Call Me No One

There is no one called

'The Giver'. 'The Taker'. 'The Maker'. 'The Breaker'.

There is only The One God.

Call Me No One

Long ago before The One God, 

The Giver and The Taker and The Maker and The Breaker ruled as Many. For you see, we were ruled by Many. The Giver gave. The Taker took. The Maker made. The Breaker broke. And when we gave and when we took and when we made and when we broke, we knew The Truth of things.

We knew we did not do this on our own.

We knew we did this because we were ruled by Many greater than us.

And so we gave and we took and we made and we broke until the Many no longer ruled us. For one day The Truth of things revealed to us that we ruled ourselves while the Many served us. Until one day they did not. Until one day The One God became ours.

Not because it appeared to us.

Not because it saved us.

For The One God did not exist until we made The One God to serve us. To be The One who had been the Many. To be cast in our image as givers who gave and as takers who took and as makers who made and as breakers who broke. To rule.

For The Truth of things revealed to us that ruling ourselves subjected us all to each other. The Many were blamed until they were not. Then we blamed each other for our giving and our taking and our making and our breaking. This

was no way to live. This

was no way to die. So

The One God became the new ruler who bore our blame. our responsibility. our will. in the wake of giving and taking and making and breaking and breaking and breaking. none our doing. all The One God's doing. The One God greater than us.

Why?

Why??

Why not???

When Many served us all, a few of us with imagination, a few of us with mettle, a few of us with vision saw that Many served and served tirelessly giving and taking and making and breaking for too many of us rather than too few of us. And this

did not serve us who were few, us who dreamed our kingdoms into being and our selves into power, us haloed by our One greater than Many, us for whom The Truth of things revealed untold power and immortality for

us with imagination, us with mettle, us with vision. And this

is how we who were many were denied grace from Many by The One God who serves us who are few and not we who are many.

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Long ago before The One God, Many never envisioned the end of power and the end of immortality, because the Many who were greater than us knew only The Truth of things that were and not The Truth of Things that would be.

Tomorrow The Truth of things that are will face The One God and a few of us with imagination, a few of us with mettle, a few of us with vision will see that The One God was cast in our image because The One God was always

us

dreaming into being someone to believe in, someone to trust, someone to stand with, someone instead of no one but each other.

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The Many serve the many but The One God serves the one.

The one who claims The One God their own personal license to be the one haloed by The Divine One to rule the many.

How could this One God serve the many? when this Divine One serves the one who gives and the one who takes and the one who makes and the one who breaks? sanctifying all doing in the name of the one and The One, unified in will by the one and The One?

Before this Divine One, Many are forbidden and denied and refuted and damned for The One God is the only One.

The only One who gives and the only One who takes and the only One who makes and the only One who breaks. The only One

who calls the one Master.

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How to Serve We the People

The latest smug 'truth', sanguinely delivered as a 'calm' and 'rational' balm to the 'outrageous' nonsense vomited by 'know-nothings' and 'alarmists', is

"this is better than the alternative".

As if "the alternative" isn't moral terror baiting slop, flambéed tableside like Hell's best baked Alaska serves seductive lipstick wearing pig because of course it does!

How to Serve We the People

A lot of what appears to be 'organized' as 'civil disobedience' today is not civil disobedience and importantly, this 'version' of 'civil disobedience' is not solving problems.

Not to rain on a parade;

or kill a moment;

or spit in the face of spirit;

but 'parades' and 'moments' and 'spirits' that lean into performative and theatrical noise are not nonviolent paths towards change.

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While some protests are acts of civil disobedience, many 'protests' are outlets where we vent our outrages, violations, injustices, etc.

Needless to say, the difference between the latter and the former is the latter serves our feelings; the former serves our cause.

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If our cause is cruelty and harm -

then our 'protests' may be mobs pretending to exercise 'a right to assemble';

if our cause is change -

then we cannot be what we oppose.

We cannot embody cruelty like an administration that despises human rights as unnatural demonic inventions. Nor can we represent harm like an administration that gilds wrongdoing in its name with gross legalistic license. 

This is why nonviolence powerfully serves a cause of change - while never serving a cause of cruelty or harm.

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Moreover, if our cause is change, nonviolence alone is not how change is achieved. Because nonviolence alone is not a revolution.

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Nonviolent acts of civil disobedience, on the other hand -

nonviolent solutions that invite everyone to agree to an alternative to ideological callousness and indifference and unwholesome calculations of state-sponsored harm -

nonviolent stands of a plurality of people, altogether aligned against the myth that a duck isn't a duck if it denies being a duck -

that is more than a spectacle;

that is more than a reaction;

that is more than a gesture;

that is how our cause rejects the hypnotic thrall of moral terror baiting slop and seductive lipstick wearing piggery to serve we the people.

 

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We live in a reality that values policies of appeasement throughout every sphere of life and living. 

Which is to say, to be human is to tolerate at best and champion at worst: normative placidity, bottomless pools of optimism, and of course, loyalty and surrender.

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It goes without saying that this reality is not a kingdom that values courage,

or change,

or freedom to believe in a secular terra worth fighting for,

or the like.

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Such that when the price for real world peace is to be meek and mute multitudes of this kingdom -

this isn't peace;

this is real world capitulation;

for what? 

for who?

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As if we live in a reality enchanted by illusions of policies of appeasement delivering big beautiful real world bubbles! like Hell's best baked Alaska serves the truth!

M

Enter the Police State

With the best of intentions, I hear people repeatedly bellow "'the algorithm' makes things seem worse than they really are";

inflexibly I see people trot the same tired overplayed litanies of "evidence" to this point, "research" and "studies" and "polls" that definitively "prove" that "we 'overestimate' the differences between us and them";

as if optimism at all costs is the solution to hollow and false, easy and romantic, untruths and mistruths.

