Anyone with pride enjoys the spotlight, including NEETs. This will be an on-going series here on the blog. If you have any suggestions for what you’d like to see more or less of next time, let me know in the comments.

This week’s NEET spotlight is on Jacques Hamner, a 23 year old author, visionary, and NEET from Croatia. You can check out his six books here on Amazon, for free if you have Kindle Unlimited. From Nine to Five: Musings of a Modern Slave is the most directly related to NEETdom, but Go Kill Your Self: Exploring the Beauty of Human Evolution is about the life philosophy Hamner seems most eager to share with the world: being selfish is a good thing and the first step towards self-improvement.



NEETpride: So to start things off, tell us a bit about your pre-NEET life.

Jacques Hamner: I was to become a lawyer or so my parents thought. At the fickle age of 19, still bluepilled by all the soy I was consuming (mentally), I listened to their advice and felt a strong need to fulfill their wishes. After two years of hard work and a near mental breakdown, I looked into myself and realized, this is not me and I shall not be restrained, constrained or labeled any longer. I’m my own Self now and only that path concerns me, the path of self.

What is the cultural perception of NEETdom in Croatia?

Many young adults here don’t work but are forced into degrees by well-meaning parents, so they aren’t technically NEETs but spending ten years at college and getting little to nothing done isn’t really a hallmark of a productive member of society, is it? We hate NEETs but our sons, brothers and colleagues are NEETs in every conceivable way but on paper. It seems to be a growing trend, but we’re largely overshadowed by those feeling shame, regret and a strong yearning to be a slave again. To the latter, I beg of you, realize that your drapetomania has brought you freedom, you’re sick only from the perspective of your captors. I allow you to be Free, not only in NEETdom, but in body and spirit too!

How is your life different now compared to 2 years ago?

When you have a job or are in school, your entire mindset becomes inundated into fulfilling the needs of someone that is not You. Even when not physically at those locations, your poor mind is affected by the past, present and even future instances you’ll have to endure (the next test, the next shift). To be perfectly frank, I didn’t get much done while at work, at most, a blackout night on Friday followed by regret and hatred on Saturday. Rinse and repeat. Now that I’m free, I literally do what I want, so long it doesn’t put me into jail.

What do you think is stopping most people from going NEET?

From our very inception, the process of socialization is an on-going and hard to stop process. It helps us integrate into one of our predetermined castes of the human race. The large majority are slaves, others are hoodlums meant to scare the slaves, some are kings and than there is us, the free, out of this system and out of this society. In short, everyone around you works around the clock to prevent you from being a NEET, but it seems to be failing, why? Illusion can only suppress reality for so long, soon, the societal problem of NEETdom will only grow and I shall with glee watch the helpless hoodlums scurry in panic as their slaves no longer yield.

Would you say that you view widespread NEETdom as a social problem?

I view it as a problem of those at the top of the pecking order. Society is an arbitrary concept that doesn’t mean much, it is only used when those at the top need those at the bottom to yield and so they yell ‘Work slaves, in the name of progress!’ I don’t care what problems society faces, I will do just fine in any system, if not, I will perish, deservedly.

I totally agree and because others are unable to reason us NEETs out of our position, they typically resort to guilting or shaming us. You gotta have surprisingly thick skin to live this life. Any particular shaming/guilting technique ever get to you?

Slaves view words as something holy, something intangible and unshakeable, yet they fail to recognize that they are projecting their own dull, dilapidated and most importantly, perpetually repetitive lives into their words. As someone that has evolved beyond the need of words, I use them only when I feel the need to do so. To answer your question, a lot of air was exhaled towards me but yeah air can’t really hurt me, can it?

I mean, surely one attack from someone must have been the worst out of the many you’ve endured.

My own father crying when I told him all of this, I might put on a strong front, but seeing the man that has willed you into existence in such a lowly state really put me down for the next two weeks or so. I thought about my philosophy a lot yet as I didn’t find any holes in it, I continue pushing it.

