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Really don't want to hijack this thread and make it about the end game of cancel culture (like what happens if those cancelled gather and push back, or a really bad actor like state forces use the tactic against segments of the population (as if reputation smearing isn't already a practice amongst the weathy)), but this very old divide and conquer social engineering strategy end of idpol seems to have some roots here worth delving into: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilkenny_cats

That said, I am one of those folks that loves Bolo'Bolo, and and wish more were at the very least open to examining the consequences of their thinking on down the line of that lense (instead of ATR fantasies). Relations are all there are, and all we have is now.

I really thought that an interest in anarchy would surround me with open minded people. It's been so strange that many won't even engage with the material they're so critical of. Perhaps that's an anti-intellectual American thing, and perhaps it's a leftover of Marxist paternalism where somehow the proles will rise up yet they cannot be trusted with their own thoughts.

That sort of arrogance is what puts people off to anarchists in general. This need to be right is a totally puritanical religious notion.

Politics at this point in time is incapable of solving the problems of the world. It is because politics is a narrow logic of war (and always consider that that type of conflict usually has three sides). It is a theatre that ends up defining so many as the role of professional militants that Debord cautioned against (and most seemed to have ignored).

Humans are simply so much more interesting and dynamic than the roles and categories used to define them (and sometimes they happily confine themselves with).

Can we have reasonable conversation, avoiding hyperbole and hysteria, to intuitively grapple signal to noise ratio and bad actors in 2020?

What is a life worth living?

To me that looks like starting inside nondualistically, and moving outward to reconnect spiritually to a long term reappraisal of relations to the common living space that engenders all life forms, and the continually unfolding dynamic we are all situationally included in. To me, there are some really great people doing regenerative models of restoring soil health on the ground right now that would be fun to connect and play dangerously with in cahoots.

I don't think there's a Thing that we can fight and win Against. Some paths forward might instead being finding ourselves rendering the old models useless and no longer needed them. Militancy, and old political frameworks just don't allow for such a holistic outlook on a full life...