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mircea_popescu: rly ? cuz what, he had a martha stewart
type show on
tv ?
mircea_popescu: i seem
to recall every single wall jumper net drain on puyblic chest for whole life.
mircea_popescu: i don't
think
this subject of your nostalgia ever existed outside
the vhs world. it's like muller.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> d00d was in no sense in control
tho << Most bureaucrats aren't
fromloper: ascii I have been reading logs when i relevant, also
Trilema site.
fromloper: Any discussion about btc or bch
today?
mircea_popescu: well in
this sense whole dnc long defected
to china, moved desperately
to prevent ru-us rapproachment back in
the early days of 2016 when sitll possible.
fromloper: This is however more pleasing
to my eyes
than
the other black and green one
fromloper: Somehow manage
to get here by clicking on contact.
mircea_popescu: what exactly could you possibly use one for ? not like
they even have
the usual value of "stolen documents", i guarantee you if you examed
the O-paygrade you'd find not a single soul as well informed as
the famous contractor/defector.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can't
think of a competent anyone in
the whole us army/navy/airforce brass.
mircea_popescu: buncha defectors since korean war
to china, but ... not nearly
the same interest.
mircea_popescu: it's not common for eg greeks or italians
to go crazy over "the beatles",
they simply make a local band like
that and
that's it.
mircea_popescu: just so ustards are going
to buy pacepa's nonsensical books.
mircea_popescu: you'\re still missing
the important point. usg is looking for a brand
to show its large citizenry. much like every attempt
to hold a
tech fconference in argentina degenerates into a bunch of local
tards speaking/stepping over each other
to blather meaninglessly in
the hope of
thereby attaining a certificate of humanhood from
the foreigners,
mircea_popescu: the problem with
this is
that soviet military man valuable ; chinese valuable ; romanian evidently valuable. what value does us
tard bring ?
mircea_popescu: not usually advertised, but
the expat community large indeed.
mircea_popescu: nah. it's already very much siberia as far as
they're concerned.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-14 21:40 mircea_popescu: very much it. extremely easy
to defeat ustardation : just say no. it helps if you have a fully built system providing an alternative.
mircea_popescu: kinda why
the whole ww2 made him so
trotsky-sensitive,
too.
mircea_popescu: trotsky
too idiotic
to have stalin killed back when he could.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in
the long run, stalin's internationalism proved
the
terribly wrong strategy. shoulda went with
trotsky.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, in spite of an inability
to speak in public, or
to make sense, extemporaneously or not, ceausescu was a major player in
the status quo of 70s and 80s.
that whole "don't mix into
the affairs of others", very strong nationalism, managed
to paralyze
the us-owned and hosted un for
two decafdes.
a111: Logged on 2014-07-28 19:19 asciilifeform: 'Learn not
to participate -
to
the point of utter impossibility of meeting
the enemy 'half-way' - and you will see
that inside
there lay a very useful mindfuck: in learning
to 'nonparticipate,' in fact you drew out your *will* from its scabbard -
to which it seemed so securely riveted by your upbringing.
The appearance of *your will* changes everything and forever. With your own will slipped into your boot knife
mircea_popescu: very much it. extremely easy
to defeat ustardation : just say no. it helps if you have a fully built system providing an alternative.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you recall
that (uncharacteristically well written) orlov article re "power of nyet" ?
mircea_popescu: the latter needed moar size ;
the former a better ideology. evidently worked for eg china, so
there is some
tolerance.
mircea_popescu: (closed here means "without externalities" rather
than anything else)
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 22:59 asciilifeform:
this is
the fate of all 'we don't have an ideology' derps
mircea_popescu: the over-reaching all-important point is
that had
the dudes of 1985 produced an ideologically-closed system, by 1995
there'd have been a WHERE for people
to go, other
than windows.
mircea_popescu: until macrosensible nobody even in bad dreams considers
the cancer a
threat.
mircea_popescu: that final "all
the better" being
the republic part.
they failed
to construct
this system whereby extreme violence applied
to everyone else was a net positive, in and of itself, for no other reason.
mircea_popescu: and if
this
takes putting a few million instagramers on stakes, ALL
THE BETTER.
mircea_popescu: and
thereby, an ivory on every desk not a fucking windows.
mircea_popescu: the important point is
to be able
to make
the world make fucking sense against
the constant yelps of
the idiots who want
the world
to be comfortable.
mircea_popescu: there were
two groups worth
the mention during "golden age" of europe : mechants, and scholars.
the prime characteristic of either ? immune
to common law process!
mircea_popescu: but leaving
these proper statements aside -- never mind
the civilisational aspect, limit yourself
to culture.
they might've bothered
to realise
the only enemy is
the
taxpayer, moved
to limit his impact on government. exactly as
the medieval collegiate disputes flew.
mircea_popescu: ("oh, romanian gymnasts!!!" "yeah, right. you are aware none of
the girls actually wanted
to be
there, yes ?")
mircea_popescu: change college admission
to be more like arrest, for one
thing.
mircea_popescu: nope.
they drag
the local barristas into
the campus by
the hair
to be raped for a weekend at a
time.
mircea_popescu: same way
the same exact item opened cannon fire at
the "taxpayers" from atop
the walls of oxford.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nytimes also didn't "picture itself in competition with
the weird net kids". and so following, chuck e cheese dude's "ipad restaurant" didn't see itself in competition with phones. "it's a restaurant". no it's not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the matter was fluid in 1980. could have been.