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@Ludo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

lol!

@Ludo mon français c'est assez bon, mais ce truc ne je comprends pas

beauxes jouerneeouses au touteses

@Gargron except for the low contrast grey-on-grey text, I thought it was quite easy to follow

@anotak naw u good. It's a journey! ^ ^

I call myself just "an anarchist" b/c it seems to me that the stuff people tack onto "anarcho" are unnecessary. What I mean is, as long as the core tenants of anarchism are being followed - consent is required, coercion is rejected, individual sovereignty is respected - then I think any economic norms we engage in will be just fine.

To slightly misquote @KevinCarson1, in the face of "the irreducible particularity of all the near-infinity of local examples of human-scale self-organization and cooperation, labels like “communist,” “individualist” or “syndicalist” are like stale bread crusts."

Anarchism isn't "...a doctrinaire theoretical model prescribing
the kinds of institutions to be built after the Revolution. It [is] a description of the endless variety of things people are doing right now, on their own, without waiting for the Revolution or for anarchist theoreticians to stamp their imprimatur on it."
- https://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/FactoriesPDF.pdf

@Baerd very much as it should be. I merely felt compelled to be extra explicit about it on this particular day. 😷

@Baerd it's "independence" day -______________-

I wish everyone a happy 4th of July spent contemplating the myriad atrocities that the empire of the US of A has wreaked upon this earth and its people

@anotak what is the c word?

@KevinCarson1 maybe this is how I get myself to read the old stuff - wrap it in new stuff. Like an anarchist literature burrito 🌯

@jd In this vein, there is an excellent short story by Octavia E. Butler called "A Necessary Being" that is, I think, an attempt to imagine a sapient species that is inherently, genetically hierarchical. The more blue color a person has in their skin the higher their rank is because the level of blue corresponds directly to how strong, fast, and intelligent you are.

It's a fascinating story and Butler is a stunningly good author. I highly recommend everything she's written. Brace yourself though shit tends to get real real quick.

@jd Are most mammals hierarchical? I'm skeptical of statements like that, considering the history of interpretation bias in explorers and researchers. Why do we call the big ant that lays all the eggs in the colony the "Queen", for instance? You could just as well call her the "brood slave". Did the people who first "scientifically" described ants have a bias towards naturalizing/glorifying monarchy? I'd put money on it.

But that doesn't really matter. If being mammals predisposes us to something, that means that it's a genetic trait. I don't think hierarchy is genetic. I think it's social programming, which can most certainly be overcome. ✊

it's a Minecraft joke

@jd I would bet you, actually, that the cliques and hierarchies of popular kids that seem to arise organically in every social setting are really a symptom of the hierarchical conditioning we are awash in from birth. I can't prove it, (yet ;) but I bet that in an populace suffused with egalitarian, anti-domination sentiment things would look very different.