Dec 14, 2023·edited Dec 14, 2023Liked by NEVERMORE MEDIA
Awesome work you've been delving into and sharing lately, Crow. I agree the anthropology rabbit hole is likely the most fruitful for advancing the potential of anarchism with long-grounded solutions. In this chapter you've ended with a hook for further investigation, it seems, as it brings us up to date with the situation we face today:
"There is always a risk that a leader starts acting in ways that are contrary to the wishes of the group they are leading. In such cases, people must stand up for themselves, refusing the authority of their leader and collectively asserting their right to refuse to be led."
Our challenge is to (re)create or evolve cultural means to do this effectively now. Your point about Constitutional balance of powers seems like a good start--except when it's fatally corrupted and weaponized against popular dissent.
I agree that this is very interesting and meaningful exploration Crow has been taking up lately.
Today the major threat to humans collectively is not the bestial brute, the oversized bully, but the psychopathic intellectual. Therefore what we need is a different kind of "projectile weapon" to counter the new kind of bully. Perhaps truth itself is our greatest weapon.
As for the Founding Fathers of the Constitution--the name itself gives it away--although they borrowed from the democratic representative organization of the Hodenosaunee, they left the women, slaves, the native people, and the landless poor out of their formulations. So the supposed "balance of power" was only among the landed, slave-owning aristocracy, in New England as in all of the New World under the Masonic aristocratic "revolutions" throwing off their colonial monarchical origins.
Therefore, none of the said revolutions could truly be said to be based on any real equality--any real "We the People"--unless you consider a group of land owning, speculating intellectuals to be "the People."
Sadly so, because there seemed to be a lot of good insight and foresight among them, such as statements about corporations and banking being the greatest threat to humanity.
Seems like someone really smart needs to come up with a new kind of organization based on real equality that can be adopted locally by groups of people without having to submit to concentrated powers of government--akin to an open source software program that can't be profited from or centrally controlled. The constitution of the United States was a kind of software program that was adopted and adapted by many other countries as they became liberated from monarchy. But it was not written for the people of the land to begin with, despite appearances, and it has since been subjected to parasitical viruses that have made it all but meaningless. So we need a new, more sophisticated program that involves the common people actually understanding how to keep the parasitical viruses from infiltrating and taking control.
Interesting, that insight about the "Founding Fathers" was the first revelation of truth in my awakening from the matrix, back when I was 15--at a Quaker school, so that figures. :)
No, nor did I know (until now) who James C. Scott is. The written works sound great! I see also in the Wiki bio some CIA (and Yale) connections, what else is new, nobody's perfect right? ;) IIRC Nixon was a Quaker once too, so...
PS Just started watching the youtube and notice him sporting an Antifa T-shirt. I guess he's just another "cultural relativist"... ;)
Good question! Well, David Graeber never made tenure... and James C. Scott seems to have pretty impeccable credentials for an anarchist scholar...
I don't know much about the world of academia but I think that everyone that buys into the whole prestige game is compromised to a certain extent just by caring what their peers think!
Friends School in Baltimore. Pacifist history teacher filled us in on the bits about slaveowning and that voting was given only to male landowners. You didn't hear that in public schools in 1965. BTW one of the members of that Meeting went to DC that year and set himself on fire in front of the Pentagon office of Sec. of Defense (War) McNamara, in protest of Vietnam.
After reading as much as my time allotted, the most important aspect of the piece is childhood indoctrination. Followed by adolescent reinforcement. And finally adult consequences. Simple formulas of mass slavery disguised as civilization.
Awesome work you've been delving into and sharing lately, Crow. I agree the anthropology rabbit hole is likely the most fruitful for advancing the potential of anarchism with long-grounded solutions. In this chapter you've ended with a hook for further investigation, it seems, as it brings us up to date with the situation we face today:
"There is always a risk that a leader starts acting in ways that are contrary to the wishes of the group they are leading. In such cases, people must stand up for themselves, refusing the authority of their leader and collectively asserting their right to refuse to be led."
Our challenge is to (re)create or evolve cultural means to do this effectively now. Your point about Constitutional balance of powers seems like a good start--except when it's fatally corrupted and weaponized against popular dissent.
I agree that this is very interesting and meaningful exploration Crow has been taking up lately.
Today the major threat to humans collectively is not the bestial brute, the oversized bully, but the psychopathic intellectual. Therefore what we need is a different kind of "projectile weapon" to counter the new kind of bully. Perhaps truth itself is our greatest weapon.
As for the Founding Fathers of the Constitution--the name itself gives it away--although they borrowed from the democratic representative organization of the Hodenosaunee, they left the women, slaves, the native people, and the landless poor out of their formulations. So the supposed "balance of power" was only among the landed, slave-owning aristocracy, in New England as in all of the New World under the Masonic aristocratic "revolutions" throwing off their colonial monarchical origins.
Therefore, none of the said revolutions could truly be said to be based on any real equality--any real "We the People"--unless you consider a group of land owning, speculating intellectuals to be "the People."
Sadly so, because there seemed to be a lot of good insight and foresight among them, such as statements about corporations and banking being the greatest threat to humanity.
Seems like someone really smart needs to come up with a new kind of organization based on real equality that can be adopted locally by groups of people without having to submit to concentrated powers of government--akin to an open source software program that can't be profited from or centrally controlled. The constitution of the United States was a kind of software program that was adopted and adapted by many other countries as they became liberated from monarchy. But it was not written for the people of the land to begin with, despite appearances, and it has since been subjected to parasitical viruses that have made it all but meaningless. So we need a new, more sophisticated program that involves the common people actually understanding how to keep the parasitical viruses from infiltrating and taking control.
Interesting, that insight about the "Founding Fathers" was the first revelation of truth in my awakening from the matrix, back when I was 15--at a Quaker school, so that figures. :)
Hey! Did you know that James C. Scott was basically a Quaker? See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-IgJJW5Fkc
No, nor did I know (until now) who James C. Scott is. The written works sound great! I see also in the Wiki bio some CIA (and Yale) connections, what else is new, nobody's perfect right? ;) IIRC Nixon was a Quaker once too, so...
PS Just started watching the youtube and notice him sporting an Antifa T-shirt. I guess he's just another "cultural relativist"... ;)
Well, I was noticing that David Graeber was from Yale. Can anything untainted come out of such institutions?
Good question! Well, David Graeber never made tenure... and James C. Scott seems to have pretty impeccable credentials for an anarchist scholar...
I don't know much about the world of academia but I think that everyone that buys into the whole prestige game is compromised to a certain extent just by caring what their peers think!
I confess, I went to Dartmouth, but Yale is the most infamous for elite grooming, e.g. Skull & Bones. Not to say every Yalie is CIA, of course!
Which school? Did the Quakers have anything to say about the "Founding Fathers"?
Friends School in Baltimore. Pacifist history teacher filled us in on the bits about slaveowning and that voting was given only to male landowners. You didn't hear that in public schools in 1965. BTW one of the members of that Meeting went to DC that year and set himself on fire in front of the Pentagon office of Sec. of Defense (War) McNamara, in protest of Vietnam.
Wow, strong statement.
Thanks! I develop my ideas further idea: https://nevermoremedia.substack.com/p/in-defence-of-david-graeber-and-his
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Thanks for the tip - could you shoot me a link please?
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After reading as much as my time allotted, the most important aspect of the piece is childhood indoctrination. Followed by adolescent reinforcement. And finally adult consequences. Simple formulas of mass slavery disguised as civilization.
Thanks for your contribution.