On closer inspection of Noah's substack... It is total trash.
He's just so very basic. It's just standard smug liberal theocracizing, and the impressive crimestop Moldbug mentions is either not there or fades into the background of the blaring basicness of his thinking.
The idea that he feels he is worth threatening is richly undeserved.
Can you go back to dunking on Krugman? Now there is a fine whale to hunt 🐋.
You know, I think back to how Russia banned NGOs in 2015. I remember being very puzzled by the act - aren’t NGOs good and virtuous? It was before I found _all this_ here and UR and the Mises people and that viral video of Yuri Bezmenov talking about active measures.
This experience of discovery reminds me of the time when I realized that chiropractic and homeopathy were a snake oil - by coming into contact with them. Until then, they had legitimacy in my mind, with their plausibly-respectable names and the imprimatur of the health insurance company.
The peeling-off-layers never ends, does it?
Here’s what I’m hopeful for 2021: that we, who wish to, find it possible to meet each other in person, in a kind of dissident Burning Man or a Hoppe-like conference, in Nicaragua, maybe. Or, wouldn’t it be funny if it happened in Yalta?
I realize that's a broad question, so let me put it more pointedly:
There were a bunch of yahoos who stormed the capitol. Now there are impeachment proceedings against Trump and people want him to never be able to run again. The tech companies got together and made Parler functionally illegal.
Is anything else happening? Like, is this actually a big deal? Does this portend anything?
I don't really follow social media, or the media in general--my wife just informed me that Armie Hammer is a cannibal or something--but what kind of things are people saying that is getting y'all to think that we're at some kind of inflection point?
Readers of this comment section, may I bring your attention to "Domination and the Arts of Resistance - Hidden Transcripts" by James C. Scott. Almost everyone likes to reference "Seeing Like a State" by Scott but Domination and the Arts of Resistance is for dissidence.
"In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stage—what he terms their public and hidden transcripts. Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, Scott examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects."
I'm waking up every day to this and drinking my coffee. Things could be worse, Comfy Curtis.
All right I finally pulled the trigger and subscribed. Please do not send me to Noah smith's substack again.
Curtis, you are annoying sometimes, but you very well might be the best writer on planet earth.
Wait, Curtis' bank account got closed? Uh oh.
How long can you keep this hot streak going? Im not saying the siege was worth it for this content...but im not not saying it...
Is there room to fit "sordid, barely-legal edgelord subliterati" into my twitter profile? Don't want to lose "philotyrannical intellectual"
On closer inspection of Noah's substack... It is total trash.
He's just so very basic. It's just standard smug liberal theocracizing, and the impressive crimestop Moldbug mentions is either not there or fades into the background of the blaring basicness of his thinking.
The idea that he feels he is worth threatening is richly undeserved.
Can you go back to dunking on Krugman? Now there is a fine whale to hunt 🐋.
I laughed out loud at least three times reading this.
This article reminds me of the old lounge singer ploy of inviting the audience to "give yourselves a round of applause."
You know, I think back to how Russia banned NGOs in 2015. I remember being very puzzled by the act - aren’t NGOs good and virtuous? It was before I found _all this_ here and UR and the Mises people and that viral video of Yuri Bezmenov talking about active measures.
This experience of discovery reminds me of the time when I realized that chiropractic and homeopathy were a snake oil - by coming into contact with them. Until then, they had legitimacy in my mind, with their plausibly-respectable names and the imprimatur of the health insurance company.
The peeling-off-layers never ends, does it?
Here’s what I’m hopeful for 2021: that we, who wish to, find it possible to meet each other in person, in a kind of dissident Burning Man or a Hoppe-like conference, in Nicaragua, maybe. Or, wouldn’t it be funny if it happened in Yalta?
Who would have thought Noah would be Mr Yarvin’s muse.
Odd couple-style podcast when?
OK, could someone educate me -- what's going on?
I realize that's a broad question, so let me put it more pointedly:
There were a bunch of yahoos who stormed the capitol. Now there are impeachment proceedings against Trump and people want him to never be able to run again. The tech companies got together and made Parler functionally illegal.
Is anything else happening? Like, is this actually a big deal? Does this portend anything?
I don't really follow social media, or the media in general--my wife just informed me that Armie Hammer is a cannibal or something--but what kind of things are people saying that is getting y'all to think that we're at some kind of inflection point?
Readers of this comment section, may I bring your attention to "Domination and the Arts of Resistance - Hidden Transcripts" by James C. Scott. Almost everyone likes to reference "Seeing Like a State" by Scott but Domination and the Arts of Resistance is for dissidence.
"In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stage—what he terms their public and hidden transcripts. Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, Scott examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects."
Never loved the constant beef in the rap world but am very pleased to get a taste of it in the blog world.
Without a sympathetic Western media the dissenters are...terrorists. Like now.
>> You are all basically the same person: extremely bright, surprisingly social, highly disagreeable verbal nerds.
Sir, I resemble that remark! I am not "social", whether "surprisingly" so or otherwise!