http://trilema.com/2018/wood-impregnated-in-oil-a-metaphor/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Thu, 14 May 2026 14:37:03 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2018/wood-impregnated-in-oil-a-metaphor/#comment-164644 Moral myopia on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:16:25 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=80089#comment-164644 [...] [↩]If there weren't enough plasticrap flowing out of a magic hole in China to "convincingly" (to pleb standards) back up the pretense of subsidising "the population" (aka, "viermii neadormiti") to the tune of "ten thousand dollars" a year, there'd be no universal pretense to franchise &c. either. The fake abundance of people in name only is entirely the fermentation byproduct of the fake abundance of goods in name only. [↩]To answer an ancient inquiry, perhaps best summarized by Ballas though I don't rightly remember where right now, the right thing to do as a responsible parent of your baby daughter is to sell her off to the "sex traffickers" (that aren't), rather than ship her off to the "university" (that isn't). [...] [...] [↩]If there weren't enough plasticrap flowing out of a magic hole in China to "convincingly" (to pleb standards) back up the pretense of subsidising "the population" (aka, "viermii neadormiti") to the tune of "ten thousand dollars" a year, there'd be no universal pretense to franchise &c. either. The fake abundance of people in name only is entirely the fermentation byproduct of the fake abundance of goods in name only. [↩]To answer an ancient inquiry, perhaps best summarized by Ballas though I don't rightly remember where right now, the right thing to do as a responsible parent of your baby daughter is to sell her off to the "sex traffickers" (that aren't), rather than ship her off to the "university" (that isn't). [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2018/wood-impregnated-in-oil-a-metaphor/#comment-164303 The naturalistic "fallacy" on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Sun, 30 May 2021 08:34:03 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=80089#comment-164303 [...] "rational" investigation. What can you do... ———G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica, unsurprisingly from Cambridge univershitty press. [↩]"Good" is not a quality that belongs to a thing. On the [...] [...] "rational" investigation. What can you do... ———G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica, unsurprisingly from Cambridge univershitty press. [↩]"Good" is not a quality that belongs to a thing. On the [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2018/wood-impregnated-in-oil-a-metaphor/#comment-163006 Degeneration, by Max Nordau. Adnotated. Diagnosis. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Thu, 22 Apr 2021 07:29:33 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=80089#comment-163006 [...] socialist state has mostly co-opted the bulk of these deplorables into its bureaucracy (sadly also completely choking academia in the process). [↩]Check it out, google didn't bring "keyword research" into being ; it [...] [...] socialist state has mostly co-opted the bulk of these deplorables into its bureaucracy (sadly also completely choking academia in the process). [↩]Check it out, google didn't bring "keyword research" into being ; it [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2018/wood-impregnated-in-oil-a-metaphor/#comment-158960 Joseph on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:25:18 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=80089#comment-158960 [...] cucki and therefore struggling to raise as best he could children actually conceived by, and impregnated into his wife by, and so therefore sired out of his wife by a professional father otherwise [...] [...] cucki and therefore struggling to raise as best he could children actually conceived by, and impregnated into his wife by, and so therefore sired out of his wife by a professional father otherwise [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2018/wood-impregnated-in-oil-a-metaphor/#comment-156354 Mircea Popescu Mon, 30 Nov 2020 03:48:49 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=80089#comment-156354 Word. Word.

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