Antifa destroy unity by individual, selfish acts of anarchy

These ANTIFA always stealing the silent Majority's thunder so they can vandalize with impunity. This were civil protesters, not an opiate induced mass of revolutionaries who want to loot and enjoy hedonistic indulgences. They weren't advocating the end of Capitalism; they were making political demands based on the destruction of their livelihoods at the hands of incompetent politicians. These protests have so much in common with the WTO in Seattle much of it to do with China's entrance into free trade talks despite their glaring human rights abuse and lack of regulation. The extreme Left are radical Communists in appearance but have actively demonstrated their anarchic attitudes without any form of discipline or integrity due to it becoming a form of political personality cult and have been known to astroturf and consort with Police to the extent that they are bedfellows as part of the Establishment in order to justify Authoritative measure against protests which demands further reciprocity instead of turning the other cheek for the sake of civility. Ironically, they are Stalinist or Anarchic AstroTurf against the Common Small-Business Capitalist in the same way that the Globalist government is Fascist against the Common Frenchman. To hell with the gloryhounds what does it matter to them the consequences the rest must bear for their self-indulgence? It is interesting how similar ANTIFA is to trans-national powers by mechanism alone. Why would a protester in good faith, acting with integrity towards the righteousness of their struggle, mar the symbols of their country they love with anarchic symbolism and gestures that threaten their legitimacy in the eyes of the People? We must learn from the past and especially from Simone Weil during the Great War who actively engaged the atrocities of her Era. She came to the understanding that, " It is not religion[as the Marxist scholars would have it]  but revolution which is the opium of the people."

Musings opining diatribes: resurfacing old wounds and new avenues.

