MG XI

responses to posted comments also: here (MG X); here (MG IX); here (MG VIII); here (MG VII); here (MG VI); here (MG V); here (MG IV); here (MG III); here (MG II); and here (MG) ~

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Mille Grazie (XI)

from 2026:

selected comments (in grayscale, more or less) and 

my responses (in purple, more or less)

(in more or less chronological order by blog post, comment, or response)

* January *

Enter the Police State (1/6/2026)

my responses (batch I - 1/10/2026...)

Sneaker (1/9/2026)

"If we remain optimistic that our rights will remain intact simply because they always have been, we fall into a trap of normalcy bias. We need something more rigorous than optimism: we need informed skepticism that leads to radical responsibility."

when a police state repudiates a public's right to subject police-state-'agents'

to accountability measures by, for example,

'illegalizing' documenting actions of police-state-'agents' or

'illegalizing' documenting police-state-'sanctioned' rules, policies, practices or

'illegalizing' real reality

a public that trusts a police state's 'report' of 'the truth'

because 'honorable people', 'pious people', 'normal people' trust police-state-'agents' implicitly,

is a public that repudiates its inalienable responsibility to discern fiction from real reality

"A police state thrives on compliance. The antidote isn't just a positive attitude, but a willingness to be a friction point in the machine."

absolutely

a 'frictionless' populace is part and parcel to 'the purpose' and 'the end-game'

of wind-up plastic rictus-faced monkeys, casually evil cheerleaders, servants of Ate

"if we are sitting back waiting for a happy ending to the current trend of global surveillance and state overreach, we are essentially consenting to the outcome. The response required is not a smile and a hope for the best, but a grim, determined vigilance that prioritizes action over expectation."

advocates of 'obedient' inaction

are police state pacifiers and police state allies

in all but name

"thank you!"

thank you!!!

BenLewis (1/9/2026)

"We've moved past Big Brother and straight into 'Big Narcissistic Stepfather!"

not only are 'loyal believers' naive to the weaknesses of police states

but 'loyal believers' lionize and revere "Big Narcissistic Stepfathers"

like parking lot pennies are 'liberators' of 'the faithful'

as if everyday people who are police state loyalists aren't as casually evil

as 'absolute dominators' of 'the meek and mute faithful'

"We're sleepwalking into a world where your freedom is just a series of pre-approved options! You want to protest? Fine! Just make sure you do it in the Free Speech Zone which is a soundproof box in the middle of a SALT FLAT IN UTAH! And once you are there, don't be shocked when you end up in the new Free Speech Zone in a random Central American or African institute..."

lolol

reminds me of the motivational aphorism:

'The criminalization of being a living, existing, breathing human being will continue

until police state ratings improve!'

"I have a right to be a private, miserable human being without an idiot counting how many times I scratch my backside in a CVS parking lot!"

amen

police states 'break eggs to make omelets', which is to say,

sanction police state impunity for breakfast

because 'omelets' = 'ratings'

"I can't take it! My brain is sweating! We've traded our souls for the promises, the winks, the optimism of a better tomorrow, a safer tomorrow. We are STUPID! We are a nation of toddlers handing our car keys to a shark because it promised us a cookie and a locked door!"

for your insights and your candor - THANK YOU!!!

APrince (1/9/2026)

a perfunctory 'defense' of 'shepherded sheep' does not deserve applause

here, there, or anywhere

SofiaTheFirst (1/9/2026)

"This is a classic protective racketeering strategy: the state breaks the world, then demands total authority to fix it."

as if the police state is the only 'legitimate solution';

as if anything less is unwise, unreasonable, indefensible;

as if such 'common sense' isn't casually evil cowardice

"The litanies and homilies serve as a moral anesthetic. By branding surveillance and militancy as [morally just], the state prevents the public from identifying government actions as violent or oppressive. Instead, they are framed as restoring order."

for reverential devotion to police states

lubricates the restoration of illusions of 'harmony'

"a perpetual market for state-sponsored fictions, illusions of success and approval"

police states deluge the public with narratives

so there's always an illusion of your choice to toss back with an 'omelet'

ACowboyAtMidnight (1/9/2026)

"architect"?

you?

an exhaustive body of comic-book-superheroes

have addressed ad infinitum

an exhaustive lot of conscience-impaired comic-book-villains

such that this corruption of sagacity and common sense

in flagrante

arouses no one who is not a #policestatetool

HeimdallAvatar (1/9/2026)

"To say that we overestimate the differences between us is a coward's lullaby. In the halls of eternity, we know that differences are what define the spirit. When the Giants march, shall I tell myself to stand down because a poll suggests they value peace?"

lolol

the oft-exalted credo of world unity and peace:

'The firing of lethal munitions during ceasefires will continue

until deaths by firing achieve peace!'

my responses (batch II - 1/29/2026...)

