• 0 Posts
  • 40 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: December 6th, 2023

help-circle











  • That’s a great essay and I agree wholeheartedly.

    However, it neglects to mention the one fatal flaw in the whole idea - a strong, pro-people, leftist economic platform would be opposed by corporate America and most wealthy individuals, they’re the main source of soft money donations to the DNC, and the DNC values that money more than anything, including winning elections.

    So it is a sound observarion and a worksble strategy, but can only succeed if those in the position to affect Democratic platforms would be willing to engage in it, and all indications are that they simply are not.

    Still though…


  • I think that if humanity can manage to survive long enough, anarchism is inevitable.

    It’s essentially the adult stage of human society - the point at which humans collectively and consistently, rather than just individually and situationally, can be trusted to generally do the right thing simply because it’s the right thing and therefore the most reasonable thing to do.

    For the time being and the foreseeable future though, humanity is nowhere even close to that. Through the course of history, human society has managed to advance to about the equivalent of adolescence. There’s still a long way to go.

    In spite of that, I do identify as an anarchist, but my advocacy is focused on the ideal and the steps humanity as a whole has to take to achieve it. I think it’s plainly obvious that it cannot be implemented, since any mechanism by which it might be inplemented would necessarily violate the very principles that define it. It can only be willingly adopted by each and all (or close enough as makes no meaningful difference), and that point will come whenever (if) it comes.








  • I’ve never understood how or why this is an issue.

    Shortly after Spez’s petulant AMA, I ran across a link for Lemmy. org. It looked interesting, so I followed it. I poked around a bit, and it still looked interesting, so I picked an instance and created an account. I played with it a bit, then I went back and found a different instance that looked interesting and created an account there too. And I just kept reading and posting, just like I’d done on Reddit (and half a dozen different sites before that). Some instances came and went and I lost some accounts and created others and eventually settled into a few that I like best, and just read and posted and didn’t leave. The end.

    But it seems that every time I turn around, someone’s going on about the hardships of moving to a different site and all the difficulties to be overcome and yadda yadda yadda, and I just don’t get it. At all.