sam lessin 🏴‍☠️(@lessin):Akedah / "covenant before land" sets an interesting / relevant 2026 conversation about diaspora culture + hard power. A proposition for debate … A culture built around exile can rule with hard power, but only if the hard power stays instrumental to the book-culture's purpose (cohesion, covenant, meaning) rather than becoming its own end. The moment "purity of arms" becomes a slogan people no longer actually believe governs conduct, you've drifted from retrieval into Jabotinsky's clean break — and that's a different, much more fragile thing, because raw hard power without the identity-density behind it is just another army.

2026.09.12 19:51

Akedah / "covenant before land" sets an interesting / relevant 2026 conversation about diaspora culture + hard power. A proposition for debate … A culture built around exile can rule with hard power, but only if the hard power stays instrumental to the book-culture's purpose (cohesion, covenant, meaning) rather than becoming its own end. The moment "purity of arms" becomes a slogan people no longer actually believe governs conduct, you've drifted from retrieval into Jabotinsky's clean break — and that's a different, much more fragile thing, because raw hard power without the identity-density behind it is just another army.