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I am reading ‘The Nerd Reich’, a book about technofascism, and it really is fascinating. As observed about Elon; they seem to have no ‘culture’ in terms of art etc. They don’t seem to really love anything, or talk about bright or beautiful or funny things, ever, in terms of their values.

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I’m not someone who believes in NPC nonsense; they are people, with internal emotional lives. But we learn a lot about what people hold in their hearts by what they bang on about all the time.

You critiquing tthe NPC nonsense reminds me of how there was this one time a few days ago where someone posted a "research paper" in the spec evo forum about how many powerful people are actually a distinct subspecies of humans from most others (this was critiqued for very obvious reasons)

Remembered it claimed there was this group known as Homo economicus who it claims evolved to be social parasites to H.sapiens and even reproduces through H.sapiens. do feel this idea is sort of rooted in anthropicentrism and calling certain groups nonhuman to attack (even if I do feel those groups-

That's seems to be their project in a way. To not have a true excitement with life, or at least portraited by them, the people who will try to mirror then loose their own ambitions and spiral down. Its no surprise that those have an high number of followers/believers who are incels.

Those guys aren't nerds; they are their fantasy of nerds: eccentric geniuses superior to everybody else, thus above the mundane rules and values of the "normies". It's plain old narcissism dressed up in a lab coat.