Auto-immunity in the polis and AtD, p.868 "an expression of communal will"

[Michael Bailey]

 Mark Kohut wrote:

> 'competition' for nature's resources by animals IS competitive,
> sometimes 'red in tooth and claw' but sometimes very cooperative, very
> sportsmanlike, very like a polis in poise.....
>

Kropotkin and Darwin both have a point

> p. 868 How do you see this in the light of AtD, p. 868...."some..will never
> understand how 'power'--
> lo stato--could have been an expression of communal will"....."in which
> penance must be a
> necessary term".....????

unpopular though the view might be, I tend to give
the Catholic Church credit for that "penance must be a
necessary term" -- the state is just as much a suspension
of disbelief and falls apart just as readily as the Church
under an unsympathetic criticism:

-- why should Jesus's dying do anything to balance _my_ accounts?
(_Meritorious Price_ indicates that it actually doesn't,
which is a James v Paul or is it Peter v Paul conflict?)

-- why should armed actions by professional soldiers taken
at the behest of somebody I voted against be even remotely
an expression of my will?

These doges, and Mafia guys today (their successors?)
by dint of childhood inculcation continue a faith tradition
that always requests from them actions different to what
their political habits dictate - the cognitive dissonance
is a continual influence, and the penance is the guilt they
feel for disregarding it?

> > (excessive) competition is the auto-immune disease of the polis ?????

cells attack their brethren, ie they define as intruders
those who instead they should be sharing communion (blood) with

> my explication of the Vlado-Yashmeen
> whirlwind romance. I have one more long (not onerously long, I hope)
> post in me

talk about Beavis & Butthead fodder...

> it has quite thrilled me.

heh heh
anyway, that's coming (heh heh) tonight...
Yashmeen surfs from Cyprian to Reef via Vlado Clissan (sounds like
"glissando" and the passage is equally thrilling)