fast / Depressing

Let’s start the blog with this 👍

If you are wondering who the man in the messages profile picture is (you have to click on the thumb, cmon man u are smarter than this), well that guy not only got a perfect SAT score (top 0.4%) but is also the 3rd richest man in the world now (2024). That guy is this guy. And that guy has your data and mine too. And by its own definition we are a dumb fucks (can’t even blame him).

Enough meatriding (please Zuck don’t sue me after reading this blog, this is satire… [never been this delusional in my life, this blog is read by me and maybe me]).

These private chats emerged after the The Social Network movie was released in 2010, and you probably need to see it if you want to understand some of these screenshots:

• Dumb Fucks
• Mark talking about the Winklevosses’ site
• Based sigma response
• Reducing his best friend shares and the reason
• Using facebook passwords to hack into student that were wring an article about him
• Hacking the Winklevosses’ site ConnectU and deactivating accounts
  

I am a simple man what can I say, I wish stereotypes about computer science students weren’t true but they are.
I am finally admitting it for the first time out loud… I don’t shower and I like anime… ehm no. I know by heart every single line of “The Social Network”, I know right? Sooooo surprising.

In the movie Jesse Eisenberg depicts Mark Zuckerberg in a very different way from the public belief (the reptilian Mark… the Zucc). As the hypocritical man that I am, I finished the movie and obviously thought that the main occurrences were real but the character was fictionalized as every other average Hollywood movie.

The thing is that this movie pretty much haunted Mark and he tried many times to discard much of the content of the movie. As you can see in the video he pushes over the fact that all the reasoning behind inventing Facebook was not over a women like the movie tries to depict, and while that may be true it is for sure misleading because his actual Blog at the time (Zuckonit) got leaked too and was almost the same of the origial one (“Erical Albright is a bitch”). FaceMash really happened too, a site where Mark compared women on campus based on hotness.

Now lets come to the title of this blog post:

Whats Depressing about all of this?

Now you may think that the depressing thing about all of this is that Mark Zuckerberg may be actually way different than its media persona, he may be smarter than he seems and he may be way less family friendly that everyone thought. The depressing stuff is that he is stealing our data on purpose and we are all falling for it… or that he is evil perhaps!

No, that is not the point I am trying to make. If you ask me: the real story, this ‘old’ Mark…. is pretty based sigma ngl and I’m not going to sit here and pretend that it may not be normal to act that way to become the 3rd richest man in the world.

The depressing part about all of this and about being famous or popular is actually this having to pretend…
Now we can all understand why having to fake your own persona to the point were you are wearing the same shirt for 10years (probably from this guy) may not be from “Decision Fatigue” but actually to make your public image as neutral as possible. And the thing is that I don’t blame them… they are smart and as CEOs it is the smartest move (unlike this guy) to be the most neutral in the public perception. I would probably do the same if I was in their shoes.
I even think that Elon Musk, as smart as he wants himself to be portrayed, is risking a lot by having this open stance on a lot of topics out of his scope, he may see some repercussions really soon. But still even him has poured a lot of money and resources to cover up his wealthy past or shady workplace to attribute his success on work ethic and not on opportunities or exploitism.

So basically I am not complaining about famous people’s shady practices and fake personas, I am not complaining about them doing it. I am complaining about pretending like some of this stuff may not be part of their success.
We all know that to be successful at least in the top percentile of the population in every field you need to act (and acting is the result of thought) differently than the rest of the percentile.

The constant fear of being caught, of being cancelled for something considered immoral but that is normal and part of your world is what is depressing. The fear of exposing yourself, of being real with the peoples you are selling your product to, that is what is depressing.

The solution:

The only way to fix this is a mentality shift, is to understand that those people are there because of luck, because of opportunities, sure… but also for their obsessive behaviour, for them being assholes, for them steppin on other people’s shoes. Only after eliminating cancel culture, maybe people will actually be honest with one another will stop pretending.
Morality is not as clear as people make it seem, it is relative… success, evolution, progress is highly considered but the steps to get there are considered immoral.
I will dedicate a whole post about this in the future to not make things messy, but for now I advise the readers just to get into Friedrich Nietzsche’s “On the Genealogy of Morality” and to watch the movie The Nightcrawler with an open mind.