Comments on: Degeneration, by Max Nordau. Adnotated. The Dusk Of Nations. http://trilema.com/2021/degeneration-by-max-nordau-adnotated-the-dusk-of-nations/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Fri, 01 May 2026 13:22:44 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Degeneration, by Max Nordau. Adnotated. Diagnosis. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2021/degeneration-by-max-nordau-adnotated-the-dusk-of-nations/#comment-162978 Degeneration, by Max Nordau. Adnotated. Diagnosis. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Thu, 22 Apr 2021 06:01:41 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=100641#comment-162978 [...] of the promise with bated breath (not that bated, though, owing to the circumstance that my slave's quite right : never has one borrowed so much to produce so litte). [↩]Really [...] [...] of the promise with bated breath (not that bated, though, owing to the circumstance that my slave's quite right : never has one borrowed so much to produce so litte). [↩]Really [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2021/degeneration-by-max-nordau-adnotated-the-dusk-of-nations/#comment-162924 Mircea Popescu Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:32:43 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=100641#comment-162924 > That mood would find an expression in phenomena Now <em>that's</em> a fin de siecle conceit if there ever was one. The inherent difficulty in "criticizing" one's own socio-cultural milieu is that... well... it takes <a href="http://trilema.com/2015/the-rabbi-and-the-ewe/?b=many%20were%20waiting&e=places#select">me</a> to be able to pull off such magicks. Everyone else's <a href="http://trilema.com/2020/the-insecure-twits-the-needy-canadians-the-rsr-americans-and-ongoingly-in-this-vein-until-sanity-falls-over-and-also-beyond/?b=have%20a%20video&e=too#select">giggling at it</a> even while "interviewing" it all "serious" and "professional" and sheeeit, like a little borderline bitch exactly. It's true that he has miserable credit hygiene, and indeed ends up intellectually bankrupt in short order ; but it's equally true you deserve some commendation for your acute reading, spotting that first curl. Good for you. > That mood would find an expression in phenomena

Now that's a fin de siecle conceit if there ever was one.

The inherent difficulty in "criticizing" one's own socio-cultural milieu is that... well... it takes me to be able to pull off such magicks. Everyone else's giggling at it even while "interviewing" it all "serious" and "professional" and sheeeit, like a little borderline bitch exactly.

It's true that he has miserable credit hygiene, and indeed ends up intellectually bankrupt in short order ; but it's equally true you deserve some commendation for your acute reading, spotting that first curl. Good for you.

]]> By: pletzalcoatl http://trilema.com/2021/degeneration-by-max-nordau-adnotated-the-dusk-of-nations/#comment-162922 pletzalcoatl Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:30:39 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=100641#comment-162922 That mood would find an expression in phenomena, <a href="trilema.com/2020/how-altruism-ruins-human-society/?b=which%20means&e=the%20phenomena#select">a trilomatic impossibility</a>, appearing in the original's first sentence is a reasonable marker of doom for this thing. I can't remember the last time a writer asked so much loading and delivered so little payoff --I'ma rechristen him Max Lowflow. That mood would find an expression in phenomena, a trilomatic impossibility, appearing in the original's first sentence is a reasonable marker of doom for this thing. I can't remember the last time a writer asked so much loading and delivered so little payoff --I'ma rechristen him Max Lowflow.

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