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Dan’s book
July 13, 2022, 03:02:11 pm
Dan Cheetham asked me to flag up that he has been working on a website for an upcoming book:

https://www.modernclimber.co.uk

There are some (short) sample pages on the website.
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#1 Re: Dan’s book
July 14, 2022, 11:24:16 am
This looks excellent. Back when printed media was the norm their seemed to be room, albeit small, for this sort of perspective. In the modern age it does seem to have disappeared, or perhaps it just sinks now that human gatekeepers have been replaced by algorithms. Or perhaps such energies get vented in other directions.

Would suggest deleting /about from the above link as navigation appears limited.


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#2 Re: Dan’s book
July 14, 2022, 01:51:35 pm
Indeed. Looking forward to read it.

Sarah-Jane's "A Feeling for Rock" also has that sense.

https://dobdobdob.co.uk/a-feeling-for-rock/

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#3 Re: Dan’s book
July 14, 2022, 03:59:23 pm
I read three extracts and there were four philosopher quotes. Quite the ratio. Very impressive that Dan has read Spinoza.


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#4 Re: Dan’s book
November 09, 2022, 09:14:52 pm
Dan has updated the website with further excerpts and photography to go in the eventual book

https://www.modernclimber.co.uk

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#5 Re: Dan’s book
September 26, 2023, 04:48:26 pm
Dan has produced a fanzine. If anyone wants a copy get in touch with him via Instagram
https://instagram.com/mod3rn_climb3r?igshid=MWZjMTM2ODFkZg==

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#6 Re: Dan’s book
September 26, 2023, 08:50:18 pm
Review:

Genuinely brilliant.
A comically depressing take on the current state of things both in climbing and in the broader western world.
The use of imagination, articulation and imagery had me hooked from cover to cover.

The gullible dopamine addicted brainlets of current day are easy prey for the virtue signalling cunts and the training plan crafting opportunists.
The sheeple flock in support of the current thing taking little more than a moment to consider the implications of such things on their lives and those who will inherit our societies after we pass.

If you’re easily offended/offended on behalf of others or perhaps enjoy soy lattes whilst chilling with other beta’s you may want to swerve this as there’s a likelihood you’ll end up requiring time in your chosen safe space with a vibrator stuck up your ring piece.

10/10 - one of the easier wanks I’ve had.

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#7 Re: Dan’s book
September 27, 2023, 11:05:17 am
Didn't realise UKB had morphed into 4Chan... :wank:

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#8 Re: Dan’s book
September 27, 2023, 03:06:21 pm

If you’re easily offended/offended on behalf of others or perhaps enjoy soy lattes whilst chilling with other beta’s you may want to swerve this as there’s a likelihood you’ll end up requiring time in your chosen safe space with a vibrator stuck up your ring piece.

10/10 - one of the easier wanks I’ve had.

This is one of the cringiest things Ive read on here

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#9 Re: Dan’s book
October 14, 2023, 06:14:18 pm

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#10 Re: Dan’s book
October 14, 2023, 06:27:41 pm
Dan has produced a fanzine. If anyone wants a copy get in touch with him via Instagram
https://instagram.com/mod3rn_climb3r?igshid=MWZjMTM2ODFkZg==

Some paper copies are still available

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#11 Re: Dan’s book
October 14, 2023, 07:28:50 pm
Julius Evola and the O9A in the fanzine. Dan’s certainly fash-curious.  :-\

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#12 Re: Dan’s book
October 14, 2023, 07:47:36 pm
Reads like if Thomas Mair was a climber and wrote a manifesto, think I’ll save my money thanks.

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#13 Re: Dan’s book
October 14, 2023, 07:57:00 pm
Reads like if Thomas Mair was a climber and wrote a manifesto, think I’ll save my money thanks.

It’s free!

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#14 Re: Dan’s book
October 14, 2023, 08:06:21 pm
Reads like if Thomas Mair was a climber and wrote a manifesto, think I’ll save my money thanks.

It’s free!

Time is money

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#15 Re: Dan’s book
October 14, 2023, 08:44:41 pm
Out of interest Simon, why are you promoting this?

