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pete_dushenski: are those unable to effectively scavenge reduced to
cargo cultism ? is that the divide going forward ?
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 23:53:26; mircea_popescu: ving away from a "frontier" worldwiew and toward a "
cargo cult"/scavenger world view. consequently the notion that new things can be made is being gradually abandoned.
mircea_popescu: ving away from a "frontier" worldwiew and toward a "
cargo cult"/scavenger world view. consequently the notion that new things can be made is being gradually abandoned.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: and we're talking about well-heeled families, not
cargo !
ascii_field: aha why give
cargocultist a real airplane?!!1
ascii_field: i suspect there is a '
cargo cult' aspect - they can see other people laugh, and say 'i could also laugh!'
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 03:22:38; asciilifeform: but how is this a
cargo cult? what i'm seeing is a very small but functioning airplane
mircea_popescu: here's the thing :
cargo cult is what savages / pacific islanders / subhuman monkeys do as a reaction to exposure to actual hjuman beings and their civilisation.
BingoBoingo lives a county away from Airforce Base, see a lot of
cargo haulers and the decoy air force one fleet often
ascii_field: 'Anderson refused to cooperate with prosecutors unless the CIA was present. Anderson wanted to be released from jail, Rosenblum said in court, and “he would literally lead (Davis) to warship-sized
cargo of hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars; he could lead Mr. Davis to connections in the Middle East involving pharaohs and kings.”' << win
ascii_field: it is a
cargo cult in a very literal sense
ascii_field: also it is a (solely psychiatrically!) interesting
cargo cult. for instance, the most successful scams had video posted of a '3d printer' going, going...
assbot: Logged on 29-09-2015 19:37:55; jurov:
cargocult masonry aside, i surmised they invented structured discussion, i.e. it was clear at all times whose turn is to speak
jurov:
cargocult masonry aside, i surmised they invented structured discussion, i.e. it was clear at all times whose turn is to speak
☟︎☟︎ jurov:
cargocult? what did they imitate?
ascii_field: btw the masons - at least the ones that can be met with in usa - are perhaps the ultimate
cargo cult.
mircea_popescu: teenaged kids with whoremongering fathers often borrow the cars those drive in an attempt to
cargo-cult the whores they bang into existence. perhaps they could be embodied out of their classmates or something.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it is no deep secret that the 'shelter industry' was largely part
cargo-cult, part 'i wanna build a wine cellar without wife bitching'
phf: asciilifeform: it's a
cargo cult. my understanding is that japanese use manga as illustrated prose. situation with japanese culture in u.s. american u.s. culture around anime/manga is essentially "let's read furniture assembly manuals, then read some yukio mishima, then watch cellphone instructional video for 12 yr/old girls, because superior culture of japan!"
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2014 01:03:00; asciilifeform: 'Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome. By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and Egypt; and the carts brought nothing out but loads of dung. That was their return
cargo. London turns dirt into gold. Rome turne
assbot: Logged on 28-07-2015 03:06:30; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-07-2015#1214249 << astonishing hipster idiocy. just like, e.g., 'hemingwriter'. ('let's make laptop shaped like typewriter! that'll bring western civilization back!') idiot
cargocultists. 'let's omit all, even the few useful features like 'who called' from cell phone! that'll bring the 1950s and american industry back!'
trinque: isis is a
cargo cult thinking allah will bring them more russian or american weapons if they piss in the wind some more
assbot: Logged on 23-06-2015 03:22:02; mircea_popescu: and THAT is where taleb engages traditionalism - where it matters. nobody is still left at the wheel who can talk back, so nobody does, all that's left is a
cargo cult of the dead st. thomas, trudging along.
mircea_popescu: and THAT is where taleb engages traditionalism - where it matters. nobody is still left at the wheel who can talk back, so nobody does, all that's left is a
cargo cult of the dead st. thomas, trudging along.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Defense spending analyst Winslow Wheeler concluded from flight evaluation reports that the F-35A "is flawed beyond redemption"; in response, program manager General Chris Bogdan suggested that pilots worried about being shot down should fly
cargo aircraft instead.
Pierre_Rochard: often better than them trying to reinvent the wheel, that’s when you get some real
cargo culting
mircea_popescu:
cargo cultism at its most base. "well we don't have a mechanic, but all the toolboxes are here and open just like he would have had them, were he here"
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: it is precisely like the spam
cargo cult
mircea_popescu: amps should be a restricted fucking export. buncha native retards and their
cargo cultishness bejeezuz.
mircea_popescu: people became intellectually enamoured with it and keep spouting it everywhere, as a sort of
cargo-cult bitcoin "knowledges"
decimation: note the couriers watching the pouch
cargo personally
Chillum: Semi-submersible latches onto side of
cargo ship below the water lines, gets carried
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski basically what i see is a
cargo cult generation. if you've ever seen monty python's twit of the year sketch that's basiclaly the idea.
mircea_popescu: it is more a function of people being removed from the means of production than anything. no living thing will ever accept its pointlessness. as such,
cargo cults and mud pies everywhere.
BingoBoingo: Well many small towns maintain libraries gifted in another act of monopolist largesse, but similarly the handling of those gifts has decayed in a
cargo-cult manner.
decimation: asciilifeform: doesn't it feel like a
cargo cult around an os that was handed down by betters?
decimation: except in actually moving
cargo & humans
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's more of a
cargo-cultapproach to this science ("i know it's strong because this is how the doctors use it")
ben_vulpes: this is not
cargo cult deconstruction - this is taking the time to do a thing correctly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's the most humorous use of "
cargo cult" i ever saw,
Vexual: thanks, that
cargo plane look sexy
decimation: yeah, I guess in this case the '
cargo-cult' is building a wooden global namespace