From The Creative Nothing
December 22, 2024
The Egoist Encyclopedia is a significant compilation of columns authored by Wolfi Landstreicher for Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed. Wolfi has established a notable reputation in the fields of Egoism and Anarchism through his extensive body of work, positioning himself as an important contemporary thinker. This book serves to clarify essential concepts related to the Anarcho-Egoist school of thought, while also addressing and dispelling common myths and misconceptions. Additionally, it explores the implications and potential actions associated with Egoist-Anarchism.
Consisting of 20 pages, the text is organized into nine chapters that examine various aspects of Egoist-Anarchism. It opens with an introduction in which the author outlines his motivations for creating this work. Subsequently, Wolfi delves into relevant topics that pertain to Anarcho-Egoist theory and practice. The chapter titles reflect discussions on Egoism, Anarchism, God, Realism, Writer’s Block, Society, and Boundaries. The work concludes with a manifesto underscoring the significance of the place of understanding the unique in relation to Anarcho-Egoist action.
The Egoist Encyclopedia is a brief yet impactful work that delivers a strong message. It is an essential resource for anyone seeking a foundational understanding of Anarchist Egoism. What makes the book stand out is in Wolfi’s clarity in writing, his lack of fear in addressing controversial topics, and is in its relatability to everyday experiences. One of the best examples of this is in the column of “Realism”.
Realism stands as a formidable ideology that asserts the current political and economic system is so deeply entrenched that any attempts to challenge it are simply futile unless they conform to acceptable forms of protest. Wolfi argues that realism permeates every authoritarian society, serving as a key instrument for those in power to shape social consensus. It diverts individuals from their challenging ideas, creative aspirations, and exhilarating dreams that could disrupt the stability of the ruling elite. While it may be unsurprising to see such ideologies embraced by those unwilling to disrupt the system, it is indeed alarming to witness this mentality among self-identified anarchists. Wolfi does not shy away from calling them out for their complicity. He points out:
“[…] to understand what might draw some anarchists to accept, even if only temporarily, this ruling ideology that is so contrary to any form of rebellion, it is necessary to recognize that far too many anarchists are soft-hearted, soft-headed humanitarians, animalist or even environmentalist. They tend to mistake charity for solidarity (something that I hope to deal with in future encyclopedia entries). In other words they are altruist. Their altruism is the key to how realism tames them” (p.14).
While this statement may be considered controversial and might sting many anarchists who read it, there appears to be some truth to the observation when we examine how many radicals address the issue of realism. We have all encountered realism through phrases like, “Why are you protesting? It’s not like you’re going to change anything!” or “Do anarchists truly believe that a stateless society can exist? Or that you can achieve that without the use of the state? That’s just not realistic.” These comments might be easy to dismiss. However, there is a more insidious form of defeatism evident in the “realism” described by Wolfi within radical circles.
For instance, during each U.S. presidential election, we often hear political catchphrases such as “lesser of two evils,” “this is the most important vote of our lifetime,” “we must stop fascism,” and “damage control.” These phrases, which reflect the “realist” attitudes described by Wolfi, infiltrate the discourse of individuals who identify as anarchists or as part of the left, leading them to justify their voting behavior or other otherwise submissive actions.
Wolfi discusses this situation in his book, stating:
“I have heard self-proclaimed anarchists use it to justify petitioning the government, writing letters to various authorities to influence their decisions, litigating, promoting legislation, voting, and so on. One anarchist I knew even attempted to justify Paul Watson’s collaboration with certain police forces in South America to combat marine poachers under the guise of an urgent need to protect endangered marine animals.” This sense of urgency, combined with altruism, leads these “realistic” anarchists to ultimately sacrifice themselves to the existing social order.” (p. 14)
Although Wolfi presents a rather bleak perspective in this column, he also offers valuable advice. He states:
“But, contrary to the claims of the ideologues of realism, there is another way to face reality; as it’s implacable enemy. I have my ideas, my dreams, my desires. They may not be realistic, but they are my own. To give them up would be to give myself up, and I'm not going to do that.” (p.14)
In just a few lines, Wolfi encapsulates the entire philosophy of Egoist-Anarchism in a motivating and poetic manner. Such evocative lines are scattered throughout the book, making it an enjoyable, inspiring, and informative read. I highly recommend this short work to both newcomers and those already familiar with the subject.
