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asciilifeform: speaking of 'do what have to do!' , asciilifeform gotta fix a leaking pipe, bbl.
asciilifeform: grr wrong select tho
mircea_popescu: whether "you think it'll work" or not makes zero the fuck difference.
mircea_popescu: you do what you have to do.
mircea_popescu: the precondition to action is NOT some sort of evaluation whereby action's salutary, or effectual.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, the failure in this thinking is that "smart boi wants to use his smarts in war".
mircea_popescu: moterfucker -- beat them both twice.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu actually had piece on this subj. where mentioned 'dragon'. i.e. at some pt the lamer's task becomes factually impossible, after tall enuff pile of fuckup
mircea_popescu: this slippery slope of idiocy, "i really should have beaten the wife, but since i haven't, can't now beat daughter".
mircea_popescu: the question is WHY, not in their terms but in mine, as the onl ypermisible terms. not "why does the moron decide to misrepresent his taks as impossible", but "why did he give up"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as you said earlier, prolly similar to how phf threw in towel. i.e. 'i racked up 9 figures of stupidity bill, no way to pay'
mircea_popescu: and yes, "to give up" as the reality is disguised in-universe, in the works of fiction populating stupid heads, as "can't"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, this takes us back round to the question : why gave up ?
asciilifeform: sure as fuck worx, 1934-1953 worked a+++. but then the 'soft' folx came, and forgot how.
mircea_popescu: was alternative : goes to politburo, says "either you start hanging 10% of youth each year until they produce alternative, or else we can all hang today"
mircea_popescu: suppose i said "we can't afford to make new loggers yet again" ?
asciilifeform: d to stick with 1960s state of art while west has pdp'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re 'face derealization' / 'they gave up, why' -- i was reading not long ago about keldysh (head of sovok academy of sciences, and overall respectable figure, in charge of ~100% of calculative works for space / atomic programs etc. ) BUT at same time is the fella who undertook 'let's ditch native comp archs and copy pdp'. seems like was a checkmate, rather than 'dolchstoss', saw no working alternative , 'we can't affor
asciilifeform: aha! ty mircea_popescu , was digging for that same piece
mircea_popescu: that it does, and that is as it should be.
mircea_popescu: specifically because it puts the female herd in line, turning them from "free" to slave.
mircea_popescu: pike really was much more important instrument than commonly realised. i would say it was the first AND FOREMOST man-made tool.
mircea_popescu: then things osciallated back and forth.
mircea_popescu: and pike changed society from matriarchy to patriarchy, because provided effectual control to female wail behaviour : poking with sharpened stick.
mircea_popescu: something like pantsuitism started in stone age, then man discovered pike
asciilifeform: and attempts to copy same
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought it started in stone age, where 'fair', i.e. can't effectively make a usable-later pile of ~anyffin
mircea_popescu: there wasn't a socialism before all that ; and there won't be a socialism in the future.
mircea_popescu: but, the birth of "altruism" is the red thread in the whole pile of idiotic italian nonsense : mid 1800s is where it all starts.
mircea_popescu: and in the soviets, who copied it from the germans they defeated.
mircea_popescu: in the us through the italian diaspora, producing roosevelt and his nonsense, "bipartisan state" bla bla.
mircea_popescu: this fruited among the lesser barbarians in three places : in germany through cultural osmosis, producing the thing copied after musolini
mircea_popescu: to "fix" this by their own lights, they came up with a wad of poisonous inept bullshit, to their best estimation perfectly engineered to end -- not the world, not the need of the world to be managed, but the ~possibility of managing it~, in-universe fantastically called "habsburg rule'/
mircea_popescu: because they're "great people" in the sense of latins, 2k years prior, had been. so their team already won, why should they have to do work! REALITY IS UNFAIR!!!
mircea_popescu: the unfairness of this situation wasn't, mind, that they were imbeciles, but that ~it is unfair~ that ~THINGS SHOULD BE SO~!!!!
