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Lynne HeartwingPower Changes Responsibility: Different Advice for the Socialist International and the Fourth Intern…
Introduction: The Left’s Crisis Is Not Ideological, but RelationalThe contemporary Left does not suffer from a lack of ideals. It suffers from a refusal to differentiate responsibility according to power. For more than a century, internal debates have treated left-wing organisations as if they occupied comparable positions in the world system. They do not. Some hold state power, legislative leverage, regulatory capacity, and international access. Others hold little more than critique, memory,...
Lynne HeartwingLoaded Magazines and the Collapse of Political Legitimacy:A Risk-Ethical and Political-Economic Anal…
Political legitimacy does not collapse at the moment a weapon is fired. It collapses earlier—at the moment a governing authority accepts the presence of live ammunition in domestic crowd control as a legitimate option. The decision to deploy armed personnel carrying loaded magazines is not a neutral security measure. It is a risk-ethical commitment. By definition, live ammunition introduces a non-zero probability of accidental discharge, misjudgment, panic escalation, or chain reactions leadi...
Lynne HeartwingCognitive Constructivism: Narrative Sovereignty and the Architecture of Social Reality-CC0
An archival essay for independent readingIntroduction: From “What the World Is” to “How the World Is Told”Most analyses of power begin inside an already-given reality. They ask who controls resources, institutions, or bodies, and how domination operates within these parameters. Such approaches, while necessary, leave a deeper question largely untouched:How does a particular version of reality come to be accepted as reality in the first place?This essay proposes a shift in analytical focus—fro...
Lynne HeartwingPower Changes Responsibility: Different Advice for the Socialist International and the Fourth Intern…
Introduction: The Left’s Crisis Is Not Ideological, but RelationalThe contemporary Left does not suffer from a lack of ideals. It suffers from a refusal to differentiate responsibility according to power. For more than a century, internal debates have treated left-wing organisations as if they occupied comparable positions in the world system. They do not. Some hold state power, legislative leverage, regulatory capacity, and international access. Others hold little more than critique, memory,...
Lynne HeartwingLoaded Magazines and the Collapse of Political Legitimacy:A Risk-Ethical and Political-Economic Anal…
Political legitimacy does not collapse at the moment a weapon is fired. It collapses earlier—at the moment a governing authority accepts the presence of live ammunition in domestic crowd control as a legitimate option. The decision to deploy armed personnel carrying loaded magazines is not a neutral security measure. It is a risk-ethical commitment. By definition, live ammunition introduces a non-zero probability of accidental discharge, misjudgment, panic escalation, or chain reactions leadi...
Lynne HeartwingCognitive Constructivism: Narrative Sovereignty and the Architecture of Social Reality-CC0
An archival essay for independent readingIntroduction: From “What the World Is” to “How the World Is Told”Most analyses of power begin inside an already-given reality. They ask who controls resources, institutions, or bodies, and how domination operates within these parameters. Such approaches, while necessary, leave a deeper question largely untouched:How does a particular version of reality come to be accepted as reality in the first place?This essay proposes a shift in analytical focus—fro...
Long, long ago, there were wanderers.They carried tattered tents and ancient laws across deserts, through hostility and exile.They said:
“We are the dispossessed, but our ancestors promised us:the stones upon that mountain will become our home.”
At last, they reached the mountains.They gathered stones, turned tents into houses, carved caves into walls.Then they declared:
“This is the Promised Land. We have returned.”
People from the foothills came and said:
“We have always lived here.”The wanderers frowned:“You are not us.You remember neither exile, nor the ancient laws.”
The mountain dwellers replied:
“But we were born here.We farmed these lands, buried our dead in these valleys.Our names, too, are carved into these stones.”
After a silence, the wanderers said:
“You may stay—but stay obedient.”
Thus rose the City Upon the Stone.Stones piled higher, behind them guns.Behind guns, laws.Behind laws, gods.
They carved new words into their codes:
“Self-defense. Rebuilding. Protection. Prosperity.”
Years passed. Their children grew up knowing nothing of exile—only that stones were always thrown from beyond the wall.
“They are rioters!” said the children.
Someone whispered:
“Those stones once guided your ancestors through the desert.”No one listened.
