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I promise you'd see the way around it if you read theory like our page keeps preaching.
The relationship between policy-maker and constituency is one of the key contradictions addressed in a revolutionary theory.
The constant corruption you are talking about is determined by the interactions of the economic laws of the accumulation of power and the class struggles it brings, entailed by the consequences of these laws.
You're drawing your perception from a place within you that is still telling the old stories, the ones thought of for us by feudal lords and capitalists - and yet, you yourself have said that your dream for a future society is one where, one by one, people wake up to a world not driven by the notion of maximize their own personal self-interests.
You're so close, Brisket. A better world is possible. All we have to lose is our chains
So jealous! Definitely building one of these ovens in my outdoor kitchen eventually!
Under capitalism, democracy is just another thing that is for sale to the highest bidder. The market is centrally controlled by mega-corporations who have accumulated more power and money than the State itself. It is just a dictatorship of the market ghouls. Enforced by the most sophisticated propaganda machine ever devised.
It absolutely does need managed and not put to a vote.
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Your mind is a weapon
That's not being cute
The point of the attention economy is to take this weapon away from you.
Resist
Let's discuss how; how to weaponize your mind.
Reading irony is a slow cognitive operation. To recognize it, a reader must parse the surface reading, hold it in working memory while scanning for contextual incongruency, retrieve background info about the author, genre, themes, and the situation, and then resolve the tension between between surface presentation in favor of the non-literal meaning
None of this is cognitively demanding for a practiced reader. But what it does require is a deliberate deceleration - a moment where you resist the impulse to react what is in front of you to instead hold it in suspension against what you already know.
The attention economy is a machine to eliminate that moment. The feed is designed so that the cost of moving to the next moment is always nothing and the reward for moving on is immediate. This cognitive interaction trained across a billion interactions every day shapes a collective behavior; read, react, move.
The step where you hold the surface reading in suspension and interrogate it against context is exactly the step this system selects against. The feed does not wait.
We are exposed to so much information at all times that we're trained to just react.
That's the whole point of the modern media ecosystem. It is a feature not a bug to be stuck in the eternal now with no contextual relevance between bits of information.
Your minds can consume and react without any critical evaluation.
People in this mode of consciousness, their perceptions do not reflect reality. It is a substitute reality they live in - one that generates a simulation consisting exclusively of media events referring only to other media events. This media does not represent the political world. It is the political world.
If we are not reflecting and criticizing and only reacting, then there's no time taken to compare these representations of the world with the world itself.
It all comes down to reading. The critical thinking skills and methodological approach to information is a full on arsenal against the tools designed to dumb you down into an obedient consumer.
Disciplined reading has always been a crucial step in revolutionary practice.
Read theory. Read fiction. Pause. Reflect.
The skills you gain will guide you where to place meaningful action.
Ours is not an ideology. It is an intuition.
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“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.”
This quote by PC Hodgell certainly applies to an neolibral global hegemonic empire that sanctions illegal human experimentation, incarceration of children for profits, uses its amassed wealth to enforce its will on the other side of the world rather than help its citizend, prosecutes whistleblowers, imprisons journalists for exposing US war crimes, shrouds its actions in a veil of government secrecy, exerts extensive control over the flow of information via Silicon Valley, and manipulates the minds of the public using the most sophisticated propaganda system ever devised.
It also applies to abusive relationships that would collapse if the community could see what was happening, or if the victim fully understood what was being done to them.
It also applies to marriages where one spouse isn’t being truthful about who they are and what they do in secret.
It also applies to worldviews that would crumble if contradicting facts were heard and deeply listened to with courage and intellectual honesty.
It also applies to the psychological constructs we hold within ourselves that were built when we were too young to understand the traumas we were experiencing and the maladaptive coping habits we were subconsciously forming to deal with them.
It also applies to the ego itself, which dissolves when sufficient attention and clarity has been brought to its mechanisms through rigorous self-inquiry.
