We're not out of the woods yet, unfortunately...
"Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy."
I had a few bites of this the other day and had a Near Death Experience
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gm order is emergent
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
🅾🆉🆈🅼🅰🅽🅳🅸🅰🆂
𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓬𝔂 𝓑𝔂𝓼𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
A basic, default heuristic that has a excellent hit rate: The government is lying to you
cycles within cycles within cycles
One of the positive traits I see in a large partition of bitcoiners and nostriches, as well as technological and political dissidents of all stripes, is autodidacticism.
Most normies simply lose the ability to actualize their innate curiosity of the cosmos and a skepticism of fallible human systems.
Empathy is counter-culture
"Depart from Babylon, my people, so you do not participate in its evil and receive any of its punishments; for its sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered its iniquities."
Killing, dominating, and dehumanizing other human beings is the actual "taking the Lord's name in vain".
My zaps ⚡ should be working again. Not sure exactly what went awry there
Agorist here 🤝
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
The substrate of the State is coercive violence.
Are you a violent person?
If not, you can choose peace...and disengage. Ⓐ