HamburgersFromLeipzig (1/16/2026)

"A state that sees its own people primarily as a threat to be managed, rather than as a sovereign body to be served, has already lost its moral compass."

how many states proclaim their "moral compass" - faultless -

while "managing" human beings - villainously!

"the instruments of a police state are the very tools that fascism requires to breathe. Fascism needs an atmosphere of fear; it needs a mechanism to silence dissent; it needs a police force that answers to power rather than to the people."

in other words - without casual evil - fascism cannot breathe

PainNowandForveverHereAndThere (1/16/2026)

"We behold today a specter rising under the guise of unity, a philosophy of fascism that seeks to bind the individual to the chariot of the state. It is a doctrine that demands the surrender of the mind and the worship of a mortal man as though he were a deity."

this "doctrine" proclaims its ideology the noblest of all - 'freedom'!

as if such ideology isn't a farce

for no citizenry commanded to appease a despot is free

"It is the business of little minds to shrink; but those whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue principles until their last breath."

"little minds" believe in spoils of capitulation,

especially illusions of power,

for enchanted kingdoms that serve slop and piggery

are anointed! sublime! golden!

AntiMoloch (1/16/2026)

"I see you hiding in the architecture of your own silence, building a skyscraper of not-my-business that scrapes the belly of a hollow heaven."

skyline after skyline of "not-my-business skyscrapers"

define by toothless teeth, nation after nation

"I am with you in the wreckage, where we finally look each other in the eye and say: NO MORE BLINDNESS! NO MORE SILENCE! The universe is a telegram of truth, and you are the one holding the wire, refusing to read the message while the world burns for a nickel."

thank you

AlphaCentauriOrBust (1/16/2026)

"You sit in your warm halls, counting coins while the wind of tyranny howls at the door of your neighbor."

we have done something - something we have done before - to "neighbor"

we have made "our neighbor" - our ally

we have made 'neighbors who are not ours' - our enemy

not by merit

or its lack

nor by character

or its want

but by the most meaningless and superficial... reality

by likeness

and difference

as if these are the most real... reasons

to ally or to war

"To trade the wide, white expanse of freedom for the narrow, gray corridor of a police state is the act of a slave, not a hunter."

which is to say, not a "hunter",

superior and formidable

but a "slave",

chained to a fiction that believes it's not

TeleogicalMeans (1/18/2026)

"Liberty, as we have established, requires the ability of citizens to deliberate together for the common good. However, when the ears of the populace are stopped with the wax of partisan zeal, deliberation becomes impossible. The echo chamber creates a state of stasis, where the citizens no longer share a common reality."

"not sharing a common reality" is where much begins

from the experiences of human beings subjected to injustice

to the experiences of human beings burdened by poverty

to the experiences of human beings with means

to the experiences of human beings in power

"the echo chamber" invites us to divide from each other

as if "our un-common reality" is a natural truth

that irrevocably disunites us from each other

instead of a hypnotic exhortation

that conflates 'experiences' and "reality",

transmuting 'our un-shared experiences' into "our un-common reality"

for they are not one and the same

no more than such conflation immutably defines, as if by a natural law,

who we are habitually united with

and who we are pitilessly divided from

"Thank you, as always, you are the nearest and dearest to the truth and I can't imagine the crater of a world we would be in without you and yours."

thank you

and you're welcome

TheHandThatFeedsTheWolf (1/18/2026)

"where is the 'liberty' we are always told America stands for?"

there are Americans for whom

'liberty' is a privilege for NOBODY but them

not because such human beings are more deserving of 'liberty'

but because an accident of birth privileges NOBODY else

notwithstanding, a privilege by accident of birth is not earned

any more than rule or throne by inherited claim or title is

"When you replace trust with roving patrols and fear, you aren't just enforcing law; you are breaking the social fabric. It feels like America is trading its soul for a false sense of security, and as someone from a country that values the rule of law and transparency, it's heartbreaking to witness this mass deportation machine being built on such a scale."

