Quote from: xhomerx10 on Today at 02:42:09 AM

I named myself after Homer Embarrassed

Naturally, as a gentleman, I paid you the compliment of presuming that you named yourself after the immortal genius whose epic poems are hailed by scholars as the founding documents of Western culturethe non-ephemeral Homer who will be remembered in the future, as he has been remembered for thousands of yearsinstead of a popular fictional fad character made to brainwash the masses into believing that men must be fat, stupid, out of control of their own lives, and not only lacking in household authority but also, abjectly undeserving of it. Doh! I can almost hear Marge sighing at my mistake, before she does something to fix the situation with her homely practical wisdom.

Quote from: Nietzsche (pretty much obligatory at this juncture)

...according to the servile mode of thought, the good man must in any case be the SAFE man: he is good-natured, easily deceived, perhaps a little stupid, un bonhomme. Everywhere that slave-morality gains the ascendancy, language shows a tendency to approximate the significations of the words good and stupid.

Quote from: xhomerx10 on Today at 02:42:09 AM

I was more concerned with 'modernity' than 'whore' but I appreciate the insight nonetheless. Cryptotourist understood what I wrote and had already defended your hypocrisy as trolling; I was happier with that explanation.

My contempt for modernity is not trolling! To the contrary.

You misunderstood so completely that I am not sure how it is even possible (and if thus you are trolling metouché, IHBT). I was trolling sirazimuth over the CT/123 thing.

Do you seriously suggest that, because I do generally despise the culture and worldview of modern times (i.e., about the past two centuries), I am a hypocrite if I dont go full Amish? That would present me with a false dilemma based on comically simpleminded, absolutely binary thinking.

Just because something is new, that doesnt make it goodbut that doesnt necessarily make it bad, either. Both fallacies are idiot-traps. Moreover, only a fool refuses to use the tools available to him in his own lifeif those tools can help him to achieve goals that are more important to him than the tools cost.

And by the way, speaking of newnessmy contempt for modernity is not new. E.g.:

Quote from: nullius on February 08, 2018, 11:54:02 PM

Quote from: Vod on February 08, 2018, 11:53:07 AM

Society cannot continue even another hundred years the way we are now.

I thought it clear, my implication was past-tense. You are most of a hundred years out of date for the collapse of anything which could be properly called a functioning society. Some might say, more than a hundred years. The problem is that those living in a post-apocalyptic desert of downfallen, zombie-like anthropoids have already forgotten what it means to be humanwhat it meant, once upon a time.

By comparison, Roman society was a zombified rotting corpse for four or five centuries before the civil machine built by long-gone forebears ran out of momentum. I can see how greater technology could have accelerated the ultimate downfall in various ways.

Whats left is to secure yourself, take care of your own, live by honour alone whereas law is meaningless, keep busy with something productive, and try to have some fun.

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Quote from: Vod on February 08, 2018, 11:53:07 AM

I believe nullius has a more optimistic view of the future than I do.

Optimism is cowardice. Spengler (writing most of a hundred years ago)

* Marge sighs.

In a modern world so absurd that I have almost wholly given up on satire, serious thought is mistaken for nonsense.