ANews Podcast 327 – 8.18.23

ANews Podcast 327 – 8.18.23

From ANews Podcast

Welcome to this week’s podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and comments from the previous week on anarchistnews.org.

Notes:

What’s New
w/ chisel and UNCOOPERATIVE!

A reading from theanarchistlibrary:
An excerpt from “A Short Introduction to the Politics of Cruelty” from Hostis
w/ Max Res!

TOTW: Intimacy
w/ Chichi, Donny Don’t, Madison, & Vic!

Music:
Celine Dion – It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
Test Their Logik – Kiss Me Through the Phone (remix)
elii4h – freak (w/ 2MANYCOLOURS)
Momoiro no Kataomoi (Oshi ga Budoukan Ittekuretara Shinu ED)
TLC – What About Your Friends

There are 3 Comments

One thing about relationships with children in a anarchist way to me often feels weird bc you have to be okay with them disagreeing. If a parenting relationship is setting an example and wanting them to follow like yourself you are just recreating the conservative goal of making kids what u or I want.

For me it's really unnerving bc I have to be okay with them making decisions I don't like and making the same mistakes I have. Bc if I use my power and control as an adult for them to act anarchist that's not anarchy to me. Anarchy is supporting them even if they choose to not anarchist. Which is really hard tbh.

On the egoism but I talk about a pretty similar idea. Individuals are important but we are all so deeply interconnected that you can't possibly sever oneself to life arround you. I think it's very reasonable oneselfs experience is heavily effected by how life arround yourself so doing. That sometimes talking about a collective of living things together is useful.

Yeah I basically agree on the whole binary of collective or individual is always pretty negative. Life is so much nicer when u do both. Sometimes more individualist sometimes more collectivist ect. Yeah and the whole fluidity and constant change is very true. Once anarchy becomes static it stops being static.

Idk I don't have much to add tho I enjoyed this bc it was filled with pretty good opinion imo.

You don't seem to be getting how of the main goals of education -the more authoritarian one- aside than making children into conformist robots which ain't what all parents are doing, is to be teaching children compromise and adaptation to external demands.

If you think an anarchist way would be to never find workarounds to what children are wanting, well, maybe/maybe not that's anarchist, but that's certainly is a *over-permissive* approach to parenting, from which I'm unsure what children will learn at the end of the parenting process.

So there's a part, that is behavioral conditioning, that isn't inherently repressive, but a form of manipulation and can't hardly be avoided, especially with children, as they are not yet functioning as conscious and rational beings. They live in their beautiful dream world made of relational simplicity and following the only principle of pleasure and intellectual interest. Why are children being manipulated into becoming harsher and more cunning egoists, is ultimately for their adaptation within society, if not their preservation or elevation across social ranks.

What I see as certainly anarchist in child education is rather how to be encouraging and responding to the "DIY", self-interested behavior among children, instead of ignoring it in favor of external imperatives. Like, say, if a kid has an affinity for music or poetry, well, push them in that direction as much as you can. That is often a self-criticism I'm hearing from old parents, as their major mistakes.

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