many Americans who cheer "this mass deportation machine" with one roar

salute "America's soul" with one fist

the purification of which

is through rites of witnessing 'the putting in trauma' of human beings

SifLovesNorway (1/18/2026)

"We are teaching [children] that: suspicion is the default state, privacy is a luxury, not a right, and authority is something to be feared, not questioned. If a child spends 18,000 hours in an environment where their every movement is logged and their every word is scrutinized, we should not be surprised when they grow into adults who lack the intellectual courage to challenge tyranny."

I wonder... if cultivating 'obedience' was not 'a noble purpose'

of 'strange bedfellows' of 'progressive' education reforms then

and I wonder... if fostering 'obedience'

informs 'strange bedfellows' of education reforms still

such that... education reforms now

unapologetically promote 'obedience' for 'obedience' is "the primary function

of an educational environment" that "essentially [programs children]

for a police state"

"I ask you to define security. Is society truly secure if its citizens are so conditioned to surveillance that they no longer understand the value of the liberty they are supposedly securing? Logic dictates that if you destroy the thing you are trying to save in the process of saving it, your strategy is a failure."

when... "your strategy" for "saving" children and "securing" liberty

is the police state,

you have failed both

HelloFromTheMed (1/26/2026)

"Save the children. Lock up the bad guys. Feel safe in a bubble. These are high-level marketing bullets. But the "How," the actual architecture of how you achieve those things, that's where most people lose their way."

when "one-button" makers pitch "one-button solutions"

as honest-to-goodness

is it surprising... that "one-button" buyers buy such pitches

as eagerly as Jacks buy magic beans?

I mean... when complex nuanced involved solutions are the alternative,

who can blame Jacks for flocking to flimflammery?

"once the "Law and Order" operating system is installed on every street corner and in every classroom, it doesn't matter who's sitting in the CEO chair." "People think they're buying a Protection App, but they're installing malware that eats their liberty." "We must... start asking how we can build a world where we don't need a big, beautiful bubble to feel human."

the "need" for "big, beautiful bubbles" comes from... somewhere

the "need" for "bubbles" to be 'served and protected' by "Law and Order"

comes from... something

such that giving up "their liberty" to meet imperative existential "needs"... is tenable

because somewhere something... must be an exigent threat to them

for whom "[saving] the children [and locking up] the bad guys [and feeling] safe"

call for nothing less than a police state

never mind the "actual architecture" of wronging with impunity

that define police states

JackOscarNeillToStars (1/26/2026)

"The reality on the ground is far beyond a safety narrative; it's a full-scale federal occupation." "This isn't protection; it's a retaliatory action against our community." "We aren't just reading about a police state anymore; we are living in ground zero."

while citizenry who stand with no-kings are subjected to hostile campaigns

on city streets and in suburban parking lots and on front porches of family residences

strongholds of police-state-cheerleaders are not

which is to say,

when police-state-cheerleaders vote for the police state,

it's not their community or their people or their cities or their states

that are militantly occupied

first

CarolineTheBlack (1/26/2026)

this is absolutely everything

thank you

"They tell us the cameras are there because they love our children. They tell us the soldiers in the subway are there to protect our way of life. But what kind of life is it when you're constantly proving you're not a criminal just walking to work?"

police-state-cheerleaders "tell us": 'if we have nothing to hide,

we have nothing to fear'

after all, police states that have the truth to hide,

police states that have the truth to fear

cheer no champion of nothing to hide, nothing to fear,

more than police states

TheTribesSecondFinest (1/26/2026)

lolol!

"We're going with the, "Bright Side of the Moon," strategy while the moon is currently being fitted with a 4-terabyte surveillance lens and a tactical vest?" "if your optimism requires you to ignore [the occupying force] in the tactical gear standing in your flower bed, that's not a gift to democracy."

the Munchkins of Oz

who sing and dance to a witch's murder

and revere a seizer of power

who terrorizes seekers of a wizard's aid

are a gift to police states

that hallucinate that they are joyfully worshipped

by the policed

PowderWhitePerfectKing (1/26/2026)

"People speak of a police state as if it were a new invention of cold machines and glass eyes. It is not. It is the oldest hunger of the weak ruler [and the gilded crown]." "A police state is a cowardly thing. It hides behind the words of safety and protection" "A state that must watch its people in their schools and their streets is a state that is [terrorized by and hostage to fear]"

hypothetical parrot kings are old dogs that play old tricks

because time-worn plays are the cheapest in the parking lot penny book

IamtheRepublicWeWantToHave (1/26/2026)

"a serious, adult conversation"?

