We are the "Outpire"

A quick word for loveable, truthseeking rebels

"Outperial" - a wonderful word that I met for the first time. I was on Julian MacFarlane's excellent substack when Occupy Schagen, a commentator, posted an image that included the word as an antonym of "imperial".

I love reading (and wear glasses to look I do), so why hadn't I come across it before. I googled and never found it. That made me happy. A simple word that's unofficial yet so damn good.

As imperial is to empire, so outperial must be to outpire (meaning the society most of us live in). "Outpire" only exists in the scan of an archaic dictionary as "to fuit or agree together, to compor or bandy together."

I appropriated that into meaning that all of us who are not part of the empire should unite, should outpire.

I then looked up the antonym of empire to see if anyone conversely agreed with my sentimental definition. They do but not in the way I had hoped. It was more fascinating.

The first result said that the opposite of empire is "anarchy, confusion, disintegration, disorder, insubordination, insurrection, lawlessness, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, revolution, riot, sedition, tumult".

Holyfuckingmoly. To not obey or conform to the slavery of an empire is to be Snake versus the dystopian USA in 'Escape from LA" (at least one of you must be glad that I never used a Star Wars analogy - ha ha).

Seriously, to every truthseeker on Substack, we live in the outpire. We are seditious to lies. We are the rebels. We are truth. Let's take back our world, one fact at a time.

Header art credit - Talha Khali. Text my own.