#137

Smashing the State is way fashionable right now, not just for anarchists but for youthful grandparents and kindergarten teachers, only not the way that doesn't work. Not a job for physical hammers. A different way that does not work but is deceptively disorienting for everyone is simply using the internet, just firing it up and taking it in through the eyes.

Today, nearly one-fifth of the way through this bold new century, we apply corrosive meta-substances to the State by way of chatter and static. This ensures that nothing people want to destroy will melt away so fast that something else can't fill the niche, including blind faith and entrenched institutional powers.

See, hammers aren't just for taking stuff apart. Their collective impact is also known for building stuff up, for making certain metals under certain conditions much harder than they were in the first place.

In short, if you feel like a virus--a badass agent of chaos who jacks back into the Matrix just to be a hero-terrorist--you are probably a vaccination. 

Everything you think you're outsmarting and vanquishing and killing, laughing at you as it fucks you for pleasure and profit and grows stronger off your efforts.

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When people say "this is why we can't have nice things" they mean that human nature fucks up our chances for living a ghastly, sterile unreality. "Nice things" means "everything exactly how I want it".

I, for one, am glad that everything is fucked. I do not want nice things.

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No accretion of balanced equations creates the conditions for a balanced system. Irrational equations are a fundamental part of reality and it is their imbalance which creates the conditions for the relatively stable "band" of complex algorithms which we call life. 

Everybody has to deal with shit that they don't like.

--JL