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TOTW: Anarchist Mentors

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Topic of the Week: The word mentor is defined as a trusted counselor or guide who is often someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and normally younger person. Mentoring is often associated with the business world of professional development for on-boarding new workers into a new job with the process sometimes lasting multiple years. This week were taking some time and space to dig into the world of anarchist mentors.

TOTW: Joy

“It is a real contradiction to talk of joy seriously.”  - Alfredo Bonanno

Topic of the Week – The bloom lives inside the bloom and everything blurs under its effect, lost in the inconsequential wavering of society! This week we’re talking about letting the good times roll, the joie de vivre, jouissance (whatever that means) and how you capture the child-like enchantment of it all and store that gem in your pocket to hang on to when the world is raging outside.

TOTW: policing language or challenging ruts?

The point of changing words, or limiting the words we use, is to change behavior. I avoid saying "interesting," as I rely on it too much. I also discourage people from saying they’re sorry, which is so frequently a platitude, or a way of getting out of a situation, or empty in a variety of other ways. I have sometimes suggested in the past, with people who know of and are indulgent with my foibles, that when they’re tempted to say “sorry” they instead say “fuck you”, which has had some funny repercussions, and is not something I recommend for the neophyte.

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