• jaschop@awful.systems
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    20 hours ago

    Disagree, I think there’s something there.

    Something about baby anarchists who get the spiritual lessons but stubbornly refuse to engage with the complexity of the world and try to naively derive practices straight from theory which end up laughably ineffective. In contrast, once it truly sinks in how fucked and complicated the world is and how powerless your faction is your political practice starts looking more “normal” ™️, but you harbor no ill will against the enthusiastic baby anarchists and sort of envy their lifestyle.

    Might be wrong, can’t read OPs mind. But somehow it doesn’t feel mean-spirited.

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      19 hours ago

      It’s using a strawman of anarchism which essentially equates it with anarcho primitivism. Those are two different things for a reason.

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        18 hours ago

        equates it with anarcho primitivism

        Hey, it specifies solarpunk. The fellas have at least solar panels in there. And they know how to use pharamaceuticals.

        I’ll grant that gathering medication in the bushes is a little on the nose.

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          Hey, idk, maybe the “bushes” are Psychotria viridis, and there just so happen to be some Banisteriopsis caapi vines nearby…

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            collecting pharmaceuticals from bushes is all fun and fine until you need insulin. turns out that a large part of today’s medicine actually comes from genetically modified organisms that grow in petri dishes and require complex set-ups to grow and be harvested successfully. good luck doing all of that in your garden.

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      19 hours ago

      baby anarchists

      naively derive practices

      laughably ineffective.

      doesn’t feel mean-spirited.

      🤔

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        19 hours ago

        It’s paternalistic, all right, but that’s something different. I have a toddler, I should know.