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AnarcheAmor OP wrote

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AnarcheAmor OP wrote (edited )

Oh! Well, Soulism is anarchism applied to your very existence. That is, to say, it is the process of thinking of hierarchy as being built into reality and to seek to abolish these hierarchies. The meme joke is that Soulists want to abolish gravity but the serious take is that we have a hierarchical relationship with the universal rules that govern our motion. You can't just say no to gravity and fly as you wish. Of course, this seems ridiculous because gravity isn't some conscious entity, it's a product of the very logic of our universe's space and time but the Soulist says that you are a conscious entity, one that can imagine and fathom a world without gravity so why be subject to it? Basically, this is an exercise in pushing anarchism to its limits by asking the question of what does and doesn't count as a hierarchy and if the point of anarchy is to abolish hierarchy then what must we make of the parts of our lives where abolition seems impossible or just outright illogical? The Soulist defies any notion of impossibility or irrationality and embraces the struggle as the point of anarchy is to better society through constantly challenging hierarchy so to must it be the point of anarchy to better oneself and the bettering of self leads to a better society. So if you can imagine a world without gravity, seek it, such that you have found yourself better for it.

But the Meta-Anarchist has an objection. Should it be right to force yourself on to anything? Sure, you can say that gravity was "forced on you" but either way why force yourself on it? Meta-Anarchism is about anarchism as it is applied to anarchism which seems weird, right? Anarchism should be inherently anarchic but Meta-Anarchists don't believe so. Metas see hierarchy as being built into anarchist logic and practice and wants abolish that outright by seeing the structures of all reality differently. They instead believe that anarchism should be seen as the starting perspective of how we view all structures- that anarchism built into the fabric of reality. So they say to the Soulist that to see hierarchy in everything is misguided and can breed the hierarchy that they so oppose.

However, I see no contradiction here. Soulism seeks to form the type of relationships that Meta Anarchy desires to already be seen so if Meta Anarchy is a change in our logic, then Soulism is thay change put into practice by focusing on the self and how that self relates to everything.

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