Yeah… I’d argue, from my anarchist view point, that Marx nearly had it. Humans and unjust hierarchies have existed longer than economics, so, I feel that to be an oversight on his part. To my thinking, economic division is a mechanism of creating or sustaining a hierarchy of classes. The problem isn’t purely economic nor sociological but both, that is socio-economic (like electricity and magnetism are make up electro-magnetism).

Economics (wealthy disparity), religion (castes), and violence are all mechanisms used to separate people into hierarchies of power and allow a small number to exercise power over others. Any hierarchy of societal power results in repression. The Soviets betrayed the Makhnovists, rolled tanks into Czechoslovakia to prevent self-determination, and committed genocide via forced relocation of “problematic” ethnic groups to destabilize any resistance to their hierarchy of power that made all subservient to Moscow.

I’m posting another comment because you seem to be genuinely interested in discussion the concepts that you are bringing up in your essay. I haven’t yet fully read it, though I have skimmed and will spend some time giving out a fair read.

I do not think that I’ll have much positive in my critical analysis based mainly upon my philosophical orientation (anarchist) and neurodivergence (AuADHD so, have strong feelings about what I perceive as just/unjust ex. hereditary rule is intrinsically unjust). From a writing style/communication perspective, it does seem, at a high level, to be well-written.

I’ll try to remember to get some time to read through the rest of it on the weekend.

No kings. No gods*. No masters.

*“gods” here referring to use of organized religion to coerce others.

I’d say it’s a superior text editor.

Emacs

It’s a sound choice. I don’t like to use it, personally, because I want to use something that uses same motions and syntax as editors on servers that I don’t own (ex. customers). And, I’m not a fan of Lisp. It’s a great and (self-)extensible text editor/lisp interpreter, though.

As a preface, I used to do this a lot on Reddit. My hobby (sounds odd) was to make a little old-school-blog-style post, detailing what I found interesting in gaming in the last week or so. I got a name for it, for a time, but having long-since abandoned reddit I thought I might try the same thing here, if you’ll indulge me!

Happy to have you posting!

That’s a good way to make some of us dedicate the energy to building and flashing custom firmware.

Is this an ASD thing? That would make a lot of sense for my own behavior, if so.

Meanwhile republicans don’t even criticize their own for committing crimes so they continue to win elections.

I think that’s a pretty bad takeaway. Republicans and other authoritarians oppose criticism of leadership, requiring obedience. That’s not something to aim for, IMO.

No. Demand a cut of the ad revenue as they are using your property as a billboard.

Probably a terrible idea. I do also have a sacrificial HP in the garage to rip apart and try to implement a FOSS/OSHW controller for at some point. Maybe I’ll try with that eventually, supposing I can hack together a nozzle.

Oh no. Now I’m thinking about whether I can make fountain pen ink work in my ecotank printer.