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Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop
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    1. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

      The state is a symbiote that lives off of the body of the people. No people, no state. Period. There are peoples with no states. There are no states without peoples.

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    2. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

      The state is an egregore that emerges from the collective mentations of the people. The state is coagulated culture, bound by archonic chains called "laws" and "traditions".

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    3. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

      The state functions as a mutualist when it serves to enrich, enlighten, heal, and secure its people.

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    4. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

      The state is a parasite when it serves to impoverish, delude, sicken, and endanger its people.

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    5. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

      No state is purely a mutualist or purely a parasite. Both modalities are operating at all times, but not always in balance. States can be relatively more mutualist or relatively more parasitic, and which side of the balance you're on often depends on your societal status.

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    6. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

      Politics is the discipline that seeks to shift the modality of the state, and shift for whom the state is a mutualist and for whom it is parasite, in which proportions, and under which circumstances.

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    7. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

      Politics is NOT healing an injured state or repairing a damaged state. Politics is gaslighting an egregore to behave more closely aligned to your factional interests.

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    8. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

      Politics is NOT fighting a psychic war for control of the state egregore. As tempting as this analysis may seem in 2018 its just wrong on a fundamental level. Politics isn't psychic war, and if you treat it as such (most Americans do this year) you become deranged.

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    9. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

      Politics is mass scale shadow work. Politics is working your way through an endless bad trip. Politics is learning how to paint. Politics is getting the fingering wrong on your saxophone valves. Politics is trying to figure out who is worth talking to at the party.

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    10. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

      When we do our shadow work the right way, we learn what is dark and wicked within us, and how to integrate the darkness and use it for good. This is politics when it works. Mutualist states are purifying their own bodies.

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      Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

      When we do it the wrong way we succumb to base instincts and act out our predatory urges. This is politics when it doesn't work. Parasitic states are preying upon their own bodies.

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        2. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

          America in 2018 has a near fatal parasite load. We're really close to collapse here.pic.twitter.com/Wgl70hX2bm

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        3. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 30

          We may be able to recover but NOT if our metaphors are wrong. The "Ship of State" metaphor is delusive. Our entire culture is captivated by this broken metaphor which leads to the dichotomy of "repair the broken ship" vs. "win the battle against the mutineers".

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