Comments on: Death-Wish http://www.xenosystems.net/death-wish/ Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: VXXC http://www.xenosystems.net/death-wish/#comment-14875 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 16:23:39 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1309#comment-14875 “What’s fascinating is that this region along the Mississippi is an area that has been home to many cities, for hundreds of years. After all, St. Louis occupies the old footprint of Cahokia today. Perhaps, in another millennium, the archaeologists who occupy some future city in the area will be uncovering the old breweries and coal mines of St. Louis and wondering what happened to the people who worked in them.”

]]> By: KK http://www.xenosystems.net/death-wish/#comment-14328 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:24:43 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1309#comment-14328 (tldr; he was poking fun at the conservative straw-man version of Communism’s struggle for equality)
Yeah, I think that’s the right context.

Of course, this means that progressivism has crossed the parody horizon.

]]> By: KK http://www.xenosystems.net/death-wish/#comment-14327 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:20:16 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1309#comment-14327 You got me there. I guess proggies and lizards perceive dysfunctional people as unthreatening for them. They’re not competing from the same place in the sun at all. 80 000 Anil Dashes would alter the market for Cathedral liturgy, NGO makework and entry-level tech jobs. 80 000 Somalis only result in cheaper Taxi service and tightening the thumbscrews on the wrong kind of white people.

If you’re on the right side of the equation, it’s a no-brainer. Behold, The Marginal Revolution.

]]> By: Scharlach http://www.xenosystems.net/death-wish/#comment-14319 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:29:12 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1309#comment-14319 You have to read it in the context of Vonnegut’s life and other works. The man was a far-left progressive. Here’s a better analysis of what the book was probably trying to do:

http://coffmanenglish1.wikispaces.com/file/view/HB+Criticism.pdf

(tldr; he was poking fun at the conservative straw-man version of Communism’s struggle for equality)

]]> By: Thales http://www.xenosystems.net/death-wish/#comment-14288 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:10:55 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1309#comment-14288 I wonder who will pay the ultimate price for those 80,000 Somalis.

Anyone and everyone except those who should.

]]> By: Cynic http://www.xenosystems.net/death-wish/#comment-14250 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 06:40:21 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1309#comment-14250 Whatever the nature of these societies, we can agree that today they contrast with the West primarily in that the latter has become increasingly culturally oikophobic for whatever reason (and is that historically contingent, or will Chinese and Middle Eastern societies develop the same complex as they approach modernity? Is the American left’s motto ‘myself and the stranger against my brother’ to be unique to it?), right?

I wonder who will pay the ultimate price for those 80,000 Somalis.

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/death-wish/#comment-14224 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:15:43 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1309#comment-14224 Can’t the lizards find functional people to sell their gizmos to?

]]> By: fotrkd http://www.xenosystems.net/death-wish/#comment-14220 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:30:31 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1309#comment-14220 @Scharlach

That story. I do not think it means what you think it means.

That’s terribly cryptic – would you care to elaborate?

]]> By: Scharlach http://www.xenosystems.net/death-wish/#comment-14217 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:26:42 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1309#comment-14217 That story. I do not think it means what you think it means.

]]> By: Scharlach http://www.xenosystems.net/death-wish/#comment-14215 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:20:26 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1309#comment-14215 You’re absolutely right, admin. Consider me scolded.

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