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#16 Re: Dan’s book
October 14, 2023, 08:53:39 pm
I found some of it interesting and other bits humorous.

Is that okay with you Bradders?

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#17 Re: Dan’s book
October 14, 2023, 09:09:06 pm
Out of interest Simon, why are you promoting this?

Strange comment. Care to expand on why you think he shouldn’t?

There’s a barren desert of left-field culture in climbing meedja since the advent of social media/UKC/climbing-goes-mainstream. Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder.. but even if you happened to think Dan’s ‘cultural output’ was a steaming pile of cultural excrement, what argument would you have against a diverse landscape of weird and wonderful viewpoints.
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#18 Re: Dan’s book
October 14, 2023, 09:36:29 pm
Out of interest Simon, why are you promoting this?

Mainly because Dan asked me and also what Pete said

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#19 Re: Dan’s book
October 14, 2023, 09:37:02 pm
Out of interest Simon, why are you promoting this?

Strange comment. Care to expand on why you think he shouldn’t?

There’s a barren desert of left-field culture in climbing meedja since the advent of social media/UKC/climbing-goes-mainstream. Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder.. but even if you happened to think Dan’s ‘cultural output’ was a steaming pile of cultural excrement, what argument would you have against a diverse landscape of weird and wonderful viewpoints.

I didn't say he shouldn't promote it, and I don't necessarily think he shouldn’t either; that's an assumption you've made. I just asked him why he is.

I found some of it interesting and other bits humorous.

Is that okay with you Bradders?

Yes....are you concerned it's not okay?

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#20 Re: Dan’s book
October 14, 2023, 09:51:34 pm
I mean… it would be a very odd comment to make if you thought he should promote Dan’s book.

So, it’s a rational assumption to make - that you question whether he should. Isn’t it?  :shrug:

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#21 Re: Dan’s book
October 15, 2023, 08:43:48 am
Some brilliant spoonerisms in there, to the extent that I can't quite figure out whether they're on purpose - things like the BMC being in it to "crush descent" these days is almost too good.

I had a read through some pages of this this morning and once you get past the climate-change denial, anti-vax rhetoric, and bigoted little asides about pronouns and gender there's a distaste for modern climbing that I really quite like, an anger about the number-obsessed, training-for-the-sake-of-training and commercialisation bits of today's climbing culture that I can get behind - even if I don't blame cultural marxism and pegging for the shift.

I do wonder about the hyper-focus on anal-widening devices and bumholes. Reminds me of my middle-school days.

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#22 Re: Dan’s book
October 15, 2023, 08:48:14 am
What's the essence of Dan's viewpoint?

My impression is it has two threads:

- anti-vax misinformation

- railing against accepting LGBT+ people into wider society

I sort of see it as a civic duty to defuse/stand-up-against any promulgation of either of these.

I'm happy to be corrected if I've misunderstood this.

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#23 Re: Dan’s book
October 15, 2023, 08:52:16 am
I mean… it would be a very odd comment to make if you thought he should promote Dan’s book.

So, it’s a rational assumption to make - that you question whether he should. Isn’t it?  :shrug:

Well, apparently not.

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#24 Re: Dan’s book
October 15, 2023, 09:04:22 am
Some brilliant spoonerisms in there, to the extent that I can't quite figure out whether they're on purpose - things like the BMC being in it to "crush descent" these days is almost too good.

I had a read through some pages of this this morning and once you get past the climate-change denial, anti-vax rhetoric, and bigoted little asides about pronouns and gender there's a distaste for modern climbing that I really quite like, an anger about the number-obsessed, training-for-the-sake-of-training and commercialisation bits of today's climbing culture that I can get behind - even if I don't blame cultural marxism and pegging for the shift.

I do wonder about the hyper-focus on anal-widening devices and bumholes. Reminds me of my middle-school days.

Art and culture is a broad church etc etc but if one has to squint past the bigotry aimed at LGBT+ people (the focus on anal widening devices and bumholes being straight out of the far right playbook, depicting modern society as emasculated and modern men as "soy boys") in order to find something mildly amusing about training for climbing that seems... An interesting way by which the author might make their point.

 

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