mircea_popescu: "omg my future! it is ruined!" "wtf do you think futures are, like orgasms ?" "yeah... as a matter of fact... i do!"

mircea_popescu: anyway, the us went through this thing, middle class kids worried about "their future". is that what you mean by soft power ?

mircea_popescu: if their naked slut on heels scene sucks, they suck ; if not, we can talk. that's kinda the table ante for civilisation.

mircea_popescu: i'd have wished you a heartfeltly traditional http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-07#1711142 ; but as it is what're we talking about ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: are you there ?

mircea_popescu: mats depends what you mean by "Soft power". if by soft power you mean something as seen in the graduate, or for that matter in that lulzy thing with a 19yo tom cruise pimping out de mornay & friends, ie what teh parents are doing, i'll tell you tis outright despicable.

mircea_popescu: and i've no problem whatsoever with china in the political sense. nor much clue as to actual life there, who knows, maybe they're great.

mircea_popescu: and btw : i'd like to watch a porno called "dilda das vegas".

mircea_popescu: this is the forum of the most serene republic.

mircea_popescu: for the record, it's not even clear that's false.

mircea_popescu: imagine, $icon fo all people being spared the specialness of your snowflakeitude for a whole fucking hour! THE HORROR!\

mircea_popescu: exactly. "what would you do if you were in a train compartment with einstein ?" "i'd stfu"

mircea_popescu: exactklyt that.

mircea_popescu: "randomtard could ask meaningful question to $interesting person, who could in turn give out an answer that's both a)something he'd sing and b) something redditard could decode".

mircea_popescu: "i am so and so, ask me anything". final development on the whole "we are all one" nonsense.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> the funniest bit is that it dun even need a saboteur << not one with an ama, at any rate.

mircea_popescu: well because 3rd gen is so overwhelmingly easy to fuck up.

mircea_popescu: or as ballas put it, "jobs other than science and medicine seem unreal to you"

mircea_popescu: but yes, the situation is not symmetrical -- western orcs produced mcmansion where eastern orcs produced very respectable math and literature, which is truly 2nd generation in shoes fare

mircea_popescu: separation seems to work splendidly on own power, just as soon as alternative is perceived.

mircea_popescu: but, as teh old article says, "but then again nothing in the world harder & more obdurate than the limits a brain sets for itself"

mircea_popescu: moreover, the issue is purely cultural, which is why the 1st gen in shoes keeps cropping up. trinque manifestly COULD meaningfully learn human lang once separated from his culture, as the logs bear testimony, and this is 1/1 ie 100%.

mircea_popescu: note that for all their "handed everyone their ass, flew to space" accomplishments, neither tribe is remembered today for anything.

mircea_popescu: this could have similarly been said of any of the other examples of history (the selgiuk turks, and the manchuko, readily come to mind)

mircea_popescu: and the recourse to inflation is rather plainly obvious, "we call it Joe's Principle because nobody could have possibly read Kant".

mircea_popescu: a whole cacophopnic symphony of little john smiths. what am i to do with this large collection of hardy country folk running around with their ummims and thurims ? EVEN IF THEY DO FLY TO SPACE!

mircea_popescu: they can't say anything that's worth remembering for the obvious reason that they can't read anything that's already there.

mircea_popescu: and that's a minor example. consider rothbard's utter failure to mean or matter, as sadly chronicled on trilema. yes, he's intellectually negligible, but the chief problem that renders him moot is the extreme poverty and ineptitude of his references! which is not his problem, but the 1st gen in shoes folks' problem, and the deep reason us can't and hasn't spoken in the forum of human thought.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-17#1715336 << this is very much not so, in that presence of euro buildings is still the standard by which you distinguish urban from rural agglomeration ; whereas "going to space" has managed to become the standard of nothing whatsoever. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: (the measure for "industrial civ" here used is, the type of answer to the problem of "i need three times the force". if it's "hire three times the coolies/horses/etc then pre-ind civ ; if it's "build bigger machine" it's industrial civ ; if the question not even conceptualized as such then it's not a civ, like say africa/polynesia/other subhumans)

mircea_popescu: heck, the swedes are so advanced in germansystem they don't even need money anymore!

mircea_popescu: i'm not proposing the euroidiots aren't ; but this simple fact dun make non-euros anything else.

mircea_popescu: much like the russkis, what these other marginal orcs have to show for "their great empire" is a barely functional bezzle scheme. i don't even mean the financial part, intellectually speaking the whole us can be comfortably sat down in two lines' worth of "don't say nigger and state-god will provide", which is what, somehow different from "quote marx and wait for moscow" ?

mircea_popescu: broken lightbulb temporarily sits on shelf next to working lightbulb, "oh, did you miss the time i burned so very bright it was like 1`000 lightbulbs ?!?!?" suppose i did miss it. what came of it ?

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-17#1715334 << no ; and good for them. but the problem is... and then what of it ? MAGA ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: but no, i don't think the item as described is useless. if you need a new key in less than a week / if your message lag is mostly this you've other problems to attend to.