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mircea_popescu: Instead of trying to stop playing a role-- again, a move whose aim is your happiness-- try playing a different role whose aim is someone else's happiness. Why not play the part of the happy husband of three kids?"
mircea_popescu: "I feel like I am playing a part, that I'm in a role. It doesn't feel real."
mircea_popescu: "worms eat you psssh". i could have said "life goes on" for all the good that does anyone. and then I'M THE SOPHIST!!1
mircea_popescu: even in a context that is by definition constructed to not allow the modelling ?
mircea_popescu: is anything that doesn't admit a technological approach (such as say, random number generation) obscurantist claptrap ?
mircea_popescu: this is not a tool of thought, you know. it's a tool of grantsmanship.
mircea_popescu: wait, you actually dusted off the phylosophycal zombye ?! woot.
mircea_popescu: "i fear not my own death for when it is, i am no longer, and while i am, it isn't."
mircea_popescu: we kinda don't laugh when the only result of the stupid brain is more stupid.
mircea_popescu: we laugh when the only result of sponsored "scientific studies" is that they need more studies (ie, more sponsorship)
mircea_popescu: the problem is that well, cutting the knife with the very knife in question.
mircea_popescu: a healhy erect cock also looks like death to a good half of fifteen year old brides.
mircea_popescu: yes, young people you can straighten out whether they want to or not.
mircea_popescu: yeah well. so now you can look upon teh priors as such.
mircea_popescu: i diagnosed the patient's evaluatory mechanism as terminated.
mircea_popescu: also happens to be how various nuts end up at the doctor. "what i do doesn't work" "don't do that" "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!??!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: the problem with diseased mental states is that THEY ARE IMPRODUCTIVE.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with diseased mental states is not that they don't have their own, often very well drawn out, self-consistent "logic".
mircea_popescu: i wonder if one could make money with a new-age-y brand of "swarovki" crystals that you... personalize.
mircea_popescu: certainly no vagina. thinking of this... i wonder how vaginal diamond polishing would work.
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, the problem is the broken brain that fails to comprehend how spoons work is also unsurprisingly going to incorrectly evaluate suicide as an option.
mircea_popescu: the case here is, schmuck : when i drink coffee, my eye hurts. commander : take the spoon out of cup before driniking. schmuck : i would rather kill myself.
mircea_popescu: no, see, it is not your job to contribute anything intellectually to this.
mircea_popescu: five or so generations out he might even have reached humanity.
mircea_popescu: no, that's exactly what happens. his worthless existence is forfeit, but he'll hopefully have some kids a little less retarded than him
mircea_popescu: forget about it. go up to every woman over 50 you run into, kneel before her, kiss her shoes, beg her to give you something to do. explain that you have made such a mess of your life, this is actually the only sane avenue out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so what exactly is the start situation, 25 derp with 100k in college debt, no skills, no resources, no social net, in the middle of a shitland like the us ?
mircea_popescu: so yes, you're right : the idiot-poor imagine that the source of their misfortune is the malfeasance of a ~particular~ event, rather than the large clump of shit they carry around on their shoulders.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and fire as a class has not removed the option of keeping the bulk of your skin.
mircea_popescu: you have to have deals between them to allow each to get what he wants.
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : at the time the sale completed you didn't know who is pulling the dud. they thought they got equal value.
mircea_popescu: or moreover, perhaps, but i don't think you have the right idea.
mircea_popescu: "it was better". i'm sure. until it is and all you can think of is how to trade dad's old house for two shiny new ipads and a van.
mircea_popescu: fine, so you did without this, and that. now you do without this other and that other. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, we did without", is the answer, if the guy;'s not too much of an intellectual coward and the matter's even considered.
mircea_popescu: yes, "all the girls were happy and all the boys lalala". but did they know how to suck cock ?
mircea_popescu: i've had this discussion with old folk in romania. they have a very distinct FEEL for the old style settled village life in that space. i have a very precise understanding of it, because they're cows and i'm the young lord. nevertheless, the point stands :
mircea_popescu: for a co2 this is hard work. from each according to his complexitits.
mircea_popescu: "all my grandcarbons traded soot for gaseous form, said the co2. and given half a chance, i'll trade it right the fuck back, said he. and so it was, and had been a number of times prior.)
mircea_popescu: (note that the 0 orcs in THAT case comes from lack of differentiation. there's a lot fewer retarded children at 2 weeks than at 2 years of age. guess why ?)
mircea_popescu: your grandfather traded the pen paper and 0 orcs for this, and this is what you have.
mircea_popescu: this is moot, because you are not engaging in commerce.
mircea_popescu: they are, much like the jet, mere prongs. extensions. that require the whole story, and the whole story is that finance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. because none of the tools you hoard, your grandfather could have had.