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collectivist_theology/Marxism_Theology.md

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 ## Religious Work
 Work, The Work (do the work) is the Sacred Charge of the Marxist. The Work is Socialist Work which is to Humanize the world until the world is perfectly Humanized creating only Social Man that lives in Socialist society. Socialist/Spiritually/Laborious productive process which changes the world Materially and thus by changing the material conditions of the world he changes the social relations that define the Material Conditions of the world, hence changing himself.
 
-The Hammer and Sickle are a Relgious Symbol of productive work in its capacity to remake the world into the image of itself - the Communist Utopia - the tended Garden through the Gnostic Vision of realizing that God is the jailer and then remaking man into a perfected state. So, in Marxism, you must Do The Work. Work Makes Free. Work Creates Freedom. Labour and activity don't create freedom, only work does that by creating the conditions under which man is no longer dependent because his needs are being met through work and the conditions through which he is able to use his work to create spiritual improvement through reflection that leads him to realize, eventually, that he's free because all domination and ideology are dispelled/critiqued into the ground (Praxis). In reciprocration, Work is only Work when man is actually free and doing work out of his freedom and for his freedom in order to make his freedom.
+The Hammer and Sickle are a Religious Symbol of productive work in its capacity to remake the world into the image of itself - the Communist Utopia - the tended Garden through the Gnostic Vision of realizing that God is the jailer and then remaking man into a perfected state. So, in Marxism, you must Do The Work. Work Makes Free. Work Creates Freedom. Labour and activity don't create freedom, only work does that by creating the conditions under which man is no longer dependent because his needs are being met through work and the conditions through which he is able to use his work to create spiritual improvement through reflection that leads him to realize, eventually, that he's free because all domination and ideology are dispelled/critiqued into the ground (Praxis). In reciprocation, Work is only Work when man is actually free and doing work out of his freedom and for his freedom in order to make his freedom.
 
-Socialist work is the only real work, and producive work is Socialist work when it is not being exploited by the capitalist who takes off the surplus value and transformed work not into a process of making freedom, but rather transmogrified into an exploitative process which is the producer of alienation and estrangement. This is why they hate the capitalists in the crazy Material Religion of Marxism.
+Socialist work is the only real work, and productive work is Socialist work when it is not being exploited by the capitalist who takes off the surplus value and transformed work not into a process of making freedom, but rather transmogrified into an exploitative process which is the producer of alienation and estrangement. This is why they hate the capitalists in the crazy Material Religion of Marxism.
 
 ## Freire (Politics of Education)
 *James' triggering section - Paragraph describing the difference between work and activity.*

new/Crit_Theorists_FolkNationalism.md

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 the short answer is that as people lose their ability to deal with reality, they fall victim to their innate disposition to simplify it, and in this case it's seeking transcendence (I keep saying that, I know)
 
 Longer answer:
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 It's a Cultural Revolution seeking liberation from the oppression of existence. The way it operates is through every aspect of our society but, for the vast majority, it's not something sought consciously.
 
 For the midwit moms who line up their kids for "transformation", the entrypoint to indoctrination is presented to them through constant invitations to acknowledge its logic by appealing to their emotional needs: inequity and oppression excuse any failure and shortcoming. Social justice makes it a moral good to COMPLAIN (negative leads to positive). The culture grants and compels attention and affirmation of that behaviour.
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 Ultimately, people work because they have a biological system, and this is the ultimate oppression of humanity.
 
-There's also a preceding gnostic/mystical aspect which has much in common also with Hermeticism, though they are still worthy of being thought about as separate domains. This cultish belief system extends from an intuition or recollection of a perfect way of being which we are kept from knowing in this false reality. This leads to a desire for rebirth and to "expand the potentialities". 
+There's also a preceding gnostic/mystical aspect which has much in common also with Hermeticism, though they are still worthy of being thought about as separate domains. This cultish belief system extends from an intuition or recollection of a perfect way of being which we are kept from knowing in this false reality. This leads to a desire for rebirth and to "expand the potentialities".
 
 How? Through negating (again, the negative) the mundane aspects of the false reality to reveal the divine. This touches on Hegel's roots as particular type of Lutheran theologian (Pietism, which derives from Hermeticism). You burn away things, whether by "disrupting/dismantling" cities/statues, or by chopping off your weiner, which has imprisoned you in an expectation of what constraints you have as a being (a cis-man).
 
-The other aspect of this is Folk Nationalism. It's not just ironic that these thoughts extend back to German philosophers who were obsessed with a totalizing system of thought for their "volk". All of these genders/sexualities have their flags and symbols to denote their folk nation association and their allegiance to the supernation and its overarching ideals. 
+The other aspect of this is Folk Nationalism. It's not just ironic that these thoughts extend back to German philosophers who were obsessed with a totalizing system of thought for their "volk". All of these genders/sexualities have their flags and symbols to denote their folk nation association and their allegiance to the supernation and its overarching ideals.
 
 You can see it in the contradiction of how nationalism is decried as evil, while producing all these folk patterns that adhere to a supernation, and the parallels with globalist organizations and their desire to synthesize nations into one global nation.
 

queer/Queer Gnostic Cult.md

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 What we are dealing with, yet again, is Queer alchemy which is Queer Hermeticism, which is the actionable form of Queer Gnosticism, and this is the cult religion of Queer Theory.
 
-"I think it is politically important that sexuality be able to function the way it functions in the saunas. Where, without having to submit to the condition of being imprisoned in one's own identity, in one's own past, in one's own face. One can meet people who are, to you, what one is to them: nothing else but bodies with which combinations, fabrications of pleasure, will be possible. These places afford an exceptional possibility of de-subjectivization, or de-subjection. Perhaps not the most radical but, in any case, sufficiently intense to be worth taking note of. Anonymity iw important because of the intensity of the pleasure that follows from it. It's not the affirmation of identity that is important. It's the affirmation of non-identity. It's an important experience in which one invents, for as long as one wants, pleasure which one fabricated together with others."
+"I think it is politically important that sexuality be able to function the way it functions in the saunas. Where, without having to submit to the condition of being imprisoned in one's own identity, in one's own past, in one's own face. One can meet people who are, to you, what one is to them: nothing else but bodies with which combinations, fabrications of pleasure, will be possible. These places afford an exceptional possibility of de-subjectivization, or de-subjection. Perhaps not the most radical but, in any case, sufficiently intense to be worth taking note of. Anonymity is important because of the intensity of the pleasure that follows from it. It's not the affirmation of identity that is important. It's the affirmation of non-identity. It's an important experience in which one invents, for as long as one wants, pleasure which one fabricated together with others."
 
