rumination

I suppose I’ll close out the week by reminiscing on the heady days when the US government at least pretended to prioritize its own citizens over corrupt relationships with its many fuckup client states. I wonder which president the Israelis will appoint for us in the fall, and how long it will be before the next administration moves the US capital to Jerusalem?

https://achrilock.com/2024/09/06/2235/

Also, YouTube, don’t give me a fucking popup about how ad blockers are not allowed. I make free content on your platform that you then monetize. Whatever I say is allowed is allowed. You are a fast food chain that sells other peoples’ internet food. Get over yourselves. Just make the damn servers work, collect your money, and shut the fuck up.

Also, why do we have civil rights and consumer protections in brick-and-mortar contexts but on the internet it’s all cowboy-nazi-drooling-tech-bro-technician-tier-social-reasoning-wild-west-bullshit? You guys ever think about that? About how the older generation of lawmakers is corrupt and out of touch? You ever wish COVID had done its fucking job and finished off all the B-ark people??

https://achrilock.com/2024/09/06/2233/

I mean, there has never, not once, been a democracy that has survived. They all turn into authoritarian constructs, which then disintegrate because *big shocker* authoritarians (whatever they call themselves) are always self-serving. Human societies tend to move from egalitarianism toward hierarchy, socially, politically, and economically. From diversity to homogeneity. From enough to excess to artificial privation.

Happens every time, again, regardless of how the grouping is styled or how it thinks of itself. The subjugation and exploitation of the individual in the name of the whole for the benefit of those doing the subjugating. And it doesn’t break because of universal justice or the human spirit or god or any nonsense like that. It breaks because it’s a flawed construct from the start. It doesn’t work because it can’t work. Because its only goal is selective comfort at another’s expense.

It ends up with one getting fitted for a throne while another is kicked to the curb, and the people in between sorted, rewarded and punished, based on their proximity and usefulness to either of these. I don’t think it’s an imperative of polities, but rather of human polities. Humans crave adoration, or at least nearness to that which is adored, and they loathe what is different, because in the wild what is different kills you while your band keeps you safe.

And it’s because humans don’t control those most out of control. You just thought of someone you hate when I said that, but I’m talking about those with the most power and excessive appetites. Two ingredients make up a failing society. A bad person or a group of bad people with practical power, and a group of people who lack the intelligence to see them for what they are, who surrender what agency they have to the system created by the maladjusted.

This is why systems based on rule by popularity, enforced or coerced, always fail. Because popularity is not a key component of a healthy, functional society in and of itself. It is why the stories of societies always end in either collapse or violent transformation, why the continuum always moves from openness and fairness to consolidation and hierarchy and ruin, and not in the other direction. Never in the other direction. The entropy of the collective soul.

Humans, collectively, and for the most part individually, simply lack the breadth of consciousness to surpass their evolved biological baggage. It’s why they made up gods. It’s why they make up laws. It’s why they have so many stories about virtue and righteousness, told and appreciated alike by liars. It’s why all of these constructs inevitably fail.

I don’t think there is a traditional way out, or a different way forward. I think if ‘the species’ or ‘the future’ or ‘morality’ or ‘justice’ are things people actually care about, then all of this is too important to leave to chance or popularity or strength of the moment.

Best find and/or create the best leaders, based on criteria that are not arbitrary or subjective or imaginary, and devote every available resource to bringing the rest up as close to that level as individually possible. That’s the only purpose that matters, at the sociopolitical level. The rest is either gratification or fantasy. And it has to be done without culling the fight out of everyone and turning them all into insects.

Or kill each other to death like always, until the planet burns everyone alive. It really doesn’t matter. The universe don’t care either way. The only question is: how much suffering is everyone willing to put up with while it all goes down the toilet? 💫

https://achrilock.com/2024/09/03/2200/

Yeah, historically speaking, about the only thing that brings real, lasting change is rioting. As a precursor to the tearing down and destruction of stale, self-serving, exploitative political orders. Moralizing and formal, symbolic protest are an absolute waste of time. These only provide power with a practical focus for counterinsurgency and an abstract social outline that it can grasp with its extensive network of tentacles. Historically speaking, violence reigns -_-

https://achrilock.com/2024/09/02/2192/

So many wise, rational, empathetic voices have been silenced by both the reactionaries and the corporate / fossil fuel / Blue MAGA / Zionist establishment. Haven’t said much, but I’ve been watching. They think it’s a win, that change is finally dead, but there’s another way of seeing it. Perhaps those voices were all that were holding it all together, and now that the mainstream is no longer worthy of them it will face the systemic consequences of its own making. The day will come.

For my part it’s even simpler. Choosing someone else over me, willfully misrepresenting me to others for some gain, disregarding my council, attempting to interfere with or sabotage my affairs, demeaning me and reducing me to a construct of what I supposedly am rather than what I have or haven’t done, these are irreversible, permanent decisions. Trust is the most expensive currency, and forgiveness too expensive in this world. Though we meet again after a thousand years, all will be remembered.

