tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post8547564627482075304..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: Consensus Robs the Strangepjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-12883355055356688632015-11-15T11:35:30.798-08:002015-11-15T11:35:30.798-08:00Dude. Don't ever stop writing.Dude. Don't ever stop writing.HDAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13506175636615989219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-22133651578455815662015-10-13T04:09:47.042-07:002015-10-13T04:09:47.042-07:00If you like James Scott's work you might like ...If you like James Scott's work you might like Pierre Clastres' 'Society Against the State':<br /><br />https://anarchistwithoutcontent.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/clastres-society-against-the-state.pdf<br /><br />"...they practice systematic violence in order to prevent the rise in their midst of this “cold monster”: the state. Only by waging war with other tribes can they maintain the dispersion and autonomy of each group. In the same way, tribal chiefs are not all-powerful; to the contrary, they are rendered weak in order to remain dependent on the community.”spigothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731224119469018601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-14141892025580626212015-10-11T17:59:58.090-07:002015-10-11T17:59:58.090-07:00Really interesting. I don't note anything in y...Really interesting. I don't note anything in your observations that I disagree with. My own position relative to the consensus aside; perception remains king (both of others and of the self). I think that if one finds the crushing steamroller of spectacular culture and society to be mediating one out of existence (on the spectacle's terms) and thus inducing paranoia, depression, anger or whatever, then it helps to take a few cognitive jumps backwards. Not merely the observance of the apparent insignificance of it all (though that's another question entirely) so much as becoming conscious that just about everything is possible (on some supra-distant/close macro/micro Planck scale)---everyone is right, everyone is super fucking wrong---simultaneously.<br /><br /> If that thought or perception doesn't necessarily lead one to enlightenment and the sense that engagement with the thumos leads to an apocalyptic, magnetising omega point, then at the very least there's art waiting for a host/conduit.<br /><br />As far as your last paragraph is concerned, the price of freedom remains physical, mental and spiritual danger. The scale seems to inexorably adjust ever upwards...but I guess one could see that kind of 'novel rush' happening across the board (to vaguely pilfer from T.McKenna).<br /><br />I expect I didn't make myself too clear in my reasoning. Still the words looks pretty enough (on the Planck scale).Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10092002529591261902noreply@blogger.com