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Chasm / Question pertaining to "Objectivism" and Machiavellian pragmatism
« on: November 19, 2012, 04:51:50 PM »
The Objectivist dogma seems to suggest that all must be done for the 'self' and 'my consciousness'.
Combining this with Machiavelli's pragmatism (or using it as a way to get what you want) seems to be the height of egotistical thinking. Or, is Machiavelli no longer pragmatic in this scenario because it is applied with regards to a 'self-serving' morality?
Is the problem ultimately the self based philosophy of Obj.? Or even broader: is Objectivism just an 'excuse' to apply stuff for one's own gain?
This may seem rather obvious, but I'm trying to grab a bit of advice on the issue- because I don't see it as difficult for some person stuffed with themselves to go ahead and abuse Machiavelli's terminology like this: "I am a prince. I am not constrained by morality. I will do anything and everything to get what I want."
The prince always just struck me as what is realistically needed to manage a country, but not some term to be applied to self-bloated folks. Or am I walking a dangerous line here unawares?
Combining this with Machiavelli's pragmatism (or using it as a way to get what you want) seems to be the height of egotistical thinking. Or, is Machiavelli no longer pragmatic in this scenario because it is applied with regards to a 'self-serving' morality?
Is the problem ultimately the self based philosophy of Obj.? Or even broader: is Objectivism just an 'excuse' to apply stuff for one's own gain?
This may seem rather obvious, but I'm trying to grab a bit of advice on the issue- because I don't see it as difficult for some person stuffed with themselves to go ahead and abuse Machiavelli's terminology like this: "I am a prince. I am not constrained by morality. I will do anything and everything to get what I want."
The prince always just struck me as what is realistically needed to manage a country, but not some term to be applied to self-bloated folks. Or am I walking a dangerous line here unawares?
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Chasm / Gustave Le Bon & crowd psychology
« on: February 13, 2012, 01:24:52 AM »
In my history class in school, we're reading a work published in 1896 which rather accurately mirrors ANUS's sentiments on crowds- especially as they appear in the age of modernity.
I have a link to the PDF file so check it out if interested: www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCoQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocserv.mcmaster.ca%2Fecon%2Fugcm%2F3ll3%2Flebon%2FCrowds.pdf&ei=YMA1T9neLoKL2AXHzsH3Aw&usg=AFQjCNGqdFCEszVf8rmFosfq8-bGnvx-dA&sig2=J6Xl1Y8pJRt5-08hI3XAiw
I have a link to the PDF file so check it out if interested: www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCoQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocserv.mcmaster.ca%2Fecon%2Fugcm%2F3ll3%2Flebon%2FCrowds.pdf&ei=YMA1T9neLoKL2AXHzsH3Aw&usg=AFQjCNGqdFCEszVf8rmFosfq8-bGnvx-dA&sig2=J6Xl1Y8pJRt5-08hI3XAiw
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Chasm / Re: Liberals love to gather and do nothing
« on: September 29, 2011, 04:56:27 PM »
Liberals are so quick to blame everything else around them without ever actually evaluating themselves or their own beliefs. If they got the absolute equality they wanted and still everything went down the shitter, who/what would they blame then?
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Chasm / Re: Glad you're dead
« on: September 28, 2011, 06:52:06 PM »
For a generation with such destructive/inorganic/pointless end-results, it seems pop-culture martyrdom is the only way to (really) be worth anything to anybody outside of your 'personal sphere' in the long run.
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Chasm / Re: The universe is fatalistic
« on: August 24, 2011, 06:53:05 PM »
Perhaps pre-big bang existed as everything at once. The essences of everything we deem separate nowadays would all have been unified as one thing. Once the big bang occurred, this 'one' split into 'many'; all different facets relating back to the original. This pre-big bang essence may have served as genetic material for 'existence', with the event itself triggering a sort of instantaneous transcription/translation process, from representations of reality (DNA) to reality itself (proteins).
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Metal / Re: A-list metal
« on: August 23, 2011, 08:20:01 PM »
Shouldn't there be an official DLA review for Prong's "Beg to Differ" given that it's referred to as the band's "opus" on their page?
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Chasm / Re: Pokemon
« on: August 23, 2011, 07:51:50 PM »
For Pokemon, the Gold/Silver generation was probably the peak in terms of fun (nostalgia playing a role as well). I agree with the Mass Effect 2 recommendation, it's a very good RPG by any measure. I'd also like to suggest Chrono Trigger/Cross for the SNES/PS1 in case anybody hasn't played them yet.
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Chasm / Re: Riots in London after criminal is killed by police
« on: August 21, 2011, 11:39:32 AM »
This is more or less a 100x worse Stalinist regime. Not only is it catering to the lower-class masses, it is self-perpetuating because the masses only become bigger and stupider as time goes on.