 And what Halperin says is Foucault's treatment of homosexuality is a strategic position, instead of as a psychological essence, opens up the possibility of a gay science without objects. Of a Queer Studies founded not on the positive fact of homosexuality, and therefore not possessed of conventional claim to legitimate authority grounded in a privileged access to truth, but in an ongoing process of self gay knowing and self formation (self-begetting). Foucault's approach also opens up, correspondingly, the possibility of a Queer politics defined not only bt he struggle to liberate a common, repressed, pre-existing nature, but by an ongoing process of self-constitution and self-transformation. A queer politics anchored in the perilous and shifting sands of non-identity, positionality, discursive reversibility, and collective self-invention."
 
 If asked to explain the anonymity in the saunas where we chase pleasure can be explained like so:
 
-You have to throw off all the layers of Being. It's not who you are, it's what you're doing and how you're being. It's chasing those pleasures that you fabricate together with other people. You're throwing off that which differentiates you from the Other so you can have collective self-invention under the auspices of "Queer'.
+You have to throw off all the layers of Being. It's not who you are, it's what you're doing and how you're being. It's chasing those pleasures that you fabricate together with other people. You're throwing off that which differentiates you from the Other so you can have collective self-invention under the auspices of "Queer'.
+
+Self-invention is queer self-begetting which is the goal of Queer Hermetic Gnosticism. This is a religious cult - Queer Theory is the doctrine of a religious cult.
+
+## Judith Butler
+In Gender Trouble (1990), her most famous book, she lays this connection out. You need to understand that this book is about Drag. The thesis can be summarized in the following sentence:
+"Life is Drag. Drag is Life".
+
+We're always doing drag all the time.
+
+A gnostic social-spiritual belief about gender, including how the social-spiritual realm is inscribed onto the mundane aspects of ourselves (onto our bodies). Gender and Sex are being inscribed onto the body - we're not imprisoned in a body or by a body - the body is being imprisoned by the inscription on it.
+
+This defines a bridge between the spiritual/noumenal world and the physical/phenomenal world.
+
+"If the inner truth of gender is a fabrication, and if a true gender is a fantasy instituted and inscribed on the surface of bodies, then it seems that genders can be neither true nor false, but are only produced as the truth effects of a discourse - of primary and stable identity."
+
+Genders aren't real, and if they're not real, they're the result of that social-spiritual milieu as it gets inscribed onto bodies. This kind of gives birth to something which operates as a Gender Soul, and those souls are trapped not specifically in the bodies that they inhabit, but in the prevailing social-spiritual world, and the social-spiritual prison of the incomplete dialectical world that we inhabit which will stay incomplete until we have complete Queer awakening.
+
+"In mother camp, "Female Impersonators in America", anthropologist Esther Newton suggests that the structure of impersonation reveals one of the key fabricating mechanisms through which the social construction of gender takes place."
+
+We are all impersonating gendered beings (life is drag) and through this mass impersonation/gender performance, a social structure is defined which creates this social-spiritual world which makes gender seem real in the first place.
+
+"I would suggest as well that drag fully subverts the distinction between the inner and outer psychic space and effectively mocks both the expressive model of gender and the notion of a true gender identity."
+
+So, drag is the tool by which you can initiate the process of your queer awakening. She quotes Newton again:
+
+"At its most complex, drag is a double inversion - this has appearances in illusion. Drag says "my outside appearance is feminine, but my essence inside the body is masculine", so I look feminine but I'm a man. But at the same time, it symbolizes the opposite inversion: my appearance outside (my body) is masculine, but my essence (who I feel like I am inside - myself) is feminine." Both claims to truth contradict one another and so displace the entire enactment of gender ignificatnions from the discourse of truth and falsity."
+
+Gender isn't a matter of false or real or fantasy - it's this kind of murky, social-spiritual milieu. You can be Male in true body and portray as Female so the world perceives you as female. But in so doing, what you're actually doing is that you know that you're still male, but you feel female inside. So, female on the deepest inside portrayed through a male body performing as female comes out, and you have a double inversion of gender which reveals that gender has nothing to do with truth and falsity - hermetic wizardry - playing off the principles of gender and correspondence.
+
+The result is the confusion of any distinction about what is male and female or masculine and feminine and what they might mean. The removal of distinction - distinction becomes too confusing to engage. So, rather than occupying a higher position where you understand them both to be a part of the same thing, you're now occupying a position where they're so confused that they're incoherent. This is a negative dialectic instead of a positive dialectic.
+
+Here's where this gets deeper:
+
+"In Foucault's terms, the soul is not imprisoned by or within the body, as some Christian imagery might suggest, but the soul is the prison of the body".
+
+It's not that I have a gender soul trapped in my wrong body. It's the other way around: the Soul is imprisoning the body. The body is imprisoned by the Soul. This is hard to get and until you get this, you don't get Queer Theory.
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+It seems very mysterious and opposite to the construction given earlier, but remember what she said about drag: it's doing both inversions at once and that's what Queering is all about. The soul is imprisoned by the body and the body is imprisoned by the soul.
+
+This is the queer ouroboros - as above (the soul) so below (the body) - and vice versa. There's your hermetic principle of correspondence. What she's saying that Foucault is saying - and she agrees - is that the soul, which is the social spiritual realm Hegel laid out - is what imprisons the body and makes it take on the various forms that it inscribes upon them.
+
+In other words, the Social Constructions are making you become a male or female. The Social Constructions are telling you that you have to make your body come out a certain way. You have to trap your body into male forms or female forms - male modes of dress or female modes of dress - presentation, etc. You have to trap your body because of the social constructions of gender around you.
+
+The soul - the spiritual soul of the whole world about gender and sex and sexuality - is forcing and inscribing upon bodies how they have to be and present themselves. They're forcing them to become male or female - the soul is the plaything of the social-spiritual environment. All of the people's ideas about themselves and each other in a big milieu - the spirit of everything - of all the world together. The soul is the plaything of that. One tiny piece of the world-soul of gender sex and sexuality.
+
