I've heard "Era of Humiliation" thrown around a few times recently, regarding the US, but who is the humiliator? Who is the humiliated? Your Karp quote certainly provides one possible answer.

Sorry if I'm being an idiot, but do you have an email?

@lotus-cube try adding my PGP key from my about page, it's hidden in plain sight. you can also try pasting it here https://codref.org/tools/pgp/

added some anti-books at the bottom, added "anti-state" moodboard

I'm usually on top of the ways our privacy is getting [redacted], yet somehow I was unaware of this Palantir stuff. We're so fucked, both in its' existence and how easily it has been hidden (buried by other media) from the public.

add atomic habits to anti-books

hits well after finding out that in just one year, the percentage of Romanians who believe Ceausescu was a good leader rose from 50% to 66%

@omnipresence ya, we're fucked https://www.surveillancewatch.io/?menu=entities&entity=Palantir

I am curious as to why Sapiens, Guns germs and steel, and Meditations are in the anti-book list?

generally most history books are revisionist (sapiens, GG&S). meditations mostly because it's been shilled by Venture Capitalists to promote a grindset mentality

Love the buddha with the guns.

Well articulated, as always. Mold shall prevail.

Tangent: Shows like Squid Games, or older films like Fight Club, are particularly parasitic as they provide faux catharsis. Arguably the worst kind of sedation.

the "domestic terrorist" genre (Fight Club, Matrix, even Star Wars) where the message is to rebel and even come out victorious, has been like morphine for mass psychology, thinking fictitious narratives are real

https://x.com/NATO/status/1628687961477750790

Bugman uprising soon

what the fuck am i going to do man

"Love thy neighbor" is not condoning dark triad characteristics, nor is "turning the other cheek" to ignore evil and allow oneself to be abused. It is a metaphor for lessening violence by humanizing others. In ancient culture, people would backhand a "subordinate". If they turn the other cheek, then an open palm strike would be necessary, thus making them an equal.

I continually seek to do good without reacting to evil with evil. Evil is incoherence, and when taken to sufficient extremes, destroys itself. Those who are rushing to be integrated with the machine in the hope of preserving themselves with indifference to the suffering of others may just face a scenario where they have mouths but cannot scream. (Revelation 20:10)

most of humanity is facing an enemy that has already weaponized "love thy neighbor", and it continues to be an ineffective strategy against them, meanwhile they erode our ability to resist. how does one stop a psychopathic neighbor who has the ultimate power over you?

Kill as much as you love.

@daliwali - True, the "antichrist" has been around awhile. But because of (Luke 12:5), I (Philippians 2:12) and (Proverbs 24:19). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ...Lol! Really though...I do not consent to force/manipulation and will sincerely strive to manifest Love itself or die trying. That is the best that anyone can do when doing evil simply begats more evil; everything else is outside of our control.

Nice.

Love the dancing jester

Piscis primum a capite foetet

...You see why I am a voice in the wilderness now...Work on some space-based surveillance projects at Wright-Patterson? A world-wide disposition matrix for the world in chains scenario?...God did not create the fallen world, but He did redeem it. It remains little understood because humanity is still learning how to use its will to express compassion. Soon.

Everything always happens

no more happenings, not ever

Nothing ever happens, until something happens.

Years after something happens, all will ask "why didn't anybody tell us?"

my bookshelf is some actual brainrot

Assuming that hearing protection act part of the bill goes through, I could start another side hustle 3D printing suppressors and selling them for cheap. A lot of those high end suppresors are supposedly going to be in demand and out of stock.

But just like you, I'm not entirely optimisitc about it either. They are probably being lax about it because they know Americans won't do anything with firearms other than take them to firing ranges. They aren't even the driving force of military action anymore. Drones and precision strikes seem to be the way forward.

my score is 12, 17 if you count pdfs of dubious origin

Agreed about surveillance vs troops. Any grassroots movement that truly threatens the structures of power can be quickly infiltrated and quashed. No movement has much of a chance unless it is backed by a faction of the elite. Really most of history is just elite factions in conflict, the idea that “the people” can rise up is both a distraction and a cover (cf the so-called color revolutions)

ROMANIA MENTIONED

Your reading references are very interesting

I love the way you organized and show your books! Much nicer than the simple way I have mine haha. There are some good ones on your list, some are on my to read list and some I have read as well.

