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By making violence pleasurable, fascinating, and entertaining, the Powers are able to delude people into compliance with a system that is cheating them of their very lives.
The Powers That Be
Walter Wink
So this is what I have come around to, this is how I have made sense of my obsession with anarchism: the first target of anarchistic practice ought to be whatever it is *in me* that resists anarchy—what resists negotiation, the turning toward the Other as neighbor and potential collaborator. I return to Odo’s line, *“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice,”* but I add this: The responsibility of choice arises when I acknowledge my own participation, in a thousand different ways, in the imposition of order on others. This is where anarchism begins; where the turning aside from the coldest of all cold monsters begins; where I begin. The possibility of anarchic action arises when I acknowledge my own will to power. Self-dispossession begins when I say to myself: *Je suis Sabul.*
Between Chaos and the Man
Alan Jacobs
Do you try to avoid biasing the information you get? …do you describe disagreement without revealing which side you were on, so as to avoid influencing your friend's answer? When you launch a new project at work, do you decide ahead of time what will count as a success and what will count as a failure…?
The Scout Mindset
Julia Galef
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