+In other words, the social constructions around sex, gender and sexuality are the social spiritual environment and that conditions the sou. The soul, therefore, makes you present the body and do things with your body (don't have carnal relations with that kind of person, etc). Your body gets inscribed upon by the social constructions and expectations of being male or female - or straight or gay - etc. That's what Foucault is saying.
+
+So the soul, as Hegel lays it out, becomes the incarcerating thing which traps the body and the body, then, entraps the soul which might feel otherwise - your double inversion in reverse. Double trapment as opposed to double inversion.
+
+Queer Theory is to resist this by doing the double inversion - by intentionally occupying the evacuating state that does the double inversion and attacking it hermetically from both sides in a single stroke - that's what Queer Theory is actually all about - that's why it's so complicated and ugly and nasty.
+
+This is such an important idea to Butler that she brings it up in her next-most famous book called "Bodies that Matter":
+
+"Considering the science of prison reform, Foucault writes: "The man described for us whom we are invited to free is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than himself. A soul inhabits him and brings him to existence which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy. The soul is the prison of the body."."
+
+And so what he is saying, there, is that the prison conditions - the soul - is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy. The soul is the prison of the body. And this is the key: The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy. This is how they think and this is how it works.
+
+The soul is your view of yourself and others' view of you in that social-spiritual space, as described by Hegel's geist, which is his hermetic formulation of reality. So rather than God and spirits and ghosts and everything as the spiritual realm, it's not that. It's not transcendental. It's cultural and social - that's the social-spiritual space that Hegel lays out. And it creates social constructions that condition man and condition his life - the Inversion of Praxis, for Marx - that condition people and their ideas, for Hegel. Their ideas condition what they actually have and are in the material world.
+
+Your soul is your view of yourself combined with how everybody else views yourself through the social constructions and, for Queer Theory, it's sex, gender and sexuality that are the relevant things. That's the social-spiritual space.
+
+The social constructions of society become the prison of the body - they force you to do things with your body that you might not otherwise do. That, in turns, imprisons the individual soul that inhabits your body. It's a double-imprisonment.
+
+Queer resitance defies this with that raging, gnostic motivation to throw off the prison of being and it uses hermetic, transformational, dialectical, deconstructive methodology. Queer liberation means escaping the realm of the social-spiritual suffering by rendering it nonsensical.
+
+If we were Buddhist we'd say escaping the realm of Samsara by enlightening ourselves to Queer Oppositionality and rendering, therefore, the entire system of suffering non-sensical. Rather than non-attachment to overcome suffering, it's now that suffering is nonsense and therefore there is no suffering. But the suffering is being in a body that has a social construction and assignment of sex laid upon it or inscribed upon it.
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+"It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists as a reality. It is produced in, permanently around, on, within the body, by the functioning of a power that is exercised on those that are punished."
+
+Foucault is saying here that the soul is produced by the demiurgic power of society - whatever the demiurge happens to be. He's literally talking about prisons that are literally carceral, but these constructions of sex, gender, sexuality, etc are also something he has in mind, and through the relentless punishments you experience (microaggressions, discriminations, norms, expectations, being called a power) - being visited upon you - your soul is actually formed. Your soul ends up imprisoning the body and you are imprisoned within that. In this case (the Queer Gnostic case), it's normalcy that has that power - the idea that there are normal things and that people who are outside of that are abnormal or perverted, or whatever.
+
+The people who are normal, and who get to define normal and enforce that and who act as the demiurge - that's who you have to reject and rebel against, because they're punishing everybody who is not within their range of normal, kind of constantly. Judith Butler referred to the result of this situation as a "violence of categorization". Society, with its norms and expectations and social constructions of sex and sexuality categorizes people: they're male, female, straight, bi, gay, feminine, masculine, and so on. And that does a violence to them on the level of their soul because it limits their potentialities of Being. If your'e a girl you have to be girly, a boy has to be boyish, men have to be manly, etc. Butch Feminist Judith Butler didn't like that so much.
+
+When there's a mismatch, that's a violence being done to you, and when there isn't a mismatch, there's also a violence being done to you because it's forcing you to conform so that you don't even know if there's a mismatch.
+
+In the locking of a person into a particular path of becoming (man, woman, straight, gay) they don't have free, liberated potentialities of being. They have to become what they think they are.
+
+Foulcault is saying that that system of punishments is actually what defines their soul. The soul is socially constructed on other people's terms. The gnosis and the gnostic goal is going to be to liberate yourself from the construction - escape the demonic demiurge and understand yourself on your own terms - you're own free, liberated self-knowledge. Your soul should be what you see yourself as - not who you have to see yourself as on normal people's terms, which you might have internalized unjustly through relentless social conditioning, and don't even realize - hence needing a Queer Awakening or Queer Initiation - and it gets defined in terms of how you get punished for failing to conform to normalcy.
+
+Gnosticism as Queer Gnosticism would say: "Knowing all of this offers a glimpse at salvation (through opposition)."
+
+In bodies that matter, Butler expands on this:
+
+"We can understand Foucault's references to the soul as an implicit reworking of the Aristotelian formula. Foucault argues in discipline and punish that the soul becomes a normative and normalizing ideal, according to which the body is trained, shaped, cultivated and invested. It is a historically-specific imaginary ideal under which the body is effectively materialized. Power operates Foucault in the constitution of the very materiality of the subject, in the principle which simultaneously forms and regulates the subject of subjectivation. Foucault refers not only to the materiality of the body of the prisoner, but the materiality of the body of the prison."
+
+See, you are doubly imprisoned. The soul, the social constructions, imprison the body, and the body then imprisons the soul.
+
+"The materiality of the prison, he writes, is established to the extent that it is a vector in instrument of power. Hence, the prison is materialized to the extent it is invested with power."
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+The more powerful norms are, the more powerful the prison is. There is no prison power to its materialization.
+
