Contaminated NEET: “Post-truth.” ; No, we’re not post-truth, we’re post-automatically-belie ving-your-bullshit. The propaganda that comes out of the official mainstream respected authorities is not synonymous with truth.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: But of course, it’s easy to understand what all the fuss was about, most certainly never the less tempestuous to date, which the writer self-consciously passivates, both out of fear, and hope: ‘hahah, look at how silly this all was, cant we put all this sillyness behind us, my fellow thoughtful free-thinking liberals?’ Naturally, acknowledging the reality that gens has something to do with virtu would have wide ranging implications; for example, it could implicate...
Pseudo-Chrysostom: @David Foster That’s buying the rhetoric which cloaks the animating impulse. It’s only natural that bad dudes will simply try to lie about what they are doing for advantage. Woman-like qualities are endemic amongst many of those observed as happening to be doing leftism, such as their solipsism; verbally expressed desires often having little to no relationship with their animating impulses, such that they can shift and twist back on each other as easy as the wind, with no...
Albion: We used to believe in Descartes’ dictum of “I think, therefore I am,” but today the tendency is more, “I feel, therefore I am right.” Thanks to Tinterwebz, everyone can now feel, and declare those feelings with added venom. Until the collective reaches a balance (and with it, encourage people to return to individual thinking and rational analysis) we will have to endure some spectacular emotional fireworks.
roo_ster: Feminization _and_ late-stage putrescent liberalism for the win. And by liberalism I mean the whole liberal enlightenment project. When the ultimate liberal power enables mass-slaughter to push globohomo financialized buttseks on Eurasia in the name of “Democracy,” you know liberalism has exhausted any useful energy and is merely hte rotting zombie of its former self. Please, someone put a pike through its skull.
David Foster: “shift from a collectivistic to an individualistic focus”….this seems odd. Virtually all public communications today refers to “communities” ; rather than to individuals…not ‘this program is better for black people” or “we need to help homeless people”, but “better for the black community” or “help the homeless community.”
Bob Sykes: We plainly live in a matriarchy. How long before we start sacrificing kings to guarantee our crops?
Freddo: Gotta be Al Gore for inventing the internet and global warming.
Bruce: The dogs-rat pit fight scene in Saberhagen’s excellent ‘The Holmes-Dracula File’ is great. I can’t think of any other Holmes pastiche from the Hansoms of John Clayton I’d prefer, and if Saberhagen hadn’t also written ‘The Dracula Tapes’ TH-DF would be the best Stoker pastiche too.
Alex J.: Bram Stoker’s Dracula had a big swarm of rats, but no terriers.
Adept: These days, Nick Bostrom and Robin Hanson are regularly mentioned in scientific and philosophical papers. They’re mainstays, and for good reason: They’re fairly original thinkers, they’ve already developed a few interesting/useful thought experiments, they avoid troublesome and paradoxical topics, they’re good self-promoters, and they’ve developed a habit of working in subjects that are of interest to the technical-scientific elite. Artificial intelligence,...
Wang Wei Lin: Bruce, I think CO2 is a great fire suppressant. In the 80s it was common to use in computer rooms, paint booths, etc. Now it’s better your house burn than touch the devil’s greenhouse gas.
Altitude Zero: Houellebecq. He’s at least as good as Ibsen.
Harry Jones: It’s easier to market a great books canon if it’s all in public domain. Way less talking to lawyers, and way less suspicion that it’s just some shady book promotion deal. Somewhat less money tho. Gotta go for the acid free paper and the leather binding to have a decent markup.
Bruce: Mike, why not CO2? Seems lighter and more effective.
Wang Wei Lin: My two cents as a maintenance electrician in automotive machining: Managers have one concern only, “How can I maximize my bonus?” The corporation may have a grandiose mission statement and philosophy, but normal human selfishness will always be the animating force. Most people will look at a situation with a “what’s in it for me?” mentality. That’s fine. Use it. The problem is most companies work against this natural asset of self-interest.
John: Miles Mathis, Petro Dobromylskyj, Ugo Bardi.
Carol: Have you noticed the odd vowel sounds in modern pop music, tho? Very affected. They don’t speak like that, they just do it in their music.
That is fantastic!