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RE: https://social.coop/@MichaelTBacon/116551245020135214 Because it's Sunday, I'm going to put this another way with a scriptural reference. You can't use a sword as a plowshare (the cutting part of a plow). It's the wrong shape, doesn't have a curve, and will probably break after a couple of passes through hard soil. To fulfill Isaiah's prophesy that "they will beat their swords into ploughshares" one doesn't simply put the sword onto a plow handle and go at it. It requires smiths' forges, skilled smiths who knows how to make plows, people who are ready to give up their swords, and people who want plows to use. Those imply ethics, politics, and collective action. Current social technology has become violent. It can be remade. But it requires ethics, politics, and collective action.