T-Shirt slogans (#4)
My Dark Enlightenment / horrorist T-shirt suggestion:
You don’t want to see this
(Prompted by Alrenous)
ADDED: Alrenous suggests (in the thread below) — Dark Enlightenment. You just don’t want to know.
‘Know’ is definitely superior from a technical point of view, but I’m still caught up in the quasi-cinematic drama of media sensationalism.
(… and tinkering with the initial offering, I’m wondering whether it’s worth the extra word to go to: You really don’t want to see this.)
Alrenous approved.
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Alrenous Reply:
December 5th, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Extremely cliched, but: Dark Enlightenment. You just don’t want to know.
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maybe something like
YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE IT
BUT YOU CAN’T LOOK AWAY
– the dark enlightenment -
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Posted on December 5th, 2013 at 4:39 pm | QuoteBe the Next One to SEE
Tall, White Caucasian Male wearing Sunglasses….
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Posted on December 5th, 2013 at 4:48 pm | QuoteToo demotic.
The Dark Enlightenment — You Can’t Bear to Know or You Are Afraid to Know
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Alrenous Reply:
December 5th, 2013 at 10:55 pm
How is it demotic?
And here I thought I was oversensitive to the stuff. (Oversensitivity is a virtue in the modern context, to counteract the effects of liberal immersion therapy.)
Neoreaction: You can’t bear to see this.
I like the ‘this’ construction, even though the referent is tortured. Extracted, it’s ‘can’t bear to see, in the sense of understanding, the things which I, the wearer of this pro-reactionary T-shirt, profess.’ I think liking that may prove that I’m weird.
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The Road to Serfdom.
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Posted on December 5th, 2013 at 9:54 pm | QuoteThe Dark Enlightenment — From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent
The Dark Enlightenment — The enlightenment seen with sunglasses on
The Dark Enlightenment — Always optimize for wu wei
The Dark Enlightenment — The truth shall make you fret
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fotrkd Reply:
December 5th, 2013 at 10:20 pm
How about just: Dark Enlightenment – Ssshh!
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“Dark Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused progressive immaturity. Progressive immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of The Cathedral. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one’s intelligence without being guided by liberal political correctness. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence against progressivism and The Cathedral is therefore the motto of the Dark Enlightenment…!”
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Posted on December 5th, 2013 at 11:06 pm | Quote“Dark Enlightenment. Too true.”
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Posted on December 6th, 2013 at 12:22 am | Quote“You can’t handle the truth!“
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Posted on December 6th, 2013 at 12:33 am | QuoteDeep pockets and Bilderberg Group connections and NR is still (commendably) flogging T-Shirts on the market? When is NBS going to start bankrolling us with his haul of BTC donations?
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Thales Reply:
December 6th, 2013 at 1:26 am
Admin spends all those monies on adjectives.
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fotrkd Reply:
December 6th, 2013 at 1:44 am
Ah. That would explain all the receipts he keeps leaving in petty cash for ‘pre-meditated obfuscation’…
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fotrkd Reply:
December 6th, 2013 at 1:50 am
(I thought it was a sensitive condition so didn’t want to ask).
No way a chick would wear “You really don’t want to see this” across her breasts.
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fotrkd Reply:
December 6th, 2013 at 12:59 am
Just ‘Dark Enlightenment’ then? Or VXXC’s ‘Be the next one to see’?
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fotrkd Reply:
December 6th, 2013 at 1:11 am
Damn… I forgot how creepy xenosystems smileys were… (my apologies).
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Artemisia Reply:
December 6th, 2013 at 1:49 am
No worries, I suppose, I only felt creeped out when you spelled out how creepy the smiley is!
Dark Enlightenment – Ssshh! is actually my favourite, if only because it makes me think of Old Nick doing this: http://sovposters.ru//2010/2/10/56909rm_19_381.jpg except looking very mischievous. It’s corny, but it’s also genuinely funny and is just an appropriate gesture/expression (if Ssshh! is an expression at all).
“Ssshh if you’re know what NR is – you don’t want to shout about it.”
“Ssshh if you you’re having a hissy fit.”
“Ssshh if you don’t know about us – good luck staying in the dark!” (or whatever). It’s smug (you’re a smug bunch, not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with that), it’s conspiracy-theorish, and it’s a tease as much as an order to shut up.
I actually would have a problem with “Be the next one to see” on my breasts too – if I wore an NR/DE shirt, I’d want it to refer to NR/DE and not make people thinking about my body. It’s also kind of egalitarian. Not everyone deserves to see, you know
fotrkd Reply:
December 6th, 2013 at 2:17 am
I think you just won: ‘Dark Enlightenment – Not everyone deserves to see, you know ‘
“We All Die Naked.”
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Posted on December 6th, 2013 at 2:27 am | QuoteThe Darke Englightenment
The truth shall make you fired
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Posted on December 6th, 2013 at 4:21 am | Quote“Pro-Problematic.”
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Posted on December 6th, 2013 at 4:38 am | Quote“Sanctimony can enhance your social status, but you’re still a mutant chimp”
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Posted on December 6th, 2013 at 6:38 am | QuoteI wouldn’t mind T-shirts with various Moldbug quotes.
“Professor Dawkins is not just a Christian atheist. He is a Protestant atheist. And he is not just a Protestant atheist. He is a Calvinist atheist. And he is not just a Calvinist atheist. He is an Anglo-Calvinist atheist.”
– Mencius Moldbug
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Posted on December 6th, 2013 at 1:49 pm | Quote“. . . You haven’t seen anything yet”
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Posted on December 7th, 2013 at 7:12 am | Quote“Some pseudointellectual and irrational reactions seem to have no other effect than than to distract modern humans fand prevent them rom fully aware of that global and dreadfil; perspective according to which the modern world appears as aa lifeless body falling down a slope which nothing could possibly stop” – Evola
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Kevin C. Reply:
December 7th, 2013 at 9:36 am
“…down a slope which nothing could possibly stop.”
Indeed; nothing can possibly stop it.
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The Dark Enlightenment: We reject your reality and substitute our own.
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Posted on December 8th, 2013 at 2:58 am | QuoteI’d wear a black Neoreaction shirt with “The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be again” and a smiley Cthulhu wearing a crown on it.
Re: “You don’t want to see this” vs “You really don’t want to see this”. You always want to choose the message with stronger emotion tied to it whenever that message is concise enough. That is to say, go with “really don’t want to see this” in the choice between these two. However, when you can say nearly the same thing in fewer words which are even more powerful, why not do that instead?
Try these on for size….
“The Dark Enlightenment:Be Afraid”
“The Dark Enlightenment: Look Away (if you can)”
“Neoreaction:Kills Equality Dead”
“Neoreaction:Kills Diversity Dead”
“Yes we Kant”
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Diogenes Reply:
December 8th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
“Evolation”
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Check out the T-shirt opposition –
http://sabcat.com/product-category/t-shirts/tory-scum
Can just see them supplementing their snarky selection with something like
Dark Enlightenment – Neo-nazism for nerds
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admin Reply:
December 9th, 2013 at 4:49 am
“Anarchist Workers” — got to love their sense of humor.
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