http://trilema.com/2013/compliance/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Mon, 25 May 2026 06:44:44 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2013/compliance/#comment-164654 Moral myopia on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:31:41 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=50583#comment-164654 [...] The "incorruptible cop" of proto-socialist fiction (irrespective on which side of the divide) is only remarkable at all because he's the only one (and a fundamentally comedic character specifically because cops are poor, and therefore the pretense to incorruptibility as inappropriate on them as tits on a boar). Were the entire department equally principled, this wouldn't make the world somehow better. (On the contrary, it does, as a factual matter, make it worse. Much, much worse.) [...] [...] The "incorruptible cop" of proto-socialist fiction (irrespective on which side of the divide) is only remarkable at all because he's the only one (and a fundamentally comedic character specifically because cops are poor, and therefore the pretense to incorruptibility as inappropriate on them as tits on a boar). Were the entire department equally principled, this wouldn't make the world somehow better. (On the contrary, it does, as a factual matter, make it worse. Much, much worse.) [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2013/compliance/#comment-161350 The W, the other W, the WW and finally the WWW. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:36:55 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=50583#comment-161350 [...] I asked her how she knew she said "little bitch... you're the compliance generation. All you need is for someone to tell you what to do. It doesn't matter what it is, [...] [...] I asked her how she knew she said "little bitch... you're the compliance generation. All you need is for someone to tell you what to do. It doesn't matter what it is, [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2013/compliance/#comment-153508 thelastpsychiatrist.com - Taboos Are The Ways Christians Try To Control Us. Adnotated. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:09:25 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=50583#comment-153508 [...] [↩]Leaving "the right" alone, as nobody in his right mind gives a flying fuck about rights, that shit's expensive! Why the hell would anyone keep some other dork's "guilt alive for him" [...] [...] [↩]Leaving "the right" alone, as nobody in his right mind gives a flying fuck about rights, that shit's expensive! Why the hell would anyone keep some other dork's "guilt alive for him" [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2013/compliance/#comment-153478 thelastpsychiatrist.com - Christopher Columbus Was Wrong. Adnotated. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Mon, 10 Aug 2020 18:56:34 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=50583#comment-153478 [...] that way "we" don't have to figure out gravity (or for that matter alchemy). Yipee! [↩]Aaactually... [↩]Or rather : don't know the same things in the same ways. [↩] Category: [...] [...] that way "we" don't have to figure out gravity (or for that matter alchemy). Yipee! [↩]Aaactually... [↩]Or rather : don't know the same things in the same ways. [↩] Category: [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2013/compliance/#comment-146824 thelastpsychiatrist.com - China Needs Fewer TVs, Or A Billion Of Them. Adnotated. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:29:38 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=50583#comment-146824 [...] from the people who specialize in scraping the bottom... well ? It's something, innit ? Even if it's not very much, it's still something. Right [...] [...] from the people who specialize in scraping the bottom... well ? It's something, innit ? Even if it's not very much, it's still something. Right [...]

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