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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 ?
mircea_popescu: what barbarian apostasy is this, the talisman of book ?
mircea_popescu: not like anyone invented a substitute for actually re-derivign the whole group theory IN YOUR HEAD as part of "grokking" it.
mircea_popescu: i expect you to be happy that your life ends before it.
mircea_popescu: to put it another way, if you think the SCANNING is time consuming you have nfi.
mircea_popescu: (i lie, i never read the actual book, it was online or it wouldn't have existed.)
mircea_popescu: and im not linking to the book. because, elementary, can't. because IT is fucking islam.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ill be sure to recall this if we dispute computers in the future :)
mircea_popescu: it is culturally irrelevant now, because i expect my text searchable and my lines logged and indexed and so forth.
mircea_popescu: kinda why/how that "ustards keep rebranding things" article came about. the comment in the house of mp was "check these idiots out, like the second coming of some castrated soviets"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, it was gauss'. the romanians sat omn the sidelines poking fun at the russians.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, "america" (the ideal construct, that never really existed) SCANNED the fucking europe books.
mircea_popescu: they get culturally absorbed. the price is complete and total loss of identity.
mircea_popescu: this is important. the defeated tribe does not get to live on through "scanning".
mircea_popescu: i'm not scanning fucking accra idols, either. i piss on them instead. they make fine urinals, for a very good reason.
mircea_popescu: unless they come back out from the graves and make books matter again, they get burried with them.
mircea_popescu: they lost. i didn't tell them to lose. they did it all on their own.
mircea_popescu: either retell the books you care about or let them die.
mircea_popescu: same exact fucking thing with the books : they belong to a defeated people.
mircea_popescu: ie, there, "it's not the job of the state to protect the cultural patrimony OF INDIVIDUALS and their clans ; if those individuals and clans are so degenerate, bankrupt and chlorotioc as to no longer be able to protect their heritage, let the worms havce it. no, not even for comunist metaphisics ; no, the property of x isn't "ours", no x's history isn't "ours". let them uphold it or let it die.
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