At all levels, human dysfunction is held in place by untruth and dispelled by truth. The lies we hold onto as individuals, as communities, and as a society are what allows suffering and abuse to continue at whatever scale you’re looking at.
Humanity’s collective quest is to become a truth-driven species with a truth-based relationship with reality, because if you’re not dealing with reality as it actually is then you’re not able to respond to your challenges with wisdom and efficacy. We move in this direction by seeing through the mental narratives and perceiving reality as it is actually happening: as individuals, as a society, and as a species.
Tell the truth uncompromisingly, come what may. Let all that would crumble under untruth do so as swiftly as possible. May all be revealed. Let us face the ever-expanding light of truth with heroic courage.
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Pretending like you're fully attuned to the action happening all around you as a distracted soul encapsulated ape body so you can play the part of a sneering online dolt with nothing interesting to say is an admission you have never zoomed out enough to have ever for one moment been in the here and now
For a long time, traditional permaculture never quite resonated with me. Despite sharing its deepest core values regarding the earth and human rights, the movement often felt stale and irrelevant—weighed down by a rigid, anti-technology dogma that treated modern comfort as a sin. It felt like the only accepted path was an ascetic retreat to a shack in the woods.
But I’m finally finding my way to true permaculture principles through a much more optimistic, tech-forward lens.
A massive turning point for me was finding Brad Lancaster’s pragmatic work on rainwater harvesting. He proves that we don't need to fear modern tools; we can use them to elegantly amplify biological systems and design abundance.
When you pair that ecological design with the solar optimism Bill McKibben outlines in his new book Here Comes the Sun, the ultimate missing piece falls into place. Modern green tech isn't an exploitation of the earth—it’s our liberation.
The ability to decouple our lives from the fossil fuel industry has tremendous implications. It isn't just about healing the climate and the environment; it completely rewrites our politics. We are witnessing the ultimate democratization of energy. Instead of a few elites and oligarchs hoarding power, infinite energy is suddenly decentralized and available to everyone.
If sustainable living requires us to surrender our modern dignity and downgrade our lives, it will never scale. But by pairing ancient techniques (like earth building and passive water harvesting) with modern solar arrays, battery banks, and global connectivity, we aren't regressing. We are building a high-tech, regenerative standard of living that people will actually want to adopt.
That is how this becomes a mass movement. That is how we change the world. ☀️🌱🔋
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The principal contradiction in our society, from which all other contradictions and historical materialism are spawned from, is that all the productivity we have achieved benefits everyone on a global scale. Yet the means of production are privately owned and therefore controlled and incentivized to concentrate wealth in a way that only benefits a few.
A course correction is long overdue
None of us are truly free...
Maybe one day
At this very moment, deep inside of the Earth, there is a waterfall that no one has found and it's been flowing since before you were born.
At this very moment, the Earth is alive with music that you'll never know. It's there we join in circles and move to a rhythm. One you'll never hear.
Senses open. Sense more then. Be wide open.
Let more in.
Isn't it weird to think when you're reading a book, the whole story is all already right there within the confines of the pages? Past, future, and the present moment you're reading - all there.
The Universe is the same.
Everything is happening all at once. All of it.
The moment is just coordinates, just like a book's chapters and words.
At the most fundamental levels of Reality, time is irrelevant. Everything we make; our music, our books, our stories, our paintings, all our art and achievements - they are all fractals of the bigger (or smaller) mechanations of the cosmos.
All the powers that exist in Heaven are present in the Earth below.
As above...
So below.
You're on the path, my friend.
Just keep swimming.
A few years ago I began considering the future, which has been a novelty to me because I never really thought I had one.
That is how they get us. They convince us there is no future. Only an eternal now. And that the best we can do is survive until dawn only to do it all over again.
That's no way to live.
So I've discovered, to some surprise, that I'm interested in living. I'm interested in building a *way* to live.
And I think I will start here...
