Interesting thought
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@aqua-letifer said in Interesting thought:
@catseye3 said in Interesting thought:
It reminds me of wondering about what was lost in the Holocaust -- what art, inventions, innovations, new ways of thinking, other things -- were never made manifest because their creators perished.
Although the Holocaust was a pretty strong effort, it still couldn't prevent Rush from happening.
Win for the world. Fuck you, Nazis.
Nazis suck.
Education is extremely important.
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@horace said in Interesting thought:
@aqua-letifer said in Interesting thought:
@catseye3 said in Interesting thought:
It reminds me of wondering about what was lost in the Holocaust -- what art, inventions, innovations, new ways of thinking, other things -- were never made manifest because their creators perished.
Although the Holocaust was a pretty strong effort, it still couldn't prevent Rush from happening.
Win for the world. Fuck you, Nazis.
Nazis suck.
Not Rush, though.
Rush is awesome.*
*Says the middle-aged white dude, quite expectedly.
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Indeed the counterfactuals are impossible to know. Though the putative measures of Versaille are often cited as something that led to the failure of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis, it doesn't follow that a different treaty would have spared us from the war.
Still I think the broader point is interesting, that the biggest impact of Covid could well end up being something indirect and not visible to us for many years.
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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@jon-nyc said in Interesting thought:
Indeed the counterfactuals are impossible to know. Though the putative measures of Versaille are often cited as something that led to the failure of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis, it doesn't follow that a different treaty would have spared us from the war.
Still I think the broader point is interesting, that the biggest impact of Covid could well end up being something indirect and not visible to us for many years.
If it rests on someone pulling the effect out of his ass on Twitter 100 years later, to be disseminated on backwater piano-related forums amongst wealthy and good looking white males, I will remain confident that the effect is not so obvious or real.
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@aqua-letifer said in Interesting thought:
@horace said in Interesting thought:
@aqua-letifer said in Interesting thought:
@catseye3 said in Interesting thought:
It reminds me of wondering about what was lost in the Holocaust -- what art, inventions, innovations, new ways of thinking, other things -- were never made manifest because their creators perished.
Although the Holocaust was a pretty strong effort, it still couldn't prevent Rush from happening.
Win for the world. Fuck you, Nazis.
Nazis suck.
Not Rush, though.
Rush is awesome.*
*Says the middle-aged white dude, quite expectedly.
You just have Peart envy.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@jolly said in Interesting thought:
@aqua-letifer said in Interesting thought:
@horace said in Interesting thought:
@aqua-letifer said in Interesting thought:
@catseye3 said in Interesting thought:
It reminds me of wondering about what was lost in the Holocaust -- what art, inventions, innovations, new ways of thinking, other things -- were never made manifest because their creators perished.
Although the Holocaust was a pretty strong effort, it still couldn't prevent Rush from happening.
Win for the world. Fuck you, Nazis.
Nazis suck.
Not Rush, though.
Rush is awesome.*
*Says the middle-aged white dude, quite expectedly.
You just have Peart envy.
As does everybody else who has an interest in music.
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@jon-nyc said in Interesting thought:
Interesting speculation that the worst thing to come from Covid might be something other than deaths or health outcomes.
A lame argument. Famously, the flap of a butterfly in China may "cause" a hurricane in Brazil - if it comes together with a million other "causes". There's a world of a difference between "contributes to" and "causes".
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@aqua-letifer said in Interesting thought:
Although the Holocaust was a pretty strong effort, it still couldn't prevent Rush from happening.
Win for the world. Fuck you, Nazis.But there's also Jon's sister. So it all evens out.
Catseye, world-renowned existential philosopher
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@horace said in Interesting thought:
to be disseminated on backwater piano-related forums amongst wealthy and good looking white males,
As a non-wealthy, halfway non-goodlooking non-male, I am totally triggered by this. I demand reparations.