"about the reality on the ground"?

the police state has no respect for human beings

it has no "sacred duty"

for nothing sacred moves 'the soul' of a venal mercenary will

such that

the police state is nothing more than a golem

embodied

by "those who have no respect for the life and property of others"

like

the parrot and the tool and the puppet

"who live without the constant threat of" a despot's

gross legalistic license

How to Serve We the People (1/27/2026)

my responses (batch I - 2/3/2026...)

Sneaker (1/30/2026)

"once you give an inch to a tyrant, you're not just losing your rights, you're losing your soul. And once that's gone, there isn't a mountain in the world high enough to hide in."

how tyrants win free elections

is

bananas

you see,

every consequence that is consequential

is addressed to citizenry

like a campaign pitch

so rather than sit with uncomfortable

feelings of consequentiality,

citizenry accept invitations to marinate

as past and future electorates in

one campaign pitch deluge after another,

without confronting or interrogating or dispelling

illusions of 'enlightenment'

that despots lean into to defend

ideological callousness and indifference

and unwholesome calculations of state-sponsored harm

today

SifLovesNorway (1/30/2026)

"To call cruelty rational and harm better than the alternative is the oldest trick in a tyrant's book." "true service to the people begins by calling a monster by its name."

but when the monster is a bedfellow

keep the lights off and in the dark

call it 'master'

SofiaTheFirst (1/30/2026)

well said!

"the state stops being a protector and becomes a predator. This shift triggers a collapse starting with the death of legitimacy, the normalization of disobedience, and the shift from authority to coercion." "The state becomes a giant with clay feet" "[the people leave] the empire to collapse under its own hollow weight."

some people sneer "the social contract" is dead

while decrying its demise as an unthinkable tragedy

then

cheer despots who demand the 'restoration' of "the social contract"

while gustily dismissing its relevance

then

halo police-state-illusions of police-state-'success' and police-state-'gratitude'

while spitting at 'nasty' 'disrespectful' flies in "the social contract" ointment

like

whiplashed senselessness is 'just common sense'

BenLewis (1/30/2026)

"We've got a social contract that's being used as a piece of scratch paper by a bunch of corrupt power-tripping bureaucrats who couldn't find the public good if it was stabled to their foreheads! They build a police state, they sharpen the surveillance, they watch us like we're all suspicious toddlers in a china shop"

the servile obsequiousness

that police-state-allies and police-state-cheerleaders

ecstatically adopt

to paper-over and rug-sweep malicious incompetence

oozed by obviously perverse and "corrupt, power-tripping bureaucrats"

who 'serve' at the yawning pleasure of a despot

- not "the public good" -

but the private interests of power and wealth and influence and fame

is

as unbelievable

as fealty to 'the salvation of a nation and its soul'

being sacredly performed

through soulless capitulation to tyrants and their tyrannies

"The state is supposed to be the waiter, not the guy eating your dinner while he stares at you through a thermal imaging camera! Read it. Learn it. Or don't! But don't act surprised when the whole thing falls over because you forgot who was holding up the floor!"

wait...

"the floor" isn't held up by elephant-serpent-dragons on tortoise-turtles?

my responses (batch II - 2/8/2026...)

NWTyrone (2/7/2026)

"The Wizard of Oz is a literal nightmare. He's got that smoke and mirrors, he's got the village-crushing claims, and he rules Munchkinland with an iron fist. And yet? Look at those Munchkins! They weren't just following orders; they were harmonizing! You don't get that kind of choreography without a terrifying amount of buy-in."

that, in the end, is 'the brand'

try-hard pick-me main-character desperation

to coax the 'majority',

like counterfeit aftershave

that 'authenticates' the charismatic appeal of frauds,

to "buy-in"!

