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I will write a piece in the same vein about all the pseudonyms of that troll that's been particularly prolific on this site recently. Just kidding. Thanks for taking us along on your daily (r)ambles.

With respects to the translation of "Étiquette", being that it's not such an unfamiliar word in the English language, why not leave the word as is and add a translator's note at the bottom?

I agree that tags, labels, and etiquette seem like un-anarchistic things, and yet many anarchists obsess over these, bringing us to the many ways in which anyone may contradict themselves.

When I take walks I usually clear my mind and not think of anything. I don't think I ever solved any dilemma by thinking. Sometimes one can walk away from a dilemma or run away from problems. Like with regards to addressing the tensions between philosophical categories, like individual/collective. Theorizing around those terms doesn't seem that interesting to me. Yet the individualist rhetoric seems to be more applicable in my daily life, when I'm trying to get out of so many social projects and schemes by many institutions. I've never wished to philosophize around these terms, or identify with an ideology around this, I've never read Stirner, not that you would have to do that if you did read him. Those who use the rhetoric of collectives usually have visions they can't bring to fruition by themselves. This may include tearing down the institutions that carry out pesky schemes I mentioned, but it often is just constitute them. Those tensions can be lived in a way that may or may not correspond so directly to the philosophy and the rhetoric of many oft quoted authors.

I think that going over all this is a great service to anarchists, giving them perspective over how long have people mulled over many themes of our daily lives. One can walk around thinking all that, but one can also walk away from it. The proposal for a positive anarchy, or the positive proposal for anarchy, I forgot how it is that you phrase it, seems attractive to me in the says that it seems to promise to word something that's been at the tip of my tongue. But I think it may just be an illusion, like a deja vu. It's not a revelation, it's the subconscious recognition of something familiar, of something we've lived before, or a misremembered dream. Going over these past texts seems like going over contemporary and even very recent texts and discussions. It seems to be going round and round, at what stop do we get off?

And advantage that there being many of us each going our own ways is that we can go in different directions and share/enjoy the fruits of that, like reading what someone writes about their mental meandering to word a positive proposal, or seeing some sabotage someone action did. When I walk and when I sleep there is as close to nothing as possible and that's all I can share from that. None of these paths, ambles, ramble, lead to any fruitful ending, these are dead end streets, mc escher rivers with mouths that spill their flows to the top of the mountains and up to the clouds. Cycles, on and on and on...