{"id":171,"date":"2007-02-28T17:43:19","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T23:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2012-01-18T00:06:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T22:06:34","slug":"intelligent-drain-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/intelligent-drain-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent drain music"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tale of two things I saw yesterday:<\/em>
\nDrainpipe from bath makes IDM rhytms
\nIt’s snowing just when I’m getting used to the whole global warming thing.<\/p>\n

Now use up a bit more of that precious energy by watching the result:
\nUpdate 2012: Revver.com has folded and so has all the videos I hosted there<\/em><\/p>\n

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At the moment I’m reading ayn rands’ Atlas shrugged<\/em>. I’m one fifth into this epic<\/em> tome, and the main reason I’m going through it is because it’s one of those<\/em> bestselling “classics”, and is widely hailed by those on the slightly right-ish scale of politics.<\/p>\n

It reads like shit, honestly. All the characters that have appeared so far are either strong-willed, skilled and focused people or weaklings that simper about public good but have no balls to do anything. It reads like the rantings of a 13-year old that’s stumbled upon an op-ed by friedman for the first time and seen a quote of nietzsche in the bathroom stall, trying to sound like an adult.<\/p>\n

I know I<\/em> sounded like that. I wrote a flaming condemnation of Saddam Hussein at the time of the whole Kuwait intermezzo<\/em>, comparing him to Hitler. I was 12 years old and was paraphrasing one newspaper or another – I would like to hope that I’ve matured somewhat since.<\/p>\n

Then again, Ayn did state that she was writing a book to put flesh on her theories on objectivism. Basically, she’s an \u00fcber-capitalist (there’s this retarded notion that the term “anarcho-capitalism” has any validity and should be used on objectivism. “Bah” I say), and this might be one of the redeeming qualities of the book – science fiction as a political manifesto. (Doesn’t come close to Ursula Le Guin, obviously)<\/p>\n

As it goes: “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”<\/p>\n

The audio-book version is available at thepiratebay.org<\/a> in case you feel like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A tale of two things I saw yesterday: Drainpipe from bath makes IDM rhytms It’s snowing just when I’m getting used to the whole global warming thing. Now use up a bit more of that precious energy by watching the result: Update 2012: Revver.com has folded and so has all the videos I hosted there … Continue reading Intelligent drain music<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[1700,1699,464,1698,1697,425,1701],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-found","category-video","tag-ayn-rand","tag-ideology","tag-litterature","tag-maturity","tag-objectivism","tag-politics","tag-very-little-artistic-merit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5031,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/5031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}