Posted by: guest55
« on: April 10, 2022, 08:18:25 pm »Some good points made here about building community now so that if the system collapses people will have a support network. Also, just because the system collapses does not necessarily mean the good guys will win afterwards....
Americans living in cities will be worse off than rural Americans if the system did collapse, just as a reminder. American leftists should be building intentional communities already. Many wealthy rightists and other Westerners are already doomsday "preppers".
Let's talk about hope and acceleration....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9akT4JplzU
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Americans living in cities will be worse off than rural Americans if the system did collapse, just as a reminder. American leftists should be building intentional communities already. Many wealthy rightists and other Westerners are already doomsday "preppers".
Let's talk about hope and acceleration....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9akT4JplzU
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One of the most hopeless things heard is why bother, it makes no difference.But it does make a difference, even if it's just within yourself.
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Kropotkin said the same thing. A revolution isn't what people think it is (violence and political upheaval), the real revolution is the work that's done by everyone everyday.
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Apathy is one of the worst things when it is directed toward injustice.
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That's the best argument against procrastinating I've ever heard. Get up. Help your fellows and find joy in the doing. Despair comes from just watching.
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Abject cynicism is often seductive. Looking at/considering "the day after" is the quenching antidote for accelerationism. Destruction moving towards collapse is remarkably easy. Building is hard work.
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This approach is so similar to the economic system known as distributism. The more of us that are interested in maximizing localism, the better.