But in the intellectual climate which we have succeeded in producing troughout Western Europe you needn't bother about that. Only learned read old book and we have now so dealt with the learned that they that they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so. We have done this by inculcating thr Historical Point of View, put briefly, means that when a learned man is presented with any statement in an ancient author, the one question he never asks is wether it is true. He asks who influenced the ancient writer, and how far the statment is consistent with what he said in earlier books, ... To regard the ancient writer as apossible source for knowledge -to to anticipate that what he said could possibly modyfy your thoughts and behavior- this would be rejected as unutterably simple-minded

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From the screwtape letters by c.s Lewis

Well yeah, because society becomes more progressive the more technologies develop that make harsh rules superficially unnecessary

So whenever they look back more than a few decades the person is now outside of the overton window

at least this is one of the reasons, I think

were all of the channels nuked or something?

yeah

precaution against current antifa infiltration attempts

https://youtu.be/8cyNk9uPC6Q

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/662874196069580813/673223921738317834/image0.jpg

Based

@Skellington what book is that?

idk

i found the pic on another server

Oh

>Nietzsche was a coomer

🤔

Nietzsche was bloody weird

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Why would he try to bullshit people he was Polish? Or was that a symbolic thing of some sort?

Nietzsche was German

I know, but he claimed on multiple occasions he hailed from Poland which is pure nonsense

Didn’t know that

As to his coomerism that would be in line with the hypothesis that he contracted syphilis.

Imagine getting syphilis

lol

Imagine getting syphilis and letting it develop into neural stage

Imagine going insane and dying from an std

nietsche died of an std?

i thought he was an incel

There’s a theory that he got an std (syphilis) from a prostitute

god stuck him down

poetic

I'm starting to think that the rescue your father from the underworld schtick is just a massive cope cause all of JBP's intellectual role models were fucked

Every man has some cope.

With creators (be it artist, philosophers or other) it's just more apparent since they leave part of themselves in their own creation.

Coping is not necessarily a bad thing.

I know, it's tongue and cheek. I'm probably the biggest defender of that tradition here.

https://youtu.be/zsDwFGz0Okg talks about some hints for consciousness in sperm whales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKFhbHwaVFE&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=OBxO-Rs4irbvvK6a%3A6 Is altering your child genetic code without their consent moral?

depends on what you are doing it for

if you are changing their sex

no

but otherwise perhaps

Unless it's for removal of hereditary diseases people should not play God, especially with their own children.

Nothing wrong with higher intelligence and whatnot

it seems to me like either everything is permitted or none of it is

Can i get some thoughts on Curtis Yarvins "clear pill"?

i guess not

haven't read it in depth enough to give any solid opinion

well i have many questions about it but there were some truths in there

as of right now i have only read part 1

i am wondering where this is going

he seems to advocate apoliticism

why would he do that?

I think I read it but I cant remember what it was about? That's part of his new stuff right? Are the other parts already released?

i only saw part 1 and 2

yes its new

Fuck this wasn't to long ago I don't remember anything.

he talks about the stories we tell ourselves about us and how they can stabilize a political regime

and he says he will nuke your current understanding of politics

ill be the judge of that after reading the other parts

Oh yeah two story state and so on I remember some of that.

Like china and north korea are a one story state because eveyone has to believe in the party doctrine. The west is a two story state (or three) trapping you into a false dichotomy

well more or less, yeah

im not sure how accurate it is

I think I will read part 2 later I didn't know it was already out.

i guess we are outside of the overton bubble and threaten the whole regime unless they can brand us as na zis and have those be an indicator for evil person, which makes people dismiss us along with our true ideas. and they are doing that. but if we can break through those surface level insults then we are a legitimate danger to the regime

it came out in november

i will read it later today i guess

So we are the third story.

That no one is supposed to listen to maybe.

what i just wrote there, and what yarvin wrote in that regard, are not new ideas though. my mind has not been blown yet

we knew for a long time we are outside the overton window

and that our ideas are true and will win in a free market of ideas so have to be repressed by the regime which is threatened by them

@Fighting Gold its not much different from his original work. i think he is sort of reiterating his 8 year old blog for a new audience

that would be a good idea, even fewer people read blogs in current year

“The wanting of what may be lost”

https://youtu.be/pk8gN68crMU

I am beginning to like the idea of protectionism

for certain countries

small countries where its cheaper to buy everything from other countries

export whatever you can but dont import anything you dont really need

unless you have the luxury of being high in exports, produce your own food

Protectionism is good

^

I don't think a country like Singapore could be protectionist

The policies only really work if you have a large enough domestic market/demand to creat a manufacturing base

It is always a trade off. You trade some money or access to better products for a more independent economy.
Division of labor works across borders but if you are too specialized a little virus boy and a few closed ports can kill you. All the money you made by not being protective isn't going to help you in that case.
I see protectionism as insurance if we look purely at the material side.

The larger you domestic market is the smaller are the consequences of protectionism. This is why china can pull off a level of protection that most smaller countries could not.

I actually disagree with the division of labour applying to national economies

There's economies of scale yes but that runs into diminishing returns (and the few cents you save in part are due to just using cheaper labour or less regulated markets)

If you have a large market like the EU or America you are very much capable of not importing manufactured products without much of a downside

But it's nor like free trade has relied on specialization in that sense to jsutify itself

Smith and Ricardo were relying on comparative and absolute advantage in production

Somehow magically some countries are just better at producing something

Therefore they should specialize in what they have an advantage

It's really retarded when you think about it