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mircea_popescu: it IS, btw, a very fine understanding of the matter at hand. it is in things such as these that we (ie, actually cultivated folk) recognize that people like kafka, or nietzsche, or picasso or who have you actually IS a master, who just chooses to go at it differently.
mircea_popescu: the problem with kids reading above their paygrade (which is to say, the sort of typically ustardian kid who, instead of coming at it plainly and getting trampled AT HIS LOWER LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING protects his ego through "ironicity" and interacts with the written excrement of great forefathers at a time when it's safe to do so [ie, afrter the "death of the author]) is that they ALWAYS misinterpret the silences.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you've perhaps noticed me doing a credible impersonation of the old fart yest i imagine.
mircea_popescu: and boy oh boy does it require atomic dirigible ciclotrons.
mircea_popescu: i confess this is perhaps my foremost area of research at the present time
mircea_popescu: And “social goods” is how we got to be surrounded by idiots and their trinkets to begin with. << yet again and again it comes back to the name of the rose, and the old monk's hater of laughter.
mircea_popescu: you know the reason everything was steel in the 70s was because they couldn't mold plastics worth a shit yea ?
mircea_popescu also had occasion to hold one of these in house of avid gamer
mircea_popescu: And I hear Buterin just got 44,000 BTC smarter." << lol alfie massacring the priesthood.
mircea_popescu: "I never knew Pirate were a shining star of brilliance and intellectual depth…
mircea_popescu: they even have pavlovian responses to it, like a sort of "privately run bell", salivation begins.\
mircea_popescu: ascii_field aptly named, but no : for the underclass "gc" means "gift certificate"
mircea_popescu: otherwise, every time in an islamic country i was everyone's best friend on account of the magic my passport could wreak at the "special shop for foreigners".
mircea_popescu: <PeterL> Is it more insulting to offer wine to Muslims << this is not insulting to muslims. it is only insulting to 3rd generation americans who pretend mulsimity to fill the existential void.
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> Amazon GC ? <<< every time i see one of these marketed i grin. because i know about eulora, and they don't, and somehow the fact that the swarm loses out pleases me.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> I support Dr. Carson << so soes every other reasonable / educated / middle class guy i know in there. which is how i know he doesn't have a chance in hell.
mircea_popescu: also i saw a man today showering out of a bucket, in front of someone's house. this man... he had tits. and i'm not kidding around, he had a pair of d's on him no girl'd be ashamed with. except they were in the ridiculous shape of manboob
mircea_popescu: punkman is that the archive.is stuff or the imo bullshit alexa thing ?
mircea_popescu: it IS an app. seriously, you had an expectation apps work ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the thread was about you saying how nobody should have to reprocess books ; and i made the point that but for the historical accident, one wouldn't even have to process them in the first place.
mircea_popescu: "that's nice but... i'm still here. how do i catch it now ?"
mircea_popescu: the guy does, the mechanic hammers it one solidly, the camel takes off doing something between scared hare and arrow in flight
mircea_popescu: books mean a very specific PERVERSION of culture ; much like usg is a very specific perversion of governance.
mircea_popescu: and NO, idiots are not able to propagate anything without the printing press. which is why prior to it there were 5000 different idiocies summing to 0 and ever since tyhen we've been deluged in organised imbecillity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but this is the problem of the bloody book. in "removing the requirement for a wot" it creates more problems than it resolves
mircea_popescu: it is UPON THE BOOKS. they, chiefly, mostly, did this.
mircea_popescu: i just don't want the easy mistake be made where the stupidity of the children of books today is ascribed to non-bookdom.
mircea_popescu: not unless you mean "cancer is also what people are for"
mircea_popescu: or in other words, books, much like plutonium, are liable to make your stupid and your offspring monstruous. handle with care.
mircea_popescu , perfectly willing to wipe books altogether to get rid of rousseau & friendz.
mircea_popescu: o know the way. We came at last to a great hall... It was then I realized my companion hadn't been gaining strength. He had been losing what was left of his humanity."
mircea_popescu: "My companion drew in the dank, cold air of the Tomb. It seemed to... strengthen him. I stood in the doorway between Light and Dark. What was left of my sanity implored me not to enter. But that voice... was just a whisper now. As we worked our way down, deeper and deeper into the Crypt, I began to see a change in my companion. He seemed to be gaining strength. I could hardly see in the gloom, but my companion seemed t
mircea_popescu: just for as long as you understand they're tombs. you don't belong there.
mircea_popescu: do you need all the ars longa you don't currently have ?