Comments on: On security http://thetarpit.org/2016/on-security "Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before." Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:45:20 +0000 http://thetarpit.org hourly 1 By: Against the direction in Romanian culture today, translated and annotated « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2016/on-security#comment-4215 Against the direction in Romanian culture today, translated and annotated « The Tar Pit Sun, 28 May 2023 14:20:38 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2016/on-security#comment-4215 [...] a "man of culture", you may ask? Well, the man of culture is a man who knows a great deal more than you do on a great variety of topics. Hopefully you noticed that he was twenty-eight when he wrote this [...] [...] a "man of culture", you may ask? Well, the man of culture is a man who knows a great deal more than you do on a great variety of topics. Hopefully you noticed that he was twenty-eight when he wrote this [...]

]]> By: spyked http://thetarpit.org/2016/on-security#comment-3132 spyked Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:41:04 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2016/on-security#comment-3132 A coda to this piece would be that: "cultural domination" is a self-defeating proposition. The proposition that every soul in the world will end up with the same mores, habits, traditions and so on and so forth is entirely nonsensical, since by the time everyone and their dog eats McDonald's and watches CNN(N), McDonald's and CNN(N) will be stripped of their sense and eventually they will be utterly corrupted into unexistence. Such things cannot survive by their very nature, since nature <a href="http://thetarpit.org/2022/all-roads-lead-to-rome-or-how-and-why-nature-abhors-singularities-or-some-pitfalls-of-causality" rel="nofollow">abhors vacuums</a>, totality ending up being simply nothing. This is simply how empires fail, through the reduction of their culture towards the smallest possible point in the space of ideas. A coda to this piece would be that: "cultural domination" is a self-defeating proposition. The proposition that every soul in the world will end up with the same mores, habits, traditions and so on and so forth is entirely nonsensical, since by the time everyone and their dog eats McDonald's and watches CNN(N), McDonald's and CNN(N) will be stripped of their sense and eventually they will be utterly corrupted into unexistence. Such things cannot survive by their very nature, since nature abhors vacuums, totality ending up being simply nothing.

This is simply how empires fail, through the reduction of their culture towards the smallest possible point in the space of ideas.

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