Shorter Moldbug: "We have trouble understanding the 20th century because we're exposed to it." As opposed to?https://twitter.com/moldbuggery/status/543083934234726401 …
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We should have an easier time understanding the 5th century? What the actual fuck, Mencius.
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@St_Rev You’re kidding right? Emotional distance is what he’s getting at. Not hard to understand. 20th century myths rule us today. -
@i_contemplate_ Moldbug's signature move is to take what could be a good point and juice it up into nonsense. -
@i_contemplate_ He could have been a scientist; he chose show business instead. -
@St_Rev I think you’re just signaling metacontrarianism. Moldbug is full of insights. Anyway, to each his own. - End of conversation
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@St_Rev He's an okay troll. Helped me notice some cognitive dissonances and dissolve them. But has weirdo ideas about what the past was like -
@St_Rev Like, he thinks "justice" just meant "applying laws scrupulously" until the French revolution. Um... -
@simplic10 Fuckin' Austrians, man. -
@St_Rev I missed this reference. -
@simplic10 Moldbug's a heretical Austrian. Austrians think you can solve everything by talking and reifying and hate to quantify or test. -
@St_Rev Oh, you mean von Mises etc. Yeah. Very narrative driven. -
@St_Rev In a sense I appreciate a small dose of that bc modern westerners have the historical memory of a goldfish. -
@St_Rev So it's nice to e.g., see puritan roots in progressivism. But we are not in fact fighting the english civil war. - 11 more replies
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@random_eddie@ClarkHat TBH it was just a joke about how big your car is if you can fit Moldbug onto a bumper sticker. -
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@St_Rev This makes me want to get a giant-ass moldbug quote bumper sticker -
@drethelin thatsthejoke.gif -
@St_Rev I gotta scan@moldbuggery for the best tweet-length quote now
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.