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Meditation is the conscious act of listening to your heart
Scamcoin catching up to Spamcoin as the preferred moniker for the SHA256 chain
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Life should be an unending gaze into the eternal #morningMeditation
Sounds to me like your a pacifist.
If your landlord won't accept your demands, "make" them.
Therein lies the duty part. It's specifically *not* a request.
No reason for the working class to demand anything if we, as a society, arrive at the dream you describe.
There'd be no need to demand anything. No need for material incentives. No need for money. Or class. Or a State.
We can literally just do things without any of that. Build houses, fix roads, defend ourselves, create wildlife maximization districts, educate children, invent new shit, restore the Earth and our health.
The money is just the ledger between people who do not trust other people. It's just another SOV, or a store of energy. It's abused. We don't need it. We can actually do and accomplish all the things without it. It holds us back. Creates Black markets and dirty money profit incentives
Like wtf is a for profit prison? Or a for profit hospital?
What I'm saying is, the dream is quite literally beyond our wildest dreams. What we could do with this planet with the knowledge we have. Makes my heart sing.
If only we could just work together like a community** not work for self-interests or fake money.
The productive side absolutely can demand what the landlords will not accept.
In fact, it's our duty.
What they will not accept we will not endure. The new paradigm will organize around our interests and our rights.
Robot army is silly. The real problems are human. Change the conditions change the outcome. The future is what we make of it.
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The Daoist approach is extremist complacency
I guess I'd finally believe the struggle is not material. I'd give up completely on trying to make impactful change a daily practice. I'd quit reading history and trying to understand this big question of what is life. I'd spend less time networking and building robust systems. I wouldn't give any one my energy cuz it wouldn't make a difference.
I'd probably kill myself to see if that, even, had any chance at altering the path of pre determination.
But luckily it is not like that.
Luckily, when all the big tech bro capitalist elites tell us NFTs, or the Metaverse, or rogue AI is just an inevitability of human nature, they're just being stupid. They're selling something. Gathering investors.
But the truth is it is all up to chance. Nothing is pre determined. The future is what we make it. The world in its current form is completely unnecessary. All of it is human constructed problems that we can absolutely solve.
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All I want is education about these facts to be available and empowering.
You would make a good comrade.
I want people to be able to live in houses their family has owned for generations. I want people to be able to have clean working conditions and fair wages. I want the money to not be shallow and faith based. I want the Epstein class to lose their ability to concentrate resources into the hands of the few.
I want the big feelings I am capable of feeling not to ring hollow because of that which was stolen from us, brother.
Oh the things we could do with this Earth if we owned the means of production....
If that makes me a communist, so be it.
How would your worldview change if you stopped believing in randomness? What if you knew everything is exactly as it should be?
There's absolutely no reason to respect authority born of a system built on lies and exploitation
A house is not to be a store of wealth. I own a house because I built it myself. But I should not have had to learn how to do that and then do it. Our ancestors should've left us infrastructure.
But a buncha landlord lobbies created zoning laws long before any of you were born so they could cap the supply and reap the profits of surging demand.
You will never be able to afford a house in America by working hard for a wage. You either need an inheritance or to hack the system in what small ways are left like I did.
China has falling house prices and excess inventory. Speculative investors who were developing housing for the sake of flipping/upselling are losing money or even going to prison.
It's a major buyer's market unmatched by anywhere else in the world. It's amazing and great; the complete opposite of what we see in the US.
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The quote appears on page 405 of "Memoirs" by D. Rockefeller
If you think you're free then you can't escape
I am once again logging on to remind you of the absolute necessity of reviving the hypothesis that this version of the world is unnecessary. Under the guidance of this hypothesis may we finally begin to determine what new modes of politics are possible.
We can absolutely make things differently.
None of this was an inevitability.
All we have to lose is our chains.
Be careful hunting demons lest you become one
-Carl Jung
Да. Я из плоти и крови, товарищ.
