The truth is so uncomfortable, in fact, that DA blocks critical readers after just one uncomfortable critique... He can dish it out cold, but he can't take it in hot - a common affliction amongst wordcels 😂
@@TCC00 If you mean to say he's very sensitive about wordwanking in circles, you're not wrong... I've been reading him for four years and his middle-aged man syndrome has only worsened... Seems he is his own worst enemy. Well, I just point at his expressive egg and laugh 🤣
@@funkymunkyyep completely agree, been reading expressive egg for about a year now and some pieces are brilliantly written and articulated points that deeply resonated with me. But on the other hand, it’s a mixed bag with Darren, cynicism and bitterness leaks into the writing. He’s quite disparaging about women, and tends to put himself on a pedestal above others which comes across as pretentious. Self and Unself is great book but I can’t say Darren is a good person or someone to look up to. I’ve always gotten the impression that he needs to learn to laugh a little.
@@TCC00 It's all so ominous but in an anticlimactic way, which is fair enough - that's his 'shtick'. It's just that everything he writes after the fact reads like an attempt to recoup the sunk cost of chasing his primal anxiety like a dog chasing its droopy tail. 'TFS' especially reads like a self-help book for the intellectual who's too far gone down his own rabbit hole, as if his conscience is telling him off for not being a better, more wholesome, person... The vinegary aftertaste from reading DA just never leaves my mouth. And he doesn't seem to care at all that his readers might be very sensitive as well... You're buying a ticket to the 'DA Show' and, like a child, you ought to be seen and not heard! I wonder what his childhood was like... Best not to wonder out loud, I guess 😅
Nice review. It's a wonderful book. The only downside to your review is that you, like me, have read some/all of his other stuff and so it's probably already preaching to the converted. It'd be interesting to get the thoughts of someone who hadn't already been introduced to his books. The fire sermon is definitely accessible, but it's a book that I'm tentative about sharing with others in case they're either "not ready" to engage with it, or by sharing it with them sort of peer pressures them into feeling that they should like it before they've even turned a page. I came to Darren's work organically (I think), and so was very much in the frame of mind to be taken in by his writing. That was 33 myths, many years ago now, and I've bought most of his books since.
@@t3649 Taken from his journal (28.08.24, section for paid subscribers only): No More Interviews I have stepped down from my role as spokesman for a generation and stopped doing interviews. Most of them have now been taken down from the internet and, as it stands, there are unlikely to be any more.[7] The reason is this… Sometimes - very rarely, but sometimes - interviews are ‘good’, in that the interviewer is capable of listening to an interviewee, and a few interesting moments do arise here and there in podcasts, and there is a magical place where recorded conversations do work and have some purpose, but for the most part the only good podcasts are those that deal with very simple, practical matters. With anything deeper, the subject is betrayed by the format, which is why podcasts so often comprise metric tonnes of hot air, and why the ones that I have done always, ultimately, sadden me. I cannot escape the feeling, in an interview, that this is a betrayal of an actual conversation. Because it is. This is why I don’t listen to them. As far as I’m concerned, there is the miracle and delight of live, never-to-be-repeated speech, a paradoxical orality fused to the moment in which it emerges, and then there is the art of literature (or drama or what have you) which seeks to stand in for it. I’m not interested in anything else. Thank you and goodnight. [Footnote 7] ‘Hi Darren, David Lynch here. I’m a big fan of your work and was wondering if you would like to do a one-on-one recorded conversation with me which I would then release as a feature documentary?’ Oh, alright David, seeing as it’s you…
Can you square the DA worldview (monkey god, unself, Barry Long’s be here now “god” etc) with the Christian God/Jesus? Feels like accepting DA “unself” view is a gateway to abandoning Christianity besides acknowledging that Jesus “got it” in someway and was in touch with something greater. Or if you’re not sure and want to hedge your bets for salvation, keep with some form Christianity lite. Do you still have or see a need for faith, Christian faith or otherwise?
You're barely 30 years old. What do you have to be so unhappy about? You've hardly lived yet. I suspect a large part of your unhappiness is the result of the kinds of things you read and the rabbit holes you've gone done before i.e. Nick Land, occultism, etc. And anyway, isn't your Catholic faith supposed to bring you contentment and joy? Obviously not judging by the kinds of comments you've made during past episodes, detailing your unhappiness and boredom. Well...time to move on to the next thing!
