asciilifeform: see also, related, 'fear, uncertainty, and doubt.'
asciilifeform: being the first step of a recipe for convincing folks of something that would otherwise be readily apparent as lunacy
asciilifeform: the phrase is a term of art from u.s. propaganda schools.
asciilifeform: all you have to do, then, is to pile on the meat puppets, until suddenly there is a 'controversy', and there are 'points of view', and eventually - a 'consensus.'☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: what's more, this follows inescapably from any situation, anywhere, where someone gets to 'score nonzero points' merely for showing up.☟︎
asciilifeform: 'we rape you but wait we didn't because you are not a you, one cannot rape furniture'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they wish to steal not merely the farmer's cow, but to also steal the farmer's "having being stolen from" << usg (and the 'enlightenment') in one sentence.☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: well yes, how else will it stay gathered.
asciilifeform: a sausage and a turd are rather different, even if both cylindrical and both given shape by a piece of gut
asciilifeform: if you simply gather enough filth in one place
asciilifeform: of course, anyone with even a spitting familiarity with software crud world knows that lizard hitler does not need to order these into existence - they happen naturally
asciilifeform: a 'mouse farm' (in the sense of my article 'don't blame the mice')
asciilifeform: kerberos << among the many deliberately complex edifices of the u.s. department of wintel.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually this connects to the thread from earlier today re: patterns of speech.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only mr. spam comes close
asciilifeform: debian compassion << cthonian horrors of the eldritch depths.
asciilifeform: insult to perfectly adequate monkeys, who fight and occasionally settle matters in their monkey bands
asciilifeform: decimation: in wwii << after invention of nuke, they realized that much as they would love to repeat the performance again and again as necessary, might put their own arses in peril. so - settled for a slow and continuous version of this.
asciilifeform: actually they all entered 'public life' long ago, as the most loathesomely loyal cocksuckers imaginable.
asciilifeform: 'resistance through culture' as described in mircea_popescu's articles
asciilifeform: empire can commit any kind of elaborate crimes without leader. only thing it can't do without leader is - survive in long term
asciilifeform: at any rate, physical 'hitlers' are not a necessary hypothesis. ussr was perfectly capable of plugging a poor sod on a london bridge with poison umbrella, without competent leadership
asciilifeform: tenure revokes itself, car bombs plant themselves, nailguns - fire themselves, of course. and single-engine airplanes go down regularly for no particular reason.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, how does korolev fit in your analysis of 'how much would satan have to pay to be loved' ?
asciilifeform: (for folks who want a more 'upbeat' figure as an example for a leaf of living matter inside bureaucratic garbage compactor - try korolev.)
asciilifeform: lizard hitler << at 'meta-nsa' naturally, where else
asciilifeform: pension << 'the last bullet health'n'life-insurance-and-pension co.'
