“When Violence floods the State from above, flowery land razed for robot proliferation”

“If fire doesn't raze the mountain, the land will not be fertile.”

“The world was floods above and fire below”

“People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.”

“The dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.”

“[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist­ ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and oppressed, the very existence of a state is a fact of violence (in the same sense in which, for example, Robespierre said, in his justification of the regicide, that one does not have to prove that the king committed any specific crimes, since the very existence of the king is a crime, an offence against the freedom of the people). In this strict sense, every violence of the oppressed against the ruling class and its state is ultimately ‘defensive’. If we do not concede this point, we volens nolens ‘normalize’ the state and accept that its violence is merely a matter of contin­ gent excesses (to be dealt with through democratic reforms).”