What is a Bugman?

[Anonymous No.13648385]

Aesthetically they’re much like their name, bug-eyed, jittery and insect-like, their very demeanour often makes one’s skin crawl. You’re more than likely surrounded by hoards of these bovine-esque people in day-to-day life. Culturally of course they’re near impossible to pin down for they cut all cultural roots at the base in fear of representation with the past. Politically many say bugmen are ‘left-leaning’ yet I’d argue the case that any affiliation with politics is entirely with the curve of the populous and thus the Bugmen – at present – inject themselves routinely with viral strains of progressivism, neoliberalism and (especially) democracy. Projected from this ambivalent attitude towards history and politics comes anti-empathetical extroversions with regard to tradition, myth, folklore, spirituality and interest, all of which, when positioned in relation to a bugman are used only alongside heavy doses of postmodernist irony. The simple matter of fact is they have zero respect or tolerance for anything antiquated or traditional, the most minor of historic morsels that doesn’t actively sell itself to them or project their personal vision of infantile-tech-utopia is cast aside. Philosophically the bugman is relatively confused, often mistaking logic, reason and rationale with one another, and replacing the idea of basic causality with their own drawn-out narcissistic assessment attempts: “Look at me, I’ve got it all figured out.” the bugman says internally.

Before you sits the social nervous system of the bugman true, a sordid mixture of fad-reverence and capitalist-lite binging. On closer inspection of the day to day life of a bugman one finds at its core the implementation of social erosion, everything that is taken from its origin is likewise bastardized into a regressive, virtual, stir-crazy version of its former self: eSports, Fantasy Football, Copy ‘n Paste Vidya (à la Bethesda/Ubisoft), New Atheism, Beards-as-personality, etc. each of these characteristics is of course filtered through the latest piece of cutting-edge high-brand technology the bugman can afford. One may have noticed already that bugmen’s ‘personalities’ are nothing more than the accumulation and composition of various popular brand names, technologies, TV shows, bands etc. The bugman is entirely defined by that which they consume. Thus the bugmen easily assimilate into their own groups, for their archetypes and traits are based off material possessions, as such grouping is quick, painless and has the added benefit of instantaneous conversation: “Sweet mechanical keyboard dude!”

[Anonymous No.13648387]

There is of course a difference between a regular consumer and a bugman, there has to be, for everyone consumes. Whereas a consumer will buy a basket of groceries which they plan on eating, the bugman will purchase retro foods, meme-drinks and ironic status-tokens as a means to display the fact that they are indeed ‘in-on-it’. A consumer will buy the box-set of their favourite TV show because they genuinely enjoyed the viewing, perhaps they’ll watch 3-4 episodes a week around other commitments, a bugman on the other hand subscribes to multiple streaming services and binges series after series in the ever expanding quest for acceptance, when asked how they found Stranger Things, Rick & Morty, Bojack Horseman, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones etc. the bugman does not offer insight into their personal opinion, only regurgitates a titbit or quote from the series as a means to display their virtue of consumption. “I too have seen the thing you have!” A network of insects whose lives are routinely controlled by ratings: theirs and others. They must advance their rating by subsuming the other which is rated highly. ‘Everyone liked this, so if I like this, everyone will like me!”

Identity and consumption merge within the bugman. Hobbies become traits in the lives of bugmen. Treating their lives like as if they were an RPG minmaxer, attempting to reach peak efficiency when it comes to popularity, assimilation and acceptance. Spewing spools of popular quotes, band-names, aphorisms and social tics, the bugman is a walking media depository incapable of its own creation. Bugmen’s ‘own’ thoughts are merely misshapen combinations of that which they’ve taken in. Revelling in their ironic displays of lower case postmodern hyperbole and sardonic middle class humour. Sincerity an impossibility for worry of social suffocation, and daft humour avoided for fear of ostracisation. When a bugman sprouts anew, the previous form of personal agency commits seppuke out of respect for others. That jittery man whose bulbous eyes are darting to and fro, the one in line for the new iPhone, that’s a bugman, consumed by the idea of being first in a line of consumers, any possibility of escape is negated by the perpetual oppression and quasi-innovations of consumerism. Just as the man’s soul glimpses at the sight of a beloved memory, his perception picks up an advert, and so the memory fades into non-existence.

[Anonymous No.13648399]

based

[Anonymous No.13648438]

>>13648385
>any affiliation with politics is entirely with the curve of the populous and thus the Bugmen
kEK
>anti-empathetical extroversions with regard to tradition, myth, folklore, spirituality
Oh no.
>they have zero respect or tolerance for anything antiquated or traditional
Oh, okay.
>Before you sits the social nervous system of the bugman true
ESL
>Thus the bugmen easily assimilate into their own groups, for their archetypes and traits are based off material possessions, as such grouping is quick, painless and has the added benefit of instantaneous conversation: “Sweet mechanical keyboard dude!”
Okay, This Is Epic.
>>13648387
purchase retro foods, meme-drinks and ironic status-tokens as a means to display the fact that they are indeed ‘in-on-it’.
Are you Joey Diaz?
>Sincerity an impossibility for worry of social suffocation, and daft humour avoided for fear of ostracisation.
Ah, nevermind. You should've told me you were a DFW pleb, it would've saved me some time.
5/10 b8, say Nigger more.

[Anonymous No.13648456]

why can't you fucknuts keep this shit on /b/ or something

[Anonymous No.13648474]

>>13648385
I wonder what Cato the Elder would think if you revived him and showed him modern men.

[Anonymous No.13648492]

>>13648385
>>13648387
"yet I’d argue the case that any affiliation with politics is entirely with the curve of the populous " It depends, some people spiritually castrate themselves, yet there will always remain with this particular breed, a latent awareness of their own depravity.

In that case I would say that their association with liberalism is parallel to their spirituality; it is an acceptance of Mediocrity, the state of addiction to exteriority and superficial, social signalling as the basis of the sense of self.

These are the true democrats, those who react to quality and its distillery (culture) with a violent dementia. "humanist" Liberal democracy is actually just the hypostasis of the animalistic part of man, a bait and switch which posits man as fundamentally divine (deserving of "human rights") without any responsibility; it is a reaction to their giving up the ghost on struggle.

Democracy valourises bovine blobs like this walking cunt (his femininity grew obese on the corpse of his masculinity)

Democracy does not permit and promote the freedom to be Human, which is the very struggle which they have repudiated, (this struggle being the the transcendence of the animalistic with the divine)

It permits and promotes the freedom to be a cow. It permits and promotes mediocrity as a religion, and casts greatness as a sin.

[Anonymous No.13648500]

>>13648492
>Democracy does not permit and promote the freedom to be Human, which is the very struggle which they have repudiated, (this struggle being the the transcendence of the animalistic with the divine)
>It permits and promotes the freedom to be a cow. It permits and promotes mediocrity as a religion, and casts greatness as a sin.

Democracy or liberalism?

[Anonymous No.13648511]

I'm not reading all that shit

[Anonymous No.13648528]

>>13648385

consume anime

[Anonymous No.13648852]

>>13648385
>>13648387
Pretty good synopsis, OP. Struck a lot of good chords.

[Anonymous No.13649337]

>>13648500
humanistic democracy; democracy as it currently is and only conceived in the public mind.

I do believe that it can be salvaged, in the same way that Wyndham Lewis believed