessimism he would openly turn against within a year.

Crypto (402 posts) was already in the top ten. In May he argued in a thread that "BITCOIN was INEVITABLE" ^[6], rooting it in the history of capitalism since the Industrial Revolution, and his second most retweeted post was a joke about a man whose thoughts run from "bitcoin is money" to fixing time on the blockchain between planets ^[7]. The self-improvement voice that later defined the account was present but quieter, assembled from quotations of Seneca, Goethe and Marcus Aurelius and from maxims such as "play long term games with long term people" ^[8]. The whole year earned 13,376 retweets and 67,918 likes; a single post in 2025 would collect more likes than that.

Recurring themes

• evolution and memetics as the lens for everything
• the attention economy and the ability to ignore
• social media as a mirror with metrics
• open scepticism about the future
• bitcoin as historical inevitability
• self-improvement borrowed from the classics

Subjects

The wiki subjects GritCult posted about most in 2018, by number of posts.

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post of 2018, with 161 retweets:

Top posts

The 120 most retweeted of GritCult's 20,081 posts from 2018. Select a column heading to sort.

Date	Retweets	Likes	Post	Media	Source
8 August 2018	161	431	planet of the apes lore :		View
14 June 2018	145	618	Her: he's been acting weird all week Him: time is money, bitcoin is money, then bitcoin is time. what if we become an interplanetary species, could we piggyback the consensus of time onto bitcoin blockchain between planets, thus creating a verifiable point in immutable spacetime		View
29 September 2018	135	450	In the attention economy. The ability to ignore is priceless.		View
11 May 2018	95	366	"the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints"		View
31 May 2018	80	209	play long term games with long term people		View
30 August 2018	78	322	Jigoro Kano, founder of Judo, asked to be buried in his white belt after death. symbol: the ultimate master forever embracing the mark of a beginner. zen mind : : beginners mind Shoshin : 初心 child like curiosity and wonder heros journey never ends,		View
25 May 2018	76	289	thread of threads of disturbing ; graphs and demographics and things you may not want to see -		View
10 April 2018	72	389	1/		View
26 July 2018	68	276	“When you correct a fool, he will hate you. When you correct a wise man, he will appreciate you.”		View
11 August 2018	53	223	broke : we should teach toddlers about potential entropy death of the universe woke: myths are myths bespoke: myths and fables are a memetic emergent phenomena of culture to embed mental models into younger members next in chain, an abstraction of reality, to help guide them		View
11 October 2018	44	189	Aesthetics over ideology.		View
16 October 2018	42	161	The artist is dead. The philosopher is dead. The academic is dead. The musician is dead. Long live the content creator. Regurgitated content to be consumed In this hyper attention econony. Long live the content creator.		View
15 March 2018	42	116	Welcome to the new reality.		View
5 October 2018	40	149	I value any person that values learning.		View
15 July 2018	39	115	life has become a truman show of sorts, where you are both watching truman, and are truman you put yourself "out" in public entertainment engines, aka social media and then you see yourself reflected back to yourself mirrored back with metrics. the horror of modernity		View
12 June 2018	38	174	Huxley knew, Nietzsche knew. over reliance on the intellect. too reliant, too myopic, narrowed in. technocratic Keynesian economists lent me to this view, against hubris one must cultivate all aspects of character, to be well rounded and moderated as aristotle referenced.		View
29 September 2018	38	161	philosophy is just hyper intellectualising shitposting		View
22 July 2018	37	170	"Excellence withers without an adversary." -Seneca "Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies." - Robert Greene "You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies." Oscar Wilde A good measure, that allows one to constantly stay sharp and in shape!		View
30 August 2018	37	169	there is no royal road to geometry the path is long and arduous its difficulty relates to its value quid pro quo via the multiple barbell of polymathy i think time spent on plateaus can be shortened		View
5 March 2018	36	121	"Sexual liberty" correlates with worsening societies.		View
7 December 2018	33	152	Doing drugs is not a substitute for a personality.		View
10 December 2018	32	111	Only fools are ashamed of learning.		View
12 November 2018	31	118	The 6 Types of Twitter Traditionalists		View
17 June 2018	31	101	are you friends, or are you just in proximity ?		View
20 February 2018	31	76	note to self: “Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. ” ― Jacob M. Braude		View
