1/ If we're entering a world where hierarchical power is increasingly displaced or subverted by acephalic horizontal networks...
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3/2 Does an ephemeral 'tendency' have the power to motivate many people to work as one to get people threatened, harassed by police, fired?
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4/2 A enormous amount of 'state' censorship in the US was directly or indirectly enabled by the personal campaigning of Anthony Comstock.
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5/2 Likewise, our modern drug wars can be attributed to the personal initiative of Harry Anslinger. Comstock and Anslinger *used* the state.
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6/2 There are plenty of moral entrepreneurs out there with their own crusades and nonprofits, all looking to become lawmakers.
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7/2 The State doesn't initiate most of this stuff; the State is a retarded giant who believes all kinds of idiotic shit bad people tell it.
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8/2 But the State isn't the only route. In the digital age, you get Anonymous, you get al-Qaeda, you get ISIS. Networks recreate tyrannies.
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@St_Rev WildAssGuess:a dynamic equation defines the oscillation btwn, including ease of decentralization, easy of abuse, cult of personality -
@St_Rev ex: really easy to go horizontal and still have power today. 70 years ago? not so much. 70 years from now? who the hell knows.
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@BrowningMachine@St_Rev I see that quote in a lot of OOP books. I finally read the passage. That is so exhausting to read. I must have more
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