To build is to be consumed by your tools, to work is to be put to death by your "ownness," and finding yourself to be identified within your absurdity is something everyone considered strange must grapple with. To be put off is to be unheard, to be unheard is to be worse than dead. For this reason, I argue for a antipolitics of art and beauty. This isn't me returning to my roots of situationism, I'm as absurd, but I want to speak in easy-to-read flowery text sometimes, prose, wax poetic, etc. I want to be able to do something unique and yet grounded in a backwards sense. This is the idea I will be building off of from this point, using syncretic and shattered tools, hoping they won't shatter me again.
What I think should be not a direct parallel to identity politics/economics as an operator/pseudodistractor in the US, but a stand-in, something to argue about, arguing about nationality or something similarly non-existent, conceptual. We should make myths in order to hold conspiracy over our federations, creating communities with a reason to oppose all other communities: non-corporate patchwork breaching the technical and occult. We should allow for a technonatural playhouse, built into a national-occultist system that is based in the ideas of patchwork and free association. If you find yourself more to be a part of Carcosa than Nihil, move. If you find yourself to be unexpressed by the myth of a grand monarch, move to the land of the patriotic rebel, if you find yourself unexpressed by the land of the rogue, etc.
This is partially the way it is now, but it's always through other factors that the decisions really get made. I think that for totality, a system of barter or simple communitarian agrarianism or whatever the people could possibly want could easily be established for the splinters, with the totality cooperating in the background to perpetuate the realities of waste and excess. We should allow for a myth-making and conspiracy to form, utilizing the nation as a pure, unfiltered distractor and motivator for false-real simulated conflict and economic simulated conflict posed as real conflict. All myth-simulation posed to strike at the future.
Do we live simply to be comfortable, do we live to find peace? Patchwork allows for everyone to find their happy medium, allowing additionally for true flow of desire. Very simply, this is not some dialectical struggle, this would be a struggle of millions of factors, splinter states, and above all, nations. The way forward is to make the citizen a mark of the nation, and to allow those who are disillusioned with that nation to simply and easily leave, with no regard to anything at all. This idea is a soft patchwork nationalism, a system not with a corporate board, but a simulation of our system. Imagine the Democratic and Republican party both advocated for bartering, self-sufficiency, and anti-capitalism, but they both had land where all Democrats/Republicans live. Essentially, to undermine the fundamentally shitty current position, this is similar to what I would want to achieve, a patchwork of "parties," ideas, simulations, and myths. There would be technological advancement, agrarianism, interplays of both, secular reason-based cultism, the occult, christ and buddha and everything- all in fractioned splinter states.
Make everyone feel like a rebel, loyal, a man of the nation, or a man against it. Give them an ideological-simulated unman to throw rocks at while you and they alike travel to find a world of their own liking. Building a future is not simply stratifying, but instead using the lighter simulated stratification of nationalism to fuel a continuing action from a world that would be dead if unified. The world is beautiful, complex, and absurd. Our structures and unstructures should be as well.
The point is to allow those that need a grand narrative and purpose to find that, through conflicts (only if they wish to participate in them), being a good 'community member,' or being simply honor-bound to their home nation's mythos. The point is also to let those that don't sit at home in cabins, avoiding entirely the splinternet and growing shit, or living in a communo-industrial space, or a VR-based society- generally just do whatever. This is the intent and purpose of it all, to utilize elements of the system we have to dissolve the parts we dislike.