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a111: Logged on 2016-08-13 19:01 asciilifeform: lel, did
 they write back
 to israel, 'stop sending niggerz with non-rusting staples' etc ?
 a111: Logged on 2019-06-29 23:50 asciilifeform: phunphakt, carrier of sov. prototype of manned moon vehicle -- about 1.5x size of 'apollo' -- exploded on pad.
 twice (Officially.) and Officially 'for no reason'
 mp_en_viaje: (not proposing here
 there's an organised
 thinking portion. but one day maybe
 they get a mp
 that cares and do organize,
 the 100% most likely
 to messiah place in
 the current world)
 a111: Logged on 2019-06-29 23:46 asciilifeform: consider, e.g.
 the persians. ~gigabux of petroexport, and yet when built fissiles refinery -- it ran on comp from 'siemens' and running winblows 'xp'. why ?
 mp_en_viaje: 
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-29#1920601 << iran is not "the persians". iran is
 the persians with a
 thin sliver of arabs pretending
 to rule
 them, like a sea cucumber you sprayed with latex exactly.
 the
 thinking portion hates
 the ruling portion, which is principally why
 they never get anywhere.
 ☝︎ mp_en_viaje: kinda
 the original substance of
 the "benevolence"
 thing : "we're
 too fucking stupid
 to harm anyone, honest"
 mp_en_viaje: it's kinda comedic
 to watch,
 tbh. "here's a people god's chasing all over
 the map
 to put
 things in
 their pockets while
 they drool"
 a111: Logged on 2019-06-29 23:47
 trinque: could say life was
 too easy by
 the
 time
 the pipe gushed, but was
 the pipe not also gushing in mid-century US?
 mp_en_viaje: 
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-29#1920602 <<
 the us mostly used
 the oil domestically (for lack of practicable avenue of export, nobody nearby could afford
 to pay or had any use
 to it). pre-ww2 us is basically an exercise in doing
 the right
 thing by accident, like a man auditioning for
 the job of being
 the dirtiest man in
 the world having an accidental altercation with a garbage
 truck, six angry chimney sweeps and an oil slick onthe  way
 there.
 ☝︎ a111: Logged on 2019-06-29 23:39 asciilifeform: hrusch incidentally made
 the irrecoverable idiot move
 that set up sovok for kindermat -- began exporting petro & other diggables.
 a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 18:37 asciilifeform: revolutionaries break vital organ -- mechanism of succession
 to
 throne.
 this almost always gives same pattern. ( and in
 that light, north kr, for whatever idiocies, is unusual and worth
 to study , is exception )
 mp_en_viaje: 
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-27#1920455 <<
 the reason i do not believe korea
 to be
 that interesting is
 that so much of
 their integration-resistence is built on deliberate blindness. if your computer is only safe if not connected
 to
 the internet, you don;t have an os of great interest. show it
 to be safe when online,
 then we'll have a
 talk.
 ☝︎ mp_en_viaje: integration as a cultural phenomenon is catalized by communication infrastructure. always was,
 there's a reason medieval china collapsed in
 the arms of
 the steam-powered  brits, or "multi-milenary" korea in japanese.
 a111: Logged on 2019-06-29 23:33
 trinque: it seems like
 the USSR and USSA narratives broke down at record speed, compared
 to predecessors.
 mp_en_viaje: socialism is socialism is socialism, ofcourse each relished
 their respective eastasias.
 a111: Logged on 2019-06-29 22:35
 trinque: 
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-27#1920314 <<
 too bad.
 the apparent mutual fixation of usg and ussg at
 their heights (and
 the echos of
 this in
 their dotage) persuades me
 that
 there was something special about both one upon a
 time.
  mp_en_viaje: 
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-29#1920572 <<
 the mutual fixation was a matter of convenience. way
 the fuck cheaper for each retard in class
 to pick
 the other as "archnemesis"
 than
 to actually confront reality.
 there's a reason ignatius reilly / minka minkoff or w/e her name is are writing
 to each other.