Comments
As Wolfi says, there is…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/23/2025 - 19:34
As Wolfi says, there is nothing real about "realistic" voting anarchists, they have become subservient to the State, and are beyond attaining the total autonomous anarch conscience!
You gotta believe in thr…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/23/2025 - 21:14
In reply to As Wolfi says, there is… by anonymous (not verified)
You gotta believe in thr power of anarchist redemption, or else your tiny numbers of Howling, PURE Anarchists gonna keep dwingling. Especially if a bunch of smelly, furry Ragnar Neckbeard CHUDs are part of the club... Ooof! Praise the Lawd.
If any of you orifice…
anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/24/2025 - 01:13
In reply to As Wolfi says, there is… by anonymous (not verified)
If any of you orifice fixated peurile morons knew anothing about the 3 circles representing the holistic realm of human beingness i.e. 1)The innate anarch essence, 2) The interrelationship of autonomous self-awareness with the objective realm of the environment in which one finds oneself, and 3), The interweaving of experiential emotions so as to use personal power and energy in a creative way.
Now read some books and use your imaginations beyond the realm of fornication for once in your immature minds!
We anarchs are mild mannered and forgiving radicals!
your recipe of in-born…
anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/24/2025 - 06:59
In reply to If any of you orifice… by anonymous (not verified)
your recipe of in-born essence, interrelationship with objects, and abstract, aimless creativity is tidy enough but as far as the realm of fornication goes i think you're just describing its prison or dunce box. are you sure you havent just gotten so used to the orifice you see in the mirror that you can't recognize them elsewhere
I like the butthole-pussy…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/23/2025 - 19:59
I like the butthole-pussy-eye of Sauron illustrations on the cover.
It's actually an ink…
The Void (not verified) Thu, 01/23/2025 - 20:29
In reply to I like the butthole-pussy… by anonymous (not verified)
It's actually an ink impression/stamp from Wolfi's favorite fleshlight, "Madame Stirner".
Now you know.
Henceforth known as: busseye
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/23/2025 - 21:09
In reply to I like the butthole-pussy… by anonymous (not verified)
Henceforth known as: busseye
must say
anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/24/2025 - 00:52
that's quite the cover art
yes
shawknaaa (not verified) Fri, 01/24/2025 - 11:59
The artwork is truly fantastic.
twenty?
anonymous (not verified) Sun, 01/26/2025 - 12:57
A 20-page encyclopedia? I guess there just isn't much to know about egoism.
Spending his life wearing…
anonymous (not verified) Mon, 01/27/2025 - 00:27
Spending his life wearing dirty laundry and receiving S.S.I. benefits richly qualifies "Wolfi" to be a High Pontiff of the United States anarchist subculture.
no, pretending to have…
anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/28/2025 - 09:39
In reply to Spending his life wearing… by anonymous (not verified)
no, pretending to have something to say from your mom's basement does.
And what's more United…
anonymous (not verified) Mon, 01/27/2025 - 02:09
And what's more United States than hollering about what a mighty rebel you fantasize yourself to be without the inconvenience of dispensing with the underlying attitude towards the rest of the world enjoyed by all of your fellow 'Murikans! 'Murika luvs tha' FREE-DUM!
The bit above regarding Paul…
anonymous (not verified) Wed, 01/29/2025 - 18:29
The bit above regarding Paul Watson is even more disgusting than the rest of this. By the tender age of seventy-something our mighty insuwekshunist should have learned that if his implacable posturing can only remain pristine in a series of safe spaces it isn't worth very much. In a choice between less than ideologically pure action that might save the lives of marine mammals and anything connected with self-positioned "important thinker" Wolfi Landstreicher I am on the side of the marine mammals, as any decent person would be.