The truth is so uncomfortable, in fact, that DA blocks critical readers after just one uncomfortable critique... He can dish it out cold, but he can't take it in hot - a common affliction amongst wordcels 😂
Yeah he comes across as quite sensitive
@@TCC00 If you mean to say he's very sensitive about wordwanking in circles, you're not wrong... I've been reading him for four years and his middle-aged man syndrome has only worsened... Seems he is his own worst enemy. Well, I just point at his expressive egg and laugh 🤣
@@funkymunkyyep completely agree, been reading expressive egg for about a year now and some pieces are brilliantly written and articulated points that deeply resonated with me. But on the other hand, it’s a mixed bag with Darren, cynicism and bitterness leaks into the writing. He’s quite disparaging about women, and tends to put himself on a pedestal above others which comes across as pretentious. Self and Unself is great book but I can’t say Darren is a good person or someone to look up to. I’ve always gotten the impression that he needs to learn to laugh a little.
@@TCC00 It's all so ominous but in an anticlimactic way, which is fair enough - that's his 'shtick'. It's just that everything he writes after the fact reads like an attempt to recoup the sunk cost of chasing his primal anxiety like a dog chasing its droopy tail. 'TFS' especially reads like a self-help book for the intellectual who's too far gone down his own rabbit hole, as if his conscience is telling him off for not being a better, more wholesome, person... The vinegary aftertaste from reading DA just never leaves my mouth. And he doesn't seem to care at all that his readers might be very sensitive as well... You're buying a ticket to the 'DA Show' and, like a child, you ought to be seen and not heard! I wonder what his childhood was like... Best not to wonder out loud, I guess 😅
Great review, look forward to reading this. Shame your chats with DA are no longer there....
excellent as always
Nice review. It's a wonderful book. The only downside to your review is that you, like me, have read some/all of his other stuff and so it's probably already preaching to the converted. It'd be interesting to get the thoughts of someone who hadn't already been introduced to his books. The fire sermon is definitely accessible, but it's a book that I'm tentative about sharing with others in case they're either "not ready" to engage with it, or by sharing it with them sort of peer pressures them into feeling that they should like it before they've even turned a page. I came to Darren's work organically (I think), and so was very much in the frame of mind to be taken in by his writing. That was 33 myths, many years ago now, and I've bought most of his books since.
You need to just be, unburdened by what has been.
Why remove the interviews with Allen? Those were good as I recall. Why did he want them removed, and why did you feel obligated to remove them?
@@black_eagle Darren is removing all conversations from the internet. He asked me to remove them, so I did.
@@hermitixpodcastwhy is he doing that?
@@t3649 Taken from his journal (28.08.24, section for paid subscribers only):
No More Interviews
I have stepped down from my role as spokesman for a generation and stopped doing interviews. Most of them have now been taken down from the internet and, as it stands, there are unlikely to be any more.[7]
The reason is this…
Sometimes - very rarely, but sometimes - interviews are ‘good’, in that the interviewer is capable of listening to an interviewee, and a few interesting moments do arise here and there in podcasts, and there is a magical place where recorded conversations do work and have some purpose, but for the most part the only good podcasts are those that deal with very simple, practical matters. With anything deeper, the subject is betrayed by the format, which is why podcasts so often comprise metric tonnes of hot air, and why the ones that I have done always, ultimately, sadden me. I cannot escape the feeling, in an interview, that this is a betrayal of an actual conversation. Because it is. This is why I don’t listen to them. As far as I’m concerned, there is the miracle and delight of live, never-to-be-repeated speech, a paradoxical orality fused to the moment in which it emerges, and then there is the art of literature (or drama or what have you) which seeks to stand in for it. I’m not interested in anything else.
Thank you and goodnight.
[Footnote 7] ‘Hi Darren, David Lynch here. I’m a big fan of your work and was wondering if you would like to do a one-on-one recorded conversation with me which I would then release as a feature documentary?’
Oh, alright David, seeing as it’s you…
@@t3649 He's a grouchy and difficult sod 😂
@@madameblatvatskyhis cynicism will be his own downfall
Can you square the DA worldview (monkey god, unself, Barry Long’s be here now “god” etc) with the Christian God/Jesus? Feels like accepting DA “unself” view is a gateway to abandoning Christianity besides acknowledging that Jesus “got it” in someway and was in touch with something greater. Or if you’re not sure and want to hedge your bets for salvation, keep with some form Christianity lite. Do you still have or see a need for faith, Christian faith or otherwise?
You're barely 30 years old. What do you have to be so unhappy about? You've hardly lived yet. I suspect a large part of your unhappiness is the result of the kinds of things you read and the rabbit holes you've gone done before i.e. Nick Land, occultism, etc. And anyway, isn't your Catholic faith supposed to bring you contentment and joy? Obviously not judging by the kinds of comments you've made during past episodes, detailing your unhappiness and boredom. Well...time to move on to the next thing!