david on police

david graeber on police (money and guns)

via tweet [https://x.com/joeyneverjoe/status/1830696285395132669]:

Four years since David passed. He left too soon, but he did leave us a lot to learn from and interrogate. [https://x.com/Graeber_social/status/1750942567351656792]:

which links to 2 min video clip (from dgi post):

the securitization of welfare state

as fin increased.. people w guns showing up everywhere (for security).. police-like people in playgrounds, hospitals, threat of violence into every aspect of our society

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via bsky [https://bsky.app/profile/davidgraeberinst.bsky.social/post/3lr2mdlemrs2b]:

Yes.

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via tweet [https://x.com/Graeber_social/status/1933979219568038287]:

The likes of CNN and Foxnews paint the police as a noble force protecting us all. David Graeber explains what the police are really about. [links to 40 sec video clip]

notes/quotes from video clip:

police are essentially a political institution.. they were originally created as a mechanism of class control.. weren’t created to fight crime.. were created to deal with people like the unemployed.. to put people to work.. regulate commerce.. and gradually they came up with this excuse that it’s going to create public order/peace.. but the first couple of generations of police weren’t even saying that.. so the institution is a political institution and its primary aim has always been to prevent class warfare.. to prevent mass mobilization.. and mass organization against the powers that be.. t

and they will keep perpetuating violence as long as our mass org keeps not being about legit needs..

ie: if we org around legit needs.. would include everyone.. no one has desire/need to battle/power-up .. et al

until then.. we’ll keep on not getting to the root of problem

legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..

ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)

the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness

[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]

there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. to facil the thing we’ve not yet tried: the unconditional part of left-to-own-devices ness.. for (blank)’s sake..

ie: a sabbatical ish transition

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