I actually come to see what's growing, and to ramble like a bozo on unlocked content. Congrats on the greenhouse, I'm jealous.
I haven't read the essays nor your book, so not qualified to even comment really (and this comment isn't directed at you at all because I'm confident you don't do this), but it is interesting to me that some people are so quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater on identity/oppressed groups ('yeah, fuck the trans and immigrants, they are just helping capitalism to fuck us', in a move that the baby/bathwater analogy couldn't be more apropos). I feel like something very similar happened with everything surrounding the SARS pandemic also, with unnuanced and ridiculously polarized divisions opening up right under us and everyone immediately going for each other's throats. And it seems it isn't just fucking the left, everyone is fucked by it, like an old windshield with cracks everywhere.
Years ago I remember the Citations Needed podcast guys talking about this identity distraction issue and very simply but directly articulating that homophobia (this was before gender was hot) has no part to play in making the world a better place, we can fix economic conditions while also struggling for civil rights for oppressed groups. That felt like a truly wholesome message.
hi Rhys I used to be a paying participant and I bought and read your book (here be Monsters).
I was sorry not to be able to afford you anymore (am in Canada US$ is almost 1.50 Cad )- especially when the articles about Fucked-up leftism came up.
Thanks for making this one publicly available - AS an old (77 year old) Chilean European leftist I am still searching between anarchism and "communism" and a larger reality (I am a fan of Ursula)
I am very curious and intrigued by the article that shocked you into silence.
I believe that Transgender issues hav also a secondary purpose besides division and identity politics. They are also aimed at decreasing population - the elites are Hobbsians..
Anyway - I hear several people I like speaking about todays TECHNO-FEUDALISM - they claim this is no longer Capitalism - and I agree.
There are some very interesting conversations in Europe about political-economic systems - If you understand German I recommend Ulrike Guerot.
Yeah, I keep my eating out to a great sushi place as I can’t readily duplicate sushi.
Perhaps we should call it for what it is - a right wing ideology masquerading as liberal and left leaning.
I actually come to see what's growing, and to ramble like a bozo on unlocked content. Congrats on the greenhouse, I'm jealous.
I haven't read the essays nor your book, so not qualified to even comment really (and this comment isn't directed at you at all because I'm confident you don't do this), but it is interesting to me that some people are so quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater on identity/oppressed groups ('yeah, fuck the trans and immigrants, they are just helping capitalism to fuck us', in a move that the baby/bathwater analogy couldn't be more apropos). I feel like something very similar happened with everything surrounding the SARS pandemic also, with unnuanced and ridiculously polarized divisions opening up right under us and everyone immediately going for each other's throats. And it seems it isn't just fucking the left, everyone is fucked by it, like an old windshield with cracks everywhere.
Years ago I remember the Citations Needed podcast guys talking about this identity distraction issue and very simply but directly articulating that homophobia (this was before gender was hot) has no part to play in making the world a better place, we can fix economic conditions while also struggling for civil rights for oppressed groups. That felt like a truly wholesome message.
hi Rhys I used to be a paying participant and I bought and read your book (here be Monsters).
I was sorry not to be able to afford you anymore (am in Canada US$ is almost 1.50 Cad )- especially when the articles about Fucked-up leftism came up.
Thanks for making this one publicly available - AS an old (77 year old) Chilean European leftist I am still searching between anarchism and "communism" and a larger reality (I am a fan of Ursula)
I am very curious and intrigued by the article that shocked you into silence.
I believe that Transgender issues hav also a secondary purpose besides division and identity politics. They are also aimed at decreasing population - the elites are Hobbsians..
Anyway - I hear several people I like speaking about todays TECHNO-FEUDALISM - they claim this is no longer Capitalism - and I agree.
There are some very interesting conversations in Europe about political-economic systems - If you understand German I recommend Ulrike Guerot.