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  • Anarchism has always existed. It’s kind of the default for hunter gatherers. We would probably have different popular flavors.

    That’s a very very simplified view of how they resolved slavery and gender issues in the french revolution. They wobbled, slipped forward, slipped back. And with the long communication times to colonies it got weird.

    Im aware of the problems with the guillotine and the entire hot mess the first french revolution, where people with barely any concept of what freedom even is suddenly had the reins of power and fucked up basically everything, because how could they not, even if they did trust each other (they didn’t) but the thing they were pushing out was such a shit show the fuckups barely counted and they racked up an impressive string of wins.

    Things did in fact happen the way they did.










  • To be fair, the typical defenses of that technology are the most maddeningly empty headed shit I’ve ever read, including conversations with real life fascists and work with people deep into senility.

    Listening to enough of them has genuinely given me a substantial vein of anti human ‘most of this is just unrefrigerated meat, there is no spark of intellect, no consviousness, no beauty to be found here’ type thought.

    I wouldn’t go into ‘/stable diffusion fruit’ to throw a fit about it, but my first instinct when someone says that tech is good is just straight up assuming, whether its on silicon or meat; the thing im talking to is not a person in any way that matters to me.

    Im occasionally wrong, and have to adjust course, but it has become an unsettling oft confirmed default which i very much resent.

    I just really want to emphasize here:

    this technology is often defended with a stupidity so profound and so stubborn that it has broken the last shreds of my love for humanity, a love for humanity that survived being thrown away onto the street like trash as a child, no small amount of rape abuse life unhoused and tending to those who had suffered so much worse than I. In its place that stupidity has awakened a creeping suspicion that there never was such a thing as ‘humanity’, and I’m utterly alone in a howling void.








  • Intellectual curiosity about my fellow lemmings?

    Don’t get me wrong, i do firmly believe i know what everyone else is thinking at all times-i am a poster, after all, but i do need to update those models from time to time. Not to imply i would ever change what i believe based on external inputs or evidence; im not some kind of freak.

    And not that i seek genuine human connection or anything, but i do just enjoy going down the rabbit hole of someone else’s thought process from time to time-not that im incapable of doing that entirely in my mind palace or that i cannot run a perfect simulation of your pitiful thinkmeat on my glorious cerebellum, because i totally can, im just being a hipster about avoiding total solipsism, is all.