November 16,2016 —“If people trusted their senses it would be obvious to everyone that almost every big American city is not an aristocrats garden, but more like a labor camp.”—Brian Barr —“If our main driving force is our identity as individuals and our entitlement to life via these identities, than we are nothing but the gilt on the facade of a gas chamber.” — Benjamin Thurston If the we regulated the informational commons by requiring we warranty our speech, then the NYT and Academy, would be organized crime orgs.
Form: Quote Commentary
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The Greatest Happiness? The Versions
NICE VERSION —“The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.”— LESS NICE VERSION —“The real greatest pleasure of men is to repress rebels and defeat enemies, to exterminate them and grab everything they have; to see their married women crying, to ride on their steeds with smooth backs, to treat their beautiful queens and concubines as pajamas and pillows, to stare and kiss their rose-colored faces and to suck their sweet nipple-colored lips.”— THE ORIGINAL? As far as I know the original is from the carvings on the Palace of Nimrud. And is nowhere near as ‘romantic’. WHAT DO I HEAR WHEN I READ IT? “The greatest pleasure is to defeat, and rule.” BTW: this is probably fabricated. Since it was written long after his death. But all falsehoods originate in some grain of truth.
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The Greatest Happiness? The Versions
NICE VERSION —“The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.”— LESS NICE VERSION —“The real greatest pleasure of men is to repress rebels and defeat enemies, to exterminate them and grab everything they have; to see their married women crying, to ride on their steeds with smooth backs, to treat their beautiful queens and concubines as pajamas and pillows, to stare and kiss their rose-colored faces and to suck their sweet nipple-colored lips.”— THE ORIGINAL? As far as I know the original is from the carvings on the Palace of Nimrud. And is nowhere near as ‘romantic’. WHAT DO I HEAR WHEN I READ IT? “The greatest pleasure is to defeat, and rule.” BTW: this is probably fabricated. Since it was written long after his death. But all falsehoods originate in some grain of truth.
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Tribes are an indispensable expedient
Nov 18, 2016 8:08am Eli Harman: —“If you disallow heuristics based on statistical data which is more readily available and less costly than individual information, you leave huge gains on the table. You will be beaten by people who seize them. Institutions, at least at the higher levels, can be composed of and by cognitive elites who can afford a more correct and complete account of things. But for the man on the street, tribes are an indispensable expedient.”—
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Tribes are an indispensable expedient
Nov 18, 2016 8:08am Eli Harman: —“If you disallow heuristics based on statistical data which is more readily available and less costly than individual information, you leave huge gains on the table. You will be beaten by people who seize them. Institutions, at least at the higher levels, can be composed of and by cognitive elites who can afford a more correct and complete account of things. But for the man on the street, tribes are an indispensable expedient.”—
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Government, like children, should be rarely seen, and seldom heard. (medieval or
Government, like children, should be rarely seen, and seldom heard.
(medieval origin, old when first recorded.: Augustinian clergyman, circa 1450: “Hyt ys old Englysch sawe: A mayde schuld be seen, but not herd.”)
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-26 15:47:00 UTC
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“Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis” (“Thus always I bring death to tyrants”)
“Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis” (“Thus always I bring death to tyrants”).
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-26 10:55:00 UTC
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“The family no longer produces; it only consumes.”— Francesco Principi
—“The family no longer produces; it only consumes.”— Francesco Principi
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-26 09:29:00 UTC
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“It’s never the right time to have kids, but it’s always the right time for scre
—“It’s never the right time to have kids, but it’s always the right time for screwing. God’s not a dumb shit. He knows how it works.”–Justin Halperin
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-25 19:59:00 UTC
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In The End, It’s Pretty Simple
MORITZ BIERLING NAILS IT: —“It’s rather simple really. Once you see costs beyond prices, and returns beyond profit, what we previously thought to be simply parasitic extraction is revealed as payment for participation in the market created by the aristocracy and maintained by the militia. It’s all about the accounting.”— Moritz Bierling