Paul Watson is a notoriously…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 08:11
In reply to The bit above regarding Paul… by anonymous (not verified)
Paul Watson is a notoriously disgusting racist toward Native people (specifically the Makah). He can fuck off and so can your colonial decency. I'm not on the side of racists and colonizers. Nobody else should be either. Your posturing concern about animals smells like shit.
Watson is not racist. He's…
Whale Warrior (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 08:38
In reply to Paul Watson is a notoriously… by anonymous (not verified)
Watson is not racist. He's an anti-speciesist and will oppose humans of any race that are doing speciesist horrors. That he opposes Makah whalers or Japanese whalers or Faroese dolphin slaughterers does not a racist make.
I'm a different anon here to tell you that YOU can fuck off with your speciesist view. It's not "posturing," it's actual fucking action (something you would know nothing about).
different anon here. whether…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 09:08
In reply to Watson is not racist. He's… by Whale Warrior (not verified)
different anon here. whether you call it racism or not, it's taking a simplistic (binary) understanding, and applying it to people who have been colonized (a simple word that hides horrifying practices that are ongoing).
and a simplistic understanding of how animals (and we) exist in relation to each other and land, is in fact posturing, no matter how passionately someone feels about those postures and "actions" that do little to change the underlying assumptions and behaviors that got us here in the first place.
SoOoo true. "We" shouldn't…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 11:57
In reply to different anon here. whether… by anonymous (not verified)
SoOoo true. "We" shouldn't be sO simplistic. It's complicated and tOtally okay as long as you use all the parts and say "thank you, dead animal" after slitting the throat and letting the blood drain out as you hum. This is how we exist in relation to each other and the land. As long as you've meet the required blood quantum, that it. Namaste.
Paul Watson is as racist as…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 10:21
In reply to Watson is not racist. He's… by Whale Warrior (not verified)
Paul Watson is as racist as they come. The guy literally tried to take over an environmentalist group (Sierra Club) to push for a strong anti-immigration position under the guise of "population control", a push for which he received the support of a white supremacist pressure group. Curiously, of course, he never suggested the deportation of his white supremacist friends as a means for achieving this "population control" in the US instead. The guy has been dabbling in ecofascism since forever.
Substantiate your exact…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 11:52
In reply to Paul Watson is as racist as… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
Substantiate your exact claims, Tim Declercq. You are making extremely false assertions. Show any actual evidence what you are asserting are actually Paul's reasons. You are doing exactly what every single "fake news" mouthbreather is doing who is eroding intelligence and compassion and any shot at anarchy.
Also, fuck you and your ugly mother. Her entire reason for not turning you in for the serial abuses and animal torture you committed throughout your youth was because the thought you'd grow out of it. Curiously it seems she was wrong and unfortunately we know it's carried onto other species. May she burn in hell. You've been dabbling in serial torture since forever.
yeah ... wtf is with "Tim"?…
lumpy (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 12:09
In reply to Substantiate your exact… by anonymous (not verified)
yeah ... wtf is with "Tim"? he's got the strangest frankenstein of troll scripts
he fucks with the holodomor revisionism, he fucks with techno-fash AI immortality nonsense, he loves to pedantically lecture about math and physics when NOBODY was talking about that cuz he's the specialest, smartest boy and you NEED TO KNOW.
is this just what the terminally online kids are about these days? am i out of touch..?! ... No. no, it's the children who are wrong. Also, i used to be "with it" but then they changed what "it" was ... etc blah blah blah i'm a gen-X latch-key kid so everything is the Simpsons
Tim likes to be an expert at…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 12:25
In reply to yeah ... wtf is with "Tim"?… by lumpy (not verified)
Tim likes to be an expert at all the things by reading the bullshit snippets and outrage (by people who are hostile to the Earth AND anarchy) and never reads the actually fucking responses to the false claims he will toss around to make himself less of a target for his own animal torture. Here, Tim, https://web.archive.org/web/20090218001737/http://www.seashepherd.org/n… this should help. You mother died hating you and horrified by what she knew you'd become.