+"Its materialization is co-extensive with its investiture with power relations, and materiality is the effect and gauge of this investment. The prison comes to be only within the field of power relations but, more specifically, only to the extent that it is invested or saturated with such relations that such a saturation itself is formative of its very being. Here, the body is not an independent materiality - it is invested by power relations external to it, but it is that for which materialization and investiture are co-extensive."
+
+In Gender Trouble she touches on the same thing. She says:
+
+"The figure of the interior soul, understood as "within the body", is signified through its inscription on the body."
+
+It gets its meaning through what's being inscribed on the body. Social constructions are inscribing what it means to be a woman on the body and then your interior soul, the thing hidden within you, gets its meaning through what has been inscripted on you by those social constructions. The inversion of Praxis has defined what you think you are inside.
+
+"Even though its primary motive of signification is through its very absence, its potent invisibility."
+
+In other words, the real mode of signification of who you really are is that nobody knows. It's inside you. You are the only one who knows - you are the expert on you. And this is how Queer Theory defines and connects the soul in the social spiritual realm to the body. How it connects the noetic to the physical. It's inscribed socially on the body and then internalized, and that's where the significance comes in. And what makes it truly spiritual is that it's actually invisible to the body. Who you are isn't actually comprehensible in terms of your body, but it's signified on your body because the social constructions tell you how to present your body and then that signifies it. It's really just the inversion of praxis using two steps.
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+"The effect of a structuring inner space is produced through the signification of a body as a vital and sacred enclosure. The soul is precisely what the body lacks, hence the body presents itself as a signifying lack."
+
+The body is the fallen and mundane non-spiritual aspect of being that craves a divine spiritual element to fill it.
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+"That lack, which is the body, signifies the soul as that which cannot show, and the lack of the soul in the body is what signifies that."
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+The body, in some snse, is preventing your gender soul from being truly and fully understood and expressed, even to yourself.
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+"In this sense, then, the soul is a surface signification that contests and displaces the inner-outer distinction itself. A figure of interior psychic space, inscribed on the body as a social signification that perpetually renounces itself as such."
+
+The soul is social-spiritual and your possibly liberated true soul is not that. That just shows in reflection on a surface signification through the body. BEcause, who you think you are and have to be gets inscribed on you by that social-spiritual environment that you internalize. And then you perform that so that it seems real - it becomes a false reality that you impose on yourself and impose on others by doing it. And that creates the social constructions which imprison other people in their bodies and imprisons everybody's souls in their bodies.
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+"In Foucault's terms, the soul is not imprisoned by or within the body, as some Christian imagery would suggest, but the soul is the prison of the body".
+
+What we are discovering here is that the spirit or noetic realm for queer theorists (and all of post modernists / modern Marxists as well) is that the spiritual realm is socially-constructed power as understood through postmodern theory. The body is not a prison; the body becomes a prison through the materialization or actualization of the social constructions of gender and sex and sexuality around you. The assignment of sex and thus sex and gender roles at birth, for example. Those social constructions materialize on the body and imprison the body into a constraint range of what it's supposed to be. The social constructions become the target and have to be destroyed by queering them.
+
+The soul (The social constructions and what they impress upon the body) imprisons the body. The body, thus, materializes as a prison for the true spiritual being inside (who you really are). The body isn't the thing imprisoning you - the social constructions that are telling the body what it has to be are imprisoning you. Spiritual imprisonment of your spirit using your body as a mediator through inscribing beliefs, images, practices, performances, etc onto it. That's what'sg oing on with Judith Butler interpreting Foucault.
+
+Elaborating on this, the objective isn't the liberation of the spirit from the body; it's the liberation of the body from the spirit or the soul. The socially constructed beliefs about your body in time and space have to be rejected. Biology isn't so much to cnquered as it's to be rendered irrelevant. Biological reality is an illusion of the fallen world. Social reality is the true reality - the imposed reality that we have to live - lived experience. Social reality needs to be defeated so that biological reality can be liberated into the full realm of play and transformation - the extension of imagination into embodied actuality.
+
+In other words, the body is but clay that you can play with and mould and remould at will if we actually had a liberated spirit - no social constructions of sex and gender. You rbody is a mediator, therefore, to gnosis about what it really means to be and to be trapped by social constructions. If you want to be autonomous, it's also the vehicle to knowing that -> gain gnosis.
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+We can understand how we can actualize ourselves through how we can come to see ourselves as though we are seen through the adopted mind of god, by bucking the social constructions which are the actual demiurge. That's what queer theory is about.
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+Gnosis, through the body, not of the body.
+Gnosis through what can be done with the body - the illusions of limits to its transmutability so that the true spirit - gender soul - within can be set free frm the social constructions created by the demiurge of normalcy.
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+Normalcy is the demands placed upon you to script your body into the prison of the fallen, mundane, limited form that we have to have. Trans people are sacred because they are literally somebody who is bucking this idea.
+
+## Performativity
+Judith Butler's Gender Performativity.
+
+It all comes back to Life is Drag, Drag is Life.
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+Everything we do is actually drag, and drag is actually what it means to live.
+
+Everything we do, in some sense, is performance of gender - consciously or unconsciously. It's absurd - drag is itnentionally absurd. When we are unconscious of it, we are not Queer Gnostics, and we are absurdly living out our gender and continuing to contribute to the demiurgic power of social constructions of gender and sexuality that constrain, imprison and do violence to people - especially those who are aware that they're having violence done to them.
+
+If are conscious of the fact that we are all performing drag all the time, then we have queer gnosis. Then can become queer, as Halperin put it, in an oppositional way that ambiguously queers the whole system through these double inversions.
+