23 August 2018	30	176	barbell strategy to life : either really serious or really in the mood to joke either really stoic or really epicurean knowing how to balance this and when to use the tools in most optimal fashion		View
5 June 2018	30	132	im sceptical of the future. past behaviour and indicators shows the future is fucked. itll get better technology wise, and people will exist longer, but quality of life will go down and no netflix isnt quality of life. its a distraction modernity is both the shit and the fan.		View
19 August 2018	28	185	broke : The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. woke : The Neolithic Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.		View
4 October 2018	28	124	imagine if your mother was an e-girl yikes lmao and seeing her old cringe posts i fear for the descendants of some		View
9 January 2018	28	55	Purpose, drive, & meaning are cornerstones of human existence. A man w/ a strong sense of meaning can cure disease or build an empire. Same man w/ little meaning wastes on couch fiddling w/ idle amusements like drugs or significance-oriented prizes like low-quality relationships.		View
4 June 2018	25	64	A study published in the latest issue of Hormones and Behavior concluded that women's facial features and estrogen levels correlate with their self-reported desire to have children		View
30 October 2018	25	11	in 1000 years there will still be religion		View
8 May 2018	24	171	#NewProfiIePic nothing but flesh and bones. constant reminders. sentient meat. animals that can pass turing tests. gene engine vectors. from mud to star dust we return to death walking corporeality wrapped up in a oily skin package protein engine smart thermodynamic energy		View
28 June 2018	24	127	you : writes down thoughts to remember me : writes down thoughts so the RAM of my mindware has a lower cognitive load, i write to forget. pen and paper, the technological crutch extension of my mind		View
22 February 2018	24	115	memetic history of the octopus as a form of political propaganda: Memetics is the study of information and culture based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, basically history through a anthropology and evolutionary psychology. Why it is significant.		View
2 October 2018	24	96	You can be a slave to logic as much as you can be a slave to emotion. Reflections on stoic/epicurean dichotomy.		View
23 November 2018	24	84	humans are animals Brains evolved in similar ways See the world in similar ways. Abstract the world in a similar way See beauty in similar ways evidence of everyone taking pics of things they think matter, even though google images exists. See the average of tourist photos		View
24 November 2018	24	80	Fellas, this is how they stopped Al Capone. This is how we are gonna stop thots. Please I have only one Christmas request : that is to follow the lead of this guy.		View
20 August 2018	23	161	hate going to gym and hearing club music i want to hear while moving iron or pushing myself to my painful limits: mantras chanted in an occultish manner or blood oaths with deep swamp tones or gongs lower resonating sounds [umwelt => protolanguage, evolutionary connection]		View
30 December 2018	23	137	"Divide and Rule, a sound motto; Unite and Lead, a better one." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.		View
21 January 2018	23	74	the reminder of death is a tool ! use it. "Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly. Use the surplus that is left to you to live from this time onward according to nature." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.56		View
8 July 2018	21	69	(image)		View
25 August 2018	20	85	Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.		View
15 October 2018	20	80	there is power in indifference just say : i dont care, and keep walking		View
22 October 2018	20	46	Note to self : work harder.		View
11 May 2018	19	130	“Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.”		View
19 August 2018	19	118	broke : inspirational twitter woke : me posting depressing facts, stats and trends so you internalise a level of relative stoicism making you more antifragile in real life, thus benefiting from new insights you have come to through via your own socratic dialogue		View
28 October 2018	19	79	People reach enlightenment then ask themselves : "Now what lol"		View
3 May 2018	19	76	1/ i personally think BITCOIN was INEVITABLE, i googled "bitcoin inevitable" and all i got was FUD about the "inevitable" crash lmfao My reasoning : HISTORY - the period of where capitalism started to take root - INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 18th and 19th ENGLAND (enlightenment era)		View
26 July 2018	19	71	be better > be yourself		View
1 September 2018	19	70	“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ― Mark Twain		View
