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Am I someone whose reach, influence and importance can be considered at the global scale? As a capability, a demand of me, or a responsibility?
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-It always seemed sensible when the notion of global responsibility was given attention. Be it as a side effect of technology or having reached the point of development as a species of evolved ideas and intellect, being concerned with something superordinate affecting all is exciting and comforting. Comforting in spite of the magnitude by harnessing the weight of it through the belief that if one is correctly oriented with it, then one is somehow supported by it. An ever refining plan for one's greatest aspirations. A guiding entity reaching every corner of the world yields assurance that the challenge is something transcending the self and thus one needn't be concerned about anticipating failure. So long as it is cognized as interwoven with the challenges and aspirations of one's own life, one can participate in the grand effort of being lifted above one's limitations in a trajectory of solving one's life with the world. If others are similarly concerned, you have their strength and intention on your side. If not, they haven't yet reached to deep knowledge of true reality that you hold.
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+It always seemed to be something sensible when the notion of global responsibility was given attention. Be it as a side effect of technology or having reached the point of development as a species of evolved ideas and intellect, being concerned with something superordinate affecting all is exciting and comforting. Comforting in spite of its magnitude by harnessing the weight of it through the belief that if one is correctly oriented with it, then one is somehow supported by it. An ever refining plan for one's greatest aspirations. A guiding entity reaching every corner of the world yields assurance that the challenge is something transcending the self and thus one needn't be concerned about anticipating failure. So long as it is cognized as interwoven with the challenges and aspirations of one's own life, one can participate in the grand effort, the target of which helps one imagine being lifted above one's limitations in a trajectory of solving the puzzle of one's life with that of the world. If others are similarly concerned, you have their strength and intention by your side. If not, they haven't yet reached the deep knowledge of true reality that you hold.
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-Leveraging this disposition, globalist activism undermining national sovereignty and, by extension, blurring the scope of the means to otherwise protect individual sovereignty and personhood, drives humans into commitments to international conflict in whatever terms they are presented to us as. Instability and mass migration are a win to those whose aspirations demand greater state control and reduction of human freedom. In many respects, it's easier for us to consider everything in this way, given that technology invites us to expect solutions without their conception while the lack of experience with real, brutal physical conflict allows us to expect that the consequences are never our own to bear.
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+Leveraging this disposition, globalist activism undermining national sovereignty and, by extension, blurring the scope of the means to otherwise protect individual sovereignty and personhood, drives humans into commitments involving international conflict in whatever terms presented. Instability and mass migration are a win to those whose aspirations demand greater state control and reduction of human freedom. In many respects, it's easier for us to consider everything in this way, given that technology invites us to expect solutions without their conception while the lack of experience with real, brutal physical conflict allows us to expect that the consequences are never our own to bear.
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We must give serious thought about the permutation of society and corresponding human conformations which arise from ever-expanding state authority that is necessarily restrictive and suspicious of the rights and freedom of individuals. The state embodies every criticism leveraged on the basis of hegemony, and has become most championed by those uttering those criticisms as it is the power they crave, and it does this not as a conscious entity but as the matrix of incentives which force a game upon every societal participant. Only individuals are real, conscious and experiencing entities capable of compassion and empathy, and which are truly able to inspire. It is the frame of experience which we aspire to, imitate, embody, and come to be shaped by. The only reason the idea of a human experiencing anything can make sense to any person is because of the individual's capacity to imagine experiencing it themselves, and this is always an expression of universal belief in the existence of individual perception.
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@@ -3888,31 +3888,33 @@ But what each of these will touch upon are some of the following:
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### Naïve
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-- Correcting infractions in society which program us and harm colonized people
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-- Finding opportunities to explicitly advance the colonized
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-- Finding opportunities to use sources of knowledge otherwise lost or ignored
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+The naive view would be to consider decolonization as some sort of correction for the infractions that exist in society as a consequence of historical events. That events in history were participated in by persons who took their positional advantage to diabolical and malevolent ends, resulting in the current, shameful moment. It is seen as a good-will initiative to find opportunities appropriate to advancing the colonized and articulate and preserve sources of knowledge that are otherwise being lost or ignored, to the detriment of all the world.
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### Informed
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#### Frantz Fanon
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-- "National Liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the heading used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon."
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-- "Decolonization is quite simply the replacing of a species of men with another species of men"
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-- "Without any period of transition, there is a total, complete and absolute substitution"
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-Why is this important? Because, unlike something like a vulgar Marxism description of communism, which describes a circumstance that is free of oppression, decolonization is only concerned with the process of attaining liberation (actually, Marxism is the same way, but the description of bourgeois / proletarian relations are far more abstract, and essentially come to be considered on the basis of wealth and property ownership. With critical colonial theory, the group assignments are far more racial and, unlike critical race theory's white / black dialectic, all land can specifically be problematized on the basis of whether the holy incantations are being uttered over them, with those incantations themselves being a means of reminding the crowd to struggle itself and invite everyone to participate in a struggle to purify the body politic.
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+> "National Liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the heading used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." - Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth)
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+> "Decolonization is quite simply the replacing of a species of men with another species of men ... Without any period of transition, there is a total, complete and absolute substitution" - Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth)
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-Again, with the eternal designations, as though your composition and you socialization are lost in an endless feedback loop of your ever intensifying depravity. The more pure you become insofar as decentering, allyship, self flagellation, humiliation rituals, and representing all identities correctly, the more hidden secret and insidious your corruption, always bound to your flesh.
