How does one stop the people closest to them from suffering from hysteria? Since reading/listening to Yarvin, I’m watching events play out like he’s some kind of fucked up Nostradamus, feeling a surge of euphoria when things play out exactly as he says. Since becoming a Yarvinite, I’m about 5-0 in predicting how things will play out and yet those closest to me, my family, are constantly becoming wrapped up in the hysterics. When it subsides, and the larpers are taking selfie’s and carrying podiums, when Uncle Joe is officially minted as the next Caesar, it’s as if there’s still some looming cataclysm just around the bend. Would hypnotherapy work?
Watching the day’s events, all I could think of were the energy knobs you wrote about. The energy necessary is non-existent. A dog chasing a car that wouldn’t know what to do with it if he caught it.
I actually, for the first time in a while, disagree. Not with the analysis that the Qapitol Stormers were serious examples of the dog that caught the car, but with the implication that this was a useless endeavour. What I saw yesterday was a Green Peace moment. While our plucky heroes had no chance of saving the republic, just like the unwashed Quakers and Hippies of GreenPeace had no chance or even any real understanding of "Saving the Whales", what they did do was mainline on some pure, unadulterated, raw POWER. Hundreds of thousands of right wingers now know what it is like to have their own Greta Thunberg march into the UN and (pointlessly) yell "How Dare You!". Many now will certainly be hooked. And a powerful movement absolutely requires some power addicts in order to function.
The unfortunate part of this whole episode is that This is what the left establishment elites have just been praying to have happen forever so they can straw-man the living shit out of anyone right of Neo-libs. Gosh the news was a masterclass in disingenuous piety and self righteousness yesterday. If people don’t have the attention span to recall how many flip flops they’ve made in just one year, then idk how much clearer it can be made than that and here at the 11th hour, these bozos come around and play to type and do all the re-obfuscating they wanted for them. Trying to remain detached though. I guess Every problem remains essentially the same as they did in January 5th, just a few inconvenience were added to the mix. Seems like we probably went from 85-90 in terms of civil unrest and then at night settled back to 88 or so out of 100. We’ve been about 75-88 all year anyway so what more could really go wrong realistically haha
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The images of Salt-of-the-Earth people capturing the capitol and just *having fun* will be iconic and inspiring for many years to come. The american people, the real people, have shown their spirit. And that is not at all for naught.
> One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language
"Provided we are well equipped with substance, words will follow only too readily; if they won't follow willingly, we will drag them. I hear some making excuses for not being able to express themselves, and pretending to have their heads full of many fine things, but to be unable to express them for lack of eloquence. That is all bluff. Do you know what I think those things are? They are shadows that come to them of some shapeless conceptions, which they cannot untangle and clear up within, and consequently cannot set forth without: they do not understand themselves yet. For my part I hold, and Socrates makes it a rule, that whoever has a vivid and clear idea in his mind will express it, if necessary in Bergamask dialect, or, if he is dumb, by signs."
The problem with the right is that we Commoners are not that interested in power. Because in our lives of wiving and thriving and childing, power doesn't help. All that matters is to get to grandchildren before you die.
But the left has a faith that political power can be used for changing the world. It can, almost always for the worse.
However, I"d say that "protest" for the left has a useful purpose: to give their political masters the excuse for another government program. Because the rage of oppressed peoples.
But I believe we are seeing a slowly coming-into-focus of a Great Rebellion of Commoners.
Problem is: how do you rebel when you really don't believe in the saving truth of politics?
What criteria would have to be met for the insurrection to have been successful? This essay seems to say that there is no possible way, as I read it. Great read by the way, always compelling thoughts.
Feels like you're overestimating people a bit, no? Those on the right who want to believe will assume the protestors made some small mistake. Those on the left (they all want to believe) will believe that the next insurrection is right around the corner. Nothing will change.
How does one stop the people closest to them from suffering from hysteria? Since reading/listening to Yarvin, I’m watching events play out like he’s some kind of fucked up Nostradamus, feeling a surge of euphoria when things play out exactly as he says. Since becoming a Yarvinite, I’m about 5-0 in predicting how things will play out and yet those closest to me, my family, are constantly becoming wrapped up in the hysterics. When it subsides, and the larpers are taking selfie’s and carrying podiums, when Uncle Joe is officially minted as the next Caesar, it’s as if there’s still some looming cataclysm just around the bend. Would hypnotherapy work?
