TOTW: 2022 - The year past, the year ahead

 In November, we remember.

Topic of the week - As 2022 comes to a close, let’s take a look back at the ongoing social upheavals worldwide, inspiring anarchist actions, and the multimedia that have kept you going through it all. 2022, a year in review and the year ahead.

What have been your favorite anarchist actions, communiques, new projects, and events (IRL & AFK) from this past year? On the opposite end, is there a specific anarchist critique of things that stands out or a list of embarrassments for the anarchist milieu that happened over the year? What anarchist projects and spaces are you looking forward to for the future?

What have been the most intriguing anarchist texts, books, videos, music, and other multimedia to come out over the past year? Why? At risk of creating a comment thread of lonely links, add some information and perhaps a little sentiment to help readers understand the importance to you.

A very special heartfelt remembrance to our dearly departed friend Greg (1991-2022), who was a long time member of Anarchist News project and co-host of the anarchist news podcast. His death early on in the year caught us by surprise.

We’d also like to remember and mention other anarchists who have passed away this year: Ronald “Ronni” Fritzsch, Staughton Lynd, Alejandro Arribas Jimeno, Aref Ghanbarzai (Ghanbarzehi), Raúl Quiroz, Neta Gelb, Juan Carlos Mechoso, Niall McDevitt, Dod Copland, Tom Cornell, Taylor, Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey), Brian Bamford, Martin Gilbert, Igor Volokhov, Alice Molloy, and Laurens Otter.

Prior The year past, the year ahead links:

TOTW: 2021 – The year past, the year ahead
https://anarchistnews.org/content/totw-2021-year-past-year-ahead

TOTW: 2020 - The year past, the year ahead
https://anarchistnews.org/content/totw-2020-year-past-year-ahead

TOTW: [2019] The year past, the year ahead
https://anarchistnews.org/content/totw-year-past-year-ahead

TOTW: 2018 - The year past, the year ahead [ether pad link only, pre-ANews crash]
https://pad.anarchistnews.org/p/year_past_year_ahead_2018

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Too soon

We still have one month left of 2022! Plenty of time to turn things around!

Slowly working through Adam Curtis' new documentary about the last days of the ussr.

Not sure how much to give a shit about the trajectory of the human species. And this isn't to devalue life, or complain that humans are THE problem with life on earth. Exterminationism is just another pointless, silly rationale. A strawman to attempt yet another angle to fail at controlling on a planet we are apart of, and not controllers of. Attempts at control give rise to the current systemic breakdowns. They would be funny if they weren't so stupidly tragic. 33 million homeless Pakistanis is chilling, while the fixed ideas that gave rise to he exteme events are in themselves funny in that humans are still not getting they're a part of nature, and the common living space is the primary organizing influence (not the human mind and its abstract Thought).

West (a preference for Either/Or thought) needs to meet East (a preferance for And/Both thinking). But I'm not going to wait around for this.

Or waste time drowning slowly in this mire of bi-polar disorder and its crazy making herding behaviors. I just try to snag moments beyond cameras, beyond counting, beyond performing...beyond participating. Not being active on most social media most of the time has meant loneliness since age 26, but reprieve from most of the insanity the public's imagination are electronically magnetized to for the last ten years. It looks like various meditative and flow states.

The bipolarity reveals how intrenched into Right and Left thinking is in actively suppressing anarchy as their entire project hinges on degrees of control over the planet as in Work, Economy.

What do we have to offer such a shit society, whose lands are polluted, foods poisoned, and imaginations privatized? Everything is possible, and all these joyless puritans hold so much disdain for the natural world they wish, hope, and pray for apocalypse? It's even corralled anarchist thought.

No one has any ideas. Maybe something else is no longer possible. Maybe this is borrowed time. Bolts can still be unscrewed! Control can be trolled before regaining functionality after each natural disaster. Misinform the misinformers like they stepped into the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.

The whole economy is fake. It's fake inflation. 3rd quarter investor meetings revealed many companies selectively raising and lowering prices, seeing if customers notice, while taking in record profits. Idiots are at the helm! Idiots with no beliefs, no ideas. Fucking with Eli Lily was hilarious! Now if that toying could be done in such a way to siphon of those profits and put them into cool projects!

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