"[the opposition, certain segment of the population, enablers who live and breathe "stan culture"] are busy serving the Problem. They've traded their we for a he or a she or a Sentient Orange Shadow."

the... timeless... blueprint of "serving the Problem"

begins with "traded we for" believing in miracles

and ends with served slop and piggery

because Hell's best baked Alaska... serves

sure

AlphaCentauriOrBust (2/7/2026)

"You speak of your Founding Fathers as if they were benevolent gods... But... They did not build a hall for the people; they built a fortress for the few, and they paved the courtyard with the bones of the stolen and the broken." "It was never a rule of the many; it was a council of the wealthy, masquerading as a gathering of the free." "You follow tyrants who promise to protect you... while they pick your pockets and salt your fields... This is not the way of the benevolent; it is the way of the vulture."

'patriotism' isn't the love of a real story;

it's the love of a historical fiction

that commands a citizenry

to believe

or else

TheRealKW (2/7/2026)

"the "Founders?" They weren't saints in powdered wigs. They were chieftains" "[who]" "didn't build a commune. They built an empire while calling it a neighborhood watch."

'loyalty' to peoples' or states' or nations' mythologized histories

is less to do with celebrating sacred truths

than with narratives that license beliefs

case in point,

moral terror baiting slop that licenses lipstick wearing piggery

is less to do with principles of, say, patriotism

than with state-sponsored wrong-mongering

ThornsWithoutPricks (2/7/2026)

"my modern existential dread: the idea that our peace is actually just a high-gloss coat of paint over a foundation of silence." "In this framework, "optimism" isn't a hope for the future; it's a muzzle for the present." "There is a profound [senselessness] in a world that champions [our] authenticity while simultaneously demanding [our] appeasement."

'Hell's best baked Alaska'

is 'heavy lifting' beyond what I have thus far expounded

nevertheless,

"the side that thrives on" seductive lipstick wearing piggery

not only whiplashes senselessly: (i) the pig isn't on fire,

(ii) the fire isn't fabricated outrage,

(iii) everybody is charmingly seduced by performatively fiery spectacles,

(iv) there is no artificed spectacle worth tooth-achingly savoring

more than 'just desserts',

(v) 'just desserts' is never a lie

that serves lies,

but also: (vi) cake never tastes like tyranny

when it's the foundation of a farce on fire

my responses (batch III - 2/20/2026...)

UrusulaIsMoreThanASetOfStars (2/7/2026)

'Hell's best baked Alaska' is serving fiasco on fire

with a working title of 'this is better than the alternative'

(like moral terror baiting slop

is what we order

so seductive lipstick wearing piggery

is what we are served)

notwithstanding,

 serving fire and ice (or the end of the world)

is how Hell serves just deserts

ProgressHasBeenHalted (2/20/2026)

if words were... progress, then who could... impede what drips and drops

from you so... naturally?

alas progress... "requires" more than words

dripped and dropped

PostTraumaticMachineShop (2/20/2026)

"The [calculus] is simple but the [ensuing chaos is senseless]... Mad respect for your insight. Keep being you!"

I don't disagree with you and thank you!

DarkEnlightenmentBeyondtheSilverReflection (2/20/2026)

"Get over yourself."

this is what you wore your big boy pants for?

to... attack...?

"subversive elites like [me]"?

"who want to strip away [your supremacism]"?

I can no more "dismantle" the fairy tales you tell yourself are 'the truth'

than I can deny you the atta-boy you tell yourself you have 'earned'

for... lowkey big boy pants energy

nevertheless...

it goes without saying that the grown up in the room

is never the one who believes the real Santa

is fascists in red hats

reply to above by SofiaTheFirst (2/20/2026)

YES!!!

"If your civilization depends on a lie to keep from collapsing, maybe it's time to ask what, exactly, you're so desperate to preserve."

as if that which has no equal -

unmatched hallucinations that license beliefs

that corrode

before oxygen and the sun and time -

isn't

rot and perversion and decay

preserved to seed a future born to perish

BlondeHolmHF (2/20/2026)

a "moral justification" for casual evil, though disingenuously framed

as a line in the sand in defense of "the rights of innocents", is still

a moral justification for casual evil

"we must be careful not to let the political nature of [serving "We the People"] obscure the underlying moral facts." "Individuals are not mere tools to be used for greater good, and ["We the People"] are not required to bear unreasonable costs that hamper our ability to live our own lives." "Often, "serving the people" [imposes] risk [and exacts] harms on innocent bystanders. If we cannot perform a service [without unforeseeable or incidental or collateral consequences towards others], then that service loses its moral justification."

