From d56829d764a0d458178249642e1d42cbf529f336 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: eyeHORUSdotETH <20019464+eyeHORUSdotETH@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 12:22:26 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Update philosophy.md - fixes typos - fixes misspellings - removes some commas - adds some oxford commas --- doc/src/philosophy/philosophy.md | 84 ++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/philosophy/philosophy.md b/doc/src/philosophy/philosophy.md index 4dec4e6223f4..013dc2461d94 100644 --- a/doc/src/philosophy/philosophy.md +++ b/doc/src/philosophy/philosophy.md @@ -17,18 +17,18 @@ Wikipedia defines civilization: > including over other human beings. However this destiny of civilization was not inherent as history teaches us. -This definition is one particular mode of civilization that become prevalent. -During human history there has been plethora forms of civilizations. Our role as +This definition is one particular mode of civilization that became prevalent. +During human history there has been a plethora of forms of civilizations. Our role as revolutionaries is to reconstruct the civilizational paradigm. The **democratic nation** is synonymous with society, and produces all value -include that which the state extracts. Creative enterprise and wealth production +including that which the state extracts. Creative enterprise and wealth production originates in society from small scale business, artisans and inventors, and anybody driven by intent or ambition to create works. Within society, there are multiple coexisting nations which are communities of people sharing language, history, ethnicity or culture. For example there could -be a nation based on spiritual belief, the nation of women, or a distinct +be a nation based on spiritual belief, a nation of women, or a distinct cultural nation. The **nation state** is an extreme variant of the state civilization tendency. @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ the rise of militarism, Ocalan says: The state is defined as: -1. Ideological hegemony represented by the system of priests and shamans in +1. Ideological hegemony represented by a system of priests and shamans in pre-state formations. Today this is the media industry, schools, and big tech (for example "fake news" and surveillance systems). 2. Monopolization on the use of violence through military and police. @@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ The state is defined as: barbarian tribes. This enabled state to expand agricultural output which they seized through taxation. 3. State bureaucracy and administration represented in tribal societies and - proto-states through the council of elders. This arm of the state also + proto-states through a council of elders. This arm of the state also includes scientific research institutes, state psychology groups and various forms of manipulation including modern AI and data harvesting. - This tendency is a misappropriation of scientific methods to serve power - thus retarding scientific and technological development, and impoverishing + This tendency is a misappropriation of scientific methods to serve power, + thus retarding scientific and technological development and impoverishing society by depriving it of its great benefits. The state is a parasite on society, extracting value created. There are many @@ -86,10 +86,10 @@ historical stateless societies such as the Medean Confederation, the Iroquiois Confederation, the ninja republics of Iga and Kōga, the Swiss pre-Sonderbund Confederation Helvetica, and Cossack society. -Government is the system or people administrating a society. Although most -governments are nation-state ones, we can create stateless societies with -autonomous governments. Within free society, government is local, broadly -democratic and autonomous. Society is widely engaged at every level in +Government is a system or people administrating a society. Although most +governments are nation-states, we can create stateless societies with +autonomous governments. Within a free society government is local, broadly +democratic, and autonomous. Society is widely engaged at every level in decision making through local people's councils, as well as possessing the use of violence through a system of gun ownership and local militias. Government also answers to a network of various interest groups from various @@ -99,20 +99,20 @@ nations such as women or youth. **Modernity** was born in the "age of reason" and represents the overturning of prevailing religious ideas and rejection of tradition in favour of secularization. -Modernity has a mixed legacy which includes alienation, commodity festishism, -scientific positivism and rationalism. +Modernity has a mixed legacy which includes alienation, commodity fetishism, +scientific positivism, and rationalism. -During this period of modernity, 4 major ideologies developed, each with their +During this period of modernity 4 major ideologies developed, each with their own specific subject as its focus. * Liberalism and its subject of the individual. Individuals are atomic units existing under the state system which guarantees them certain bargains in the form of laws and rights. -* Communism which focused on the concept of class warfare, and economic justice +* Communism which focused on the concept of class warfare and economic justice through state power. * Fascism which put the volk or state at the center of society, whereby all resources would be mobilized to serve the state. -* Anarchism with its critiques of power, and favouring social freedom. +* Anarchism with its critiques of power and favouring social freedom. The particular form of modernity that is predominant can be characterized as **capitalist modernity**. Capitalism, otherwise referred to by others as @@ -123,36 +123,36 @@ In some ways, it is a parasite on the state. **Agorist free markets** is the democratic tendency of economy. The word 'economy' derives from the Ancient Greek 'oikonomos' which means household -management. Economy was during ancient periods connected with nature, the -role of motherhood, life and freedom. It was believed that wealth derived -from the quality of our lived our environments. The Kurds use the feminine +management. Economy was, during ancient periods, connected with nature, the +role of motherhood, life, and freedom. It was believed