On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Zero.9.0

xxix. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not beyond or between itself. It must go under but can resurface. The failures do not. Some things are worse than death.

xxx. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not its own end. Everything becomes superceded. Some actually know it.

xxxi. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not afraid of initiative. Compulsion is another matter.

On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Zero.8.0

xxv. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not a cure but it can become diseased.

xxvi. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not something more or less greater than any other professional archetype. It does have a more unpleasant destiny than most. The most notable exceptions are the police and criminal archetypes. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not either; it can become either through degeneration and uplift.

xxvii. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not avenging rather more surgical.

xxviii. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not greater than the sum of its parts.

On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Zero.7.0

xxi. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not its own myth.

xxii. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not a resident of a single shade.

xxiii. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not a thing unto itself.

xxiv. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not a cure but it can become diseased.

On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Zero.6.0

xviii. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not reactive nor reactionary. The world moves on and one must move with it to avoid being crushed by the wheels of history (or drowned).

xix. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not useful without a cause but can happily live without. One doesn't always need to be doing something.

xx. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not ever going to go away, unless and until it is replaced by something worse. Someone will always need to fight. The pastoral days are over.

On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Zero.5.0

xiv. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not just doing but thinking; it can even be empathic.

xv. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not either passive aggressive nor active aggression. The reaction is certainty. Knowing and doing are powerful compliments beyond division.

xvi. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not a worshiper of death nor necessarily a bearer. It can deliver a beating. It knows the better victories are accomplished without lifting a finger.

xvii. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not a matter of faith but can be spiritual

On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Zero.4.0

x. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not affiliation beyond affinity. It can begin otherwise.

xi. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not cultural but can be a part of culture.

xii. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not what one wants it to be.

xiii. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not degeneration.

On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Zero.3.0

vii. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not the sum of its feared and trusted parts.

viii. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not theater but can use it. A posture can be either escalation or de-escalation. It might signify a willingness to avoid and unleash or not. In a world of long range retaliation, image can mean anything and everything when exploited to Maximum Advantage in all Things. As the path is cleared by all, the truly strong can walk away.

ix. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not its own highest order. It may descend.

On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Zero.2.0

iv. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not without honor but can be. Some choices are difficult. In a decadent society and culture, honor needs to be re-claimed, re-gained and re-taught. Failures slide into history's dustbin. All empires crumble. Their failures are not pretty but can be mitigated by acceptance. One should never kneel.

v. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not avoidance nor seeking. One better goes where one needs. Arbitrary control destroys the spirit of This Modern Warrior Archetype and becomes another stillborn.

vi. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not predator nor prey. A game warden is more benign and less innocent.

On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Zero.1.0

–Shadow and Light

Draft 2.0 – Summer/Fall 2005

This feature is a chapter in a work in progress called Backlash. The product is a result of artistic license and hopefully less boring.

Part Zero.

What This Modern Warrior Archetype is not–

i. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not a mass media creation. This archetype will never be a mass media creation; it's roots are far too ancient. Affect is not effect. The best mirror is heavily distorted and can never be. The world is not 2-dimensional. False constraints are only worth ignoring.

ii. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not a product of government. This archetype is useful and even necessary for the state; but only within limits. Else, the prisons and jails would not be loaded with veterans. As before, This Modern Warrior Archetype will outlive the state. The rest will die with it.

iii. This Modern Warrior Archetype is not above anything but can be below falling down and apart.

Excerpts from ANARCHISTS IN THE SPANISH REVOLUTION by José Pierats #1

Excerpt from ANARCHISTS IN THE SPANISH REVOLUTION
Part 1 - Preface
by José Pierats
Published by Freedom Press, London, 1990

Regarding the Spanish Revolution and the Paris Uprising:

The Spanish revolution has had both an external and an internal continuity. Until recently the exterior had a monopoly, because virtually all of the works on the Spanish revolution were published abroad. This literature suffered at first from political writers, who with rare exceptions distorted the history to fit their particular perspective. Hence the conspiracy of silence concerning the revolutionary accomplishments of the CNT, FAI and part of the revolutionary socialists. But beginning in the 1950's, and continuing to the present the revolutionary truth of those accomplishments has begun to be known. Scholars in Anglo-saxon countries and others made major contributions to the process of demystifying the Marxists and fellow travellers, in their effort to understand fully and profoundly the "War in Spain" (for they did not refer to it as the "Spanish Revolution"). From then on there began to be available a true, historical account of the Spanish struggle, which, consciously or unconsciously, broadened the debate and made a significant mark on the spirit of a new generation of students. This extension of the Spanish revolution came forth with the explosion of the events of May in Paris, which not only shook the world, but which also sparked a set of demands that until then had remained quiescent.

