Comments on: Naive notions, or innocence and the art of living http://trilema.com/2020/naive-notions-or-innocence-and-the-art-of-living/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 22:30:14 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Pimp. By Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim. Adnotated without permission. Chapter 9 -- The butterfly. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2020/naive-notions-or-innocence-and-the-art-of-living/#comment-155054 Pimp. By Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim. Adnotated without permission. Chapter 9 -- The butterfly. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Sun, 18 Oct 2020 03:13:45 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=97016#comment-155054 [...] burn down 32 million worth of value (in the shape of their own life) each year because that's where their "artistic" take on life is pointing them, forces defensive expenditure on the part of society, in the vein of maybe a tenth [...] [...] burn down 32 million worth of value (in the shape of their own life) each year because that's where their "artistic" take on life is pointing them, forces defensive expenditure on the part of society, in the vein of maybe a tenth [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2020/naive-notions-or-innocence-and-the-art-of-living/#comment-154922 Mircea Popescu Mon, 12 Oct 2020 23:54:54 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=97016#comment-154922 Pai sa-ti fie de... bine :D Pai sa-ti fie de... bine :D

]]> By: pletzalcoatl http://trilema.com/2020/naive-notions-or-innocence-and-the-art-of-living/#comment-154921 pletzalcoatl Mon, 12 Oct 2020 23:41:49 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=97016#comment-154921 "a life unfettered comes with some fetters of its own" <i>Some</i>, he says. As if the fathomless chaos of possibility beyond the partitions of the common and appropriate (or often enough, sensible even) could fit in an imaginable container such as <i>some</i>. What sum, this some? And then some? As for artificiality, I'd've thought unexamined training for arbitrary conformity was the artificial side. Obedience with a cause feels quite closer to the unadultered products of the earth, and at some point, of people. --Sincerely, Livid "a life unfettered comes with some fetters of its own"

Some, he says. As if the fathomless chaos of possibility beyond the partitions of the common and appropriate (or often enough, sensible even) could fit in an imaginable container such as some. What sum, this some? And then some?

As for artificiality, I'd've thought unexamined training for arbitrary conformity was the artificial side. Obedience with a cause feels quite closer to the unadultered products of the earth, and at some point, of people.

--Sincerely,
Livid

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