mircea_popescu: so i'm reading up on the darien scheme. while i always suspected the scottish people to be by and large a bunch of useless louts more or less on par with romanians,

mircea_popescu: i am surprised and appalled at the shocking lack of rabbits with this package on their head.

mircea_popescu: why is it under a chair in the sun ? what is this, the waldo package ?

mircea_popescu: that shot looks like the fucking "alice in wonderland corner test facility"

mircea_popescu: and why is "being taped at a weird angle to a doorknob on a door that for some reason rests by itself in a hallway at an angle" dangerous to posters ?

mircea_popescu: or does it have something to do with "proximity of icebox" ?

mircea_popescu: why is "being propped against a fence" supposed to destroy posters ?

mircea_popescu: i confess i do not understand all these tests.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` why are your big toes of different sizes ?

mircea_popescu: <mike_c> mixed metaphors are the best metaphors. << "mixed metaphores are the best concrete"

mircea_popescu: The Late Sir John Ogilvy: in praise of Sir John Ogilvy, 9th Baronet, MP for Dundee. "He was a public benefactor in many ways, Especially in erecting an asylum for imbecile children to spend their days."

mircea_popescu: Which causes many people to feel a little downcast.

mircea_popescu: next it'll be shove a head of brocoli up your ass for the environment

mircea_popescu: nah, i see where this is headed.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla it's the girl that gets murdered.

mircea_popescu: cazalla yes. in the end, "nothing has changed - no prevails" won the day.

mircea_popescu: i wonder what the eventual result will be with that culwick fellow

mircea_popescu: maybe as a temporary measure for small sums, but otherwise, there's no good reason and too much risk.

mircea_popescu: in a culture composed mostly of monolinguistic, ignorant twerps, such as the us (or, for that matter, china), it's not even so very hard to do.

mircea_popescu: so thus you have the "universe" of x, y and z. they're all by and large rewrites of themselves, but hey, it pays the bills.

mircea_popescu: this is obviously easier than actually writing something good.

mircea_popescu: basically, if you make 500 "separate" literatures, you get 500 people who can all be employed as dante, the theory goes.

mircea_popescu: they do this sort of thing a lot, keep rewriting the fundamental myths without citation.

mircea_popescu: punkman do you know how the crow got to be black ?

mircea_popescu: quite fucking instructive, all this.

mircea_popescu: that pretense is not good, of course, but nor does that matter : they don';t care if their pretense is good, they just want to hold on something. they similarly don't care if their lottery ticket is good, just as long as it's a lottery ticket.

mircea_popescu: l pretend to the same earth-shattering effectuality.

mircea_popescu: for being easier, it's also a lot less interesting, which is why the entire system relies on the walled garden concept : none of these write properly, ie, for the world. they all write for an arbitrarily restricted audience, which makes their task all that easier : athena can turn a single crow black from where it was white. a bunch of sweet singers of michigan can turn a multitude of birds a multitud of colors, and al

mircea_popescu: this is obviously a lot easier to do, it doesn't take nearly as much work to find an exploitable weakness in the "world" predicated by some schmoe working for some us publisher as it takes to find an interesting hole in nature.

mircea_popescu: with the revolution of comfortability, the "same" guy is now writing fanfic to the canon of some derpy author or other, inept substitute for the actual god of the gaps.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know as a result of the fanfic discussion with kuzetsa it occurs to me : fifty or so years ago, the amateur "thinking man", ie, someone who could read and write and took delight in both, would mostly write (ie, try his amateur hand) science fiction. that is a sort of fanfic to the canon of nature.