Independence

How do you fight the same battle... over and over...? 

new place... same battle; new time... same battle;

how do you overcome the same opponents...? 

every place... it's the same opponents; every time... it's the same opponents;

how do you prevail... with the same people... on your side and against...?

there and then... the same people; here and now... the same people;

...when every war is the war to end all wars?

Independence

Why do you believe your side is telling the truth... and the side that opposes you is lying? Is it really because your side professes the same values as you? Is it really because your side affirms the same beliefs as you?

Is it really because you are commanded to obey divine laws that govern all lives that ever were, all lives that ever are, all lives that ever will be?

Is it really because you are loyal to a people?

Is it really... honorable? ...or noble? to trust your side... and to mistrust the side that is not yours? Is it really... moral? ...or right? to obey... a divinity? ...or its followers who are human? ...or its extremists who justify their harms and their cruelties... as swords in the hands of divine will?

Or is this a smokescreen? A clever thing. A cute thing. A warm sugary blanket. That covers the truth?

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There is a deceit...

in saying "it is really so"

and

there is a dishonesty... 

in listening to "it is really so" and not hearing the lie pretending to be real. 

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Do I in fact disbelieve... that shared values and beliefs, unify? that mandates are the backbone of religious observation and practice? that to be a member of a people, to belong, inspires patriotic fidelity? that morality alone divides unjust acts from righteous ones?

Yes. 

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Because saying a thing, doesn't make a thing so;

and saying a lie, doesn't make a lie real;

and to listen to a thing being said and hear it made so;

and to listen to a lie being said and hear it made real;

is:

neither being just

nor being fair 

nor being kind 

nor being generous.

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Yet here we are.

Saying shared values and beliefs, unify. Saying mandates are the backbone of religious observation and practice. Saying being a member of a people, belonging, inspires patriotic fidelity. Saying morality alone divides unjust acts from righteous ones.

Because

why not? 

vibes trump proof anyway; 

the appearance of unity; the affectation of piety; the presumption of loyalty; the plausibility of legitimacy; matters!

...not reality.

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Indeed here we are. 

Listening to deceivers and their deceits and hearing their simulated unity; their false piety; their illusory loyalty; their veneered legitimacy; not as smokescreens for wrongdoers and their wrongdoing! 

And

why not? 

vibes trump proof anyway;

and a warm sugary blanket that covers the truth is really... real;

...right?

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How do you know what is really happening... is existential? ...a threat to your way of life and all that matters you? ...a peril that demands a maximal war?

How do you know a lie pretending to be real is... really as real as reality?

How do you know... your enemy?

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Tyrants and their tyrannies, despots and their despotism, exploiters and their exploitation know what is really happening... is not existential; ...not a threat to your way of life and all that matters to you; ...not a peril that demands a maximal war.

Tyrants and their tyrannies, despots and their despotism, exploiters and their exploitation know a lie pretending to be real is... not as real as reality.

Tyrants and their tyrannies, despots and their despotism, exploiters and their exploitation know... their enemy; for lies and liars know... their enemy

is not you who believe the side that opposes you is lying; not you who are commanded to obey divine laws; not you who are loyal and honorable and moral; not you who deceitfully say "this is really so";

nor you who are dishonestly just and fair and kind and generous and listen to lies and liars and hear not smokescreens and clever things and cute things and warm sugary blankets that cover the truth.

If... their enemy is your enemy

who and what are you really fighting for?

More or

Like Hell's a Paradise

Tyrants and their tyrannies, despots and their despotism, exploiters and their exploitation are swallowing the world whole...

while all of us under their sharpies and their gavels are compulsively over-sharing on platforms and gossiping about strangers with our neighbors and numbly swallowing deliriously grim content from newsfluencers...

as if torpidity is natural;

as if not caring one whit is a fine way to live;

as if refusing a moral duty to rise against the theft of our power to oppose tyranny and despotism and exploitation is smart;

as if it is a waste to reason, to witness, to defy abuses of power... but it is a profound comfort! to revel in witless nonsense and it is a joyous pleasure! to indulge in self-serving socialization and it is a sacrosanct privilege! to be as cruel and as harmful as tyrants and their tyrannies, despots and their despotism, exploiters and their exploitation...

for God willing:

as their wrongdoers and wrongdoing are ours... 

so shall their ill gains be! 

M

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Further Reading

You and I and the Truth (May 23, 2025, tvfs)

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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!

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