#powerstructures — Public Fediverse posts
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Well, wel, well... Apparently, #ToxicIndividualism is a thing! So sick of leaders and followers who don't understand how everything is #Interconnected! #TrueEvil! (In my #Jungian interpretation, "That which separates us from God / #Nature / Each Other").
#MAGA #RightWing #ToxicMasculinity #Patriarchy #RWLibertarians #LackOfCompassion #PowerStructures #BadLeaders
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Well, wel, well... Apparently, #ToxicIndividualism is a thing! So sick of leaders and followers who don't understand how everything is #Interconnected! #TrueEvil! (In my #Jungian interpretation, "That which separates us from God / #Nature / Each Other").
#MAGA #RightWing #ToxicMasculinity #Patriarchy #RWLibertarians #LackOfCompassion #PowerStructures #BadLeaders
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Well, wel, well... Apparently, #ToxicIndividualism is a thing! So sick of leaders and followers who don't understand how everything is #Interconnected! #TrueEvil! (In my #Jungian interpretation, "That which separates us from God / #Nature / Each Other").
#MAGA #RightWing #ToxicMasculinity #Patriarchy #RWLibertarians #LackOfCompassion #PowerStructures #BadLeaders
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Well, wel, well... Apparently, #ToxicIndividualism is a thing! So sick of leaders and followers who don't understand how everything is #Interconnected! #TrueEvil! (In my #Jungian interpretation, "That which separates us from God / #Nature / Each Other").
#MAGA #RightWing #ToxicMasculinity #Patriarchy #RWLibertarians #LackOfCompassion #PowerStructures #BadLeaders
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Well, wel, well... Apparently, #ToxicIndividualism is a thing! So sick of leaders and followers who don't understand how everything is #Interconnected! #TrueEvil! (In my #Jungian interpretation, "That which separates us from God / #Nature / Each Other").
#MAGA #RightWing #ToxicMasculinity #Patriarchy #RWLibertarians #LackOfCompassion #PowerStructures #BadLeaders
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Well, I think that being able to gt rid of bad leaders and make them accountable would be a start. Also, I suspect the best leaders are those who don't want the job, but rise to the occasion to help fix what's not working or for the common good. Bad leaders usually want the attention / adoration/ power. Good leaders shun that and just want to do the right thing. imho
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Well, I think that being able to gt rid of bad leaders and make them accountable would be a start. Also, I suspect the best leaders are those who don't want the job, but rise to the occasion to help fix what's not working or for the common good. Bad leaders usually want the attention / adoration/ power. Good leaders shun that and just want to do the right thing. imho
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Well, I think that being able to gt rid of bad leaders and make them accountable would be a start. Also, I suspect the best leaders are those who don't want the job, but rise to the occasion to help fix what's not working or for the common good. Bad leaders usually want the attention / adoration/ power. Good leaders shun that and just want to do the right thing. imho
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Well, I think that being able to gt rid of bad leaders and make them accountable would be a start. Also, I suspect the best leaders are those who don't want the job, but rise to the occasion to help fix what's not working or for the common good. Bad leaders usually want the attention / adoration/ power. Good leaders shun that and just want to do the right thing. imho
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Well, I think that being able to gt rid of bad leaders and make them accountable would be a start. Also, I suspect the best leaders are those who don't want the job, but rise to the occasion to help fix what's not working or for the common good. Bad leaders usually want the attention / adoration/ power. Good leaders shun that and just want to do the right thing. imho
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Next up in my book pile -- "#NoSpiritualSurrender - Indigenous #Anarchy" by #KleeBenally, (2023) "#PrairieFire - The Politics of Revolutionary #AntiImperialism" by #TheWeatherUnderground (1974), and "#Antifa - The #AntiFascist Handbook" by #MarkBray (2017).
I've posted excerpts from Klee's book in the past (which I will re-boost). Both Klee and Mark Bray are in agreement as to who the real enemy is -- the forces of #Colonialism and #WhiteSupremacy.
Bray writes, "The only long-term solution to the fascist menace is to undermine its pillar of strength in society grounded not only in white supremacy, but also in #ableism, #heteronormativity, #patriarchy, #nationalism, #transphobia, #ClassRule, and many others," (Antifa, page 209), and offers up #Socialism, which is #Antiauthoritarian and #NonHierarchical as a solution.
And indeed, 1974's Prairie Fire, paints a similar picture, offering up a map of North America before and after #Colonization. (And yes, I would love to scan in all the illustrations and tables, but unfortunately, the 1974 copy is well-read and very delicate. It belonged to a coven-mate and fellow activist friend, who left it to me when they passed away -- along with a slew of other radical and pagan books). I did find some archived versions, sans illustrations, online.
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Next up in my book pile -- "#NoSpiritualSurrender - Indigenous #Anarchy" by #KleeBenally, (2023) "#PrairieFire - The Politics of Revolutionary #AntiImperialism" by #TheWeatherUnderground (1974), and "#Antifa - The #AntiFascist Handbook" by #MarkBray (2017).
I've posted excerpts from Klee's book in the past (which I will re-boost). Both Klee and Mark Bray are in agreement as to who the real enemy is -- the forces of #Colonialism and #WhiteSupremacy.
Bray writes, "The only long-term solution to the fascist menace is to undermine its pillar of strength in society grounded not only in white supremacy, but also in #ableism, #heteronormativity, #patriarchy, #nationalism, #transphobia, #ClassRule, and many others," (Antifa, page 209), and offers up #Socialism, which is #Antiauthoritarian and #NonHierarchical as a solution.
And indeed, 1974's Prairie Fire, paints a similar picture, offering up a map of North America before and after #Colonization. (And yes, I would love to scan in all the illustrations and tables, but unfortunately, the 1974 copy is well-read and very delicate. It belonged to a coven-mate and fellow activist friend, who left it to me when they passed away -- along with a slew of other radical and pagan books). I did find some archived versions, sans illustrations, online.
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Next up in my book pile -- "#NoSpiritualSurrender - Indigenous #Anarchy" by #KleeBenally, (2023) "#PrairieFire - The Politics of Revolutionary #AntiImperialism" by #TheWeatherUnderground (1974), and "#Antifa - The #AntiFascist Handbook" by #MarkBray (2017).
I've posted excerpts from Klee's book in the past (which I will re-boost). Both Klee and Mark Bray are in agreement as to who the real enemy is -- the forces of #Colonialism and #WhiteSupremacy.
Bray writes, "The only long-term solution to the fascist menace is to undermine its pillar of strength in society grounded not only in white supremacy, but also in #ableism, #heteronormativity, #patriarchy, #nationalism, #transphobia, #ClassRule, and many others," (Antifa, page 209), and offers up #Socialism, which is #Antiauthoritarian and #NonHierarchical as a solution.
