spectral polemics

We romanticize the stars, but forget the dark is what made them visible.

Manifest! You say it: You cast it.

"Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement. The choice lies with you!" – Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, The State: Its Historic Role