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Notes Back in the Habit with a Vengeance: Classy Gent of the day: 20th of January 2012Kapitän zur See Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff (Iron Cross First Class, Iron Cross Second Class, Hanseatenkreuz)
(20 March 1894 – 19 December 1939)
Kapitän Hans Langsdorff takes a smoke as he reads the morning newspaper on the morning before his death.
Perhaps, for some, Captain…
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NotesSome jerk sent us two boxes of this awful book (SPOILER ALERT: George Washington - Patriot; George Soros - Pinhead) instead of anything soldiers at a remote outpost in Afghanistan might need, like, say, food or soap. Just burned the whole lot of them on my Commander’s orders.
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Notes aimonomian. fear that learning the name of something—a bird, a constellation, an attractive stranger—will somehow ruin it, transforming a lucky discovery into a conceptual husk pinned in a glass case, which leaves one less mystery to flutter around your head, trying to get in.
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"Conspiracy theorists tend to be “people who feel like they don’t have power in the world, they feel like they have been victimized, they often come up with these explanations how somebody must be behind it…"
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"What human beings are and will become is decided in the shape of our tools no less than in the action of statesmen and political movements. The design of technology is thus an ontological decision fraught with political consequences. The exclusion of the vast majority from participation in this decision is profoundly undemocratic"
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"Healthy self-talk is action oriented; it takes our second order preferences and uses them to overwhelm our first-order preferences. It allows us to say “I’m not going to eat that - it’s bad for me.” or “If I get this assignment done I won’t have to do it later.” Both of these statements specify action and help direct our physical bodies to do things that will help us in the long run.
Often though, it does not, and our self-talk becomes a runaway train. Our self-talk becomes non-action-oriented, preoccupied with guilt and anxieties about the past and the future. Our efforts to reconnect our thoughts and our actions are met with failure, which simply reinforces that our thoughts are unable to help us exert control over our actions. The things we say lose connection to actions, things like “I can’t get anything done, I’m totally useless.” or “I keep getting distracted, why can’t I control myself?” This sort of self-talk does not direct us towards any action and just feeds a reinforcing cycle of uncontrollable thought and action. There are therapeutic techniques to break the cycle, but recognising it is a start. Goal setting is very important and working towards enjoying successes in following our second-order preferences." -
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I want to get a fixie, thick rimmed glasses with no lenses and and walk around town. Once I find normal looking people, I’ll just start screaming at them. “Hey hipster! You think you’re so cool? Why don’t you go back to Williamsburg!? That would be so ironic. No one got that joke. Too meta. Soooo meta man. Speaking of meta, this schtik has a esoteric text for all the Straussians watching. The rest of you plebs can enjoy the unfunny jokes. If you’re a Straussian, I hope you’ve been writing down the first letter of every sentence I say. And yeah, three words: I love semicolons. For the rest of you, don’t bother asking what the hidden meaning of this is. They don’t know. Or rather, they do know but they can’t tell you. Actually the esoteric truth of all works of political theory is that in reading the works of de Tocqueville, Machiavelli, Plato and all the rest, you do get some kind of ultimate knowledge about political theory and that’s the knowledge that you’ll be unemployed for the rest of your life. I guess I’m not supposed to joke about unemployment though. Serious issue.
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Notes Starbucks in the Forbidden CityThere’s a Starbucks inside the Forbidden City. Perfect symbol for contemporary China. The allure of the market is inside the walls of the Marxist elite.
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Writing: go for a walk
go for a walk, think about how you would describe what you see, what you feel
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