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mircea_popescu: then you'll be in a better position to appreciate the inanity currently rotting your brain away.
mircea_popescu: bagels7 the best advice for you is to a) create a list of 100 classical texts written before 1800 ; b) spend two weeks reading NOTHING online but that. not anything. not a single page of popurls or whatever. none.
mircea_popescu: because if you're reading the guardian&co, what you see there is coming out of the same sifon that yields the "putin is insane" spritz.
mircea_popescu: jurov my position is, "their enemies which i don't particularly care for claim they be evil, but otherwise also got beat to shit". this i can go for.
mircea_popescu: <bagels7> idk 6 hours of week for church and spankings if you talked or moved too much for not being able to sit still for 2 hours << that part's great. stfu and sit put.
mircea_popescu: undata is this one of those where kids get bored so they claim to see jesus and adults get all excited "because kids can't lie" and then the primary attention getting mechanism available to kids is making wild religious revelation claims ?
mircea_popescu: in this case, graybeard in computing means a true expert.
mircea_popescu: a term of art is a word that has a speciffic meaning within a discipline.
mircea_popescu: virtually all the imbeciles we despise had computers as children.
mircea_popescu: all the people we think are ok met computers in college
mircea_popescu: bagels7 think of it this way : most of the graybeards that we respect met computers in their 50s, after fucking with paper for a long time.
mircea_popescu: maybe my judgement is idiosyncratic, but i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: sure, if you want to melt the cheese you can go "and taleban bombed nyc"
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't recall a humiliating defeat of the us and its allies at the hands of either iran or taleban.
mircea_popescu: mebbe someone in your position contribures what looked best to them ?
mircea_popescu: generally the way this works is someone asks a question and sometimes i pop an article out. but they're generally much more concrete.
mircea_popescu: hey there s. we were just talkin bout isis. how do you take that ? :D
mircea_popescu: imagine the whole saltmines of salt i need for all these other "reports"
mircea_popescu: undata if i sent my spymaster there, and she operated without constraint and superhuman power to report,
mircea_popescu: we see the burning, we know the arsonist, could we not say isis in in control of the us today ?
mircea_popescu: as far as any observer can determine, isis burned 50 trn worth of us soil.
mircea_popescu: this alone is good credentials, but consider : 50 trn is the us going to pay over the next 50 years for that war, and they were sent home by isis.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would go so far as to say that isis is the thing that made the us destroy its permanent installations in baghdad, something that has not happened since china beatthem in vietnam.
mircea_popescu: so far it's not a thing yet, and it should be supported, merely to ruin more of the socialist world.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the discussion of whether we like or dislike isis is to be had once isis is a thing.
mircea_popescu: they're currently going through the "hate them" phase. perhaps this may soon resolve al-fucking-ready.
mircea_popescu: they are cutting up women because they're desperately trying to resolve the significant sociopolitical problem of carin what women think.
mircea_popescu: the usg is as related to this as the fly on the radiator related to the car crash.
mircea_popescu: but the arabs already proved themselves. in fact, we even have sciences and arts at all because the arabs kept them while the west was being all "progressive" the last tim around.
mircea_popescu: if this happened in africa you could murder me on this score, which is why we're not here talking about the numerous much larger rebellions all over subsaharan africa past decades.
mircea_popescu: this has to be supported merely because it hurts nato.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a) only an ideology can foment revolution ; b) all ideologies are reducible to ideologies. socialism, religion, take your pick. "democracy"
mircea_popescu: cazalla> did ya know that reddit doesn't even come close << yes. i knew.
mircea_popescu: and im pretty sure isis is the first place with a serenissima embassy, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: or peron for that matter. recall his 1950s attempts to make fusion work ?
mircea_popescu: they'll try shit with the desperation of stalin trying on shit.
mircea_popescu: once they establish some sort of state, they'll try shit.
mircea_popescu: THIS is m y point exactly. whether they do or don't do better atm is immaterial. they WILL do better, necessarily, because they don't share the same lockdowns
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform take it another way : where do i have a better chance to sell the experiment being tried ? wash dc, london or baghdad ?
mircea_popescu: the russians being a fine example. i could readily stroke the same public knowledge to elicit a "I'm sure they're backwards as hell".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what if you were told the same about russians ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so far, 99% of the thoughts are "haxx the web"
mircea_popescu: and its improbable it happened seeing how they all happen right under my window.
mircea_popescu: "evil warlord killed 5698048605 tenured professors in the us"
mircea_popescu: like me hanging by their fallopian tubes all us "social sciences" professors
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i do not see that such anti-intellectual stuff is anything but 2nd layer us propaganda re isis.
mircea_popescu: undata in a world where pretense is allowed, truth is necessarily disallowed.
mircea_popescu: isis is about as interesting as the columbian farc, except not bound by low population and tiny geograpgy.
mircea_popescu: the substantial difference being that greece is a colony today.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how would you know ? hollywood too busy giving prizes to shitfall.
mircea_popescu: that sort of thing is stopped by people like us, and in its boundless ineptitude, the us has failed to come crawling on its hands and knees begging us.
mircea_popescu: that sort of thing can not be stopped by obama and buterin, oscar laureates.