Tag: Status
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That’s not how we get there.
Weiss interviews Vivek. He’s obviously running to be Trump’s VP, no matter how strongly he asserts otherwise. This is standard political strategy. Nobody ever SAYS he’s running for VP. Vivek is pushing for “raw unfiltered meritocracy”. That’s exactly how we got into the current grotesque situation where a few monstrous psychopaths own the world and…
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Skill vs status
Carver in 1913: Start where you are. Work with what you have. Make something of it. Never give up. Here’s a fable showing what happens when you disobey Carver. Around 1915, Ford’s total mastery of high quantity at low price forced everyone else out of that position. Later, Cadillac’s total ownership of the luxury market…
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Status is all.
Facts do not exist. Status exists. Latest “news” item via New Superstitionist: We have ignition! An analysis has confirmed that an experiment conducted in 2021 created a fusion reaction energetic enough to be self-sustaining, which brings it one step closer to being useful as a source of energy. The fusion ignition took place on 8…
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Statusotopic mapping?
If we start from my unconventional thought that secrecy is the default, what happens? If we treat this as the baseline assumption, what about “innovation” and “robust debate”? First some clarification. I’m talking about secrecy and language within a family or tribe or guild, not secrecy between all individuals. Language forms the circle and keeps…
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Bitcoinoleth strikes again
From Balaji Srinivasan: See, this was stupid, because it’s *explicit* government censorship. The regime had a good scam going where they just got corporations to silence you in a deniable, decentralized way. But this gives the game away. Next q: how many times has this happened without being reported? How often has this happened? Always…
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Provocative but not quite true
Kirn’s latest Provocative Point: Speech and expression are most suppressed and regulated in academia and the media, where you’d think they would be freest. The culture has basically seized up and died in those places. For a revival of the creative spirit we must look to bodegas, casinos, tire shops, and hair salons. “You’d think”,…
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This makes me feel awful.
Via Kirn: I’m hearing far too many reports — not on the news, but from people I know — of young children struggling with speech issues as a consequence of masking. In a couple of cases, parents can’t find therapists willing to go unmasked during sessions. This is stunning. Several of the responders gave personal…
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Corporate personhood
The fiction that a corporation is a person usually serves to make life easier for evil corporations. Judge Alsup takes it seriously. First, reprinting from 2019. = = = = = START PARTIAL REPRINT: In an age of infinitely fake outrage and fake action and fake every fucking thing, it’s hugely refreshing to see genuine…
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Abstractification
Kirn points out that journalism is now purely involuted, purely about other journalism. The trend started a long time ago. It seemed to coincide with the rebirth of Deepstate in 1946. Before the switch, radio news was realistic, and radio entertainment was empathetic. You could recognize real events in the news, and you could recognize…
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Neat graph
The Tonga eruption sent out a shockwave in the air as well as an underwater wave. A meteorologist in Iowa created an animated graph showing the wave passing over the entire US from west to east, based on sudden changes in barometer readings.
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The getter
A sharp comment from Greenwald. The monomaniacal focus on Trump – treating him as the cause of all US evils rather than a symptom, pretending nobody before did what he did – created a sort of magical penance: just oppose Trump and all your past evils are washed away and you’re reborn with a cable…
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— out of the park.
Continuing on Kirn’s latest hit: Even the fiercest of our debates now occupy about 1/100th of the spectrum thinkers and writers of earlier times have used while exploring major human questions. Through censorship and timidity, we’ve lost access to bandwidths we don’t even know exist now. Deafness is setting in. Focus on Deafness is setting…
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Kirn hits a home run
Kirn has a way with words! Even the fiercest of our debates now occupy about 1/100th of the spectrum thinkers and writers of earlier times have used while exploring major human questions. Through censorship and timidity, we’ve lost access to bandwidths we don’t even know exist now. Deafness is setting in. This point has been…
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Chuck vs Chuck
Kirn on evolution: You read history, count up the wars, the slaughters, the genocides, etc, you realize the most stalwart, spirited, courageous members of our species have been culled in a kind of counter-evolution. Nature may favor the fittest. Not society. We descend from those who fit in. This isn’t counter-evolution, it’s evolution. The leader…
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