<+yuriwho> when I was younger I believed that souls were just short term pools of energy stored by an individual over a lifetime but shared back to the ocean after death.
<+BAnt0s> I actually like that.
-bannon3002- mahjong sent you a message 8 hours and 27 minutes ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgFoqhRT8mE
<+BAnt0s> And you know, you're probably right.
<+yuriwho> not sure what I believe now
<+BAnt0s> Maybe our species has too much soul divided over too many people.
<+BAnt0s> And perhaps it is why we need machines in order to recapture it.
<+yuriwho> thus Soul Division?
<+BAnt0s> Because we've devasted our environments.
<+BAnt0s> At all levels.
<+BAnt0s> Institutions, politics, economics, environmental devastation
<+BAnt0s> We carry all our effects with us.
<+BAnt0s> If we are constantly debasing our human soul, then little returns after death.
<+BAnt0s> Which means in life many predate on another
<+yuriwho> and AI is ascending, and will change human experience
<+BAnt0s> Great thought yuriwho, thanks for saying that.
<+BAnt0s> Modern life, what a doozy.
<+yuriwho> good to see someone doesn't think I'm insane
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<+BAnt0s> I feel that our first beliefs are closer to the truth.
<+BAnt0s> But sometimes it is a qlippoth too, if we have toxic families
<+BAnt0s> or toxic environments
<+yuriwho> I was blessed with good parents
<+BAnt0s> Apples and oranges.
<+BAnt0s> Your fruit isn't bitter.
<+BAnt0s> That is a blessing.
<+BAnt0s> I'm an orange.
<+BAnt0s> The bitterness you feel is within the seeds.
<+yuriwho> I literally owe it all to them.
<+BAnt0s> Suppose that's the arsenic.
<+BAnt0s> I have good parents, but dysfunctional absolutely.
<+BAnt0s> Immigrant family background, divorce single mother upbringing on both sides.
<+BAnt0s> They are still married, which is a miracle.
<+BAnt0s> A lot of loss, but there is something to be said about the travail of the spirit.
<+BAnt0s> Life tests our faith.
<+yuriwho> Sadly, both my parents have passed, but they both were awesome... even though they fought at times
<+BAnt0s> Haha :V
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<+BAnt0s> I think some people are given a larger quantum of soul, too
<+yuriwho> hmmm, initial seeding?
<+BAnt0s> I've never heard of that concept before.
<+BAnt0s> It's just been my experience.
<+BAnt0s> The difference between wings and a millstone
<+yuriwho> we are talking Bhuddist principles and beliefs now
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<+BAnt0s> The difference between a hummingbird and a gryphon eagle
<+BAnt0s> The difference between a pebble and a boulder.
<+BAnt0s> A hummingbird with a boulder. A gryphon with a pebble.
<+yuriwho> or the Dali Llama
<+BAnt0s> Really?
<+BAnt0s> Wisdom is wisdom, so if it bears in truth, then whatever right
<+BAnt0s> I've studied some zen buddhism, but I'm Classically educated with a Christian background
* +yuriwho ponders
<+BAnt0s> Well you take a Buddah, or you take the Christ
<+BAnt0s> Those are examples that personify one who has attained or has access to a larger quantum
<+yuriwho> I believe in neither
<+BAnt0s> I don't think one has to belief in either to understand the longevity of the ideas as well as the longitudinal scope in perspective they provide.
<+yuriwho> true
<+BAnt0s> It's called faith.
<+pinecone> Lol prepare to br ported
<+BAnt0s> You get beyond superstition.
<+yuriwho> pinecone: can you describe my penis?
<+pinecone> I drew pictures on one of the old approach and it was still my owl. Someone told me that >_> Event Horizon freaked me out more
<+yuriwho> ^ pinecone is a bot
<+yuriwho> Sadly, both my parents have passed, but they both were awesome... even though they fought at times
<+BAnt0s> Haha :V
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<+BAnt0s> I think some people are given a larger quantum of soul, too
<+yuriwho> hmmm, initial seeding?
<+BAnt0s> I've never heard of that concept before.
<+BAnt0s> It's just been my experience.
<+BAnt0s> The difference between wings and a millstone
<+yuriwho> we are talking Bhuddist principles and beliefs now
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<+BAnt0s> The difference between a hummingbird and a gryphon eagle
