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This is a repost of the introduction to my old movie/music/book review blog from a few years back. I found it slightly amusing, but mostly a bit scary. Please don't take it too seriously. To be honest, I don't know whether or not I agree with myself.
Common sentiment is that everything has value, everything has some merit. Common sentiment says we should not speak unless your words are encouraging and helpful. I however, fully disapprove of these notions. There is a defensive emotional socialism building, a false belief in equality flourishing worldwide. Lenience and passivity will merely forgo progress: only action, only strong and harsh commitment can be beneficial. Some may call it elitism, some may call it discrimination, but I stand by my statement that things must always improve. To be satisfied is to stagnate. There is only one path towards improvement, and that is artificial selection. Left alone, humanity is nothing but an idiocracy. The only thing keeping us in check is ourselves.
There is much much garbage in the world, and of course I can not fix much. I have no strength or influence in person, much less on the internet. What then, can I possibly do? What the internet does best: post another meaningless opinion. I will not try to change things, but instead insist that others conform to my expectations.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
 
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But the reasonable man must then adapt himself to the unreasonable one because he is part of the world.
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On February 09 2012 05:57 Fishgle wrote:This is a repost of the introduction to my old movie/music/book review blog from a few years back. I found it slightly amusing, but mostly a bit scary. Please don't take it too seriously. To be honest, I don't know whether or not I agree with myself. Common sentiment is that everything has value, everything has some merit. Common sentiment says we should not speak unless your words are encouraging and helpful. I however, fully disapprove of these notions. There is a defensive emotional socialism building, a false belief in equality flourishing worldwide. Lenience and passivity will merely forgo progress: only action, only strong and harsh commitment can be beneficial. Some may call it elitism, some may call it discrimination, but I stand by my statement that things must always improve. To be satisfied is to stagnate. There is only one path towards improvement, and that is artificial selection. Left alone, humanity is nothing but an idiocracy. The only thing keeping us in check is ourselves. There is much much garbage in the world, and of course I can not fix much. I have no strength or influence in person, much less on the internet. What then, can I possibly do? What the internet does best: post another meaningless opinion. I will not try to change things, but instead insist that others conform to my expectations. Show nested quote +The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Maybe you should read Nietzsche. Also your rant against "socialism" and ideals of equality is not very original these days.
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But what does that doooo?
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On February 09 2012 07:15 Biff The Understudy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2012 05:57 Fishgle wrote:This is a repost of the introduction to my old movie/music/book review blog from a few years back. I found it slightly amusing, but mostly a bit scary. Please don't take it too seriously. To be honest, I don't know whether or not I agree with myself. Common sentiment is that everything has value, everything has some merit. Common sentiment says we should not speak unless your words are encouraging and helpful. I however, fully disapprove of these notions. There is a defensive emotional socialism building, a false belief in equality flourishing worldwide. Lenience and passivity will merely forgo progress: only action, only strong and harsh commitment can be beneficial. Some may call it elitism, some may call it discrimination, but I stand by my statement that things must always improve. To be satisfied is to stagnate. There is only one path towards improvement, and that is artificial selection. Left alone, humanity is nothing but an idiocracy. The only thing keeping us in check is ourselves. There is much much garbage in the world, and of course I can not fix much. I have no strength or influence in person, much less on the internet. What then, can I possibly do? What the internet does best: post another meaningless opinion. I will not try to change things, but instead insist that others conform to my expectations. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists" Maybe you should read Nietzsche. Also your rant against "socialism" and ideals of equality is not very original these days.
socialism isn't very original these days.
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On February 09 2012 08:16 Half wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2012 07:15 Biff The Understudy wrote:On February 09 2012 05:57 Fishgle wrote:This is a repost of the introduction to my old movie/music/book review blog from a few years back. I found it slightly amusing, but mostly a bit scary. Please don't take it too seriously. To be honest, I don't know whether or not I agree with myself. Common sentiment is that everything has value, everything has some merit. Common sentiment says we should not speak unless your words are encouraging and helpful. I however, fully disapprove of these notions. There is a defensive emotional socialism building, a false belief in equality flourishing worldwide. Lenience and passivity will merely forgo progress: only action, only strong and harsh commitment can be beneficial. Some may call it elitism, some may call it discrimination, but I stand by my statement that things must always improve. To be satisfied is to stagnate. There is only one path towards improvement, and that is artificial selection. Left alone, humanity is nothing but an idiocracy. The only thing keeping us in check is ourselves. There is much much garbage in the world, and of course I can not fix much. I have no strength or influence in person, much less on the internet. What then, can I possibly do? What the internet does best: post another meaningless opinion. I will not try to change things, but instead insist that others conform to my expectations. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists" Maybe you should read Nietzsche. Also your rant against "socialism" and ideals of equality is not very original these days. socialism isn't very original these days.
Nothing's very original these days.
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WTF? Is that really the common sentiment?
I must have been living under a rock all of my life, because in my experience, engineers tell each other that our works are complete trash all the time. (Yes, I'm referring to subjective/philosophical crap)
Maybe it's some new age crap movie/book/art reviewers subscribe to.
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George Bernard Shaw certainly knew a lot about being unreasonable. I would actually view a quote from him as actively undermining any serious argument.
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How ironic that your main point is that not everything has value and merit, and then you proceed to spew cliched rhetoric with neither value nor merit (even yourself calling it "meaningless opinion"). Thumbs up.
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Let me apply your principles of choice to my post then - neither encouraging, nor helpful in the slightest, nor approving of any piece of what you say. But it is honest.
Your writing is mediocre, and the ideas you're presenting are straight up awful.
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I like how everyone skipped this sentence: Please don't take it too seriously.
Anyhoo, thanks for taking the time to read. 
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On February 09 2012 08:16 Half wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2012 07:15 Biff The Understudy wrote:On February 09 2012 05:57 Fishgle wrote:This is a repost of the introduction to my old movie/music/book review blog from a few years back. I found it slightly amusing, but mostly a bit scary. Please don't take it too seriously. To be honest, I don't know whether or not I agree with myself. Common sentiment is that everything has value, everything has some merit. Common sentiment says we should not speak unless your words are encouraging and helpful. I however, fully disapprove of these notions. There is a defensive emotional socialism building, a false belief in equality flourishing worldwide. Lenience and passivity will merely forgo progress: only action, only strong and harsh commitment can be beneficial. Some may call it elitism, some may call it discrimination, but I stand by my statement that things must always improve. To be satisfied is to stagnate. There is only one path towards improvement, and that is artificial selection. Left alone, humanity is nothing but an idiocracy. The only thing keeping us in check is ourselves. There is much much garbage in the world, and of course I can not fix much. I have no strength or influence in person, much less on the internet. What then, can I possibly do? What the internet does best: post another meaningless opinion. I will not try to change things, but instead insist that others conform to my expectations. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists" Maybe you should read Nietzsche. Also your rant against "socialism" and ideals of equality is not very original these days. socialism isn't very original these days.
You know any country that goes towards socialism since 30 years? Since Reagan / Tatcher and later Blair / Schroeder / Sarkozy / Bush, every single western country has gone towards neo-liberalism. Saying you are a socialist in the States or in England is almost like saying you are satanist.
In an other hand the anti-socialist rant is an absolutely hegemonic ideology since the beginning of the 80's. I have no problem with it, but taking Nietzschean accents just to state a dominant opinion that has been imposed by all means from upon for three decades is just funny.
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