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It needs to go to 0 and be forgotten along with those ugly monkey images.

by yashg 4y ago

MonkeyClub 4y ago
What do you mean, "ugly monkey"? /s But yeah, the whole response to crypto crashing brings to mind a very particular phrase: "an odyssey of rancor". There's a great number of people watching the antilope being eaten, and rooting for the lion.
- pjc50 4y ago
  An unusual phrase indeed; I've not seen it before seems to have come from this piece of writing? https://coronzon.com/pdf/cioran/Odyssey-of-Rancor-by-Cioran.pdf https://coronzon.com/pdf/cioran/Odyssey-of-Rancor-by-Cioran.... The rancor is not surprising given how obnoxious the crypto community have been to people with reasonable objections. It's more like watching a cultist missionary get eaten by a lion.
  - antifa 4y ago
    It's really more like watching lazy lions getting eaten by heedless hyenas.
- yakubin 4y ago
  > There's a great number of people watching the antilope being eaten, and rooting for the lion. Ignoring the metaphor and taking it literally: watching nature documentaries, I don't think I've ever rooted for the antelope. I've always been on the side of the big cats (particularly leopards, snow leopards and such)[1]. And reading comments under such videos, seeing most people rooting for the antelope was always disheartening to me, knowing that, if this cat doesn't kill this or another antelope soon, it's going to die. And out of the two I always prefer the cat to survive. [1]: Will also root for the lynx feeding on a deer, no questions asked. Lynxes are awesome. :)
  - rightbyte 4y ago
    I find anthropomorphism in nature documentaries hugely annoying. Especially when they add music that is sad depending on the outcome.
  - yashg 4y ago
    I once watched a documentary where a polar bear was unable to hunt. In one last ditch effort it tried to hunt a walrus from a large group but failed. He didn't have enough energy left to kill. Felt so bad for him. The narrator said the bear Wouldn't survive long. Nature is brutal.

It needs to go to 0 and be forgotten along with those ugly monkey images.

by yashg 4y ago

It needs to go to 0 and be forgotten along with those ugly monkey images.

What do you mean, "ugly monkey"? /s But yeah, the whole response to crypto crashing brings to mind a very particular phrase: "an odyssey of rancor". There's a great number of people watching the antilope being eaten, and rooting for the lion.

pjc50 4y ago
An unusual phrase indeed; I've not seen it before seems to have come from this piece of writing? https://coronzon.com/pdf/cioran/Odyssey-of-Rancor-by-Cioran.pdf https://coronzon.com/pdf/cioran/Odyssey-of-Rancor-by-Cioran.... The rancor is not surprising given how obnoxious the crypto community have been to people with reasonable objections. It's more like watching a cultist missionary get eaten by a lion.
- antifa 4y ago
  It's really more like watching lazy lions getting eaten by heedless hyenas.
yakubin 4y ago
> There's a great number of people watching the antilope being eaten, and rooting for the lion. Ignoring the metaphor and taking it literally: watching nature documentaries, I don't think I've ever rooted for the antelope. I've always been on the side of the big cats (particularly leopards, snow leopards and such)[1]. And reading comments under such videos, seeing most people rooting for the antelope was always disheartening to me, knowing that, if this cat doesn't kill this or another antelope soon, it's going to die. And out of the two I always prefer the cat to survive. [1]: Will also root for the lynx feeding on a deer, no questions asked. Lynxes are awesome. :)
- rightbyte 4y ago
  I find anthropomorphism in nature documentaries hugely annoying. Especially when they add music that is sad depending on the outcome.
- yashg 4y ago
  I once watched a documentary where a polar bear was unable to hunt. In one last ditch effort it tried to hunt a walrus from a large group but failed. He didn't have enough energy left to kill. Felt so bad for him. The narrator said the bear Wouldn't survive long. Nature is brutal.