@wizardperspective that would be a good part of that bill, but there are other horrid parts such as the selling of US public lands. Hopefully it fails and we get the hearing protection part another time.

@colexdev Yeah. I can always play the waiting game. Ammo is too expensive anyways to really care personally.

The state (monopoly on violence) creates the conditions necessary for its own existence. Very good post.

It's also funny how you released this around the same time my friend finished his own post against anarchism. I think to us it is a matter of semantics more than anything

Unfortunately I forgot where I read about it, but this concept always stuck with me - A "right" only exists when it's threatened.

Anarchism exists solely for catharsis. The real path is to be like mold.

Beautifully worded, as always. There may be no solutions, but it is nevertheless important to keep repeating this kind of knowledge.

read some other articles on your site, it's great to meet a fellow david graeber fan and anarchist! looking forward to more writings from you

YES! Whether approached spiritually ( https://youtu.be/o7eIVk0W3S4 ) or scientifically ( https://youtu.be/EQnUFxoFqNY ), "government" in most senses of the term is anathema to human flourishing. However, I feel that serious practical work that would render it completely "irrelevant" is relatively scarce (e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_confederalism ).

But there is a deeper biohistory at the basis of that ( https://pkl.net/~node/2RCD/2R/index.html#8 ). Ever since you mentioned minarchy, I've been wanting to share ideas for self-sufficient communities interlinked through continual mutual aid/skillsharing/peacemaking/collaboration. Instead of "seizing the means", useful knowledge must be so ubiquitous that everyone knows how to make anything needed to survive.

Most "management" tends to make organizations that are "toxic" (e.g.: rigid hierarchies based on meritocratic concepts, punishment/reward dynamics and purity spirals, the banality of evil/structural violence fostered by bureaucratic accountability sinks, schizmogenesis through zero-sum games, etc.). In contrast, this kind of organization functions like a healthy and sane organism.

Though it can be complex sometimes, it is not "structureless" ( https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm ). In practice, it is like a combination of fab cities ( https://books.fablabbcn.org/reflowhandbook/contemporary-city-models-and-urban-governance/fab-cities ) with sociocratic ( https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy/ ) and restorative circles...

...( https://restorativejustice101.com/restorative-circles-a-guide-for-facilitation/ ) which generally follow Ostrom's design principles ( https://youtu.be/QTQPy9tC5WE ) and that are directed towards maintaining the health of every "bioregion" on Earth in ways that are truly "sustainable" ( https://letslearntogether.neocities.org/scispirit/SysDyn/sustainsys ).

It is possible to diagnose where it is "sick" at any level of scale ( https://letslearntogether.neocities.org/scispirit/LST/subsystems01 ) and fix it before it turns parasitic ( https://letslearntogether.neocities.org/scispirit/Misc/newecology ). I can go on and on about the type of "transition engineering" that would be necessary, but hopefully that gives a general idea of what humanity is evolving into.

I struggle to hold any ideological opinions of the sort, mainly because there's always a disconnect between what we think is ideal and what we think is reasonably achievable.

I think a pretty common consensus (anarchist, various forms of communism, microcap, whatever) is scaling back, staying within Dunbar's number and all. Within each of these tighter communities, I'm not sure if it really matters what they each do.

one of the crazier crypto-anarchists might be peter thiel, who wants to establish a technocracy, bypassing traditional nation-states in favor of a "network-state" as popularized by balaji. don't think it would amount to anything but another dystopia.

An absolutely grounded and accurate take, I agree with you in many ways. Always enjoy reading your thoughts on various topics. -k.w

after a while, I did not need to do anything because I was automatically gaining more than I was losing

me worried

it can be "won" in a few minutes... "You have beaten the capital markets from beyond the grave."