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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)
mircea_popescu: incidentally, even though modern pigments and computers and what have you, we're not being deluged in fine art, as "you'd expect" (if you were say orwell or some other dumb schmuck with the If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him? I have always suspected that if our economic and political problems are e
mircea_popescu: it means this 27 yo man that is indistinguishable from an 11 yo girl.
mircea_popescu: does not even agree with "tards" to any degree. yes they sound like monkeys. this is not retarded for their age, healthy 17 yo boys sound like that.
mircea_popescu: see, these kids is the fundamental reason a) ru young women are well fucked (well means more than just a lot) and b) the chechens aren't isis.
mircea_popescu: 325 views ? "obligatory" ? is this like... made by your gf's younger brother or something ? howdja find it
mircea_popescu: yes, they were on my feet. they have cells descuamated off me even.
mircea_popescu: and whjen they gave up their random approach, they came up with the kv, an overengineered useless pos.
mircea_popescu: on the practical side, they both WORKED, if one's tolerant with the concept. soviet law maintained order in a larger thing than the us, better than the us managed.
mircea_popescu: they're both equally ridiculous things, for the same exact reason : made "as best we could" by the russians of the time, who were peasants not lawmakers or tank makers. they have all the qualities of chinese farm steel.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, no opium smoker bangs 30 women a day even for two days straight,
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 see "la terra trema". think that the film was made in the 1950s by using RANDOM LOCALS
mircea_popescu: wheresoever that place is, whosoever sits in it, has the same twin problem no matter what.
mircea_popescu: well look, you agree with the broad idea that no man made thing may endure without a place the buck stops ?
mircea_popescu: this does not at all translate into civil and criminal
mircea_popescu: but you're familiar with the roman, and originally greek notions of "broke the laws of men and gods" yes ?
mircea_popescu: you do this because you don't recognise the fundamental tension, and so examples in one line cloud your estimation of the other.
mircea_popescu: roman practice suffered the tension, but also made it amply abundant
mircea_popescu: the other's a more fundamental type of dispute, you could stilisize as "between man and god".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. vaguely speaking, one's a contest among the crowd of boys. "everyone wants to be the one at the wheel, so who shall ?"
mircea_popescu: but honestly, Visconti is probably the best dirctor that ever lived.
mircea_popescu: or how shall i put this, there are two types of question justice answers.
mircea_popescu: you have a strange equivocation of power an' legitimacy going on there, asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: nonono. there is such a thing as "identify typewriter"