It's like an infectious protist colony in our bodies that we keep feeding because it would be "unfair" to let it die off.
It's like an infectious protist colony in our bodies that we keep feeding because it would be "unfair" to let it die off.
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Chasm / Re: Not good enough
« on: August 07, 2011, 11:49:54 PM »
Reparations will not occur in the form of a government handout. If the intelligent people in the African-American community want to succeed they must eschew the Booker T Washington passive mindset because it compromises their own values in favor the of the modernist one. A W.E.B DuBois approach would be more sensible with African Americans not "proving" themselves to whites but forging ahead on their own, while abandoning all other ethnicities. Of course, given how crowded the world is, they probably would not be able to locate a set location where they could develop independently unless they took it by force and forced all others out.
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Chasm / Re: Thus passes the great hero Anders Breivik into martyrdom
« on: August 06, 2011, 12:17:04 PM »Sane and constructive thoughts from elsewhere:QuoteThe most adaptive course for Westerners is to find a way to restore a sustainable birthrate and ethnic consciousness within the framework of the Western tradition, which forms the vital cultural aspect of our identity. That cannot be achieved if we misconstrue the content and nature of Western cultural identity, as does Stephen Walt, or if we apply military tactics to what is an intellectual, cultural, and political problem, as did Anders Breivik.
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2011/08/does-the-norway-atrocity-make-nationalism-illegitimate-a-reply-to-stephen-walt/#more-9588
I'm not so sure about the last thought of that quote anymore. Western people are surrounded by enemies who are out for our blood and land. It's getting worse with all the flash-mobs and Mexican cartels' assaults on Americans in the S/SW. Breivik probably should have targeted minorities or liberal universities and other pro-globalist institutions if he had to go out with a bang. I don't want to have a militant "vangard" attitude, but the pressure is on. I agree that Westerners desperately need to work on self-identity and creating a better culture in the meantime, but we should have the attitude that violence is ultimately a push forward to meet our ends.
Wouldn't this simply cause the same sort of backlash that Breivik faced in Norway? If we are going to use violence as a means toward our goals, it should probably be applied after a much greater sense of self-identity has been achieved. We need people of this mindset to come together first; allowing them to establish a fledgling society and it's goals. These people would probably have violence towards foreigners/invaders of any sort which could function as a central tenet of society. Forgive me if I misconstrued your post, it just seems that instantly jumping to violence would be a hasty decision.
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Metal / Re: Metal for all seasons
« on: August 05, 2011, 09:29:14 PM »
I find Ras Algethi to be appreciable regardless of the time of year. Their music is very elemental, making it an ideal listening partner for each season.
This is a good example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ3S7KZ15Hg
This is a good example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ3S7KZ15Hg
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Metal / Re: Introducing intelligent people to intelligent metal
« on: August 03, 2011, 10:01:59 PM »
Perhaps it would be wise to introduce these people to non-metal side projects of metal musicians. For example, using Neptune Towers as a stepping stone into Darkthrone's discography might be effective.
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Metal / Re: How do you compose?
« on: July 30, 2011, 04:10:30 PM »I do not compose, but an interesting way of writing music would be to encode the conclusion of the piece in the introduction. Emperor comes to mind with introductory riff/concluding riff in "Into the Infinity of Thoughts". It sets up development for the rest of the track by serving as sort of a platform to work from, and when that riff is reiterated towards the end, we understand it in a different context. Of course, there are many details that would be necessary in order to make that riff's reintroduction meaningful.
A huge amount of classical music uses this idea, but it's more of a compositional device than a method of composing.
The method could then be to think of single concepts that fit into a larger cycle or process (The seasons perhaps?).
Important riff to be used in reiteration (Lake) --> Allow a specific logical process to take shape via developments (Stream) --> Have that logic return back to its origin, but the context now creates larger meaning (Ocean).
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Metal / Re: How do you compose?
« on: July 30, 2011, 02:36:31 PM »
I do not compose, but an interesting way of writing music would be to encode the conclusion of the piece in the introduction. Emperor comes to mind with introductory riff/concluding riff in "Into the Infinity of Thoughts". It sets up development for the rest of the track by serving as sort of a platform to work from, and when that riff is reiterated towards the end, we understand it in a different context. Of course, there are many details that would be necessary in order to make that riff's reintroduction meaningful.
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Chasm / Re: Best nu-metal songs
« on: May 11, 2011, 10:57:51 AM »
Tuff Guy - Beat Up (My Grandma)
Sh1tsta1n - Fi$t Pizza
BlInG - Bringin' The Pain (Stiff Member version)
Sh1tsta1n - Fi$t Pizza
BlInG - Bringin' The Pain (Stiff Member version)