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awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: "The other method of human thought is that of Causality. This method is inwardly compulsory in dealing with inorganic problems of technics, mechanics, engineerng, systematic natural philosophy. It finds the limits of its efficacy there, however, and is grotesque when appllied to Life. It would tell us that youth is the
awt[billymg|asciilifeform]: flower, the caterpillar the cause of the butterfly." -from Imperium by Yockey. Seems interesting in the context of working from causes.
asciilifeform tried reading subj decade+ ago, fell asleep
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Guy led an interesting life, at least
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Cyanide without the Wagner
shinohai[asciilifeform]: Suicided before the feebs could do it for him?
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Caught returning to US from the Eastern Bloc with multiple passports. Took the pill in a cell, I think, yeah.
asciilifeform: 1337 w4r3z for the interested. imho snoar.
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: I barely started the book, but I found interesting the formulation of a civilization as having a soul and being a living thing. This occurs to most, I think, but I'd never seen anyone formally discuss it.
asciilifeform: awt: iirc spengler discussed
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: asciilifeform: indeed
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Attempted to listen to a Spengler book on the plane but literally snoared
asciilifeform tried various 'fascist classics', j.evola, etc. -- guaranteed sleep
asciilifeform: from 'outside' pov, reads similarly to e.g. the 'catholic apologists' -- can see how they stroked one another's cocks, but the worx dun say much to a 'civilian'
asciilifeform: d00d had the 'fortune' to live in the tail end of the period when lizards thought that 'ideas matter'. so, poisoned, and nao archaeologists try to make sense of his spew...
asciilifeform: ( yockey, that is )
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Initially grabbed my interest because he reportedly saw the USSA as the worst of two evils early on.
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Trying to figure out why
asciilifeform: even before end of ww2, was rather obv. that totalitarian reichs will colonize all of planet3, for objective techno-economic reasons
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Hey, might forget how to make nukes tho
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: There is a bright side to mass immigration from the global south
asciilifeform: the solider part of the argument concerned airplane, rather than nuke
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Will reread. Been like a year or something.
billymg: !. uptime
bitbot: billymg: time since my last reconnect : 33d 3h 37m
billymg: this log line ref should've been echoed
bitbot: Logged on 2022-05-30 18:24:42 asciilifeform: if he lived today, would've been simply anuther redditus.
asciilifeform was wondering wainot
billymg: ohh, nm, actually not supposed to, because it's from asciilifeform's logger
asciilifeform: a hm
billymg: e.g. http://logs.bitdash.io/asciilifeform/2022-03-24#1088101 should work
bitbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-03-24 asciilifeform: the # of 'unbelievers' is unknown, cuz reich aint set up in such a way that the captives' beliefs actually matter in any way
asciilifeform: yea, will echo as soon as asciilifeform gets around to plugging own logotron into pestnet
billymg: asciilifeform: i'll start publishing dumps of my logs soon too, with a cron job like you do on nosuchlabs.com, so you'll be able to grab the pest history if you want
asciilifeform: a++