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Thanksgiving Day 2024 | Communitarianism for the Distracted

December 19, 2024 in Columnists, News by RBN Staff

BY LARK IN TEXAS

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Thanksgiving Day 2024

Communitarians posit that this “all-encompassing -ism” – as a form of governance or system of asset or resource management, especially and including those resources of the human kind – is so perfect that it need not give rise to any future [or further] conflict or debate in the familiar Hegelian dialectical modeling formula… within, shall we say, a much grander scheme of things.

One can easily imagine living in the hell-hole of a police state. In a zero trust economy…

… for, yes, we have arrived.

Thus IT/AI has very simply been used to usher in an iterative form of modern totalitarianism.

A form of voluntary servitude, one could say.

And IT actually has a name [or a label] attached to IT.

IT also has a law attached to IT.

Which is why its significance.

Man will voluntarily agree to be managed through his/her love affair with his/her own choosing of toys.

Which s/he considers that they just could not survive anymore without.

So Man will be ruled by Machine.

While tacitlty, unwittingly submitting to being systematically poisoned, like 24/7. In every which way – even every occulted way – imaginable.

Thus, s/he will enthusiastically embrace their new imprisonment by cheerfully consenting to also being poisoned – as a means to reducing their blight on a finite world… with less-than-infinite resources.

(Ha-ha… so, yea, right!)

Hence, they made themselves unwitting dupes and useful idiots – just like Lenin predicted. Stampeding like frightened bison towards the edge of the abyss.

You became that hapless insect ensnared by the Spider’s Web of the World Wide Web (WWW?).

End of story.

1961: Aldous Huxley on the power of TECHNOLOGY!

1961: Aldous Huxley on the power of TECHNOLOGY! | In Conversation | Classic Interviews | BBC Archive

Then and Now:
Medieval Feudalism v Corporate Feudalism

“All men, as long as they remain men, before letting themselves become enslaved must either be driven by force or led into it by deception. When they lose their liberty through deceit they are not so often betrayed by others as mislead by themselves.”
– The Politics of Obedience:The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude* (First published in 1548)

By Étienne de La Boétie

Read IT and weep.

https://alarkintexas.wixsite.com/website/post/then-and-now-medieval-feudalism-v-corporate-feudalism

Then and Now: Medieval Feudalism v Corporate Feudalism

Do a search using the above keywords. Then notice the many images. See the connection?Here, I’ll suggest a link for you.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Then+and+Now%3A+Medieval+Feudalism+v+Corporate+Feudalism&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images The corporation is a

*Introduction in a modern rendition written by Murray Rothbard

https://mises.org/library/book/politics-obedience-discourse-voluntary-servitude

Sidenote: This book was

M. La Boétie’s response to “The Prince,” (1532) by Niccolo Macchiavelli

The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude | Online Library of Liberty

Boetie asks one of the most basic questions of political theory: why is it that a minority of rulers can remain in power over a majority of subjects who pay all the taxes. His answer is that most of the subjects willingly submit to rule by a minority

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/kurz-the-discourse-of-voluntary-servitude

Read it here:

Etienne De La Boetie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Étienne de La BoétieBorn: November 1, 1530Died: August 18, 1563Education: College of Guienne, University of OrléansDiscourse on Voluntary Servitude:Most…

https://archive.org/details/0000-00-00-00-etienne-de-la-boetie-00_202201

“The Prince”

The Prince – Wikipedia

UTOPIA | Omeleto

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DdjQKHZDx/

Aman Jabbi

The Hollow Men (1925)

Poem by T.S. Elliott

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper

The Hollow Men – Wikipedia

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men

Tech Crazies Gone Wild

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18XpJQkJuW/

“Hey, Let’s Talk about the ‘C’ People!”

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GKsz4XCGL/

“Amusing Ourselves to Death” (1985)

Neil Postman contrasted the worldviews of George Orwell and his mentor, Aldous Huxley.

Whose worldview held forth?

All The Things You Never Even Knew You Wanted To Know About Neil Postman

https://neilpostman.org/

Cindy Niles

The Third Way

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14mYB1pnaA/

Johnny Vedmore

3 C’s and a Few Wyrds More

My final entry

https://alarkintexas.wixsite.com/website/post/3-c-s-and-a-few-wyrds-more

Problem, Reaction, Solution

More… plus short video tutorials here…

On Communitarianism: Collected Musings – April 2020

https://alarkintexas.wixsite.com/website/post/on-communitarianism-collected-musings-april-2020

Jenna Shaputis

An “all-encompassing -ism”? Whatever does this mean?

