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 But looking past the fact that we haven't yet developed these solutions, or even an agreement as to what would suffice to have even reached such a level of "transhuman evolution", we must also ask whether anyone would consider it as being an evolution of man, or an evolution in research and development, or manufacturing, by state or corporation, or some abominable combination of the two. Must everyone be compelled to accept a moral argument that indeed this is humanity itself and a more human replacement of the non-technologically enhanced human body?
 
-Further to this, would a consequence of such evolution be not only the deprecation of the "standard" human body, but the forbidding of lives lived in such a form? It is one thing to suggest that this may happen, be it by defacto or by decree, an quite another to conduct things as though such a plan is our responsibility. But any collectivist or socially contracted commitment to liberation must be that: freedom from oppression of being and that must ultimately come as the replacing of human experience.
+Further to this, would a consequence of such evolution be not only the deprecation of the "standard" human body, but the forbidding of lives lived in such a form? It is one thing to suggest that this may happen, be it by defacto or by decree, and quite another to conduct things as though such a plan is our responsibility. But any socially contracted commitment to liberation must be that: freedom from oppression of being and that must ultimately come as the replacing of human experience.
 
-Think about it: we are employing a theory where any economic or cultural disparity is sufficient to drive a model describing a stratified society and utilizing this model simultaneously gives you an alternate theory of knowledge overriding both what any one account can provide as well as what any institution declares and communicates; it is always an expression of the stratified hierarchy and its reinforcement.
+Though any modern collectivist critique is based on equity, it really is any collectivist endeavour as a whole, as the difference between within and outside the collective is both itself a stratification and also an assumption of a resolved stratification within the collective. As such, absent a truly liberal value set, we inevitably employ a theory where any economic or cultural disparity is sufficient to drive a model describing a falsely stratified society. The insistence of a model is the insistence of a false or, at best, limited simulation of reality with a corresponding theory of knowledge, and thus is the means of overriding what any one account can provide and what any institution communicates; it is always an expression of an automatically reinforcing hierarchy.
 
-Some will say this is just about picturing a better world and that our identities don't need to be considered as permanent or fundamental to reality but that we are engaged in a system which happens to be configured in a particular way so engaging the reality which exists means working with it until we have resolved the aspects of it which force us to think in these terms.
+Some will say this is just about picturing a better world and that our identities don't need to be considered as permanent or fundamental to reality but that we are engaged in a system which happens to be configured in a particular way, thus engaging the reality which exists means working with it until we have resolved the aspects that have henceforth forced us to think in the current terms.
 
-This leads to a disconnect between an understanding of imminent and desire for improvement, but it is a rejection of one reality by concluding something about it under a presumption that a future reality will amend it. That is not synonymous with desire to improve, which can accompany any understanding of reality, even if one accepts it fully or believes that its organization is excellent.
+This leads to a disconnect between an understanding of imminent and desire for improvement, but it is a rejection of one reality under presumption that a future reality will amend it. That is not synonymous with desire to improve, which builds and launches from accepting the real.
 
-We will need to revisit this to paint a clear distinction between believing things can improve and believing an endpoint exists or that one is necessary to make the social reality admissible.
+Let's accept accept that reality is here as something both that we experiencing, and which corresponds such that we are accountable to it. This means that we cannot designate property ownership, morality and guilt on the basis of anything beyond our actions.
 
-For now, we accept that reality is here, we are experiencing it and we are able to be accountable to it. This means that we cannot designate property ownership, morality and guilt on the basis of anything beyond our actions.
+## Potentiating Globalism and Global Governance
 
-### Israel's Crimes
-It must be stated that suspicion about narratives which participate in the Israeli-Palestinian dialectic is not taking a position that Israeli organizations or military don't engage in questionable or even criminal behaviour.
+Global governance? A global environment? Are we global citizens?
 
