doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

What i mean to say can be summed up as: All forms-of-life produce their own time.

Time is not experienced singularly, as one uninterrupted flow. Nor is it felt the same way between bodies.

A form-of-life, experienced as a form-of-life (that is to say, collectively), produces it's own time by its mechanisms of coordination.
These mechanisms of coordination can be as varied as the individuals of a band relaying their own sensory information between each other or as regulated as the distribution of clocks for the timekeeping of labor.

@malice we could apply a lot of what you've said here to any other belief system, yeah?
"why believe in conservative values, progressives are gonna keep existing?"
"why believe in progressive values, conservatives are going to keep existing!"

anarchism is just a set of philosophies that are critical of power, most notably the state, and attempt, in variable ways (since it is not a singular philosophy) to destroy those powers.

karl marx once answered a "confessional" that had on it, the question, "your idea of happiness?" and his response was "to fight"

we struggle because we are alive, because when others take away our ability to act it saddens us, it hurts us, it depresses us. deleuze described joy as "effectuating" ones capacity to act. to actually be able to put it into use. when we are denied this it creates resistance itself.

it's not about being able to theorize a world in which no one ever does anything bad, it's about struggling for the freedom to live our lives according to whatever form we wish, not according to the normalizing, bureaucratizing, commodifying world of state society, but according to the actual wants and needs of the relationships we have.

@mutual_ayyde don't mean it as an excuse, just trying to track the development (progression or regression) of pol-econ critique among the left historically.

@mutual_ayyde imo, this is because neoclassical econ presents itself as "overcoming" the less egalitarian nature of classical econ, and thus, presents itself as overcoming the critique of pol-econ itself. so the leftist instinctively encourages others to stay away from it, and instead familiarize oneself with previous critiques. i can understand why some communists would want to do that to newbies but it definitely produces the problem you described.

not that my say goes very far but, i'd like it if "mastodon" wasn't the word that got popularized.

i don't love the word "fediverse" but i wish that was what we could make memetic

@pinkprius yeah! she's right here @DemonMama

@Silent this was so good and it was so much fun cooking with you 🦌

@b33rbashjawnson this is my third time around masto actually lmaooo

theyre those everyday positions of power you try to brush under the rug, every racist uncle and family member you force your kids to hug

you can see pedophilia in a child holding a teddy bear but you cant see it in your own families.

youre not saving kids.
at best youre just using real blood to up the stakes for your internet attention games.
at worst youre trying to get queer people killed.

the easiest way to tell whether someone actually cares about victims of child sexual assault or whether theyre just using our trauma to instigate moral panics is whether they talk about dismantling power structures and educating the young... or whether theyre inventing evil cabals.

the "cabals" are your pastors, your preachers, your bosses, your fathers, your teachers, your husbands, your cops, your wives, your fathers

@slightlyflightyone@sergal.org nooooo not at all! my knowledge was learned throgh trial, its nice to have it explicitly laid out ✨

@slightlyflightyone@sergal.org yeah!! i actually learned that recently! thank you for laying it out though!

@Ashencore i was disappointedly laughing with DM earlier saying "it's fucked up that my own Masto instance is working more reliably than twitter"

it's unfortunate twitter had to crash and burn this way, but i think something more, as you put it, mycelium-esque, is much more suited to longevity tbh

@DemonMama @Ashencore that's what i was about to say!!

the normalization processes of capitalist/state society are fuckin weird. it's bizarre that we're all coordinated to one singular time, and that we're imprinted with celebrations and festivals by a machine that just wants us to produce value

oh the variety of rituals and festivals and practices that we could've known as living practices...