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mircea_popescu: you can run a bunch of tv specials about "ratcism", they're still gonna do exactly what they did before
mircea_popescu: yes. you can surveillance them until you fall over, they're gonna do whatever they did before.
mircea_popescu: problem is rats are a lot smarter than their human counterparts. they're immune.
mircea_popescu: except nobody calls them that. live from SOCIAL MEDIA.
mircea_popescu: or, if you prefer, a transcript of the chicken coop session on "things and the world"
mircea_popescu: sure gramps. early history called, they need you back there three seconds after the big bang.
mircea_popescu: "we're all equal and equally the same and thus therefore clearly - either the H binds to another H or to the end of a C or to something wait, C doesn't exist. EVERYONE HAS ONE VALENCE AND THE WORLD IS MADE OF HYDROGEN"
mircea_popescu: and why not ? "because it wouldn't be fair to the working man" ?
mircea_popescu: No they weren't. Leaving aside morality, cheating on your wife means that you haven't fully connected to her, or have lost some of that connection. You don't have to be Don Draper to pull that off. "Well, I want to be as suave as he is, I want to pick up girls like he can." It's the same disconnectedness. You could do it, too, then you'll lose the ability to be deeply connected to someone. You can't do both sim
mircea_popescu: "But I want to be a ladies man like Don Draper. Back then it was easier, because affairs were more acceptable."
mircea_popescu: "In PGP and GnuPG, the public-key cipher is probably the weaker of the pair. Fortunately, however, if an attacker could decrypt a session key it would only be useful for reading the one message encrypted with that session key. The attacker would have to start over and decrypt another session key in order to read any other message."
mircea_popescu: is the guy notable other than "forced youtube to undo a ban" ?
mircea_popescu: who even knows. my lack of time/patience for teh youtube is certainly to my detriment
mircea_popescu: he could have a ball ravishing teenagers. in fact, possibly the blog hiatus is the direct result of his having figured this out
mircea_popescu: the meaning of "red lines" to be found in the article previous to the quote.
mircea_popescu: "How the hell come she can't see through this poser?" She does see through it, you don't. She sees something fake, then something "real" underneath, and falls for him; you see something fake, stop there, and hate him.
mircea_popescu: Those who don't come to it from exactly the right perspective are infuriated, "this guy is a douchebag!" You think you see something more real than she does, but you aren't supposed to see more deeply-- she is. You are supposed to be infuriated-- that's why she looks more deeply. She doesn't like him, she likes what liking him says about her. She likes what your hating him says about her.
mircea_popescu: If you are tempted to look more deeply (if you're watching it, it's for you)-- like the smitten girl does-- you'd see this appearance first, then through it: "if you got to know him, you'd see he's really a...!" And then you'd pat yourself on the back for having intellectual courage to not judge by appearances! But you've been fooled by the commercial art illusion, thinking that because you saw through the illusion, th
mircea_popescu: He's dressing himself in red lines, tempting you to see if they're real or not.
mircea_popescu: oh, i didn;t eat it there. i was just mixing it as we had the discussion.
mircea_popescu: exactly the right height. all the useful engineering cisco ever did.
mircea_popescu: i had the fucking box packed specially for a monitor lifter.
mircea_popescu: i don't need any cable where i can't see it nor anything but cable tyvm.
mircea_popescu: also lots of proprietary gunk. "stop sending docx, it is NOT USEFUL"
mircea_popescu: ie, lots of businesses still use paper archival exclusively.
mircea_popescu: not through any fault of his. it's what the text says, on account of it being written in romanian for romanians.
mircea_popescu: " what a hottie of a secretary " << no. pointedly not. what a miracleworker they employ in the front desk.
mircea_popescu: if your solution does not include cheating what even makes you think it's a solution at all!
mircea_popescu: caning. what's that even ? barely noticeable biologically.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile you don't even need much caning to get a willing slave into a sane head space.
mircea_popescu: as a result, no amount of pain suffering or violence could have matured the individual. on the contrary - it drove infantilization.
mircea_popescu: it was in fact exactly the same : an exercise in esteem engineering.
mircea_popescu: ironically, auschwitz has a LOT more in common with the "boost self esteem" version of us schools than with actual education.
mircea_popescu: but the adolescent wakes up with "i wonder what insane demands will my chosen identity put on me THIS TIME"
mircea_popescu: adolescence is not childhood. the child wakes up with what SEEMS "what shall i do to amuse himself", except to him it';s a dealdy grind.
mircea_popescu: just like that, go to school, take a job that's "not the real you", on it goes.
mircea_popescu: what franklin spoke of was a different time. a time when adulthood was unavoidable, and as such lazy people simply succumbed to the hollow form. "hey, if no kid can tell me from any other adult, why bother."
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> how is this a mistake? << see there. i don't say such.
mircea_popescu: quite. and how much of one's passion with rare keyboards is driven by a fear of this issue ?
mircea_popescu: because to the adolescent it seems like the same thing.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, individuality is not a matter of appearance.
mircea_popescu: so : we can sit right here and smoke the same cigar for different reasons altogether.
mircea_popescu: and there she is, the cat, with her smile that deserves a caning just for that. she knows what she's doing, quite exactly. so what now ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you like cohiba because it tastes good, and you're at a party and this chick you used to fuck DELIBERATELY introduces her current derp, who goes on a rant about how he loves cohiba and did you see that commercial ? maks him feel like who he really is!11
mircea_popescu: lemme see if you ever had this experience. was it ever the case that you enjoyed a product, only to be confronted with some idiot enjoying the same product for the "wrong reasons" ?
mircea_popescu: this could, apparently, be misinterpreted as a reduction of individuality. but it'd take a teen to make the mistake.
mircea_popescu: they individuate out of this, maybe, into adulthood. ironically, adults are apparently a lot more similar than the adolsecents are.
mircea_popescu: the big secret being that juveniles have no soul. they're not individuals, they're the zerg creep.
mircea_popescu: the irony here, true, unadorned irony of the greek sort, is that the champion of the faux, out of a misguided desire for authenticity metastasized out of his own problems with the faux and handles thereof, stuck to the infantile version instead of individuating into the adult.