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mircea_popescu: dude look at that, you can't find a pic of John McCain online that's not from like 1979
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, unplunders there are. called craftsmen and artisans.
mircea_popescu: so you get to still be king, people will refer to you as Roi Acier
mircea_popescu: decimation suppose you were king, and ordered the leningrad of paris. what then ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: even more conveniently forgetting to mention the 100x more tons of metal, fuel and whatnot needed to make satellites.
mircea_popescu: conveniently forgetting to mention that the cable is resilient, whereas the satellites not so much, and moreover,
mircea_popescu: "Thanks to technological change, over the past few decades the capital-intensiveness of emerging successor infrastructures has been collapsing faster than the existing infrastructure itself. The classic example, from Buckminster Fuller, is replacing a transoceanic cable system emdodying God only knows how many thousand tons of metal with a few dozen communications satellites weighing a few tons each."
mircea_popescu: the guy that wrote the os romania still runs on, for almost two centuries now ? had a working model
mircea_popescu: the thing they tried was in all ways french : lots of fun, and it nearly got to moscow.
mircea_popescu: once france was going to fail, louis settled into a comfortable "apres moi, le deluge" and the people felt right about the same way germans felt around hitler's bunker.
mircea_popescu: this ensured the failure of france as a going concern, because it couldn't keep up with the new megastate.
mircea_popescu: the weakness of the crown allowed the personal union of the dutch and england, which created a shipping superpower
mircea_popescu: here's a reduced version of the problem : england had a shitty king, that led to the empowering of a a bizarre sect. this is what happens when monarchy falters - secret societies.
mircea_popescu: uh. i dunno, but i suspect the revolution was a historical necessity.
mircea_popescu: no wonder the conservative "you're not in the wot, noob" approach conflicts.
mircea_popescu: how great it is tho, just think! to be the best person that ever was merely for having been born later !
mircea_popescu: they also buy into the theory of women, black people and so forth being a bunch of simpletons in need of special olympics
mircea_popescu: oh if only they could be spared the humiliation of failing in an irc chatroom, how great life'd be.
mircea_popescu: which is exactly what all of dub's idiots masquerading as "human science" always pined for.
mircea_popescu: not different in any sense, but the past does offer the dubious benefit of unverifiability
mircea_popescu: for one thing, you need to be conversant in their ideas.
mircea_popescu: takes a whole of a lot more than "i cursorily looked through my textbook on sciences" to meaningfully impact the past.
mircea_popescu: "Robin Williams' suicide was triggered by a horrible disease called Lewy Body Dementia ... sources connected with his family tell TMZ."
mircea_popescu: kinda unfair that he mentions oprah winfrey but not martha stewart lol.
mircea_popescu: because the ancient chinese didn't know women can you know, tablestuffs.
mircea_popescu: get a load of this... the qin envoy guy is using the example of a chinese table tennis player as highly achievementful women.
mircea_popescu: and then they died by falling out of the strawberry tree.
mircea_popescu: the "body of human science" understood as "the government employees paid to derp on a topic" enacted "slow moving schizophrenia" as a thing.
mircea_popescu: decimation coelenterata. they just float around in the sea. not their fault some happened upon a vent, not their fault the vent will go out.
mircea_popescu: the body of human science isn't derp derping about "relativity" by name anymore than the body of bitcoin is derp derping about "bitcoin" by name.
mircea_popescu: all these people whose survival strictly depends on a extreheheeemely unlikely arrangement imagine themselves like... you know, representatives of HUMANITY outright
mircea_popescu: basically "i am a worthless sack of dung. the proof of this is that if i got sent to any other circumstance i'd make a total fool of myself"
mircea_popescu: srsly, this faux chosenpeopleism is hard to get out of huh
mircea_popescu: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicated!!!!
mircea_popescu: "since the early 20th century, Earth’s mean surface temperature has increased by about 0.8°C." lmap
mircea_popescu: basically, dude imagines that a) he currently lives in a world where people actually give a shit what usians thing and b) this will survive time travel.
mircea_popescu: actually midden is pretty much the best approximation of culture in physical terms.
mircea_popescu: the zulus managed to start over each century moving 100 miles.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the germans come from fucking central asia. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: iroquis also came from somewhere, but once they came, it was all new.
mircea_popescu: decimation> so your point is that the lack of egalitarianism did not foster a culture? << my point being that culture is strictly a matter of time. how people organise is irrelevant. which also means there's no shortcuts.
mircea_popescu: decimation it owned all the land, and allocated it. it owned the peasants, and regulated their life. basically think beehive with the queen unembodied.
mircea_popescu: the russians had the mir for as long as the memory goes, and yet.
mircea_popescu: kansas culture = "move to ny, for a better life" + "check out the corn!!1"
mircea_popescu: decimation point being, europe is europe because it's europe, not because some kansas kids decided to wear bedsheets once and poof.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's hardly noteworthy. for as long as navigation was a thing, navigating without a banner meant being an outlaw.