Say no to window licking. Stay in school.

Now.. The great other over there, long way across the oceans, is gone.

And now the great other who aren’t included in ’you’ is right here at home.

the burdens of ownership

All that varies, in material terms, is the label we apply: one power–wealth concentrating collective gets called “Congress” or “Parliament,” another gets called “Apple” or “Microsoft,” another gets call “Pentecostal Assemblies” or “Vatican.”

The objective of anyone but the ruling class ought to be to invert the operational direction of one or more of these collectives—towards decentralization—and to let the others either follow suit or dissolve consequently. The easiest one for a sufficiently organized decentralizing collective to redirect, anywhere with some degree of functioning democracy, is the one called “government.”

The hard part is acting as a well-organized collective, despite continuous efforts by all the centralizers to socially atomize us.

Why do I feel like it's becoming a cliché now. It's so true and so powerful, and yet it (apparently) needs to be repeated so often.