And indeed, 1974's Prairie Fire, paints a similar picture, offering up a map of North America before and after #Colonization. (And yes, I would love to scan in all the illustrations and tables, but unfortunately, the 1974 copy is well-read and very delicate. It belonged to a coven-mate and fellow activist friend, who left it to me when they passed away -- along with a slew of other radical and pagan books). I did find some archived versions, sans illustrations, online.
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Next up in my book pile -- "#NoSpiritualSurrender - Indigenous #Anarchy" by #KleeBenally, (2023) "#PrairieFire - The Politics of Revolutionary #AntiImperialism" by #TheWeatherUnderground (1974), and "#Antifa - The #AntiFascist Handbook" by #MarkBray (2017).
I've posted excerpts from Klee's book in the past (which I will re-boost). Both Klee and Mark Bray are in agreement as to who the real enemy is -- the forces of #Colonialism and #WhiteSupremacy.
Bray writes, "The only long-term solution to the fascist menace is to undermine its pillar of strength in society grounded not only in white supremacy, but also in #ableism, #heteronormativity, #patriarchy, #nationalism, #transphobia, #ClassRule, and many others," (Antifa, page 209), and offers up #Socialism, which is #Antiauthoritarian and #NonHierarchical as a solution.
And indeed, 1974's Prairie Fire, paints a similar picture, offering up a map of North America before and after #Colonization. (And yes, I would love to scan in all the illustrations and tables, but unfortunately, the 1974 copy is well-read and very delicate. It belonged to a coven-mate and fellow activist friend, who left it to me when they passed away -- along with a slew of other radical and pagan books). I did find some archived versions, sans illustrations, online.
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Next up in my book pile -- "#NoSpiritualSurrender - Indigenous #Anarchy" by #KleeBenally, (2023) "#PrairieFire - The Politics of Revolutionary #AntiImperialism" by #TheWeatherUnderground (1974), and "#Antifa - The #AntiFascist Handbook" by #MarkBray (2017).
I've posted excerpts from Klee's book in the past (which I will re-boost). Both Klee and Mark Bray are in agreement as to who the real enemy is -- the forces of #Colonialism and #WhiteSupremacy.
Bray writes, "The only long-term solution to the fascist menace is to undermine its pillar of strength in society grounded not only in white supremacy, but also in #ableism, #heteronormativity, #patriarchy, #nationalism, #transphobia, #ClassRule, and many others," (Antifa, page 209), and offers up #Socialism, which is #Antiauthoritarian and #NonHierarchical as a solution.
And indeed, 1974's Prairie Fire, paints a similar picture, offering up a map of North America before and after #Colonization. (And yes, I would love to scan in all the illustrations and tables, but unfortunately, the 1974 copy is well-read and very delicate. It belonged to a coven-mate and fellow activist friend, who left it to me when they passed away -- along with a slew of other radical and pagan books). I did find some archived versions, sans illustrations, online.
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Re-reading "#UtopianSocialism - Its History Since 1800" by #LeoLoubere (published in 1974). In particular, chapter 6, which deals with "experimental communities" and why they fail -- citing #Capitalism, lack of practical knowledge, and how cooperation and #MutualAid were needed for communities to survive. And also how defense (against others, protecting crops, etc.), and leaders who aren't forceful are also necessary.
Ahhhh. And some truly lighter reading. The last printed issue of the Farmer's Almanac (in print since 1818). I will miss their tips and tricks as well as topics like natural pest control, #Hygge, herbs of the month, how to make #Switchel, and #Gardening tips. I noticed they also acknowledged #ClimateChange and #WeatherExtremes, and highlighted #EmergencyPreparedness.
#Bookstodon #AmReading
#SustainableLiving #BuildingCommunity #PowerStructures #MoonPhases #SpendTimeInNature #HistoryOfSocialism #Histodon #History #SolarPunkSunday -
Re-reading "#UtopianSocialism - Its History Since 1800" by #LeoLoubere (published in 1974). In particular, chapter 6, which deals with "experimental communities" and why they fail -- citing #Capitalism, lack of practical knowledge, and how cooperation and #MutualAid were needed for communities to survive. And also how defense (against others, protecting crops, etc.), and leaders who aren't forceful are also necessary.
Ahhhh. And some truly lighter reading. The last printed issue of the Farmer's Almanac (in print since 1818). I will miss their tips and tricks as well as topics like natural pest control, #Hygge, herbs of the month, how to make #Switchel, and #Gardening tips. I noticed they also acknowledged #ClimateChange and #WeatherExtremes, and highlighted #EmergencyPreparedness.
#Bookstodon #AmReading
#SustainableLiving #BuildingCommunity #PowerStructures #MoonPhases #SpendTimeInNature #HistoryOfSocialism #Histodon #History #SolarPunkSunday -
Re-reading "#UtopianSocialism - Its History Since 1800" by #LeoLoubere (published in 1974). In particular, chapter 6, which deals with "experimental communities" and why they fail -- citing #Capitalism, lack of practical knowledge, and how cooperation and #MutualAid were needed for communities to survive. And also how defense (against others, protecting crops, etc.), and leaders who aren't forceful are also necessary.
Ahhhh. And some truly lighter reading. The last printed issue of the Farmer's Almanac (in print since 1818). I will miss their tips and tricks as well as topics like natural pest control, #Hygge, herbs of the month, how to make #Switchel, and #Gardening tips. I noticed they also acknowledged #ClimateChange and #WeatherExtremes, and highlighted #EmergencyPreparedness.
#Bookstodon #AmReading
#SustainableLiving #BuildingCommunity #PowerStructures #MoonPhases #SpendTimeInNature #HistoryOfSocialism #Histodon #History #SolarPunkSunday -
Re-reading "#UtopianSocialism - Its History Since 1800" by #LeoLoubere (published in 1974). In particular, chapter 6, which deals with "experimental communities" and why they fail -- citing #Capitalism, lack of practical knowledge, and how cooperation and #MutualAid were needed for communities to survive. And also how defense (against others, protecting crops, etc.), and leaders who aren't forceful are also necessary.
Ahhhh. And some truly lighter reading. The last printed issue of the Farmer's Almanac (in print since 1818). I will miss their tips and tricks as well as topics like natural pest control, #Hygge, herbs of the month, how to make #Switchel, and #Gardening tips. I noticed they also acknowledged #ClimateChange and #WeatherExtremes, and highlighted #EmergencyPreparedness.
