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The unholy spirit (think mood or attitude) of the satanic is the inclination to blame, accuse, and recriminate. (The words satan and devil both mean to accuse and blame.)
A Farewell to Mars
Brian Zahnd
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
Did I do my best to make progress toward my goals today?
Triggers
Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
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