doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

important reminder

@fraggle lmfao

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shoutout to pourover coffee being here for me since the coffee maker broke

@ja_herre i think these are a great starting point at minimum. i use the content warning system the way i should probably use the tagging system and i end up just listing a couple of the main topics that i'm posting about, under a broad header (usually like "philosophy; sovereignty" or whatever)

i think #philosophy #politicalscience and #politicaltheory are great broad headers but i'm sure some new ones will organically arise for anarchists too, #anarchism will be adopted early and quickly i'm sure tbh

@NickGiraffe thanks for sharing this piece with me! i'm very interested!

@NickGiraffe oh, i can see why, we're both pulling quite heavily from similar stuff, especially tiqqun's Introduction to Civil War.

Can we imagine the loss of community that must've occurred to produce the man that spoke of The Human Community? An abstract universal, found nowhere but in the way we decide to treat each other and the rest of life.

The Community doesn't exist and it never has.

Community is what exists; shared and experienced between those in contact.

Community is the experience of joy (power, even) found between bodies who are affected towards a particular way. One might say that community is found where two bodies are affected by the same form-of-life.

Never The Community of those who are there, always Community as potential, constantly being realized.

Each time community tries to solidify itself as a subject, as The Community, it finds itself met with its own impossibility, and develops techniques to ward off its own impossibility.

@destroy @lackingsaint i don't know why happiness/hope and accuracy/honesty/truth are at odds here.

i think it's important to be honest, truthful, realistic; to not eschew evidence in favor of naivety. knowing and accepting failures as a possibility is part of being honest with ourselves. but, if we refuse hope and happiness itself, how can we struggle for anything beyond us?

i don't think it'd be "minimizing unnecessary suffering" to tell someone in the lowest lows of their depression that "actually you're totally right, life is worthless, nothing has any meaning, everything is empty, no one loves you, love is just a chemical reaction in the brain" *even* if every single one of those things is "true" to some extent, from a certain point of view.

i think, it'd actually be really harmful to tell someone those things. it wouldn't alleviate their depression, because the framing itself is devoid of hope, devoid of the possibility of change, devoid of the faintest light of happiness, trust, love, that gives meaning to the relationships in our lives, and thus, to our lives.

and, while i can sympathize with the sentiment (that we should avoid unnecessary suffering) i think it's a destructively nihilistic outlook, that takes a hopeless POV as truth because it's easier to accept emptiness than struggle for change.

@lackingsaint i think a lot of people struggle to see life as possibility. instead they see the patterns and assume them unbeatable, unchangeable

fuckk i forgot how good Errementari is

found in WA

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@Retcon oof what a shitty thing to say, im sorry about that

@eris revolver ocelot? i would kiss him on the mouth