Comments on: The deplorable generation http://trilema.com/2021/the-deplorable-generation/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 22:23:28 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: L'altra metà del cielo on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2021/the-deplorable-generation/#comment-165259 L'altra metà del cielo on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Sun, 20 Jun 2021 23:54:21 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=101495#comment-165259 [...] officious intermeddler, that magpie sentiment that animates so many would-bes and wanna-bes of the deplorable underclass comes across quite clearly even if it's hopelessly mechanical. No man can be required to be an [...] [...] officious intermeddler, that magpie sentiment that animates so many would-bes and wanna-bes of the deplorable underclass comes across quite clearly even if it's hopelessly mechanical. No man can be required to be an [...]

]]> By: Moral myopia on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2021/the-deplorable-generation/#comment-164648 Moral myopia on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:18:42 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=101495#comment-164648 [...] other words, the insurmountable problems are structural, and insurmountable. It is this very moral myopia (alternatively expressible as "the [...] [...] other words, the insurmountable problems are structural, and insurmountable. It is this very moral myopia (alternatively expressible as "the [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2021/the-deplorable-generation/#comment-164558 Mircea Popescu Sun, 06 Jun 2021 01:25:15 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=101495#comment-164558 I don't see the relation. Rather the problem simply is that any democratic system is deeply, indefensibly vulnerable, and always to the same attacks. The sophists sooner or later figure out how to "make everyone a king" : "hey, people with hairy nostrils, if you ganged together and acted stupidly in concert you'd probably get some meaninglessly idiotic outcome you could misrepresent as a promise for future glory -- it worked for the faggots!!!" It's always sold the same way, like the pink pills : cheap communalism ("for everyone!") + manufactured example ("it works!!"). The results of the overlap of their efforts is predictably a bunch of imaginary "groups" (more numerous than the headcount of the population) crying out for... "a strong leader" and then there you go, democracy --> tyranny. Not like this didn't happen before ; indeed <em>nothing else</em> ever happened before, democracy's for good reason regarded as the most idiotic state of affairs <em>possible</em>. I don't see the relation.

Rather the problem simply is that any democratic system is deeply, indefensibly vulnerable, and always to the same attacks. The sophists sooner or later figure out how to "make everyone a king" : "hey, people with hairy nostrils, if you ganged together and acted stupidly in concert you'd probably get some meaninglessly idiotic outcome you could misrepresent as a promise for future glory -- it worked for the faggots!!!"

It's always sold the same way, like the pink pills : cheap communalism ("for everyone!") + manufactured example ("it works!!"). The results of the overlap of their efforts is predictably a bunch of imaginary "groups" (more numerous than the headcount of the population) crying out for... "a strong leader" and then there you go, democracy --> tyranny. Not like this didn't happen before ; indeed nothing else ever happened before, democracy's for good reason regarded as the most idiotic state of affairs possible.

]]> By: pletzalcoatl http://trilema.com/2021/the-deplorable-generation/#comment-164554 pletzalcoatl Sat, 05 Jun 2021 23:20:31 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=101495#comment-164554 Grouping people thus inappropriately seems like a misunderstanding of definition via proximate genus and specific difference as <i>approximate genus</i> and etc, a "close enough" in lieu of correct identification. Or maybe I just think this because I've...heard it before. Grouping people thus inappropriately seems like a misunderstanding of definition via proximate genus and specific difference as approximate genus and etc, a "close enough" in lieu of correct identification.

Or maybe I just think this because I've...heard it before.

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2021/the-deplorable-generation/#comment-164543 Mircea Popescu Sat, 05 Jun 2021 16:50:32 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=101495#comment-164543 PS. It should probably be pointed out that the quoted imaginary female does indeed mark the distinction. She doesn't stand as an object, or a representative of female thought objectified, but as an example of a woman trying her best to deal with the female in her head -- and in everyone else's bodies all around. PS. It should probably be pointed out that the quoted imaginary female does indeed mark the distinction. She doesn't stand as an object, or a representative of female thought objectified, but as an example of a woman trying her best to deal with the female in her head -- and in everyone else's bodies all around.

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