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+Why is this important? Because, unlike something like some of the more supposedly facile descriptions of Communism in line with a classical and vulgar Marxism line of thought, decolonization's aesthetic involves liberation of a less abstract instantiation of the duality of bourgeois and proletarian by juxtaposing colonizer and colonized. In what is also called Critical Colonial theory, the group assignments are far more racial and, unlike critical race theory's white / black dialectic, all land can specifically be problematized on the basis of whether the holy incantations are being uttered over them, with those incantations themselves being a means of reminding the crowd to struggle itself and invite everyone to participate into struggle as a ritual act to purify the body politic.
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+Against eternally-deriving designations, as though your composition and you socialization are lost in an endless feedback loop of your ever intensifying depravity. The more pure you become insofar as decentering, allyship, self flagellation, humiliation rituals, and erasing yourself through representing all identities correctly, the more hidden secret and insidious your corruption, always bound to your flesh. Though a bourgeois can become a worker by being the champion of the people's party, for example, and cis can become queer through sacrificing the body, or even simply making the claim, the colonizer of decolonialism, as with the white of Critical Race Theory, is never going to be the colonized.
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#### Lamentation:
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-" Decolonization and purification you aren't adequate you aren't original you aren't something unique or significant you're just an empty patchwork of superficiality which pretends to be something important and meaningful but you're actually what brings down the meaning of all the rest of the world your existence makes it impossible for people to see the real value which would otherwise bring meaning to their own lives
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-you are worse than a parasite you don't even have anything unique and interesting of your own... You are a wraith of stolen dreams and pathetic mimicry and somehow you have come into undeserved and unearned resources which sustain your abominable existence while repressing and suffocating noble existence which has a real purpose in demonstrating the real reason for existence... The real use of having a human life... The hope of a universe which was well worth having come into being
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-how depraved and awful to have to witness your continued existence which is a proverbial spitting in the face of things whose existence actually fulfills the hopes, desires and aspirations
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- tied to it"
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+The thought stream of decolonization, whether academic, pop culture, or the navel gazing that many are lulled into when presented with an opportunity for narcissistic self-celebration, is always one of lamentation. How wise, noble and hurt I've been is what I dwell on, and it's forcing me to manifest bravery through demanding everyone's eyes to me on me. Aren't I powerful, beautiful and deserving? Aren't I mystical, full of secret power and a truly natural being, unlike all the rest? If you were wise you would bow to me as this would be you greatest blessing! You must purify yourself immediately, since it is not you who is the original and unique one, but a patchwork of superficiality which fails to mimic the truly human. You pretend to be important and meaningful, but your very existence brings down the meaning of the world and makes it impossible for people to see real value. Real value which only I, unlike you, truly possess.
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+It is awful for us, the good and the true, to witness your depraved existence, which continues past its welcome, as your presence is a proverbial spitting in the face of those whose existence actually fulfills hopes, desires and aspirations.
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#### Additional
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##### What is the Cult?
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- It's worth putting into words why I'm referring to these things as "the cult", what ultimately that means, because we can talk about the cults and cult memberships, and we can talk about Marxism, different collectivist systems, fascism, national socialism, we can talk about more modern cults like the Jonestown suicides, but ultimately I'm trying to indicate that collectivism and the disposition and capacity to to pursue it, when formalized, is basically a cult because it always requires membership, and it always requires the upholding of a reality to be constructed, if the collectivist project were the succeed and be the mainstay of how social reality is edified, manager, maintained, constructed, etc. Someone will say "well, you're doing what the Marxists are doing because they're saying that ideology is basically the excuses for us not having a socialist worldview, not wanting to return to the garden", but what I am saying is different. What I'm saying is:
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- - You only exist as an individual so anything that causes you to believe that there is a collective way of seeing reality which corrects the way in that we are seeing things as an individual, because we are otherwise prone to ideologies -> that's the court, in whatever form it ends up being.
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+ It's worth putting into words why I refer to these things as a cult and what that means. We can talk about cult memberships, Marxism, different collectivist systems, Fascism, National Socialism, more modern cults like the Jonestown suicides, and so on, but ultimately I'm indicating that embracing a disposition towards pursuing collectivism, when formalized, is a cult requiring membership through signal and ritual, and in that it requires the upholding of a constructed reality. Someone will say "well, you're doing what the Marxists are doing because they're saying that ideology is basically the excuses for us not having a socialist worldview, not wanting to return to the garden, but you're doing the same thing on the basis of Individualism". But, it is different. You only exist as an individual so anything that causes you to believe that there is a collective way of seeing reality which corrects the broken perception of seeing things as an individual is a cult, because to refuse the individual perception is to refuse the possibility of seeing the shared reality which would need to correspond at the level of the individual.
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##### Political Nature
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-They say that our political nature is the consequence of indoctrination or programming. It's not that, although sure that stuff all happens, and affects everyone, but we can't say that it's the overarching factor. It's actually that we have the capacity for advanced syntax in our descriptions of our perceptions and we have a visual cortex and what that means -> having a visual cortex means that you are generating an image into something intangible. So that ends up having to be something that corresponds symbolically with things. The meaning is the meaning of the symbol, rather than the thing the symbol represents, and that's where the subjectivism can run astray.
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+They say that our political nature is the consequence of indoctrination or programming. Although that stuff happens and affects everyone, we can't say the degree to which it plays a factor in our being compelled into a political view. In fact, we needn't use such excuses to disregard that we are naturally inclined to viewing issues politically, as it's actually our capacity for advanced syntax and the descriptions of our perception. It's the consequence of a highly-developed visual cortex which means that you are generating an image, even for something otherwise intangible. That ends up having to be something that corresponds symbolically, and thus it is the meaning is of the symbol, rather than the thing the symbol represents, and where subjectivity runs astray and causes us to require confirmation through other instances of perception in order to yield the presentation of the cognized symbol as reality.
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