The movement needs to go through this more naive phase and reflect on the results so that it can mature and adjust strategies. It’s easy to learn about history, see what finally worked in the past, and think that we should just ‘skip to the end,’ but that’s not how large groups of people operate. You can expect an individual to learn from history and do what’s most effective, but groups must always go through the entire process because the group infrastructure has to be built brick by brick.
I only said we have to go through the process, but there’s no reason we can’t speed it up or prepare better for the consequences. I think the role of those who learn from history is to work behind the scenes to soften the blows we know are coming to those who learn the hard way, and ease the transition from one phase to the next.
In more concrete terms, maintain solidarity even with people you think are making a mistake, and prepare for the moment they are ready to do more.
Climate change is irrevesible and will ultimately destabilize the geopolitical situation to the point it will directly or indirectly kill billions of people this century… unless our species can demonstrate a hitherto unseen level of international cooperation and coordination.
Instead, the world’s dominant hegemon twice elected a belligerent, incompetent, fascist, rapist pedophile warmonger.
… We don’t have the time to go through the process. By the time people are ready to do more, it won’t matter, nothing they do at that point will be able to outrun the inertia of the systemic collapse that’s now baked into the proverbial cake.
We are two decades too late to try to do an anti-fascist, counterbalance version of accelerationism.
The magnitude of the tragicomedy simply intensifies as time progresses.
Her actual ‘crime’ was organizing the protest.
The protest which was, as far as I can tell, entirely peaceful.
So… yeah.
That’s effectively a crime now.
… do people see why some of us have been calling for more uh, … effective means of resistance, for some time now?
They can and will ‘just arrest everyone’.
They’ll bankrupt the country doing it.
The movement needs to go through this more naive phase and reflect on the results so that it can mature and adjust strategies. It’s easy to learn about history, see what finally worked in the past, and think that we should just ‘skip to the end,’ but that’s not how large groups of people operate. You can expect an individual to learn from history and do what’s most effective, but groups must always go through the entire process because the group infrastructure has to be built brick by brick.
… So you’re saying we’re just doomed as a species to eternal tragicomedy?
First as tragedy, n++ times as farce?
I… can’t really realistically argue against that, but goddamnit is that depressing.
I only said we have to go through the process, but there’s no reason we can’t speed it up or prepare better for the consequences. I think the role of those who learn from history is to work behind the scenes to soften the blows we know are coming to those who learn the hard way, and ease the transition from one phase to the next.
In more concrete terms, maintain solidarity even with people you think are making a mistake, and prepare for the moment they are ready to do more.
Climate change is irrevesible and will ultimately destabilize the geopolitical situation to the point it will directly or indirectly kill billions of people this century… unless our species can demonstrate a hitherto unseen level of international cooperation and coordination.
Instead, the world’s dominant hegemon twice elected a belligerent, incompetent, fascist, rapist pedophile warmonger.
… We don’t have the time to go through the process. By the time people are ready to do more, it won’t matter, nothing they do at that point will be able to outrun the inertia of the systemic collapse that’s now baked into the proverbial cake.
We are two decades too late to try to do an anti-fascist, counterbalance version of accelerationism.
The magnitude of the tragicomedy simply intensifies as time progresses.