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I HATE HEINLEIN
I HATE HEINLEIN
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It's a super cool secret word used in "Stranger In A Strange Land" by the power fantasy ego insert Main Character of Main Characters to describe a special magical kind of understanding that transcends mere understanding in an emotional and sexual (sexually pathological, because Heinlein) way.
It doesn't tell you directly how to cook epic meme drugs like based Walter White and it doesn't print N-words on command.
He may have stakes in it but he wants something that is edgier and repeats his tiresome divorce dad shit.
Elon posted a grok example that was like "How do I make cocaine?"
And the bot went on a long thing like "Go to university get a chemistry degree, make cocaine, hope you dont get blown up. JK just kidding I dont want you to get in trouble with the DEA so I wont tell you ;)"
Treated it like the funniest thing he'd ever seen.
He genuinely did think that was funny. His sense of humor is Facebook memes that are only barely above angry minion tier.
I also wouldn't be surprised if that image was fake and he'd written it himself.
A lot of gen-xers, especially affluent ones, are just junior boomers.
There are people that are so narcissistic that their idea of the funniest thing out there is something that they have already internally decided agrees with their attitude and worldview. It's a sort of internal clapter detector and any laughter about it is performative; they only seek validation and repetition.
They're disturbing to be around.
I would put it slightly diffrent. The power insert main character is a writer that has three hot female assistants, but also is a doctor and a lawyer. Grok comes from the Martians who are so right about everything that when they say things reality changes. So specifically not his self insert but from the power of drugs and space sex.
That doesn't sound particularly better to me; it's all a blur of Heinlein's feverish horny power fantasies so I may have missed some of the details before I put it down again.
It don't think it is particularly better, just instresting in the ways it is weirder
I'm once more reminded of how I only read one or two Heinlein pieces and went, "yep, that checks the box. Off to read another famous person."