Well you should be thrilled…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 13:20
In reply to Tim likes to be an expert at… by anonymous (not verified)
Well you should be thrilled that the new Trump administration has decided to enact strict immigration controls. I'm sure greenhouse gas emissions will finally be going down any day now... Finally the environment is saved from those unwashed masses of immigrants, thanks president Trump!
How many logical fallacies…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 13:47
In reply to Well you should be thrilled… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
How many logical fallacies and goalpost moving can Tim Declercq commit in one comment section? Winning guess get the pleasure of dopamine from a life entirely spent online being a troll contrarian that ackshually is very smart!
Failure of a misdirection, Tim. Just admit defeat and go pickup another comment section to be so smart on until you're called out again for being a troll yet again. And on and on.
There is no goalpost moving…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 13:56
In reply to How many logical fallacies… by anonymous (not verified)
There is no goalpost moving or logical fallacies, it's literally the argument by the group that was supporting Watson's bid for anti-immigration measures. That the inability of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the US is "all thanks to our burgeoning population" which is in turn mostly caused by immigration ("two-thirds of the growth is a result of immigration"). Of course, in reality, the failure of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the US is caused by numerous factors, including opposition by fossil fuel industries, the push of climate change denial, and so on. Immigration has little to nothing to do with it. But hey, why let reality stand in the way of a good attempt at sneaking in fascism under a "green" disguise?
- Hurl false accusation…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 14:25
In reply to There is no goalpost moving… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
- Hurl false accusation based on unsubstantiated slander.
- Be countered by actual evidence.
- Double-down by making up more things and bringing up other things.
- Move to next topic and repeat.
- Continue forever until the dopamine hits.
- What is life when the internet is down? Oh no, the darkness :-(
Timmeh!!!
I quoted both his own words…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 14:38
In reply to - Hurl false accusation… by anonymous (not verified)
I quoted both his own words as well as the website of the group that was supporting his push for anti-immigration positions. So neither a false accusation nor unsubstantiated. No actual evidence was provided that countered this. Lastly, any serious anarchist (or other normal person) can see straight through this "Immigrants are to blame for environmental degradation" nonsense.
And just in case some…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 16:36
In reply to - Hurl false accusation… by anonymous (not verified)
And just in case some readers might actually be taken in by this nonsense, in the so-called "actual evidence" we can read:
"8. Your critics have tried to link you with racists, reactionaries and right-wingers. Is there any validity to their claims?
Absolutely not. It's plain and simply dirty politics. Groundswell, the group of Old Guard Sierra Club members who are distributing this nonsense are simply trying to discredit me and others who oppose them by fabricating bogus links to right wing and racist groups. There is not a shred of credibility for these bogus implications and to illustrate how ludicrous these accusations are - consider the candidates that I am supporting.
The first is Frank Morris, an African American, the former leader of the Black Caucus and the recipient of numerous awards from the NAACP. Why would any racist group or any racist support Frank Morris? It's a ridiculous accusation. Consider candidate Richard Lamm, the three times elected former liberal Democratic governor of Colorado - hardly a right winger. Professor David Pimentel is an ecologist. Kim McCoy is an animal rights advocate, not a philosophy linked with the right. Robert Roy Van de Hoek is a naturalist and opponent of the development of the Ballona wetlands, again hardly a right winger."
Well, all it takes is just a simple google search to find that for example this Richard Lamm guy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lamm) served as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_for_American_Immigration_Reform), considered as a hate group with ties to white supremacist groups.
Now, I don't know who these anons in the comments here are who are trying to push this eco-fascist crap (along with lumpy apparently), but considering that it takes just a simple google search to show that their so-called "actual evidence" consists of not much more than Paul Watson lying his ass off about his connections to white supremacists during his push for an anti-immigration stance in the Sierra Club (as if that alone didn't make it obvious enough already) is quite telling.
