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decimation: the linked diatribe was
the black church guy
decimation: yeah I don't get how
this 'black church postal' guy accomplished anything
mircea_popescu: ah, no, we're discussing economics here.
the ship goes uphil like any othjer ship going uphill.
mircea_popescu: if you
think about it, men
tend
to value "fuck me
then i
take off" girls
the most, coworkers less
than
that and wives even less.
mircea_popescu: ah
that. well, poking around at
the world, right ? same reason
they stick
things in
their mouth.
mircea_popescu: what reasons specifically drive children
to immitate speech sounds ?
mircea_popescu: perpetuum mobile is also of perennial interest
to
the same apeish overaged
teen mind.
mircea_popescu: how about
they were all bitcoin experts from "the community" of derps
that never saw a bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: ask someone why shouldn't
they fuck
their sister next
time you want an angry puzzled man.
mircea_popescu: yes well,
the understandings of
the crowd as
to
the justification of rules is made for
the comprehension needs of
the crowd, not for
the expressive needs of
the rules.
mircea_popescu: it is as plausible as
the notion
that "mecanicity" makes perpetuum mobile more plausible.
mircea_popescu: Jesus Ortiz: [long pause] You really some
teacher, Mr. Nazerman. You really, really 's
the greatest.
mircea_popescu: tation
to dig into
the Earth
to grow food or
to gaze at a limitless land and call it your own, no, no. You just go on and on and on repeating
this process over
the centuries over and over and suddenly you make a grand discovery. You have a mercantile heritage! You are a merchant. You are known as a usurer, a man with secret resources, a witch, a pawnbroker, a sheenie, a makie and a kike!
mircea_popescu: ut and buy another piece of cloth, cut it into
three pieces and sell it for
three pennies profit. But, my friend, during
that
time you must never succumb
to buying an extra piece of bread for
the
table or a
toy for a child, no. You must immediately run out and get yourself a still larger piece cloth and so you repeat
this process over and over and suddenly you discover something. You have no longer any desire, any
temp
mircea_popescu: gh
to have a geography or an army or a land myth. All you have is a little brain. A little brain and a great bearded legend
to sustain you and convince you
that you are special, even in poverty. But
this little brain,
that's
the real key you see. With
this little brain you go out and you buy a piece of cloth and you cut
that cloth in
two and you go and sell it for a penny more
than you paid for it.
Then you run right o
mircea_popescu: Sol Nazerman: You people? Oh, let's see. Yeah. I see. I see, you... you want
to learn
the secret of our success, is
that right? Alright I'll
teach you. First of all you start off with a period of several
thousand years, during which you have nothing
to sustain you but a great bearded legend. Oh my friend you have no land
to call your own,
to grow food on or
to hunt. You have nothing. You're never in one place long enou
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Jesus Ortiz: Say, how come you people come
to business so naturally?
mircea_popescu: i am aware.
this makes it not work quite specifically.
mircea_popescu: it does not happen period.
the "floating value of coin" model gets reliably
thundered into
the dirt by fixed value coins and arbitrage.
mircea_popescu: it would
take me about a month of "earth
time"
to own one of
their
townlets, i reckon.
shinohai: @ asciilifeform
therefore I post for newcomers
to understand why
tor is smacktarded.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i will say for
the record
that a)
the "economic" model contemplated by
the naive socialist pseudo-anarchists cooking up
the story is broken and b) anyone aged 16 who can't figure out how
to extract value out of it should go hang.
assbot: Why "representative democracy" doesn't work and doesn't make sense on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1GdnKDj )
mircea_popescu: ‘Nonsense!’ declared Gleed. ‘There is no such
thing.
There is no weapon inventable
that
the other fellow can’t employ once he gets his hands on it and learns how
to operate it.’
mircea_popescu: ‘Is
that so?’
The other eyed him speculatively, had another pick at his
teeth. ‘And what makes him excellent?’
mircea_popescu: i've yet
to see a cat in desperate need of overthrowing
the imposition of catdom upon it, however.
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 23:26:40; mircea_popescu: mats and cats have had millions of years
to develop fishing implements.
mircea_popescu: i did
think
teh present conversatiuon made it plainly clear.
mircea_popescu: you're discussing
the matter in inadequate
terms, as if you were
to
try and judge software by what happens with
the
table.
mircea_popescu: white china survives, and
the fucking hittite empire
to boot
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand, by subjective criteria as you employ,
the english empire still survives.
mircea_popescu: it's already a given he's
taken at most a local maximum
mircea_popescu: but note
that at no point would him getting killed be part of a best plan, so
mircea_popescu: if
this man were here
talking, i would make
the same exact observation.
mircea_popescu: because
they proceed of causes, not
towards purposes ? who yet even cares per se of body count ?
mircea_popescu: the notion
that human agency is ever "effectual" is such rank nonsense
to begion with,
that a pretense of "saving action for optimal effect" can only be regarded in psychogenic
terms
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