mircea_popescu: being idle imbecile fuckwits and regrettably still around as well they shouldnt', the italians deeply resented this situation, where the austrians administered them well as slaves, whereas they themselves couldn't, on their own strength, as much as organize a cup of coffee
mircea_popescu: the italians were being administered by the house of habsburg, because they were idle imbecile fuckwits throughout their existence.
mircea_popescu: here's the story, as retold by yours truly :
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: plox to colour in the picture -- who were 1, 2, 3 ?
mircea_popescu: which is why the sun reference. there's no possible way the hydrogen atoms "could organize themselves" to do anything to or about the brown dwarf future. it's foretold, and will be exectued exactly at foretold, millions of years hence.
mircea_popescu: its failure therefore, to my eye, is not in any sense meaningful, there's no zoon involved. it's pure and simple bion, a matter of fermentation rather than politics.
mircea_popescu: but, to round it off : the substantial difference between 2nd socialism and 3rd socialism is that 2nd ~actually had enough substance~ to constitute something someone could give up ~on~.
BingoBoingo: Or more, the Qntra text
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's in the link
BingoBoingo: As DNC high elder Gabbard declared Clinton's brand too toxic to try rigging the game around. Was shunned. Then TMSR broke DNC couple months later.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lol! reminds of 'britain-poland mutual defense treaty' of 1930s
mircea_popescu: the thing it gave up on was garbage collected through whatever method. but the causative agent was THAT GIVING UP.
mircea_popescu: anyway, far from "oh, kgb sold off sovok", the fundamental problem was simply that soviet man ~gave up~.
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/09/usg-and-israel-moving-towards-mutual-defense-treaty-as-hawks-continue-pushing-to-bomb-iran/ << Qntra -- USG And Israel Moving Towards "Mutual Defense" Treaty As Hawks Continue Pushing To Bomb Iran
asciilifeform will admit that he does not follow the muppetshow in realtime
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, it's not clear to me what you're asking above ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose what happened to all of them is the same thing : one day their derealization came home to roost, and they were so alienated from their own existence, they hadn't actually prepared for the event.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'gave up' in '70s, when the 'party elite' sys solidified into an obviously hereditary aristocracy (populated by not esp. bright folx, at that)
mircea_popescu: the flow of history doth in fact inform and ground the view, however. "what happened to phf ?!" is not so important about the one tard ; but rather, instructive as to the failure mode of a sort of mind.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Tried to de-Clintonize too soon. The losers have to hate.
mircea_popescu: i should prolly have a better link, there's somewhere in the logs where we discuss this mystery, of why and wherefore soviet thinking man simply laid over and gave up in the 80s.
snsabot: Logged on 2018-12-01 15:45:29 mircea_popescu: the "consummer affair" is the gringo's exact version of the "thinking man gave up", coming 2 decades later. (ie, next generation of ustards copied prev generation of soviets. like they always do, btw)
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-17 14:24:33 asciilifeform: '91 was simply culmination of this process, when pretense fell away.
mircea_popescu: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-17#1936920 << the problenm with this retelling is that it describes the production of the corpse from the pov of gut bacteria. superficially this may even stand, but it's uncausative imo. i'm still not clear why exactly su intellectually imploded
BingoBoingo: She was the innerest of inner circles
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-17 14:44:51 mircea_popescu: anyway, to make the point for the 9`000th time in the general, because unlike the previous 8`999th times prior, each exactly proven correct and each exactly disavowed the very next morning, THERE IS NOTHING CONTROLLED ABOUT INCA WORLD.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-17 14:54:41 BingoBoingo: Anyways, the state of the US left is such that the ONE anti-war candidate did not make the latest round of primary debates. Tusli Gabbard: veteran, active reservist, and woman of color can't consistently poll over 2% enough to get on stage
mircea_popescu: same thing with being in the pantsuit, cry yourserlf to sleep as you will each night, the perception of mp grinning's still always there
mircea_popescu: the problem with being on heroin is that you never really escape the inkling of actual reality.