In general, if some self-proclaimed environmentalist tries to tell you that the problem is overpopulation and especially immigration, 9 times out of 10 it's just fascist entryism, and the other 1 out of 10 times it's just ignorant people. Actual proper data shows that environmental degradation is strongly linked to wealth and not to birth or immigration rates. As I pointed out in another comment the richest 1% of the population is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire poorest 50% of the population combined. If these people were genuinely concerned about greenhouse gas emissions, instead of just using it as an excuse for white supremacy, they would target the rich and not the poor and immigrants.
"The first is Frank Morris,…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 17:48
In reply to And just in case some… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
"The first is Frank Morris, an African American, the former leader of the Black Caucus and the recipient of numerous awards from the NAACP. Why would any racist group or any racist support Frank Morris? It's a ridiculous accusation."
Another quick google search finds that Frank Morris was, along with Richard Lamm, on the board of directors of the Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America (https://www.nndb.com/org/790/000121427/). On the archived version of their website we can find a page on "How Mass Immigration Exacerbates National Problems" (https://web.archive.org/web/20080704054254/http://www.diversityalliance…) with a list of 6 problems with immigration. Note how not a single one of these problems relates to environmental concerns at all, it's just your average run-off-the-mill anti-immigration rhetoric. This further supports the claims made by the Sierra Club directors of Paul Watson being involved in an organized push by anti-immigration campaigners and white supremacists to take over the Sierra Club and use it for their own purposes under the guise of environmentalism.
I'm not going to bother looking any further into the other people named by Watson in that interview, but I'd be willing to bet you'd find something similar for them too.
@Tim Declercq
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 18:16
In reply to "The first is Frank Morris,… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
Nigga, you gay lmao
And you're a racist coward…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 18:22
In reply to @Tim Declercq by anonymous (not verified)
And you're a racist coward bitch.
Tim is stirring up shit…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 18:47
In reply to And you're a racist coward… by anonymous (not verified)
Tim is stirring up shit talking to Tim. He does it all the damn time. Ignore his troll tactics. He can't stand being wrong or ignored.
You have a wild imagination,…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 19:13
In reply to Tim is stirring up shit… by anonymous (not verified)
You have a wild imagination, all my comments on this site are under my name, none of the anon or other comments are written by me. You do have one thing right, that I don't like being wrong, but that's easily solved by...simply not being wrong. And to be fair, when a simple google search is all that's required to find that Watson's companions for that Sierra Club campaign were on the board of directors of an anti-immigrant organization founded by white nationalist John Tanton, it's hardly a challenge not to be wrong.
@Tim Declercq
Tim Declercq (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 19:55
In reply to You have a wild imagination,… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
Nigga, you gay lmao
Oh a fake comment in my name…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 04:23
In reply to Marine animals should be… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
Oh a fake comment in my name, that hasn't happened in like months. I must have really hit a nerve with the Paul Watson stuff... :)
Get an account, dude. And…
anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 07:39
In reply to Oh a fake comment in my name… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
Get an account, dude. And also get yourself a blog or something.
No, this whole community…
anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 08:08
In reply to Get an account, dude. And… by anonymous (not verified)
No, this whole community moderated discussion feature should be deleted since it's just a platform for lies and slander and reactionaries. You all should make a site called anonnews and lie away about each other, you don't deserve the name anarchist. There's already a blog where Tim's writing is featured too, moron.
GENIUS
Tim Declercq (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 10:56
In reply to No, this whole community… by anonymous (not verified)
Good work, mods. Fixing broken comment threading by deleting comments is genius. You deserve awards.
"There are already limits on…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 16:27
In reply to Tim likes to be an expert at… by anonymous (not verified)
"There are already limits on immigration. My position is that these limits should be lowered to achieve stabilization."