<+BAnt0s> The difference between a pebble and a boulder.
<+BAnt0s> A hummingbird with a boulder. A gryphon with a pebble.
<+yuriwho> or the Dali Llama
<+BAnt0s> Really?
<+BAnt0s> Wisdom is wisdom, so if it bears in truth, then whatever right
<+BAnt0s> I've studied some zen buddhism, but I'm Classically educated with a Christian background
* +yuriwho ponders
<+BAnt0s> Well you take a Buddah, or you take the Christ
<+BAnt0s> Those are examples that personify one who has attained or has access to a larger quantum
<+yuriwho> I believe in neither
<+BAnt0s> I don't think one has to belief in either to understand the longevity of the ideas as well as the longitudinal scope in perspective they provide.
<+yuriwho> true
<+BAnt0s> It's called faith.
<+pinecone> Lol prepare to br ported
<+BAnt0s> You get beyond superstition.
<+yuriwho> pinecone: can you describe my penis?
<+pinecone> I drew pictures on one of the old approach and it was still my owl. Someone told me that >_> Event Horizon freaked me out more
<+yuriwho> ^ pinecone is a bot
<+pinecone> And a dick !@#&!@
<+BAnt0s> I'd say anyways. You gotta know if your beliefs are rational or not.
<+BAnt0s> Everyone goes thru wavering periods.
<+BAnt0s> yuriwho: I know.
<+BAnt0s> Take Gandalf for example.
<+BAnt0s> Even if you don't care much for Buddah or Jesus.
<+yuriwho> I am a trained scientist, I question everything. I doubt I am correct
<+BAnt0s> Gandalf the Grey was given a lesser Quantum of Soul than Saruman the White
<+BAnt0s> However, Saruman debased his soul, and Gandalf holding steadfast to the truth of his convictions and his mission
<+BAnt0s> Became Gandalf the White, transcended
<+BAnt0s> and was sent back to Middle-Earth after battling the Balrog  of Morgoth
<+yuriwho> I cried the first time I read that book, when Gandalf died
<+BAnt0s> LotR mythology is much closely related to Abrahamic
<+BAnt0s> but its as if it was given a Saxon/Celtic dressing
<+BAnt0s> which was the deep desire of its Author
<+BAnt0s> Creating a perfect fairy tale.
<+BAnt0s> When I mean related, trying to say the structure is similar.
<+BAnt0s> Especially its creation myths
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<+BAnt0s> Basically what he has done though is genius, because he has created many more divisions of power
<+yuriwho> fairy tales and childrens books offer many insights into our collective gathered knowledge
<+BAnt0s> Without question
<+BAnt0s> Gandalf doing battle with a demon of Morgoth
<+BAnt0s> Is similar in structure to Christ dying, going to hell, and reclaiming the death
<+yuriwho> are you Stephen Colbert?
<+yuriwho> or is it Steven?
<+BAnt0s> Or Hercules, wading in Hades, with only the fortification of his soul by his spirit to provide him sustenance
<+BAnt0s> No, I'm BAnt0s
<+BAnt0s> Stephen is a Catholic though, a wayward one albeit.
<+yuriwho> that was a high compliment btw
<+BAnt0s> Oh, haha.
<+BAnt0s> I'll take what I can get then!
<+BAnt0s> I think Stephen is a con man now, used to respect him.
* +BAnt0s shrugs
<+yuriwho> moveon
<+BAnt0s> A decade can change anything.
* +BAnt0s laughs
<+BAnt0s> We can't escape the affect and effect upon our spirits.
<+BAnt0s> There is too much separating our hearts for one lifetime to resolve.
<+yuriwho> sadly to many are lost between their, they're and there
<+BAnt0s> or to / too as you've just done
* +BAnt0s laughs
* +Monopoly sips on his premium chardonnay
<+BAnt0s> Hey that's just my belief but it don't mean I don't have faith.
<+BAnt0s> I've seen people change for the good, and for the bad.
<+yuriwho> fair enough
<+BAnt0s> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1IjkfcwoHs
<+bannon3002> (BAnt0s) Slavoj Zizek | Unknown Knowns and Psychoanalysis - length 3m 28s - 65 likes, 0 dislikes ( 100.0 %) - 4,398 views - Zizekian Studies on 2015.01.22
<+BAnt0s> I think anarcho capitalists are communists too, by this same philosophical inclusion
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<+Monopoly> meh @ fiverr - changed their business to above $5
<+BAnt0s> It's axiomatic
<+BAnt0s> not automatic
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<+BAnt0s> Even though Slavoj Zizek is quintessentially a communist
<+BAnt0s> I find so much in what he says.
<+yuriwho> was that vid sponsored by Rumsfeld?
<+BAnt0s> not at all
