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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.
mircea_popescu: so in plain point of fact "the guy would have gotten more in the alternative world" bla bla bla.
mircea_popescu: their" "dollars" to buy from mcdonalds and zara. money only means money in the hands of the people who can use it independently, and what someone with tens of millions to his name was in 1995, is what someone wit ha billion to his name today. i'd know.)
mircea_popescu: anyway, the main problem with that art ruling thing, getting back to it, is that revisionism in inflation is a bitch. specifically, that sale was in 2006, before the first bout of "quantitative easing". most art of all description sells today for 10x to 100x what it did two decades ago, simply because dollars today, and euros today, are scarcely worth 10 cents. (no, this does not mean nothing to the slaves that spend "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform come to think of it - he has a deeply unwarranted sense of superiority over shaw. easily the most important thinker of the period in all the english speaking lands.
mircea_popescu: (for the younger log reader, "two-and-sixpence" is not random, but a century ago made half a crown. it is used in a sense similar to "too clever by half", because that's really what half a crown is. worse than either a whole crown or no crown at all. at least in the context of this discussion)
mircea_popescu: two-and-sixpence intellectuals of "newspaper columnist:
mircea_popescu: everyone in this country got nothing but "trabajador" in his mouth, and no one's done an honest stitch of work since 1924
mircea_popescu: the "Worker's party" of stupid people and lazy people who figure hey, if worker's in the title above the door work does itself somehow
mircea_popescu: and i meant in the more homely sense, socialist-books and socialist-philosophy and what have you. not socialist-economy.
mircea_popescu: the most important film in support of sanity is a story of poor but stupid sicilian fishermen paid for by fucking stalin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and btw, thinking about it - i now realise visconti, the son of the duke visconti no less, actually is the one example of resistence through culture known. his terra trema was paid for by the communist party. and in it he delivers such a trashing to the pious frauds of the communists as has never before seen.
mircea_popescu: that part i wasnt even discussing, the "economic" side so to speak. yes, moist people are dumb and industry has no need of them, so from their perspertive industry's run by aliens. fine.
mircea_popescu: every fucking year you get at least one of the imbecile "why should i have to take an exam".
mircea_popescu: which is why i say socialism is for stupid people and the mark of their stupidity.
mircea_popescu: so it can. except the individual has the valid excuse of the sexual imperative
mircea_popescu: "So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another."
mircea_popescu: and the poor array of the marbles in his head's his problem.
mircea_popescu: a) never was this nailed, anymore than the sun rising is "nailed".
mircea_popescu: yes the bridge is falling whether 5yo cheers it on or not.
mircea_popescu: i did not say orwell was ineffectuial. i said he was stupid.
mircea_popescu: down with the shackles of this evil british empire of the blips which nevertheless creates the sort of people i like, even if i'm not actuaslly good enough to do anything in support. let's build utopia.
mircea_popescu: the thief also learns from the dubious mistake of having been caught.
mircea_popescu: what, still doesn't work ? NO MATTER!!!1 for we "learn from mistakes"
mircea_popescu: no matter! we "learn from mistakes", ie, claim that "socialism wasn't actually tried" and try again. the same thing. this time, we're printing people.,
mircea_popescu: what, you can't just print more money and the expectation to the contrary sinks early sopcialism ?
mircea_popescu: yes. because he was a socialist, which is to say an idiot, and expected socialism, which always is "externalise costs" to be able to do so forever.
mircea_popescu: why ? why, because the redditar of 1600 thought himself blessed to "waste his life away" being a "from X's circle" at the very best. whereas the redditard of 2000 thinks his life too valuable to invest in anything. he is now a thinking man, don't you know, an intellectual - everyone's an intellectual that has computers, suddenly - and a tiny little Kitschhochadel in his own right!
mircea_popescu: ver really solved, life will become simpler instead of more complex, and that the sort of pleasure one gets from finding the first primrose will loom larger than the sort of pleasure one gets from eating an ice to the tune of a Wurlitzer." thing)