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mircea_popescu: is that up top a frigian gynecologist's cap with candles ?
mircea_popescu: there really is no objective anything in aesthetics. what hindbrains.
mircea_popescu: so once they decided to no longewr be inferior they had to do SOMETHING about this
mircea_popescu: no, because they had spent their lives with the "you are inferior because versailles" mantra
mircea_popescu: and why the "golden toilets" propaganda bits of contemporaneity.
mircea_popescu: and that's why revolution -> looting versailles is such an automatism
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the purpose of art is much simpler : the mob is illiterate, and art is the single letter alphabet catering to all its needs : "THIS IS WHY YOU ARE SCUM". that's the only sentence that needs to be expressed.
mircea_popescu: there is this very ridiculous animism at work, whereby somehow "art" is objectively beautiful, and beauty is somehow objectively good, which makes it you know, turn lions to lambs.
mircea_popescu: they've "engaged" with literature, and it was to everyone's detriment.
mircea_popescu: it seems to me the height of stupidity. "people" have specifically no business "engaging" with art.
mircea_popescu: with experts such as these, we hardly need brutish peasants anymore.
mircea_popescu: decimation mostly quoted for the "A Romanian forensic expert at work in a laboratory at the National History Museum in Bucharest." running... windows.
mircea_popescu: guy, if he has any sense, will go "hey, you kill me - they kill you."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: "assumes that usa will occupy self with same army - and same aimlessness - with which it occupied iraq. this is not a proven fact." << lemme guess... they have a meta army in reserve, just haven't been using it because reasons ?
mircea_popescu: im pretty certain more russians identify with a femen-centered-reality than with a stalin centered one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the sluts in question <<< doesn't change the fact that the sentiment was genuine.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: incorrect. from these figures alone << then they're not terribly useful figures are they :D
mircea_popescu: it may also be that distinctness is a flavour of tradition, and no tradition survived ww2.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo just saying, once he publishes it on his blog, that's that, no qntra.
mircea_popescu: im not even sure wtf anti aircraft guns are supposed to even do anymore.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is it with the koreans and killing people with antiaircraft guns.
mircea_popescu: questionb being "what town is being entered and which direction"
mircea_popescu: that bitcoin isp thread on trilema has turned into one of the flat out strangest things i've witnessed online lately.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is strictly better than selling them to that texan idiot that put his fist through em
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nobody caters to anything but the govt where you live.
mircea_popescu: as any purely fiat market, the art market exists strictly on the basis of such policies.
mircea_popescu: and gawd almighty is that barrel deep and has the cat pissed in it.
mircea_popescu: and exactly for the reason stated : if you're a slight prize, you get the best crop of tenants competing for you. if not... you're stuck rooting through the bottom of the barrel.
mircea_popescu: you WILL actually make more money letting slightly under market than in ANY other way.
mircea_popescu: dude pete_dushenski has his moments. whodda thunk he has such subtle points down pat as "the most important thing is to not overprice".
mircea_popescu: usians don't even know what thery're missing, gettin gdrunk for the first time at 21 is not the same.
mircea_popescu: the 2nd is pretty bad throughout, sort-of a lawrence of arabia made by first time drunk teenagers
mircea_popescu: (the chickens are in the cockpit, occupying the entire left side)
mircea_popescu: president even quips that imagine, the most important man of the 2nd richest most powerful country being reduced to this! air force one powered on chicken droppings!
mircea_popescu: the first's only vaguely notable because it depicts a marginal us (in the 70s) running everything on chicken shit
mircea_popescu: "slapstick of another kind" and "the last remake of beau geste"
mircea_popescu: shit, i go watch a couple bad marty feldman movies, the log runs off
mircea_popescu: in point of fact this is unchanged millenia later - very few kids end up here, a few more are in the military, and the rest on reddit.
mircea_popescu: yeah, pretty much. so... it couldn't conceivably been a bad standard for them, inasmuch as it was... the standard.
mircea_popescu: otherwise... maybe become a client for some important patron, and done what the us sub-political class does today. in the day's huffington post and astroturfed meetings and whatnot. a very precarious existence, certainly the slavegirls had it better.
mircea_popescu: the alternatives to this are unclear. if very clever you could have traded, but various ethic groups had a defacto monopoly on that, and a very large cultural advantage.
mircea_popescu: this allowed you to take a young woman and start a household in relative security. the exact american dream.
mircea_popescu: well ok, but in terms of standards : as a young man with no property, your options were essentially to go into military service, which offered pay and, upon serving 18ish to 20something years, a large settlement payment and provincial land.
mircea_popescu: it really wasn't much higher risk than being in the army, which was you know, a good chunk of the population, especially poorer.
mircea_popescu: even the xtians were thrown to the lions, not to the gladiators.
mircea_popescu: then presented them (or sold them on to senatos and other dude farmers)
mircea_popescu: that's how that thing went, sporting promoters of the 100s went around, buying young strong slaves,
mircea_popescu: a gladiator was more expensive a piece of fixed capital than a whore.
mircea_popescu: gladiator battles didnt' have THAT many casualties, you know.
mircea_popescu: trinque my point is that actual roman weaponry would not present an improvement.
mircea_popescu: i guess if you force them, by allowing armor. buyt then again, gladiatorial combat didn't allow much armor.
mircea_popescu: i don't think mma guys if given the option of gladitorial arms would actually take any.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i think it's just the way it's being promoted. boxing harks to a different time, with different people. mma is more tuned for the contemporary kid. different life balances.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne i guess. don't you think it kinda detracts from the whole thing ? like, "here, monkeys, a silver coin. FIGHT!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the nasdaq thing is just, they want to use a centralize custom scamcoin to somehow track pre-ipo trades. not really clear what this actually is, tbh, and i somehow doubt it's more than the intersection between inept bitcoin piarism and vague plans for vapornothing.