Lay down and rot

Hikikomori's and NEET's are most likely to LDAR...

LDAR (Lay Down And Rot; or 'lie" down in case of an imperative) is the state of resignation and withdrawal from striving after success and accomplishment: You instead decide to quite literally do nothing 'productive', after concluding it's over.

This occurs for Incels because they feel their socioeconomic or physiological traits are immutable, or because often there are very few, if any sexual rewards nowadays for moderate social success. It is sometimes synonymous with slothing.

The term is widely used in Incel, NEET, and Hikikomori forums. Blackpillers also particularly like to use the term to describe their own situation after reaching a point of fatalism born from sexual in-opportunity among other things.

China's Lying Flat (躺平) Movement

China is currently promoting the "996" movement, with the chief goal of having a 12-hour work day, 6 days a week (which mirror western Hustle Culture). Since 2020, this led to the Lying Flat Movement where people only earn the minimums needed to maintain their standard of living (similar to Galting in the west). This trim on Chinese National Productivity leads to heavy censorship of the movement. This also extends to marriage and dating, where men have lost all will to reproduce when the "Three Child Policy" is effective in 2021. Meanwhile, the country is suffering form the Sow - 母豬 social trend, thus making inceldom harder to solve from purely the male end, yet regulations that applies to females have yet to be seen.

Oblomovism (Oбломовщина)

Oblomov LDARing

"Oblomovism" is a Russian cultural term used to describe a state of extreme laziness, apathy, and a lack of motivation - It can also represent a rejection of societal expectations and a preference for a life of quiet contemplation and inaction. Beyond laziness, Oblomovism also suggests fear of responsibility, anxiety about change, and a preference for the safety of dreams over risky action.

It comes from Ivan Goncharov’s 1859 Russian novel Oblomov where the protagonist is a nobleman who spends most of his life idle, lying on his couch, paralyzed by inertia. Scholars sometimes interpret Oblomov as an early example of existential inertia, a character who avoids the burden of freedom and choice by retreating.

Synopsis of 'Oblomov' (Обломов)

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a statusmaxxed wealthy but lazy landowner in St. Petersburg, spends his days Laying Down And Rotting on his couch, wrapped in his dressing gown: He avoids work, correspondence, and social obligations. Even his servant, Zakhar, mirrors his master’s sloth but keeps things running minimally. When Friends visit, Andrei Stolz (Oblomov’s energetic, practical childhood friend) urges him to live more actively.

Through Stolz, Oblomov meets Olga Sergeyevna, a cultured young foid, and she inspires him to briefly change: he becomes more active, reads, goes for walks, and even falls in love. They become engaged, but his fear of responsibility, passivity, and inability to adapt gradually resurface. Olga realizes he cannot change, and their relationship dissolves.

Oblomov retreats again into inertia, leaving the city and withdrawing from society.

Stolz then marries Olga (kinda cucked no?) while Oblomov settles into domestic comfort with Agafya Pshenitsyna, a kindly widow who takes care of him without demanding change.

Oblomov gives up on ambition entirely, living in quiet dependency. His estate is mismanaged and declines, and eventually dies relatively young, having wasted his potential through idleness. Stolz reflects on his friend’s fate, seeing him as both tragic and symbolic of a stagnant social class.

Checklist

• Are you incel?
• Are you a 1-3/10 on the decile?
• Do you earn less than $60,000 per year 2019 USD (for USA)?
• Do you have no extraordinary traits, or abilities such as extremely high IQ/creativity or exceptional strength?

If answered yes to all of those questions then you may find yourself LDARing.

Widely-acceptable LDAR Behaviors

• Browsing Incel forums
• Watching pornography
• Withdrawing from human contact
• Remaining in bed
• Video Gaming, comics, manga and Anime

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See also

• NEET
• NEETcel
• Hikikomori
• Mutation
• Behavioral sink
• Slothing
• Suffering in silence
• Acceptance