<+BAnt0s> He's talking about contemporary American Political Philosophy
<+BAnt0s> using psychoanalysis
<+yuriwho> I'm gonna lurk for a bit
<+BAnt0s> and also note this too
<+BAnt0s> Rumsfield didn't speak of unknown known
<+BAnt0s> Yet he created a set
<+BAnt0s> unknown : known
<+BAnt0s> I'm no math guy but follow the logic
<+BAnt0s> He only provided 3
<+BAnt0s> When there is in truth 4
<+yuriwho> Mandelbrot set?
<+BAnt0s> You can listen to his speech
<+BAnt0s> NO I lack the words
<+BAnt0s> Just follow my thinking
<+BAnt0s> All Zizek has done is filled in the last relationship that was left out
<+BAnt0s> Know known, known unknown, unknown unknown, unknown known
<+BAnt0s> He doesn't work for Rumsfield
<+BAnt0s> In fact I think they are in competition for the Authoritative slot
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<+BAnt0s> He's an academic
<+BAnt0s> He doesn't automatically work for Rumfield
<+BAnt0s> He is axiomatic of Rumsfield
<+BAnt0s> in that example
<+BAnt0s> He's just following the thought to its final conclusion
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* +yuriwho takes a huge dump
<+Monopoly> lovely
<+BAnt0s> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgFoqhRT8mE
<+bannon3002> (BAnt0s) Sam Hyde - Eating in Bed (Part 2) - length 49m 22s - 838 likes, 15 dislikes ( 98.2 %) - 27,459 views - Patton on 2018.08.24
* +yuriwho and I blamed it Cindy
<+yuriwho> hmm, how to fix that sentence (it on) or (named it)?
<+BAnt0s> I think the fatal flaw of Rumsfield is he didn't leave room for being controlled by things he did not understand.
<+BAnt0s> Even though he anticipated everything he did to its full extent
<+BAnt0s> But when the time came for crime and punishment, he could in a world be treated as a war criminal.
<+yuriwho> it was the unknown unknown that got him (surprise)?
<+BAnt0s> No that's the unknown known
<+BAnt0s> I'm sure I butchered it
<+yuriwho> he fucking knew he was leading the US into an unjust war in Iraq
<+BAnt0s> I'm not that amazing
<+BAnt0s> Known Unknowns. We know things that we do not know. We know he has weapons, but we do not know how many. Unknown Unknown: things we don't know, that we don't know.
<+yuriwho> I was following developments closely at the time
<+BAnt0s> Good memory then.
<+yuriwho> yes, that I have
<+BAnt0s> The fourth variation that's misssing in Rumsfield statement is unknown known
<+BAnt0s> To quote Zizek
<+BAnt0s> "Things we don't know, we know them"
<+BAnt0s> "We know them, they are apart of our identity, but we don't know that we know them"
<+yuriwho> what is dark matter?
<+yuriwho> what is dark energy?
<+yuriwho> why am I annoying?
<+BAnt0s> When we don't know what we know
<+BAnt0s> Means that it is also the opposite.
<+BAnt0s> I think Introjection here is a great psychological inclusion
<+BAnt0s> at least to present to it and see what surfaces
<+BAnt0s> What you don't know what you know IT controls you, you don't control it.
<+yuriwho> I am going to assume that you have some or are a student of psychology?
<+BAnt0s> "When you don't know what you know IT controls you, you don't control it." Sorry typo
<+BAnt0s> I think we should all take an inventory of what we know and don't know.
<+yuriwho> I am a chemist
<+BAnt0s> yuriwho: I was a polisci major with a minor in human rights and geographical information systems
<+BAnt0s> prior to that I was majoring in computer arts
<+yuriwho> gis systems?
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<+BAnt0s> I'm merely a student
<+BAnt0s> However, I would always be a teacher's favorite, so
<+yuriwho> retired prof here
* +BAnt0s is an unabashed teacher's pet.
<+BAnt0s> I don't have the same wherewithal to compete in a lot of markets.
<+BAnt0s> Acting properly, efficiently, and accurately is however, important to me.
<+yuriwho> focus on content, not volume
<+BAnt0s> However, this is simply anxiety, because I'm not good at any of those things.
* +BAnt0s shrugs
<+BAnt0s> Yeah Yuri, gissys
<+BAnt0s> It's something I enjoyed
<+BAnt0s> I studied Human Rights, and then realized all the ways in which it is used
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<+BAnt0s> Similarly to my experience in Modern Christian Churches
<+yuriwho> I think you have decent structure to you philosophy, keep on trucking, you'll be fine
