IdeologiesMHC OP wrote
Reply to comment by OdiousOutlaw in Ideologies by MHC
I find plenty strange and inaccurate about anarchists!
OdiousOutlaw wrote
Yeah, you and a solid 99% of the human population.
Feel free to give voice to these findings at anytime.
MHC OP wrote
It might help to explain what you're into. In what way do you feel different? Were there any formative experiences that led you to where you're at?
OdiousOutlaw wrote
It might help to explain what you're into.
Into what? Also, Me or anarchists in general?
In what way do you feel different?
Anarchists are generally united under the singular goal of destroying the world (as we know it); the details of which (how much to destroy and what the world would ideally look like) varies among the various strains; but we generally agree that Capitalism, the state, and the nation should be erased along with inequalities born from them. This makes us the opposition to some +6 billion human beings who don't want that.
Were there any formative experiences that led you to where you're at?
MHC OP wrote
What are absurdism and nihilism for you? What do you dislike about social structure? Please explain that life experience to someone of a different culture.
OdiousOutlaw wrote
What are absurdism and nihilism for you?
Absurdism just the existential philosophy that pertains to being aware of one's recurring desire to find any inherent meaning or value in life/existence and the inability to actually find it, because the absurdist has reached the conclusion that such meaning or value does not exist. Nihilism is merely the lack of belief or faith in something; it's a catch all term, but one could be nihilistic about different things: someone could easily be political nihilist but not a moral nihilist, for example.
What do you dislike about social structure?
If I wrote down everything I dislike about social structure, I'd be writing a book, but the biggest factor is the inability to truly escape it: industrial civilization has grown and consumed so much that even people who live independent of it will be forced into suffering under the ecological consequences that mass industry causes. If you're born under it, you must participate in it before you can escape: years of schooling and working are bare minimum requirements if you want the state to leave you alone. You have to have money to buy land, materials for shelter, and you need to learn skills that are no longer common knowledge because society in its current form has more use for someone who knows how to operate a computer than for someone who knows how to grow food. It's a structure that forces dependence and conformity and regularly punishes those who fail to match up to its standards.
Please explain that life experience to someone of a different culture.
It would better to instead relay my perspective through a common experience. You are also autistic, so I assume that you are aware of how frustrating and confusing allistic people can be; since most people with some form of authority are allistic, you've probably lived under their thumb and their arbitrary judgments; my frustration with social structure is similar to my frustration with social norms (especially since the former creates and enforces the latter); I have no reason to like any social structure and all of the justifications that I've heard didn't hold up to my scrutiny, so I want to make it go away.
MHC OP wrote (edited )
The quantum scale is a froth of existence <-> nonexistence. And a stock market index takes a random walk. Thus divine purpose is false!
Following abuse at work, I lost faith in authority.
In Al Khobar, the council had planted shrubs and put metal cages over them. Then I saw the local Arabs taking off the cages and setting goats to graze upon the shrubbery! So causing the suffering of ecological consequences--does not require mass industry!
Indeed coping with neurotypical preferences, is the bane of my life! When a Big Boss discarded my month's work--a psychologist advised me that all I could expect from work, was getting paid.
I have found social structure to be a minefield, to which hazards I am mostly blind. Following yet another botched encounter, I require much time working out what had gone wrong! Yet folk demand I be fluently cluey, on the fly.
Social norms are foreign language to me.
People want lots of things to go away. A technophobic friend wishes he were decades earlier!
Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments