@Somniostatic "Against His-Story, Against Leviathan" brings up the concept of "inversion" in this kind of context a lot
@Somniostatic or another;
"The heresy-hunt inverts every tenet the Christians had stood for. Henceforth, “I say unto you” will be heard only from the mouth of Pontifex Maximus; any other individual who expresses his vision will be a false prophet or, worse yet, Satan’s tool."
@Somniostatic okay a final one because i'm jerking this piece off rn
"The European Leviathan actually emerges strengthened by the Plague, and not only by the gradual acquisition of immunization.
In a community of free human beings, the outbreak of Plague would bring unmitigated disaster. But a Leviathan is an inverted community. Its His-Story is a sequence of human disasters. The human beings trapped in a Leviathan are mirror image of their disasters. In a Leviathan, as its inmates succintly and cynically observe, one man’s loss is another’s gain."
@exiliaex I found an audio book already of it, will be my driving listen! Thank you!!
@exiliaex interesting, I know it's a basic fash strategy, at the least. Will look this up!
@Somniostatic like there's a cool line that goes
"The early resisters have some clear and powerful conceptions; the generations that follow them eventually invert every one of these conceptions and turn the initial commitment on its head."