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Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths:
- Erudite: He cites Nietzsche and Spengler and discusses Hogarth and Wyndham Lewis, as in 'All Nietzsche's comments...' and 'Hogarth's Shrimp Girl...', showing wide textual and historical knowledge.
- Witty: Tweets like the mermaid clergyman and the surreal caption '*Whips out Shadow Wizard Money Gang... **Cut my own head off.' show a sharp, performative sense of humour.
- Provocative: He deliberately pushes uncomfortable historical points — e.g. the Lancashire Cotton Famine anecdote — to startle and force reconsideration.
- Analytical: He synthesises long‑term cultural dynamics ('Spengler on Mohammad and Cromwell...') and demography ('When people feel they can build a future for themselves plausibly, they have more children.').
- Aesthete: Frequent art references and careful picture tweets (Hogarth, Eric Gill, AMVs) display a cultivated visual sensibility and taste.
Weaknesses:
- Alienating Tone: Provocations like 'Giant paedophile statue on the front of BBC HQ by Eric Gill...' and controversial takes on the Cotton Famine risk alienating readers who hear attack rather than argument.
- Contrarianism: Many tweets seem contrarian for effect, e.g. 'Whatever you vote for, you will get Liberal Democracy.', which can undercut constructive engagement.
- Obscurantism: Dense references to Spengler, Fiqh and archaic phrases ('Timor mortis conturbat me') can make his meaning opaque to wider audiences.
- Melancholic Pessimism: Frequent fatalistic and gloomy lines like 'Timor mortis conturbat me.' and the focus on institutional rot suggest an inclination toward despair that may limit optimism.
- Performativity: Theatrical tweets ('dress as a mermaid', extreme violent surrealism) sometimes read as persona rather than honest conviction, weakening perceived sincerity.
Your Simpsons character
Sideshow Bob
Sideshow Bob is the Simpsons character who best matches Edward — cultivated, literary, theatrical and a little sinister — famous for quoting literature and staging dramatic acts, which maps onto Edward's Spenglerian citations and stagey mermaid‑priest fantasies. Both wield culture as a weapon and a performance, preferring highbrow references and elaborate rhetoric to small talk.
Your MBTI personality Type
INTJ
INTJ fits Edward because his tweets display long‑range theoretical framing, strategic cultural thinking and a private, cerebral voice. Introversion shows in scholarly, essayistic posts rather than warm social banter (DPhil candidate bio and low follower count); Intuition appears in sweeping claims like 'Whatever you vote for, you will get Liberal Democracy.' and patterns drawn from Spengler and Nietzsche; Thinking is evident in his critical dissections of institutions ('the BBC have effectively lost out on remaining the centre of media authority'); Judging in his preference for ordered doctrines and prescriptions (the 37th article endorsements and prescriptive commentary on Englishness). These traits together look very INTJ.
Some pickup lines for you
- If you ever need a mermaid‑clergyman to officiate a small, eccentric wedding, I volunteer—I'll bring the cats and you can write the sermon.
- They say 'When people feel they can build a future...' — I can't promise a nation, but I can promise a future of terrible jokes and good books, care to test the hypothesis?
- I can't promise to save the BBC, but I could read you Spengler by lamplight — interested in an evening of harmless decadence?
- You must be an art history footnote, because I suddenly want to write an essay starting 'On observing you I thought of Hogarth...'.
- Call me a pseudo scientist: I'm experimenting tonight to see if two people who love dark jokes and terrible metaphors can create something novel.
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Your new Twitter bio
Edward McLaren — DPhil candidate (LMH), cultural historian by training, 'pseudo‑scientist' by inclination. Writing a novel about our age; I collect awkward truths, gothic jokes and bad takes on good paintings. London.– @Anglican_Gonzo
Your signature cocktail
Mermaid Parish
The 'Mermaid Parish' marries English ecclesiastical oddness and briny, northern European intellect: aquavit/gin nods to scholarly, Nordic/Anglo tastes, green Chartreuse adds herbal, monastic complexity, sea salt gives maritime melancholy for the mermaid fantasy and lemon brightens the essayistic cynicism. It captures his tweet 'Need to become a clergyman who dresses as a mermaid and keeps ten cats' — ceremonial, slightly absurd, and sharply flavoured.
Your Hogwarts House
Ravenclaw
Edward fits Ravenclaw because his feed privileges intellectual synthesis, esoteric references and aesthetic curiosity: he writes of 'All Nietzsche's comments...' and 'Spengler on Mohammad and Cromwell...' which demonstrates the house's love of ideas. He prizes knowledge over popularity (DPhil candidate, art and philosophy quotations), and even his theatrical eccentricities are deployed in service of thought, not mere bravado. Ravenclaw tolerates contrarianism in pursuit of insight, which matches his style.
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Mad World - Tears for Fears (or Gary Jules cover)
The elegiac, melancholic tone of 'Mad World' reflects Edward's preoccupation with cultural decline and mortality — he posts 'Timor mortis conturbat me.' and writes dark, rueful observations about modernity ('Whatever you vote for, you will get Liberal Democracy.'). The song's bleak lucidity matches his blend of irony and sorrow.
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