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Re: What's causing populism around the world? It's the Internet Stupid (Fukuyama)

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Post by gsf_emergency_6 »

aebtebeten wrote: post #20
gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fwiw i thought the (anti)symmetry behind the German "pun" feels kind of forced [in a Buxton sense maybe?] Only the [very] modern Korean examples passed my intuition test. Example 2 was certainly ironic, but the idea (ex3) of businesses being loyal to the customer comes closest to the (less ironic) vibe I was looking for. Noted also the level of emotionality compared to the others (including "amanah"?) https://m.sohu.…

You've mentioned hu, 狐; will it summon our resident 狐憑き? The painting is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythia#/media/File:John_Collie... (my inspiration for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863255 ) PS. already interested, no need to bother the tensors!

Its a pity that 搜狐 didn't mention the (5-1) _cardinal_ virtues[0]

Out of an abundance of caution, I'd wildly guess PH ("dyadically")

-Doesn't want to let us see him sweat (usage his)

-is still consulting the I-Ching^W Copilot on how to proceed

[0] tangential to the "last word on combinators", I'd note that the source-glyph for [virtuosity-]zero --"xin" in the Chinese^W 搜狐 moral compass-- has a possibly negative emotional valence. At least according to an unreliable "guru" of mine, it depicts a mute with a pipe shoved down his throat (~south indian communal version of modern Slavic phallic graffiti :)

So thoroughly vibing Kohut or Leucippus, that'd be bootstrapping (hallucinating?) one from zero? "A cut from no-cut"? To what extent is noncommutativity relevant here in your opinion? (Prepping ourselves for a Woah)

https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/MathEd/index.php/2022/08/25/the...

Your greeks under the influence of hallucinogenic ethylene (what boffins understand today as the smoke of Delphic bongs) however... Speak like PH would like to..?

Another tactic would be to redirect your question about death to PH in another Newish stub ( as he certainly has vastly more rubs with Death than I)

Re: What's causing populism around the world? It's the Internet Stupid (Fukuyama)

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Post by aebtebeten »

gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #18
aebtebeten wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I was once chatting with a swiss lawyer, and asked if he were familiar with the concept of "venue shopping". He pointed out the 26 cantons[0] and asked if he needed to proceed any further?) ("Welfare & Steering": JH's 1973 "relative success of the welfare-state compromise" may be a bit dated? I get the impression that ever since 1980, and distinctly accelerating since 1992, the Old Country's politics has, on average…

I wonder how much [theory vs practice] of CH policy moves the average vibe around guns towards an Aristotelian mean (compared to the US) It's common to compare shooting at a range to meditation?

I don't know about common, but meditators and rifle shooters both:

- relax their muscles and search stillness

- maintain awareness of their breathing and heart beats

- focus without letting their minds wander

so there are definitely parallels!

(on theory vs practice, I have a minor comment that can wait for a thread with some PH participation)

Re: What's causing populism around the world? It's the Internet Stupid (Fukuyama)

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Post by aebtebeten »

gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #17
aebtebeten wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linebarger on "legitimation crises" and their alternatives (in the context of ending hot wars): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#:~...

Ah wonder if the confederate train was meant to evoke Germany's rail-themed legitimation crisis (getting the hot war rolling)

Given that a large part of the subtext (Linebarger* does implore us to habitually analyse all communication as if it might be propaganda) in Psychological Warfare is that "hey, it might really be better if the US Army didn't practice apartheid" (finally ended in practice ca. the 6.25 전쟁), I'd bet the confederate train was supposed to evoke the US Civil War.

(let's stay silent about: "...the new organization is simply the old one under a slightly different name, but with the old leaders and the old ideas still prevailing.")

* might this be why he seems to have been replaced at Bragg with a very powerpoint-y kind of textbook?

Re: What's causing populism around the world? It's the Internet Stupid (Fukuyama)

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Post by gsf_emergency_6 »

aebtebeten wrote: post #23
gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah wonder if the confederate train was meant to evoke Germany's rail-themed legitimation crisis (getting the hot war rolling)

Given that a large part of the subtext (Linebarger* does implore us to habitually analyse all communication as if it might be propaganda) in Psychological Warfare is that "hey, it might really be better if the US Army didn't practice apartheid" (finally ended in practice ca. the 6.25 전쟁), I'd bet the confederate train was supposed to evoke the US Civil War. (let's stay silent about: "...the new organization is simply…

Okay I feel i'd said something stupid ---about the train--- without knowing what or why :)

I had a notion that, compared to the US military, it was the Civilian Enforcers that practise apartheid-- ~a decade ago, not sure about now, they forced a black admiral to retire weeks back? Then again I was surprised that I was surprised at the inflation in NYC since the start of the pandemic

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/admiral-alvin...

Re: What's causing populism around the world? It's the Internet Stupid (Fukuyama)

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Post by gsf_emergency_6 »

aebtebeten wrote: post #22
gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how much [theory vs practice] of CH policy moves the average vibe around guns towards an Aristotelian mean (compared to the US) It's common to compare shooting at a range to meditation?

I don't know about common, but meditators and rifle shooters both: - relax their muscles and search stillness - maintain awareness of their breathing and heart beats - focus without letting their minds wander so there are definitely parallels! (on theory vs practice, I have a minor comment that can wait for a thread with some PH participation)

Fwiw I'm quite alright at (low calibre) rifles & terrible at meditation..