Watching the day’s events, all I could think of were the energy knobs you wrote about. The energy necessary is non-existent. A dog chasing a car that wouldn’t know what to do with it if he caught it.
I actually, for the first time in a while, disagree. Not with the analysis that the Qapitol Stormers were serious examples of the dog that caught the car, but with the implication that this was a useless endeavour. What I saw yesterday was a Green Peace moment. While our plucky heroes had no chance of saving the republic, just like the unwashed Quakers and Hippies of GreenPeace had no chance or even any real understanding of "Saving the Whales", what they did do was mainline on some pure, unadulterated, raw POWER. Hundreds of thousands of right wingers now know what it is like to have their own Greta Thunberg march into the UN and (pointlessly) yell "How Dare You!". Many now will certainly be hooked. And a powerful movement absolutely requires some power addicts in order to function.
Will I have to be the first to say "Reichstag Fire"? Just a reflex.
The unfortunate part of this whole episode is that This is what the left establishment elites have just been praying to have happen forever so they can straw-man the living shit out of anyone right of Neo-libs. Gosh the news was a masterclass in disingenuous piety and self righteousness yesterday. If people don’t have the attention span to recall how many flip flops they’ve made in just one year, then idk how much clearer it can be made than that and here at the 11th hour, these bozos come around and play to type and do all the re-obfuscating they wanted for them. Trying to remain detached though. I guess Every problem remains essentially the same as they did in January 5th, just a few inconvenience were added to the mix. Seems like we probably went from 85-90 in terms of civil unrest and then at night settled back to 88 or so out of 100. We’ve been about 75-88 all year anyway so what more could really go wrong realistically haha
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Mitarbeiter
"...a woman was killed—executed, basically, in fact. She was committing a crime, and deserved it."
Just like George Floyd - right?
Sorry, maybe I've missed it - but have you posted anything about how George Floyd was committing a crime, and therefore deserved to be killed?
The images of Salt-of-the-Earth people capturing the capitol and just *having fun* will be iconic and inspiring for many years to come. The american people, the real people, have shown their spirit. And that is not at all for naught.
> One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language
"Provided we are well equipped with substance, words will follow only too readily; if they won't follow willingly, we will drag them. I hear some making excuses for not being able to express themselves, and pretending to have their heads full of many fine things, but to be unable to express them for lack of eloquence. That is all bluff. Do you know what I think those things are? They are shadows that come to them of some shapeless conceptions, which they cannot untangle and clear up within, and consequently cannot set forth without: they do not understand themselves yet. For my part I hold, and Socrates makes it a rule, that whoever has a vivid and clear idea in his mind will express it, if necessary in Bergamask dialect, or, if he is dumb, by signs."
Michel de Montaigne
Dream against dream...
The problem with the right is that we Commoners are not that interested in power. Because in our lives of wiving and thriving and childing, power doesn't help. All that matters is to get to grandchildren before you die.
But the left has a faith that political power can be used for changing the world. It can, almost always for the worse.
However, I"d say that "protest" for the left has a useful purpose: to give their political masters the excuse for another government program. Because the rage of oppressed peoples.
But I believe we are seeing a slowly coming-into-focus of a Great Rebellion of Commoners.
Problem is: how do you rebel when you really don't believe in the saving truth of politics?
You tell me.
>What? But he was supposed to be /ourguy/? Hey autists: this old fat fuck was running cons when you were sucking your mother’s dick.
Erm... don't you mean "sucking your mother's teat"?
Feel free to delete this comment once you've fixed it.
This post has not aged well. Except for the part about what a hysterical ninny Scott Aaronson is.
What criteria would have to be met for the insurrection to have been successful? This essay seems to say that there is no possible way, as I read it. Great read by the way, always compelling thoughts.
Feels like you're overestimating people a bit, no? Those on the right who want to believe will assume the protestors made some small mistake. Those on the left (they all want to believe) will believe that the next insurrection is right around the corner. Nothing will change.