#Bookstodon #AmReading
#SustainableLiving #BuildingCommunity #PowerStructures #MoonPhases #SpendTimeInNature #HistoryOfSocialism #Histodon #History #SolarPunkSunday -
Re-reading "#UtopianSocialism - Its History Since 1800" by #LeoLoubere (published in 1974). In particular, chapter 6, which deals with "experimental communities" and why they fail -- citing #Capitalism, lack of practical knowledge, and how cooperation and #MutualAid were needed for communities to survive. And also how defense (against others, protecting crops, etc.), and leaders who aren't forceful are also necessary.
Ahhhh. And some truly lighter reading. The last printed issue of the Farmer's Almanac (in print since 1818). I will miss their tips and tricks as well as topics like natural pest control, #Hygge, herbs of the month, how to make #Switchel, and #Gardening tips. I noticed they also acknowledged #ClimateChange and #WeatherExtremes, and highlighted #EmergencyPreparedness.
#Bookstodon #AmReading
#SustainableLiving #BuildingCommunity #PowerStructures #MoonPhases #SpendTimeInNature #HistoryOfSocialism #Histodon #History #SolarPunkSunday -
Non-Fiction Trilogy of sorts - "#TheLimitsToGrowth; #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival; and #EarthForAllASurvivalGuideForHumanity.
So, my copy of "The Limits To Growth" is a first edition from 1972, which I bought in a used book store in 1980. Whoever owned it before ("Denison") highlighted a bunch of stuff (the old school highlighters that don't fade), and put zig-zag lines around this paragraph: "In any finite system there must be constraints that can act to stop exponential growth. These constraints are negative feedback loops. The negative loops become stronger and stronger as growth approches the ultimate limit, or carrying capacity, of the system's environment. Finally, the negative loops balance or dominate the positive ones, and growth comes to an end. In the world system the negative feedback loops involve such processes as pollution of the environment, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and famine."
Fast forward to 2021, where one of the Limits To Growth authors, #DennisMeadows, describes #RichardHeinberg's "Power - Limits And Prospects for Human Survival" as "a powerful new way of understanding the historic rise and probable fall of our species. It is an impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative." Heinberg talks about how we got to where we are today (lots of history), but also offers solutions (like #Agroecology and #Degrowth).
Finally, "#EarthForAll - A Survival Guide For Humanity" -- which was a report to the #ClubOfRome, and a 50 year follow-up to Limits To Growth. This book is where I learned about the #GiantLeapScenario that we so need to survive as a species on a viable planet.
Limits To Growth influenced my thinking at a young age. "Power" explains how we went wrong, and "Earth For All" gives me hope for the future.
#Bookstodon #AmReading #History #DeGrowth #PowerStructures #ABetterWorldIsPossible #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #GiantLeap
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Non-Fiction Trilogy of sorts - "#TheLimitsToGrowth; #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival; and #EarthForAllASurvivalGuideForHumanity.
So, my copy of "The Limits To Growth" is a first edition from 1972, which I bought in a used book store in 1980. Whoever owned it before ("Denison") highlighted a bunch of stuff (the old school highlighters that don't fade), and put zig-zag lines around this paragraph: "In any finite system there must be constraints that can act to stop exponential growth. These constraints are negative feedback loops. The negative loops become stronger and stronger as growth approches the ultimate limit, or carrying capacity, of the system's environment. Finally, the negative loops balance or dominate the positive ones, and growth comes to an end. In the world system the negative feedback loops involve such processes as pollution of the environment, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and famine."
Fast forward to 2021, where one of the Limits To Growth authors, #DennisMeadows, describes #RichardHeinberg's "Power - Limits And Prospects for Human Survival" as "a powerful new way of understanding the historic rise and probable fall of our species. It is an impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative." Heinberg talks about how we got to where we are today (lots of history), but also offers solutions (like #Agroecology and #Degrowth).
Finally, "#EarthForAll - A Survival Guide For Humanity" -- which was a report to the #ClubOfRome, and a 50 year follow-up to Limits To Growth. This book is where I learned about the #GiantLeapScenario that we so need to survive as a species on a viable planet.
Limits To Growth influenced my thinking at a young age. "Power" explains how we went wrong, and "Earth For All" gives me hope for the future.
#Bookstodon #AmReading #History #DeGrowth #PowerStructures #ABetterWorldIsPossible #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #GiantLeap
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Non-Fiction Trilogy of sorts - "#TheLimitsToGrowth; #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival; and #EarthForAllASurvivalGuideForHumanity.
So, my copy of "The Limits To Growth" is a first edition from 1972, which I bought in a used book store in 1980. Whoever owned it before ("Denison") highlighted a bunch of stuff (the old school highlighters that don't fade), and put zig-zag lines around this paragraph: "In any finite system there must be constraints that can act to stop exponential growth. These constraints are negative feedback loops. The negative loops become stronger and stronger as growth approches the ultimate limit, or carrying capacity, of the system's environment. Finally, the negative loops balance or dominate the positive ones, and growth comes to an end. In the world system the negative feedback loops involve such processes as pollution of the environment, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and famine."
Fast forward to 2021, where one of the Limits To Growth authors, #DennisMeadows, describes #RichardHeinberg's "Power - Limits And Prospects for Human Survival" as "a powerful new way of understanding the historic rise and probable fall of our species. It is an impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative." Heinberg talks about how we got to where we are today (lots of history), but also offers solutions (like #Agroecology and #Degrowth).
Finally, "#EarthForAll - A Survival Guide For Humanity" -- which was a report to the #ClubOfRome, and a 50 year follow-up to Limits To Growth. This book is where I learned about the #GiantLeapScenario that we so need to survive as a species on a viable planet.
Limits To Growth influenced my thinking at a young age. "Power" explains how we went wrong, and "Earth For All" gives me hope for the future.
#Bookstodon #AmReading #History #DeGrowth #PowerStructures #ABetterWorldIsPossible #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #GiantLeap
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Non-Fiction Trilogy of sorts - "#TheLimitsToGrowth; #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival; and #EarthForAllASurvivalGuideForHumanity.
So, my copy of "The Limits To Growth" is a first edition from 1972, which I bought in a used book store in 1980. Whoever owned it before ("Denison") highlighted a bunch of stuff (the old school highlighters that don't fade), and put zig-zag lines around this paragraph: "In any finite system there must be constraints that can act to stop exponential growth. These constraints are negative feedback loops. The negative loops become stronger and stronger as growth approches the ultimate limit, or carrying capacity, of the system's environment. Finally, the negative loops balance or dominate the positive ones, and growth comes to an end. In the world system the negative feedback loops involve such processes as pollution of the environment, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and famine."
