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dk--->i find it amusing that you and only you are free of the constraints that bind the rest of us simply because you can't figure out what natural law actually is.
but whatever--this isn't a discussion i feel like having.
suffice it to say that there's one place in which we might actually agree--that the passive spectatorship of an american polity is largely fucked.
where we disagree is on everything else.
even if it is true that there is some Natural Law that dangles like predicates from the Magickal Entity called the soul or whatever other metaphysical construct you prefer to add in its place, and if its the same everywhere for everyone, then it's functionally meaningless.
what matters is how people mobilize politically and what they mobilize around.
you want---as always---a return to a fantasy 18th century. i think that's insane. you like to fantasize about isolated individuals in bunkers full of guns. if that's freedom for you, then you can have it. i don't like basements. i am not enamored of guns. i'd rather do almost anything else than be in an basement full of guns.
i prefer to dream about a revolution that goes forward in time, when i still dream about revolution.
people aren't free because of what or who they *are*---they're free because of what they *do* and more importantly what they do collectively.
couldn't really be further apart than that.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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