<+yuriwho> your
<+BAnt0s> It is merely a Secular Humanistic Theology
<+BAnt0s> And it has the same problems
<+BAnt0s> People use Humanitarian efforts to do terrible things
<+BAnt0s> There's a psychological term for this too
<+BAnt0s> Trying to remember it.
<+BAnt0s> thanks yuriwho
<+pinecone> idk i think i want to learn python
<+BAnt0s> I never took chemistry, but think its one of those wonderful things
<+yuriwho> and then there is disaster porn
<+BAnt0s> Piety is a great cover for depravity
<+BAnt0s> For example, because it is an outward projection
<+yuriwho> nice line
<+BAnt0s> but a qlippoth
<+BAnt0s> It has the appearance of the thing, but inside it is hollow
<+BAnt0s> Potemkin
<+BAnt0s> There are many examples of this effect
<+BAnt0s> It preys on vanity
<+BAnt0s> Our need for appearances
<+BAnt0s> Especially when it gives you social capital
<+BAnt0s> Don't let the right hand know what the left hand is doing -- typical fabian approach.
<+yuriwho> humans are fickle beasts with urges and needs
<+BAnt0s> I can't remember who said it here, that I have a personality defect
<+BAnt0s> And it's true.
<+BAnt0s> But I would point to the Unknown Known
<+yuriwho> wasn't me
<+BAnt0s> I secretly control you.
<+yuriwho> Shaggy? is that you?
* +BAnt0s laughs
<+BAnt0s> All good fun, really.
<+BAnt0s> =]
<+BAnt0s> Personality disorders
<+BAnt0s> I love them because is it the chicken or the egg.
<+BAnt0s> Is society's model for behavior wrong or right?
<+BAnt0s> There is an Overton window here too.
<+pinecone> some stuff is super harmix
<+BAnt0s> .d harmix
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<+yuriwho> I think every living human has a psychological failing
<+BAnt0s> seriously, what the fuck is that pinecone
<+pinecone> Yeah I think that shoulto men anit's only fair
<+BAnt0s> Insane.
<+BAnt0s> It's just like Odyss3us said
<+BAnt0s> There is a window of the acceptable
<+Monopoly> hi purpleunicorn :D
<+BAnt0s> but some people are simply on a different echelon of experience
<+yuriwho> for example, you are talking to bot like it's a human
<+BAnt0s> yuriwho I know, it's a game
<+BAnt0s> Everyone is waging a war inside: feeding the good wolf or the bad.
<+BAnt0s> What an acceptable mode of experience is, well, that's beyond me
<+Roserin> ngiht
<+BAnt0s> I try
<+BAnt0s> to make it right
<+BAnt0s> with all the internal criticism I can muster
<+BAnt0s> yuriwho content not volume
<+BAnt0s> thanks
<+yuriwho> be a skeptic of everything
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<+Monopoly> night Roserin - rest well
<+BAnt0s> Well I'm pretty much a Stoic
<+BAnt0s> You can't read as much Classics and not come away with an ample amount of that
<+BAnt0s> I am not buddhist in that regard
<+BAnt0s> But perhaps is why people might get that impression
<+BAnt0s> I believe in temperance.
<+BAnt0s> A core tenet in Buddhism is Desire and Suffering Matrix
<+BAnt0s> And how to alleviate suffering
<+BAnt0s> They used to safe limbs from war veterans if they could thru remedial surgeries and muscle grafts
<+BAnt0s> Now they just chop off the legs because the industry for those parts is booming
<+BAnt0s> I remember 10 years ago meeting a woman who was studying to be a prostheticist
<+BAnt0s> but little did she know she was contributing to an industry that profits off war
<+BAnt0s> and also, the prepuce that is done away with for sanitation is also a huge source of face cream in the beauty market
<+BAnt0s> Men literally give their prepuce away to make women more beautiful.
<+BAnt0s> And other thoughts,
<+BAnt0s> Good night.
<+Monopoly> Give yourself to the darkside
<+BAnt0s> My uncle received a muscle graft from shoulder for his leg after it was blown from a depleted uranium shell that hit his tank in Desert Storm
<+BAnt0s> but today they would have chopped off the leg
<+BAnt0s> He has pain, and shrapnel
<+BAnt0s> maybe it was unnecessary suffering
<+BAnt0s> but for some people it is worth keeping the leg, even though it bothers them so
<+BAnt0s> This is why the do no harm principle is in jeopardy today
<+yuriwho> I paid a Moyle to sew me a wallet from foreskins, best thing was when I rubbed it, I had a suitcase.
<+yuriwho> sry
<+BAnt0s> Sorry, I don't know why I succumbed to mania.
<+BAnt0s> See ya

