http://trilema.com/2019/the-truebeliever-socialist/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 21:24:56 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2019/the-truebeliever-socialist/#comment-164310 The naturalistic "fallacy" on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Sun, 30 May 2021 09:17:06 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=83147#comment-164310 [...] Enough of that. This is a century old, moth chewed tome ; but the pile-up of successors (and would-be successors, appropriators etcetera) has constructed a ludicrous tower of chairs around their very firmly held desire to make some things true. As the facts actually stand, there's two classes of people : the proper people, who come up with systems of values ; and the not-really-people people, who follow them. Needless to say such classification of humankind sits ill with the truebeliever socialist. [...] [...] Enough of that. This is a century old, moth chewed tome ; but the pile-up of successors (and would-be successors, appropriators etcetera) has constructed a ludicrous tower of chairs around their very firmly held desire to make some things true. As the facts actually stand, there's two classes of people : the proper people, who come up with systems of values ; and the not-really-people people, who follow them. Needless to say such classification of humankind sits ill with the truebeliever socialist. [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2019/the-truebeliever-socialist/#comment-162894 Degeneration, by Max Nordau. Adnotated. The Symptoms. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 20 Apr 2021 01:09:22 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=83147#comment-162894 [...] life ever will carry on against them, like all old life did too. In spite of them. The pantsuit is born to be despised, rejected, disdained and spat upon -- and don't ever forget it. [↩]Not hardly ; though the [...] [...] life ever will carry on against them, like all old life did too. In spite of them. The pantsuit is born to be despised, rejected, disdained and spat upon -- and don't ever forget it. [↩]Not hardly ; though the [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2019/the-truebeliever-socialist/#comment-155180 Pimp. By Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim. Adnotated without permission. Chapter 21 -- The steel casket. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:10:30 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=83147#comment-155180 [...] shamefully visible. That's what "going to church", that's what "never say nigger", that's what your ideology and your culture bought you. Need I explain now why nobody with a clue has any need for either pile [...] [...] shamefully visible. That's what "going to church", that's what "never say nigger", that's what your ideology and your culture bought you. Need I explain now why nobody with a clue has any need for either pile [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2019/the-truebeliever-socialist/#comment-153802 The Two Popes on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Fri, 21 Aug 2020 19:41:58 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=83147#comment-153802 [...] different from the pantsuit riff-raff, or at least distinguishable ; they're a large majority of the truebeliever socialist, though mostly the disavowing, "ironic", arms-length subset. They're the "clever" but "ironic" [...] [...] different from the pantsuit riff-raff, or at least distinguishable ; they're a large majority of the truebeliever socialist, though mostly the disavowing, "ironic", arms-length subset. They're the "clever" but "ironic" [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2019/the-truebeliever-socialist/#comment-153646 thelastpsychiatrist.com - The Psychological Uncertainty Principle. Adnotated. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Thu, 13 Aug 2020 19:54:42 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=83147#comment-153646 [...] "possibilities" come to exactly naught. But... who knows, maybe inflation fixes it all, magically, somehow ? Maybe the guy who was smart enough to do, and therefore has, can be overwhelmed by some sort of [...] [...] "possibilities" come to exactly naught. But... who knows, maybe inflation fixes it all, magically, somehow ? Maybe the guy who was smart enough to do, and therefore has, can be overwhelmed by some sort of [...]

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