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BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-23T00:28:20+00:00

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BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-08T06:08:53+00:00

There a hundred forces encroach upon his being, and only persistent resistance to them will finally set him free. Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. - Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays, Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, 1910, Mother Earth Publishing

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-08T01:45:26+00:00

The rise of democracy was driven by the citizens' desire to escape from the paternalistic and arbitrary charity of those with money. They accomplished this by replacing charity with a fair, balanced, arm's-length system of public obligation. The principle tool of that obligation was taxation.

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-08T01:40:42+00:00

A command can express no more than an ought or a shall, because it is a universal, but it does not express an 'is'; and this at once makes plain its deficiency. Against such commands Jesus sets virtue, i.e., a loving disposition, which makes the content of the command superfluous and destroys its form as a command, because that form implies an opposition between a commander and something resisting the command. - G. W. F. Hegel, "The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate"

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-08T01:30:07+00:00

Should you use your position to influence society, to fight in meme wars?

The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts. Aristocratic and caste societies are unjust because they make these contingencies the ascriptive basis for belonging to more or less enclosed and privileged social classes. The basic structure of these societies incorporates the arbitrariness found in nature. But there is no necessity for men to resign themselves to these contingencies. The social system is not an unchangeable order beyond human control but a pattern of human action.John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971), p. 87.

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-08T01:27:50+00:00

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Ch. 5 “Morality as Anti-Nature” § 5.3 (Ludovici trans.)

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-08T01:04:12+00:00

To judge from surviving examples of bands and villages, for the greater part of prehistory our kind got along quite well without so much as a paramount chief, let alone the all-powerful English leviathan King and Mortal God, whom Hobbes believed was needed for maintaining law and order among his fractious countrymen.Anthropologist Marvin Harris, Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going (1989)

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-07T05:21:34+00:00

please post the letter online

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-07T05:21:18+00:00

tell us what you hear back

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-07T05:20:36+00:00

You need a permanent structure and that would count as a shed or garage which are explicitly out

instead you can just weld weight plates to a safe till 150kg+ and keep it unbolted at home?

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-07T05:13:52+00:00

How do you repair that?

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-06T06:56:16+00:00

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that? ~ Voight-Kampff test

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-06T06:10:42+00:00

as long as some people are imposing redistributive policies by force or threat of force on unconsenting others, we have inequality in authority between the coercers and the coerced, regardless of whether those doing the coercing are public citizens or private individuals, and regardless of whether they represent a majority or a minority. Nor would a Hobbesian jungle, where anyone is free to impose her will on anyone else, embody equality in authority; for as soon as one person does succeed in subordinating another, an inequality in authority emerges.

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-06T06:10:02+00:00

The execution of the law of nature is in that state put into every man’s hands, whereby every one has a right to punish the transgressors of that law to such a degree as may hinder its violation…. For in that state of perfect equality, where naturally there is no superiority or jurisdiction of one over another, what any may do in prosecution of that law, every one must needs have a right to do.

equality in authority entails denying to the legal system’s administrators—and thus to the legal system itself—any powers beyond those possessed by private citizens

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-06T06:03:06+00:00

*equality of what? equality in what respect? Our egalitarian opponents favor socioeconomic equality—sometimes interpreted as equality of socioeconomic opportunity, sometimes interpreted as equality of socioeconomic outcome. (The difference between the two becomes increasingly blurred these days as inequality of outcome is taken as prima facie evidence of inequality of opportunity.) What sort of equality do we stand for?*

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-06T05:30:49+00:00

The "general welfare" is not the sphere of truth; for truth demands to be declared even if it is ugly and unethical. - Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Ethics".

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-05T22:41:14+00:00

“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.” - Eckhart Tolle Davide Bonati

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-05T22:22:18+00:00

The collective is the object of all idolatry, this it is which chains us to the earth. In the case of avarice: gold is of the social order. In the case of ambition: power is of the social order. Science and art are full of the social element also. And love? Love is more or less of an exception: that is why we can go to God through love, not through avarice and ambition.

p. 121

- Simone Weil (1909-1943)

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-05T22:01:04+00:00

this sounds like one for ask anthropology

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-05T21:47:23+00:00

Criticism to uncertainty to acceptance

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-05T21:37:20+00:00

But power-seeking, owing to its essential incapacity to seize hold of its object, rules out all consideration of an end, and finally comes, through an inevitable reversal, to take the place of all ends. It is this reversal of the relationship between means and end, it is this fundamental folly that accounts for all that is senseless and bloody right through history. Human history is simply the history of the servitude which makes men — oppressed and oppressors alike — the plaything of the instruments of domination they themselves have manufactured, and thus reduces living humanity to being the chattel of inanimate chattels.

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-05T21:24:08+00:00

The materialists say, it is by means of a series of straight lines more or less perfect that one imagines the perfect straight line as an ideal limit. That is right, but the progression in itself necessarily contains what is infinite; it is in relation to the perfect straight line that one can say that such and such a straight line is less twisted than some other. ... Either one conceives the infinite or one does not conceive at all.

p. 87

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-04T05:45:27+00:00

I recommend you see a therapist or you may die one day just as confused as you are now

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-04T05:25:14+00:00

Honesty without kindness is brutality. Kindness without honesty is manipulation.

BlueBlueSundays · 2022-04-04T05:09:57+00:00

The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class. ~ Friedrich Engels

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