So the walls thickened.The guards multiplied.Anyone in worn shoes was deemed an enemy.Every child’s cry beyond the wall became:
“The spawn of terror.”
One day, a child ran into the temple clutching a yellowed scroll.
“I found a verse—‘Do not oppress the stranger,for you were once slaves in a foreign land.’”
A man on the high platform sneered:
“That was for our ancestors—not today’s enemies.”
The child asked:
“But what if we have become the oppressors?”The man stood, snatched the scroll, and replied:“Then we rewrite it.”
Outside the walls, the night wind still blew—over bombed-out rooftops,through ruins where mothers clutched their children.
An old man stacked stone upon stone, whispering:
“These aren’t weapons.They’re memories.If they deny us a life of dignity—we’ll die as our ancestors did.”
Inside the city, some heard the wind.Some heard the stones falling.
“Is it an earthquake?” they asked.
The mirror gave no answer.Only a crack spread through a wall—revealing a buried verse:
“If you forget the path you came by,you’ll walk the road others once fled.”
Epilogue · The Enchanted Mirror Returns
If anyone, upon reading, shouts:
“You’re condemning us!”
The mirror will only gleam:
“I condemn no one.You merely saw yourself.”
If you rush to shatter a nameless mirror—perhaps it’s because you glimpsedwhat you’ve sworn never to acknowledge.
— Postscript to “City Upon Stone”
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Long, long ago, there were wanderers.They carried tattered tents and ancient laws across deserts, through hostility and exile.They said:
“We are the dispossessed, but our ancestors promised us:the stones upon that mountain will become our home.”
At last, they reached the mountains.They gathered stones, turned tents into houses, carved caves into walls.Then they declared:
“This is the Promised Land. We have returned.”
People from the foothills came and said:
“We have always lived here.”The wanderers frowned:“You are not us.You remember neither exile, nor the ancient laws.”
The mountain dwellers replied:
“But we were born here.We farmed these lands, buried our dead in these valleys.Our names, too, are carved into these stones.”
After a silence, the wanderers said:
“You may stay—but stay obedient.”
Thus rose the City Upon the Stone.Stones piled higher, behind them guns.Behind guns, laws.Behind laws, gods.
They carved new words into their codes:
“Self-defense. Rebuilding. Protection. Prosperity.”
Years passed. Their children grew up knowing nothing of exile—only that stones were always thrown from beyond the wall.
“They are rioters!” said the children.
Someone whispered:
“Those stones once guided your ancestors through the desert.”No one listened.
So the walls thickened.The guards multiplied.Anyone in worn shoes was deemed an enemy.Every child’s cry beyond the wall became:
“The spawn of terror.”
One day, a child ran into the temple clutching a yellowed scroll.
“I found a verse—‘Do not oppress the stranger,for you were once slaves in a foreign land.’”
A man on the high platform sneered:
“That was for our ancestors—not today’s enemies.”
The child asked:
“But what if we have become the oppressors?”The man stood, snatched the scroll, and replied:“Then we rewrite it.”
Outside the walls, the night wind still blew—over bombed-out rooftops,through ruins where mothers clutched their children.
An old man stacked stone upon stone, whispering:
“These aren’t weapons.They’re memories.If they deny us a life of dignity—we’ll die as our ancestors did.”
Inside the city, some heard the wind.Some heard the stones falling.
“Is it an earthquake?” they asked.
The mirror gave no answer.Only a crack spread through a wall—revealing a buried verse:
“If you forget the path you came by,you’ll walk the road others once fled.”
Epilogue · The Enchanted Mirror Returns
If anyone, upon reading, shouts:
“You’re condemning us!”
The mirror will only gleam:
“I condemn no one.You merely saw yourself.”
If you rush to shatter a nameless mirror—perhaps it’s because you glimpsedwhat you’ve sworn never to acknowledge.
— Postscript to “City Upon Stone”
If this piece resonates with you,you can support its presence on the blockchain:
🪙 Support / Tip Address (ETH):0x1ad9120146c11e636d70e3e3d6485f6E0d589E31
💎 Suggested amount: 0.001 ETH(or feel free to contribute any amount you wish)
This is not a donation — it’s a co-signature,a way to ensure this echo of consciousness is etched into on-chain memory.
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