The Islamic State horrifies us because they do violence to our symbols, not just innocent lives

A rebuke by Vlad Taneev from Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Blue Mars”.
"If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, the why should people give up these rights when they enter the workplace?"
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A couple of paragraphs from the book, “Formation of the State” by Lawrence Krader
"The myth," to paraphrase Malinowski, "is the founding charter of the state."
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“Anarchism Without Adjectives” by Kevin Carson
"So what can we say about the general outlines of a stateless society? "

The “so called” Islamic State
The 'so called' Islamic state... Is a state.

All bow before our Hive Mind God
The mass interaction within the internet may herald new holons
“A Memoir (of sorts)”
My good friend Jacob Hilton wrote this a little ways back about his experience using workaway.info (i’ll have a link at the bottom) to plan his world travels and as i would refer to it, a “mini-retirement”. My girlfriend and i …

Time to go native, yall. (Chimer Part 1)
Thoughts on the American Identity Crisis and spontaneous ethnicity.
Colonize right back.
When you gaze at humanity, humanity gazes back.
Dr. Pierre van den Berghe on the state
"Let me offer, if not a definition of the state, at least an apt description of what many states do much of the time: States are killing machines run by the few to steal from the many."