They can fall in line or fuck off–if a shitlib wants to volunteer as a warm body for something I’m doing without trying to subvert it I won’t turn them away
You won’t convince many people if you aren’t willing to explain yourself; how can someone trust one that isn’t willing to meet them halfway? I encourage you to not say who you are, but what you stand for.
I think we can both agree that authoritarians are bad, and that what we are seeing now from the right is pushes for power by authoritarians.
Okay. Abstractly I’m for personal autonomy proliferation of possibilities and the cultivation/nurturing/flourishing of the potential of all intelligence–ai if that ever exists, whales, visiting aliens if that happens, and whatever else; even hypothetically some apes, if you can believe that–individually and collectively.
More viscerally I’m for banishing inefficiency precarity exploitation and unjustifiable bullshit, making the world more fun/interesting, and finding opportunities to grow in those considered finished/complete or discarded by bourgeoise society. Also pretty opposed to pointless wasteful destruction of things that are unrecoverable or expensive to recover. I’ve got a lot of anger about delusional superstitions theological and otherwise that justify awful bullshit that prevents and destroys the good stuff.
This means in practical terms that I’m extremely hostile to police, means testing, borders, hierarchy, private property, money, laws in general, bureaucracy, and probably a lot of other stuff you think is necessary or elemental to the way the world works. I will not be saying what I’m in favor of in the day-to-day here–too unusual.
This sounds pretty uncompromising because it is. I haven’t had much connection to established society and ideas in my adult life except by conflict, and was explicitly excluded as a child. I have gained nothing from it except by force or deception, and so had no positive social/material bonds with it to guide my intellectual/emotional growth or relationships that would be stressed by radical ideas. Nobody has compromised with me, so I have compromised on nothing, which is unfortunate–i quite enjoy co-creation if the built world and perceptions thereof. Of all the people to seek common ground with; I am not the ideal. There are others you could ask.
I appreciate your genuine response, thank you for taking your time to reply to me.
Okay. Abstractly I’m for personal autonomy proliferation of possibilities and the cultivation/nurturing/flourishing of the potential of all intelligence–ai if that ever exists, whales, visiting aliens if that happens, and whatever else; even hypothetically some apes, if you can believe that–individually and collectively.
Right on, I agree with you that it would be worth promoting those potentials for intelligence like you said. I could even see an argument where we share the genes of understanding complex language that we have, although I feel we should try to slow aging more/eliminate more diseases/cancers before doing that much.
More viscerally I’m for banishing inefficiency precarity exploitation and unjustifiable bullshit, making the world more fun/interesting, and finding opportunities to grow in those considered finished/complete or discarded by bourgeoise society.
To me, it sounds like you want things to be better than they are, because you know they can be. I feel the same way about wanting things to be better, to experience the fun and to find joy in the unexpected/unknown.
Am I right in hearing that you want to pursue your passions, but that economically we don’t reward those routes? If that is the case, I think it’s a modern tragedy that society is not rewarding those with heart and passion to pursue the path they want to walk.
Also pretty opposed to pointless wasteful destruction of things that are unrecoverable or expensive to recover.
I feel the same way as you about wasteful destruction of things that that are damaged or hard to recover. Just because it’s not perfect, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have history or meaning behind it.
I’ve got a lot of anger about delusional superstitions theological and otherwise that justify awful bullshit that prevents and destroys the good stuff.
I think that’s a fair take, the paradox of tolerance certainly applies to what you’re talking about with many beliefs out there.
This means in practical terms that I’m extremely hostile to police, means testing, borders, hierarchy, private property, money, laws in general, bureaucracy, and probably a lot of other stuff you think is necessary or elemental to the way the world works.
I think many of the things you listed make sense to have gripes with in one way or another, especially in this day and age.
For instance, the means test you mentioned. Why is there a threshold for help? Why is it that once you go slightly past the threshold that you lose all of those safety nets from the benefit programs?
I mean, why do we have these arbitrary borders? We’re all human after all. Can’t we just come together and have a unified global society already? At the least you would think traveling wouldn’t be such a big deal, yet alone immigrating to another country just to live.
I don’t think most things should necessarily need hierarchies. I do like that some co-op businesses are out there for that reason, although not as many as there could/should be.
Personally, I’m fine with some forms of private property, but I do think there should be way more public property than there is. For instance, I feel that most if not all private apartments should be public apartments. I would personally like a house someday to have the space to raise a family. Technically, I have no issue with the state itself owning the house property if it was easier for future generations to have access to houses as well.
I don’t think money itself is bad, but how we allocate it is just bonkers. I mean, the fact that there are billionaires when people go hungry and don’t have a roof over their heads is an absurdity. If we taxed the billionaires and big corporations so that everyone had access to something like a Universal Basic Income and other progressive programs/housing, that would go a long ways towards making the world a better place.
I will not be saying what I’m in favor of in the day-to-day here–too unusual.
That’s okay, it’s better to not mention it if it’s too unique to you.