 ☝︎ BingoBoingo: Miami's also
 the place where
 the folks with money here go shopping which probably ads
 to
 the mythology
 BingoBoingo: But all
 they know is
 the glossy print. Nevermind living in better places already.
 trinque: yeh, heaven on earth is
 the most decadent shit I've ever heard.
 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: really gets into
 the pathology
 BingoBoingo: trinque: As in
 the place
 they fixate on as "having made it"
 trinque: and perhaps
 the "hurr god doesn't real, now I can masturbate in peace"
 thing isn't
 the best place
 to park
 the head.
 trinque: but anyhow, perhaps humans stuck
 things in
 the gods
 that needed
 to mind
 the gap.
 trinque: you know,
 that one has been on my list
 too long. I'll move it up.
 trinque: asciilifeform: hypothesis is well summarized in a mircea_popescu
 trilema post I'll find
 trinque: this isn't an implicit proposal
 to return
 to
 the past, just a finger pointing at
 the void
 trinque: the operative hypothesis on my end is
 that 20th century powers invested
 their narrative power in men, and when
 they died, narrative died also.
 trinque: asciilifeform: back on
 the subj of gods, ever read Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness?
 trinque: BingoBoingo: like "someday I'll post such a great pic on instagram I'll have
 the likes
 to buy a flat in miami" or what
 ☟︎ trinque: but I guess it was permavacation
 to
 the outside, 80s partying
 ☟︎ trinque: soft because insufficiently head-beaten, or what was
 the weakness
 trinque: why didn't he end up in
 the chair?
 ☟︎ trinque: stalin had 3 decades;
 that's
 time enough
 to beat on
 the head of a protege
 trinque: hm, so
 this is in-world magic
 that had
 to be undone. fatal
 then, for sure.
 trinque: asciilifeform: why is it
 that revolutionaries must break
 the cycle of succession, rather
 than simply replace
 the wheel?
 ☟︎ trinque: you found your cock, congrats. I played a better christian dork in my
 teens
 than you've ever done.
 trinque: danielpbarron: ftr your fixation when fucking is allowed and when it's
 the naughty is
 the saddest
 thing I've ever seen.
 ☟︎ trinque: vikings and
 their spiffy gods got a great run out of it.
 trinque: look at sad danielpbarron pulling
 the stick on yhwh
 trinque: now I want
 to say
 that
 they died because
 they made shitty gods.
 trinque: I would've earlier said
 that
 the ussa and ussr died quick because
 technology caused
 them
 to hit a complexity limit.
 trinque: this is what I suspect
 the
 two had in common when
 they were anything
 to speak about.
 trinque: I doubt
 this because it conflates
 the hearts of men and grunts.
 trinque: act from principle yes, but
 there appear
 to be moments where
 the principles flow, heh, from princeps
 trinque: this is what'd be interesting
 to know
 trinque: nah, what did
 the Men Doing
 Things believe in
 the moment, on either side.
 trinque: I don't know about
 that. I'm meandering
 toward a point about narrative and
 the power
 thereof.
 trinque: yeah, I'd buy
 the N1 sabotage hypothesis
 trinque: yet some methwitch got 3 dudes strapped
 to an ICBM and fired at
 the moon
 trinque: could say life was
 too easy by
 the
 time
 the pipe gushed, but was
 the pipe not also gushing in mid-century US?
 ☟︎ mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo, i
 thought
 that was a reference
 to something prior.
 a111: Logged on 2019-06-27 18:37 asciilifeform: revolutionaries break vital organ -- mechanism of succession
 to
 throne.
 this almost always gives same pattern. ( and in
 that light, north kr, for whatever idiocies, is unusual and worth
 to study , is exception )
 trinque: (I could see
 this; fuck's sake, what an empire)
 trinque: asciilifeform: what is it in your view
 that broke? simply succession? nobody could sit in king stalin's chair?
 trinque: it seems like
 the USSR and USSA narratives broke down at record speed, compared
 to predecessors.
 ☟︎ trinque: yep,
 this part is not in question on my end. uselessness must be filtered.
 trinque: do you see
 this as a management failure, inevitability, inferior stock, other?
 trinque: it's hard
 to see a way
 this organized statal
 terror doesn't become self-licking-icecream-cone, and evidently it did