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mircea_popescu: saw the film of that thing, because hot chick. was thoroughly disappointed.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it's a great show, starting maybe about 5-6-7 or so but be prepared to support the kid by not being a hypocrite cop-out sorta parent. which always sounds a lot easier than it turns out to be
mircea_popescu: it's a pity they took southpark the route of this hot topic "let's stand in front random news event of the week"
mircea_popescu: plus exactly the right brand of anarchic anti-authoritarian, sexually innuendo-ian and so forth
mircea_popescu: if you ever want to introduce a kid to surrealism, c&c is the way to go.
mircea_popescu loved both cow&chicken and animaniacs. not THAT generational.
mircea_popescu: this "giving" bs is like lifting kids up to the basketball hoop. pointless and boring.
mircea_popescu: <phf> it's not like you end up giving out trash, i lose books that i then have to buy again << seriously, giving women books is fucktarded. either order her to buy and read it, or forget it.
mircea_popescu: and similarly moore's mostly an opportunist. nevertheless, they represent the neverending hope of the countless christine wiigs out there, between fargo and paris (wi) that they to one day could be famous!
mircea_popescu: <phf> i thought Thompson was mostly a polemicist, are there any articles of his where he successfully "blows a lid" off something? << no.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform linked cryptome article badly stitched together effort of random derp to get his name out there ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> 'they' are the single, solitary source of all things even vaguely resembling that which they claim to defend against. << who, the soviets ?
mircea_popescu: <mats> i chatted up a cutie at the farmers market today << win.
mircea_popescu: but i can't breathe the air in the same room with these.
mircea_popescu has for many years now meditated on this point, but i do not think i loathe or despise any class more than the bureaucrat. i have no problem hanging out with convicted murderes, wanton rapists, the insane, dying men or women, and probably aliens
mircea_popescu: and all the personal bravure of "but the teacher said!"
mircea_popescu: all the intellectual curiosity of "will this be on the exam"
mircea_popescu: endless parrotting of uncomprehended, mechanically learned pseudoscience and assorted factoidal half truths for the daily dose of congratulatory popcorn from the poor teacher.
mircea_popescu: those insufferable kids that can't think so they try to compensate by "Working hard"
mircea_popescu is rather nonplussed at how social media in its "experts exchange" format has given rise to what amounts to a distributed network of "experts" recruited from among the highschool "metalworkers" as they were called
mircea_popescu: you do all the rounds for your platforms maxint ANYWAY
mircea_popescu: if the implementation allows me to discover stuff about the exponent through timing the thing, it's broken
mircea_popescu: somehow innovative derps lifting stuff manage to effectually squander the scant opportunities their good fate and their betters' peculiarities afford.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why i keep engaging random nobodies online, but hey.
mircea_popescu: As late as the autumn of 1945, a Gallup poll taken among the American troops in Germany showed that 51 percent "thought Hitler did much good before 1939". This was after five years of anti-Hitler propaganda.
mircea_popescu: "Lenin, indeed, is one of those politicians who win an undeserved reputation by dying prematurely."
mircea_popescu: ahaha hey... that'd be pretty epic. have TWO pcs on that thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mind that these anecdotes in no way diminish the book
mircea_popescu: so today. with the reddit of out of work waitresses and musicants
mircea_popescu: strial centres in Europe, Asia, and America. These super-states will fight among themselves for possession of the remaining uncaptured portions of the earth, but will probably be unable to conquer one another completely. Internally, each society will be hierarchical, with an aristocracy of talent at the top and a mass of semi-slaves at the bottom."
mircea_popescu: ame of "managers". These people will eliminate the old capitalist class, crush the working class, and so organise society that all power and economic privilege remain in their own hands. Private property rights will be abolished, but common ownership will not be established. The new "managerial" societies will not consist of a patchwork of small, independent states, but of great super-states grouped round the main indu
mircea_popescu: "Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralised society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers, lumped together by Burnham, under the n
mircea_popescu: i am known for my kindly, generous, charitable disposition
mircea_popescu: phf so you're not getting eulora mushrooms because you're writing bitcoin in lisp ?
mircea_popescu: t the right mood. Your pipe is drawing sweetly, the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight, the air is warm and stagnant. In these blissful circumstances, what is it that you want to read about?"
mircea_popescu: "It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose, and open the NEWS OF THE WORLD. Roast beef and Yorkshire, or roast pork and apple sauce, followed up by suet pudding and driven home, as it were, by a cup of mahogany-brown tea, have put you in jus
mircea_popescu: passion's as good as whoever puts it forth, which means that with most people it has the consistency of puss and the aroma of old faces.
mircea_popescu: and so they imagined it's a panacea. which it definitely is not.
mircea_popescu: except it turns out that passion only seemed valuable because so rarely encountered from the sort of women these people hung out with (ie, carefully not whores)
mircea_popescu: "the editors" organized "on the other hand a good deal of reviewing, especially of novels, might well be done by amateurs. Nearly every book is capable of arousing passionate feeling, if it is only a passionate dislike, in some or other reader, whose ideas about it would surely be worth more than those of a bored professional"
mircea_popescu: a bored professional. But, unfortunately, as every editor knows, that kind of thing is very difficult to organise. In practice the editor always finds himself reverting to his team of hacks–his "regulars", as he calls them."
mircea_popescu: the solution lies in getting book reviewing out of the hands of hacks. Books on specialised subjects ought to be dealt with by experts, and on the other hand a good deal of reviewing, especially of novels, might well be done by amateurs. Nearly every book is capable of arousing passionate feeling, if it is only a passionate dislike, in some or other reader, whose ideas about it would surely be worth more than those of
mircea_popescu: "The great majority of reviews give an inadequate or misleading account of the book that is dealt with. Since the war publishers have been less able than before to twist the tails of literary editors and evoke a paean of praise for every book that they produce, but on the other hand the standard of reviewing has gone down owing to lack of space and other inconveniences. Seeing the results, people sometimes suggest that
mircea_popescu: (commie romania had weirdo "to buy x you must also buy y" quota system to prop up the central economy. that particular book was outrageous in a country nobodyu owned as much as a raft, let alone yachts. so it became symbolic)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think they give books more in line with "tehnologia navigatiei cu vele"