queer/double_negation.md

@@ -197,13 +197,19 @@ This is why the words divine or sacred are used so frequent:
 - Trans people are sacred
   - We have seen this uttered several times and it is the most obvious example of the bunch
   - Trans are in perpetual transition and when considering the definition of trans itself, transition to what?
-    - The endpoint is the commitment to higher transcended being
-    - one must never cease transcending
+  - The endpoint is the commitment to a transcended aka higher transcendent being
+  - one must never cease transcending
+    - This liberates the world and those who are limited by what the world normally ascribes to them
+    - Capitalism demands productive human labour
+      - Heterosexual, expanding consumer base
+      - Productive for consumer needs, over-sized house, multiple cars
+      - Trans intentionally asserts itself to overcome the oppression of capitalism
+      - Trans still consume: for protest, and to subvert
 
 ## On Being Sacred
 *The sacred who also believe that nothing is sacred except obedience to the collective mind.*
 
-They demand that every human must take their assigned place and role, because everything is arbitrarily (or maliciously) assigned as it is, thus the application of theory to your assignment is the first step to achieving a clean baseline. Put another way, we cannot overcome our cursed limitations unless everyone is integrated through theory. Even if it hasn't produced the ideal result thus far, what it really proves is that the challenges of those who suffer for all that isn't right in the world are even greater than anyone realized, and their consequent wisdom even more profound.
+They demand that every human must take their assigned place and role because everything is arbitrarily (or maliciously) assigned as it is, thus the application of theory to your assignment is the first step to achieving a clean baseline. Put another way, we cannot overcome our cursed limitations unless everyone is integrated through theory. Even if it hasn't produced the ideal result thus far, what it really proves is that the challenges of those who suffer for all that isn't right in the world are even greater than anyone realized, and their consequent wisdom even more profound.
 
 Give into the fear and moral criticism and try to exist in the more proper way through the theory which promises there is a way forward, rather than you dangerously flailing in the wind. What do you think would happen otherwise? Clearly, you have not suffered so greatly as I have and thus you are still sheltered and naive in refusing to see the light so you can chase a childish dream. The dream is two fold - you believe the excuse of ideology (capitalist, white, Christian) gives you the excuse to live and irresponsible life because you will be healed and forgiven. The capitalistic ideology causes you to believe that you can be  brute who deserves no one or anything save your own ego.
 
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 ## Co-Continuous
 *One might also say that it is when one becomes co-continuous with society*
 ### Why
-Becoming co-continuous with society means that the social bonds between members of the society are fully expressed and uniform, and that there are no conflicts to be worked out in what is simply implicit open transaction where the sender and recipient are not exchanging something profoundly or technically differentiated.
+To man and society to have become co-continuous means that all conflict has been fully expressed and that history has moved past the point of being driven by that conflict. There are no more conflicts or contradictions to be worked out and the state of relations between each pair is indistinguishable and impossible to be differentiated from the other.
 
-If all action is perfect as a representation of theory, or all action is the creation and definition of theory, then one can say that we are referring to the actions and theory of perfect, divine expression of being. One could posit this as God or a God.
+That is to say, the relations between entities in such a system do not express a dimension of conflict in terms of oppression and domination. The transactions are of pure mutual benefit and they also bear no effect on the relations of any other entities. It bears repeating that the only, in a sense (when this is taken to any sort of real conclusion), the only manner in which such perfectly uniform and perfectly unobtrusive relations could come to be formed or maintained would be if these entities were, in fact, not distinct entities but the detailed implements of one central entity.
 
-There is nothing of the action that can ever be judged. The actions themselves serve as the judgment of the world by being the lens through which to judge it. This is a theory of actualization and, if it has become co-continous, then it implies the judgment of a perfect result.
+Again, this is the condition of having become co-continuous with society and thus the assumption is that this state of co-continuity itself will continue, and this can only be because whatever development or array of changes or potential for change will have been fully sought, expounded. All disputes disputed and all conflicts resolved, leaving no conflicts to be worked out in what is simply implicit open transaction where the sender and recipient are not exchanging something profoundly or technically differentiated. The idea is that they would be transacting that which allows each of them to maintain pure, perfect, arbitrary freedom and that, simultaneously, no activity performed by an entity could disturb, disrupt or perturb any other, and that the result of any series of actions could not be one wherein any one entity has a greater ability to perform an action, locate, identify and consume a resource, and so on.
+
+If all action is perfect as a representation of theory, or all action is the creation and definition of theory, then one can say that we are referring to the actions and theory of perfect expression of being, and it becomes difficult to not understand that this is also a definition for the divine. If one likes, they could say that there's not even a reason to consider the concept of God or Divinity because whatever is to be possible, realized, observed, or created is proven through the hand of man, which is made equivalent to what would have otherwise been called God.
+
+When the actions are done in accord with theory, and when they are actions done in the name of bringing about the future described as desirable according to the theory, then there is nothing of the action that can ever be judged. The actions themselves serve as the judgment of the world by being the lens through which to judge it. The actions which denounce or negate something of the world are the only means of providing anyone with the capacity to envision something better. That is, whatever content of the world which isn't part of the "final solution" is also a distinction which prevents or may prevent something better from being conceived, understood or realized. This is a theory of actualization and, if it has become co-continuous, then it implies the judgment of a perfect result.
 
 The final and complete man, if theoretically complete, should be perfect. And if it is theoretically complete, that's because it is practically complete and indistinguishable from theory. This is the endpoint of praxis.
 
 ## Conceptually Jealous
-I must admit, I have recently made the realization, seemingly in tandem with James claiming to be stressed from coming to terms with his need to re-contextualize his message through the lense of gnosticism, that though I have long been fixated on understanding religious behaviour and faith among the supposed atheists and highly educated self-proclaimed progressives, I have failed to frame the observations in succinct a way as I believe he has come upon through explaining what could be described as a gnostic mindset. That is, the belief of one's special knowledge which gives one awareness of a false reality with which we participate which must be overcome.
+I must admit, I have recently made the realization, seemingly in tandem with James claiming to be stressed from coming to terms with his need to re-contextualize his message through the lense of gnosticism, that though I have long been fixated on understanding religious behaviour and faith among the supposed atheists and highly educated self-proclaimed progressives, I have failed to frame the observations in as succinct a way as I believe he has come upon through explaining what could be described as a gnostic mindset. That is, the belief of one's special knowledge which gives one awareness of a false reality with which we participate which must be overcome.
+
+The elegance of the this abstraction of gnosticism is as an evaluative format explaining seemingly or perceived irrational modes of conception and how they become represented as the only fully rational world view. // TODO:
+
+One might argue that this idea first came from Eric Voegelin, but of course James does give Voegelin credit for this, as can be heard at least in a well-known, 3.5 hour podcast of his entitled "The Theology of Marxism".
+
+It is worth trying to appreciate, however, the contributing James puts towards this theory but before we can do that we must first review Voegelin.
+
+
+### Voegelin
+Voegelin is particularly pertinent here because of his description of "the nature of the gnostic attitude".
+
+"1) It must first be pointed out that the gnostic is dissatisfied with his situation. This, in itself, is not especially surprising. We all have cause to be not completely satisfied with one aspect or another of the situation in which we find ourselves.
 
