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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
When I say it’s hard to believe in Jesus, I mean it’s hard to believe in Jesus’s ideas—in his way of saving the world. For Christians it’s not hard to believe in Jesus as the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity—all the Christological stuff the church hammered out in the first five centuries. That’s not hard for us. What’s hard is to believe in Jesus as a political theologian.
A Farewell to Mars
Brian Zahnd
If you’re experiencing zero conflict day to day, then it’s very likely that you are ignoring conflict rather than resolving it.
Balancing Your CEO, Peers, and Engineering.
lethain.com
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