11 June 2018	19	65	humans are growing in size. but our brains are shrinking. insert : brain to body size correlation with intelligence. (future intelligence will slope down) why ? due to vegetarianism and veganism (non meat and non fat based diets) source :		View
7 February 2018	19	49	in most cultures, even those that arose independently, there seems to be an indication of value of a wise man seeking solitude. a man goes to a cave, a man attempts survival in the wilderness, man retreats to monasteries in the mountains, man traverses the desert. and so on		View
2 October 2018	18	88	@_ericcurtin @CrossedGrenades Lgbt: let's get this baguette.		View
11 June 2018	18	87	By consciously abstaining from food, drink and sex, man becomes conscious that he is ultimately in need of such sustenance and thus recognises his own limitations. In a world of consumer culture, abstain from mindless consumption. Cultivate.		View
18 July 2018	18	80	logging out, here: ~60 threads on various topics ranging from ethics, governance, alot on biology & implications, some on economics & bitcoin et al most are theory, big ideas and concepts, ive been tinkering with ideas and analysis =most my threads, not all g'night !		View
5 June 2018	18	72	"Self sufficiency and independence. We produce our own food and we take care of our soil. This is a legacy we should bring back."		View
24 July 2018	18	39	for men : - Narcissistic Tinder cock carousel riders - Women with no home training - Narcissistic selfie takers - Women who bask in male attention 24/7 - Baggage - Feminists - Doesnt want to settle or have kids - Hedonistic drug users - Myopic - Focused on "career"(HR lol)		View
11 May 2018	17	85	“Inequality is not only natural and inborn, it grows with the complexity of civilization.”		View
4 March 2018	17	68	Twitter is the end game of all MMOs. You have PVP debates. Followers = strength level. Blue tick = paid subscriber bourgeois over class. Group dms = private guilds Mutuals = net friends who help you complete missions. Crypto scams = scams Bots = bots/NPCs. "Buying gf"		View
3 June 2018	17	60	why are people, particularly women attracted to ambition ? because it implies long term goal games and strategies why do share holders like "vision" because it implies long term goals, games and strategems why is bezos hailed he played a 20 year long game.		View
31 August 2018	17	57	npc = victims to memes pc = has control over memes		View
7 June 2018	17	52	if you dont adjust your goals as you get older, are you childish, or stagnating ?		View
15 December 2018	17	49	Shame the devil. Tell the truth.		View
8 October 2018	16	99	great minds converge. not think alike different routes same conclusions		View
11 May 2018	16	66	“Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically[.]”		View
11 May 2018	16	65	“the laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history,”		View
30 January 2018	16	60	note to self: odin's quest for wisdom was never-ceasing, odin gave his eye for gaining knowledge, anything worth value must show value of that thing, lofty goals are attained by sacrifice, thus one can conclude those goals' value are the summation of the value that sacrifice.		View
21 August 2018	16	59	social media can either fuel growth and self discovery (willing to engage and seek new ideas and connections) or can make you depressed and destruction (usually use it as a emotion diary and sympathy beg tweets) like lots of things, its a tool, its effect on you depends on you		View
31 August 2018	16	55	stoic don't let compliments get to your head and don't take complaints to heart cultivate true objectivity of self. and true independence people will sacrifice truth for temporary people Don’t Take Anything Personally. Establish and take control over your own frame.		View
15 December 2018	16	52	Porn Vs cocaine. Cite;		View
18 November 2018	16	48	for my generation, z, the 2020s will be our "60s" in the sense of sociopolitical change. changing direction of technology and a change in the geopolitical order. technology is second nature, as well as the changing nature of said technology, see this in our social norms.		View
6 August 2018	16	39	"Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exist, we are not". (Epicurus)		View
19 August 2018	15	82	cant get a gf ? become the gf		View
29 August 2018	15	74	Schrodinger's inner dialogue are you sure you are not a NPC ? gender skew ? life goals ? ability to visualise ? ability to abstract control over emotion and monkey brain (impulses) ? aware of emotions & impulses ?		View
5 March 2018	15	63	Polygamy favours high status men and low status women. Monogamy favours low status men and high status women. Monogamy also favours those with economic incentive. Youd rather pass on your accumulated wealth to your biological offspring than be "cucked"		View
