Post #1209425

2026-04-05 20:51 UTC

6. The "rugged individualist" loner myth, is just that. Hardly anything gets done by individuals. Even the most individual creative occupations, like painters, sculptors, poets, inventors, writers, hardly EVER do their stuff in isolation. Even the grumpiest fucker, like Newton, collaborated, and ALL the big discoveries and inventions involved a lot of collaboration and exchanges of ideas Next time some guy wants to sell you on the idea on lonerdom, know for sure it's a scam. It's always a scam

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@screwturn@mastodon.social 2026-04-05 20:57

7. The "Alpha Male" schtick is a leaky bag of bullshit on stilts. There is no science behind this, it doesn't survive a scrutiny, and the guys who claim the title are always insecure, overcompensating, grifters. Always. It is also obviously bullshit. You can't possibly be top dog in everything, and the more you are top dog in anything, the narrower that specialty will be, and the shorter the time before someone better comes along. All that trumpeting actually tells you he's an insecure numpty

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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-06 03:42

@screwturn Agreed. Humans didn't grow to 8 billion in number and spread to every single continent on Earth by always going it alone. They did it in groups. Big groups. Consider, for example, what we did to the smallpox virus. That was an effort made by our ENTIRE SPECIES to wipe out an age-old threat. We are the humans. Resistance is futile.

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@aeryn_thrace@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 10:17

@screwturn not to mention that being able to do creative/knowledge creation work invariable involves at least one other person, typically a woman, who is taking care of life so you can do your thing. Taking care of life: cooking, cleaning, laundry, taking kids to appointments etc.

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@praetor@mstdn.social 2026-04-09 18:37

@screwturn@mastodon.social I'm a rugged individualist loner grumpy mother fucker who is a programmer....and try as I might...._someone_ has to pay _me_, and usually those someone's require I talk to them

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@BenHM3@saint-paul.us 2026-04-09 18:43

@screwturn@mastodon.social God yes. This needs more boosting.

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