We deeply value expression and open discussion.HAHAHAHAH! And people wonder why nobody takes their "mission statements" and "core values" seriously. As long as corporate is a kindergarten for adult babies controlled by emotions and ego investment, it will only get worse.
βItβs not like the post-war period,β he said. βIn fact, after the Second World War, many of the advanced countries started at very high levels of debt β the United States, the UK, many European countries β but they brought it down dramatically over 30 years. How did they do it? Rapid growth and inflation. And both of those are not possible anymore.βAs always .gov only does "the right thing" when out of all other options, as the "right thing" is drop some of these "needs".
βRapid growth is no longer possible; these are now aging societies; productivity growth is much lower than before,β he said.
βAnd inflation is not going to be tolerated by older societies,β he said. βThey may be tolerated when societies are young and everyoneβs incomes are going up, but itβs not going to be tolerated now. So that option isnβt there.β Like medication that is not tolerated and makes the sick patient even sicker.
Microsoft found the underwater data center to be eight times more reliable than those on land, crediting the dry nitrogen air inside the container as being less corrosive than oxygen.Sounds like the novel anti-biofouling coating worked very well also. Huge implications.
Itβs hard out there for a kulak.Literally everything is just clout. The ideas don't even matter. The cathedral and the universities are completely corroded anuses.
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most of this lust for meaning goes not into power, but into the mere appearance of power: power porn. If there is any fighting style that prevails in mixed martial arts, it is Brazilian jujitsu. If there is any trope that prevails in the modern marketplace of ideas, it is the pornography of importance.
Dissidents under all regimes often come to grief by expecting power, their enemy, to be fair to themβor believing that some demonstration of unfairness will harm the regime's legitimacy. Actually, successful illegitimate action confirms a regime's legitimacy. Only the powers that be can break their own rules.The fatal conceit of activism laid bare. Anyone in this sphere has felt this in their life in living color. This is why Agorism is the only option. Just start living your life free.
The primary impact of dissidents in the modern regime is as scapegoats and/or naive provocateurs. Power, which would otherwise have to explain its troubled relationship with reality, instead gets enemies it can blame for its failuresβshoring it up nicely. While these enemies are perfectly sincere in their animosity, and can be irritating and even damaging, they are orders of magnitude too weak to be an existential threat.
And even if dissident energy is simply wasted, all energy is finite. Even dissipating the enemyβs energy is a victory. And this is how most dissidents, too, reinforce the regime.
For example, ritually desecrating the temples, monuments, idols, or other sad fetishes of a weak, beaten people is a time-honored way to flex on them and keep them weak. Nine hundred years before Jesus, the Assyrians had already made themselves masters of this art. If you think you are something different from an Assyrian, you are wrong.If anyone on the right think they're gonna win this one, they're dead wrong. If you can't protect your sacred symbols, it's already over.
Modern civilization, thanks to innovations in communication from Gutenberg to Pornhub, has returned to its beginning. In 2020, everyone is totally connected. So everyone can and must be engaged with powerβjust like when we were chimps.π₯π₯π₯
The total state is no longer content with physical compliance. It demands emotional security. Power is not just obeyed. Power must be loved. And this reversion to the total state, our most ancient form of government, makes the modern regime, despite all its toys and transistors, seem somehow surprisingly barbaric.
But when power has our emoluments and our compliance, why does it need our homage? Why must it pester us so, for the mere trinket of love?
Because it feels insecure. Power always feels insecure. Everyone wants powerβso it should feel insecure. And the worse its performance, the more insecure power feels, because the more insecure it is; so the more homage it must demand.