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Yeah, good discussion of the totw.

I'm the Buddhist-ish commenter from that thread and I want to add, I see anarchism and Buddhism as roughly getting at the same thing, by which I mean liberation. I do understand that the vast majority of anarchists and Buddhists probably disagree with my take, and that's fine. I'm not really interested in converting anyone or convincing anyone of anything. So, according to the now beaten to death metaphor, I see both as chocolate.

And, the commenter who had good, provocative things to say about using ideas from anywhere made some fine points. When I said I grab ideas from a lot of people I did not have in mind actual fascists. More so I meant people such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, David Bohm, Donna Haraway & a lot of Buddhists. Along with tools for thinking such as Afropessimism, Critical Race theory and non-duality.

But your conversation brought to mind other thinkers who I've liked but who subsequently develop their thought in directions that are antithetical to anarchism. So, like, Derrick Jensen or Rhyd Wildermuth or Paul Kingsnorth, who co-founded the Dark Mountain project. He was never an anarchist but had some interesting ideas along with criticism of mainstream environmentalism that felt pertinent. But now PK has been baptized into the Orthodox Christian church and is quite a terf.