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  • I think I wrote my comment before you edited your post, but still i do not quite understand what malarchy means.

    Etymology says: “bad” & “rule”, so is it bad to rule, bad rulings, bad rulers…

    You also hinted on deception by the rulers being a core point of this thing you are trying to establish.

    “My 10000 quotes but no explanation” is perhaps a bit mean. Im not gonna sugarcoat it and just say it straight: Part 1) i dont like you using big words and not defining big words clearly. That is the essence of any thinker establishing a new idea, they are able to provide a new interpretation, a new concept with wings to fly. You however have taken malarky as a metaphorical chicklet (concept) and set it before the metaphorical wolf (collective consiousness / public / critics & importantly people who have never heard of or even thought of what you mean with malarchy.)

    Part 2) some big-dicked philosopher has said a sentence once. Now what? You know the sentence? “A good quote can speak a thousand words, when embedded in a thousand words saying the same thing” - me

    You need to embed quotes in context, who was the speaker? Marx, no need to define it, Kropotkin maybe a bit. Errico Malatesta? David Graebor? Sorry to show off my unknowing, but i have no-idea who these people are or could be, i dont know what they stand for, what or who they are relevant to…

    For all i know they could be a monkey in a trenchcoat with a Hakenkreuz typing random wordstrings on a typewriter. Yes i presume it falls upon me to need to do work and learn about these people… But its much easier to not do this, to not spend the effort to just forget about this whole thing, delete my phone and go into the cold night all alone.

    Back to my quote, you need to make a quote and the text live together, to say the same thing, even when you are actually disproving it or going on about something different. Show how a principal established by a great big-dicjed philosopher applies to this or that case, or where they fail. Establish connection. Make it make sense. What am I talking about?

    You posted a webcomic about someone uncovering the truth that someone was hiding “Malarchy” underneath Anarchy. (Like a drug den underneath a laundry washing place. -> metaphors, i forced myself to use them, until they come naturally) then you appended a bunch of quotes, because you thought they fit. But you didnt expand upon that or them. You just planted them there, and frankly i must admit, i havent even read them, i just got upset.

    But on the other hand I was already confused trying to read the comic, then understanding the text, questioning whether what was said had any coherence in and of itself… But first of i had to comprehend the symbol, when I try to picture it in my mind, i see the Purple W standing for Wario with a few purple Lines thrown in. Not very memorable, but confusing.


    But something scratches at the back of my brain, now after spending too much time than simple mindless scrolling would allow, i must say, there is some kind of series or other visual media where this concept was explored before. I however do not remember yet where… (Tributes of Bread maybe?)

    Malarchy: An interpretation of governance where a governing bodies corruption leads it to invite harm upon its subjects, incite violence amongst them, in order to strengthen its own legitimacy or power.

    Hows that for a working definition?











  • Depends on what your power-delivery is.

    European style: way more power aaaand more deadly :)

    Us-Style, less power, (about 30% longer to boil a similar volume-kettle) and somewhat less deadly.

    Gas-stove-style: most of your actuall power goes besides your pot and doesnt heat the water, some heats the handle, how fun.