27 November 2018	15	62	Modern life for the liberal atom-ised man : "A Vicious boredom ruled the world, for the first time in history, Interrupted by meaningless acts of violence." JG Ballard.		View
13 January 2018	15	56	The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. when you're inside, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. These people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy.		View
20 August 2018	15	56	@AsiaArgento wtf "Asia Argento ‘paid child star Jimmy Bennett, who said she sexual assaulted him’"		View
30 July 2018	15	47	"Every new technology necessitates a new war." Marshall McLuhan (1968)		View
6 September 2018	15	44	Obeying desire corrupts the mind. The slave of the lust is humiliated more than the slave of enslavement. O people, take charge of the training of your own souls and turn them away from the addiction to their habits. Ali - arabic/islamic quote thread		View
20 August 2018	15	42	@AsiaArgento even more wtf's this is horrific truth coming to even more light after Anthony Bourdains suicide which happened due to seeing her with another man. shocking,		View
27 December 2018	15	38	Research begets more research.		View
9 January 2018	15	28	either you live ur own movie or u become a background actor in someone else's		View
7 March 2018	15	10	Socrates constantly questioned everything and usually everyone. Why is the way we are living the best way. How do we measure. Compared to what. For this they asked him to stop or death. He chose death as he would have gladly died in pursuit of truth.		View
1 December 2018	14	68	social capital can compound faster than anything else.		View
11 May 2018	14	64	“to the struggle for existence and the survival of the fittest,” and there are three lessons: (1) “life is competition,” (2) “life is selection,” (3) “life must breed.”		View
18 November 2018	14	52	You utter blithering fool! Shredder was the fucking hero. He wanted to protect humans from grotesque mutant animals that had grown too big and were giving off radiation and being creepy to human women. He was the acme of human fitness, discipline and aesthetics.		View
18 August 2018	14	47	"History is inflationary money is the last thing a wise man would hoard." William Durant [The Lessons of History]		View
17 November 2018	14	47	“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.” ― Confucius Newton looked at his apple that had fallen upon his head and asked... why ?		View
29 August 2018	14	45	“I don't care that they stole my idea... I care that they don't have any of their own” ― Nikola Tesla		View
27 April 2018	14	43	life hack : beat decision fatigue instead of processing decisions of their pros and cons just ask would the ideal version of me do this ? example : would the ideal version of me eat while watching tv ? answer is no [if unsure; substitute ideal version for a personal hero]		View
12 November 2018	14	37	The 6 Types of Commentators on the US #Immigration Debate #centristjokes		View
16 May 2018	13	82	read somewhere that starting of high IQ societies they would aim to solve the world problems instead played puzzle games faux achievement there's plenty of high-IQ idiots they just game their own neurobiology to get that dopamine hit, with no actual progress pure signalling		View
12 June 2018	13	58	“whereas girls became women simply by reaching physical maturity, boys had to pass a test.” Male suicide rate increased to three to four times higher than the female suicide rate. problem isnt masculinity, its probably lack of masculinity		View
26 October 2018	13	56	yah idea debt = too many ideas, not enough executions.		View
28 September 2018	13	55	broke : 48 laws of power woke : 10 crack commandments		View
16 December 2018	13	52	Metamodernism. The author is fiction. You are the author of your own story, your own narrative. Yet, despite this technological realisation, the author is fiction. The self referential feedback loop that is virtual reality "empowers" you to be author. The author is fiction...		View
25 April 2018	13	51	ALARMIST THREAD: INCOMING POPULATION IMPLOSION "The anticipated increase in longevity and resulting ageing populations is the financial equivalent of climate change" i do think with enough time the problem will solve itself but will pose huge optimal welfare issues		View
10 September 2018	13	51	Love is one of the most intense emotions felt by man; another is hate. Forcing yourself to feel indiscriminate love is very unnatural. If you try to love everyone you only lessen your feelings for those who deserve your love.		View
26 August 2018	13	50	Shower thought. Google is a grimoire. All language is brain code. Capable of shaping your mind ware. Some code is malicious. Use your grimoire to consult these magic spells. To learn More languages. To summon demons. Be careful in some realms. Not all is what it seams.		View
