Second, I wanted to give some background on the Scrooge story, that I think you'll find interesting. While waiting to see the play with my daughters, I read the show notes. It told how, in Dicken's England, rents were due for the whole year at the end of December. If the renters couldn't pay, they were evicted into the cold of midwinter.
So Christmas was only a feast of celebration and presents for wealthy landlords. For everyone else, it was the harshest time of the year. They had to beg, borrow and steal to make the largest lump sum payment in their lives. They were paupers, even the middle class, by the time they handed over their savings to the rich. And for what? To have a roof over their heads.
The word for the reformed Scrooge, coined by Margaret Anna Alice, is philanthropath. It's someone who amasses riches by stealing the wealth from the masses, and then scatters a few coins to keep the rabble from revolting. St. Nicolas is a philanthropath, not changing the system but scattering gifts while continuing to own the wealth. It's interesting that Rurik Skywalker chooses a name of Russian royalty for his moniker.
And Kropotkin's anarchy is institutionalized philanthropathy. It takes away the products of people's labor, which he mythologizes as happy factory-line elves, and gives them away as the beneficence of the ruler.
Under my system of anarchy, people own the products of their own labor because they have access to the means of production at a local level. As owners of the wealth, trade is a system of reciprocity between producers, not need-based entitlement. If producers choose to give it away, it's theirs to choose to whom. Kropotkin's system is socialism, not anarchy.
I still wonder if our argument (a term you know I use for a productive disagreement) is based around semantics rather than a difference in purpose. You write "the Christ Mythos is based upon the life of real-life Galilean revolutionary zealot-bandit who was executed by the Roman state." I agree, although I would make that plural.
The zealots were founded by Judas the Galilean, Nazarene, healer, Sicariot--which means assassin and transposes to Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of 'Jesus.' If Judas, leading the revolution against Rome, is betraying 'Jesus,' who is God, his father? Caesar, of course. Vespasian made Josephus his adopted son when he became Caesar. Semantic analysis done by Joe Atwill shows that the gospels and writings of Josephus have too much similarity in style (the Markan sandwich), tropes and word order to be accidental. In other words, they have to be the same author.
Archeology shows that Rome was littered with affirmations so ubiquitous they were like graffiti: true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in being with the Father. All refer to Caesar and his virgin birth. I'll address your points on anarchy separately.
I fear you may be right.
Second, I wanted to give some background on the Scrooge story, that I think you'll find interesting. While waiting to see the play with my daughters, I read the show notes. It told how, in Dicken's England, rents were due for the whole year at the end of December. If the renters couldn't pay, they were evicted into the cold of midwinter.
So Christmas was only a feast of celebration and presents for wealthy landlords. For everyone else, it was the harshest time of the year. They had to beg, borrow and steal to make the largest lump sum payment in their lives. They were paupers, even the middle class, by the time they handed over their savings to the rich. And for what? To have a roof over their heads.
The word for the reformed Scrooge, coined by Margaret Anna Alice, is philanthropath. It's someone who amasses riches by stealing the wealth from the masses, and then scatters a few coins to keep the rabble from revolting. St. Nicolas is a philanthropath, not changing the system but scattering gifts while continuing to own the wealth. It's interesting that Rurik Skywalker chooses a name of Russian royalty for his moniker.
And Kropotkin's anarchy is institutionalized philanthropathy. It takes away the products of people's labor, which he mythologizes as happy factory-line elves, and gives them away as the beneficence of the ruler.
Under my system of anarchy, people own the products of their own labor because they have access to the means of production at a local level. As owners of the wealth, trade is a system of reciprocity between producers, not need-based entitlement. If producers choose to give it away, it's theirs to choose to whom. Kropotkin's system is socialism, not anarchy.
Hi, Crow. I've published the post that responds to your last two notes on anarchy and Jesus: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-question. These themes continue here, I see.
I still wonder if our argument (a term you know I use for a productive disagreement) is based around semantics rather than a difference in purpose. You write "the Christ Mythos is based upon the life of real-life Galilean revolutionary zealot-bandit who was executed by the Roman state." I agree, although I would make that plural.
The zealots were founded by Judas the Galilean, Nazarene, healer, Sicariot--which means assassin and transposes to Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of 'Jesus.' If Judas, leading the revolution against Rome, is betraying 'Jesus,' who is God, his father? Caesar, of course. Vespasian made Josephus his adopted son when he became Caesar. Semantic analysis done by Joe Atwill shows that the gospels and writings of Josephus have too much similarity in style (the Markan sandwich), tropes and word order to be accidental. In other words, they have to be the same author.
Both Josephus and 'Jesus' in the gospels hated the zealots and called them thieves and robbers--they'd taken away Josephus' birth right to rule over Judea, to be 'king of the Judeans/ Jews'. That's inarguable from my research: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/jesus-rebel-or-imperialist? The gospels call the zealots demons and say their leader is Satan. I present evidence for that here: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-devil-and-naomi-wolf.
Archeology shows that Rome was littered with affirmations so ubiquitous they were like graffiti: true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in being with the Father. All refer to Caesar and his virgin birth. I'll address your points on anarchy separately.