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Re: swarm ! swarm!
Sat, January 20, 2007 - 3:28 PMIn all honesty, anybody who believes such dribble is an accurate description of the world is beyond hope. That essay is just a bunch of statements that are 100% opinion and 0% fact. Yet, these people gobble it up because it says what they want to hear. How do you have a conversation in that type of environment? -
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Mon, January 22, 2007 - 7:42 AMI dont know really, its caving as I type now.
I had a long one in there about a year ago. I got somewhere, I stayed with it, and focussed on replying to some of the more mentally active posters and we reached concession.
anarchism.tribe.net/thread/8...a787c8c52
Conversing on the subject helps me hone my arguments and my personal validity for them.
The ulta-left has some kind of racist prejudice often to the model of capatalism. If their convictions and values truly lie in the realms of Anarchism, well, .. its a starting point that I get kick out of working to grow into a path of consideration. ... in the end, more free individuals increases the strength and stability of my developing freedom.
with pride, I can say, yes, it is a selfish act.
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Mon, January 22, 2007 - 6:36 PMOh! If you are enjoying it and it helping you with weak spots in your personal philosophy, then go to town. :) -
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Mon, January 22, 2007 - 6:38 PMAlso remember that many don't hate the free market. They hate "state capitalism" or mercantilism. -
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Mon, January 22, 2007 - 7:37 PMWithout any central apparatus of control what can one have but a free market? -
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Mon, January 22, 2007 - 9:18 PMnow see... thats my point exactly .. and . .. I dont fucking get it.. where is the logic loophole that 'anarchists' sometimes maintain which allows them to pretend another reality is the ideal, or the natural outcome.
Harpakhrad,
I also appreciated your nod in the direction of heirarchies in the other thread.. not in your thrill with them, but your kind of non-challantness towards them. If I read it correctly, as I understood it, its a healthy little z-snap to the recognition that this state now, and at any state in history is .. Anarchy.
Its simply a choice. Heirarchies exist within Anarchist futures, within the Anarchist present. It is our individual choice as to how we co-habitate with them.
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Mon, January 22, 2007 - 9:54 PM>where is the logic loophole that 'anarchists' sometimes maintain which allows them to pretend another reality is the ideal, or the natural outcome<<
I think it comes from the same place where people say they want to "compromise" but then, upon further examination, you figure out that you have to do all the compromising to accomodate them entirely.
have you tried the old "you do what you want in your "commune" and I do what I want in mine" trick? That usually weeds out the crypto-dictators from the normal people.
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Tue, January 23, 2007 - 9:28 AM<quote>If I read it correctly, as I understood it, its a healthy little z-snap to the recognition that this state now, and at any state in history is .. Anarchy. </quote>
I don't follow. Could you clarify?
<quote>Its simply a choice. Heirarchies exist within Anarchist futures, within the Anarchist present. It is our individual choice as to how we co-habitate with them. </quote>
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Tue, January 23, 2007 - 9:53 AMwe're on the same page. I just fuck up my linguistics every now and again.
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Tue, February 20, 2007 - 9:33 AM>> Also remember that many don't hate the free market. They hate "state capitalism" or mercantilism.
I've found unexpectedly that this is incorrect.
These people are more anti-free market capitalism than I could have ever predicted. They are socialists. They are arguing for a revolution in solidarity with exploited laborers. Yet at the same time they criticize me for doing the exploiting, while I am actually, literally, a laborer myself. Somehow this is supposed to make sense. They also argue against any form of "hierarchy" where one individual can expect something of the other according to the terms of a voluntary agreement (employer/employee, coach/player, teacher/student, whatever). One particularly dim poster suggested that you could create a business with no hierarchy and that everyone would rotate responsibilities. Also, in a factory, all the workers would be able to take home whatever they wanted off the assembly line. Good stuff! -
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Tue, February 20, 2007 - 11:29 AMI would presume that a large segment of "anarquistes" in that tribe are crypto-statists, BUT there might be a few quiet people who instinctively know that the state muddles up more than it corrects...and that forcing people to be in a non-hierarchical system is still slavery and statist. If you are going to be arguing over there, remember the audience is made up of more than socialists. -
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Tue, February 20, 2007 - 3:22 PMbut isnt it fun!!! its like a video game .. except you type instead of fire guns.. and the computer keeps sending you these mindless drones to battle,, and you have to figure out the quickest way to turn their hypocritical logic inside-out on itself.
Its starting to get repetative in many cases.. pathetic too.. but there is headway.. some good honest real conversation.
The scary part is that the crypto-statists are super violent too... you can actually understand how Stalin manifested by talking to some of these individuals.
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Tue, February 20, 2007 - 3:48 PMI'm not sure I'd call it "fun"! But hey, I've learned quite a bit about "purist" anarchism, basically that it is a pile of contradictions that resembles a faith-based religion.
