{"id":487,"date":"2015-01-17T23:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/?p=487"},"modified":"2015-01-17T20:43:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T20:43:21","slug":"the-purpose-of-the-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/2015\/01\/the-purpose-of-the-order.html","title":{"rendered":"The purpose of the Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

Je sens que j’existe, mais je ne sais pas ce que je suis.<\/em><\/p>\n

I feel that I exist, but I do not know what I am.<\/p>\n

Nicolas\u00a0Malebranche<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

We should embrace the fact that many of the critics of our excessive states, which entitled themselves to monitor and intrude heavily against our persons today, are antistatists or even anarchists. Despite this, we must warn that humanity should not embrace a pendulum swing into chaos as we protest that order:<\/h3>\n

The world is tension. Tension between Order and Chaos. Too much order,\u00a0and you wind up living in Nazi Germany or modern America. Not good. Too\u00a0much Chaos, and you wind up sleeping with a shotgun, while roaming\u00a0street gangs rape and pillage, until one gangster gets big enough and\u00a0invents droit de seigneur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These are the words of J. M. Porup, American dissident writer and blogger recently published at the\u00a0web magazine ClubOfINFO<\/a>, and are part of a view that I have found to be shared among all the other parties to the Mont Order journalistic\u00a0club<\/a> and coalition<\/a>. Indeed, we use\u00a0the name of this club for no trivial reasons.\u00a0Order – the right order – is one name\u00a0used\u00a0for the\u00a0sum\u00a0the world\u00a0cannot endure\u00a0without. I respond to J. M. Porup’s article in a different article published also at ClubOfINFO<\/a>, in which I affirm that I share his assessment. However, also in that response, I articulate what I have meant by antistatism in the past: a profound skepticism of the nation-state, its waning legitimacy, and what I have understood to be its deteriorating ability to justify its monopoly of force over both our\u00a0internet and our persons<\/a>. My sources have been a relative mix of books\u00a0by Julian Assange (like Cypherpunks<\/em><\/a> and When Google Met WikiLeaks<\/em><\/a>) and great minds in sociology such as Immanuel Wallerstein<\/a>, as well as other American intellectual dissidents such as Noam Chomsky.<\/p>\n

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We should consider ourselves to be the inheritors of the Mountain, the club that gave birth to the modern state through the acts of the French Revolution. We must also consider ourselves, as political agents, to be shaping an alternative order.\u00a0By inheriting both of these legacies, the\u00a0name of this Mont Order club\u00a0is\u00a0both fitting and iconic.<\/h2>\n

The Order is driven by those who are party to it, and the agenda of those who are party to the\u00a0Order is the agenda of the Order. By such collaboration, we make our collective\u00a0will a reality. We will use each other’s reach and leverage to increase one another’s reach and leverage throughout the world of online journalism and web politics, and as the club grows I hope\u00a0we will watch the influence and authority of each party grow. This is what we agreed to be the mode\u00a0of our growth and success, thus we\u00a0do everything we\u00a0can to understand, support and empower the other parties.<\/p>\n

\n

By\u00a0Harry J. Bentham<\/a><\/p>\n

\"HJB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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