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mircea_popescu: perhaps because never has it been the case that value and droves met.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> if there were a 'pepsi' alternative to usg, folks who can make any claim at value would be defecting in droves. << there is, they aren't.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller this was actually amply discussed in here, a while back.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sounds like a decent "lsd/pot stories" series.
mircea_popescu: this earth-and-heaven xtianity thing... it really got people enthralled did it.
mircea_popescu: undata all rulers eventually burn. and all underlings, too.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i think the orgasm subtext in "comet" needs moar usage tho.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason i quote shakespeare rather than rand.
mircea_popescu: so, you're asking me to believe that the guy was going to stop the comet with his cock ? or how exactly did he get to be the ONE ?
mircea_popescu: there's very little economy in your fiction, not just this present comet thing, but the previous thing with the truck. such wasteful abuse of literary means.
mircea_popescu: listen, you were here earlier when rand was being put down for being verbose, pointlessly so.
mircea_popescu: so then what do you care about "wasted" generations whatever that may mean.
mircea_popescu: whence this expectation to be important and matter anyway ?
mircea_popescu: who mostly got eaten by wolves or w/e, or the 1000-1010 generation, that didn't even exist.
mircea_popescu: the 2000-2010 generation of usians isn't anymore lost than the 1500-1510 generation of usians
mircea_popescu: anyway, any frustrated desire is as entitled as any other. once it satisfies itself so it's no longer a desire it will have gained its rightful death.
mircea_popescu: you presently are able to feed yourself, which indicates nothing about whether you OUGHT TO be so able.
mircea_popescu: so does everyone, what, you think kaybosh hungerlice of kenya isn't trying ?
mircea_popescu: you don't like the ulterior effects of socialism, but you do like some of the premises, such as "X for all", as in, "a future for all", "a chance for all" etc.
mircea_popescu: has all the spunk that hasn't filled a vagina been wasted ? how about that's not been swallowed ? rubbed on tits ?
mircea_popescu: well, the problem with "wasteful" is you gotta specify more about the situation than you can.
mircea_popescu: about as good science as krugman's economics or obama's peace.
mircea_popescu: hmm can't find it now, but ayway, there's an entire wank niche dedicated to woman-to-cow transformations, woman-dairy farms etc.
mircea_popescu: jurov the dictator's a political institution, not a gnoseological tool.
mircea_popescu: (if we're to trust the usual US statistics and general scientific consensus, which is to say comic books)
mircea_popescu: cincinnatus says "all men must gather on the camp of mars" and now all men in actual fact must so gather.
mircea_popescu: jurov not so. the definition of dictatorship is merely "he whose word makes truth"
mircea_popescu: ontological fear of nothingness chewing away at his frail identity somehow resolved.x No, maybe they came to him, saying “look Cincinnatus, you are the best among us, and the best by so very far you must be our dictator” and he said “Maybe; we’ll see”. What plans did then Cincinnatus have, exactly ? That all men must assemble on the Camp of Mars ? And if they hadn’t, what exact moral impediment’d have th
mircea_popescu: specifically, "What fucking plans ? Why does the dictator have to absolutely have some sort of plans, aforethought ? Maybe he’s a dictator in the proper sense, because his group perceived him as worthy. He didn’t go to them, like an obnoxious lawyer spawn, with a list of whatever items are fashionable - promises, intentions, qualities, college degrees - to ask to be made a dictator and thus have the gaping void and
mircea_popescu: hence the entire "proceed from cause not towards goals" thing.
mircea_popescu: i suppose in a system without objective all is a waste, which reduces to what i said.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but how do you measure the wastefullness of pointlessness ?
mircea_popescu: the proof that there was nothing there to waste in the first place is the simple fact of having been wasted.
mircea_popescu: if you don't eat a bit of lard, some rat will find it.
mircea_popescu: ;;google "under the guise of making prison more like school the reverse is of course accomplished."
mircea_popescu: ;;google "in the attempt to make prison more like school, they made school more like prison"
mircea_popescu: actually the reason it can't be fully learnable has more to do with godel than with tits and ass.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform since the iris young nitwit was mentioned, here's a q for you : how many maths or generally actual scientists you ever heard of that were full professors at 34 ?
mircea_popescu: but this alone is not nearly the strength of your previous statement.
mircea_popescu: so yes, i grant that too, that your guys are pretty well above most.
mircea_popescu: undata surely, everyone who's alive is doing ~it~ right
mircea_popescu: that's the point of metaphores, to keep getting punctured.