I would go farther and say that *the* core failure of the proponents of anarchism has been to speak of principles first, and community second, if at all. The NAP is nothing but gravity. It's nothing but the naked state of our nature. It is essential, but not sufficient, to be a better world. When we share principles, we have a common culture, and around that culture, we build a community. We find the "strangers we can trust." I think it is easier to be intimately close with people within whom I have major cultural differences than it is to interact casually with that same category of people.
If I am clear that I must a) work on myself, and, b) recognize and navigate the necessary human condition of social organization and take responsibility for what I want it to be, *then*, and *only then,* can I start talking about the eggheaded and abstract attenuations to a larger audience. I better *live* those principles on every level, internally and externally, before I go around saying everyone else has to, too.
I definitely had a lot of feelings watching the last episode.
I don't think it's just a coincidence that a disproportionate number of anarchists were adopted. (Well, I don't know if that's a fact - but seems like a lot of my anarchist friends were also adopted). So for those people, maybe it's easier to disengage from a statist belief system that a birth family might have anchored into our NL programming (or never engage in the first place). Like we might tend to be more 'stateless'. I dunno. It would also make sense that perhaps there is more propensity for individualism - and - also a longing for somewhere to deeply belong.
This episode also made me want to know Lilly and Jason. I never had the pleasure of meeting them before.
'But if you take away our comfort, our food, all that kind of stuff, we’re animals. We will do the worst things to each other. We have to see the animal side of ourselves before we advocate for the responsibility of freedom.
-Jason Henza
It's a very hard thing to look at and admit to. Hardly anyone ever does it.
they probably live in Narnia - I often say this in regard to Internet friends.
The problem with community and specifically non-communist/socialist anarchists is that they (generally) view this as communism.
15 years ago I saw, in real time, the claim that every man needed to be an island run rampant over the "movement" (as much as it could be claimed as one).
To quote The Darkness (Legend), "We are all animals, my dear."
Excellent summary. It's all true, all true. I still don't feel that this series was appropriate for the general public, most coming to conclusions about "them there weirdos" and not seeing people they could generally relate to as the editing made people in the show overall as unrelatable as humanly possible. Nevertheless, this show is something that is a good, bitter pill for the "community" if we should ever develop one. And we need to start developing communities, at least individually or we will get Ruby Ridge'd. And we need to become relatable, we must- as much as we fight it, or we will get Waco'ed.
I would go farther and say that *the* core failure of the proponents of anarchism has been to speak of principles first, and community second, if at all. The NAP is nothing but gravity. It's nothing but the naked state of our nature. It is essential, but not sufficient, to be a better world. When we share principles, we have a common culture, and around that culture, we build a community. We find the "strangers we can trust." I think it is easier to be intimately close with people within whom I have major cultural differences than it is to interact casually with that same category of people.
If I am clear that I must a) work on myself, and, b) recognize and navigate the necessary human condition of social organization and take responsibility for what I want it to be, *then*, and *only then,* can I start talking about the eggheaded and abstract attenuations to a larger audience. I better *live* those principles on every level, internally and externally, before I go around saying everyone else has to, too.
All of this.
I definitely had a lot of feelings watching the last episode.
I don't think it's just a coincidence that a disproportionate number of anarchists were adopted. (Well, I don't know if that's a fact - but seems like a lot of my anarchist friends were also adopted). So for those people, maybe it's easier to disengage from a statist belief system that a birth family might have anchored into our NL programming (or never engage in the first place). Like we might tend to be more 'stateless'. I dunno. It would also make sense that perhaps there is more propensity for individualism - and - also a longing for somewhere to deeply belong.
This episode also made me want to know Lilly and Jason. I never had the pleasure of meeting them before.
'But if you take away our comfort, our food, all that kind of stuff, we’re animals. We will do the worst things to each other. We have to see the animal side of ourselves before we advocate for the responsibility of freedom.
-Jason Henza
It's a very hard thing to look at and admit to. Hardly anyone ever does it.
they probably live in Narnia - I often say this in regard to Internet friends.
The problem with community and specifically non-communist/socialist anarchists is that they (generally) view this as communism.
15 years ago I saw, in real time, the claim that every man needed to be an island run rampant over the "movement" (as much as it could be claimed as one).
To quote The Darkness (Legend), "We are all animals, my dear."
Excellent summary. It's all true, all true. I still don't feel that this series was appropriate for the general public, most coming to conclusions about "them there weirdos" and not seeing people they could generally relate to as the editing made people in the show overall as unrelatable as humanly possible. Nevertheless, this show is something that is a good, bitter pill for the "community" if we should ever develop one. And we need to start developing communities, at least individually or we will get Ruby Ridge'd. And we need to become relatable, we must- as much as we fight it, or we will get Waco'ed.