Zigo, you're so patient with them, I could never do it like that! -
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Tue, February 20, 2007 - 4:33 PM>>Zigo, you're so patient with them,<<
In finding someone who is willing to go down the detail by detail debate road with me.. I am afforded a great chance to really hone my models, and my ability to really communicate those models to another. The fundamental 'keystoness' of certain types of hypocracies get revealed, unarguable facts or realities show up, and above all,.. the ultimate experiment... Myself and the other unearth a fundamental point, ideal, priority, value, truth that transcends all models.. and then it becomes a conversation not about justifying our repective dogmas, but about creating a more 'fluid' reality where our potentials and freedoms as humans can be most directly and dynamically expressed.
Its an excercise for myself. I am trying to increase my faith and belief in the power of myself and other individuals. For anarchy to work, for a free-market to work.. self-liberated and powerfully participating individuals are needed.
I want to 1).. learn that such 'type' does exist in a human by default so I can truly rest into my current convictions and ideals with empiracal knowledge... and 2) I want to learn how to activate, turn on, or provoke such an individual to the needed realization.
And this is not for anyone else. Its for me. I want the systems, cultures and intellects to evolve into a dynamic where myself and my genetic relatives can most vibrantly evolve. I want to see the full power of this mother fucker unleash. .. for fun.
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Tue, February 20, 2007 - 4:49 PM>>I hope they're reading this.<<
Oh, I'm sure the crypto-statist ones are. They can't stand not to have everyone under their control and observation. Those people cannot be helped.
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Sat, February 24, 2007 - 10:23 AMSee. There's always one true Scotsman that not only stifles what we have to say but what people there have to say to us. Sheesh. -
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Sat, February 24, 2007 - 8:08 PMoh .. please please post this for the blokes in the other room.. they'll love it, dont you think??!! -
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Sun, February 25, 2007 - 3:36 PMNaw, you should play nice over there, and let the Scotsmen do your work for you. :) -
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Sun, February 25, 2007 - 4:51 PMIm definately at the place of being excruciatingly bored with the repetative cycle of rhetoric which somehow has precedence and ability to trump thurough logic for some.. but whatever.. at the same time.. Im painfully addicted to the posts.. hoping begging.. pleading for light..
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 5:48 PMwhy not rename this tribe to "trolling ancaps"? heck, why even have this tribe when y'all are spending most of your time elsewhere? -
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 6:24 PMSince you are here, can you help us determine when something is "in use"? It's a simple question. -
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 6:55 PMit's variable, but can be easily grokked on a case by case basis utilizing common sense. trouble is extremist positions held by both the propertarian and communal camps, neither of which i agree with. i've argued the arguments with both of them, and i'm done.
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 7:02 PM>> common sense
If it's common sense, then surely it can be defined. What is the underlying premise?? -
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 7:22 PMNow Scott, aren't you being a little hard-headed here? Raindog gave you a typical ancap answer: In a free-market, these things will be decided via some method that uses common sense as its guide. -
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Tue, February 27, 2007 - 9:40 AMYou're jumping ahead too quickly! -
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Tue, February 27, 2007 - 10:02 AMYou don't think he'll redefine "common sense" so that it cuts out ancapery, do you? -
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Tue, February 27, 2007 - 10:52 AMI know I'm preaching to the choir here, but the inevitable conclusion is this:
If people are free to determine what constitutes "in use" for themselves, and they are free to make agreements with each other, then a community quickly evolves into one where individuals hold titles to property. All a title is is an agreement between an individual and the community that says "Joe Q is 'using' this acre of land for his own purposes".
The only other alternative is that there are some other rules that restrict people from defining "use" for themselves and that restrict them from making agreements with each other. -
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Tue, February 27, 2007 - 12:15 PMits a good conclusion.. I think ive stated in some other posts - I beginning to consider the capitalism to be the ultimate laws of nature - you can attempt to escape it .. but like gravity - it all falls back to the laws of free-association, free trade and consent of transaction. -
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Tue, February 27, 2007 - 7:23 PMyou mean "basic" not 'ultimate"? -
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Tue, February 27, 2007 - 8:34 PMyou are right:
I think my sentence must have been shaping like this in my head:
ultimately the basic laws of nature..
despite my potentially preachy grammer dynamic - can you feel me? -
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Wed, February 28, 2007 - 11:02 AMI read/hear ESL all day long... and finish people's sentences all the time. :)
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 7:24 PM>>why even have this tribe when y'all are spending most of your time elsewhere?<<
It's more fun to discuss this with people who have slightly different opinions than with people who have almost identical opinions? But we gotta have somewhere to go home to at the end of the day?
We've also had trolls from the Anarchism tribe come over here and try to inflict their venom. It's definitely not in one direction.
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