Comments on: Pictures from the Northern Venice

By: Didact

Didact — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:32:46 +0000

In reply to Tom Kratman. Actually, as you may recall, sir, it's a Talebism which I sort of appropriated a bit. But yes, there is no question, intellectuals seem to be impervious to the lessons of logic, reason, and simple evidence. They just carry on blithely making incredibly stupid mistakes that the rest of us have to pay for.

By: Tom Kratman

Tom Kratman — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:28:35 +0000

Intellectuals-yet-idiots….you write that as if it were oxymoronic, but in fact the intellectual IS an idiot, a glib and eloquent ninny deeply addicted to the fantasies that can only exist in the fever swamps contained within their own neutronium-dense skulls.

And their running dogs, the intelligentsia, are worse.

By: Didact

Didact — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:01:50 +0000

In reply to Tom Kratman.

As for their often rotten character…well…communism does that. And the damage lasts and lasts.

Absolutely true, sir. My home state here in the old country was ruled by Communists for damned near 50 years, continuously, and the damage that has done to the people of this state is tremendous. It produces some of the country's leading intellectuals-yet-idiots – brilliant men and women who nonetheless cannot see the obvious flaws of socialism and social justice even when they get slapped silly by them.

My recommendation would be to hire a hooker for week or two.

Well, given that the President of Russia himself once recommended his country's ladies of the night in the most glowing terms possible… who are we mere mortals to argue? ))

Personally, in Russia I would want to see Kursk and Stalingrad/Volgograd

Next trip, sir… I've already got the itch to go back.

By: Tom Kratman

Tom Kratman — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:23:53 +0000

The late Leo Frankowski had an interesting and plausible take on the RFPF (Relative Feminine Pulchritude Factor) of Russian women. He thought, IIRC, that it had to do with both Russian bravery and Russian incompetence in war, those leading to massive casualties among men, and that leading to surviving men being able to be very picky indeed over women, hence that generally only rather pretty women got to breed.

As for their often rotten character…well…communism does that. And the damage lasts and lasts. That said, one suspects it goes back to the Tartars, at the latest.

My recommendation would be to hire a hooker for week or two.

Personally, in Russia I would want to see Kursk and Stalingrad/Volgograd, the battlefields of Borodino and Poltava (though that would require a side trip to the Ukraine),