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mircea_popescu: you know, sultan ordered "an army as strong as
the one which
took constantinople" be assembled
to deal with
this guy once and for all. after not doing so well for a long
time eventually cornered him against a mountain, where vlad
told his men
that neither capture nor death of famine beign fitting of warriors, how about we go into
their camp and fucking rape
them.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 15:49
trinque: sounds like resigning
to die, but
then not having
the dignity
to eat
the bullet
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> possibly answer is, be small king. far away <<<
this is quite lulzy, you know. "i want a center of a circle
that's squarer and closer
to
the margin"
mircea_popescu: if
they do, are solvable in practice. if
they don't, you're advised
to fix your head.
mircea_popescu: that's a different
thing. all non-problems are non-psychogenic.
mircea_popescu: whenever you end up with a problem which has no real roots, you
therefore have a problem which... has no real roots.
mircea_popescu: hence my observation
that
the problem is psychogenic in nature.
mircea_popescu: so you'll store your apparata ; plus
three princesses and some stolen fenders.
mircea_popescu: and yes, it comes with
the gunk - once you are powerful lord for yourself, you gotta also select others for which
to be, or else make enemies.
mircea_popescu: the momeny you've defined your aim as "to exclude others", you have
therefore and inseparably defined your goal as "i wish
to be powerful lord"
mircea_popescu: a change from, "who
the fuck does
this priam
think he is"
mircea_popescu: there is EXACTLY no other ; and
the main issue of
the war of
troy was, "who
the fuck does agamemnon
think he is!"
mircea_popescu: and understand -
this is
the fundamental boyishness here. "father, how should i be a powerful lord ?" "have many friends" "i'll just build a strong castle"
mircea_popescu: hence it comes down
to money. not random amulet, be it boat, dome or kryptonite.
mircea_popescu: there's
tons of
these. you could go live in a fucking
tomb and probably die of natural causes before
they'd even find out.
mircea_popescu: they were not on any map ; owing perhaps
to
the happenstance egyptians generally dunno wtf map is, but perhaps not just.
mircea_popescu also visited coptic monastery ; we were
the first visitors since summer.
mircea_popescu visited sufi, was admitted, first person
to be admitted in ~decade.
mircea_popescu: i say
this on
the basis of actual experience, not as a matter of "i imagine boats sometime when i'm frustrated"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform asking "What is
the minimal money necessary" is like asking "what is
the minimum current draw of useful appliance". it depends neh ? for
the money orlov already spent on his pretense (boat, authorship, whatever), egyptian native could have lived entire life happily in
the circumstance of "the company of other bipeds being wholly SELECTABLE".
mircea_popescu: and yes,
the derp was broadly correct, itwas "in
that general direction" and so forth. but omfg patch of salt!
mircea_popescu: i'm not directing
this at him. he is whatever, i dun care. but from YOUR perspective, he works practically as a scammer. you know how donner party ended up in
the spot where
they ate each other ?
mircea_popescu: actually, further - i
think
that attempts
to solve it on
those lines will cost
the attempter his life and sanity for no benefit. in other words - i say orlov is a scammer.
mircea_popescu: i don't
think
trying
to formulate it is madness ; i do
think
that
the orlov formulation is ridiculous at best.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it is or if it isn't is your choice
to make ; but don't go around showing me your holy amulets
that prevent leg breaking.
mircea_popescu: oregon
trail consisted of ? man and woman and grown children and
the grown women's boyfriends and and and and a dog@!
mircea_popescu: you said "but still".
that's denial. and worse - a disawoved denial.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-03 17:44 mircea_popescu: for
the anthropologist, god damned fascinating,
they're like a family-sized snail building its conch.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-03 17:48 mircea_popescu:
there's ONE
thing
the middle eastern guy has
that white man can't replicate, and
that is, a stable, and here i kid you not, a stable, of dozen+ pliable obedient females WITH offspring.
mircea_popescu: do we revisit
the egyptian household
thread from last week ?
mircea_popescu: demographically, rather
than as a work of fiction,
the push west was a push
towards
the highly concentrated san francisco.
mircea_popescu: this is
the definition of poverty, nude and rude : incapable of surviving on own.
mircea_popescu: if you're poor your only hope of survival is
the swarm.
this is a point of fact, and why peasants and hunters flocked
to
town
to be poor
there.
mircea_popescu: why do you
think it is a fundamental problem with only SOME
things is beyond me.
mircea_popescu: there was a
technical counter
there, as here ; it was abandoned upon your surrender. what was left were
there as here "philosophical" let's say items, which lacking any proper substance can continue indefinitely.
mircea_popescu: i'm not entirely sure
this is
that different from
that.
mircea_popescu: but
to my eyes, it;s more a case of "i want impossible item" "why ?" "because of strange notion" "Wouldn't it be cheaper
to..." "fu demigod, it is
true humanity
to do
the impossible ;
takes demigod
to accept
the obvious!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform women shit shits into
the world, which follow
their dreams and could one day be president. accept gusti in your life!
mircea_popescu: "look how it leaves... like a child his house.... go gusti! follow your dreams! you
too could, one day, be president!"
mircea_popescu: (they're lost in space,
the histrion
takes a shit, which flies
towards
the foil ; "accept Gusti in your life!")
mircea_popescu: EVEN IF i fucking armored it and added a
thermoplonjon
thing.