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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"
mircea_popescu: do not think that the intelligent people caught like bubbles in the fiat mire are happy to be there.
mircea_popescu: the merit of a pgp signature is that it delivers them from having to do this.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: check these people out, they have fine art authorship grading down to a fine art!
mircea_popescu: Giovanni Bellini means that in their opinion, this is a work in the style of Bellini and of a later date. vii) After Giovanni Bellini means that in their opinion, this is a copy of a known work of Bellini.
mircea_popescu: k by an as yet unidentified but distinct hand, closely associated with Bellini but not necessarily his pupil. v) Style/Follower of Giovanni Bellini means that, in their opinion, this is a work by a painter working in Bellini's style, contemporary or nearly contemporary, but not necessarily his pupil. ‘Contemporary or nearly contemporary' means that it was painted within about 50 years of Bellini's work. vi) Manner of
mircea_popescu: Bellini means that, in Sotheby's opinion, this is probably a work by Bellini, but there is less certainty expressed as to authorship than in the preceding category. iii) Studio of Giovanni Bellini means that, in their opinion, this is a work by an unknown hand in the studio of Bellini, and it may or may not have been executed under his direction. iv) Circle of Giovanni Bellini means that, in their opinion, it is a wor
mircea_popescu: For every auction sale, a catalogue is produced describing each painting to be sold. Every entry indicates the certainty with which Sotheby's is prepared to attribute it to a particular artist. The catalogue entry may describe a painting in the following ways: i) Simply putting the name of the artist, for example, ‘Giovanni Bellini,' means that, in Sotheby's opinion, the work is by Bellini. ii) Attributed to Giovanni
mircea_popescu: it's not really hard to make, need pot with water and coarse ground corn. and a woman that knows how long to boil it and what proportions.
mircea_popescu: perhaps the only time romania's ww1 peculiar dish was eaten here this millenium
mircea_popescu: no i mean, the common, standard foodl. regarded as ideal by the village prisoners.
mircea_popescu: "no, i dont think they were townpeople [ie idiots] because when sitting to repast they took out mamaliga cu brinza like normal pewople]
mircea_popescu: incidentally, isn't this also strictly wrong ? wasn't it the case that the whole village ate ~the exact same dish~ every day forever ?
mircea_popescu: (it rhymes in russian because it's russian. a language from 1700! it needn't rhyme in english, unless we're going for faux-peasant wisdom)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have nfi why you think 'in savour or hue, no comrades have you' better than "in color or taste there's no comrades"
mircea_popescu: "oh, but we already do guilt and innocence, which are ALSO transcendents"
mircea_popescu: rank fucking nonsense. it should be clearly obvious this is not something the court can do.
mircea_popescu: And then, when the experts have come to their conclusion, and that conclusion is challenged in court, (as opposed to the marketplace or in critical writing), a judge must decide that the experts were right or wrong.
mircea_popescu: ely almost entirely on expert opinion concerning the quality of the art, that is to say, is the quality of the art being examined of the quality expected of a painting by the artist—in this case, Caravaggio.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Authenticating a work of art is often difficult, and more difficult when the art is four or five hundred years old, and at least one tool for the expert, to wit, provenance, is often limited or non-existent. And, science (materials analysis) does not get us very far since many of the problems for Old Masters come right out of the artist's studio (think Rembrandt). Thus, for Old Masters at least, the expert is left to r
mircea_popescu: great idea, great painting, why does the woman's face look like it was peeled off asphalt pizza
mircea_popescu: anyway, upon consideration venus does have to some degree the sharp features of the ideal fox. at least moreso than all the piefaces everyone wants to paint for some reason
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it literally sayz, za taste and za color, comrades not.
mircea_popescu: anyway. people like alma-tadema, godward etc do women that look more like adults
mircea_popescu: much like maja has the face of a sly thirteen year old.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, what you like is what you like. to me she seems dumb.
mircea_popescu: but i don't mean copacetically like. i mean like like one's supposed to like art : un coup fumant. if she came off the toille you'd have no choice but to drop everything and marry her.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, this suggests a fine exercise for the esteemed lordship and beyond. not everything in this life is code, and a gentleman needs to study and know a loit more than rubies. so therefore : which classical nude do you like the face of ?
mircea_popescu: i don't remember any classical nude i like the face of.