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mircea_popescu: technically money, in its circulatory form (ie, currency -
to distinguish from
the money as unit of account, for instance) was coins and bank-notes. coins are now disused, for entirely practical reasons ; and bank-notes come in
those
two flavours. moving from one
to
the other isn't
THAT big a leap.
mircea_popescu: "pretty miss dutchess found by peasants -
they didn't get
to keep her"
mircea_popescu: which is quite contradictory with all
the soaps
the peasant women watch, which all reduce
to
mircea_popescu: perhaps by
this notion same peasant who finds young dutchess and "always had her in family" should ALSO keep her
mircea_popescu: well
the entire contention was
the strange notion
that peasant who "finds" vermeer and "has always had it in family" should get
to keep it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: debate
that
teh peoples involved have little juice left in
the ballsac.
mircea_popescu: sure, and exact same could be argued (and has been argued, by people arguing from your same chari) about
trhe evil capitalists which "do not even see
the common people
they vampirize"
mircea_popescu: so you say "they came as locusts" ? so did we. ask
the power rangers.
mircea_popescu: the class at issue is
the class which includes
that "they" and
that other "they" and also "us".
mircea_popescu: special pleading is a category of pleading, which is a category of speech, which happens in
the forum, where
the speaker proposes
that one member of a category be different from
the others on no grounds.
mircea_popescu: so. b-a is
the irc channel where vampires of mankind gather,
to discuss how
to lower into pederasty
the
teenaged daughters of hard working social media wokers.
mircea_popescu: can you say something more substantial of
this
than plain if
third hand echos of 1970s soviet postcards ?
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this expectation
that some sort of nativism
trumps wot is not unlike
that swanson's fellow's expectation
to
tell me "how debates are done".
mircea_popescu: but one is not required
to sell, be your own oil baron.
mircea_popescu: it used
to be a regular occurence in
the usa
that some cowboy owned some land, got it
taken off his hands, buyer became oil baron
mircea_popescu: now,
this was
true of money, or more specifically, of currency
mircea_popescu: i don't know
that ever in
the history of civilisation was fine art a bearer document.
mircea_popescu: but in principle a parliament is not required
to allow carrier notes in its realm.
mircea_popescu: the part where
they seem
to also have forgotten
to
tell anyone is also atrrocious
mircea_popescu: but
they re-defined
them, apparently,
to be a sort of cheques.
mircea_popescu: well, it is an atrocity, because bills were itnended
to be carrier notes.
mircea_popescu: one of my dearest
teachers in college, at
the
time a respected doctor, retired
mircea_popescu: but your argument is flawed, which i know personally, and ill
tell you why
phf: "You? Impossible! A mason?" "A mason," I replied. "A sign," he said, "a sign." "It is
this," I answered, producing from beneath
the folds of my roquelaire a
trowel.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: won't
take 10 years, at how condensed
timeframes are now. used
to be 35-50.
mircea_popescu: a) go
to classical/art college ; b) go
to auction house intern position ; c) write for whoever will publish about art and do a good job.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's fucking
trivial
to get in said wot.
assbot: Part 2: Looking at
the art world over Adrian Ghenie’s shoulder and why I hate it or love it. Not sure. ... (
http://bit.ly/1WLEk84 )
hanbot: which condenses
to "who among you has/d
the intelligence
to get in
the wot", neh?
mircea_popescu knows random romanian kid
that sold for ~1.5mn last year
mircea_popescu: they keep pumping more kids in as
they need
to keep
the denominations low enough.
mircea_popescu: you'll notice however
that
the debasement is very well controlled in
the same manner fed controlls
the dollar.
mircea_popescu: yes, people will consider you're abject, after
this claim. but
the claim was disposed not on
the grounds of who you are, but on
the grounds of what proof was had.
mircea_popescu: against
the nonsensical vacuum of anyone ever having seen
this ?
mircea_popescu: if you claim
that "hilary clinton is my wife" on
the grounds of "she was always in my family" should your claim stand ?
mircea_popescu: not anymore
than
there's a way for him
to own plutonium.
mircea_popescu: here's
the litmus : "what part of
this alleged family HAPPENED IN
THE FORUM ?"