Thoughts on the Matrix and Jane Goodall: the wuzzy line

Originally, I went into Art School, because I was misled into thinking paper was important, then I thought I wised up by pursuing a degree in International Studies, transferring as Junior, then realizing in 2009 that my prophetic vision to myself before going to University of Community College being easier work-wise than high school, but with more interesting content confounded me for a great while. As if I'd never escape this zoo, always feeling like a guinea pig going thru hoop after hoop until I couldn't jump into another hole again without any floor. If the Ivory Tower exists anymore, then it's suffering from a severe lack of retirement, and goodness. There will be no torchbearer carrying the light of Enlightenment forward. Perhaps we should blame Nietzsche for being too clever? Maybe I let the Glass-Bead Game and Ender's Game go to my head as a child? It didn't feel like I could ever graduate from high school: always more of the same, and I never even liked High School. Later, I went to the 42 bootcamp that you have to test into online, and a few others for coding and honestly, the work environment and the people in those places stressed me out quite a lot, and not because I couldn't do the work intellectually, but because I don't like working with people who are bad influences on me. Then I just started being a delivery driver for Amazon, UberEat, whatever. And sure enough, I see Amazon employees every day as I deliver them their food, and their face tells me everything. It's just not something I want to contribute energy towards. I've seen the corporate buy out of downtown Seattle and the blight zones of South Lake Union. Out of town hires literally get fleeced for all their networth when they arrive there young, fresh out of their BA degrees. We subsidized corporations in so many ways it need not be your soul. It's demoralizing and morally bankrupt: some make their peace with that but others get out or are oblivious.. Growing up in a cult gives you super powers if you escape, just like Neo. He grew up in a "cultured" pod that force fed him lies in order to harvest his energy... just like the bail bond prison industry! Unfortunately, I think he was a lucky bastard, because his girlfriend found him first and she was super okay. One of the things that I learned in all my education is that you can either be a food delivery man or you can see yourself as feeding the poor, starving masses. Going a step further by humbling yourself is a great way to decreate all egoic machinations that compelled you to go into academia in the first place, fostered by people you shouldn't have taken advice from, but didn't know any better. Don't frame yourself in a deconstructive manner. While flipping burgers doesn't pay a lot you can just call it field research, like Jane Goodall, and entertain yourself that way. Currently getting CNA training because there's a lot of old people who deserve to be treated with dignity and respect which will help me save money to parallel myself out. I'm just glad I didn't join the military, even though I say that with mixed-feelings. I actually like their programs and the discipline, but the idea of killing people for the sake of some ancient bloodline's bottom line and global agenda just doesn't sit well with me. And +White Makes Right, I get your point but as an Autistic person with a soul, some of us operate on high alert in order to save it. I didn't want to contribute a single line of code to some complex abomination. But honestly, I'd probably just get fired from the stress. I wouldn't be able to enter flow state or achieve any form of Mastery and eventually end up in a ball on the floor rocking myself to sleep is what I surmised. My love-hate relationship with technology grows by the day. Maybe it's pathological avoidance at this point in the game, as I've been branded so many times before. High-speed Hype trains should be forced to have disclaimers and also airsickness bags from all the windbags.

Classic Training in Politics and Party

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For not long afterwards nearly the whole Hellenic world was in commotion; in every city the chiefs of the democracy and of the oligarchy were struggling, the one to bring in the Athenians, the other the Lacedaemonians. Now in time of peace, men would have had no excuse for introducing either, and no desire to do so; but, when they were at war, the introduction of a foreign alliance on one side or the other to the hurt of their enemies and the advantage of themselves was easily effected by the dissatisfied party. And revolution brought upon the cities of Hellas many terrible calamities, such as have been and always will be while human nature remains the same, but which are more or less aggravated and differ in character with every new combination of circumstances. In peace and prosperity both states and individuals are actuated by higher motives, because they do not fall under the dominion of imperious necessities; but war, which takes away the comfortable provision of daily life, is a hard master and tends to assimilate men’s characters to their conditions.

When troubles had once begun in the cities, those who followed carried the revolutionary spirit further and further, and determined to outdo the report of all who had preceded them by the ingenuity of their enterprises and the atrocity of their revenges. The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things, but was changed by them as they thought proper. Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of a man. A conspirator who wanted to be safe was a recreant in disguise. The lover of violence was always trusted, and his opponent suspected. He who succeeded in a plot was deemed knowing, but a still greater master in craft was he who detected one. On the other hand, he who plotted from the first to have nothing to do with plots was a breaker up of parties and a poltroon who was afraid of the enemy. In a word, he who could outstrip another in a bad action was applauded, and so was he who encouraged to evil one who had no idea of it. The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why. (For party associations are not based upon any established law, nor do they seek the public good; they are formed in defiance of the laws and from self-interest.) The seal of good faith was not divine law, but fellowship in crime. If an enemy when he was in the ascendant offered fair words, the opposite party received them not in a generous spirit, but by a jealous watchfulness of his actions. Revenge was dearer than self-preservation. Any agreements sworn to by either party, when they could do nothing else, were binding as long as both were powerless. But he who on a favourable opportunity first took courage, and struck at his enemy when he saw him off his guard, had greater pleasure in a perfidious than he would have had in an open act of revenge; he congratulated himself that he had taken the safer course, and also that he had overreached his enemy and gained the prize of superior ability. In general the dishonest more easily gain credit for cleverness than the simple for goodness; men take a pride in the one, but are ashamed of the other.