As I’ve so often said, I will sit back and say nothing, do nothing, while it all burns. That’s what you wanted. That’s what you will receive. Do not ask for help or support. Do not even hope for empathy. This polity, this world, is apparently not for me or my kind. So be it. We are separate souls, now, on separate journeys. Good luck.

https://achrilock.com/2024/08/29/2158/

My core philosophy was once that all life is intrinsically sacred and that the only goal that mattered was mitigating suffering, and that all social constructs should be geared toward that purpose. Nowadays it’s basically look, they don’t care about justice. They don’t care about rights. They don’t care about equality or suffering or sustainable futures, unless they can work some angle with it to benefit themselves. Everybody’s like that. You’re alone in this universe. Act like it. Fight or die.

https://achrilock.com/2024/08/25/2129/

It’s just cosmopolitan privileged brain rot, same as ever. As bad as rural backward brain rot but worse because these should supposedly know better. Israelis get to murder 40,000 people, without consequences or even official recrimination, because they are the in-group deserving of privilege. They get your tax money and they get to control your elections and your whole security apparatus because they are the in-group deserving of privilege.

Democrats get to do the same things Trump did because they are the in-group deserving of privilege. Urban wealthy elites get to drive even the BS dem fantasy agenda because they are the in-group deserving of privilege. Blue MAGA morons with stupid star trek memes and Red MAGA stochastic crypto throwbacks get left alone and anyone paying attention gets silenced or marginalized, because the in-groups deserve privilege.

Morality, politics, race, gender, none of that even matters. It’s the pretty, likeable, go-along-to-get-along-at-any-price corrupt cabals versus the disposables. It’s a transactional, tribal arrangement, with tribes holding representation within power structures or among gatekeepers coming out ahead of people basing their actions on objective observation and morality not derived from authority.

Colonialism of minds and thus control of practical outcomes. It’s not about taking and holding territory, anymore. It’s about taking and holding minds, particularly young ones, in a struggle to preserve disproportionate comfort for dying people in a dying global system.

So, it’s the same as it ever was, but it’s devolving as a viable social system because it’s happening very quickly, thanks to our instant communication capabilities (we don’t even have the evening delay we’d all get in a high school). But what it will lead to is a repeat of 2016. Maybe not tomorrow. Maybe not next cycle. But everyone is making the same mistakes, being the same small kinds of people. Nothing’s changed. 1968 ass lol.

https://achrilock.com/2024/08/21/2083/

Democratic Party ain’t about ending oppression. They are about providing opportunities to the loyal to become the oppressor. Authoritarian capitalism is an inherently oppressive system that requires disposable people. Every American, particularly the vulnerable outsider, understands this.

The right is overtly fascist. The dems offer you a choice. Serve (often generationally), drink the punch, and they’ll validate you. Try for real change and face ruin. It’s why their only issue is ‘the middle class.’ Because the middle class can be tamed, can be made to serve. Literally everyone else is disposable. Here or abroad. Closed borders. Genocides. Corporate technocracy straight to the top.

You can be part of it. You can be a ‘real’ person, recognized by other ‘real’ people. There’s a place for you in ‘the order,’ perhaps not at the top but certainly above someone. All you must do is accept the terms. Support the group. Abandon your most basic human morals in favor of the party line. Turn off your mind. And you may yet survive.

https://achrilock.com/2024/08/19/2057/

If you don’t resent executive authority for its very existence you aren’t living right. They already own you. Your mind is colonized. There is nothing special or inherently good about a leadership caste, about presidents or kings. We pretend to obey them because they will kill us if we do not. It’s that simple. You should hate them all and undermine them at every opportunity. Their very existence is an affront, an evil imposed upon you.

There are no ‘good’ ones. Power corrupts all. They are both the perpetrators of a corrupt, unjust, violent system and the victims of its corruption. Nobody decent ever seeks or is granted that much authority. And, once inside, people only worsen. Set aside Enlightenment ideals about ‘humanity.’ No. They don’t care about yours, you shouldn’t care about theirs. Only the imposition or neglect of suffering matters morally.

And, no, the law they supposedly exist to enforce does not exist for the benefit of the people. That’s what we have knowledge for, the knowledge of the difference between right and wrong. Knowledge that becomes action that becomes custom. Law exists to override those basic human impulses to preserve an abstract, artificial, exploitative order. There is no democracy. It doesn’t exist in the contemporary world.

Every turn of misfortune upon any oligarch or any of their political puppets is a blessing to be celebrated. Cultivate a healthy resentment and hatred of arbitrary authority and the people who sustain it, of those who have what you do not have but should. Do not take any of this seriously, ever. People taking the system and the people who control it seriously is how bad things happen.

Wars, economic crises, uncontrolled pandemics, environmental destruction, genocides, none of these are natural. They are decided upon by those you call your leaders. No polity larger than a city state is legitimate. And even that loses its legitimacy when an executive is appointed over others. They do not love ‘democracy.’ They love the comfort and protection they receive from your obedience, subjugation, and acceptance.

https://achrilock.com/2024/08/18/2047/

You know, I could lie. I could construct a façade so perfect no one would ever see through it. I could gather parasocial affections like flies on shit. I could convince people to hand me the keys to their kingdoms. I could have power and money and adoration. But I always self-sabotage it. I always choose truth. And the truth about it is I think I do it out of spite. To prove to myself I’m still real. To assail the omnipresent curated social lie with the unactionable rhetorical violence of truth.

https://achrilock.com/2024/08/17/2036/

The important thing for you monkey-prostitute antis to understand about enlightenment is that it is not surety. It is uncertainty. It is discomfort. It is anxious. When you feel this way often about nearly everything, even the familiar, you will have the scent. You will have sketched in the first corner of your custom map out of normie town. Good luck. Safe journey.

https://achrilock.com/2024/08/15/2025/