#trickytalks

when you've gone past comparing yourself to other people and are instead comparing yourself to literal omniscience

wait a second that's perfectly good phrasing right there

what i actually ended up with was 

“I had fun climbing! Let me know if you’re going again and are looking for a partner?”

which now reads as too weak and not manhandly enough 

like I’m not exerting the aura and force of power 

They’re skeptical of globalization in general just like the other anti-establishment groups, and tend towards anti-interventionism. They’re generally in favor of public infrastructure and public projects, but have mixed thoughts on welfare.  Assimilation and the act of building the national culture are a big deal, that affects their views on immigration which can be flexible depending on their view of circumstances.  Seem to shun ethnic nationalism, I get the impression that some of them on the rightward edge do buy into some form of bell curve stuff but they’ve decided it’s basically not terribly important, if somebody isn’t highly intelligent there’s a lot of work to be done that doesn’t require high intelligence to do. Neither especially pro or anti-market, I think they tend towards “not too afraid of public spending or taxation but somewhat anti-regulation.“

And you can sort of see that as a third way, it’s the recognition that you depend on the people and environment around you and therefore you can’t really get away from this concept of the common good and improving society, but skeptical of taking it too far.  “selfish collectivism“ might be a somewhat trollish way of putting it.  Class-wise I think the people I’ve seen with it are educated professionals, I think this sort of inherits from “Rockefeller Republicans“

They’re not all working multiple jobs.  Also credits are by caste; you only have to compete with other purples for credits.  You generally have your pocket everything with you at all times; if your job has slow hours you can get some discourse in then, or you can just do it when you get home.

Well, my sister and I do talk about this all the time! It usually ends up as a way-too-over-powered romp across the elemental nations though, which doesn’t really make for a great story!

I think we had one where they were Uchiha and Hyuuga of the same age, and spent years and years just trolling everyone. I can’t remember anything more specific than that. XD

I was unhappy with Justin Gest’s The New Minority, Barry Latzer’s The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America, and Mark Landler’s Alter Egos. But none of those are proper history books. 

The last history books I disliked were Edward H. Miller’s Nut Country, James T. Sparrow’s Warfare State, and Eric Rauchway’s The Money Makers. Miller’s politics were distracting. His thesis was too familiar. Sparrow neglected the evidence that would support his thesis for the evidence that didn’t. Rauchway just doesn’t have a firm grasp on the economics. And none of them had the analytic precision and narrative drive that I want from history.