the gruel of the future—today!

tämyo kropnulaṃ skam pñintu ke ne kulypal yātlune

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

sometimes i think about becoming a more agreeable person. but i don't think it's right. there are many real problems in the world that, if you're an agreeable person, you just don't talk about – it's often disagreeable to acknowledge problems at all. sometimes there's a problem that doesn't admit a positive-sum solution that benefits everyone who counts as a person (including "who counts as a person here" is disagreeable, it's casting suspicion on claims to universality; i think this is correct and claims to universality are usually false and dependent on sleight-of-hand unpersoning) and in that case the agreeable thing is to pretend it isn't there. but then you have problems!

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

sometimes i think about becoming a more agreeable person. but i don't think it's right. there are many real problems in the world that, if you're an agreeable person, you just don't talk about – it's often disagreeable to acknowledge problems at all. sometimes there's a problem that doesn't admit a positive-sum solution that benefits everyone who counts as a person (including "who counts as a person here" is disagreeable, it's casting suspicion on claims to universality; i think this is correct and claims to universality are usually false and dependent on sleight-of-hand unpersoning) and in that case the agreeable thing is to pretend it isn't there. but then you have problems!

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

in general, people think multiculturalism means that people look different but think like westerners of middling education. because culture is just food and music, right? but what multiculturalism looks like in practice is that the cultural practice of having bar codes that cashiers scan is replaced with the cultural practice of having cashiers add up prices on a four-function calculator from memory and type in a number that's too big if they think you aren't paying attention. and one may begin to encounter other exotic cultural practices, like treating it as a valid response to a petty interpersonal dispute to take out a gun and fire without aiming in a crowded public place

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

imagining a guy who's a cultural relativist. it doesn't really matter if we have dueling or not. it doesn't really matter whether we kill people for having premarital sex. if doesn't really matter if we eat the brains of dead people. and if we shit in the same river we bathe in, that doesn't matter either

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

giving directions to friend who's coincidentally in my hometown and feeling shrimp emotions. this place was 20 years of my life. if i had the option i'd push the button to destroy it. i still remember where the good (relatively speaking) liquor store is. i don't think anything within 30 miles of it should exist.

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

whatever your politics are, whatever your morality is, assume i support the opposite. i'm a divine right monarchist who believes germans are too swarthy to be biologically human, unless you are, in which case i'm a communist. if you're both, and i'm sure there's at least one person who is, i'm a centrist from des moines who voted for romney and has never heard of podcasts. beware!

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

"guy who likes wearing makeup must be secretly a girl", as is amply attested in the notes, is further demonstration (as if this was needed!) that we're in a badly fucked conservative era. do any of you fags remember david bowie? or goths? or theater kids, we used to have theater kids

[aorish]

consequence of spending time around trans girls who are mostly 4chan chuds (i.e. most of the current crop who call themselves "tma") is that they have a chudly view of gender.

theater kids still exist, obviously. the tgirl chuds just hate them for being fags

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

it's a sicilian idea. it reeks of the old country. it stinks of the headscarf and chaperone. the world is partitioned into two opposite roles, as it always has been, as it always will be; the advantage of the new world is that one has a choice as to which of the two to follow

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

i mean look if you aren't going about in a t-shirt and cargo shorts every day looking like a gorilla and feeling insensate we've got a word for that and it's Blahaj Tragsnerder. you've got to trag your snerder! you've got to bla yourself a haj. if you people saw the rock music they had in the 80s you'd shit yourselves. like the shit that was on the radio. you're to the right of ted nugent! how's half this website to the right of ted nugent? how many people on le website de woke would go down the checklist and blahaj tragsnerder ted nugent. fucked!!!

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

"guy who likes wearing makeup must be secretly a girl", as is amply attested in the notes, is further demonstration (as if this was needed!) that we're in a badly fucked conservative era. do any of you fags remember david bowie? or goths? or theater kids, we used to have theater kids

[old-man-yuri]

[faggyfairy]

[crochethub]

horse filet animation by witheredvamp

[aloneimaginarylife]

Noir, 2001

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

there are experiences that make you both a morally worse person and a more correct one. worse because they're incompatible with the high moral theories that convention dictates, more correct because the high moral theories are wrong. the idea that greater filtration would produce a better civilization by this effect, and not by more normal ones – it wasn't ability to understand incentives and ripple effects that led colonial massachusetts, perhaps the most class-filtered society in history, populated by skilled tradesmen who argued about theology in books in their spare time, to take over the world! it wasn't a degraded understanding of incentives and ripple effects that led the internet to get so much worse once it was opened for settlement by the masses. it's a charming but false vision of a world where the quality of the average human is much higher than it is in ours, where everyone has the impulse control for incentives to matter at all. in the world we live in, a barrier to mass adoption of public transit is that people don't want to be iryna zarutska. it's things like that

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