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mircea_popescu: and yet kickstarter does not have its doors torn down by police.
mircea_popescu: reddit continues to grow s/globally/imaginarily/, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: how do you feed people if what you sell them has no food in it ?
mircea_popescu: ah. was announced in chat at some point, but penning a trilema article now
mircea_popescu: the red blouse clad human in the picture. with the tits. is male.
mircea_popescu: (there's a black girl in the french film i mentioned above - nobody cared. "wow seriously ?!" yes seriously, the french had chocolat before the usians had chocolate.
mircea_popescu: you know, the entyire skin color thing was never a major point in yurp.
mircea_popescu: herp derp and really tell me more what the middle class thinks, it's so impossible for me to predict it.
mircea_popescu: "oh hitler was mean, because the british empire was ending anyway, and he should have jsut waited it out ; whereas oh lincoln was great, because southern slavery was ending anyway but he had the martial presence to not wait it out".
mircea_popescu: churchill "won it" and watch the uk have to beg bundesbank for rescue loans within the decade.
mircea_popescu: which incidentally terribly weakens the middle class case against hitler. "oh, he lost the war". sure. guess what, the war that was won hasn't been invented yet.
mircea_popescu: general indication seems to be that he didn't care for the result either. that "apres moi le deluge" is very similar to socrates' "i have nothing to offer nor do i wish to offer anything in fine."
mircea_popescu: if we like or don't like the results - at least we know.
mircea_popescu: but the people whio did care thought - and i think today - it was worth a shot.
mircea_popescu: he didn't know at the time what he was saying. obviously. and perhaps didn't even care to find if what he said was or was not said before.
mircea_popescu: so yes, the french revolution is a "historical necessity". because a king at some point said so.
mircea_popescu: following, as it were, with the knife the lines drawn aforehand.
mircea_popescu: but the notion that the mob in the street invented anything or in any way created something... gimme a break. romanians for a while thought ceausescu was incredibly inventive in his stupidity. these being the folk too uncultured to know carol 2. in fact, the bootmaker was merely immitating, as best he could.
mircea_popescu: but the problem comes back again and again to what i told pete d that day we were discussing "systems" : you can not afford to insult the powerful.
mircea_popescu: the guillotine... minor point, and a necessity after thatanyway.
mircea_popescu: so the aristocrats were taken to versailles and circumcised.
mircea_popescu: not that the beatings stopped, but that luis hated his father, and decided he'll rule with a bureaucracy rather than have more of that shit around.
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt the man was motivated by greed, or at all comprehensible in the terms of the bourgeoisie.
mircea_popescu: but he definbitely excised a lot of revenge over the people that pointedly reminded him of his opwn parents.
mircea_popescu: talleyrand took a lot of money from the various german princes, yes. bribes ? maybe. to do what with them ? not like he had to buy any woman in paris anyway.
mircea_popescu: for the record, we have ample documentation as to hyow the children of the aristocracy were kept back while that stayed vigurous.
mircea_popescu: the problem is that the shit you think you wish for can't be. it's the problem of the shit, not of the genie.
mircea_popescu: on the plus side, i'm here, you can try various sticks.
mircea_popescu: anyway, did any usg "private firm" get caught or what.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field recall the "fake islands" medieval maps included for the purpose ?
mircea_popescu: as the observation goes, "for every incredibly sexy woman out there, there's one guy sick and tired of looking at her asshole."
mircea_popescu: as i observed to a friend recently - if everything worked i wouldn't even care to have a name.
mircea_popescu: for all i care they, whosoever "they" is , can fix everything tomorrow and i'll be fine with it.
mircea_popescu: in any case i would point out that "remaining in power" is not only the terminology of "the enemy" (which, here, means "of the idiots"), but actually meaningless. remain in power ? do we toil towards a bitcoind that can be used to what, "Remain in power" ? do i object to the amorphousness of words when i point out what definitions really are and why definitions must exist, do i object to the amorphousness of pseud-thou
mircea_popescu: and the proposition that russia was at any point "christian" anyway... yes, they use the word. it doth not mean anything akin to its english false friend. at all.
mircea_popescu: if you don't learn to be a man with a horse and a servant, you're beyond help.
mircea_popescu: eh get out. they all went to the military, they all had horses, and servants.
mircea_popescu: the film itself is mst3k level bad, but coralie revel does natasha to perfection.
mircea_popescu: (speaking of which - there's a recent, very very bad french movie which nevertheless offers perhaps the best image of that girl.
mircea_popescu: natasha the spy, natasha the heavy drinker, natasha the young corpse.
mircea_popescu: russian women had all the subterfugial value of pelicans. at least - until the soviets invented natasha.
mircea_popescu: and the brits had the impossible to undervalue advantage of women. they're fucking ugly, so they have to work hard. and they did - the empire only survived with them.
mircea_popescu: phf there's a reason "hypocrisy" appears again and again in criticism of imperial achievement.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> expected america to look like 1940s nyc << the people who worshipped nicky mantle or w/e are long dead you know.
mircea_popescu: all that keeps the whole body from prison is no one looking.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field your current understanding is strictly correct.
mircea_popescu: imagine the panic this raises through the 65% of phd advisors reading there
mircea_popescu: "impostor syndrome" is how sanity is known among the playful bunch, busy play-pretending a life and daydreaming an existence. the silkworms awake./
mircea_popescu: it is a good idea to describe anything overgrown, neotenic idiots do as "a game". because yes, they're playing.
mircea_popescu: "Should you suddenly find yourself with enough success to, say, help significantly decrease poverty and famine in some 3rd world country, would you be prepared and ready with a game-plan"