@augustus I love how the party of empathy is now fully on board with fisa courts, no-fly lists and offshore torture facilities.
@Moon Moldbug has been spoiling us lately with his updates about the Capitol protest thing but I really liked this part
>One thing that puzzled me at first about the progressive response to the Capitol riot was the complete inability to see that their reaction to popular unrest was the exact same reaction that every regime has to popular unrest. The Chinese regime thought the same way about the Tiananmen mob (and I can make a case that they were right). Every target of a mob sees the mob in exactly the same way, and you are seeing it now. And it has nothing at all to do with Good or Bad.
>Don’t the libs realize that mobs are a dime a dozen, and the first thing a big mob does when it’s feeling its oats is to rush some building? How many buildings do you think were stormed in the “Arab Spring?” Although it may well have generated a million corpses by now, the libs certainly loved that TV show. At 15 I was just exhilarated by the fall of the Soviet Union—and puzzled that China failed to obey the will of history.
>The libs realize no such thing—because they never think outside their own tradition. They actually have no theory of mind outside it. The world outside their revolution, past and present, cannot be taken seriously; it is dark and unknowable, like the mind of a chimpanzee; and if we could know it, probably not much more interesting.
>This is why the average NPR listener can go absolutely ballistic, as if this was the first time any such thing had ever happened—whereas in reality, they themselves have watched many such disturbances, themselves, on TV—and cheered them wildly.
>This is not the first time any such thing has happened. But it is the first time any such thing has happened to them.
>One thing that puzzled me at first about the progressive response to the Capitol riot was the complete inability to see that their reaction to popular unrest was the exact same reaction that every regime has to popular unrest. The Chinese regime thought the same way about the Tiananmen mob (and I can make a case that they were right). Every target of a mob sees the mob in exactly the same way, and you are seeing it now. And it has nothing at all to do with Good or Bad.
>Don’t the libs realize that mobs are a dime a dozen, and the first thing a big mob does when it’s feeling its oats is to rush some building? How many buildings do you think were stormed in the “Arab Spring?” Although it may well have generated a million corpses by now, the libs certainly loved that TV show. At 15 I was just exhilarated by the fall of the Soviet Union—and puzzled that China failed to obey the will of history.
>The libs realize no such thing—because they never think outside their own tradition. They actually have no theory of mind outside it. The world outside their revolution, past and present, cannot be taken seriously; it is dark and unknowable, like the mind of a chimpanzee; and if we could know it, probably not much more interesting.
>This is why the average NPR listener can go absolutely ballistic, as if this was the first time any such thing had ever happened—whereas in reality, they themselves have watched many such disturbances, themselves, on TV—and cheered them wildly.
>This is not the first time any such thing has happened. But it is the first time any such thing has happened to them.