12 June 2018	13	43	calling reality a "simulation" because you have been sheltered all your life and pampered to expect everything to be rosy and boring. youve been living in a bubble, while the rest of the world was climbing out of feudalism. peace, is the time between chaos and war. anomaly.		View
27 September 2018	13	41	memory is a cinema and the inability to forget is torture. constant playing and replaying, barrage of the senses. full volume, and brightness there is no respite to these images playing constantly without rest. idle hands, indeed, need constant stimulation, or distraction.		View
19 May 2018	13	39	the world is filled with moderately intelligent people who are useless.		View
21 April 2018	13	34	me gaining new mental models and peering into my own past with these new concepts and applying them into past data to gain new insights about how i could have done something different, deep learning(?) :		View
21 October 2018	13	32	Thread of simulation economics. How in game economies will become more and more profitable and thus more important.		View
17 August 2018	13	27	Iceland got teens to say no to drugs Retort to : "Let people do what they want, despite social costs which may further damage underdeveloped brains" “People can get addicted to drink, cars, money, sex, calories, cocaine—whatever,” promote eudaimonia		View
27 September 2018	13	23	Calm is my soul and clear, like mountains in the morning. But they think me cold... - nietzsche		View
29 January 2018	13	19	Note to self: attaining goals requires focus. Focus requires sacrifice.		View
12 December 2018	12	79	You are not your twitter account(s).		View
11 May 2018	12	69	the concentration of wealth is natural & inevitable, & is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth & recirculation		View
3 May 2018	12	60	the more laws you have that people disagree with the more they will not value the law at all. the prohibition lead to an increase in violence, all cos ppl wanted a beer lmao		View
19 August 2018	12	58	definitions are important most arguments boil down to disagreements on definitions definitions stem from meaning making associations of their representation in mind and reality		View
2 June 2018	12	57	>sexually abused as child >becomes hyper sexual to "reclaim power dynamic" circle of abuse and programming of brains is well documented in psychology abusers more likely to have been abused themselves > I fail to see this as brave, i see it as illness		View
16 February 2018	12	49	The internet has created an explosion of niche lifestyles and identites, a great diversity of media producers but they’re all equally superficial. We live in a world of fake diversity that masks mass ideological conformity		View
11 May 2018	12	47	“War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.”		View
5 August 2018	12	47	the game is rigged recognise this and use it to your advantage		View
13 December 2018	12	46	"There is a bubble, it is not in Tech, it is in Government." - Peter Theil.		View
15 October 2018	12	43	an emerging discipline. complexity Source : personally i would it entities of their own standing, with fractal chaos		View
19 May 2018	12	42	HAPPY BIRTHDAY MALCOLM X, A PERSONAL HERO. "Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down." -Malcolm X		View

Month by month

GritCult posted 20,081 times in 2018: 6,785 original posts and 13,296 replies. The first post of the year went up on 4 January 2018 and the last on 31 December 2018; August was the busiest month, with 2,481 posts.

See also

Chronology portal

References

1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (8 May 2018). sentient meat. animals that can pass turing tests. gene engine vectors. X.
2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (11 August 2018). myths and fables are a memetic emergent phenomena of culture to embed mental models into younger members next in chain. X.
3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (29 September 2018). The ability to ignore is priceless. X.
4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (15 July 2018). where you are both watching truman, and are truman...mirrored back with metrics. X.
5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (5 June 2018). im sceptical of the future...quality of life will go down. X.
6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (3 May 2018). i personally think BITCOIN was INEVITABLE. X.
7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (14 June 2018). time is money, bitcoin is money, then bitcoin is time. X.
8. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (31 May 2018). play long term games with long term people. X.

Further reading

• “GRITCULT - High Performance Cultsultant”, GritCult on Break The Rules (March 2021)
• “GRITCULT - What is our Future?”, GritCult on Subversive (February 2021)

External links

• Top posts from 2018 by GRITCULT on X