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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
Vexual: no ensuring
the mower blades are firmly attached can be detrimental
to observers health
greenspan_fan: I
think chrome's incognito mode lets you read any nyt article you want
greenspan_fan: it's more intended for
the severely computer illiterate
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.
greenspan_fan: isn't
theirs worse,
though? I can get
the news from anywhere, but
to read your site I have
to use proxies or wait
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."
ozbot: Hello NYT - Goodbye NYT pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
Vexual: hey, i do
the
trolling here cazalla
cazalla: that idea
to charge, did you get
that from NYT or some other news site?
greenspan_fan: yeah, I went
to see joshua bell and I barely rioted at all
greenspan_fan: he was
the original musician (I believe) whose reputation had faust superimposed over it
mircea_popescu: the pedestrian explanation, of course, being
that he had a much softer crowd
to work with.
greenspan_fan: not well; it's a reference
to niccolo paganini who was reported
to cause riots and fainting spells at his concerts
greenspan_fan: yeah, I wasted my deal w/
the lower power on violin playing skills
greenspan_fan: but if
the ideas are
themselves good,
the product
tends
to be good.
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.
greenspan_fan: Well, one purpose of multiple drafts is
to capture
the best version of what you're
trying
to say
greenspan_fan: I can't really
tell, since you're not a native english speaker, but I'd say "one draft" because you're baiting me.
greenspan_fan: rather
than having
to go
through
tediously
to find what's worthwhile
greenspan_fan: idk, but it's actually enjoyable/interesting
to read
greenspan_fan: and in particular,
the image of everything great ever written starting as a blank page was perfect
greenspan_fan: low effort in
the sense
that you can
tell posts are first/second drafts
greenspan_fan: but putting an idea in its best
terms is hard, and blogs are somewhat low effort
mircea_popescu: not much of any value or import can be found outside of a blog
these days, nor will be for a while.
greenspan_fan: which is not
to say
that
they don't have interesting/worthwhile
things in
them
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.
greenspan_fan: The line about facing
the "same one doom" in
trilema.com/2014/a-conceit-or-the-importance-of-blogging/ was excellent as well
greenspan_fan: so I may have
to find some of my usb keys
to actually subscribe, rather
than pirating
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 ?
greenspan_fan: suggesting a holiday in cambodia (under
the pol pot regime), because something short of actually being in a communist country is unlikely
to make an impact
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu
the lyrics are addressed
to
the stereotypical college leftist
Vexual: is he saying marx was chasing his
tail?
mircea_popescu: rather banal punk, classical
themes (fakers, real world, bla bla), what of it ?
greenspan_fan: ever heard
the song "Holiday in Cambodia"? It's kinda apropos
greenspan_fan: it's one of
those
things you have
to experience in order
to discover
that no, it won't be different
this
time
Vexual: i can save
two hours ignoring a book by not picking it up
greenspan_fan: yet you see people who still claim
to be "communist" and aren't easily dismissed
Vexual: i
think i can't , and dont
mircea_popescu: is not excusable in 2000s, when everyone
THINKS
they can read.
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan:
Transnistria is
the last surviving Soviet Socialist Republic
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
greenspan_fan: which is what I alluded
to when I said one of
the reasons smart people espouse communism is for
theoretical interest
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.
Vexual: and your freind with
the offer of 1bc?
greenspan_fan: but he genuinely believed it was
the ideal system of
the world
mircea_popescu: it makes
the point. marx studying idiocy is marx studying idiocy.
B007: who is
that quote by
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan "it is forbidden
to have a course in nonsense. But
the history of nonsense,
that is scholarship."
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: Are you familiar with
Transnistria?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I just going off of what I see. Zizek dislike
the communism he grew up with, but instead prefered
the still stupider communism advanced by Hulkamania
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
greenspan_fan: vis. crediting
them with intelligence? or describing why
they might be interested?
Vexual: they want everyman
to have
the same power or something
mircea_popescu: no, simply your categorisation of
these people is flawed.
greenspan_fan: cf. zizek, who I can't really slot into one of
the above groups
greenspan_fan: Alternatively, you have people with great intelligence who support it because it's
theoretically interesting, or controversial, or perhaps out of masochism
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.
greenspan_fan: communism seems
to attract
the intersection of both groups
greenspan_fan: but
there's also
the people who don't respond
to any sort of abstract counterargument
greenspan_fan: on one hand,
there are
the people who just don't learn from experience
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.
Vexual: mirce do you
think communism as it was in romania allowed more opportunities for people
to be successful?
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greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu I don't really get
the "infinite hitpoints"
thing
mircea_popescu: it only goes
the same way if you're not yourself a cow.