-In fact, the purpose of this section isn't to enumerate and detail all of Israel's possible crimes, but to do a few related things:
-- Indicate that my positions are not an endorsement of Israel, its politics or its views
-- That there are likely IDF soldiers that have committed atrocious acts that are probably illegal even according to Israeli law and international "law" (declarations, but often from the UN which we don't as an organization)
-- Israel has likely designed, orchestrated and participated in subversive and clandestine operations that bring about misery and oppression
-- Allies of Israel, which account for most of what is colloquially referred to as "the west" have probably done the same
-- Covid proves this in a way which places them in an appropriate context for the ideas in this book.
-- I consider all policies, activities, and operations which potentiate global governance as examples of precisely what I am suspicious of, particularly as technology becomes more advanced.
+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?
 
-## Potentiating Globalism and Global Governance
-- We are being made to commit to international conflicts in whatever terms they are presented to us as 
-- Instability and mass migration are a win for those whose aspirations demand greater state control and reduction of human freedom 
-- Why shouldn't we consider everything in this way, given that technology already biases us towards such an outcome, and with ever increased likelihood of its successful deployment 
+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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+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.
 
-We must give serious thought about the permutation of society and the corresponding human conformations which arise from ever-expanding states which are increasingly restrictive and suspicious of the rights and freedom of individual human beings which are ultimately the only real, conscious and experiencing entities. The only entities capable of compassion and empathy, and the very things which can inspire people. It is a frame of experience which humans aspire for, imitate, embody, and come to be shaped by, and such things are only experienced by individual humans. 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 - the only perception.
+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.
 
-We must think about what happens as an authoritarian state becomes increasingly adapted towards ensuring it can both measure every aspect of human life as well as becoming able to accurately predict the results of such measurements.
+We must think about what happens as an authoritarian state becomes increasingly adapted towards ensuring it can both measure every aspect of human life and predict the results.
 
-Trying to construct the frame of mind possessed by one who not just sits idle as the progression of state absolution takes place in a manner to which they are personally able to witness and discern, without recoiling in horror and denouncing, or better still, who comes to be found making excuses for it, constructing rationales, and creatively imagining the wonders that might be unlocked through this warrants deep suspicion and scrutiny. This is not because they are "in on it", but because their reaction to support a view (and especially if they seem to gravitate towards it).
+With that in mind, trying to construct the frame of mind possessed by one who sits idle as the progression of state championed to our absolution takes place, witnessing and even cheering it withou recoil, horror or denouncement. A frame of mind that makes excuses for it and creatively imagines the wonders that might be unlocked through it. They are not "in on it", but hope of it and thirst through it.
 
-It may seem facile to limit conception of such a frame of mind to what appears as a false dichotomy (and especially in a book which purports to critique misapplication of the dialectic spiral); simultaneously, this concern shouldn't preclude us from making an effort to conceive of what a frame of mind presents as, as this would even be the natural consequence of attempting to apply a modicum of empathy to the circumstance. Surely, even a most empathetic view should serve to reveal some reasonable description of the behaviour and set of opinions which accompany such phenomena, so long as such empathy is not ostensible and, as matter of fact, in service of some other need or faculty. With consideration to these factors, we will attempt an enumeration:
-- "Perceiving Imminent Authoritarian Collectivism"
-- "Conditioned into Inversion"
-- "Self Proclamation"
-- "Totalizing System Against Normativity"
+It may seem facile to limit conception of such a frame of mind to what appears as a false dichotomy, especially in a book purporting to critique dialectical belief. Simultaneously, this concern shouldn't preclude us from making an effort to conceive of what a frame of mind presents as, as this would be the natural consequence of attempting to apply a modicum of empathy to the circumstance. Surely, even a most empathetic view should serve to reveal some reasonable description of the behaviour and opinions accompanying such phenomena. With consideration to these factors, let us suppose an enumeration:
+- Perceiving Imminent Authoritarian Collectivism
+- Conditioned into Inversion
+- Self Proclamation
+- Totalizing System Against Normativity
 
 But what each of these will touch upon are some of the following:
 1. Maintaining social coherence
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 6. Vision of completing human or self through state enforced collectivism (honing resources towards solving immortality)
 
 ## Decolonization
-### Naïve 
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+### Naïve
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 - Correcting infractions in society which program us and harm colonized people
 - Finding opportunities to explicitly advance the colonized
 - Finding opportunities to use sources of knowledge otherwise lost or ignored