01.04.2010 13:52

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Calgary: Drawing a Proverbial Line in the Sand (or: Why I Broke Up With Activism)

In recent months, I’ve found that the activist milieu depresses and frustrates me more and more (and more…). To a growing extent, I find myself feeling contempt for those who preach self-organization, autonomy, and Anarchy yet make constant appeals to authority, act like political parties themselves or have totally lost touch with the revolutionary character of their professed ideals. I feel it necessary to put into words two points I’ve been trying to get across to no avail. The first of these being my eagerness to distance myself from activism as much as possible; the reasons and the consequences. The second is a proposed alternative to such outdated and ultimately ineffective practices.

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A general overview of 'things I think are neat':abandonment/the post-industrial midwest, anarchism (syndicalism, insurrectionalism, etc), race/ethnicity (esp. defining/constructing the boundaries of whiteness), gender, class (talking/thinking about class generally seems to be an underrated activity), health care (access to, the experience of obtaining, etc), art, science fiction, punk music, conservative talk radio and anthropology (which probably incorporates almost everything else about people).





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