Fast forward to 2021, where one of the Limits To Growth authors, #DennisMeadows, describes #RichardHeinberg's "Power - Limits And Prospects for Human Survival" as "a powerful new way of understanding the historic rise and probable fall of our species. It is an impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative." Heinberg talks about how we got to where we are today (lots of history), but also offers solutions (like #Agroecology and #Degrowth).
Finally, "#EarthForAll - A Survival Guide For Humanity" -- which was a report to the #ClubOfRome, and a 50 year follow-up to Limits To Growth. This book is where I learned about the #GiantLeapScenario that we so need to survive as a species on a viable planet.
Limits To Growth influenced my thinking at a young age. "Power" explains how we went wrong, and "Earth For All" gives me hope for the future.
#Bookstodon #AmReading #History #DeGrowth #PowerStructures #ABetterWorldIsPossible #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #GiantLeap
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Non-Fiction Trilogy of sorts - "#TheLimitsToGrowth; #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival; and #EarthForAllASurvivalGuideForHumanity.
So, my copy of "The Limits To Growth" is a first edition from 1972, which I bought in a used book store in 1980. Whoever owned it before ("Denison") highlighted a bunch of stuff (the old school highlighters that don't fade), and put zig-zag lines around this paragraph: "In any finite system there must be constraints that can act to stop exponential growth. These constraints are negative feedback loops. The negative loops become stronger and stronger as growth approches the ultimate limit, or carrying capacity, of the system's environment. Finally, the negative loops balance or dominate the positive ones, and growth comes to an end. In the world system the negative feedback loops involve such processes as pollution of the environment, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and famine."
Fast forward to 2021, where one of the Limits To Growth authors, #DennisMeadows, describes #RichardHeinberg's "Power - Limits And Prospects for Human Survival" as "a powerful new way of understanding the historic rise and probable fall of our species. It is an impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative." Heinberg talks about how we got to where we are today (lots of history), but also offers solutions (like #Agroecology and #Degrowth).
Finally, "#EarthForAll - A Survival Guide For Humanity" -- which was a report to the #ClubOfRome, and a 50 year follow-up to Limits To Growth. This book is where I learned about the #GiantLeapScenario that we so need to survive as a species on a viable planet.
Limits To Growth influenced my thinking at a young age. "Power" explains how we went wrong, and "Earth For All" gives me hope for the future.
#Bookstodon #AmReading #History #DeGrowth #PowerStructures #ABetterWorldIsPossible #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #GiantLeap
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Platforms are the dominant religions of our time—not replacing belief, but centralizing authority.
Algorithms replace scripture.
Metrics replace virtue.
Terms replace commandments.
Moderation replaces clergy.
Guidelines replace doctrine.
Exile replaces damnation.You don’t leave the platform.
You’re excommunicated from visibility.
That’s jurisdiction.#DigitalPower #Platforms #Algorithms #DigitalEthics #PowerStructures
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Platforms are the dominant religions of our time—not replacing belief, but centralizing authority.
Algorithms replace scripture.
Metrics replace virtue.
Terms replace commandments.
Moderation replaces clergy.
Guidelines replace doctrine.
Exile replaces damnation.You don’t leave the platform.
You’re excommunicated from visibility.
That’s jurisdiction.#DigitalPower #Platforms #Algorithms #DigitalEthics #PowerStructures
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Platforms are the dominant religions of our time—not replacing belief, but centralizing authority.
Algorithms replace scripture.
Metrics replace virtue.
Terms replace commandments.
Moderation replaces clergy.
Guidelines replace doctrine.
Exile replaces damnation.You don’t leave the platform.
You’re excommunicated from visibility.
That’s jurisdiction.#DigitalPower #Platforms #Algorithms #DigitalEthics #PowerStructures
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Platforms are the dominant religions of our time—not replacing belief, but centralizing authority.
Algorithms replace scripture.
Metrics replace virtue.
Terms replace commandments.
Moderation replaces clergy.
Guidelines replace doctrine.
Exile replaces damnation.You don’t leave the platform.
You’re excommunicated from visibility.
That’s jurisdiction.#DigitalPower #Platforms #Algorithms #DigitalEthics #PowerStructures
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Platforms are the dominant religions of our time—not replacing belief, but centralizing authority.
Algorithms replace scripture.
Metrics replace virtue.
Terms replace commandments.
Moderation replaces clergy.
Guidelines replace doctrine.
Exile replaces damnation.You don’t leave the platform.
You’re excommunicated from visibility.
That’s jurisdiction.#DigitalPower #Platforms #Algorithms #DigitalEthics #PowerStructures
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What’s striking is how outdated this looks.
We’re told the industry has evolved, yet the visual language hasn’t meaningfully changed since the 1990s — just better lighting and newer fonts.
Progress in rhetoric, stagnation on the shelf. 4)
#Gatekeepers
#PowerStructures
#CapitalismAndCulture -
What’s striking is how outdated this looks.
We’re told the industry has evolved, yet the visual language hasn’t meaningfully changed since the 1990s — just better lighting and newer fonts.
Progress in rhetoric, stagnation on the shelf. 4)
#Gatekeepers
#PowerStructures
#CapitalismAndCulture -
What’s striking is how outdated this looks.
We’re told the industry has evolved, yet the visual language hasn’t meaningfully changed since the 1990s — just better lighting and newer fonts.
Progress in rhetoric, stagnation on the shelf. 4)
#Gatekeepers
#PowerStructures
#CapitalismAndCulture -
What’s striking is how outdated this looks.
We’re told the industry has evolved, yet the visual language hasn’t meaningfully changed since the 1990s — just better lighting and newer fonts.
Progress in rhetoric, stagnation on the shelf. 4)
#Gatekeepers
#PowerStructures
#CapitalismAndCulture -
What’s striking is how outdated this looks.
We’re told the industry has evolved, yet the visual language hasn’t meaningfully changed since the 1990s — just better lighting and newer fonts.
Progress in rhetoric, stagnation on the shelf. 4)
#Gatekeepers
#PowerStructures
#CapitalismAndCulture -
Ragnarøkkr: The Report They Don’t Want You to Read
Here are the key takeaways:
⚜️Ritual murders and “accidents” are part of one system.
⚜️Theories of “randomness” are false science.
⚜️Power hides behind cults, proxies, and financial flows.👉Read it here:
https://pin.it/52mMMQzHg👉Follow:
#Ragnarokkr #Accidentology #FeeltheSound #BreathebySoul #RainhardGelan #CriminalIdentification #MonarchProject #InvestigativeReport #MindControl #PowerStructures #Geopolitics -
Ragnarøkkr: The Report They Don’t Want You to Read
Here are the key takeaways:
⚜️Ritual murders and “accidents” are part of one system.
