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mircea_popescu: can one even kill himself with a nagant ? ain't it
too long ?
mircea_popescu: what you call "a weak negotiating position" i call being a woman. you're supposed
to
take it up
the ass ;
that's
the design.
mircea_popescu: what ever happened
to "you want it signed, 5bn goes
there. else
take a hike"
mircea_popescu: this is like "mp has never been married". you gotta CONSENT
to be married!
mircea_popescu: "you want
to get
through,
this is how you get
through. you don't want
to get
through, here's an unsupervised mailbox"
mircea_popescu: so
then what "death of email". like "Death of lice", oh honey, what ever happened
to all
the lice.
mircea_popescu: a) i never participated in groups where open address was
the norm and b) you'd have
to go
through filters
to get
to me.
mircea_popescu: i do not believe i ever found myself in
this "email" situation. not ever.
trilema comments have been a shocking exception, but otherwise
mircea_popescu: i dunno man, always
takes more
to write
than it
takes
to not read.
mircea_popescu: but as per
the latter... just fucking write, who cares.
mircea_popescu: historically,
they
tried
to control commentary on
the bible, for it distracted from bible study.
mircea_popescu: now, as per
the former, you'd have
to forbid anyone from writing anything about "neoreaction" because i dunno,
they're clouding out
the
true
truth as found on your blog.
mircea_popescu: the smart one, and also
the historical winner, is
to accept anything not-entirely-shitty, and let it sort itself.
mircea_popescu: the idiotic one, and also
the historical loser, is
to reject anything imperfect, and hold out.
mircea_popescu: to any human activity
that's fragmentary and incomplete (such as writing, whatever
the form),
two fundamental approaches may be applied.
mircea_popescu: seems scarcely any difference.
the pow such as it was, always was some social capital, and not much at
that.
mircea_popescu: i see not
the difference. before, you had
to get permission from authority
to publish ;
then, you had
to get enough money / promise of sales
together ; finally, you had
to have a "following".
mircea_popescu: well, if it's all in eye of beholder,
then books ~can't be ruined~.
mircea_popescu: so far
this difference is entirely in eye of youholder.
mircea_popescu: hey, you can't special plead. you gotta argue
to mechanism.
mircea_popescu: so
then
therefore we agree
that more books being published is
the best
thing
that ever happened for
the book.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this "nobody on
the internet knows you're a dog" does not excuse any dogs.
mircea_popescu: the fact remains
that either you agree EVERYONE writing as many books as humanly possible is really a benefit for books, somehow (cuz you get access
to supposedly valuable whatever
the fuck you wouldn't have otherwise) ; or else you agree random internet dude picking up
the web mantle and derping about how "the cathedral" sucks is really fucking up
the work of
the actual good men involved in
tearing
that shit down.
mircea_popescu: sooner or later it'll come back
to "oh, you don't seriously mean
to kill my children!111"
mircea_popescu: the fact remains random married derp who has
to earn his daily bread has no right and no qualification
to criticise society.
mircea_popescu: how is
this supposed
to work, "waiter can be as dirty as he pleases, not like he's
the cook" ?
mircea_popescu: do you mind discussing what we're discussing rather
than what you're discussing ?
mircea_popescu: if yarvin/spandrell/etc qualify
to discuss society ;
then literally ex boxers are qualified
to pen books.
mircea_popescu: they're fucking poor, for one
thing. dependents
to
the hilt. what.
mircea_popescu: look at
these people. what fucking right do
they have
to discuss "society" ?
mircea_popescu: ok,
then by
this same
token you should believe "anyone can publish" improved books.
mircea_popescu: so you don't believe
the situation where a man who is not in point of fact qualified
to discuss
these matters nevertheless discusses
them actually "dillutes
the internet".
mircea_popescu: you know even basic compiler puts a fucking ^ at
the specific point where it lost it ? what am i going
to do with "waitwut" ?
mircea_popescu: "i became more able
to continue as an automaton in
the fiat order"
mircea_popescu: you like
to act as if "books" are
the same
thing ;
they aren't ; mostly because you like
to
think "people reading books" are
the same
thing.
they also aren't. and sure as fuck "internet agreement clubs" aren't political instruments.
mircea_popescu: so far we've not agreed
this is part of any sort of catacomb.