Comments on: On terrorism http://trilema.com/2015/on-terrorism/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Thu, 14 May 2026 07:33:34 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Syntax destruction is the fountainhead of fiat propaganda on Dorion Mode http://trilema.com/2015/on-terrorism/#comment-199476 Syntax destruction is the fountainhead of fiat propaganda on Dorion Mode Fri, 14 Apr 2023 03:35:31 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=59380#comment-199476 [...] the first quote from the Patron Saint of the socialist, interventionist "economists" quoting the terrorist Lenin to demonstrate the both of them were well aware of the mechanism and end game of inflationary [...] [...] the first quote from the Patron Saint of the socialist, interventionist "economists" quoting the terrorist Lenin to demonstrate the both of them were well aware of the mechanism and end game of inflationary [...]

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]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2015/on-terrorism/#comment-111550 Mircea Popescu Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:44:52 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=59380#comment-111550 Which reminds me of <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWcNcJuTHVo >Katie Kaboom</a>. Which reminds me of Katie Kaboom.

]]> By: Pete Dushenski http://trilema.com/2015/on-terrorism/#comment-111543 Pete Dushenski Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:24:54 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=59380#comment-111543 <em>...tamen usque recurret.</em> That's more like the cat came back, no? <em>Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus</em> could work too. So perhaps <em>kaboom!</em> is more properly thought of as cooking. I didn't mean to imply that terrorism could only involve voluminously vested men on buses. <em>Cooking!</em>, then. Just as long as we're not <em>cooking!</em> the robber. ...tamen usque recurret. That's more like the cat came back, no? Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus could work too.

So perhaps kaboom! is more properly thought of as cooking. I didn't mean to imply that terrorism could only involve voluminously vested men on buses. Cooking!, then. Just as long as we're not cooking! the robber.

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2015/on-terrorism/#comment-111536 Mircea Popescu Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:48:13 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=59380#comment-111536 Well, delay it perhaps. Hasten it, perhaps. Dubious whether it'll be very significant in either case, <em>naturam expellas furca</em> and all that. Terrorism is not = "kaboom" anymore than cooking is = steak. Cakes get cooked too. Just because historically the manner to imprint the "you're next" idea in the minds of the multitude was decimation in the day of the sword & pike and bombing in the day of saltpeter & gunpowder doesn't necessarily mean much. <a href=http://trilema.com/2013/nobody-could-have-foreseen-their-using-a-plane-like-a-rocket/ >This</a> for instance is terrorism just as well as anything. Generally, to be a law abiding citizen one doesn't have to be specifically either the policeman or the innkeep. Just as long as he's not being the robber. Well, delay it perhaps. Hasten it, perhaps. Dubious whether it'll be very significant in either case, naturam expellas furca and all that.

Terrorism is not = "kaboom" anymore than cooking is = steak. Cakes get cooked too. Just because historically the manner to imprint the "you're next" idea in the minds of the multitude was decimation in the day of the sword & pike and bombing in the day of saltpeter & gunpowder doesn't necessarily mean much. This for instance is terrorism just as well as anything.

Generally, to be a law abiding citizen one doesn't have to be specifically either the policeman or the innkeep. Just as long as he's not being the robber.

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