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Mon Mar 14 17:16:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> much as in the case of a recent game of go - what exactly would it being clear or unclear to you do ?
Mon Mar 14 17:11:57 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> afaik this is on the record, even.
Mon Mar 14 17:06:57 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: aha, it was, in the copies, a mega-l0l quite comparable to the false asceticism of medieval monks
Mon Mar 14 17:05:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> a strength both understood and tried to be replicated by a bunchy of lesser copies throughout the "unalligned" movement and well beyond.
Mon Mar 14 17:03:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> true, on both ends.
Mon Mar 14 17:02:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but most to do with how idiotic everyone else was, not not even measure up to the georgian.
Mon Mar 14 17:02:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and to disabuse THAT notion, i don't personally think stalin was either very apt, very smart, or any sort of example to be followed. is, indeed, a notable example for all sorts of things,
Mon Mar 14 17:00:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> point.
Mon Mar 14 17:00:10 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: this was an observation, rather than prescription, i am noting that you are doing a megatonne of unplesant wurk for phree.
Mon Mar 14 16:59:42 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> not terribly fair to raise the children thus.
Mon Mar 14 16:59:35 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform i'm not doing more shit for free in this context ; not only because it is outrageous for the recipients of charity to direct the disbursement of charity, but most of all because the end result of a world kept clean, warm and humming along on charity is a disproportionate feeling of power in the idle denizens, who then end up running into "steel walls".
Mon Mar 14 16:58:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> these are deeper issues that what can be addressed in plain conversation, i'm sure.
Mon Mar 14 16:58:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "They consider themselves leaderless. They can have representatives, they can have "evangelists" but they have to believe that their conclusions are all their own, through individual reflection and objective consideration. Interestingly, and on purpose, they believe their brains can handle such an analysis, any analysis. This isn't arrogance. They are told, by universities and the media, that their mind is prepared
Mon Mar 14 16:58:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> to do this heavy lifting as long as they are given just the right facts, filtered from the noise."
Mon Mar 14 16:58:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and on the other hand, the lulzy "a man that doesn't believe in allah can't possibly not go on a murdering rampage" deeply held if ridiculous, and certainly unexamined belief of egyptian peasants, except translated in time and space to you know, "one in a position of authority is necessarily both bad and responsible!"
Mon Mar 14 16:58:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> well, we're many layers above that, however. in this rarefied atmosphere which, however frustrating, is still many miles above the peasants with their fuckgoat, we meet the twin dragon of, on one hand,
Mon Mar 14 16:56:50 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> as far as i can see, the only chance of it resolving cleanly involves mircea_popescu doing a multitude of 'things for phree' which is one of the reasons he is in none too happy a mood.
Mon Mar 14 16:56:04 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> anyway, i am not involved with any of this, and for very good reasons (see mircea_popescu's explanation.)
Mon Mar 14 16:52:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it's the historical and to my eyes first sense of mean / meanness.
Mon Mar 14 16:51:34 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i must confess, i was never on tardtalk, etc. and have very limited experience with this item. but i think i know what it is, from logz