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mircea_popescu: anyway, this expectation that some sort of nativism trumps wot is not unlike that swanson's fellow's expectation to tell me "how debates are done".
mircea_popescu: but one is not required to sell, be your own oil baron.
mircea_popescu: it used to be a regular occurence in the usa that some cowboy owned some land, got it taken off his hands, buyer became oil baron
mircea_popescu: now, this was true of money, or more specifically, of currency
mircea_popescu: i don't know that ever in the history of civilisation was fine art a bearer document.
mircea_popescu: but in principle a parliament is not required to allow carrier notes in its realm.
mircea_popescu: the part where they seem to also have forgotten to tell anyone is also atrrocious
mircea_popescu: but they re-defined them, apparently, to be a sort of cheques.
mircea_popescu: well, it is an atrocity, because bills were itnended to be carrier notes.
mircea_popescu: (his field was 1800s ro painting, which incidentally is pretty rich.)
mircea_popescu: and started a career in art, specifically painting scholarship
mircea_popescu: one of my dearest teachers in college, at the time a respected doctor, retired
mircea_popescu: but your argument is flawed, which i know personally, and ill tell you why
mircea_popescu: won't take 10 years, at how condensed timeframes are now. used to be 35-50.
mircea_popescu: a) go to classical/art college ; b) go to auction house intern position ; c) write for whoever will publish about art and do a good job.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's fucking trivial to get in said wot.
mircea_popescu knows random romanian kid that sold for ~1.5mn last year
mircea_popescu: they keep pumping more kids in as they need to keep the denominations low enough.
mircea_popescu: you'll notice however that the debasement is very well controlled in the same manner fed controlls the dollar.
mircea_popescu: yes, people will consider you're abject, after this claim. but the claim was disposed not on the grounds of who you are, but on the grounds of what proof was had.
mircea_popescu: against the nonsensical vacuum of anyone ever having seen this ?
mircea_popescu: if you claim that "hilary clinton is my wife" on the grounds of "she was always in my family" should your claim stand ?
mircea_popescu: "i owned it since forever" "who ever saw it ?" "only mute people"
mircea_popescu: not anymore than there's a way for him to own plutonium.
mircea_popescu: here's the litmus : "what part of this alleged family HAPPENED IN THE FORUM ?"
mircea_popescu: guy's obviously a scammer fishing for soft support, decimation style.
mircea_popescu: now suppose i "own" the same, "in the family", but my family is a bunch of poor peasants from honduras.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: except this "through family" claim is documented through five different testations, and it so happens that my uncle was a picasso expert who wrote extensively of this picasso work his brother owned.
mircea_popescu: suppose i have a work picasso himself signed with the title "stanislav's teapot shaped head"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you understand what i mean by "in the wot" in that context ?
mircea_popescu: so i do not credit it nearly as much as you two seem to.
mircea_popescu: somehow never is anyone in that family someone with a registered key.
mircea_popescu: phf "passed through family" in that context is always a miserable cop out.
mircea_popescu: and they are responsible and shall hang for the decisions they didn't make.
mircea_popescu: understand : we have the liberty to decide tomorrow that gavin was right. or that bitcoin is stupid. or that whatever else. all this because liberty AT ALL.
mircea_popescu: and the german uprisings during calvin before that. and so on.
mircea_popescu: haha, someone took them off the leash. ww2 took them off the leash./
mircea_popescu: they are punishing me, see, like they punished the gold standard. in their own heads.
mircea_popescu: exactly like they go "oh, why should i read trilema if trilema says i'm broken"
mircea_popescu: who went by the "why should something be a standard if what it says is, we don't get any and stfu"
mircea_popescu: only i have the privilege to stand up here and say something of the kind. because i'm part of a fucking republic.
mircea_popescu: hitler could have took a stand in 1940 against antisemitism!
mircea_popescu: not by the enemy, but by the kulaks behind enemy lines.