Is "luxury beliefs" a useful category?
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L*: the belief that children do not need to be raised in a traditional, stable, two-parent family in order to thrive.
In the case of this article though it has degenerated to just another meme, a label that people use to "other" other people and prove their own membership in a certain tribe. People who are in the know will hit the "like" button, it will just blow right by most people unless something happens to make it a temporary or longstanding flash point.
> many things that people think will help the poor don't
The biggest thing that seems to help locally is: rather than having special "programs", to let markets set prices, and use reimbursements to ensure that no one lacks for reasonable food, housing, health care, or education.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240318132203/https://nypost.co...
backed up by this Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_belief
See also
git rebase ‘d
Seems like Braverman in the wikipage, as well as Arnold Kling, are in the Guardian* cluster? I think that could be a rather better dichotomy for our present context than left/right. NYT in your earlier example, is fully in the Guardian camp., e.g… Dan Williams is (considerably?) harder to classify.
[& pls do compare The Grey Lady with The Grauniad/les grognards]
https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-new-systems-of-survival
082349872349872’s local tactics, are defo Commerce?
I profess a liking for Venkatesh’s Professional Weirdos, btw, let me hear your thoughts?
Update: ”Saints have a Jungian shadow of Trader going” in the ribbonfarmed
[with the Trader, by reciprocity, having a Jungian shadow of Saint]
Updated update: Wojak as reigning local guardian spirit.
Further Compare:
Maybe it's just because I'm in Rao's definition of a 1st world country (small rich European), but from 2004 to 2024, the biggest changes in my day to day have been: (a) national cashless payment app, and (b) peanut butter and pierogis in gas stations. Neither of those seem particularly weird to me.
A quick and dirty one to your current attempt at (hyper-?)normalization :
How is your part of teutonia dealing with the destitute? I say the Fuggerei, e.g., is rather weird, in a global sense… Might have to look at the cities..
(There are also nonpro videos on youtube documenting how homeless are kept out of sight in Tokyo, the protestant partner to Osaka?)
With that in mind, our approach is very KISS: rather than attempt to manipulate other things, that may or may not work, or set up entire parallel "programs", we just have the destitute buy their food and shelter on the open market, and reimburse them for the expense.
where would JJ put linux and python? Guardian? How about Rao? Hypernormal? (I would put linux in Weird-Pros, as I desperately need a concrete example of a survivor in that sector that you can relate to :) cpython goes into hypernormal, of course.. with your blessing it could even go into box Wojack.
At first blush, what is HN.
At second, the principle of individuation as the shadow of the Apollonian|X
[we’re taking GT seriiusly here, yes?]
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM_G0IRLEx4
(someday someone ought to write "The principle of individuation as Fermi-Dirac statistics, or, the worship of Dionysus among the Bosons")
but im guessing youre more interested in fermionization
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Attempt_at_Self-Criticism
(As well as version 1870)
(Please ignore his narcissism lol)
Apologies for the slight (or severe?) misdirection. Heres my attempt to remediate.. & a more refined suggestion to dig out FWN’s earlier, unlabelled, docking attempt..
With that blunt but rather understated (and in some degree disingenuous) entry in one of his notebooks from 1872 – far more deadpan in tone than many others of the same period (there is, for instance, a nearby note which equates philologists with castrati ...) – Friedrich Nietzsche encapsulates the inescapable provocation of The Birth of Tragedy: a work written by a classical scholar in defiance of the most fundamental norms and protocols of his profession.
KSA = G. Colli and M. Montinari (eds.) (1988) Friedrich Nietzsche: Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Studienausgabe, 15 vols., 2nd edn., Munich. [References are to volume, page (with line numbers where appropriate), plus, for the notebooks, entry numbers in the form (e.g.) 19[55].]
[see also footnote 26 and its referer]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9dFKRZ8EbU
there it's difficult to avoid, for even pop stars (or those who aspire thereto) tend to not only have frame stories but even make vaudeville (or at least concert) allusions, eg:
Стас Михайлов, Жанна Фриске
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dylbA7M3B5Y
Из бетона обелиски
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBnCo2SKafU
К манной каше две сосиски
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLWH4VKeBiY
:: :: ::
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_CZTi8L29c
EDIT: * Diejenigen, die Theater kaum schätzen, sind »Mehr Sein wie Schein«?
Isn't there a home lab experiment one may do with an onion...
This piece is abysmal and I'm seeing more and more of this behavior. Pseudo intellectualizing pseudo intellectualization by calling one side full of well reasoned and proven arguments and others who diverge from intoned arguments.
For you it's the luxury elite. Yesterday it was Tim Ferris and "intellectuals" (bless them for being our redeemers).
AMERICA YOUR SCIENCE IS A SUBSIDIZED CROCK OF SHIT!
Writing papers is now confused with conclusive credibility and it is a MULTI BILLION DOLLAR house of cards (in which real science and engineering happens too.) Though one could say trillions.
The nature of existential Truth is still the good stuff, yet our entire culture of thought is being upended by modernity.
Choosing values isn't to blame so much as the mass struggle for agreeable self indulgent assertions as to what truth may be and how it is individually (or globally) worth something.