Chaos Patch (#27)
(Open thread, perhaps with some frayed lead in …)
Stuck in SZ airport (which is a very cool place, but short of accessible computer hardware for blogging purposes) waiting for a delayed flight back to Shanghai. Will try to add some stuff when conditions improve. In the interim, feel free to carry on …
ADDED: Too much commoditronic burn-out to try and salvage this prompt post, but I like this (a lot):
@mr_archenemy @SurvivingBabel There are many dark Gods, all of them are dark
— Nyan Sandwich (@nyansandwich) September 15, 2014
@nyansandwich @Outsideness These ideas we are working with do seem to be coming from somewhere. They are coherent and emerge fully-formed.
— Manticore (@ad_bestias) September 15, 2014
@nyansandwich @ad_bestias @Outsideness NRx appeared out of nowhere, fully formed, like Zeus from the head of Athena, all at once.
— Anti Democracy Blog (@antidemblog) September 15, 2014
@antidemblog @nyansandwich @Outsideness Yes, and there is a logic to it that awaits discovery. Like Plato's Meno. But from Cthulhu.
— Manticore (@ad_bestias) September 15, 2014
@antidemblog @nyansandwich @Outsideness I first noticed it in 2002, in Amazon reviews, long before Moldbug. Guy named Prometheus-Zosimos.
— Manticore (@ad_bestias) September 15, 2014
@antidemblog @nyansandwich @Outsideness Shortly after reading his book list, I intuited that humans were creating their own final cause.
— Manticore (@ad_bestias) September 15, 2014
@ad_bestias @nyansandwich @Outsideness There were rumblings beforehand. There always are.
— Anti Democracy Blog (@antidemblog) September 15, 2014
@antidemblog @nyansandwich @Outsideness And the rumblings are mentioned explicitly in Lovecraft.
— Manticore (@ad_bestias) September 15, 2014
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Posted on September 14th, 2014 at 1:50 pm | QuoteAnyone seen Utopia (the Channel 4 show)?
Without spoiling much, I’ll just say it’s really wonderful how many people refer to the main baddies as “morally ambiguous”.
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Posted on September 14th, 2014 at 2:45 pm | QuoteShenzhen airport indeed is a beautiful building. At least from the inside.
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admin Reply:
September 14th, 2014 at 3:23 pm
Yes, quite stunning.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB0un0AL5MA
This is probably the most ridiculous and amusing thing I’ve seen in months. “These are some special stones. Alright?” I could see some angry WN writing a foaming-at-the-mouth fire-and-brimstone article about the symbolism of this clip. POSTMODERN DESECRATION OF A PAGAN CATHEDRAL.
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Posted on September 14th, 2014 at 7:50 pm | QuoteOne thing about this devolution of power push in Europe … Who wants to go back to having to show passports and change currencies every 150 miles? I’ve been on a car trip in central europe (eastern bloc, austria) and from an administrative standpoint the euro and Schenghen area are both godsends. If I lived in, say, Slovakia or Slovenia or Austria or Benelux there’s no WAY I would want to go back to the old system. I can see where it makes sense for the UK (island nation, already have their own currency) to split off. But even those in Scotland … Do they want to have to show passports every time they cross the border? If the whole point of the devolution of power trend is to increase freedom, that’s a pretty drastic reduction of freedom right there. Ditto for the Catalonians, who would give themselves three new borders to aggravate themselves with: Spain, France and Monaco.
One solution to the monetary issue might be to split the Eurozone across the middle and have a strong “northern” euro and a weak “southern” euro … but even there, I’m not sure that would work.
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Michael Reply:
September 15th, 2014 at 3:07 am
cant you just use your amex
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Hurlock Reply:
September 15th, 2014 at 8:00 am
Don’t like constantly changing currencies?
Want to hold money that will be accepted everywhere, everytime and by anyone?
Then GOLD is the money for you!
Fuck the Euro. But don’t go back to the old (new) system.
Go back to the old (OLD) – school gold standart system.
Or just collect bitcoins and wait until you can pay for everything with that.
(fk the euro)
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VXXC Reply:
September 15th, 2014 at 1:39 pm
Second. Fk all that noise, back to gold.
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@max
Oh, I have! Not seen series two, but it was very, very good.
As ever, I found that I sympathised with the ‘baddies’ a helluva lot more than the drippy heroes. It’s an Ozymandius, ‘Watchmen’ situation, the ‘villain’ is clearly acting in the right. The Network aren’t committing mass-murder, they’re not building concentration camps and gas chambers, they are simply removing the…potential for exponential population growth, shall we say? And even then it is in the ‘gentlest’ way possible.
Following on this train of thought (i.e. infertility etc.), anyone read ‘The Children of Men’? It’s interesting the contrast the book, which is of a VERY clearly conservative tone, with the overt Leftism of the film.
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Posted on September 15th, 2014 at 7:32 am | QuoteCan we all have another go at Sovereignty? I have made a half-hearted/assed attempt to get the ball rolling again over here:
http://victoriespyrrhic.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/the-question-of-sovereignty-part-1/
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Peter A. Taylor Reply:
September 16th, 2014 at 1:39 am
Your site doesn’t display any content. Is there some reason why I have to have javascript turned on? What for?
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Rasputin Reply:
September 16th, 2014 at 5:38 pm
@ Peter, apologies for the delay in my reply – I was at work and never comment on anything from there in case they link pseudonym to me (it’s a small outpost of the Catherdral, in which being seen to go off message would be… problematic)
I have checked the link from three different Mac computers (I don’t have access to a PC) and it works for me. As you suggested, it’s probably that you need Javascript (it does a weird thing at the beginning when it loads the text, which is probably why it won’t load for you).
There’s another link here if you fancy trying again: http://victoriespyrrhic.wordpress.com
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Peter A. Taylor Reply:
September 17th, 2014 at 1:30 am
Thanks.
Burnistoun – Lovecraftian sketch, 3:07 (hat tip: Samizdata):
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Posted on September 16th, 2014 at 4:41 am | QuoteI think we might need to keep writing guides to simplify stuff, because aside from regulars who sort of ‘get it’ every one else seems to be making casual mistakes in their interpretation and keep getting lost. They are unable to synthesize the wide variety of thought and put it together without distorting it. Other than that, does any one know any group NRx assosiated blogs or writing platforms that accept outside writing? I don’t want to fragment the existing ecosystem any more.
Also to any one that doesn’t already getting a feedly or an RSS reader to keep up is a good idea in general.
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Posted on September 16th, 2014 at 8:58 pm | QuoteApropos of nothing.
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Posted on September 19th, 2014 at 7:07 am | Quote