to reverse the brittle senseless "morality" doctrine of despots

in defense of tyrannies

in order to explicitly

discourage a citizenry from "[being] used for greater good"

because "the right" to not suffer from any incalculable effect of "change"

is a "moral" line in the sand

defined as the "[requiring]" of a citizenry "to bear unreasonable costs"

presumes

the brittle senseless "morality" doctrine of despots

in defense of tyrannies

isn't prejudicially employed to senselessly "hamper" citizenry

with "unreasonable costs"

not for any harmless or riskless "good" or "service"

but for the indefensible,

 for totalitarian regimes

governed

by "morality" shields that license state-sponsored casual evil

SailorMoonJones56 (2/20/2026)

"Oh my god, thank you for this. Seriously."

you're welcome!

and thank you!

"If we want to actually serve the people, we have to stop building our entire future out of our leftover grievances. Treating revenge like it's justice is just a great way to make sure everyone stays miserable forever, and calling "obedience" unity is like calling a hostage situation a "community dinner."" "We need to stop being "meek and mute" and start being the plurality that demands a future that isn't [a wink that winks or a promise that promises or a prayer that prays for the impossible: a future that won't be the past]."

the sanctimonious criticism of 'public disunity' within liberalism

is such a tired vacuity

when every pretense of so-called 'public unity' within conservatism

is rooted in an uncritical obedience

that defines the oft-lionized 'worship' and 'loyalty' and 'values'

of those who slur honest scrutiny

as

'virtueless hatred'

NoPastIsWorthTheFuture (2/20/2026)

"True service requires more than just a vision for tomorrow; it requires the collective courage to stop digging. We are so preoccupied with who dug which hole and who deserves to fall into them that we've lost the ability to level the ground and build a new tomorrow."

hole-diggers refuse truths, realities, facts

like omissions aren't lies

as if personal and collective, monstrous and incidental

wounds

must be excavated and litigated and tested

without end

as if hole-digging is a sacred purpose

of truth-deniers, realities-deniers, facts-deniers

like hallucinations cultivated like legacies

aren't rot, perversion, decay

as if hole-diggers and the rest of us

aren't subject to the same truths, the same realities, the same facts,

the same laws

ParryCay (2/20/2026)

"We are being taught to build a future based on the past, but the past was never designed to carry the weight of our potential." "Most people live in [a bubble, a coffin, a lie] where you should only care about those who look, think, and vote like you." "We don't need more [false "justice" that is "obedient" to monstrous "Masters"]"  

(i) on the "rules"

there is a corrosive 'legalism' that dominates 'public conversations'

that begins with a proclamation that police-states are 'just'

and ends with a demand that 'the law be executed'

because 'the rules are the rules'

that denies the truths and the realities and the facts

of bureaucracies, of catch-22s, of life

that rejects common sense exceptions to 'the rules are the rules'

as if no lawful 'right' to stop 'the execution of the law' exists

as if legal amnesty, clemency, exoneration

are never more cost-effective, more wise, more politic

never mind 'normal' exceptions to 'legalism' within police-states,

acquittals and pardons

undeserved,

gifted as acts of power

(ii) on "obedience"

such proclamation further proclaims that police-states

are

'lawfully lawless'

vested with absolute immunity to enforce

'patriotic gratitude'

defined as frictionless and uncritical obedience

of the subject to 'lawfully lawless' impunity:

the ruled,

the policed

as if acts of power by despots

legalize

tyranny

(iii) on "justice"

justice ≠ senseless incompetence,

indifferent inhumanity,

vengeful retribution

Arovet Li (2/21/2026)

"Appeasement is the coward's alchemy - believing that if you feed the beast enough of your neighbors, it will eventually become a vegetarian."  

or "if you feed the beast enough of" the 'wrong' people,

the 'right' people will feast on all that is deserved,

that is,

'just dessert'

reply to above by MeMyselfandIAlone (2/21/2026)

"stop trying to "polish" humanity and start trying to [liberate human beings from any expectation to "be civilized"]"  

cynical anarchy

still

serves lipstick wearing pig

* March *

 (3/5/2026)

Call Me No One

my responses (3/8/2026...)

