The Schizo/Psycho War

Part 1: An Overview

Cuckfucius here—welcome back to the Cyber Ascetics Collective; the terminally-online gooner shitposter ex-gifted-kid’s one stop shop for half-chub spirituality and too-based-for-academia essays.

There has been a war raging since the dawn of time.

It’s not in Gaza; it is certainly not in Ukraine.

This war stretches back through all of human history, yet in each generation only a sliver of the population knowingly participates in it.

No one can escape the war’s all-reaching effects. The war touches every single human, inside and out, whether they’re aware it’s happening or not.

This is the war between the Schizos and the Psychos.

This multi-part essay series will give you a deep understanding of the Schizo/Psycho war, along with concrete examples of how it has played out over the course of history. On the way we’ll touch on The Enlightenment to the advent of the internet, and discuss figures like Diogenes, Alexander the Great, and Luigi Mangione. In later parts, we’ll even take a pitstop in Edo Japan to placate the fetid, screeching, unshowered weeb/k-pop masses.

This will be the first of a number of essays delving into many aspects of The War. If you’d like to follow along, be sure to subscribe for email updates here:

Disclaimer: I will not be using the DSM-5 definitions of “schizo” and “psycho”, and will address this in detail later down the road. For now, I’ll be using the terms in the “vibey” and imprecise shitposter way. Concrete definitions aside, I guarantee that these categories will become crystal clear by the end of this series. For now, you can just think of the Schizo archetype as someone who writes long-winded facebook essays connecting dots no one can see with strands of cotton candy; for the Psycho archetype just imagine Patrick Bateman from the movie American Psycho.

For now: Schizos connect the dots, Psychos dominate and seek power.

1: Overview of The War

I first learned about the war from this 4chan post:

4chan was a notable breeding ground for many Schizos and some Psychos (federal agents)

Reading this was a lightbulb moment for me. A spark. I’d never heard this idea expressed anywhere, yet instantly saw its truth.

Let’s make it more concrete:

2: Diogenes and Alexander the Great

One of the archetypical cases of the Schizo/Psycho war can be found in the relationship between Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope and King of Macedon Alexander the Great.

A shot in the dark: I’m going to assume that you, the girl reading this, know at least a little about each of these two historical figures.

Here’s an exercise: look inside yourself—who do you have a more favorable impression of? Which of these two figures do you like more?

IF you know who they both are, odds are you have a more favorable impression of Diogenes (let me know if not in the comments below).

Alexander the Great ruled lots of land, sure. He cut some rope(?) one time(??) and was maybe gay(???). A bit of a snoozefest…

Diogenes on the other hand… lived in a barrel ahh Jerkmate level 5,000 public gooner ahh Gigachad Diogenes. Mogged tf outta Plato’s ass at his own school “Behold, a man!” featherless biped type shit. “Get tf outta my sun lil bro” type way when Alexander the Great asked if he wanted anything. Mogged everyone in sight; high aura behavior. He deserves to be beloved to this day.

What of Alex?

This relationship portrays a microcosm of the Schizo/Psycho war. Diogenes of course typifies Team Schizo while Alex wears the colors of Team Psycho. Today we remember Diogenes far more fondly than Alex, but think back 2,000 years ago for a second.

If we lived at the same time as Diogenes and Alexander the Great, we would without question agree on who stood taller. There would be no comparing the two. One was the most powerful man the world had ever seen, and the other was a semi-lovable barrel gooner edgelord. If you asked someone at that time, “who has more aura?” The answer would be Alex a thousand times over. Without question.

Alex wins in his own time; Diogenes wins 2,000 years later.

This dynamic highlights the first interesting feature of the Schizo/Psycho War:

The war will almost always appear one-sided.

2,000 years ago, Alexander the Great was clearly favored—today, Diogenes is the clear victor. We will come to see that most times, the War unfolds like this: The Psychos take a dominant position in the current times; the Schizos are often vindicated post-hoc.

Diogenes mogs Alexander the Great, 336 BC

3: CEO vs Homeless

Leaving the Greeks behind for a moment, we’ll jump to the 21st century.

The specific Alex/Dio paradigm can be generalized into the more modern form of The CEO and The Homeless. There is more nuance but let’s stay here for just a second.

Are you familiar with “hostile architecture?” Here are some examples:

“Hostile Architecture” is an urban design strategy that utilizes architectural elements to deter certain activities.

This type of design predominantly targets homeless people and other “undesirables” to keep them from existing in certain spaces.

It’s important to note that this stuff isn’t built this way just by happenstance; there are people actively making design decisions. The people that make the choices to install hostile architecture are the rich Psychos that own or control the spaces (or people employed by said Psychos).

I’ve always found it odd. Why would asset-owning rich people go to such bizarre lengths just to keep homeless people away? I get the aesthetics of it; some folks don’t like to see the “unsightly” or interact with “potentially dangerous” people. Fair enough. But a purely aesthetic explanation doesn’t go deep enough. Discovering the Schizo/Psycho War helped me understand the intent behind hostile architecture on a deeper level.

Because think about it: pretend you’re a big-dick high-flyin’ three-wheelin’ Psycho jackass with 100 million dollars to spend on a big beautiful building. And now you gotta deface your baby with some bizarro goth girl spikes because the dirty people give you the ickies?? It doesn’t make sense. It must go deeper than that.

Here’s what I think is really going on with hostile architecture:

On the surface, homeless people have nothing. We could almost say they pose zero threat to the CEOs. CEO has a private jet and a golden toilet; homeless guy has rags. In the eyes of the world/normies, one is tantamount to a King and the other barely even exists.