This sounds pretty uncompromising because it is. I haven’t had much connection to established society and ideas in my adult life except by conflict, and was explicitly excluded as a child. I have gained nothing from it except by force or deception, and so had no positive social/material bonds with it to guide my intellectual/emotional growth or relationships that would be stressed by radical ideas. Nobody has compromised with me, so I have compromised on nothing, which is unfortunate–i quite enjoy co-creation if the built world and perceptions thereof. Of all the people to seek common ground with; I am not the ideal. There are others you could ask.
I’m sorry that you’ve been fighting alone for so long and in such an uncaring environment at that. We’re not built to walk a lonely path -one without warmth, kindness, and consideration shown to us. I feel like you’re being a bit hard on yourself here, no one’s perfect after all. It sounds to me like you do care about helping others, it’s difficult when your voice is not being heard though.
Cool! Was this just a lie then?
Probably not. Guess we’ll never know.
Well, you still have ample chance to amend yourself and speak from the heart, if that’s something important to you.
I’m not in the habbit of explaining or doxxing myself too hard, sorry.
If you show up, I’ll probably offer you something to do. If you don’t, I suppose we’ll never meet.
You won’t convince many people if you aren’t willing to explain yourself; how can someone trust one that isn’t willing to meet them halfway? I encourage you to not say who you are, but what you stand for.
I think we can both agree that authoritarians are bad, and that what we are seeing now from the right is pushes for power by authoritarians.
Okay. Abstractly I’m for personal autonomy proliferation of possibilities and the cultivation/nurturing/flourishing of the potential of all intelligence–ai if that ever exists, whales, visiting aliens if that happens, and whatever else; even hypothetically some apes, if you can believe that–individually and collectively.
More viscerally I’m for banishing inefficiency precarity exploitation and unjustifiable bullshit, making the world more fun/interesting, and finding opportunities to grow in those considered finished/complete or discarded by bourgeoise society. Also pretty opposed to pointless wasteful destruction of things that are unrecoverable or expensive to recover. I’ve got a lot of anger about delusional superstitions theological and otherwise that justify awful bullshit that prevents and destroys the good stuff.
This means in practical terms that I’m extremely hostile to police, means testing, borders, hierarchy, private property, money, laws in general, bureaucracy, and probably a lot of other stuff you think is necessary or elemental to the way the world works. I will not be saying what I’m in favor of in the day-to-day here–too unusual.
This sounds pretty uncompromising because it is. I haven’t had much connection to established society and ideas in my adult life except by conflict, and was explicitly excluded as a child. I have gained nothing from it except by force or deception, and so had no positive social/material bonds with it to guide my intellectual/emotional growth or relationships that would be stressed by radical ideas. Nobody has compromised with me, so I have compromised on nothing, which is unfortunate–i quite enjoy co-creation if the built world and perceptions thereof. Of all the people to seek common ground with; I am not the ideal. There are others you could ask.
I appreciate your genuine response, thank you for taking your time to reply to me.
Right on, I agree with you that it would be worth promoting those potentials for intelligence like you said. I could even see an argument where we share the genes of understanding complex language that we have, although I feel we should try to slow aging more/eliminate more diseases/cancers before doing that much.
To me, it sounds like you want things to be better than they are, because you know they can be. I feel the same way about wanting things to be better, to experience the fun and to find joy in the unexpected/unknown.
Am I right in hearing that you want to pursue your passions, but that economically we don’t reward those routes? If that is the case, I think it’s a modern tragedy that society is not rewarding those with heart and passion to pursue the path they want to walk.
I feel the same way as you about wasteful destruction of things that that are damaged or hard to recover. Just because it’s not perfect, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have history or meaning behind it.
I think that’s a fair take, the paradox of tolerance certainly applies to what you’re talking about with many beliefs out there.
I think many of the things you listed make sense to have gripes with in one way or another, especially in this day and age.
For instance, the means test you mentioned. Why is there a threshold for help? Why is it that once you go slightly past the threshold that you lose all of those safety nets from the benefit programs?
I mean, why do we have these arbitrary borders? We’re all human after all. Can’t we just come together and have a unified global society already? At the least you would think traveling wouldn’t be such a big deal, yet alone immigrating to another country just to live.
I don’t think most things should necessarily need hierarchies. I do like that some co-op businesses are out there for that reason, although not as many as there could/should be.
Personally, I’m fine with some forms of private property, but I do think there should be way more public property than there is. For instance, I feel that most if not all private apartments should be public apartments. I would personally like a house someday to have the space to raise a family. Technically, I have no issue with the state itself owning the house property if it was easier for future generations to have access to houses as well.
I don’t think money itself is bad, but how we allocate it is just bonkers. I mean, the fact that there are billionaires when people go hungry and don’t have a roof over their heads is an absurdity. If we taxed the billionaires and big corporations so that everyone had access to something like a Universal Basic Income and other progressive programs/housing, that would go a long ways towards making the world a better place.
That’s okay, it’s better to not mention it if it’s too unique to you.
I’m sorry that you’ve been fighting alone for so long and in such an uncaring environment at that. We’re not built to walk a lonely path -one without warmth, kindness, and consideration shown to us. I feel like you’re being a bit hard on yourself here, no one’s perfect after all. It sounds to me like you do care about helping others, it’s difficult when your voice is not being heard though.