-Wrapped in an easily represented format which explains how irrational modes of conception could have become represented as the only fully rational world view.
+2) Not quite so understandable is the second aspect of the gnostic attitude: the belief that the drawbacks of the situation can be attributed to the fact that the world is intrinsically poorly organized. For it is likewise possible to assume that the order of being as it is given to us men (wherever its origin is to be sought) is good and that it is we human beings who are inadequate. But gnostics are not inclined to discover that human beings in general and they themselves in particular are inadequate. If in a given situation something is not as it should be, then the fault is to be found in the wickedness of the world.
 
+3) The third characteristic is the belief that salvation from the evil of the world is possible.
+
+4) From this follows the belief that the order of being will have to be changed in an historical process. From a wretched world a good one must evolve historically. This assumption is not altogether self-evident, because the Christian solution might also be considered—namely, that the world throughout history will remain as it is and that man’s salvational fulfillment is brought about through grace in death.
+
+5) With this fifth point we come to the gnostic trait in the narrower sense—the belief that a change in the order of being lies in the realm of human action, that this salvational act is possible through man’s own effort.
+
+6) If it is possible, however, so to work a structural change in the given order of being that we can be satisfied with it as a perfect one, then it becomes the task of the gnostic to seek out the prescription for such a change. Knowledge—gnosis—of the method of altering being is the central concern of the gnostic. As the sixth feature of the gnostic attitude, therefore, we recognize the construction of a formula for self and world salvation, as well as the gnostic’s readiness to come forward as a prophet who will proclaim his knowledge about the salvation of mankind.
+".
+
+Allow me to offer this greatly shortened summary which can't capture the depth of his description, but which might help one remember his description a bit better:
+
+1. Man is dissatisfied.
+2. We simply need to reorganize the world.
+3. Salvation from evil is possible.
+4. Change is a historical process.
+5. Human action changes Being.
+6. The purpose if Man is to perfect Being and bring about the salvation of mankind.
+
+He has been criticized for using this term to describe what he believes to be a fitting abstraction which has prevailed until the present time. This is because those who don't want to be described in this way will suggest that it can only refer to a Heretical Christian religion from the 2nd century AD, and those who do wish to comment on rampant 20th/21st century collectivist philosophies don't want to use a descriptor that can be so easily dismissed out of hand.
+
+But the general premise of the abstraction holds quite well, actually. If we think about those being referred to with this term, they clearly demonstrate a complete refusal of the terms at present. That is, the means of having dialogue and discussion about the state of the world - there is no dialogue for them, because they don't believe it's possible for anyone who disagrees with their view of being capable of making reasonable observations about the world or reality. That is, what they believe as an understanding of the world is so powerful that the only logical position one can take after is to agree that the order of being must be undone, and such self-descriptions are not only deprecating and self-defeating, but they // TODO: here
 
 ### Motivation
 The gnostic mindset might be described as the ***motivation***, whereas there process by which the gnostic corrects the world is hermetic.
@@ -298,11 +341,17 @@ This isn't the first time that we come upon the discussion of whether it is cons
 
 The other manner of dismissing questions of an Infinite Regress is to say that choosing how to spend our time means choosing amongst activities which lead to progress in our particular set of matters, or that those activities are best judged along the dimension of progress in relation to those affairs and that our knowledge base is such that we can, with high certainty, choose to implement changes or to completely avoid concerns that we might otherwise have, if considering a historical or evolutionary mode of conception.
 
-It's impossible to get around the historical fact of biological exposure, at all the worst times, and it having occurred in a manner which informs our biological structure and our ecological situation. We can claim that these things are only worth studying in a narrower frame, but that isn't immediately obvious, and is disposed to hubris and blindedness. It becomes far too easy to claim that something new is the primary aspect of consideration, because you can now no longer regard any historical or evolutionary facts as being relevant. You can avoid massive parts of the discussion about human nature by eliminating anything beyond immediate superficial analysis.
+## Novel Facts
+It's impossible to get around the historical fact of biological exposure, at all the worst times, and it having occurred in a manner which informs our biological structure and our ecological situation. We can claim that these things are only worth studying in a narrower frame, but that isn't immediately obvious, and is disposed to hubris and blindness.
+
+It becomes far too easy to claim that something new has become the primary aspect of consideration so long as it is remarkable enough to gain any attention at all. Its novelty and new model of data cut a new path all on their own, without having had to stand the test of time, just so long as it relates to one's structure of consciousness well enough to afford them a moment of visualization. Whatever it lacks in the type of refinement which comes from revising and re-examining is offset by the sheer freshness of its new placement, and every moment that it enjoys attention may possibly permit it to generate an environment of discourse where it can be suggested to no longer regard any historical or evolutionary facts as being relevant.
 
-There's also the related factor of biological feasibility - meaning that the organism achieved and maintained biological feasibility not simply in spite of the conditions it encountered, but through having been moulded by those conditions.
+You can reason to avoid massive parts of the discussion, such as about human nature, by eliminating anything beyond immediate, even superficial, analysis.
 
-We also needn't note or understand whether there are lasting features or characteristics in humanity that aren't just an arbitrary feature of human embodied experience. Do we no longer need to understand our histories? Could the kstudy of human knowledge have been averted.
+## But What Evolves
+The blatant thorn to such mystifying proposals is that we all seem to agree in the concept and scientific evidence for evolution. In this case, that is the factor of biological feasibility; the organism achieved and maintained biological feasibility not simply in spite of the conditions it encountered, but through having been moulded by them.
+
+We also needn't note or understand whether there are lasting features or characteristics in humanity that aren't just an arbitrary feature of human embodied experience. Do we no longer need to understand our histories? Could the study of human knowledge have been averted.
 