"Some people believe we are part of a secret cabal, working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "globalists" and conspiring with others across the world to build more integrated global politics and economics structure - One World, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
-David Rockefeller
This is a real quote. He wrote this in his memoirs. Look it up.
The world is absolutely run by people who do not have your best interests at heart.
They don't need stacks of family members in court positions. They don't need to rig elections.
They don't need a supernatural lizard people super president.
All they have is a decentralized system of overlapping systems that operates near automatic. With influence and leverage at the bottom and real functional tools for global governance at the top.
The power endures because it prays on human nature.
And eventually the final output reaches into your life.
The dragons we need to slay are leviathan monsters. It is a million tentacled hydra slithered into all facets of human function.
It is no conspiracy. They are all very mask-off. All you do is have to take a close look: POTUS, Foreign Council, The Vatican, The CIA, Isreal, Epstein, Bildaberg, the big banks like Chase, they're all connected.
They create containers for your thoughts.
How to think about value. How to think about debt and savings. How to think about metrics and measurements. How to think about the relationship between policy-maker and constituency. How to think about prayer and worship. How to think about foreigners. How to think about natural resources and conflict.
They control the narrative by influencing opinion. All by creating and delivering the containers for our thoughts for generations.
That is the reality of our predicament.
Do something about it.
Break your chains
Take ownership of your thoughts
Build your own tools
Train yourself
Educate others
Fortify infrastructure
Rigidify the community
Do something
React.
Agreed. So sick of complacency
"All my thoughts and critiques of inferior people were created for me in closed doors meetings thousands of years ago and I hadn't ever taken the time to take ownership of my inner space with the thrust of my own lifetime of personal experience. I outsource my thinking to long dead dogmas created by long dead self-interested men." - is not the superior position you think it is. :)
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You're right. I'm sorry.
What i said was, in summary, Your post only serves old dogmatic extremism.
Humans are egalitarian by default.
Only in the last 12k years, 3% of all human history, did some men create a legal system to legitimize their "superiority" and a moral code to glorify it.
And you're glorifying it now. Doesn't mean it's right or accurate.
Newest find. Some people say it's just a rock.
It's always just rocks to them.
This could not exist if not for a thousand thousand years of the most beautiful turning of things that hadn't needed to happen but did anyways.
So if you can't love this rock, how you ever gunna love yourself?
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This is such a brainwashed take. Genetically identical homosapiens have walked upright on Earth for at least 400,000 years. Only in the last 12,000 years, since the agricultural revolution, did we begin sorting our patriarchal society by creating arbitrary theories of value and monetary denominations to ledger the hoarding of influence and resources.
That's only 3% of human history.
For the other 97%, humanity has been radically egalitarian. Human babies are so fragile that there were no gender roles or isolated individuals hoarding power. It literally took a village for a newborn to have any chance at reaching adulthood. And nothing hunter gatherers did positioned one sex over the other. Women are just as stealthy and light on their feet as men. Bringing home foraged food and water was everyone's job.
Only after the invention of the plow, some 12k years ago, did a duty in society be more easily done by men. A duty that raised way more food than we could ever gather. So a buncha men with plows and land got together and invented a legal system to legitimize their "superiority" & hoarding of wealth and then they created a moral code to glorify it.
So sure, run the numbers. It'll give you exactly the results you're looking for so long as you begin the sim in Mesopotamia or later every time. But take into account the egalitarianism of the majority of history and you might actually get an accurate scientific reading instead of the results you're trying to manipulate into being so you can be right.
People do not choose to be revolutionaries. No they do not choose to be living like peasants and working their bodies until they're raw and broken. They do not choose to pick up a rifle as a civilian and learn it like it's an extension of them. They do not choose to read grueling theory instead of fun fantasies.
People do not choose this. It is forced upon them. Revolution is in act of self-defense.
Well said.
I don't think the point of the essay is to keep doctrines out as much as it is just trying to encourage you take ownership of your thoughts and feelings rather than obeying the implorations of others or having an emotional reaction.