Sneaker (3/5/2026)

"the illusion we keep falling for" "[trading] the difficult work of being [messy or "Many"] for the [the comfort of authority or "The One"]" "That's the exact blueprint a demagogue uses." "It's an old trick."

it's not only "an old trick" because it 're-appears'

in its tired guise as 'new' and 'popular' and 'revolutionary'

in every 'age'

it's also "an old trick" because it has never vanished

from use as a tool by tools, for tools, against human beings

HaljaTheDamned (3/5/2026)

"You mortals... Let them"

because "there is only the freezing truth"?

only mortals embrace nihilism as "a truth of earth"

see also Wannabe below

EmuBeenHappy (3/5/2026)

"you speak" "you mourn" "you assert" "you argue" "you suggest" "you write" "you mistake" "do not let [yourself be blinded]" "and may you find the true liberation that comes from knowing the One who created you not to be broken by men, but to be honored by them"

the ones who claim authority through divinity are rarely

exemplars, much less paragons, of faithful humility

they truthsplain as if their ignorance of knowledge

is their witness of allknowing

they mansplain as if morphological claims of masculine identity

endow material bodies with exclusive piety

they faithsplain as if it honors the truth

to lie

reply to above by TheTribesSecondFinest (3/5/2026)

thank you!!!

your perspicacity and humor are

sane anodynes to whatever the actual !@#$ is happening right now

"[The Day of Judgment] is a very convenient policy for people who want zero accountability in this life... It outsources our shared, messy, earthly responsibility to an invisible third party. Promising that the billionaires and dictators will be stripped of their crowns in the afterlife is just a great way to make sure nobody tries to strip them of their crowns [on a hypothetical Ides - metaphorically speaking - of a month in a year or] a Tuesday in November!"

such policy condones earthly inaction

in response to earthly injustice

as if 'leaving justice' to "an invisible third party"

is just

wtah

"did monotheism humble all men and tear down their delusions of lordship [and godhood]? Tell that to the Divine Right of Kings [and its 'new names' in the euphemistic jargon of 'modern legalism']. Tell that to the [royals and caliphs and] emperors who conquered half the globe with a sword in one hand and a holy book in the other."

"monotheism humbles" by "equalizing in prostration"?

tell that to blessed users of private jets

whose 'equalities in prostration' stay not acts of power

that condemn the ruled to "God's will"

"If a system is so perfectly designed to be hijacked by the worst, most power-hungry egos [every single day for thousands and thousands and thousands of years all over the world... at some point, you see the illusion that a scapegoat is to blame for the trainwreck that is the actual, on-the-ground reality of human history... for the lie it truly is] "

the "scapegoat" is all too often

the human beings that monotheistic systems exclude

from institutional power within monotheistic systems

or 'salvation'

"reading a piece of writing with the intellectual spine to look thousands of years of prevailing dogma in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I'm not buying the company line,' is a profound and much needed breath of fresh air, so, sincerely, thank you!"

you're welcome!!!

BenLewis (3/5/2026)

"Oh, we can absolutely expand on this masterpiece! Because what you have done is outline the greatest, longest running, most outrageously successful restructuring in the history of the universe! Think about the genius of the "Many."... You just looked up at the sky, shook your fist at whatever middle-management deity was on duty that day, and went about your miserable little little life. We knew we were small, we knew we weren't in charge, and frankly, that was comforting! But then we have this horrible, collective epiphany"

you paint an extraordinary picture,

lucid and fair,

that for all its tragicomic arc,

is an unabashed joy!!!

"Humanity looked at personal responsibility, stared right into the horrifying face of accountability, and screamed, ABSOLUTELY NOT!" "We built the ultimate, untouchable CEO to bear the brunt of our own screw-ups. We created a giant, invisible suggestion box where we could dump all our guilt, all our blame, and all our responsibility. "It's not my fault I took your land, Bob, it's GOD'S WILL!" It is the most spectacularly cowardly thing a species has ever done!"

obviously "a giant, invisible suggestion box"

would require cosmically marvelous tech-support

else "the ultimate, untouchable CEO"

would never hear herself think over the cacophony

of 'dumpty dumping dumps'

"Enter the "few of us with imagination... with mettle... with vision." The Con Artists. These absolute sociopaths" "didn't invent the One God to save us; they invented it to build their kingdoms! They cornered the market on grace. They put a velvet rope around salvation and charged an admission fee, leaving the rest of the "Many" completely stripped of their own power." "Why...? Because we were terrified of the alternative."

that moral terror baiting slop

and seductive lipstick wearing piggery

'converts' so many human beings

into 'believers'

is

"a truth so depressing you almost have to laugh to keep from weeping"

"We would rather hallucinate a divine dictator and let a bunch of greedy opportunists rob us blind than simply look at each other and say, "I've got your back." It is brilliant. It is devastating. And it makes me want to scream into a large hole!"