mircea_popescu: they know, they know.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> we fucked her in all the holes last time, leaving her a broken heap. and she was already fucking old. << How could the derealized know?
mircea_popescu: there's... nothing there, demented morons collecting garbage.
mircea_popescu: we fucked her in all the holes last time, leaving her a broken heap. and she was already fucking old.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-17 13:57:22 BingoBoingo: And so they gotta purge the accesory organs first. Just *maybe* that way they can save their Cintonium core.
mircea_popescu: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-17#1936913 << the amusing part being that core's not objectively worth saving.
mircea_popescu: not that THAT moron didn't hold the same laughable handshake "beliefs".
mircea_popescu: i thought was some other
BingoBoingo: That the DNC is dead doesn't mean surviving hangers on won't try to put on a show
mircea_popescu can't be arsed to find the line, but w/e, was a one day wonder, "knows shit" in his own opinion retard.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: There's two folks running against trump in the Coke primary, none have gravity
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-17 13:55:10 asciilifeform: ( why nao cement -- i have nfi. it aint as if anyffin was ever likely to rise outta that grave. )
mircea_popescu: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-17#1936911 << strictly because when some pantsuit came in here to derp about how "stallman is respectable" he was laughed out
asciilifeform: so dun even have to be dnc-flavoured muppet
asciilifeform: iirc there was talk of ~rnc~ running sumbody against trump
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ghostships eventually touch land one final time. Whether the land is seafloor or shore depends
mircea_popescu: they'll just sit and whine at unfairness of elections in general, "why should there be candidates"
mircea_popescu: looking at the matter from an in-universe fiction perspective, how the fuck's the collection of nobodies gonna enact identity ? they can't get behind any of themselves, they're all scum without exception as paradigmatic criteria.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, i can't conceive how the pantsuit will manage to get a candidate. for one thing, trump did in fact end the dnc, as discussed in the logs.
mircea_popescu: it's also a red herring : it's generally the orphans that rule. at the very least since modern era, because fathers suck balls.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, the state of the US left is such that the ONE anti-war candidate did not make the latest round of primary debates. Tusli Gabbard: veteran, active reservist, and woman of color can't consistently poll over 2% enough to get on stage
mircea_popescu: in general, the "sons of the gulag" will rule rather than the "sons of red guard" because both oppression and posterity are generally the lot of the more numerous.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-17 13:45:46 asciilifeform: 'old age & treachery beat youth & vigour erry time' or how did it go.
mircea_popescu: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-17#1936901 << this is bizarre considering stalin was younger than lenin and you're discussing sons of people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, that is a similarity without substance, much like saying "dentist and opera writer similar, they ask others to vocalize"
BingoBoingo: As the boomers used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30" is how they keep the purges rolling
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-17 13:48:51 asciilifeform: this being said -- will be interesting to see which 'bob beck' is crowned as 'new rms'.
mircea_popescu: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-17#1936902 << none. there's, as BingoBoingo well points out, nothing left to crown over.
asciilifeform: similar in the 'look at us, we're the countercultural vaguard, overthrowing old farts!111' crapola.
mircea_popescu: it's unclear in what similar. those people were getting laid.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: seems to be very similar to what during vietnam, aha
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-17 13:39:40 asciilifeform: cattle stampeding (all the way into meat plant conveyor) aint 'cattle running the farm', the farm is still a farm and farmer is still the farmer, and meat still grown for market.
mircea_popescu: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-17#1936897 << nothing like this has happened to the zone since at latest vietnam war time.
mircea_popescu: well, conceivable we search better once we get the historical bundle, afaik this is prior to your logs ?
asciilifeform: aha, around that time
snsabot: Logged on 2019-06-02 06:48:29 a111: Logged on 2015-04-29 16:24 mod6: asciilifeform: I'm just trying to put together the monthy address; In one to three sentences cna you help me summarize what is going on with glibc/libnss?