What might IT portend?

Lark on Communitarianism

https://alarkintexas.wixsite.com/website/post/lark-on-communitarianism

Lark on Communitarianism

Below is a concise yet comprehensive listing of the various schools of thought [~isms] which help to define this one abstruse, multi-syllabic, seemingly innocuous sounding representative word – communitarianism – that, in turn… and when combined alto

Communitarianism: First Things First

https://alarkintexas.wixsite.com/website/post/communitarianism-first-things-first

Communitarianism: Tyranny With a Smiley Face (Includes 29m19s audio recording)

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18BxKh4PkS/

Lynn Strawn Davenport

Swallowing an Elephant

A good place, perhaps, to start…

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1WeWzA2pp1/

Moral Relativism, Bioethics, Game Theory, and Communitarianism

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19WjZTUibz/

Julianne Romanello

Two years ago on Facebook…

I wanted to make this available to friends of Niki Friedrich Raapana here on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B4t5hzDdt/

The Art of Memetics

The Art of Memetics Search: meme theory; memetic engineering; memetic warfare These are the “things” today’s top tier marketers, political scientists, economists, social scientists, military strategists, and propagandists are hip to so that they can

https://alarkintexas.wixsite.com/website/post/the-art-of-memetics

Trust Your Gut

Trust Your Gut As we make our ways through this lifetime… we realize more and more we must trust our instincts and intuition… when it comes right down to it; and so we’d all do well to just trust our guts… especially when all else can so easil

https://alarkintexas.wixsite.com/website/post/trust-your-gut

9 WORDS

• (1) COMPLIANT

• (2) COMPLAISANT

• (3) COMPLICIT

• (4) COUNTER-ECONOMICS

• (5) AUTARCHY

• (6) AUTARKY

• (7) LAW (CO[U]NTEACT

• (8) WELL-BEING-NESS

• (9) ECONO-ME

Remember just 9 words to free yourself from slavespeak and communitarian codespeak.

Divided into 3 groupings of 3 words each.

https://alarkintexas.wixsite.com/website/post/9-words

Cindy Niles

Two weeks or so ago…

NEWSPASTE Podcast:

Lark Cumbie – Communitarianism Uber Alles!

https://rokfin.com/post/192943/NEWSPASTE-Podcast-Lark-Cumbie–Communitarianism-Uber-Alles

Johnny Vedmore

Humbled and Defanged

Maria Williams

Humbled and Defanged Official video

Shooter

Angela Autumn

Angela Autumn | “Shooter” | Western AF

In Dreams

Sierra Ferrell

Sierra Ferrell, “In Dreams” // GemsOnVHS™

Fox Hunt

Sierra Ferrell

Sierra Ferrell – Fox Hunt (Official Audio)

West Virginia native on 2025 Grammy nominees list

https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/west-virginia-native-on-2025-grammy-nominees-list/amp/

Stand By Me

(Ben E King cover)

Live at the Print Shop

Stephen Wilson Jr

Stephen Wilson Jr. – “Stand By Me” [Ben E. King Cover] (Live at the Print Shop)

Further related:

H/T Crystal Stone

“Plumped up breasts…”

https://www.facebook.com/share/17vGMdfxKD/

{Free to share}

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19uoyV8rEu/

Commumitarianism for the Distracted

Upon reading Julianne’s most recent post…

Julianne Romanello

This is an excellent piece on COMMUNITARIANISM – the ideological program currently driving all mainstream political, economic, and “civil society” activity. Most of its proponents and agents have no…

… I was encouraged to weigh in.

*** Sidenote: Notice my comment at the link above. Since you are, undoubtedly, DISTRACTED, allow me to include it word for word here for your convenience.

Begin…

So I have this big fat mouth and I tend towards wordiness.

But mere words often fail me nonetheless. This writer spells it out pretty darned well; and your intro is also well wrought.

Why still so few have the guts to even say this word aloud?

If there’s a single word in the English language that most succinctly is deserving of our focus and attention, it’s this one. Ain’t there also a law…

But what do I know? I’m old and illiterate. Hey, ya wanna know somethin’?

