A Mixed Bag

Ok. I will try to write about the intersection between politics and theology. Good luck . First of all I don’t expect too many to understand the angle I wish to highlight in some sense in this post, and second of all, this subject is so explosive that whatever a reader takes from this it might be highly offensive to them, I don’t know. Politics sucks, in so many ways, but the way it undeniably creates division and hatred is god damn depressing. Anyway, the starting point I would like to begin with is the sober realization that people in the general west have lost their theological language and therefore the ability to understand issues of a higher nature than the relatively mundane reality we can explore with secular language tools. I don’t want to blame anyone but the religious crowd for this loss, we among the religious have through centuries weaponised all kinds of theological language in order to topple each other down for the goal of being correct . The consequence of this behavio...

I am indeed an anarchist. Through the intense events of the years since Malta this has remained true, but what may have changed since then is that the identity as an anarchist has gotten more to do with my existential views than what politics may concern. In a way anarchy in politics is a dead end, it doesn't mean too much. If there are no rulers, no primary groups, organisations or individuals that are given the right to lead, act as arbiters in conflicts or punish when so is necessary there isn't much of a society at all. Of course there are suggestions for systems that would be in place of the NAP-assaulting form of ruler we have today within anarcho-capitalism but in a world of chimpanzees the suggestions of orangutangs doesn't carry too much weight. There is a mentality in humanity that makes any form of political anarchism either a hellscape or an eternal abstraction.  * In this text I would like to talk about the main reason, the main aspect of the human mind, that m...

It's time.  In a sense I wished this place would leave politics out of it, beyond my explorations of the anarcho-capitalistic ethics but I can't really hold the door keeping the pesky subject of politics out any longer. The world is simply all too weird.  Listen, the reason I don't wish to care for politics is because that field by its very nature is meant to divide and sow resentment between groups. To a certain degree this is unavoidable because there are undeniably different groups out there in society at large and these needs to find a way to co-exist - violently or not, with hostility or not, the possible path ways needs to be found, explored and discussed and this activity is politics by its very definition. Still, how you do this can be quite different and today our democratic discourse is simply not honest. To my mind it seems like a theater meant to create and build up existing divisions instead of actually trying to reach agreeable solutions to as many groups as p...

  It’s been a while. I won’t dwell on why I have been absent from this project, but I just want it to be on the record that I absolutely love what I’ve been absorbed into instead and it is somewhat a pity that I can’t really show or talk about what that is in a public setting. Life is odd. The only sad thing with the redirection of my focus is that I had such an abundance of ideas for texts to be written, and an initial commitment to get them out before the summer became to strong too ignore, but alas - the ideas are still left unwritten and now I’m not too sure if I will care about them in the same way. We’ll see. * I’m back though in order to talk about a new group of… friends that have entered my consciousness and I like to present them here if only for my own future remembrance. These characters are an example of “spiritual creativity” and I realise it might be necessary for me to stress the “Kastrupian ambiguity” about this category of beings, as it is in this case. This group...

Partiet Tomma Stolarna (Demokraterna) Detta parti vill verka för en enda sak: Motverka korruption och girighet inom svensk politik! Detta ska göras genom att verka för att a) antalet platser i politiska församlingar på riks, landstings och kommunnivå ska halveras b) varje politikers arvode ska halveras så långt det är möjligt, oavsett nivå och befattning. Detta inkluderar sådant som lön, fallskärmsavtal, partistöd och andra typer av stöd till politiska befattningar och partier via offentliga medel. Det är viktigt att påpeka att denna enda målsättning inte grundar sig på politikerförakt eller missaktning för vår demokrati. Nej, närmast tvärtom. Vi anser att ett parti av vår sort behövs för att den nödvändiga politik som är tänkt att genomföras i vårt land ska hålla sig sund och korruptionsfri. Vi vill vara en motpol mot de destruktiva tendenser i form av exempelvis girighet och överflödig byråkrati som politiken och politikern alltid behöver kämpa emot och vi vill se oss som en utsträ...