"The most pernicious image of all is the anarchist hero figure. A creation of commodity culture, he allows us to buy into an inauthentic simulation of revolutionary praxis."
"When's the movie?"
"The hero encourages passive spectating and revolt becomes another product to be consumed."
To think that the #enshittification of the Internet is a balance between the financial industry and technology leaders is to forget an important point.
The #CounterCulture is not a group of isolated individuals on the Fediverse today, as it was years ago in the open directory project.
People are taking the means to their freedom, we're not just countering the dominant capitalist internet. We are cyber punks, many of us are trans, neurodivergent, anarchists, and at the crossroads with the ecologists who are joining the movement, and I hope for as many identities as possible. Especially with more inclusion of different cultures, in other words that the #BLM and #Latinxs movements are part of where the movement is going, and not just saying "welcome".
All this certainly has a monetary cost, but you can contribute by being a co-operator, and not just with coins. We act in the way we think society should become more inspired.
These protean movements clearly have a revolutionary dimension, not just a protest dimension, and that's why we don't just complain about capitalism. We are making society.
[edit: sorry, I didn't at first mention Asian communities, of course I mean they should be included and in the particular case of Japan, there is already a huge community]
Never been to #BurningMan, never been sad about it.
Let's just say: no artist could create an installation that more effectively destroys the internal logic of the whole fucking thing, than driving hundreds of miles to bulldoze a climate protest so you can party in the middle of the desert, in the same summer where hundreds were murdered & poisoned by smoke in #Lahaina & #Yellowknife & across the #PacNW.
p.s. Great job calling in daddy sheriff to drive his giant government-funded patrol vehicle over the #ClimateCrisis protest, so you could drive your private car/RV into one of the most sensitive ecosystems in the world.
"when onlookers realized it was a climate protest, many quickly became incensed, huffing back to their cars frustrated at the inconvenience...."I don’t care what their argument is, they can go fuck themselves”
Now an empty storefront displaying adds for things, in the 70s, it was home to the radical New England Free Press.
NEFP was a collectively-run press that printed and sold radical and feminist publications-- including the first edition of "Our bodies, ourselves." They shared decision-making, job tasks, and profits-- and kept their prices low so their publications would go as far as possible.
🎬 #HunterSThompson arrived in Woody Creek, CO in 1969 and was #home; he lived and wrote there for 45 years.
#Aspen was "The Hippie Capital of the World" but the fascists were trying to harsh their buzz and make the town respectable for the rich folks moving in.
In 1970, Hunter ran for Sheriff!
"Fear and Loathing in Aspen" (2021) is a fictionalized account of that time and place—a place now rep'd by #LaurenBoebert. 🙄
I feel like there's going to be some kind of anti #AI#counterculture. #Authenticity will be like gold dust. Young folks are going to sit around in "reality clubs" listening to real musicians playing ancient blues and folk on acoustic instruments and painting by hand.
This morning I watched the first episode of Long Strange Trip, the documentary on The Grateful Dead. I still love that era, although I wasn't even born. From #Deadheads to #kerouac from Merry Pranksters to the birth of #counterculture. It's where waves around all this internet-stuff actually started. When people like Stewart Brand met Doug Engelbart. Concepts like the Community Memory from Lee Felsenstein. The Whole Earth Catalog.