asciilifeform: what of it is that folks who are really in a hurry to commit suicide with an optional small side dish desert of small-scale homicide are not partizans.
asciilifeform: and 'every man with spear' did not help the zulu.
asciilifeform: that's when 'prosperity' upper bound.
asciilifeform: re: the question of 'when prospered', little story. today i went again to the argentinian fella (who was thrilled that i had visited his home town) to get major work on my car. took a while, and as i always do, went to the antique shops which surround the place for miles around. and, as before, noticed that the artifacts are chronologically upper-bounded around 1955.
asciilifeform: (afaik evola is only available in original it and in ru)☟︎
asciilifeform: speaking of, mircea_popescu fan of j. evola ?
asciilifeform: jurov: perhaps, at the latest, when it feasted on the ashes of the remaining planet it burned in the world wars ?
asciilifeform: say he had beaten his brains out against the glass, while attempting escape. while in a sense this is 'honour', what has mouse accomplished ?
asciilifeform: perhaps best comparison is to the mouse in the jar
asciilifeform is labouring under a very palpable feeling of failing to get his teeth around the enigma here
asciilifeform: 'the scum must die' is an example of an actionable doctrine
asciilifeform: they have concrete aims, however simplistic
asciilifeform: even the 'jihad' folks don't work this way
asciilifeform: i'm balking at the idea that the 'how' is this mystical thing that one cannot even attempt to apprehend
asciilifeform is grasping for so much as a hint of what works in this context..
asciilifeform: job of partizan, however, is not simply to 'die with honour', but take some of the scum with him to hell
asciilifeform: so we have 'partizan died for the motherland' situation.
asciilifeform: i'd like to believe that 'happened.' but want to know ~how~. e.g., are there fewer usg cops today than last week? is the fed printing fewer usd ? what, precisely, is this mark.
asciilifeform digs for the original link / stats / corpse count
asciilifeform: but what permanent dent did he make in anything?
asciilifeform: respectable perhaps in the chechen 'died a good death' sense
asciilifeform: or, on other end of the spectrum, 'isis' et al - also run by & for tards (and usg stooges)
asciilifeform: (there is an apocryphal story where feynman was invited to spoodge into william shockley's 'sperm bank of genius.' and he said 'you have the wrong address! go call my father'☟︎
asciilifeform: 'regression to the mean' ~is~ a thing
asciilifeform: incidentally, 'children of special people' ~do~ tend towards 'indistinct mass.' yes, dynasties of thinking folks existed, e.g., the bernoulis, etc. but most are more like feynman's daughter
asciilifeform ran into a number of 'home school' veterans at uni. did not notice anything peculiar about them as people, neither for better or worse.
asciilifeform: ditto for public schooling vs whatever other kind
asciilifeform: in the past, there was a great deal of noise esp. in usa re: how slum children, in their rookeries, were the way they were solely on account of lead poisoning. well, where is the lead now? and how are the rookeries ?
asciilifeform: phun phakt: 'scheme' programming language has its 'call-with-current-continuation', perhaps the oddest and 'most generic' control structure known, which takes the current place in execution and turns it into an assignable (yes) closure (i.e. callable function!) -- typically it is implemented using setjmp().☟︎
asciilifeform: compiler won't let you cross stack frames, though
asciilifeform: (it rubs the reader's face in the fact that all c control structures translate into jumps, which are quite the same as the much-maligned 'goto')