False claim? Watson admits that he supports increasing state restrictions on immigration in the very interview you link to. Anarchists are about opposing the state, not giving it more power to carry out racist policies. This peanut gallery is overflowing with top tier morons and reactionaries.
Let's face it, excluding…
Quentin (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 11:12
In reply to "There are already limits on… by anonymous (not verified)
Let's face it, excluding refugees from war zones and regions where natural catastrophes have occurred, most immigrants would not perish if they remained in their own country, in fact, they aspire to join the capitalist pursuit of surplus wealth and luxury and rise up in the hierarchical scale of wealth and prestige, with little concern for the indigenous values of their host country.
I am speaking from experience, my mom was a heartless cold gold-digger devoid of any empathy, and she should have never been allowed into this country or, and I know this sounds rather odd, or to give birth to me. Really, I mean it, then there wouldn't be this anger raging inside my head. Sad, isn't it, immigration, no?
That is true Quentin, but to…
anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 21:19
In reply to Let's face it, excluding… by Quentin (not verified)
That is true Quentin, but to capitalists, aspiring to accumulate wealth and status is an ego stroking elixir, it is the purpose of life for them, they lack any aesthetic concerning a just and empathic society, society is a jungle to them in their social-Darwinist paradigm. They get 2 birds with one stone also with immigrants, factory fodder and an army of minions to support their policies.
"he fucks with the holodomor…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 13:01
In reply to yeah ... wtf is with "Tim"?… by lumpy (not verified)
"he fucks with the holodomor revisionism, he fucks with techno-fash AI immortality nonsense"
When you can't win an argument in a thread, you just go lie about it in some other thread? Well, you do you, lumpy...
Tim ..."winning"? all you do…
lumpy (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 09:40
In reply to "he fucks with the holodomor… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
Tim ..."winning"? all you do is change topics arbitrarily or run the goalposts around lol
maybe that looks like "winning" to someone who just discovered rhetoric, it's garden variety troll bullshit. only question is whether you know you're doing it or need a therapist to intervene
So what? All you do, Lumpy,…
anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 10:43
In reply to Tim ..."winning"? all you do… by lumpy (not verified)
So what? All you do, Lumpy, is troll and defend NATO-boosters and racist anarchists who are jealous of Native people. At least Tim says things that are interesting. You are nothing but a troll, not even a funny one at that.
> jealous of Native people…
anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 10:57
In reply to So what? All you do, Lumpy,… by anonymous (not verified)
> jealous of Native people
Uh. Should someone tell Tim, I mean him?
*facepalm*
This right here is what we…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 11:04
In reply to Tim ..."winning"? all you do… by lumpy (not verified)
This right here is what we call a big fat lie, lumpy: "he fucks with techno-fash AI immortality nonsense". I never said anything about "techno-fash AI immortality." Perhaps you're thinking of that time when I explained that an immortality result exists in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics? Something which has exactly zilch to do with AI, let alone with "techno-fash AI."
As I recall it became clear quite fast that you were talking about things you don't understand, and when I asked you to explain what the term "world" refers to in the context of the many-worlds interpretation, you just left the discussion with your tail between your legs (https://anarchistnews.org/index.php/comment/78066#comment-78066). And that's totally fine, hubris like that, people arguing about stuff they don't actually know and aren't actually capable of evaluating, is more than common enough. But that you now start outright lying in other threads about what happened is a new low even for you.
So can you tell us yet what the term "world" refers to, on a technical level? And note that I'm asking for an explanation *on a technical level* grounded in the mathematics of quantum mechanics, not some wishy-washy vague nonsense. Nah, I think we all know why you quietly left that question unanswered and will do so again, because you thought you could bluff your way through that discussion and it didn't work, and your hubris was laid bare for all to see.