that wealth was derived +from the quality of our lived environments. The Kurds use the feminine word 'mal' to refer to the house, while the masculine variant refers to actual property. Later during the Roman period, economy came to be understood as the accumulation of property in the form of number of slaves -owned, amount of land seized or the quantity of money. +owned, amount of land seized, or the quantity of money. The subject of our ideology is the moral and political society. Society exists -within a morality and a politics. Here we use politics to refer not to +within a framework of morality and politics. Here we use politics to refer not to red team vs blue team, but instead all social activity concerned with -our security, necessity and life. A society can only be free when it has +our security, necessity, and life. A society can only be free when it has its own morality and politics. The state seeks to keep society weak by depriving it of morality and replacing society's politics with statecraft. ## The Extinction of Humanity -During the 20th century, liberals, communists and fascists vyed for state power +During the 20th century, liberals, communists, and fascists vyed for state power each promising a new form of society. State power existed with these external ideological justifications. -With the end of the soviet union, and the end of history (according to liberalism), -state power morphed into pure domination and profit. The system simply become +With the end of the Soviet Union, and the end of history (according to liberalism), +state power morphed into pure domination and profit. The system simply became a managerial form of raw power over society without purpose or aim. -Wars such as Iraq were invented by neoliberals to breathe a new purpose into society. -Indeed there is no more effective means to support despotism than war. +Wars such as the Iraq War were invented by neoliberals to breathe a new purpose into society. +Indeed, there is no more effective means to support despotism than war. Today the military industrial complex has grown into a gigantic leviathan that threatens the world driving economies into an ever greater spiral of desperation. -The push the development of automated weapons, aerial drones and +The push for the development of automated weapons, aerial drones, and [ninja missiles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire#AGM-114R9X) that eliminate all space for human resistance against tyranny. @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ the state from society, centralizing economic power within an already deeply corrupt elite class. Liberal ideologies have made people indifferent to their own situation, turning -society inwards focused on social media, unable to organize together to +society inward and focused on social media, unable to organize together to oppose rising authoritarianism. Liberalism is essentially a tendency towards extinction or death. @@ -173,20 +173,20 @@ extinction or death. **Nature** is the center of spiritual belief. Humanity is an aspect of nature. Nature is more than the number of trees. It is the going up, the ascending of life. Through struggle, we overcome obstacles, becoming harder and stronger along the way. -This growth makes us more human, and closer with nature. +This growth makes us more human and closer with nature. -People naturally feel an empathy with nature such as when an animal is injured, or +People naturally feel an empathy with nature such as when an animal is injured or generous feelings towards the young of any species. This feeling was put in us by -evolution. We feel an attachment and empathy towards our lived environment, and +evolution. We feel an attachment and empathy towards our lived environment and want to see it improve. This feeling is mother nature speaking through us. The more in touch we are with this deeper feeling, the more free we are since we are able to develop as higher human beings. Freedom does not mean the ability to be without constraint or enact any wild fantasy -at a moment's notice. Freedom means direct conscious action with power that makes -us ascend upwards. Nature is full of interwoven threads of organisms vying for influence +at a moment's notice. Freedom means direct conscious action with power that drives +us to ascend. Nature is full of interwoven threads of organisms vying for influence or power, with time doing an ordered dance punctuated by inflection points of change. -It is during those moments that our ability of foresight and prescience allow us +It is during these moments that our ability of foresight and prescience allows us to deeply affect events along alternative trajectories. ## Re-Evaluating Anarchism @@ -198,22 +198,22 @@ to enact their vision and put their ideas into practice. * They fell victim to the same positivist forces that they claimed to be fighting against. -* They lacked a coherent vision, and had little strategy or roadmap for how +* They lacked a coherent vision and had little strategy or roadmap for how the revolution would happen. * Their utopian demand that the state must be eliminated immediately and at all costs meant they were not able to plan how that would happen. -* Their opposition to all forms of authority, even legitimate leadership meant +* Their opposition to all forms of authority, even legitimate leadership, meant they were ineffective at organizing revolutionary forces. ## Revolutionary Objectives -* Our movement is primarily a spiritual one. One cannot understand christianity +* Our movement is primarily a spiritual one. One cannot understand Christianity by studying its system of churches, since primarily it is a body of teachings. - Likewise the core of our movement is in our philosophy, ideas and concepts, + Likewise, the core of our movement is in our philosophy, ideas, and concepts, which then inform our ideas on governance and economics. -* We must build a strong intellectual fabric that innocuates us and fosters +* We must build a strong intellectual fabric that inoculates us and fosters resilience, as well as equipping us with the means to be effective in our work. -* There are two legacies in technology. One informed by state civilization, +* There are two legacies in technology, one informed by state civilization and the other by society. The technology we create is to solve problems that society and aligned communities have.