I’m distracted.

‘Xcuse while I fend off this robocall. The wind just blew another leaf. Me poor bwain’s feelin’ fried. Here goes… agin’.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/WqcnVhPpRxWBjHcz/

Thr link is a trackback to my own post. Which probably accomplished nothing. Now… am I suggesting you disregard reading Julianne’s post? No.

What she links to, though, is the short essay on Substack penned by Rob Willson in the UK. Who styles himself…

The Anti-Communitarian

And IT’s title?

Communitarianism for the Distracted 😉

https://robwillson.substack.com/p/communitarianism-for-the-distracted

Read it!

You might want to consider even reading it on-air tonight (Thursday) or tomorrow, on Friday, for the sole benefit of anyone still paying attention.

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Distracted? I’d say this is an understatement. In a word, IT spells our real-life conquest…

… IT smells of our demise… or else our enslavement.

This ain’t funny to me. IT’s jest not some friggin’ joke.

Nearly every other word this writer speaks to is… by now, hackneyed… old hat… and it’s, yes… in a word… boilerplate.

To borrow a word from Goy Roy.

Although I agree with you, Julianne, that it’s timely and well written.

Roy grew up in a whole family of spooks. His mom and dad had encouraged him to attend Chabad school once a week in his youth. So he’d become fluent in their ways with pilpul logic.

A somewhat combative language… of a peculiar, rather specialized mode.

Of what must politely be called… argumentation.

It was they themselves who’d given Roy such the way-cool nickname.

Because I guess they thought they could diminish him… by belittling him.

But Roy had grown up fast in Detroit. So they didn’t realize he could parry with them.

‘Cause he never once bent over… and just took their beatings… OR their shite…

… for they learned this goy could lay ’em to waste!

Since along the way he got Jew-wise.

His schoolboy nickname was well deserved and hard-earned – at the ripe old age of 65 today, he’s worn it like a badge of honor… his entire adult life.

Oh… and before I forget.

Remember this guy?

(Here, my reference is of a personal one for Julianne. It was in regards to the time when she sparred with Gilad Atzmon at the invitation of Jason Bosch (argusfest) some 3 years ago. Do note that our friend Julianne did her college dissertation at Baylor Univ. on Eric Vogelin. This may be why she let slip that brief chuckle when the Jew dude (Atzmon) made mere mention of Leo Strauss.)

IWWH Ep. 22: Gilad Atzmon & Julianne Romanello

Julianne Romanello

Pilpul for Beginners

Pilpul for Beginners — Gilad Atzmon thoughts and music

Some days it sucks to be me.
I felt as much five years ago. And ten years ago. Fifteen…
‘The Communitarian Agenda’ will never stop itself on its own. This is the primary reason I’ll soon be freeing myself… from this trying cyber addiction… of incessantly scrolling and surfing…
… everyday a-surfin’ ‘n’ a-scrollin’…
… this f’k’n’ internet thingie!
It’s gotten me precisely to where I am to date.
Nowhere.
And IT’s been hard on my health.
My new goal is to finally engage those dastardly locals nearby me… in the real world.
You know. Reality.
Like eyeball to eyeball.
Face to face.
Oh but they won’t see me coming… I promise. They’ll see me as the dog’s dinner.
I may even live long enough to tell ya about it – one long and splendid, even sordid tale… deserving to be told.
If I can’t… or don’t… I hope y’all will live long enough to recount your own story.
It’ll be better than mine… I can promise you that too.

The Communitarian Agenda
The “Communitarian” Agenda – Windows on the World

The “Communitarian” Agenda – Windows on the World

What is Communitarianism? The term “Communitarian” originated in the 19th century and was defined as: “a member of a community formed to put into practice communistic or socialistic theories,” Webster’s changed the definition in 1909 to mean: ‘of,

On a sidenote…

Neil, I guess follows Mark. And me thinks Rob follows Mark. Or else Neil. Or who the hell can really tell… who the hell else?

Or well…

Hence Mark’s two most recent installments of his ‘Windows on the World’ are titled…

Lose your mind – the Earth is in their hands

Eva Frank – The Fake Royal Messiah

See what I mean? This writer has it about right.

Distracted.

It’s been the story of our lives.

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