I’m sure he’ll understand that we’re on the right side of history in time.

Thank you, it means a lot to me.

My pleasure. On that note, what are your thoughts on UBI?

It’s a very nice concept that is simply unfeasible at this point in time. Not by any physical or material forces (robots make wagies shake in their crocks) but the simple fact that most slaves are not ready to be unconditioned so cruelly. There would be violence, riots and unhappiness, drug use would spike up, there would be ‘they took my jeb, tuk de durrr’, etc. We, the Free, first have to redpill all the others and lead them into a mental state where they WANT change and only than will UBI have merit.

Do you think it’s politically and/or economically unfeasible at this time?

Economically, we could have it tomorrow. Politically, never, as neither the slaves nor the kings want change. The slaves as they both fear the leash and are addicted to the carrot (focusing on those two things aids to the narrow perspective of the slave) and the kings as they cannot envision a society where we all have an equal shot at life. That’s where we, the Free, come into place. It is our moral duty to help free the slaves from their shackles and to help those holding the slaves hostage too! As contradictory as it sounds, many slaveowners are unhappy, after all, how to enjoy that what others yield but you didn’t create?

I’m optimistic about the political feasibility, especially after the next Great Depression hits. What do you think about Andrew Yang for president of America in 2020?

Politics was, is and always will be a charade, panem et circense, for The Mentally Poor (this is what Jacques Hamner’s 7th book is going to be about, the unfulfilled 99%, the slaves of our human existence and their mental process). I don’t think about anyone but myself, nor do I concern myself with contemporary politics, my mental energy is too valuable for that.

Fair point. Changing gears a bit, what is your current goal? How are you spending your time?

Writing as much as possible and promoting the ideals of the individual. I want every human being on this planet to be able to decide, of their own volition, whether to work for or against society. From society’s perspective, I wish to create as many “bad”, “selfish”, “narcissistic” people as I possibly can, but from my point of view, I’m giving humans their God given right which was taken from them, the right of choice.

So your modus operandi seems to be spreading your ideas which costs virtually nothing these days thanks to the internet and computers. Does obtaining more money/status/traveling/etc concern you at all?

Unfortunately, they do. They have to, as the mentally poor, on one hand, reject these material goods as something vain and narcissistic yet on the other hand, they are so strapped for cash that their own existence is threatened. They are ‘bipolar’ when it comes to the fulfillment of their needs and so they bow to the Kardashians of this world, while spitting on them at the same time. What I’m trying to say, in order to game the system, I will be forced to play the system, to reach it’s peak, it’s plateau and then, it will all come crashing downwards. Well, except for traveling. I traveled yet I don’t find it fulfilling. If I can extract food, sex, friendships and social status from my environment, why seek more elsewhere?

Do you think society at large is on a general upward or downward trend?

Technologically speaking, we’re doing great! Spiritually, believe it or not, we have devolved over the centuries, i.e. our philosophies didn’t change much but the amount of humans present multiplied by a lot and the system that worked for millennia now is reaching its death throes.

Are you pessimistic about the near-future of the world? Moreover, what about your own life?

I’m very optimistic about the future as I see myself as someone, given the mentality I allow myself to harbor, that can fundamentally change the way humans view their own lives and this mortal plane. I’m happy with my own life so long I do the things that fulfill me and as I do do them, I’m happy and that happiness allows me to be an artist, to create, to mold, to change.

Right on. If I think of any other insightful questions I’ll be sure to get back in touch. Any parting thoughts?

Find meaning within you, however retarded it may seem to the outside. If your goal is to, I don’t know, change the way the color red is called, I say, go for it! You never know what experiences such an adventure is to behold and where your mind will take you while on the voyage, in the quest against society’s sickness of thought and for You. You will be surprised by your own mental strength once you stop carrying dead weight around you, that being anyone but yourself, your own name and surname, Jacques Hamner.