(I do wonder at, say, Hunter S. Thompson's skill level, which is where I'd guess the median gun rights vocalist would be at --to ask Gemini later)

am myself curious at how PH would answer your death / Kohut questions, amen on squatting.

Re: What's causing populism around the world? It's the Internet Stupid (Fukuyama)

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Post by aebtebeten »

gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #24
aebtebeten wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that a large part of the subtext (Linebarger* does implore us to habitually analyse all communication as if it might be propaganda) in Psychological Warfare is that "hey, it might really be better if the US Army didn't practice apartheid" (finally ended in practice ca. the 6.25 전쟁), I'd bet the confederate train was supposed to evoke the US Civil War. (let's stay silent about: "...the new organization is simply…

Okay I feel i'd said something stupid ---about the train--- without knowing what or why :) I had a notion that, compared to the US military, it was the Civilian Enforcers that practise apartheid-- ~a decade ago, not sure about now, they forced a black admiral to retire weeks back? Then again I was surprised that I was surprised at the inflation in NYC since the start of the pandemic https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12…

I think that notion is largely true: the military started desegregating in 1948[0]; the Civilian Enforcers not until decades later[1]. (I'd believe, recent purges notwithstanding, that the military has successfully integrated[2]; civilian society apparently ... not as much as one might have hoped, 160 years after Reconstruction[3]?)

I'm not surprised at the inflation: USD has crashed by ~20% against CHF since last year[4], so it makes sense that less real value would show up in domestic prices.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9981

[1] eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968

[2] eg I believe if it were up to career officers, US Fort Bragg would not currently be named after a CSA general

EDIT: my bad, Bragg has been retconned to refer to US PFC Roland L. Bragg instead of CSA Gen Braxton Bragg

[3] the really silly thing is that Reconstruction seems to have been thrown in the trash in order to buy southern support for WWI, yet unlike the other major XX unpleasantry, the US participation in and effect upon that conflict was minimal

[4] I lay the blame squarely on US domestic policies; others may differ...

Re: What's causing populism around the world? It's the Internet Stupid (Fukuyama)

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Post by aebtebeten »

gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #25
aebtebeten wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about common, but meditators and rifle shooters both: - relax their muscles and search stillness - maintain awareness of their breathing and heart beats - focus without letting their minds wander so there are definitely parallels! (on theory vs practice, I have a minor comment that can wait for a thread with some PH participation)

Fwiw I'm quite alright at (low calibre) rifles & terrible at meditation.. (I do wonder at, say, Hunter S. Thompson's skill level, which is where I'd guess the median gun rights vocalist would be at --to ask Gemini later) am myself curious at how PH would answer your death / Kohut questions, amen on squatting.

Hmm... I'm a relatively poor shot, and I've never tried meditation myself, only listened to people talking about it, so maybe I should retract that. What would you say the major differences are?

(might you see more of a parallel between ice climbing and meditation?)

Re: What's causing populism around the world? It's the Internet Stupid (Fukuyama)

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Post by gsf_emergency_6 »

aebtebeten wrote: post #27
gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fwiw I'm quite alright at (low calibre) rifles & terrible at meditation.. (I do wonder at, say, Hunter S. Thompson's skill level, which is where I'd guess the median gun rights vocalist would be at --to ask Gemini later) am myself curious at how PH would answer your death / Kohut questions, amen on squatting.

Hmm... I'm a relatively poor shot, and I've never tried meditation myself, only listened to people talking about it, so maybe I should retract that. What would you say the major differences are? (might you see more of a parallel between ice climbing and meditation?)

To your kind of meditation, yes!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41326474

To Fehmi's (& what I called "meditation"(/"prana-bindu") above, to be investigated..

Happy 2026!

Ps presumably your dad was with the Navy?

Re: What's causing populism around the world? It's the Internet Stupid (Fukuyama)

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Post by gsf_emergency_6 »

aebtebeten wrote: post #27
gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fwiw I'm quite alright at (low calibre) rifles & terrible at meditation.. (I do wonder at, say, Hunter S. Thompson's skill level, which is where I'd guess the median gun rights vocalist would be at --to ask Gemini later) am myself curious at how PH would answer your death / Kohut questions, amen on squatting.

Hmm... I'm a relatively poor shot, and I've never tried meditation myself, only listened to people talking about it, so maybe I should retract that. What would you say the major differences are? (might you see more of a parallel between ice climbing and meditation?)

(That was not to imply that I have firsthand familiarity with iceclimbing; I was just wildly extrapolating from rock climbing and friends')

The major diff is paying attention to external (nontactile) sensations perhaps?

Re: What's causing populism around the world? It's the Internet Stupid (Fukuyama)

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Post by aebtebeten »

gsf_emergency_6 wrote: post #29
aebtebeten wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm... I'm a relatively poor shot, and I've never tried meditation myself, only listened to people talking about it, so maybe I should retract that. What would you say the major differences are? (might you see more of a parallel between ice climbing and meditation?)

(That was not to imply that I have firsthand familiarity with iceclimbing; I was just wildly extrapolating from rock climbing and friends') The major diff is paying attention to external (nontactile) sensations perhaps?

ice climbing is way more meditative than rock!

(because (a) crampons mean you get to study the ice and make your holds, instead of rapidly making use of what's there, and (b) the process of making them takes time... I was very pleasantly surprised; I'd expected it to be more thrilling and above all „Besonders Im Winter Arsch-Kalt“ but it was actually relatively low-adrenaline and high-activity)

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