stagnation
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:19 am
So one of the main reasons I wanted this subforum to exist is that over the last few years, I've become less and less active. Like a lot of people, I started politics as a crikethinc anarchist in highschool, and gradually went on to learn theory and analyze things deeper than "dumpster diving will save the world".
Eventually I got into green anarchism and started seeing civilization as the root of our problems. And for q while, I acted on it. I taught and attendedprimitive skillshares, stocked my infotable with anticiv zines, and started looking towards some day developing a self-sufficient way of life. Somewhere along the way, I've just lost hope.
A lot of it has to do with the fact that if all of civilization is unsustainable, there's nothing we can do. Humanity will never turn its back on that, so all we can do is hope that everything crashes sooner than later. And from that perspective, its perfectly okay to sit back and watch all kinds of fucked up shit happen and do nothing about it.
I don't think this is exclusive to the anticiv perspective. Tons of anarchist/radical kids stop acting on their beliefs due to a lack of motivation and a perceived lack of change affected from their actions. I guess I'm writing this partly in inspiration from neck_cannon, when he mantioned talking about our feelings. This has been bothering me and I wanted to see what others had to say about it.
Some things I've started doing to feel less stagnant recently (and many of these are far from political. They just lake me feel better about myself) are: started writing graffiti again, started booking shows again (these include benefits), started writing a zine on this subject, and I've been discussing with a friend how we can combat religion in our area, since we both see that as one of the biggest problems in society.
Anyway, anyone else share similar sentiments? what do you do to feel like your not a part of the problem? Or how to you keep from feeling depressed about your inaction?
Eventually I got into green anarchism and started seeing civilization as the root of our problems. And for q while, I acted on it. I taught and attendedprimitive skillshares, stocked my infotable with anticiv zines, and started looking towards some day developing a self-sufficient way of life. Somewhere along the way, I've just lost hope.
A lot of it has to do with the fact that if all of civilization is unsustainable, there's nothing we can do. Humanity will never turn its back on that, so all we can do is hope that everything crashes sooner than later. And from that perspective, its perfectly okay to sit back and watch all kinds of fucked up shit happen and do nothing about it.
I don't think this is exclusive to the anticiv perspective. Tons of anarchist/radical kids stop acting on their beliefs due to a lack of motivation and a perceived lack of change affected from their actions. I guess I'm writing this partly in inspiration from neck_cannon, when he mantioned talking about our feelings. This has been bothering me and I wanted to see what others had to say about it.
Some things I've started doing to feel less stagnant recently (and many of these are far from political. They just lake me feel better about myself) are: started writing graffiti again, started booking shows again (these include benefits), started writing a zine on this subject, and I've been discussing with a friend how we can combat religion in our area, since we both see that as one of the biggest problems in society.
Anyway, anyone else share similar sentiments? what do you do to feel like your not a part of the problem? Or how to you keep from feeling depressed about your inaction?