BEEP
anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 11:10
In reply to This right here is what we… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
BEEP
... you're srsly trying to…
lumpy (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 11:26
In reply to This right here is what we… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
... you're srsly trying to restart your weird attempt to change the topic to quantum mechanics? this was all addressed at the time. it didn't work. it's not convincing. it comes off as a bit desperate too.
you're also doing that strange, narcissistic thing where you perceive someone becoming bored by your nonsense, or just wandering away from the computer because they have a life, as them being "defeated"? it's quite sad bro
"you're srsly trying to…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 11:30
In reply to ... you're srsly trying to… by lumpy (not verified)
"you're srsly trying to restart your weird attempt to change the topic to quantum mechanics?"
You are literally the one who brought it up in this discussion: https://anarchistnews.org/comment/78644#comment-78644
Ok, I agree with the other commenter now, you're just a troll.
you keep linking to things…
lumpy (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 12:22
In reply to "you're srsly trying to… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
you keep linking to things that don't say what you claim they do... it's weird
"The other commenter" ;-)
Tim Declercq (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 12:51
In reply to "you're srsly trying to… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
"The other commenter"
;-)
From his own words, just…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 12:59
In reply to Substantiate your exact… by anonymous (not verified)
From his own words, just like I said, pushing for a strong anti-immigration position under the guise of population control: "I am for lowering immigration from nations that have high birth rates to nations that have lower birth rates and from nations of high birth rates to nations of high consumption levels. Nations with lower birth rates should not be penalized by having growth forced upon them from nations needing to dump their excess populations. Nations of high consumption levels increase the levels of consumption with the introduction of every additional person." (http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/wonw.htm)
He was supported in this by a group called SUSPS which writes on its website: "Worst of all, the U.S. population continues to grow by about 3 million people per year, of which nearly half are immigrants, and two-thirds of the growth is a result of immigration, if the children of immigrants are included. Our forests continue to be clearcut to provide construction materials, our groundwater is depleted to provide water for our growing population, we grow more and more dependent on foreign sources of oil, and we are unable to reduce our output of greenhouse gases, all thanks to our burgeoning population." (https://www.susps.org/)
Yeah, sure, the reason you've been unable to reduce your output of greenhouse gases has nothing to do with capitalism, opposition by fossil fuel companies, climate change denial, or anything of the sort. Nah, it's all the fault of the immigrants, you see...
Like I said, eco-fascism.
Nice try. Read the fucking…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 13:13
In reply to From his own words, just… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
Nice try. Read the fucking interview. https://anarchistnews.org/comment/78646#comment-78646
I did, nothing but empty…
Tim Declercq (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 13:48
In reply to Nice try. Read the fucking… by anonymous (not verified)
I did, nothing but empty denials and the typical hogwash of reactionary environmentalists. Specifically his focus on population numbers and so-called "carrying capacity" - as if a homeless person or a poor immigrant has the same environmental impact as some rich guy with a private jet and a dozen cars. But of course if he were to acknowledge that then he would have to kick up - towards the rich - instead of down - towards immigrants in particular. That's why you will always see eco-fascists hammer on about population numbers and birth rates instead of about wealth inequality, even though the latter is a much stronger determining factor of environmental impact: https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-richest-1-perc…
Indeed, by his own logic, he could have the same effect by reducing 1% of the richest part of the population as he would by reducing 50% of the poorest part of the population. But no, he hammers on about immigration and population control instead of about the rich, just like every other eco-fascist does.
All your maths is erroneous…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/30/2025 - 18:50
In reply to I did, nothing but empty… by Tim Declercq (not verified)
All your maths is erroneous and smells of classist rhetoric. In Europe and South America the Catholic masses and the banning of contraception and sodomy has resulted in their exponential over breeding and destruction of species habitats for agricultural purposes. In Asia the social hives pursuit of fertility gods and materialism as a divine duty to sacrificial customs and rank within communities has spawned excess reproduction. Abstinence or sanctioned fapping is recommended!
He's my friend, he can ride…
Moby Dick (not verified) Fri, 01/31/2025 - 06:33
In reply to Watson is not racist. He's… by Whale Warrior (not verified)
He's my friend, he can ride on my back any day!
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