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Stability: order versus the hierarchy

Stability is not what your prefer it to be. In Agency (2023 substack.com version) I argued that freedom from/to is a dud concept. Medieval and bleh. Ever since stratified societies invented the city, or state, order is a by-word for peace, where everything and everyone is in their good place, such that Order has become a synonym with Stability. In many civilisations…

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Agency

Agency recognises the world we live in, not the one we fight over. All animals who are more equal than others, force King John into signing the magna carta © 2023 meika loofs samorzewski In A panarchy of relativism: and the meta of me and you (substack.com 2023) which follows on Panarchy and me from (substack.com 20230) I left room…

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Freedom to/from liberty… —lack thereof

policing the psychopaths without putting foxes in charge of the hen house Liberty is a problematic term because it presumes it lack. This is true of each term in the pair often contrasted in discussing freedom… —(free-from/free-to). Many discussions in liberalism/libertarian/anarchism spin in their orbits as they circle this bleak sun of lack. By doing so, and by glorifying the…

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Panarchy and me

Wherein I mention things that turn out to be examples foreshadowing themselves, but badly timed, of what is said later. Yes, I guess I always write like that. While across the Tasman sea for two weeks and somewhat out of contact, I read two pieces dealing with a similar issue. One on moral relativism, one on applied philosophy. The issue…

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Worlding: the minimum standards

It is likely that the worlding we do as religion or even philosophy, as drama or even industry, is a pre-existing condition. As such we tend to notice its success and take credit for them, even if they are natural to us, and blame them others over there… for their failures in the light of our own luck/efforts. Part of…

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