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decimation: plus, maybe if
the 25 year old is Napoleon you can get rich on some awesome loot
phf: i guess if your life is dull, might be better
to be limonov. so it's a wish fulfillment, i.e. "when
the zombies come i'll be
the badass survivalist guy". i'm still not sure why byron did it
though
mircea_popescu: trinque it doesn't follow you should give a shit about yourself ; it doesnt follow even admitting
that
the world is of interest.
decimation: asciilifeform:
the
thing
tends
to feed itself.
the new army officer's position depends on
the old officers being exiled,
thus
they are married
to
the adventure
trinque: if I care about myself in
the slightest?
trinque: doesn't my being embedded in
the world necessitate being concerned with its state?
decimation: it's appeal
to Napoleon
to finally rule
the world
mircea_popescu: ah,
that's plainly obvious.
they;'re appealing like rape is appealing.
their bloody violence is sexually satisfying.
mircea_popescu: because, mind, if you actually got something
to say might as well say it.
decimation: it's possible
the derp could be Napoleon
mircea_popescu: which brings us right back
to, "what do you wish
to say, anyway"
mircea_popescu: phf well if you can explain
the difference between
these
two...
mircea_popescu: and
then get clueless working cl;ass kids
thinking "it's
theiur calling" because
totally,
that's how
the world works, with "Callings"
mircea_popescu: a lot could be said about it, let aside
that nobodyu'd care, so why shouldn't a phd be offered ? once it's offered, why should it wear a red striope in its id, "this shit's pointless nutso stuff fopr rich people" ?
trinque: mircea_popescu: I
think seeing
the world as it is, one imagines
there could be another where
there are leaders with as you say, interesting
things
to do
phf: mircea_popescu: i see now what you mean by "for
the stupid", re "neglect of consequences". i always
thought
that was a character flaw
though, not necessarily sign of intelligence
mircea_popescu: i am bracving myself for
the "sociology of sociologists of obscure fields" phd.
mircea_popescu: "sociology of
the
theatre" ? such deadly refinement by now.
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decimation: well, keep
the local da as part of your
tribe :)
mircea_popescu: the 100 mn business majors looking
to change
the world in
the US notably ARE energetic enough
to run macdonalds.
decimation: and
they would likely be easy
to escape
decimation: meh. usg doesn't have
the energy
to startup death camps
mircea_popescu: whosoever can not do
this is stuck being a bureaucrat not a revolutionary, no mattert
the context.
phf: i move few blocks away from where
they burned down MOVE compound.
though
those guys were genuinely .. not quite
there
mircea_popescu: see ? not so fun for
the stupid. "true freedom" comes from a neglect of consequences.
mircea_popescu: this is all fine, but
there's a bridge between "my cunt itches" and "i'm married now"
decimation: follow his advice, be
tribal, give less of a shit about govt
trinque: mircea_popescu: I'm gonna die anyway, and
this sucks.
phf: revolutions look like fun
though, "we were
trully free on
the barricades",
that's why all
those bored aristocrats would
travel
to
third world countries, if
they failed
to start shit up at home. positive long
term effects not so much
trinque: mircea_popescu: mhm, and I don't claim at
this moment
to have a proposal
mircea_popescu: this entire "my revolution"
thing seems
to me a lot like "i wanna be on a stage, like carlin!" well ok. and
to say what ?
mircea_popescu: trinque
the better q, of course, being what are you going
to say ?
decimation: a bunch of crazy egotist adventurers
taking power
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
The aftermath likely. Dun want
to
tip
the hand
too early.
decimation: revolution is
the last
thing anyone should want
trinque: I don't
think anything good can come of anything which requires populist buy-in
trinque: asciilifeform: need "force amplifier" like your "mind amplifier" and forget about
the derps
decimation: more likely: haho jump from
the next border
BingoBoingo actually pretty pumped about hearing
tomorrow
trinque: I will admit
to reading about various revolutions over
the years wondering "where's mine?"
trinque: eh I could get myself done
that way
this evening if I wanted
mircea_popescu: right. i suppose
to bring
this
to an edge, we could ask alf
to explain difference between jack warner and clark gable in
terms of che.
trinque: or
that populist movements like
that are at all desirable
trinque: I'm not much convinced che's anything other
than a celebrity
decimation: managed
to get loads of betas in frats
to wear his face
mircea_popescu: meanwhile any random mexican cartel owner is right now out of jail and if he's in he's running a brothel of
the guards.
mircea_popescu: this is a problem. and, much more importantly - he failed. he failed uniformly, predictably,
throughout. hard
to see past
this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but
the virility, audacity etc aside, and
the guy's very seductive smile aside - he wasn't very intelligent.
BingoBoingo was kinda sad when mega fire did not hit during mega drought year of 2012 here. Would have been good for
the Morels.
mircea_popescu: socialism is still
the doctrine of unadorned stupid, and it's still
this in large
things as it is
this in small
things - be it revolution or your daily dealings. stupid stays stupid.
mircea_popescu: it failed in moscow as it failed in beijing -
the successors are
today more capitalist
than hamilton, and for good reason.
mircea_popescu: it failed when che
tried it abroad, and humiliatingly. it failed in castro's hands, at home.
mircea_popescu: re "And so a better example for Syriza
to follow, were
they
to suddenly stop being Europe's pathetic poodles and don
the mantle of fearless, heroic revolutionaries, is still
the good old Russian revolution of 1917." << one willing
to eat up
this dollop should best remember
that socialist revolution failed.
decimation: 82.130.102.173 < keeps connecting and dropping
to mine
too