⚜️Theories of “randomness” are false science.
⚜️Power hides behind cults, proxies, and financial flows.👉Read it here:
https://pin.it/52mMMQzHg👉Follow:
#Ragnarokkr #Accidentology #FeeltheSound #BreathebySoul #RainhardGelan #CriminalIdentification #MonarchProject #InvestigativeReport #MindControl #PowerStructures #Geopolitics -
Ragnarøkkr: The Report They Don’t Want You to Read
Here are the key takeaways:
⚜️Ritual murders and “accidents” are part of one system.
⚜️Theories of “randomness” are false science.
⚜️Power hides behind cults, proxies, and financial flows.👉Read it here:
https://pin.it/52mMMQzHg👉Follow:
#Ragnarokkr #Accidentology #FeeltheSound #BreathebySoul #RainhardGelan #CriminalIdentification #MonarchProject #InvestigativeReport #MindControl #PowerStructures #Geopolitics -
Ragnarøkkr: The Report They Don’t Want You to Read
Here are the key takeaways:
⚜️Ritual murders and “accidents” are part of one system.
⚜️Theories of “randomness” are false science.
⚜️Power hides behind cults, proxies, and financial flows.👉Read it here:
https://pin.it/52mMMQzHg👉Follow:
#Ragnarokkr #Accidentology #FeeltheSound #BreathebySoul #RainhardGelan #CriminalIdentification #MonarchProject #InvestigativeReport #MindControl #PowerStructures #Geopolitics -
Ragnarøkkr: The Report They Don’t Want You to Read
Here are the key takeaways:
⚜️Ritual murders and “accidents” are part of one system.
⚜️Theories of “randomness” are false science.
⚜️Power hides behind cults, proxies, and financial flows.👉Read it here:
https://pin.it/52mMMQzHg👉Follow:
#Ragnarokkr #Accidentology #FeeltheSound #BreathebySoul #RainhardGelan #CriminalIdentification #MonarchProject #InvestigativeReport #MindControl #PowerStructures #Geopolitics -
Royalty, Administration, and Antimemetics
I was all of 15 when defenestration was forever implanted in my mind. It means to throw someone out the window. It happened in Prague, 1618. Some important people were defenestrated, fell 70 feet, landed in dung. This led to the thirty years war and the coining of the word ‘defenestration’. Defenestrating happened to important, visible, people held responsible for mismanagement leading to widespread discontent. While the defenestrated may represent the idea, surely we can’t imagine that it was that specific person who was going around causing the suffering. No, they had minions. Here we explore a bit of their story.
Horned owl (Hoornuil) (1915) print in high resolution by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. Original from The Rijksmuseum. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.Royalty is meant to be seen. They were either chosen by or were the local gods to lead the people. They were the head of everything and if something were to go wrong it was their responsibility. Royalty also means creating good memes. Whether the Alhambra, Taj Mahal, or Beijing projecting power through architectural memes was the standard.
Administration and bureaucratic structures is the silent clockwork that powers the projection. These guys, are antimemetic. The antimeme is a recent invention and denotes ideas that have high impact but are hard to spread. This is important because when the tax burden gets too high you want the peasants to go for the king not the local tax collector.
The Mughal emperors were the head of the administrative machinery with final say over all important matters. The administration itself was antimemetic in nature. The provincial officials such as the bakhshi, sadr as-sudr, and finance minister reported directly to the central government rather than the subahdar (provincial governor). Matrix organization, I hear you thinking. This complex, multi-layered reporting structure, while designed for central control, also diffused responsibility and made the precise locus of decision-making less transparent to external observers and even to other officials.
In the Ming dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor abolished the Central Secretariat to assume personal control. However, the volume of letters got so high that he soon appointed a few grand secretaries. They never held a high rank and always merely “recorded imperial decisions”. If merely were a boxer he would be a heavyweight. Can’t blame that guy with the pen if he’s just doing what the king asks him to.
From the al-Andalus through the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals the the ulama shaped legal systems and molded public morality. Of course the monarchs decrees but the ulama interpreted them and applied them as law into daily life. This interpretive authority, operating subtly within the legal and religious bureaucracy, allowed for continuous adaptation and influence without the visible, attributable acts of formal legislation, making it profoundly antimemetic.
Let me end with the quote from the wonderful, and joyfully mimetic, Yes, Minister:
“Hacker: Humphrey, did you know that 20% of all honours go to civil servants?
Sir Humphrey: A fitting tribute to their devotion to duty, Minister.
Hacker: No, their duty is what they get paid for. The rest of the population has to do something extra to get an honour. Something special. They work for 27 years with mentally handicapped children six nights a week to get an MBE. Your knighthoods simply come up with the rations.
Sir Humphrey: Minister, her Majesty’s civil servants spend their lives working for a modest wage and at the end, they retire into obscurity. Honours are a small reward for a lifetime of loyal, self-effacing discretion and devoted service to Her Majesty, and to the nation.
Hacker: “A modest wage”, did you say?
Sir Humphrey: Alas, yes.
Hacker: Humphrey, you get over £30,000 a year! That’s £7,000 more than I get.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but still relatively the modest wage.
Hacker: Relative to whom?
Sir Humphrey: Well, Elizabeth Taylor, for example.
Hacker: Humphrey, you are not relative to Elizabeth Taylor. There are important differences.
Sir Humphrey: Indeed, yes. She didn’t get a first at Oxford.
Hacker: And you do not retire into obscurity?! You take a massive index-linked pension and go off to become directors of oil companies and banks.
Sir Humphrey: Oh, yes, but very obscure directors, Minister.
Hacker: You’re in no danger of the sack. In industry if you screw things up, you get the boot. In the civil service, if you screw things up, I get the boot.
Sir Humphrey: Very droll, Minister, now if you’ve approved the list…”
[Series Two (1981) Episode Two: Doing the Honours]
Sources
Much of the reading and sourcing of material for this was done across books from the Contraptions Book Club and some deep research help.
- Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin
- Monkey King: Journey to the West, the abridged Lovell edition
- Islamic Gunpowder Empires by Dougles E. Streusend
- Kingdoms of Faith by Brian A. Catlos
- Zheng He: China And the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 by Edward L. Dreyer
- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yes,_Minister
#alAndalus #Antimemetics #Bureaucracy #Defenestration #Government #HistoricalTheory #history #HistoryMemes #Humor #MingDynasty #MughalEmpire #OttomanEmpire #PoliticalSatire #PoliticalTheory #Politics #PowerStructures #Sociology #YesMinister
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Royalty, Administration, and Antimemetics
I was all of 15 when defenestration was forever implanted in my mind. It means to throw someone out the window. It happened in Prague, 1618. Some important people were defenestrated, fell 70 feet, landed in dung. This led to the thirty years war and the coining of the word ‘defenestration’. Defenestrating happened to important, visible, people held responsible for mismanagement leading to widespread discontent. While the defenestrated may represent the idea, surely we can’t imagine that it was that specific person who was going around causing the suffering. No, they had minions. Here we explore a bit of their story.
Horned owl (Hoornuil) (1915) print in high resolution by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. Original from The Rijksmuseum. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.Royalty is meant to be seen. They were either chosen by or were the local gods to lead the people. They were the head of everything and if something were to go wrong it was their responsibility. Royalty also means creating good memes. Whether the Alhambra, Taj Mahal, or Beijing projecting power through architectural memes was the standard.
Administration and bureaucratic structures is the silent clockwork that powers the projection. These guys, are antimemetic. The antimeme is a recent invention and denotes ideas that have high impact but are hard to spread. This is important because when the tax burden gets too high you want the peasants to go for the king not the local tax collector.
The Mughal emperors were the head of the administrative machinery with final say over all important matters. The administration itself was antimemetic in nature. The provincial officials such as the bakhshi, sadr as-sudr, and finance minister reported directly to the central government rather than the subahdar (provincial governor). Matrix organization, I hear you thinking. This complex, multi-layered reporting structure, while designed for central control, also diffused responsibility and made the precise locus of decision-making less transparent to external observers and even to other officials.
In the Ming dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor abolished the Central Secretariat to assume personal control. However, the volume of letters got so high that he soon appointed a few grand secretaries. They never held a high rank and always merely “recorded imperial decisions”. If merely were a boxer he would be a heavyweight. Can’t blame that guy with the pen if he’s just doing what the king asks him to.
From the al-Andalus through the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals the the ulama shaped legal systems and molded public morality. Of course the monarchs decrees but the ulama interpreted them and applied them as law into daily life. This interpretive authority, operating subtly within the legal and religious bureaucracy, allowed for continuous adaptation and influence without the visible, attributable acts of formal legislation, making it profoundly antimemetic.
Let me end with the quote from the wonderful, and joyfully mimetic, Yes, Minister:
“Hacker: Humphrey, did you know that 20% of all honours go to civil servants?
Sir Humphrey: A fitting tribute to their devotion to duty, Minister.
Hacker: No, their duty is what they get paid for. The rest of the population has to do something extra to get an honour. Something special. They work for 27 years with mentally handicapped children six nights a week to get an MBE. Your knighthoods simply come up with the rations.
Sir Humphrey: Minister, her Majesty’s civil servants spend their lives working for a modest wage and at the end, they retire into obscurity. Honours are a small reward for a lifetime of loyal, self-effacing discretion and devoted service to Her Majesty, and to the nation.
Hacker: “A modest wage”, did you say?
Sir Humphrey: Alas, yes.
Hacker: Humphrey, you get over £30,000 a year! That’s £7,000 more than I get.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but still relatively the modest wage.
Hacker: Relative to whom?
Sir Humphrey: Well, Elizabeth Taylor, for example.
Hacker: Humphrey, you are not relative to Elizabeth Taylor. There are important differences.
Sir Humphrey: Indeed, yes. She didn’t get a first at Oxford.
Hacker: And you do not retire into obscurity?! You take a massive index-linked pension and go off to become directors of oil companies and banks.
Sir Humphrey: Oh, yes, but very obscure directors, Minister.
Hacker: You’re in no danger of the sack. In industry if you screw things up, you get the boot. In the civil service, if you screw things up, I get the boot.
Sir Humphrey: Very droll, Minister, now if you’ve approved the list…”
[Series Two (1981) Episode Two: Doing the Honours]
Sources
Much of the reading and sourcing of material for this was done across books from the Contraptions Book Club and some deep research help.
- Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin
- Monkey King: Journey to the West, the abridged Lovell edition
- Islamic Gunpowder Empires by Dougles E. Streusend
- Kingdoms of Faith by Brian A. Catlos
- Zheng He: China And the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 by Edward L. Dreyer
- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yes,_Minister
#alAndalus #Antimemetics #Bureaucracy #Defenestration #Government #HistoricalTheory #history #HistoryMemes #Humor #MingDynasty #MughalEmpire #OttomanEmpire #PoliticalSatire #PoliticalTheory #Politics #PowerStructures #Sociology #YesMinister
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Royalty, Administration, and Antimemetics
I was all of 15 when defenestration was forever implanted in my mind. It means to throw someone out the window. It happened in Prague, 1618. Some important people were defenestrated, fell 70 feet, landed in dung. This led to the thirty years war and the coining of the word ‘defenestration’. Defenestrating happened to important, visible, people held responsible for mismanagement leading to widespread discontent. While the defenestrated may represent the idea, surely we can’t imagine that it was that specific person who was going around causing the suffering. No, they had minions. Here we explore a bit of their story.
Horned owl (Hoornuil) (1915) print in high resolution by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. Original from The Rijksmuseum. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.Royalty is meant to be seen. They were either chosen by or were the local gods to lead the people. They were the head of everything and if something were to go wrong it was their responsibility. Royalty also means creating good memes. Whether the Alhambra, Taj Mahal, or Beijing projecting power through architectural memes was the standard.
Administration and bureaucratic structures is the silent clockwork that powers the projection. These guys, are antimemetic. The antimeme is a recent invention and denotes ideas that have high impact but are hard to spread. This is important because when the tax burden gets too high you want the peasants to go for the king not the local tax collector.
The Mughal emperors were the head of the administrative machinery with final say over all important matters. The administration itself was antimemetic in nature. The provincial officials such as the bakhshi, sadr as-sudr, and finance minister reported directly to the central government rather than the subahdar (provincial governor). Matrix organization, I hear you thinking. This complex, multi-layered reporting structure, while designed for central control, also diffused responsibility and made the precise locus of decision-making less transparent to external observers and even to other officials.
In the Ming dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor abolished the Central Secretariat to assume personal control. However, the volume of letters got so high that he soon appointed a few grand secretaries. They never held a high rank and always merely “recorded imperial decisions”. If merely were a boxer he would be a heavyweight. Can’t blame that guy with the pen if he’s just doing what the king asks him to.
