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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"
mircea_popescu: give asciilifeform a proper windows license while at it, so he stops having to toil with the obscure bullshit he is now.
mircea_popescu: go ahead, "make things better" for fefeleaga by what ? giving her a breadmaking machine ? a pegassus ? what are you going to GIVE her ? a job at the local airport ? a newly built apartment ?
mircea_popescu: people like to lie and claim their failures are some sort of virtues. but they aren't. and the fact that those kids felt unequal to the responsibility of who they were supposed to be in this world... well...
mircea_popescu: and it is why i pointed out orlov's failure in the elephant story.
mircea_popescu: i don't think this is at all controversial. the degenerate children of a lost aristocracy are the primary fuel of the imbecillity of revolution.
mircea_popescu: (and no, it can't be fixed by simply moving one's hands and MAKING him that. it has to come from the public, as an unavoidable necessity. and no, the public can't be "educated" etc)
mircea_popescu: (d'artagnan's origin is not coincidental, and the fact superman's not from the ozarks does not reflect too well on either the profundity or the perspectives of that culture)
mircea_popescu: phf if your dictionary was made before social media, yes.
mircea_popescu: into which you ran, like i have, by trying to translate a certain russian word ?
mircea_popescu: lowly, small, petty. mean. of mean extraction, ie, borne by mcmansion folk.
mircea_popescu: im so distraught that word lost its principal meaning. which was - people being "people", in the reddit sense of the term.
mircea_popescu: it's back to the "what purpose does the sun serve for us, children ?"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field speaking of which - weirdness like "colectivisation" etc didn't touch most of high transylvania. simply because teh people didn't do it. because wut. even some horses survived.
mircea_popescu: the main difference between the paris horde and the bucharest horde being, of course, that the former were productive. or one should say, sufficiently productive.
mircea_popescu: (ftr, very old peoples do survive in france as well - same places they do in the east. like the normans, say, or the gascons. much hay was made by the plains populatrons about this also, at the time they were still trying to understand themselves seriously - say 3 centuries ago)
mircea_popescu: things are not what they may be perceived to be, but what is left after washed in the acid of movement and phenomena.
mircea_popescu: if your leg bends to match the tunic it's quite clear you're in fact wearing a tunic, not merely a similar looking apron.
mircea_popescu: much like you know someone's using a hammer for it being a hammer through the sign that the flat part goes to put the nail in and the fork to pull the nail back out.
mircea_popescu has seen people wearing to work the legionnaire tunics, and knows for a fact that they were wearing the same item by the unerring sign, that they used the same points of them.
mircea_popescu: the differences between a 1500 yo people and a 2500 yo people are marked.
mircea_popescu: but the difference is deeply, fundamnetally palpable. i did recently "curs de langue et de civilisation europeene", by screening le gendarme et les gendarmettes (funes) and la liceale - al mare con amica de papa.
mircea_popescu: it is the closest thing to china outside of say greece.
mircea_popescu: this is the most successful sort of special pleading for the entire "resistance through culture" thing. which is why the argument can't be properly carried in english, etc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field transylvania has the not-to-be-neglected advantage of two millenia of continual habitation. stuff like soviets barely register if at all.
mircea_popescu: which is, as far as romanians are concerned, how hitler was invented, and the soviets are, again, just some easterners trying to be german in their retarded way.
mircea_popescu: it had ben in the curricula in that part of the country before ferdinand. which was before charles.
mircea_popescu: bless her soul, for without that it'd have ended up as yet another class of world-saving idiots.
mircea_popescu: most of the kids in teh class got all angry and actively-intensive about the fefeleaga story, but the teacher had the presence of mind to point out that obviously activity of any kind will be ineffectual, and if one's inclination's obviously going to be ineffectual one's necessarily misunderstood something.
mircea_popescu: so no, not romania's m. romania's adonis-13, except aware.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i dun have the patience for animated full length features. but i did like the ... shit, what was it called. the one where the guy breaks in and murders a buncha women. one of them confronts him, in perhaps the best scene of japanese cinema
mircea_popescu: most objectionable character on record, doubtlessly a fine poet.
mircea_popescu: romania has (actually - had. i published a post asking for his death and he died three days later) one too, adrian paunescu.
mircea_popescu: heck, i recently discovered the "northern system's" principal children's writer (hc andersen) is not know to teh northern ppls.