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Shaun Lambert
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modernity values life over living, and we are all the poorer for it // whomever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible
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November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reposted by Shaun Lambert
For some context, here's a log scale graph for those who love them (who doesn't!)
Each line on the Y axis is a doubling of the price.

13 months after his election the world oil price was 7 times higher than in Dec 1972.

The world oil price is now only 5 times higher than it was in Jan 1974
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
bloody hell. does this qualify as new?

absolutely seminal work, and 1899 to boot.

just because the only *conservative* concepts of note since then are post-WWII by Ayn Rand and Friedman, and don't do much in the way of RETVRN..

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_The...
The Theory of the Leisure Class - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
we give thanks to our autistic angels
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
or more precisely, here where the author of the above piece, Leah Finnegan talks about that in the outline's podcast

I've thought about the concept wrt conservative politics at least once a month since then pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-...
Bring back irony
pocketcasts.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
seriously underrated concept for understanding conservative rage over the past few decades. it's post-modernism they hate. they don't know it, but it's people ~'living their own truth'~, societal norms becoming diffuse. liberalism, essentially?

I got it from here theoutline.com/post/5542/br...
Bring back irony
It’s the only antidote to our all-too-earnest age.
theoutline.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
what on earth? who is that
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM