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mircea_popescu: ~only correct way
to understand post-cold-war government is as a public funded
term paper mill.
there's a bunch of people writing
the papers and a bunch of nominally designated "students" "turning
their work in".
mircea_popescu: coupla women, not really secretaries/receptionists, not really subsecretaries of state.
the forklifts of government, doing
the actual paper pushing. prolly in
their 30s when
they met, 30 years ago. eventually, gotta quit
to hang out with
the dogs / grandkids.
mircea_popescu: reason contract ended prolly was
those finally retired.
mircea_popescu: something like
that.
though i expect
they had a coupla people specially for interfacing with him.
mircea_popescu: from
the little actual i've seen, dude's just a very serious engineer
type of
the 70s, entirely unequipped
to deal with
the metrosexual fucktards of
the 90s
mircea_popescu: apparently surest fire way
to obscurity is
to properly document your hardware.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't so much solved as
the producer documented it, isn't it.
mircea_popescu: "she spends
two hours each weekday poledancing at various clubs and her hymen's intact". rly ?
mircea_popescu: oh, don't
tell me, "we will not make payments
to non 1-led addresses" hurt
the butt quite
THAT much did it ?
mircea_popescu: o wow,
this is like, usg foreign policy done by
the guys
they stole it from, so
therefore ILLEGITIMATE OMYGERD!
phf: fwiw i never did experience
that whole formulaic writing
thing (though i know
there were all kinds of other cases of "tattoos for
the mind"), my russian/literature/foreign literature classes were brutal, i still have nightmares of cramming poetry last moment, 2-3 hours essay sessions
that never seem
to end,
the
three giant Yuri Lotman books
mircea_popescu: hey, i recall when
this was being discussed on
trilema in
the future
tense! what was it, coupla years ago ?
mircea_popescu: take pet along, only feed her
that day if you're happy with
teh results. can't possibly miss, srsly nao.
mircea_popescu: eh, you buy
tickets, you land at airport, you go
to hotel and you chat up
the clerk. find out where
the university is, go
there, hang out in
the cafeteria, offer
to buy girls drinks / hire one
to show you around.
mircea_popescu: well, you can always undertake
two week vacation in ro, go northwest,
the whores will be recognizably ukrainian and certainly friendly.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-07 04:28 mircea_popescu: like, say,
the vacation page ? wit hthe "goodbye so and so landmark" closer sentence ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. items who aim
to ask questions but can't answer questions are not yet ready for peopledom.
mircea_popescu: i suppose
the moral being, we're going
to see ever more waiters who read
the log for i-log-ical purposes in
teh futures. and,
the imbecile (aka narcissist in ballas'
terminology) being more dedicated
to
the preservation of
the malfunctioning "self" he already has,
they'll just run off
the moment
that dun work,
to either
try [the same stupid shit] again later or not dare
to
try again [ie, proclaim some sort of incomprehensible
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that's kinda
the
thing,
they self-flatteringly imagine i ended up here cuz i fell from a pot, not because i can see
through
them like so much glass beads.
mircea_popescu: ie,
there are waiters who overheard enough in bits and pieces from
the intellectual's disputes
that
they can overwhelm an university professor, especially if unprepared.
mircea_popescu: the other moo moo strat, since we're doing moo moo strats, is, of course,
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-07#1694702 : spend a little
time
trying
to follow a particular line into some detail,
then "totally overwhelm" your betters by pointed questions. cuz you know,
they
totally don't outthink you on a regular basis.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: necessary corollary of "people can have ideas". of course, "people" can't, but
that's
too advanced for
the prostitextuate.
mircea_popescu: "better own 100% of obscure nonsense
than ~0% of reasonable statement" because "you never know" etc.
mircea_popescu: "oh,
there's 5bn
things
that could be said and 3bn moo moos saying
things, well, i'll be better served
to "differentiate" myself from
the herd by saying
things according
to how few others are saying
them,
than according
to
the
things said"
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's
the usual strategy of
the cattle, discussed previously in
teh logs.
mircea_popescu: this doesn't work, of course, but he'll whine loudly about
the unfairness of it all.
mircea_popescu: i don't suppose either him or bitcoin or anything else
talked about is related
to
the piece.
the whole item is matt levine being his usual judische insolence self, whereby he imagines he can
talk out his ass and he won't hang for it because "someone had
to say
the alternative
thing".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform other
than
the butthurt of matt levine, who apparently holds
the irrational impacted belief
that usg matters/has a future against all possibnle evidence, what about
that piece ?
mircea_popescu: i'm not enough of an expert on stupid-theatre
to be able
to say if
this is fair or not
to
teh kabuki.
mircea_popescu: maybe, if
that's what you mean by it. i always interpreted it
to mean "fixed form resulting
through exhaustion of alternative by an ancient, methodical culture". whereas generally fixed form is arbitrary.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's
the difference : "bad guy gets it (death)" and "woman gets it in
the end (cock)" are fixed structure,
they create
the usian fictional narrative.
mircea_popescu: fixed structure is a cognitive necessity, from
the kuhn-popper
theory of paradigma-based research
throughout
the actual practice of scholastics all
the way
to a 10yos fixed structure "composition"
a111: Logged on 2017-08-07 04:27 mircea_popescu: phf did you live
through soviet long enough
to know
the 10yo fixed-form composition ?
mircea_popescu: in other news : cutting up a fresh vanilla bean and leaving
the cuttings
to sit under costa rican rum qs in a brown glass bottle results after a week or so in such an incredible vanilla
tincture as
the senses can scarcely believe.