Purple Cabbage

Cayley on Illich on the Problem of Man "I have more and more learned to recognize that even very careful and traditional use of words does not allow me to bespeak the precepts my grandfather knew, because they aren't there anymore" - Ivan Illich davidcayley.com/blog/2019/1/16…

@SwipeWright are there any countries with Pride events that have maintained their cultural integrity over 3-4 generations? or are Pride events necessarily a harbinger of doom, for elevating the sin of Pride to a virtue?

Regardless of your personal views on Pride events, if you had to choose between living in one of two hypothetical countries you knew nothing about except that one had Pride events and the other had none, you would almost certainly prefer living in the country with Pride events.

@LMFHistorian where did you land?

Driving home yesterday, biracial kid in a Hennessy hoodie had high-centered his BMW on a parking lot boulder. He glared at traffic, angry & wanting to fight. What kind of nutso story did he have to offer, how lucky am I to be out of that business.

@useful_emetic last 30 years have seen a brutal arbitrage

anti-SPLC guy and i argued back then about trans ppl where i was saying they were born in the wrong body, and he said “yeah, you’re just wrong.” he had a crush on me, btw! but he knew i wasn’t easily offended.

way back in the early 2010s, a guy friend complained about the SPLC, saying they were petty anti free speech fraudsters. my ex brought up charles murray (saying he might be onto something) in the 00s. kind of funny.

you can fool yourself, you can fool others, but you can never fool God

it’s too bad our best and brightest have mostly lost their fear of God with fear of God, at least you have recourse to morality, and appeals to truth with fear of the state as proxy for God, you only have recourse to power

@ofreacharound half my work is being this guy, the other half is leveling up our best non-technical staff with Claude Code et al

One thing a lot of people don’t get it that AI makes “automating a manual process” so easy and cheap that the “smart guys who got moved into management” are now able to fix tons of problems with vibe coded software in their “spare time”

NPR is feeling very virtuous about SPLC sending people undercover to spy on and disrupt hate groups

the old order is dead, and Trump capitalized on this first maybe they are picking it’s bones, while there is still some advantage to be gained? no one could build the Louvre today, except maybe the Chinese—that age is gone this is the most modest reading of their malevolence—to desecrate the past for advantage today

@purplcabbage Like I said, I see no intelligent strategy here. I see cargo cult mentality, “trying to imitate the frog right” without understanding the difference

So maybe Piker and his crowd are just trying to "trigger the libs," in imitation of the online right. But...why? They've always relied on support from people like Filipovic! I do not see how angering her is of strategic value to them. A deep, stupid confusion is on display here.

to be clear, the middle school furry is not evil himself, nor is the trans-identified “boyfriend” rather they are vectors for evil, dangerous to students and complacent adults they bring gratuitous lies and drama to all those around, with sometimes catastrophic results

case in point, I don’t explain the trans or furry phenomenon in great detail to my kids, I just tell them to avoid friendships with such people, and to maintain a safe social distance they may never understand! and this is fine

practically speaking, I don’t want my kids to follow in my footsteps as a ethnologist of political and cultural derangements, I want them to note the derangement, step around, and continue with their lives they don’t need to understand why certain people are evil, they only need to recognize the evil and avoid it these are two very different mindsets, from someone betrayed (me) to someone avoiding trouble

@mr_eee_esq @77_steeze @JacobAShell the underlying corruption made woke necessary, and without the underlying corruption, things would never have gone sideways quite as spectacularly

@77_steeze @JacobAShell Agreed Makes you wonder how Covid would've been different if it hadn't occurred during Woke. Somehow the combo of the two completely fried the very people who should've been expected to act as societal guardrails

There's a certain kind of person on the left, e.g. a Tyler Austin Harper or someone like that, who senses that something within liberalism and progressivism went wrong during the late 10s + COVID period, and is at least willing to talk this over. And another type who if they hear that kind of talk immediately snaps into "us vs them" mode and start hurling insults. From social media hygiene, I am going to start muting/blocking the latter type.

@77_steeze @JacobAShell humbling and strange

@JacobAShell I’m still shocked by the degree to which people I thought would be in that first group turned out to be the strongest soldiers for the second

@ExpertsLie it’s just a vicious cycle of evil, and the next thing in that cycle

@purplcabbage The only thing that makes sense is if they've done the calculus and low IQ malcontents are enough of a voting bloc to guarantee a hold on power

Hasan Piker is one of those figures who it is beneath the dignity of attention, and yet compels attention for his mendacity

@ExpertsLie his beady close set eyes, perhaps?

@purplcabbage It's the meta that compels attention. E.g. Why is the NYT putting him in our faces?

that time has passed

there will be no thoughtful reflection