There is a third option. Use the imaginary world as a guide to slowly move forwards in the real one. Slowly opening your mind to more and more of the real in manageable slices. Some people need comfort to move forwards. We need the ground to be solid below our feet before taking a step forward. I need to actually have anarchist friends before I start fighting capitalism. Thinking about how to do it, or analyse it, is useless without the ability to act on it.
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I do absolutely know that capitalism is destroying the planet. I also know there is nothing I alone can do about it. I'm trying to keep up to date on resistances across the world and if an opportunity arises I might join one. But right now it seems that the world at large is content to slowly burn and the best I can do is try and build a space to survive it. After all capitalism seems to be collapsing all on it's own.
It's disheartening that so many people in this thread make so many assumptions about me that are based in me not being ignorant. I'm not. I'm no expert on political theory, but I also know the problems are. I just don't focus on them because they seem insurmountable. I learned a long time that to get my ND brain doing something I need to start with a vague plan, take one step at a time and then, hopefully, I achieve my goal. otherwise I get overwhelmed at all of the millions of little details I need to pay attention to and give up. I don't want to give up on anarchism. So I don't think about the parts that I don't have the answer to. Ignorant? Yes, because the alternative is giving up.
Yes. I just don't know how so focusing on it seems kinda counter-productive. Right now I'm focusing on building a community I can belong to, since that seems achievable and I'm positive my views will change as a result.
No reason to cement ideas that are destined to get destroyed in an earthquake.
but.. I do use archlinux.
Yeah. Obviously... unless... I create gunpowder. That way I'll be unstoppa... Oh, the Akkadians stole the recipe and conquered us anyway, damn.
Yep. vibes all the way. baby. anything more structured will inevitably fall apart when other people have differing opinions, this way I remain compatible.
I'm in a mood to be social for a bit. I don't really have any IRL outlet so this will have to do.
Also it seems hexbear took intrest in my post and for better or worse I've decided to engage them: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/59334692
So give me that social push. I'm all for it. Give me a group of people that make me want to fight and I will. I'm stuck in a country with so little revolutionary potential. I would absolutely love to find some movement and I hope in time I will.
I'm not saying I won't fight. I'm saying my fighting will not be direct. I will play support. It's a role that suits me more. I'll clean, I'll cook, I'll help setting up tables or tents. I'll write programs. I will do what I'm comfortable with. Otherwise it isn't a revolution I want to support. Anarchy is about finding your own place and having others accept it. Anarchy is about being comfortable if that's what you want to be.
You call not wanting to fight a lack of commitment and cowardice. I call it being sensible and not putting myself in a situation where I'm leasts efficient and will probably contribute nothing, and in worst case scenario cause damage. I will not fight on the front-lines. It's not what I'm good at.
"People are people, so why should it be, you and should get along so awfully".
How to change the world isn’t a question with a single answer. some people are more focused on fighting the systems that are the source of oppression. Others focus on building communities and resolving conflicts. Neither is less important than others. People fight for anarchy in different ways and all of these ways are valid. Even if the methods are not to my liking they still have my support (up to a point. obviously).
Society is nothing more than people trying to do what they can to live comfortably. If anarchist spaces exist they can give people that feeling, spread their ideas to them, and through that transform the world.
Now these aren't big or deep ways but I don't really need anything more.
The problem with focusing on class is that it gives you a convenient enemy to fight. An other to direct all your anger and resentment towards. If that's what you want then go right ahead, but I like to focus my energy on building community and having an other to hate is simply not useful for that.
It's not. see: BIbble-Bubble-Bum-Fuck.
I'm trying to get across Ideas and for that writing in a universal style, which is what LLMs are trained on, is the most useful. The fact that you can't tell the difference show's that I'm LLM level. Which could either mean LLMs have gotten worse or I'm as good as a computer in writing. It's probably the former.
Alas my talk machine-coded appear, this shall not do. humanity prove i will. talk giberish, yes, but still understand. like words. they weird. they mashed but still mean. me like that. me wieeeeerd. Why talk good when can talk fun?
It's not my focus, because I don't like conflict. It will be the focus of other anarchists. I'll let them deal with it. Not everyone needs (or should) be on the front-lines. The anarchy that I describe is mine. It doesn't work on it's own. It requires other peoples anarchies to compliment it. I don't need to have all the answers. I don't need to fight all the fights. This I consider the primary privilege of anarchism "I don't need to care about everyone" and "I don't need to have all the answers". I have hope that someone else will. I am just a small cog in a machine not the overseer of an entire society.
That's what makes it anarchy. It's that despite not being that oppositional to archy myself I still believe that it can be destroyed, and will help others to do it. I seek anarchist spaces and other anarchists to begin building my own community. That's what makes me an anarchist.
there's also the problem that I don't actually know how to make gunpowder. You seem to though. Maybe we should send you back in time.