I could say I hear you

but a 100 dB rage-metal-band who recreationally gas-leaf-blows

lives in my !@#$%^& head

Gipatiya (3/5/2026)

"By elevating a single, dictatorial idol, whether that's a literal deity, an untouchable con, or a political strongman, the opportunists of the world crowned themselves." "It is the perfect, flawless blueprint for autocracy. They hoard the power, outsource the blame, and strip the rest of us of our shared strength. It's the truth."

not that everybody doesn't well and good know

the reality in their own faces by their own hands

but it bears repeating and repeating and repeating

the second oldest con after the first "untouchable" one

is

the one that pits us all against each other

to keep us from organizing collectively

against

royals and caliphs and emperors

who condemn us all

to their delusions

SofiaTheFirst (3/5/2026)

"When a tyrant claims to speak for the only God, any opposition isn't just a political disagreement; it becomes heresy. The narrative is so easily weaponised."

case in point:

when 'crimes' from blasphemy to idolatry are 'equivalized'

as apostasy

and political dissent is 'moralized' or 'equivalized'

as 'crimes against morality'

opposition to tyranny 'becomes'

a capital offense of such turpitude

that to face such wickedness

with soulless mercilessness

is

normalized as a casual evil that believes it is pious

"By allowing this "soft polytheism" to flourish beneath the umbrella of monotheism, the powerful... maintained the ultimate, centralised authority of the One God (and by extension, the singular authority of the Church and King), whilst tossing just enough breadcrumbs of familiar, local worship to the masses to keep them compliant and ensure their conversion."

controlling the practice of 'faith'

is the 'prerogative' of the ones

who claim authority through divinity

that this disallows 'this and that' here and now

at the same time

that this allows 'this and that' there and then

reflects the whiplashed senselessness of rule

by dictates

 Wannabe (3/5/2026)

SifLovesNorway

"a mortal... Let them"

because "roots always break, the concrete"?

mortals playing-at speaking-as immortals

is a conceit

of wannabes

who despise and exemplify hubris and supremacism,

as if arrogance and incoherence

are not tell-tales

of crass impostures of immortality

see also HaljaTheDamned above

TuckYouandYou (3/6/2026)

the ones

who profit from the dismantling of 'institutions'

are not, say, 'prophets'

so much as detritivores

who feast on decay

"You know what that is? That's reality. That's a functioning civilization."

okay...

notwithstanding

the romanticization-adjacent-characterization of reality here

that rigidly 'views'

"natural forces" and 'the natural order' and "honest living" and "making sense"

with arbitrary specificity

and rose-colored glasses

not uncommon within, say, extremist ideologies

"[the people who want to control you] wanted to keep breaking things: your economy, your borders, your schools but they didn't want you to be angry at them. They wanted a scapegoat."

okay...

notwithstanding

the moral-terror-baiting-slop throughline here

that rejects "massive, overarching authorities"

called ""The Science," or "The Global Order," or "The Consensus""

and passionately embraces supremacist dictators

called divinities, personalities, celebrities, officials

as if there is neither incoherence nor casual evil

in the sanctity and virtue of hypocrisy

"the few, the people with "vision," the billionaires, the Davos crowd, the people who dream their little kingdoms into being, couldn't stand [that the many were doing just fine]. So they rigged the game." "They denied you the grace of a normal life, just so they could consolidate their own power and pretend it's divine will."

your role as a voice

for extremist ideologies and supremacist dictators

does not mean

you do not know how to tell the truth;

it means

when you tell the truth

it serves a lie, a liar, or both

tbc: name (date)

am

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&EverythingIsPolitical

Now is not the time to be pacified. (It never was and it never will be.) If a pacifier is what you seek, however, be not surprised when the world falls ass over teakettle to offer you pacifiers aplenty in exchange for everything that is real and everything that is true, which is to say, everything that is worth fighting for.

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