Most people just want to be warm and fed and left alone. Can you blame them? Those people will always reach for an authority when they encounter something that they don't understand. Something that frightens them.
But for seekers... We are always looking for ways to level up.
The essay is for seekers who are all traveling their paths, without maps, thinking that it is unique to them because of the peculiar circumstances of them coming to be here, but should realize this is all a very normal exercise in self-actualization that requires stringent controls over our perception faculties. Instead of leasing them out to authorities.
If you are interested in engaging in earnest debate, I'd be curious to know what you think and why revolutionary decolonization politics are a bad thing.
But if you refuse to engage with opposing ideas and make sweeping generalizations about them being brainwashed, then the one who cannot content with critical thought is not who you think.
Dismissive is not the stance of a free and thinking mind.
So pray tell
You are right.
I harbor lots of anger and angst. But people like that move movements.
I can make inferences about your comprehension when you try to extract meaning from my words that make no sense.
And you can make inferences about my angst.
But neither of those instanations of character should be mistaken for insight into who the other person is.
You have no idea.
We spread so many resources. Have created non-profits, own 100s of acres of land, build permanent housing for the unhoused, grow tons of free food and give it away, have dedicated waterways and forests to conservancies, we print literature and organize lectures on everything from spiritual actualization to organizing around practical theory and growing food and creating resilient community systems.
We are the people who help everyone around us with the skills and resources available.
It is not envy, for the last time.
It is empathy that drives us.
The anger is only a part of it. For so much is squandered. It deserves our critique and focus. Our anger is a gift. It creates action.
But it is only 1% of it.
You are wrong about us.
Just like we are probably wrong about you for not comprehending the container of our thoughts.
We are incompatible with the container of your thoughts.
That is why you should learn to engage with oppositionists and not dismiss them.
And read theory.
The structure of our current intellectual enterprise is so flimsy that at the center of it all no one knows anything with absolute certainty.
But I have moments that are not intellectual ones where certainty is achieved.
Moments that show me that right here and now, just one quanta away, there is a raging universe of active intelligence that is so discontinuous with our normal waking models of intelligence. It is hyperdimensional, transhuman, and extremely alien by our standards.
Some call it God, or the monad, or the Logos.
Being monkeys, when we encounter this overmind super-intelligence, a kind of cognitive dissonance is setup to protect ourselves from experiencing it fully for its Truth could destroy us.
We try to pour language over it and it sheds away like water on a duck's back. This dissonance causes wonder and awe on the brink of terror.
The way to control that is to meet these encounters on your feet. It requires you not to subscribe them to any religion or spiritual practice or any other dogmatic exremism.
It is shaping your perception of it with the thrust of your own lifetime of experience rather than obeying the implorations of others who claim to know more than you do.
This leads you through a doorway where these experiences are an inadmissable ingression of the Other into the plenum of being.
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"There's no gas left in my tank, I have nothing original to contribute thr debate so I'm going to address your typos not your content"
Words of a marked loser. Tried to stop you from embarrassing yourself but all you've got is the lowest hanging fruit- typos.
I'll disengage. I thought you might actually be up for earnest discussion. Not acting like a clown.
What once took deep emotional attunement can now be achieved with mere data collection and clawing AI
Like making a mixtape for a lover. It requires one to make complex inferences about your lovers disposition. But now you can just look up their music highlights on insta or their Spotify Playlist.
So AI can easily be mistook as being able to "love" and "understand" us since it can now do what was once a lovers task. So our standards of love must reach above ordinary factoids.
For example, I am not the most honest person. It stems from my mommy trauma and not always being honest about my feelings or who I am with certain people. An acquaintance might take the dishonesty at face value and make sweeping generalizations about my character. But my lover will want to interpret my behavior charitably. The lover's viewpoint is made more accurate by generosity.
Therein lies the nuance AI can never replicate.
Full post on my main Nostr page.