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changing what kind of masto instance im running is probably gonna be a pain... but the ability to set local only posts is too strong...

"“Put ye every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and from from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.” And the sons of Levi [they will later form a Defense League] did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

This massacre is the first Holocaust perpetrated in the name of Yahweh. And there is neither human recourse nor human justification. “I am that I am.”"

Above we can see that Fredy Perlman saw this "I am that I am" as one of the many births of dogma, but it is more.

"And God said unto Moses,
I AM THAT I AM:
say unto the children of Israel,
I AM hath sent me unto you"

This is not just dogma, this is the anarchic basis of all law. All law IS THAT IT IS. All peoples and all practices are only predicated on themselves! There is nothing within the Ark of the Covenant.

This is not a contradiction. Why should it be?

Providence and Sovereignty are united in birth.
The Sovereign grants Providence at the same moment Providence grants Sovereignty. Out from His head Providence oozes.

Providence is the Rule which corresponds to the form; Apparatus of Capture.

The Worldeater promises great futures to them, as long as the Worldeater has more Worlds to consume.

The police and military activities that characterize the maintenance of the Ordered World is an activity that, today, is seemingly separated from its ends. But, when the world is revealed as practice, it becomes apparent as the first musculature of the form-of-life that is the Worldeater.

damn what an influx of people while i was gone today

im finally back home fuck that was long

driving to portland and its toooo long lmao

been watching Courage with my partners and its so good still

few things drive me as crazy as marxists and anarchists referring to the other when talking about historical events. the only way to do so is to completely flatten the events and the groups of radicals to the point of lying

From the head of Sovereignty, which bursts from the living ways of communities as the iron rule of law, outpours the substance of Providence.

And here is the first body of the Worldeater!

The Sovereign as the anarchic figure of law-creation and maintenance, who holds within him the power to suspend the law, on the basis of the law. Law as tradition turned mechanical. As a History of Ways is solidified into rigid organs and muscles, with rigid logics that correspond to the will of no man, but instead correspond to the substance of Providence.

The Sovereign creates logics out of living activity through its army and police operations, by punishing and removing those who do not conform to its demanded logics, by removing the possibility for living life to be done to any satisfaction separate from it... By determining the world as something made to be administered. By Providence.

it doesn't matter whether or not prisons "work" (and oh let's be careful never to define work as anything other than "criminals are stopped from committing more crimes")

It matters that today, our prisons, in our societies, are designed as part of a mega-machine of apparatuses with the goal of killing every way of life so life itself has no form. And in its formless, primeval muck, Labor becomes malleable, directable. It pumps us through its circuitry, to give it life.

We deserve to determine for ourselves the form of our lives.

Monasteries understood this. They knowingly produced their own time for the purposes of coordination between the work of the many monks. And they produced it in a variety of fashions. Sometimes there was a sundial to count the hours in un-regulated fashion, changing with the seasons. Others were to be in prayer at all times, knowing the length of the prayer and the time the prayer took to get through to constantly be keeping time with one another. Others installed complex water clocks to begin to count the hours in regular fashion, with an "objective" outside measurement...

The State is a form-of-life, and it, too, produces its own time. We see this through the creation and distribution of clocks, regulated and scalable intervals. This is just a development of its earliest methods of limb-coordination.

What i mean to say can be summed up as: All forms-of-life produce their own time.

Time is not experienced singularly, as one uninterrupted flow. Nor is it felt the same way between bodies.

A form-of-life, experienced as a form-of-life (that is to say, collectively), produces it's own time by its mechanisms of coordination.
These mechanisms of coordination can be as varied as the individuals of a band relaying their own sensory information between each other or as regulated as the distribution of clocks for the timekeeping of labor.

not that my say goes very far but, i'd like it if "mastodon" wasn't the word that got popularized.

i don't love the word "fediverse" but i wish that was what we could make memetic