Twitter is basically a massive conversation dethreading machine at this point. (The sporadic sinister disappearances are just part of that.)
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Replying to @Outsideness
I asked Steven Pinker about you in person today
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Replying to @ParadiseDelayed @Outsideness
Me: "Have you heard of the British philosopher Nick Land"? Pinker: "Nick Land? as in Land?" Me: "Yeah, he's part of an intellectual group within the alt-right" Pinker: "Well there are many groups like that in the alt-right"
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Replying to @AMK2934 @ParadiseDelayed
"... he's part of an intellectual group within the alt-right ..." Were you trying to deliberately confuse the guy?
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Replying to @Outsideness @ParadiseDelayed
I didn't want to explain neoreaction. He also mentioned "a pacthwork of states during the middle ages in Europe" and how violent things were back then compared to large nations. I mentioned that he mentioned patchwork. I said; "I only ask because you mentioned patchwork"
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Given weapons technology at the time, a large centralized state would almost certainly have been even more violent.
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I mean, Gibson's Rome is only the most famous work of methodical history ever written - entirely as a history of Rome being murderous dicks to everyone all the time.
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*Gibbon's
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