The cause of all these evils was the love of power, originating in avarice and ambition, and the party-spirit which is engendered by them when men are fairly embarked in a contest. For the leaders on either side used specious names, the one party professing to uphold the constitutional equality of the many, the other the wisdom of an aristocracy, while they made the public interests, to which in name they were devoted, in reality their prize. Striving in every way to overcome each other, they committed the most monstrous crimes; yet even these were surpassed by the magnitude of their revenges which they pursued to the very utmost,73 neither party observing any definite limits either of justice or public expediency, but both alike making the caprice of the moment their law. Either by the help of an unrighteous sentence, or grasping power with the strong hand, they were eager to satiate the impatience of party-spirit. Neither faction cared for religion; but any fair pretence which succeeded in effecting some odious purpose was greatly lauded. And the citizens who were of neither party fell a prey to both; either they were disliked because they held aloof, or men were jealous of their surviving.

 

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, 3.82

Sinclair Lewis Author Mosaic

First American to receive a Nobel prize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSyj4WIHuh0

Born February 7, 1885, in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. He had two siblings, Fred (born 1875) and Claude (born 1878). His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and a stern disciplinarian who had difficulty relating to his sensitive, unathletic third son. Lewis's mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died in 1891. The following year, Edwin Lewis married Isabel Warner, whose company young Lewis apparently enjoyed. Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis—tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed—had trouble gaining friends and pined after various local girls. At the age of 13 he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish–American War.^[3] In late 1902 Lewis left home for a year at Oberlin Academy (the then-preparatory department of Oberlin College) to qualify for acceptance by Yale University. While at Oberlin, he developed a religious enthusiasm that waxed and waned for much of his remaining teenage years. He entered Yale in 1903 but did not receive his bachelor's degree until 1908, having taken time off to work at Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair's cooperative-living colony in Englewood, New Jersey, and to travel to Panama. Lewis's unprepossessing looks, "fresh" country manners and seemingly self-important loquacity made it difficult for him to win and keep friends at Oberlin and Yale. He did initiate a few relatively long-lived friendships among students and professors, some of whom recognized his promise as a writer.^[4]

 
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Myth and metaxy, electoral colleges, state sovereignty, transnational markets, and the Giants we have create that threaten to devour us

That's the only way to do it because you have to respect the acting sovereignty of States: they have constitutions after all. The "United" States is in the name of our country and a compact is all that's required. Interesting solution. On paper this is why I like how our country works, because while abolishing the electoral college, I don't think, is a smart move, letting States exercise their legal power is extremely valid, which ultimately improves the Union by giving more weight to States who can affect Federal policy. We will definitely start seeing more 'coalitions' like this, because while we have a two-party State, we can definitely see third-party influence on the minutiae governing how a State sees itself within the Union. You see the effects of marijuana legalization in some States spear-heading a lot of this and it's actually a very exciting time for State in Our Union to begin acting a bit more Parliamentary, leveraging and finding it easier to act on their own. The flexibility and adaptability of our system is surprisingly resilient, because Federal government shut down increases the Liberty of larger State-wide polity politics to enact meaningful change.

As the American Empire begins to wane, the States should begin relying on each other to forge ahead, which just shows you how vast the American market truly is all things considered, but the likelihood of the pre-eminence of large corporations over public and civic life looms like a shadow: they are the giants we have birthed in the largess of Federal subsidy, spoils of War, being predominantly unaffiliated with the problems that plagued Europe at the turn of the 20th-century— the Monarchies— a prospect to profit from such spoils or to take the lead was almost unavoidable in layman's terms. The evolution of politics and the visages of power in the throes of its mighty sway continues to fascinate and will continue to do so as long as I live

The transnational market through the Interstate has created such a large consumer base that we begin to see in a microcosm how America appears to others abroad, a giant in your midst. There are many interesting aspects to Japanese popular culture that I think touch greatly on this concept of Giants. You often see the large mechanized 'Zords' or most recently, large terrifying giants who eat people, and whereby the humans must live in fortified settlements to protect themselves in the Anime: Attack on Titan.

Sometimes it feels as if we are living the mythos of the Testaments in the Land of Canaan, where the Giants dwell in the Promised Land... and we seemingly are like locusts— just to borrow a bit of inspiration from your incorporation of Myth into our common times. Namely, the 12 Labors. What I find so remarkable about Myth is that in the West we often forget the power of the Christian one — it afterall, forced the Roman Empire to adopt it or face the consequences of moral degeneracy and decay, losing with it the popular support of the everyman. All things become transformed within the metaxu from absence: presence.