—AND YET—

The CEOs react to this “non-threat” with seemingly disproportionate yellow-bellied defensiveness (“hostile architecture” is also known as “defensive architecture”!).

chill homeless Schizo: *exists* // Psycho CEO: “PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STAY AWAY DON’T SLEEP HERE I DON’T WANT YOU ANYWHERE NEAR ME I DON’T EVEN WANNA LOOK AT YOUUUUU”

The existence of anti-homeless architecture does not portray the power or ambition that the Psychos so proudly pursue; it portrays borderline desperate fear and panic.

It is a cornered caveman desperately swinging a fiery club at a bear thrice his size. A flimsy deterrent at best.

So. What could the Psychos who own the buildings and everything else in the world possibly fear? Why go to such cowardly lengths?

The Psychos fear the Schizos because the Schizos see them for who they really are.

Even further, the Schizos’ very existence spits in the face of everything the Psycho knows and values. To the Schizo, the Psycho is participating in an elaborate and tiresome dance. The dance is all the Psycho has ever known—accumulate wealth; accumulate power; dominate others; rise to the top. The homeless Schizo’s very existence negates the entire dance and lays the intractability of it bare; this is existentially unacceptable to the Psycho.

I can sympathize: if you’re a Psycho who has grown up in a world ruthlessly pushing you toward material gain at every turn, seeing a homeless Schizo who couldn’t care less about material things would spit in the face of your way of life. We’ll touch more on this later.

This might not fully make sense yet; to expand on this further, we come to another key point of the Schizo/Psycho War:

The Psychos largely control the material world.

Look outside; the Psychos own the buildings. Especially the big ones. They own the roads, even the hospitals and especially the banks. Just as Alexander the Great controlled everything from Macedonia to Persia.

This begs a question:

How is it possible for the Schizo/Psycho War to be balanced if the Psychos own literally everything? What was the competitive edge that allows Diogenes to mog Alexander the Great to this day? There is a yet-unaccounted-for variable, and astute readers will be able to guess what it is…

A Key Principle: All that the Psycho controls in the material world, the Schizos wield equal and opposite power in the immaterial world.

Luckily for the Schizos, the material world is not all that exists in reality. There’s also the immaterial world.

The immaterial world is nothing mystical or “woo-woo”. It is just as real as the material world. The material world can also be called the “external” world, and the immaterial can be called the “internal” world. From now, I’ll use external/material and internal/immaterial interchangably.

The external/material consists of buildings, flowers, cuck chairs, and anything else you can sense via sight/smell/touch/taste/sound.

The internal/immaterial consists of subjective experience, thoughts, emotions, and “spiritual stuff”. As a quick example, you and I can both see and hold a rose in the external world. We can both sniff it. But I can never experience how it feels to be you sniffing a rose, and you will never know how it feels to be me sniffing a rose. Our experiences of sniffing even the same rose are completely internal, completely our own, and cannot be directly passed between one-another.

This will become clearer. A quick summary:

The material-obsessed Psychos are locked in battle with the internally-focused Schizos. The Psychos wish to accumulate wealth & power, and the Schizos see them for what they are; often internally twisted, misguided creatures playing a game of folly; they cannot take any amount of riches with them where they’re going. No one can.

4: Strategies, Tactics

It is easy to construe the Psychos as the aggressors in this war. They use all manner of tactic to dominate and/or coerce Normies to their cause. For example, look at this:

pretty nice watch huh? Pretty icey.. you want it? You want it you f*cking Normie piece of shit?? It will make you look cool and feel good. That’s what you want right? You wanna feel good right?? You want the watch. You want it.

The most basic tactic the Psychos have used throughout history is slavery. To do slavery, a person needs very little empathy as a prerequisite (hence “Psycho”). It is directly forcing another human to do something for you under threat of bodily (or other) harm. Most often employed in the pursuit of material gain and raw pleasure.

This is a war. The Schizos have tactics of their own, but by their internal nature they’re harder to explain. Less out-in-the-open. Some words that come close are “inducing resonance”. Schizos make people feel things, perceive things, or think things.

Textbook example of a powerful Schizo Warrior at work. Note the poem’s directly anti-Psycho theme: “nothing gold can stay”. The poem’s themes of inevitability, change, and impermanence are completely orthagonal to the Psycho’s compulsion to create wide and everlasting material impact.

Poets make fine Schizo warriors. So do artists. Perhaps a few examples will make it clearer: Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Jesus Christ are some of the greatest Schizo Warriors our race has ever known. There have been many more. They did not dominate other humans with carrot nor stick. They simply induced resonance in the hearts and minds of the people to acheive their goals. They changed the world not through owning great industry, or deploying vast armies, or controlling key ports. They changed the world solely through speech, action, and inner refinement.

The greatest Schizos can move the world by resonance just as much as the greatest Psychos can move the world by force. And though we’ve been treating these categories as neatly split til now, the full picture is a bit messier than that…

there is not enough time to get into this now. next time.

This has been a very brief overview of the Schizo/Psycho War’s broadest themes and mechanisms.

Next time, we will look a little deeper at the Schizo’s main tool of “resonance”, and also touch on the ways Schizos and Psychos have adopted the other’s tools to use in the War. We’ll delve into the recently-minted Schizo Gladiator Luigi Mangione and his role in the War—you won’t want to miss it. Subscribe below to be notified when that drops:

EDIT: Part 2 can be read HERE