“Jünger distinguishes between the “anarch,” who remains aloof from power and strives to retain his mental independence from it, and the “anarchist,” who acts out his resistance to power, usually because of uncontrolled desire for power. It is always the anarchist who goes to the gulag — the anarch, in fact, is often safer than even the true believer.
“For example, in our shitshow of a pandemic, the anarchist is lectured to wear a mask; because of this, he refuses to wear a mask. On a plane, he is ordered to wear a mask; either he submits to this order, grumbling about his rights, or he gets unruly.
“The anarch is lectured to wear a mask; he does not care much about the lecture, except as evidence of what certain people believe; he makes up his own mind about how well masks work, underweighting sources who seem to be in a political frenzy. Perhaps he was wearing a mask when masks were racist, and is still wearing one now that it’s righteous.
“When ordered (enforceably) to wear a mask, he wears one; if ordered to wear a Burger King crown, or a Manchu queue, or even a Sikh turban, he wears one as well. Power has its rights. The anarch knows this; he even knows he has no rights. The anarch is big into compliance.”
Maybe you should listen to what people tell you about their motives, Curtis, instead of automatically generating the same stupid slander every fucking time. Right, Hobbits and Ents are "usually" motivated by "uncontrolled desire for power."
The state says "thy muffler should make no more than 80 dB of noise". Anarchists defy.
The state says "gentlemen should use the men's locker room" Anarchists defy.
The state says "cover your face in public. Well until you sit down at your restaurant." Anarchists, please do not defy!
Is there some kind of "When in Rome..." aphorism, that the only laws a citizen should not defy are the nonsensical ones? Is there any precedence to this in any society that had a recorded history? Perhaps "sacred cow" comes the closest that I can think of.
“Jünger distinguishes between the “anarch,” who remains aloof from power and strives to retain his mental independence from it, and the “anarchist,” who acts out his resistance to power, usually because of uncontrolled desire for power. It is always the anarchist who goes to the gulag — the anarch, in fact, is often safer than even the true believer.
“For example, in our shitshow of a pandemic, the anarchist is lectured to wear a mask; because of this, he refuses to wear a mask. On a plane, he is ordered to wear a mask; either he submits to this order, grumbling about his rights, or he gets unruly.
“The anarch is lectured to wear a mask; he does not care much about the lecture, except as evidence of what certain people believe; he makes up his own mind about how well masks work, underweighting sources who seem to be in a political frenzy. Perhaps he was wearing a mask when masks were racist, and is still wearing one now that it’s righteous.
“When ordered (enforceably) to wear a mask, he wears one; if ordered to wear a Burger King crown, or a Manchu queue, or even a Sikh turban, he wears one as well. Power has its rights. The anarch knows this; he even knows he has no rights. The anarch is big into compliance.”
Maybe you should listen to what people tell you about their motives, Curtis, instead of automatically generating the same stupid slander every fucking time. Right, Hobbits and Ents are "usually" motivated by "uncontrolled desire for power."
I don't know how many times I've tried to google "Eumeswil" and failed because I couldn't spell it phonetically. Finally know wtf this book is.
The most important contribution this man may ever make is his take on poetry.
The state says "thy muffler should make no more than 80 dB of noise". Anarchists defy.
The state says "gentlemen should use the men's locker room" Anarchists defy.
The state says "cover your face in public. Well until you sit down at your restaurant." Anarchists, please do not defy!
Is there some kind of "When in Rome..." aphorism, that the only laws a citizen should not defy are the nonsensical ones? Is there any precedence to this in any society that had a recorded history? Perhaps "sacred cow" comes the closest that I can think of.