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Petty tyrants

The “petty tyrants” are mentioned in The Fire Within ^[1]: A petty tyrant is a tormentor. Someone who either holds the power of life and death over warriors or simply annoys them to distraction. Petty tyrants teach us detachment.

Tyrant

Primal source of energy, ruler of the universe (alias "life is a bitch/bastard, and then your die").

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. ~ Terry Pratchett, Good Omens

• Ominous dots

Petty Tyrants

Tyrannical rulers or authoritarian persons who actually hold power over life or death of others.

• Pillage & Plunder: Modern war is a combination of military, economic, political, and propaganda pressure against "the enemy", fought on all fronts at once. What western nations have used for centuries is a two-pronged strategy, one energy-driven (aimed at securing more resources from the rest of the world) and the other security-driven (aimed at enhancing the capacity to intervene in exactly such locales),  that governs policies toward much of the world.
• Red pill or blue pill? - Spent time searching the subject of who your social media friends might be? Ever wonder what the intelligence agencies are up to with fake profiles? Driven mad at people who derail intelligent discussions? It’s simple. In information operations, the goal is to create people who ‘are what they think’ to the advantage of ‘the man behind the curtain’ or a center tower all-seeing eye as described in Foucaults panopticon.
• Panopticon
• Game of drones
• Biometrics

Minor Petty Tyrants

Tormentors who are fearsome and inflict misery, but do not hold any real power over life or death of others. In digital contexts we have sockpuppets and trolls.

• Sockpuppetry (using false identities for deception) is centuries old, but the web has made creating sockpuppets, and falling for their tricks, easier than ever before. And we can make our own, if only for understanding our adversaries and finding countermoves.
• Trolling on the internet fits this category. You can not control whether you will become a target of trolls but you can decide if you will be a victim. Knowing that the troll’s goal is to elicit a reaction instead of a response, you can initially use the famous “Don’t Feed The Trolls!” defense, but if maintained this gives the trolls even more power as it gives them the power to silence you.

Little Petty Tyrants

Tormentors with violence and cruelty; inducing fear through deviousness; subjugating another through sadness; or by making another act in anger or rage.

• Cyberbullying is also not under our control. And in the current state(s) of society, some of our little ones and more vulnerable members of society are in need of help, the help they are not getting locally because everybody is too busy making money and racing around for that.

Teensy-weensy Petty Tyrants

These are the tormentors who are just frustrating, exasperating and annoy to distraction. IMHO hanging out with those now and again is also a great exercise in not giving power away and not taking someone elses power away either.

• Petitioning authorities acknowledges authorities in their role. The constant stream of people asking for help with spreading petitions and the like can be quite annoying, but, if running a no-censorship soapbox operation, must be relayed. I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Thank you Voltaire. Kindly.

The ingredients of the new seers' strategy shows how efficient and clever is the device of using petty tyrants for detachment. The strategy not only gets rid of self-importance; it also prepares warriors for the final realisation that impeccability is the only thing that counts in the path of knowledge.

Mindmaps and mindsets

If a mindmap is a cognitive "hathanger" then a mindset are the clothes hanging on the hathanger. Most traditions have mindmaps that have been and are evolving locally from the experiences of the previous generations on what worked and what didn't for them. Afaik, the oldest mindmaps use trees and wheels. And all mindmaps are generalisations in the wind without grounding details if not from there. Asking for details from ones own cultural matrix is not enough. Not even close. One needs to eat the local food, drink the water, breathe the air, listen to the stories, smell the earth, feel the bark of the trees, see local peoples, and experience local ways to catch what can only be described as a mere glimpse of the answer 42, the knowledge hidden in the trees and wheels in that specific locality on this beautiful planet.

• Mindmaps can be helpful for uncluttering.
• All of us, without exception, believe a mix of truth and misinformation, and often enough, [Red_pill_or_blue_pill%3F#Disinformation|disinformation]. We strive to understand the world as it is, and not how it looks only according to our preconceptions, which are shaped by a multitude of forces, embedded as we are in our cultural matrix. Sometimes, the most unlikely seeming explanation turns out to be the correct one. In a warrior mindset we consider alternative views, but question everything.

• Captivating capital and copyfighting - Patent and copyright laws support the expansion of the range of creative human activities that can be commodified, paralleling the ways in which capitalism is leading to the commodification of many aspects of social life that before were not considered to have monetary or economic value.

Methodologies, processes and choreographies

Most processes are adapted to allow for minimalist approaches and to minimalise the risk of becoming the petty tyrants we fight.

• Shortest retrospective ever
• Scenario planning
• Threat modeling the quick and dirty way
• Walk of the wolf
• Linux development process
• Consensus processes that work

Unexpected forms of logic

• Non-linear time
• Roleplay and controlled folly
• Confusing surveillance systems

Sisters arming themselves with linux

Getting started with linux:

• Shopping for a linux distro
• Installing linux tips & tricks

Getting started with the commandline:

• Command Line Culture (CLI)
• Getting started
• Working with files
• Input/Output redirection
• Regular expressions

Basic security:

• Securing your machine
• Safer browsing
• ...

Advanced commandline:

• Process management (job control)
• Shell scripting
• Network connections
• Reconnaissance
• Reverse engineering
• Network exploitation and monitoring

Autonomy shaping infrastructure

• Server auctions
• Setting up a server
• ...

References

1. ↑ The Fire From Within: http://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/donjuan7.html