 ### Bio-Gnosis
 - Aware of the dangers of biology
@@ -314,7 +363,7 @@ All biological interactions presuppose that there is a viable nature that can yi
 Exposure to even more harm beyond the difficulty of life is akin to evil treachery which only serves capitalist and white heteronormative interests.
 
 #### Initial States
-As the narrative of COVID was normalized, many completely abandonned the idea that we could have a healthy adaptive response to any pathogen. That is that there is a finite capacity for adapting to anything, especially a pathogen, and that the adaptation itself is also deleterious to one's health in any theoretical absolute or narrowly scoped evaluation, and that as such we should consider our capacity to evolve with technology to support an ethical argument that we should avoid immunological adaptation in all situations except those expressly sought for specific and deliberate adaptation.
+As the narrative of COVID was normalized, many completely abandoned the idea that we could have a healthy adaptive response to any pathogen. That is that there is a finite capacity for adapting to anything, especially a pathogen, and that the adaptation itself is also deleterious to one's health in any theoretical absolute or narrowly scoped evaluation, and that as such we should consider our capacity to evolve with technology to support an ethical argument that we should avoid immunological adaptation in all situations except those expressly sought for specific and deliberate adaptation.
 
 The idea here is that we can choose what particular antigen to adapt to, the manner in which we deliver it to the body, the time of administration, the target recipients, and so forth. With medical research and observational study of use, we can ensure that we have the most comprehensive understanding of these adaptations that is possible, and that this always is a more complete view than when contrasted when whatever adaptations are manifesting under the circumstance of raw living itself, which is brutal, unrelenting and a chaotic and perilous soup of entropic violence.
 
@@ -1133,4 +1182,122 @@ Sensemaking itself should always be the goal, not just because the unknown can l
 
 All discourse and communicative exchange should ideally be a form of sensemaking, for this is, without a doubt, the best strategy for maximum, universal, long-term prosperity and progress.
 