Of course we must disabuse ourselves of the notion that the Spanish revolution was the only inspiration behind the May days. But we can affirm that it did have considerable effect in shaking anarchism out of its lethargy throughout the world, to the point of causing alarm in the well-prepared ranks of the Stalinists, who rushed like any firemen to put out a dangerous fire. One need only recall the indecent instructions of the French Communist Party to gauge the heat they felt from the left, which threatened their control over their domesticated masses. If they were able to repel the assault it was because the rebelling youth was not well-grounded in the history of the last 40 years. But the events of Paris in 1968 had the virtue of arousing not only rebellious youth, but also a great number of adults, social and national groups. Today we see them concerned with a series of issues that until recently were taboo, such as conscientious objection, abortion, divorce and regional autonomy movements. In these areas anarchists have a broad field of concrete issues which they can influence without neglecting what could be called their philosophical or doctrinal tenets, for decades their only preoccupation. With its collectivist accomplishments, the Spanish revolution opened the way to the consideration of concrete problems - if only through an understanding that specific accomplishments have a far greater effect than lenten sermons. Today there is much talk of self-government or se If-ad ministration. For many this is still a mystification of true collectivisation. Confusions of this kind occurred in Spain, also. in certain milieu of revolutionary collectivists. This is not surprising since it is difficult to shake off ancient prejudices from even the most sublime ideas.

Interlude: On the Poverty of Hip Life

I contemplated writing about the Hippie Archetype but I found that it's already been done.

Introduction to Maximum Advantage Collection by Travis B.

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Introduction to Maximum Advantage Collection by Travis B. Part 14

This text focuses on the mechanisms that are available for the transmittal of a “technical morality”. This morality is inherently artificial, and thus dependent on the continual transmission of associations and relationships to overcome the natural resistance of society’s psychological membrane (or contact vector). In an effort to recreate society, and distribute equality amongst the community, it is important that we recognize the principle of population density. The close proximity of a culture of ideas and beliefs that we believe in inherently necessitates a will to action. Without the deliberate de-construction of our personal life references, this anti-natural and artificial “technical morality” will continue to lead us blindly towards someone else’s predetermined end. Our true potential can not be realized in a state of artificial contentment, defined by a lack of reference as well as substance.

A study of how propaganda works, its goals and results, its strengths and weaknesses, as well as its products, enables us to understand how we have been led to believe we will benefit from its devices. The understanding that its benefits are actually secondary to its actual goals will then provide us with a more balanced understanding of how a theory of society actually works. The Mother and Father Archetypes will continually pursue new materials to maintain their existence, but we have the ability to control the rate and form of the materials supplied, inevitably shaping our communities. As a result, we will then become the parental figures in charge of our destiny.

End of Introduction to Maximum Advantage Collection.

Comments are welcome.

Introduction to Maximum Advantage Collection by Travis B. Part 13

The Tribes of Israel were built through a series of associations that permeated the contact vectors of the Jewish community’s forefathers. This association as a historic people was maintained through the trials and tribulations suffered upon the Jewish people, during the six thousand years of their existence. The state of Israel is just a natural result of this group identification, united through a Zionist movement that will unite their people and provide a sanctuary from future threats to their way of life.

The preceding graph illustrates how SRL’s theory of “contact vectors” relates to the transmission of information. Research available on the Jewish community provides an example of how contact vectors’ permeability directly relate to population density and the transmission of morality. The greater proportion of the Jewish community reside around metropolitan areas. Of higher population density than outlying country areas, the urban Jewish population contains an observed increase in group identification as well as participation in the Jewish culture. This can be explained by the availability of associations and relationships that are available to identify with the surrounding Jewish community. These identifying markers are transmitted through the individual’s contact vectors, eventually binding the larger Jewish community together through a series of transmitted associations. In many circumstances these associations would simply be considered culture.

Introduction to Maximum Advantage Collection by Travis B. Part 12

Jewish Attitudes As An Expression of Geographical Location and Identity Formationby Travis B. (2001) based on Jewish Perceptions of Anti-Semitism.
edited by Gary A. Tobin and J. Sassler. NY: Plenum Publishing, 1988.;
Heilman, Samuel C. Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century.
Wash: University of Washington Press, 1995.

"Contact Vectors" as a platform for "Maximum Advantage"

A discussion of "contact vectors" is integral to the attempted rebirth of our social selves. SRL's theory proposes that these "contact vectors" represent the permeable areas of society's psychological membrane. As an available site for synaptic transmission, these contact vectors contain an electrical or moral charge relative to the information that permeates it. As a result, the information transmitted to each contact vector must contain similar moral qualities in order to permeate the psychological membrane.

Population density directly affects the effectiveness as well as efficiency of these contact vectors. The denser the population, the more easily the transmitted information is accessible to the target group. It requires a largely complex local and federal government to transmit the moral and judicial codes of its institutions, but regional beliefs are transmitted just as effectively within a less formalized context. The success of information transmittal is dependent on the permeability or receptiveness of the target population. Information that is important for the immediate safety of a given region is more easily digested by that community than another region 3000 miles away. The fact that the immediate region is possibly in danger facilitates its reception of new information regarding that threat.

Consider the transmission of information within an ethnic minority group. Each group member has a system of beliefs, convictions, and ideals that are similar to the other members of their group. These beliefs and convictions are what bind these groups together, and create the sense of a common experience. Consider the Jewish population, for example. Through six thousand years of persecution, these courageous people have united together and created the state of Israel. Banished throughout the world, the Jewish people have continued to see themselves as a family, defined through their similar history of persecution, ethnic identity, and religious convictions.