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mircea_popescu: the turkish president could buy twitter and bury it somewhere and nobody'd even know.
mircea_popescu: so basically if people who predicate their lives on twitter followers consistently act like anyone gives a shit about their twitter followers, somehow ??? the twitter followers will matter ?
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan imo that's like perfume supplanting washing.
mircea_popescu: so i guess the circle is complete, don't recomend yarvin to me, recomend trilema to his readership, which will result in him having more stuff to write in the future.
mircea_popescu: which actually came to be because of a discussion with asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: so basically moldbug's september 2009 write-up on communism and whatnot is chiefly notable for his very good points on charity vs w/e, "callous altruism".
mircea_popescu: theirs does not in fact work as implemented, like a lawn mower that doesn't cut, you just follow after it with clippers.
mircea_popescu: "i suppose this is what should be on my business card : i'm the guy who came up on his own with a better system than what the nyt came up with, six i mean eight months later"
mircea_popescu: "Cred ca asta ar trebui sa-mi scriu pe cartea de vizita : eu sunt un tip care-a conceput asa, de unul singur, un sistem mai eficient decit chestia implementata de New York Times, sase opt luni mai tirziu."
mircea_popescu: the pedestrian explanation, of course, being that he had a much softer crowd to work with.
mircea_popescu: i never draft. i publish then i have editors edit my shit. maybe once in a blue moon i decide midway that what i'm writing is stupid and drop it altogether.
mircea_popescu: not much of any value or import can be found outside of a blog these days, nor will be for a while.
mircea_popescu: the same was true on broadway, back when broadway still mattered : huge noise to signal ratio.
mircea_popescu: but this is merely a side effect of them having the absolute monopoly on all peaks of human production.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan what are you talking about, not on a blog.
mircea_popescu: you should check it out. cagney in west berlin, fixing up the slutty daughter of his us boss with a local nutty kid.
mircea_popescu: since we're doing this, you ever saw One, Two, Three ?
mircea_popescu: rather banal punk, classical themes (fakers, real world, bla bla), what of it ?
mircea_popescu: is not excusable in 2000s, when everyone THINKS they can read.
mircea_popescu: yeah but what is excusable in the 1800s back when nobody could or did read and so you were able to count on a certain audience
mircea_popescu: (the proposed difference between fascism, national socialism, soviet socialism, communism, etc so forth is purely imaginary)
mircea_popescu: i'm not throwing out heidegger or husserl or hegel on the grounds of being involved in communism
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan theoreticians often get overexcited which makes them be stupid.
mircea_popescu: some bovine being a communist is not marx, but some bovine.
mircea_popescu: it makes the point. marx studying idiocy is marx studying idiocy.
mircea_popescu: lol poor guy will end up making wikipedia not load again.
mircea_popescu: the quote was re kabbalah, of course, but it makes little difference.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan "it is forbidden to have a course in nonsense. But the history of nonsense, that is scholarship."
mircea_popescu: either they are in fact intelligent but it has nothing to do with the shameful stupidity of communism, much like beethoven probably farted but this isn;t normally mentioned
mircea_popescu: no, simply your categorisation of these people is flawed.
mircea_popescu: but no one goes there willingly. one is a communist that is too stupid, too lazy, or too stupid and lazy to be anything else.
mircea_popescu: i guess technically that may count as some sort of an attraction.
mircea_popescu: communism is like cancer : at the very most it allows the fucked to appreciate how great it'd have been if they weren't so fucked.
mircea_popescu: it only goes the same way if you're not yourself a cow.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan infinite hitpoints. the evisceration of each individual head of cattle is its own, private and special event.
mircea_popescu: to spin this into some sort of story of our pathetic colonies being relevant, let alone central...
mircea_popescu: the reality on the field is that france invented communism, and everyone tried to copy france to some degree.
mircea_popescu: this would be a fine example of why i hold the guy for a complete ignoramus.
mircea_popescu: jesus god, yarvin actually argues that the us invented communism ?
mircea_popescu: i am not interested in a) enriching foreign third parties or b) participating in relationships of any kind on any other structure than as designed by me.
mircea_popescu: dun tell me you deleted it, i just linked it from twitter