Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

[redpoint5]

I'm listening to Rudyard's The Politics of Dehumanization now, specifically the part about how our moral code is attempting to make us cogs in the political machine.

A thought that struck me was that Marxism viewed the proletariat as noble and virtuous cogs in the evil corporate machine... which represents a rival to making those cogs serve the political machine.

Whenever the neo-Marxists can align corporate interests with their political agenda to undermine individuality and agency, they're happy to form the unholy alliance.

I'm contemptuous of all ideologies whose agenda is to strip individuality, agency, and potency (funny because I attempted to enlist in my youth). There are a number of instances where I'd voluntarily suspend individuality and agency, but it's those people and groups that attempt to take it by force that should be resisted. It's the reason why conscription is evil; because the cause should be so worthy that we're lying about our age just for the opportunity to give ourselves to a greater cause.

[freebeard]

Here's a hit piece on Whatifalthist: From YouTube Historian to Disturbing LoLcow - The Meltdown of Whatifalthist Documentary, FWIW.

[redpoint5]

Hit pieces are a sign of competency and efficacy. I look forward to it, though I despise monetizing idiocy.

My dumb million dollar idea for the day is scraping YouTube content and hosting it on a site that doesn't monetize idiocy, but instead exists purely to delight users and undermine the big corporate overlord.

[freebeard]

a site that doesn't monetize idiocy, but instead exists purely to delight users and undermine the big corporate overlord.

4Chan?

[Piotrsko]

If tou don't monetize idiocy, you aren't going to be profitable.

[freebeard]

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

Mark Twain? H. L. Mencken? P. T. Barnum?

[Piotrsko]

P T Barnum. But differently: "No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public"

Could be someone else on your actual quote. I was helped by AI until I got it turned off. found this:

"No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
H.L. Mencken, The Gist of Mencken:

Your call as I can't GROK your intent

[freebeard]

Your call as I can't GROK your intent

My point was that it's a popular sentiment, repeated often and variously..

I pulled the names from DuckDuckGo.

edit: I was putting 'tou' in good company was I not?

[freebeard]

The last twenty minutes were the best in a long time the last few weeks. I watched two videos. Raz0rfist shakes the box, and Sargon of Akkad watches the pieces settle. ...or something (to keep it on topic).

No Time to DEI - Amazon Buys Bond! (Razör Rants)

Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind

[Piotrsko]

Originally Posted by freebeard

My point was that it's a popular sentiment, repeated often and variously..

I pulled the names from DuckDuckGo.

edit: I was putting 'tou' in good company was I not?

Dang, another insertion of hard physical reality.

Tou is a automatic spellcheck correction noticed after seeing what got enetered