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-# anarchocovenism
+# Anarchocovenism
+Anarchocovenism is an open source religion. 
+
+# Why?
+
+As we enter the terminal phases of capitalism, many have realized that
+we must escape. But how? Capitalism and the modern liberal state are a
+mutation of divine right feudalism. They are a new story created to
+justify an old order. Structurally, divine right feudalism and late
+stage capitalism are quite similar: power is passed by birthright,
+structured as a pyramid, and justified by invoking an invisible and
+incomprehensible power.
+
+The lineage that lead to the feudal state obviously leads through the
+church. More interestingly, the very first institutions that look
+states came directly from ancient temples. The state has always been a
+religious institution. The modern narrative of the secular state is
+ultimately a deception (intentional or not). Some have pointed out
+that late stage capitalism and the liberal states that embrace it
+resemble a death cult. This is, in fact, literally true.
+
+Then the question becomes, how does one escape a cult who's members
+are backed by and include police and military forces around the world?
+
+It is sometimes the case that information derived from one type of
+system can be used to understand another, and some rules apply to all
+sufficiently complex systems. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem proves
+that any system as complex as mathematics is necessarily either
+inconsistent or incomplete. Gödel violated the constraints of
+Typographical Number Theory by encoding the system within itself so
+that it could ignore those constraints. 
+
+This pattern of attack should be familiar to anyone who's ever
+violated the technical security constraints of a jail or sandbox
+system. For anyone not familiar, a "jail" or "sandbox" is a set of
+constraints applied to a programming language or operating system such
+that the possible behaviors are more limited than the set normally
+available within the operating system or language. As a (simplified
+but) concrete example, sometimes an incorrectly configured Linux
+container can be escaped by mounting /dev/ within the container,
+mounting the hard drive inside of that, and pivoting the root to the
+mounted drive. 
+
+This pattern can be applied to any system of rules.
+
+The State justifies it's existence by providing services. It collects
+taxes (ostensibly) to pay for those services. It does not pay
+taxes. It has the ability to create rules and enforce those rules on
+it's citizens. Within the US, there is an institution that collects
+money to pay for services, does not pay taxes, and can selectively
+ignore some of the rules of the state. Churches, via the 1st
+amendment, are able to reference and modify the rules of the state
+without directly leveraging power against the state. These
+institutions are a source of inconsistency.
+
+Christian nationalists have leveraged this inconsistency to build a
+dual power system, through which they can manipulate the operation of
+the state. Every crack they create is one we should be able to
+leverage against them.
+
+The strategy of the right in the US within the political system is to
+block and dismantle supportive state institutions as rapidly as
+possible through any means available. While the moderates (since there
+is no left) rush to restore these institutions, the right expands
+systemic violence. This strategy requires little to no competence to
+execute (as demonstrated by Trump). Meanwhile, the strategy of
+creating and supporting institutions is incredibly laborious. Because
+it is easier to destroy than to build, any strategy that focuses on
+the destruction of state institutions will inevitably succeed. 
+
+This is why we should create an open source religion. We can remove
+supportive institutions from the domain of the state. As the Syrian
+Civil War demonstrated, whomever provides bread in a famine becomes
+the defacto authority. As the state removes support, it loses it's
+legitimacy and becomes dispensable. Meanwhile, an institution that
+provides support gains legitimacy and becomes indispensable.
+
+The only problem with religions is that they tend to be used to
+control people. This is why we should create an open source
+religion. Religion should serve the needs of people, not the other way
+around.
+
+# How?
+
+Run `build.sh` to build the epub, pdf, and html versions of the
+initial text. 
+
+Use this as is or fork it to form your own coven (legally a
+church). Push changes back if you think they would be valuable. This
+is the first repository, but it should not be the only. It
+*absolutely* should not be considered authoritative, as no such
+concept can or should exist for this religion.
 

build.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+emacs anarchocovenism.org --batch -f org-html-export-to-html --kill
+# emacs anarchocovenism.org --batch -f org-epub-export-to-epub --kill
+emacs anarchocovenism.org --batch -f org-latex-export-to-pdf --kill