TOTW: Pilgrimage
Can returning to the same ol’ places bring us somewhere new?
Can returning to the same ol’ places bring us somewhere new?
A fangirl is someone - typically but not exclusively female - who gets hyped out of their mind about a particular person, group, activity, or interest. We're talking full-on, unfiltered passion: shouting from the rooftops about their favorite band, binge-watching a TV series until sunrise, or obsessively collecting everything tied to a niche hobby.
In the wake of another election - once again sold to the voting public as the choice between upholding democracy or hastening the collapse into fascism - I am disappointed but unsurprised to see anarchists treading the well-worn ground of speaking to disillusioned, frightened voters in their moment of fear.
Topic of the Week – This week we’re exploring the topic of drugs and the relationship to anarchy.
Who are your anarchist ancestors, and how disappointed are they in you?
Humans have long revered silence, yet we break it continually.
For this TOTW, lets consider the different ways that anarchists interpret "refinement" and respond to it. What do you think about the stereotypes? What do you think about the social norms? What do you think about the concept of refinement itself?
Of His-story's biggest bastards, Columbus is surely up there with the worst.
Ol' Christopher was intimately documented through the opening chapters of Zinn's "A People's History" and has been taking the heat across schools, parks, local legislatures, forums, and social media ever since.
Acting as an agent of the Catholic Crowns to expand the reach of their Holy Empire, it is safe to say Columbus was not on the level with anarchists and was, in fact, an actual factual colonizer.
Topic of the Week - This won't be fully fleshed out (ha, did you see what i did there?) but I've been thinking a bit about the way that anarchists (at least as victims of western civilization) can be very abstracted from our bodies, how that is a part of computer culture, the impact of smelling people, of hearing them move and breathe, of the ways that being in someone's presence is more than the sum of its parts, of how ideas float away from our physical beings, of generalizations and how they are fun to play with but also distract from our subjective, individual experiences.
It’s unsurprising that the pioneers of society opted for a worldview which justified their every act of brutality upon the Earth.
What might animism offer anarchists as a contrast?