-One might declare that a structure fo society can, through force, affect chage more significantly and that this is clearly demonstrable in the sense that it can instantiate any desired activity at any moment it chooses, regardless of opinions and sentiments. But force can condition hubris, defiance and complacency and all of these can impact how and what information is shared - even whether information is confronted or consolidated at all.
+One might declare that a structure fo society can, through force, affect chage more significantly and that this is clearly demonstrable in the sense that it can instantiate any desired activity at any moment it chooses, regardless of opinions and sentiments. But force can condition hubris, defiance and complacency and all of these can impact how and what information is shared - even whether information is confronted or consolidated at all.
+
+# Escaping One's Mind
+October 10, 2023
+
+The collectivist theology provides the promise of escaping one's mind (the noise, grotesque dissonance and futility), not necessarily as an immediate relief, nor even the reaching of a future endpoint where such a relief can become possible, though the conceiving of a future that is liberated, or improved in any capacity, does provide relief, but through allowing one the excused ignore the contradictions of their (or the state's) poor reasoning and instead have them see themselves as the evidence of a great injustice currently afoot.
+
+Those seeking the collectivist mind needn't resolve anything for themselves for they have faith that the lack of resolution is both evidence of a demiurgic aspect to reality, and that the unresolved state is synonymous with one's identification as the oppressed. As a child who sulkingly makes matters worse for themselves and perceives a worsening standpoint appear to themselves as both a wound and an indication of progress.
+
+Once you abandon the faith that truth rests in the here and now, and that you can align your pursuit of it with your interlocutor, you must still have faith that there can be change which advances in some way which isn't futile for, if not, the only alternative is complete despair or malevolence, with no true present or future. There is nothing but pain and resentment, and that which breeds from them.
+
+## Hating Faith and Values
+The advancement, then, must be one towards a truth or the environment wherein one's conceptions are true and actual, and it must be of a nature where communication and understanding need not be occurring in the meantime. That is, the potential for shared perspective dwindles if the issue if not engaged with directly, as though an act of faith.
+
+But what of those who mistake faith itself as a lack of values? Or the very idea that believing one has values as being synonymous with absconding from any necessity of having to be aware of one's conduct with respect to those values?
+
+To declare "Those who disagree with me are pure evil and I can do no wrong":
+
+  Why even choose to believe that the other is so different from yourself and that any claim of value is in fact a spell through which one can cause infinite harm to the world and all others in it without ever having an inclination to be true? True to word and true to the desire for universal justice and flourishing.
+
+  One would have to occupy a mind whereby one doesn't have confidence that anything one does hasn't been, not simply out of self-interest, but in such a way that one's pursuit of appeasement to self is so fragile so as to become superficial and without depth, any degree of detriment to any other.
+
+# Democracy
+
+Theirs is a democracy which they only extend to those who prove their conformity within a sanitized space.
+
+They have nothing but disgust and hate for the raw, chaotic entropy which accompanies free flow of information and ideas.
+
+For them, the only workers are those who do their bidding or whose identity can be harnessed, appropriated, corrupted an exploited as part of an effort to empower a bloated, opaque system into which all faith has been placed.
+
+The freedom advocating trucker and their accompanying supporters were the most authentic and legitimately grassroots movement Canada has ever seen, and it frightens those who are most privileged by the central structure of society so much that they are ardently doing everything they can to advocate totalitarianism and ridicule any who might believe in universal values of liberalism or, as they sometimes put it, liberal humanism.
+
+They are the anti-liberal aristocrats who see the state as a divine entity that will fulfill their desires so long as it continues to grow in conjunction with a culture of conformity.
+
+They are the authoritarian wordsmiths whose every expression relies on synthetic definitions made to manipulate and deceive through preying on the best and most humanistic attributes of people. Synthetic and dishonest definitions of terms that can be equivocated towrads cultivation of power to oppress and dominate any who do not express their allegiance to the aristocrats and tehir icons of fraudulent virtue.
+
+They immerse themselves in bitterness and cognitive dissonance under an expectation that all will be made whole once every contradictory element has been silenced, hidden or destroyed.
+
+They are totalitarian activists who have sold their souls for nothing of substantive value and their suspicion thise feeds their rage and mendacity.
+
+## Guiding Freedom to Hell
+October 18, 2023
+
+They came in droves - an endless sea of jolly rebels wishing that, finally, their voices could be heard. With no one having listened to them for years, or at least a year and some months, and their lives falling apart around tehm, they had believed that, at the very least, were they to put their lives on hold and come to the capital, that maybe our leaders would listen to them and at least have a dialogue, if only to refuse their ideas and proposals.
+
+Instead, the leaders took it upon themselves to frame and present these citizens in the most believably awful light possible (though they failed at this, as they crossed too deep into the ridiculous and absurd). They refused to even come see them one single time. And even before the formal invitations began to flow, they had already orchestrated the environment so as to compel the locals (at least those among them who were not already interested in th same principles championed by the truckers) to loathe and despise them.
+
+# Theory of Erasure: A Practical Guide
+October 22, 2023
+
+## Critical Praxis Assumes:
+- Targeted Action
+- Theory and Practice must move towards one another
+- Theory of Knowledge
+
+Praxis assumes theory is correct but also that it is in a perpetual state of change. Practice must be sought in order to complete the theory.
+
+Praxis also assumes that what can currently be expressed and known will not be tantamount to justice and truth. It furthermore assumes that any disparity or oppression coincides with any contradictions in ideas, thoughts, positions and statements/expressions. This is akin to the description given by Marx and Feuerbach that the oppressive material conditions lead to there being contradictions in the minds of the labourer.
+
+Praxis demands uniformity of expression and thought until the refining process of advancement completes, as this all equates with the work of liberation and justice.
+
+Praxis assumes a process of refinement to be sought in pursuit of attaining correct consciousness. Any attainment of correct consciousness will be in line with theory or it is incorrect.
+
+Praxis assumes the correct conscious state will be uniform amongst a group and that each group will have a distinct conscious state until such time that the group is no longer disparately identifiable.
+- Alternatively, each group must reach its own requisite state prior to being able to reach a universal one
+- But, can there be groups which each have a class consciousness even if there is no oppression?
+  - If all disparity is eliminated, then we would not speak of groups or solidarity
+
+But the faith is in Praxis, not in an outcome. How could we ever consider a mind to be materially relevant unless it agrees? Only if the question of agreement ceases to be a question? Impossible, as then there would be no question and there would, in turn, be no praxis.
+
+This all presupposes that we have never reasoned accurately:
+
+## But You Can Have Both
+
+No, that is not the case, as one posits itself as the means to the other while that other itself sees itself as distinct and a theory of neutrality. That is, it is both assumed to be a superior tool of sensemaking while also being understood as a tool which can only function correctly through neutral application.
+
+Critical Praxis needn't utilize explicit critical thinking, though if it does it necessarily makes itself the operator deciding precisely what critical thinking is to be applied and why.
+
+Critical Thinking requires Faith that we have the potential of understanding one another while critical theory is faith that praxis and liberation are the means to transforming the world into one where, finally, we can be understod.
+
+Practice which evolves the theory of liberating or destroying.
+Practice which is Critical => marks things as being in need of destruction, not by reminding of what still needs to be destroyed, but by assigning the mark of destruction, not by reminding of what still needs to be destroyed, but by assigning the mark of destruction to something new.
+
+Applying a label of death so that, if taken at face value, the thing marked is now to be seen as that which is surely worthy of nothing short of complete destruction (possible replacement).
+
+Praxis is never complete until it can no longer be thought of as something to do. When there is no longer the possibility of the idea to desire social change, praxis will have ceased to exist and the terms of justice will finally be upon us.
+
+The very fact of social disagreement becomes also the need to struggle towards better understanding; we come to clarity about what we already knew to be true. The difference here, however, is that teh theory has a rationale for the reality of the conflict, and the rationale's basis can be found in the identity of hose being examined. In fact, we needn't even examine the event of growth or conflict in order to understsand the critically evaluated explanation; we need only to examine the identities and determine whether they are being represented authentically.
+
+# Finding Solutions
+
+We always look for solutions which assume the discordant can find improvement and that seemingly irreconcilable differences must be due to differences in definitions, but there are limits as to how one can proceed about this. One cannot commit their very being to the partaking in the whole superficial, except when approaching full confrontation. This is especially true if the only peaceful mode involves endless encroachment and destruction of one's favourite ideas, like universality, or things which presuppose a capacity for understanding among all people -> that isn't to say agreeing to cnduct or willingness to provide space fr one to air their grievances, but much more explicitly a belief that we could seem to be maximally disparate in our views, associations, or interests, but that, ultimately, there is always a path to understanding. Witout faith in such, we may very well have to drift between utter nihilistic despair and puritanical conversion of your known world/entities in it/expressions made in your environment. Because, either there is no hope for truth before your death (and nothing transcendental outside this material realm), or there is truth but not based upon any inquiry which has taken place thus far, in which case the fact of one's retaining of the belief in truth in spite of those things means at least that:
+- one is able to see/learn truth or that which is expressed to mkae truth inferrable, and;
+- to the extent one can see advantage of truth, the fact of one still existing means that the potential for truth remains
+
+# Totalitarianwhatism
+October 31, 2023
+
+Many are thankfully waking from their own brushes with Totalitarianism, but we first need to grapple with the mental model of Totalitarianism before we can understand where came from, where they're heading to, and before we can understand whether their trajectory might lead them back into it.
+
+## Arendt/Desmet
+- Mass formation model
+  - inflection point: lonely disconnection and confusion
+  - state leader with charisma
+  - narrative solution produces object of antagonism
+    - destination for negative energy
+    - solidarity / connection as commonality as victims
+    - sacred work for collective
+  - must lie to uphold narrative / to not become target
+
+## Voegelin
+- Resentful soul
+  - Inhabiting a false reality
+  - fundamentally composd or aesthetically denoted through the forbidding of philosophical questioning
+    - refusal to allow or entertain
+  - Promise of a structure which supplants current one and claims to lead to a newer or truer nature
+    - Accepting anything in place of its removal and replacement
+  - Something abou tthe current mode of being is imprisonment
+