skells @skells@qoto.org

@Coyote @p @Hyolobrika@berserker.town @Onecowstampede @TornadoOfTerror @TrevorGoodchild @teknomunk good work if you can get it

@p @Hyolobrika@berserker.town @Onecowstampede @TornadoOfTerror @TrevorGoodchild @teknomunk

> That which Preserves the Species.—The strongest and most evil spirits have hitherto advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions—all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of de- light in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan. By means of arms, by upsetting boundary-stones, by violations of piety most of all: but also by new religions and morals! The same kind of ”wickedness” is in every
teacher and preacher of the new—which makes a conqueror infamous, although it expresses itself more refinedly, and does not immediately set the muscles in motion (and just on that account does not make so infamous!) The new, however, is under all circumstances the evil, as that which wants to conquer, which tries to upset the old boundary-stones and the old piety; only the old is the good! The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them, the agriculturists of the spirit. But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.—There is at present a fundamentally erroneous theory of morals which is much celebrated, **especially in England**: according to it the
judgments ”good” and ”evil” are the accumulation of the experiences of that which is ”expedi- ent” and ”inexpedient”; according to this theory, that which is called good is conservative of the species, what is called evil, however, is detrimental to it. But in reality the evil impulses are just in as high a degree expedient, indispensable, and conservative of the species as the good:—only, their function is different.

- Nietzsche, The Gay Science, §4

@p @Hyolobrika@berserker.town @Onecowstampede @TornadoOfTerror @TrevorGoodchild @teknomunk

Yeah, I'd go a step further and suggest that Russel was blind to the ways that "irrational" behaviours could be productive - he was a very Platonic philosopher in some sense and he failed to see much of the 2nd and 3rd order effects of "evil" as he would characterise it, whereas this aspect of human nature was meat and drink to Nietzsche.

In a nutshell, Russel was the archetypal naive liberal at a time when naive liberalism had great value for society.

@11112011 preparing the liver as we speak

@11112011 great shitpost, compelling and rich

@jcbrand @orionwl @cjd I can never make my mind up whether a stronger EU would be better or worse for the world. I like the idea of them not being beholden to the Americans, but the line "We've always been at war with Eurasia" ever echoes through my mind...

@cjd yeah I had a quick rummage, looks like one would need to bodge up a crawler and a scraper for the paper/headline/text/date, then it's just some reasonably simple (famous last words) ML.

I'll add it to the painfully long list of interesting projects to dream about while shitposting

@jcbrand @orionwl @cjd

you're probably right, although...
"if you owe the bank a little money, it's your problem; if you owe the bank a lot of money, it's their problem"

Putin be all

@jcbrand @orionwl @cjd Hungary is a huge fly in the ointment, and if Ukraine joins...

@jcbrand @cjd going on past behaviour, the EU will make a big show of doing the right thing but hold some trickery in reserve for "security reasons"

the savage, dangerous optimism that makes bankers quiver and search for God

@NBS *glances around to see if anyone will hear*
"well, can't you do something?"

@AlexJones La Pen just won

@cjd even better, when does it change and with which themes?

wait

do people on twitter actually say "heckin"