Peace is when a conversation begins in a question.
War is when a dialogue begins in an answer.
Peace is when a dialogue ends in a question.
War is when a conversation ends in an answer.
Author: hermestrismegistus
On the sustainability of “progress”
I’ve been told the wide substitution of any type of worker is not economically sustainable for the elite.
I don’t think economical sustainability has ever stopped any industrial revolution.
If the elite owns, at its own discretion: energy, materials, transformation plants, scientific knowledge, a military, and workforce; then finance is not needed, not as instrument of dominion, not as instrument of personal gain, and not as an instrument of competition. Some call this “techno-feudalism”.
Elites strive to render subjects superfluous and instrumental to their ends: they are the kings, the gods, the aliens, the superior race, the owners. We are the subjects, the disciples, the cattle, the inferior, the slaves.
It has always been the case, and every time the elite gets eaten, submission into slavery starts again.
We could be hungrier than this.
On gender
Observe how delicate the movements
when a gown is long or unimpeded.
Observe then how abrupt the movements
when a gown is short or resistant.
From long gowns then gentle is expected,
and abrupt is not,
for who wills to be gentle keeps their gown long and free,
and who wills to be abrupt does not.
Choice in clothes is freedom, and peace:
observe then how soldiers can only wear uniforms,
so they shall never be gentle, and
observe then how priests can only wear gowns,
so they shall never be abrupt.
Even them, in secret, can be seen
in each others’ clothes.
As you’ve ended up here
If this means anything to you: yes, it is all true.
On walking
To be walking together, two have to go at the same pace.
Observe who slows down for others.
Help who sits.
Le 20 giornate di torino
Dal 3 luglio al 23 luglio del 1967, a torino, venti giornate hanno scosso la cittadina in un silenzio di tomba.
Del resto del ’68, del ’77 e perfino delle Olimpiadi ne parlano ancora tutti, del ’67 nessuno.
In quei giorni, una manciata di persone veniva ritrovata spappolata per la strada senza apparente ragione. Le indagini non portarono mai a niente, e il ’68 fece come un reset sull’attività delle forze dell’ordine, se qualcosa da resettare ci fosse mai stato.
Eppure, la pista politica anche sul ’67 si poteva considerare ed è stata invocata: quella anarchica, ed è durata ben poco. Altri colori non vennero mai dipinti sulla tela dell’eccidio.
In questi ultimi mesi il tema sembra essere tornato in voga, proprio per la similitudine tra questo periodo e quello, nel paese, nell’aria, ma soprattutto a torino, con le sue contraddizioni sociali, produttive e ambientali di nuovo al culmine, di nuovo polveriera, tombata col cemento. Analogia che però, a quanto se ne parla, non dovrebbe ricorrere così facilmente alla mente, né così collettivamente. Silenzi collettivi, quelli della coscienza sporca, a cui si potrebbe cercare di dare un perché.
Insomma, non rimane che raccogliere i cocci di ieri, e combinarli con quelli di oggi, consapevoli delle fratture insanabili con le forze dell’ordine e i servizi segreti, con l’attuale governo come con i precedenti, e coscienze storiche impolverate e borghesi, insomma: fasciste.
Con sospetto, e collettivamente.
On being dynamite
Consider the dynamite, that blows regardless: such is the nature of who understands to destroy, and destroys to understand.
Consider the lens, that discriminate regardless: such is the nature of who understands to see, and sees to understand.
What is the opposite of dynamite, that creates regardless?
What is the opposite of lens, that accomunate regardless?
Observe how gravity follows the explosions, making unity of anything.
Observe how knowledge follows the sciences, making unity of anything.
Is there a choice in what is destroyed?
Is there a choice in what is observed?
Observe how reconstruction follows the war, and generalization follows observation.
Observe how peace follows violence, and agreement follows disagreement.
Observe how war and sciences are one.
Observe how peace and knowledge are one.
Observe how, in learning how to make any from anything, the need to destroy is lost.
Observe how creation is the only true power, and creates in the creator.
Observe how destruction is the only true weakness, and destroys in the destroyer.
As all are true to the Cosmos, observe how they can be thought opposite, and how they are in fact one.
And as perfection is not of this Cosmo, see how the perfect creation is not in the perfect design nor in the perfect construction, but in the destruction that frees the chained from its unwilled shapes.
For what is free is what joins and disjoints again according to its will, and not that of any creator.
On rituals
Rituals are relations that accelerate.
The most complete ritual is that which, affecting the different differently, and affecting the same similarly, achieves so that the ritual can be considered different in any, and same in all.
The most incomplete ritual is that which, affecting the different similarly, and affecting the similar differently, achieves so that the ritual can be considered different between two.
The Emerald Tablet
(A) truth; no doubt [it] is true
indeed, the uppermost is from the lowermost and the lowermost is from the uppermost,
[it] worked the wonders from one, (just) as all things come from one by means of one plan/with one considered act,
[its] father is the sun, [its] mother is the moon,
the wind carried [it] in her womb, the earth fed [it],
father of talismans, keeper of wonders, perfect in power,
fire became earth, separate the earth from the fire,
the soft/delicate/gentle/subtle is more noble than the crude/rough/unintelligent/gross,
with gentle-being and wisdom [it] ascends from the earth to the heaven and descends to the earth from the heaven,
and in [it] is the power of the uppermost and the lowermost,
since with [it] is the light of lights therefore the darkness escapes (away) from [it],
power of powers
it prevails over everything soft/delicate/gentle/subtle, enters into everything crude/rough/unintelligent/gross,
against the creation of the macrocosm the work was created,
this is my renown and therefore I am named Hermes the threefold with the wisdom.
On mirrors
Observing through everything, all truth is in the observed.
Observing through a mirror, all truth is in the observer, and in what they are not, and they are complementary and they are the same.
Observing through a one-sided mirror, two people see the same truth differently, and they are compatible, and they are not the same.
Observing through a one-sided wall, two people see different truths similarly, and they are not compatible, and they are the same.
Observing through eachother, all truth is in the observers, and in what they are not, and they are complementary, and they are the same.
Observing through nothing, all truth is in the observer.