http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/187733/POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AS A POSITIONAL GOOD
(you should read this)
A few more people get on board with the argument that PC is just cheap status seeking. This post and the one it references demonstrate the problem of creeping progressivism: once you create a new taboo, you must keep creating new taboos.
Progressivism is a cancer.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-13 04:33:00 UTC
http://thebea.st/1j9f2zkCREATIVITY: FEED THE MACHINE / RIDE THE ELEPHANT
lol. Yeah. I just feed the machine. If I don’t, it makes my life hell. Sort of like Vaal in that Star Trek episode The Apple.
That ‘creative bit’ the article refers to, which I tend to think operates more like lucid dreaming, just doesn’t shut off unless I’m in social situations that are interesting. Or when, I try, very, very, very hard to step back and think purely objectively. And I can’t really sustain that level of effort very long.
The trick I found, was to make sure that obsessive creative impulse has a problem to lucid dream about. Otherwise the constant noise will drive you into exhaustion trying to fight it. Usually I sort of identify a problem and then some X hours, days or even months later I know the answer when it just pops into my head, and then have to go figure out WHY I know it.
I am very conscious of “Riding the Elephant”. What I think of as “me” is the rider. That machine is the elephant. I can beat it with a stick to steer it, but you know, it’s an elephant. It can do what it wants.
You can train people to think creatively. We’ve known how to do it for over a century now. But you can’t train people to be uncontrollably obsessively creative. And I think a lot of us might actually prefer to be normal instead. ‘Cause a lot of the time it sucks.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-13 04:17:00 UTC
http://bit.ly/1untQxqFIAT DEATH
(From Peter M. Van Coppenolle)
—“Bernanke suggests that the Great Depression ended with the advent of World War II….Ugh… Instead try this for 100% correlation:
1) Long Depression (1870 +) Capital Destruction by Silver Demonetisation
2) Great Depression (1929 +) Capital Destruction by Gold Confiscation
3) Greatest Depression (right now) Capital Destruction by Fiat Death
Me thinks Gold and Silver Capital is Constructive. No need for an economics degree to figure that out.”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-10 02:55:00 UTC
—“if you’re not willing to fight for a just society, then you have no right to demand one, and no right to share in the benefits of one that others have fought for.”—
Eli Harman
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-09 10:56:00 UTC
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/07/seen-at-11-positive-pregnancy-tests-up-for-sale-online/”95% OF THE WOMEN ARE TRYING TO ENTRAP MEN”
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-08 02:08:00 UTC
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukrainians-form-militias-to-defend-nation-against-chaos-346813.htmlUKRAINIANS ARE SLOW AS SNAILS BUT THEY FINALLY GET THERE
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-07 16:18:00 UTC
“How can you have evolution if those who do the right thing have to finance those who did the wrong thing?” — Nassim Taleb
You cant. But you also cant morally or practically hang those who did the wrong thing out to dry. And you have limit the damage that they can do.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-07 04:31:00 UTC
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/libertarian-atheists-have-highest-iq/question-2841489/NOT SURE WHY THIS IS SURPRISING. ITS SO OBVIOUS ITS PAINFUL
But then, nobody listens to smart people, they listen to USEFUL people. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 14:11:00 UTC
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2014/05/05/putins-human-rights-council-accidentally-posts-real-crimean-election-results-only-15-voted-for-annexation/KNEW IT. SAME IS FOR THE EAST. WE ARE SEEING 80% PREFERRING TO MAINTAIN UKRAINE.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 13:32:00 UTC
THE HIGH VALUE OF ATTACKING SYSTEMS
–“an attack on systems can magnify the effect of a small attack into a major global economic event. … The extreme productivity enabled by systems disruption creates the potential for non-state forces to adopt the strategies of maneuver and attrition in addition to those of almost endless supply of attackers could generate hundreds of millions, potentially billions, in damage. The cumulative effect of these attacks could grind down even the strongest nation-state. “–
–“We are staring at a future where defeat isn’t experienced all at once, but through an inevitable withering away of military, economic, and political power and through wasting conflicts with minor foes.”–
Robb, John (2008-04-01). Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization (p. 32). Turner Publishing Company. Kindle Edition.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 11:00:00 UTC