Message from @Nester

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2017-02-21 13:23:22 UTC  

is the only thing that can bring me to orgasm anymore

2017-02-21 13:23:31 UTC  

if you read, the Culture series of novels

2017-02-21 13:23:36 UTC  

has a society that's like that

2017-02-21 13:23:41 UTC  

and it's depicted positively

2017-02-21 13:23:50 UTC  

the writer can't ever make it work

2017-02-21 13:24:19 UTC  

but it's been lauded a lot due to that basic premise, which takes "liberalism" as it exists in our times and extends it to a technological absurdity

2017-02-21 13:24:39 UTC  

"transcendental garbage men"

2017-02-21 13:24:42 UTC  

nice one

2017-02-21 13:25:11 UTC  

smart people dont understand their function or their specialness

2017-02-21 13:25:22 UTC  

they should be considered like an adaptation of a bigger organism

2017-02-21 13:25:33 UTC  

useful in small numbers to deal with exceptional situations

2017-02-21 13:25:37 UTC  

black swan events, whatever

2017-02-21 13:25:45 UTC  

in most matters, common sense is far superior

2017-02-21 13:25:49 UTC  

Different people should be considered as puzzle pieces

2017-02-21 13:25:50 UTC  

even if it cannot be rationally justified

2017-02-21 13:25:58 UTC  

Completing a whole of a people

2017-02-21 13:26:18 UTC  

this hypothesis means that group selection/adaptation is a thing

2017-02-21 13:26:21 UTC  

which is rejected at the moment

2017-02-21 13:26:26 UTC  

One sort of puzzle piece can't make up a picture

2017-02-21 13:27:57 UTC  

BruBru stopped blogging @Nester

2017-02-21 13:28:01 UTC  

Yeah, cause such stories are masturbatory.

2017-02-21 13:28:16 UTC  

What?

2017-02-21 13:28:20 UTC  

Why?

2017-02-21 13:28:25 UTC  

Temporarily?

2017-02-21 13:28:32 UTC  

Blogging is suspended for the time being. I have blogged daily here for nearly seven years, at an average rate of about 1.5 posts per day - but at present I have nothing much to say and (linked with this) no imaginative sense of an 'audience'. It may be that this phase of my work is coming to an end, as so often happens in life after seven years. We shall see...

2017-02-21 13:28:45 UTC  

he's a bit lame about this aspect

2017-02-21 13:28:48 UTC  

the audience aspect

2017-02-21 13:29:33 UTC  

he says he restricts commenting to a degree because why should he let random people undermine his words?

2017-02-21 13:29:37 UTC  

as if that is some right?

2017-02-21 13:29:40 UTC  

and he isn't wrong about that

2017-02-21 13:29:49 UTC  

but at the same time, you make yourself vulnerable to foster greater insight

2017-02-21 13:30:00 UTC  

his words should put commenting into a new, important context

2017-02-21 13:30:03 UTC  

rather than curtailing it

2017-02-21 13:30:25 UTC  

and because he has this attitude, he is not able to receive the appreciation due to him

2017-02-21 13:30:37 UTC  

which he would not acknowledge anyway, he wouldn't feel this is anything important

2017-02-21 13:30:39 UTC  

yet it will be there

2017-02-21 13:30:57 UTC  

so its lack will result in dissatisfaction ("am I even doing anything?")

2017-02-21 13:32:14 UTC  

as in many things, reaction to a wrong aspect of the way things are now leads to being led astray in a different way

2017-02-21 13:32:30 UTC  

one of satan's great tools is establishing dichotomies

2017-02-21 13:32:35 UTC  

not necessarily false ones either