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