From the al-Andalus through the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals the the ulama shaped legal systems and molded public morality. Of course the monarchs decrees but the ulama interpreted them and applied them as law into daily life. This interpretive authority, operating subtly within the legal and religious bureaucracy, allowed for continuous adaptation and influence without the visible, attributable acts of formal legislation, making it profoundly antimemetic.
Let me end with the quote from the wonderful, and joyfully mimetic, Yes, Minister:
“Hacker: Humphrey, did you know that 20% of all honours go to civil servants?
Sir Humphrey: A fitting tribute to their devotion to duty, Minister.
Hacker: No, their duty is what they get paid for. The rest of the population has to do something extra to get an honour. Something special. They work for 27 years with mentally handicapped children six nights a week to get an MBE. Your knighthoods simply come up with the rations.
Sir Humphrey: Minister, her Majesty’s civil servants spend their lives working for a modest wage and at the end, they retire into obscurity. Honours are a small reward for a lifetime of loyal, self-effacing discretion and devoted service to Her Majesty, and to the nation.
Hacker: “A modest wage”, did you say?
Sir Humphrey: Alas, yes.
Hacker: Humphrey, you get over £30,000 a year! That’s £7,000 more than I get.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but still relatively the modest wage.
Hacker: Relative to whom?
Sir Humphrey: Well, Elizabeth Taylor, for example.
Hacker: Humphrey, you are not relative to Elizabeth Taylor. There are important differences.
Sir Humphrey: Indeed, yes. She didn’t get a first at Oxford.
Hacker: And you do not retire into obscurity?! You take a massive index-linked pension and go off to become directors of oil companies and banks.
Sir Humphrey: Oh, yes, but very obscure directors, Minister.
Hacker: You’re in no danger of the sack. In industry if you screw things up, you get the boot. In the civil service, if you screw things up, I get the boot.
Sir Humphrey: Very droll, Minister, now if you’ve approved the list…”
[Series Two (1981) Episode Two: Doing the Honours]
Sources
Much of the reading and sourcing of material for this was done across books from the Contraptions Book Club and some deep research help.
- Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin
- Monkey King: Journey to the West, the abridged Lovell edition
- Islamic Gunpowder Empires by Dougles E. Streusend
- Kingdoms of Faith by Brian A. Catlos
- Zheng He: China And the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 by Edward L. Dreyer
- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yes,_Minister
#alAndalus #Antimemetics #Bureaucracy #Defenestration #Government #HistoricalTheory #history #HistoryMemes #Humor #MingDynasty #MughalEmpire #OttomanEmpire #PoliticalSatire #PoliticalTheory #Politics #PowerStructures #Sociology #YesMinister
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Royalty, Administration, and Antimemetics
I was all of 15 when defenestration was forever implanted in my mind. It means to throw someone out the window. It happened in Prague, 1618. Some important people were defenestrated, fell 70 feet, landed in dung. This led to the thirty years war and the coining of the word ‘defenestration’. Defenestrating happened to important, visible, people held responsible for mismanagement leading to widespread discontent. While the defenestrated may represent the idea, surely we can’t imagine that it was that specific person who was going around causing the suffering. No, they had minions. Here we explore a bit of their story.
Horned owl (Hoornuil) (1915) print in high resolution by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. Original from The Rijksmuseum. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.Royalty is meant to be seen. They were either chosen by or were the local gods to lead the people. They were the head of everything and if something were to go wrong it was their responsibility. Royalty also means creating good memes. Whether the Alhambra, Taj Mahal, or Beijing projecting power through architectural memes was the standard.
Administration and bureaucratic structures is the silent clockwork that powers the projection. These guys, are antimemetic. The antimeme is a recent invention and denotes ideas that have high impact but are hard to spread. This is important because when the tax burden gets too high you want the peasants to go for the king not the local tax collector.
The Mughal emperors were the head of the administrative machinery with final say over all important matters. The administration itself was antimemetic in nature. The provincial officials such as the bakhshi, sadr as-sudr, and finance minister reported directly to the central government rather than the subahdar (provincial governor). Matrix organization, I hear you thinking. This complex, multi-layered reporting structure, while designed for central control, also diffused responsibility and made the precise locus of decision-making less transparent to external observers and even to other officials.
In the Ming dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor abolished the Central Secretariat to assume personal control. However, the volume of letters got so high that he soon appointed a few grand secretaries. They never held a high rank and always merely “recorded imperial decisions”. If merely were a boxer he would be a heavyweight. Can’t blame that guy with the pen if he’s just doing what the king asks him to.
From the al-Andalus through the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals the the ulama shaped legal systems and molded public morality. Of course the monarchs decrees but the ulama interpreted them and applied them as law into daily life. This interpretive authority, operating subtly within the legal and religious bureaucracy, allowed for continuous adaptation and influence without the visible, attributable acts of formal legislation, making it profoundly antimemetic.
Let me end with the quote from the wonderful, and joyfully mimetic, Yes, Minister:
“Hacker: Humphrey, did you know that 20% of all honours go to civil servants?
Sir Humphrey: A fitting tribute to their devotion to duty, Minister.
Hacker: No, their duty is what they get paid for. The rest of the population has to do something extra to get an honour. Something special. They work for 27 years with mentally handicapped children six nights a week to get an MBE. Your knighthoods simply come up with the rations.
Sir Humphrey: Minister, her Majesty’s civil servants spend their lives working for a modest wage and at the end, they retire into obscurity. Honours are a small reward for a lifetime of loyal, self-effacing discretion and devoted service to Her Majesty, and to the nation.
Hacker: “A modest wage”, did you say?
Sir Humphrey: Alas, yes.
Hacker: Humphrey, you get over £30,000 a year! That’s £7,000 more than I get.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but still relatively the modest wage.
Hacker: Relative to whom?
Sir Humphrey: Well, Elizabeth Taylor, for example.
Hacker: Humphrey, you are not relative to Elizabeth Taylor. There are important differences.
Sir Humphrey: Indeed, yes. She didn’t get a first at Oxford.
Hacker: And you do not retire into obscurity?! You take a massive index-linked pension and go off to become directors of oil companies and banks.
Sir Humphrey: Oh, yes, but very obscure directors, Minister.
Hacker: You’re in no danger of the sack. In industry if you screw things up, you get the boot. In the civil service, if you screw things up, I get the boot.
Sir Humphrey: Very droll, Minister, now if you’ve approved the list…”
[Series Two (1981) Episode Two: Doing the Honours]
Sources
Much of the reading and sourcing of material for this was done across books from the Contraptions Book Club and some deep research help.
- Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin
- Monkey King: Journey to the West, the abridged Lovell edition
- Islamic Gunpowder Empires by Dougles E. Streusend
- Kingdoms of Faith by Brian A. Catlos
- Zheng He: China And the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 by Edward L. Dreyer
- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yes,_Minister
#alAndalus #Antimemetics #Bureaucracy #Defenestration #Government #HistoricalTheory #history #HistoryMemes #Humor #MingDynasty #MughalEmpire #OttomanEmpire #PoliticalSatire #PoliticalTheory #Politics #PowerStructures #Sociology #YesMinister
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Royalty, Administration, and Antimemetics
I was all of 15 when defenestration was forever implanted in my mind. It means to throw someone out the window. It happened in Prague, 1618. Some important people were defenestrated, fell 70 feet, landed in dung. This led to the thirty years war and the coining of the word ‘defenestration’. Defenestrating happened to important, visible, people held responsible for mismanagement leading to widespread discontent. While the defenestrated may represent the idea, surely we can’t imagine that it was that specific person who was going around causing the suffering. No, they had minions. Here we explore a bit of their story.
Horned owl (Hoornuil) (1915) print in high resolution by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. Original from The Rijksmuseum. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.Royalty is meant to be seen. They were either chosen by or were the local gods to lead the people. They were the head of everything and if something were to go wrong it was their responsibility. Royalty also means creating good memes. Whether the Alhambra, Taj Mahal, or Beijing projecting power through architectural memes was the standard.
Administration and bureaucratic structures is the silent clockwork that powers the projection. These guys, are antimemetic. The antimeme is a recent invention and denotes ideas that have high impact but are hard to spread. This is important because when the tax burden gets too high you want the peasants to go for the king not the local tax collector.
The Mughal emperors were the head of the administrative machinery with final say over all important matters. The administration itself was antimemetic in nature. The provincial officials such as the bakhshi, sadr as-sudr, and finance minister reported directly to the central government rather than the subahdar (provincial governor). Matrix organization, I hear you thinking. This complex, multi-layered reporting structure, while designed for central control, also diffused responsibility and made the precise locus of decision-making less transparent to external observers and even to other officials.
In the Ming dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor abolished the Central Secretariat to assume personal control. However, the volume of letters got so high that he soon appointed a few grand secretaries. They never held a high rank and always merely “recorded imperial decisions”. If merely were a boxer he would be a heavyweight. Can’t blame that guy with the pen if he’s just doing what the king asks him to.
From the al-Andalus through the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals the the ulama shaped legal systems and molded public morality. Of course the monarchs decrees but the ulama interpreted them and applied them as law into daily life. This interpretive authority, operating subtly within the legal and religious bureaucracy, allowed for continuous adaptation and influence without the visible, attributable acts of formal legislation, making it profoundly antimemetic.
Let me end with the quote from the wonderful, and joyfully mimetic, Yes, Minister:
“Hacker: Humphrey, did you know that 20% of all honours go to civil servants?
Sir Humphrey: A fitting tribute to their devotion to duty, Minister.
Hacker: No, their duty is what they get paid for. The rest of the population has to do something extra to get an honour. Something special. They work for 27 years with mentally handicapped children six nights a week to get an MBE. Your knighthoods simply come up with the rations.
Sir Humphrey: Minister, her Majesty’s civil servants spend their lives working for a modest wage and at the end, they retire into obscurity. Honours are a small reward for a lifetime of loyal, self-effacing discretion and devoted service to Her Majesty, and to the nation.
Hacker: “A modest wage”, did you say?
Sir Humphrey: Alas, yes.
Hacker: Humphrey, you get over £30,000 a year! That’s £7,000 more than I get.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but still relatively the modest wage.
Hacker: Relative to whom?
Sir Humphrey: Well, Elizabeth Taylor, for example.
Hacker: Humphrey, you are not relative to Elizabeth Taylor. There are important differences.
Sir Humphrey: Indeed, yes. She didn’t get a first at Oxford.
Hacker: And you do not retire into obscurity?! You take a massive index-linked pension and go off to become directors of oil companies and banks.
Sir Humphrey: Oh, yes, but very obscure directors, Minister.
Hacker: You’re in no danger of the sack. In industry if you screw things up, you get the boot. In the civil service, if you screw things up, I get the boot.
Sir Humphrey: Very droll, Minister, now if you’ve approved the list…”
[Series Two (1981) Episode Two: Doing the Honours]
Sources
Much of the reading and sourcing of material for this was done across books from the Contraptions Book Club and some deep research help.
- Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin
- Monkey King: Journey to the West, the abridged Lovell edition
- Islamic Gunpowder Empires by Dougles E. Streusend
- Kingdoms of Faith by Brian A. Catlos
- Zheng He: China And the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 by Edward L. Dreyer
- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yes,_Minister
#alAndalus #Antimemetics #Bureaucracy #Defenestration #Government #HistoricalTheory #history #HistoryMemes #Humor #MingDynasty #MughalEmpire #OttomanEmpire #PoliticalSatire #PoliticalTheory #Politics #PowerStructures #Sociology #YesMinister
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Nature's Health Is Human Health: A Critical Analysis of WHO's Hypocrisy in the Ecological Crisis
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5327497
#WHO #OneHealth #PoliticalEcology #NatureRights #DiscourseAnalysis #NeoliberalHealthGovernance #PostcolonialEpistemology #Biopolitics #EcologicalImperialism #GlobalHealth #CriticalTheory #EnvironmentalJustice #HealthPolitics #EcologicalDiscourse #DecolonialThought #PowerStructures #HealthInequality #Capitalocene #EnvironmentalGovernance #KnowledgeSystems -
Nature's Health Is Human Health: A Critical Analysis of WHO's Hypocrisy in the Ecological Crisis
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5327497
#WHO #OneHealth #PoliticalEcology #NatureRights #DiscourseAnalysis #NeoliberalHealthGovernance #PostcolonialEpistemology #Biopolitics #EcologicalImperialism #GlobalHealth #CriticalTheory #EnvironmentalJustice #HealthPolitics #EcologicalDiscourse #DecolonialThought #PowerStructures #HealthInequality #Capitalocene #EnvironmentalGovernance #KnowledgeSystems -
Nature's Health Is Human Health: A Critical Analysis of WHO's Hypocrisy in the Ecological Crisis
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5327497
#WHO #OneHealth #PoliticalEcology #NatureRights #DiscourseAnalysis #NeoliberalHealthGovernance #PostcolonialEpistemology #Biopolitics #EcologicalImperialism #GlobalHealth #CriticalTheory #EnvironmentalJustice #HealthPolitics #EcologicalDiscourse #DecolonialThought #PowerStructures #HealthInequality #Capitalocene #EnvironmentalGovernance #KnowledgeSystems