:eyeroll:

Enter the Police State

(i)

There isn't "a side" that sold us on the "promises" of the "strengths" of the police state. Nor "a side" that guaranteed "protections" from the "weaknesses" of the police state. 

For every "side" sold us.

The "side" that wanted "to save" the "children";

the "side" that wanted "to lock up" the "criminals";

the "side" that wanted "justice" to be "fair" and "informed" by "facts";

the "side" that wanted "to live" without "fear";

the "side" that wanted "to feel safe" within "big beautiful bubbles";

and every "side" that wanted "to swear and affirm": 

"law and order" by definition, will always mean "to serve and uphold" here, where the grass is green and the sky is blue.

(ii)

Such that all the word-wrangling to explain this "house" "promises" built -

to moralize the reality of this "bed" "protections" made -

because what really happens in police states is what is really happening now -

is after-the-fact bullshit laid brick by brick by all of us -

because what really happens in police states is "the public" is pacified by hollow and false, easy and romantic, untruths and mistruths,

until optimism at all costs is at once compulsory and "reasonable". 

(iii)

As for what prayers and what winks and what promises sold us this "house" and this "bed" and this brick "road" of bullshit -

see (i) above and

case in point:

the police state's solution to "a public demand 'to save' the 'children'" isn't to efficiently and materially address "harms" to non-adults across public and institutional environments, but rather, to criminalize any and every non-adult based on "institutional policies and practices" and "official rules and recommendations" that allow disproportionate, asymmetric, prejudicial, etc. treatment of non-adults, as if 

when a police state answers our "payers", we should see nothing but wholesomeness and decency and say nothing but praise and apologisms and do nothing but be grateful and submit; 

the police state's solution to "a public demand that 'justice' be 'fair' and 'informed' by 'facts'" isn't to exemplify transparency or integrity, but rather, to criminalize any and every individual human being and corporation à la fictional "personhood" and organization à la collective of autonomous beings because unilateral power without tangible, realized, actual unitarian power isn't powerful at all! as if 

when a police state "winks", we should laugh at the "joke" because everybody knows that a police state's ride or die is absolute power, hahaha; 

the police state's solution to "a public demand that 'law and order' by definition, will always mean 'to serve and uphold' here" isn't to abide or respect a fair or just legality or jurisprudence in a republic or a democracy, but rather, to criminalize any and every act that defies, opposes, rejects, etc. "legalism" and its dominion in all but name over free people, free states, and free nations everywhere; as if 

when a police state "promises" us the world and everything therein, we should not trust in the sincerity of plainly despot-adjacent hyperbole but fake-adjacent piety should be believed;

etc. 

(iv) 

Such that it bears iterating clearly:

police states are indefensible

because what really happens in police states is not a joke;

it is a reality laid by prayer by wink by promise by all of us sold on "powerful" and "anointed" mortals on gilded thrones 

and it can be undone

when we face what is worse than what wind-up plastic rictus-faced monkeys say things seem, when we face things as they really are, including the differences between us and casually evil cheerleaders of police states because "our differences", at once profound and granular, are self-evident "disunions" between us

and a representative government that disavows its oaths, including, the oath of every republic and every democracy to serve the people;

as if optimism at all costs isn't a gift to police states, arising from the hearts and shores of republics and democracies everywhere,

a gift repaid in hollow and false, easy and romantic, untruths and mistruths, including the hallucinatory homily that

we the people approve a police state for our children, our neighbors, and ourselves because we the people voted for a joke of a republic and a farce of a democracy.

 

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On "optimism at all costs", #policestatepacifier and #policestateally.

(i)

First, "early adopters" or "forerunners" or "target softeners" of the police state break everything.

Institutions, e.g. traditional or linear news media, public early and higher education, safety nets (food banks, homeless shelters, addiction resources), the economy (banking, currencies, exchange markets), foreign aid (medical supplies, disaster assistance, refugee resources); and

governments, e.g. the legislative branch (à la because an allegiance to "their God" or "their Leader" is "higher" - forswearing an oath "to serve the people"), the judicial branch (à la exploiting asymmetric "lawfare" to prejudicially uphold or "strike down" laws at will), the executive branch (à la despite such "power" not explicitly conferred to "the executive office" - acting unilaterally); and

so on and so forth.

(ii)

Then, the police state declares its "revolutionary" solution:

itself.

It parades litanies and homilies and sermons and preaches the "glorious righteousness" of the police state -

and -

it violently attacks any and all opposition with disproportionate hostility and militancy.

(iii)

Then, all of us

see nothing and say nothing and do nothing - 

or - 

we cheerlead the police state, including, as amplifiers of hollow and false, easy and romantic, untruths and mistruths. 

(iv) 

Which is to say, when we are encouraged or compelled to leap into a bottomless pool of "optimism at all costs" because this repels apathy and paralysis, hopelessness and despair, cynicism and pessimism, and the like -

this is a kind of dishonesty and deception that treats us like we can't handle the truth,

this is a kind of untruth and mistruth that infantilizes us -

such that buying this is little different than buying the hollow and false, easy and romantic, untruths and mistruths of every police state

and tell me: what happens when this illusion is exposed? as a fiction? a fraud? a lie? buyers of illusions simply buy another, including every police state's tried and true 

illusions of success, illusions of approval, illusions of gratitude, that is, 

fictions, frauds, lies -

for this is a willful rejection, if not repudiation, of the truth that police states dismiss and redact and expunge and rewrite, the truth that's worth fighting for, the truth that's real.

M

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Note or Further Reading

On "the politics" that presage police states and "autocracy-adjacent" precursors of police states, see Seed Con (January 19, 2025, tca).

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