ANews Podcast 323 – 7.21.23

ANews Podcast – 7.21.23

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 & chuckles

A reading from theanarchistlibrary:
An excerpt from “Deschooling Society” by Ivan Illich
w/ Max Res

TOTW: Mentors
w/ Chichi & Donny Don’t

Music & Samples:

Lilith Is Gone – Hollow
Marionette (Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei ED2)
Magical Charming! OP PV
Emily Hopkins, Courtney Swain – Landline

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i am enjoying the totw discussion and while i do agree with Chichi about the idea that we don't learn all alone, we have books and authors and others, none of us get our knowledge from a vacuum. i also think it isn't so much *fear* of mentorship that people have. i think there is some reason for caution, too. there is a lot of publicity these days about how these sorts of relationships can be abusive. not that they never were before, but that it seems more known now. you know, like coaches, priests etc, taking advantage of the younger people in their care. one would hope that anarchists in mentoring situations would not be like that, but anarchists are people too, lol, so i think it is understandable that intergenerational relationships seem more suspect these days to younger people. just wanted to say that because, while i would that things were different, it is not surprising that even anarchists are wary of intimacy.

it is! totally fair.

but is the threat proportionate to the concern? are relationships more likely to be abusive these days? or was this problem likely worse in the past but information just wasn't as available?

once i learned more about the psychology behind abusive behavior, i started to notice a shit ton more of it everywhere but only because i'd started looking

i have no hard evidence, but my gut says the problem of age power differentials having deleterious effects on the young is as old as time. having said that though, the '60's & '70's had some lax-ass ethics in regards to sexual behavior and that we are no doubt seeing a reaction to today.

Regarding informal power structures and hierarchies in anarchist groups, it seems to me Donny Don’t doth protest too much, methinks.

havent listened but the @ book club i was in the people in it thought of me as a mentor and it was a bummer because they didn't look into it themselves. and i guess its funny because i got to decide what flavor of @ they learned about to the point to where one of them didn't even realize collectivist anarchism existed and thought it was all individualist which is pretty funny because its usually the other way around.

That's very Trumpian to only teach mentees about populist anarchism and not individualist anarchism.

silly goose i only taught them about individualist anarchism not populist

Sorry, I wanted to paste somewhere more relevant on this site but no idea how to do it. The Do No Harm principle seems meaningless to me or have I got it wrong? No harm seems so abstract and is often impossible to determine it? Are there any texts which can be recommended as a critique? Thank you

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