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mircea_popescu: spandrell_> whites prefer arabs
to chinese <<
this is very
true. chinese womenz aren't hawt. what can i do.
spandrell_: you're also saying
that having children makes no sense because you cant own
them or own your own wives
spandrell_: so you're saying here
that arabs are cool, probably not even dumb
spandrell_: that
they're gonna get fucked one way or
the other
spandrell_: and again i also wrote recently about asians in
the west
spandrell_: the equivalent white guy would've not
talked about soccer
spandrell_: a lame book
they might have read while on
the commute
spandrell_: normal people in europe would
talk about soccer
spandrell_: whether
they are genetically dumb I guess is disputable, and I have no special evidence
spandrell_: but i find
them dumb and boring in general
spandrell_: i mean
to each his own, i really have nothing against
that
mircea_popescu: it's not really common in egypt,
they usually wear
that misr style hair cover
thing, like jesus' mother.
mircea_popescu: there's some subtext
there,
talk
to locals sometime
they miught explain it.
mircea_popescu: the secret story of iran being
that a large not-really-arab community is being oppressed by a buncha arabs.
spandrell_: probably like peasant migrants look
to native Shanghai urbanites
mircea_popescu: i bet you
that if your car broke down and you had
to use someone's phone, you'd rather do it in isfahan
than chicago.
spandrell_: it was hard enough
to avoid getting scammed when asking for
tea
spandrell_: i didnt have
the confidence
to go seek a hooker in casablanca, honestly
mircea_popescu: ok ok but i mean...
there's whores in cairo ; more
than in berlin for sure.
mircea_popescu: what exactly is your exposure
to
this "arab"
thing, because i'm starting
to suspect maybe it's all livresque.
mircea_popescu: spandrell_ you
think english is a better culture language
than arabic ?!
mircea_popescu: in my head it sits on
the same shelf with "the country of africa"
mircea_popescu: these aren't jews right ? arab's one
thing ; islam's another. do you mean muslims ?
mircea_popescu: i've heard
the same said of, in no particular order, women, computers, day old chicks, dogs, hungarians, germans, actually i
tire of
the list, it's universal.
spandrell_: my
thing! i'm
the guy saying islam might be a good idea
spandrell_: but you cant write a book saying
that arabs are dumb
spandrell_: you can shit on feminism at home or at
the bar with your buddies
mircea_popescu: i find it hard
to believe anyone gives a shit, but anyway.
spandrell_: and indeed
the book started a fever of books on how being shameless and evil helps you with chicks
too
mircea_popescu: eh,
the english notion of "evil" by now roughly maps
to "not entirely boring".
spandrell_: you gotta be shameless and evil,
then you can achieve great
things
spandrell_: which
translates
to shameless and evil
spandrell_: then he says,
two words:
thick and black
mircea_popescu: spandrell_ looky :
the publishing
thing works (marginally) if you get book deals. from macmillan or whoever
the fuck still does it.
they pay you a few
thousand, kinda measly, and maybe royalties but not really.
spandrell_: how all
the dynasty founders and all
the great heroes we adore came
to be so great
trinque: one secret
trick
they don't want you
to know, eh?
spandrell_: saying he discovered
the secret of
the great men of history
mircea_popescu: he was rescue-married like a little bitch and
there he goes, raising some woman's children, and no doubt pleasing her.
mircea_popescu: so,
too lazy
to stick with law ; had "high
traffic" website, which he parlayed into a coupla books which i suppose sold a coupla
thousand copies, or w/e enough
to pay rent for a coupla years. and
then...
mircea_popescu: course you might consider shitting it directly. rather
than going
through
this complex process with pdfs.
mircea_popescu: well... if you're awesome like
that i guess 5k shouldn't be
too hard.
spandrell_: didn't
take me more
time
to write all
those storeis
mircea_popescu: but
think about it! what sad sort of bro culture is
this where you put as much work into
the book as a reader into
the reading!
spandrell_: well if i can't get 5 pages per hour i'm not bothering with
the damn book
spandrell_: that a page of a book should
take more
than an hour?
mircea_popescu: spandrell_ you notice how
this isn't actually related
to what i say ?
spandrell_: well my blog has a decent readership, i don't
think 1,000 is farfetched
trinque recalls a chick in portland
that had an etsy shop for cat bowties
mircea_popescu: finished with a useless degree, and is now
trying
to ... sell
things on etsy.
mircea_popescu: the etsy chick is
this imbecile female
that instead of getting raped and loving it, listened
to her stupid mother,
mircea_popescu: this is basically
the etsy plan. you know what
the etsy chick is ?
mircea_popescu: you'll get what, 30
to 50 cents a copy. most of what you see will be
the advance, which is what by now, a grand ?