daoism and anarchism
so a lot of incorrect, ahistorical, and appropriative stuff has been said about daoism and anarchism, but i think there is a important correspondence, which is maybe one of the best parts of both: they state that the way to create any sort of change is to begin with your own life, and transform it into something more aligned with {the true nature of the world, the world you want to see}
an excellent and concise piece on the split that we experience at the hands of this society's normative powers; between ourselves as Flesh and ourselves as Figure. and the self destructive violence of the ever-evolving eugenicist practices.
https://revoltingbodies.com/2023/06/24/a-dispatch-from-the-norm/
the SAG threatening to strike alongside the WGA is really demonstrating the kinds of things that should be happening like, everywhere, in every industry, all at once. the problems they describe are the same problems every working person in this country is facing right now. this would be a great time for a general strike, i think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdtpZR8cC_w
Tiqqun: “The deconstructionist, incapable of having an effect on even the smallest detail of his world, being literally almost no longer in the world and having made absence his permanent mode of being, tries to embrace his Bloomhood with bravado. He shuts himself up in that narrow, closed circle of realities that still affect him at all--books, texts, films, and music--because these things are as insubstantial as he is. He can no longer see anything in what he reads that might relate to life, and instead sees what he lives as a tissue of references to what he has already read."
The deconstructionist, yes, but also so many other academics...
From Introduction to Civil War https://illwill.com/print/tiqqun-introduction-to-civil-war
"To all the #LGBTqia+ #people who insisted #cops at #Pride are a great thing "for our #protection" and deserve to march and have floats in the #parade despite the people of color in our #community and older #queers in our community talking about police brutality then and now:
Who do you think is going to enforce all the #antitrans and queer #laws that are sweeping the #country?"
https://www.tumblr.com/theconcealedweapon/720769982545477633?source=share
Oh nice. Seattle Public Library has created a membership type for "13 to 26 year olds anywhere in the US" to be able to sign out e and audiobooks as a response to those locales banning books...
https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/teens/books-unbanned
"Read the books they don't want you to. That's where the good stuff is." - LeVar Burton
I am about to kick some journalists in the nuts real hard.
YOU failed to report on the dire warnings of scientists the past *checks the 6 IPCC reports* 33 years with your bloody "both-sideism" and now it's our fault?
Fuck you, the Hill. Fuck you very very much.
to say it in a way that shows whats at stake: how do we think praxis while our praxis is so often used to keep the gears of the enemy machines running?
A wandering deer, building shrines along the way.