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ziq wrote (edited )

Have you read Desert?

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert

Accept that the idea of a global progress is out of your control and find peace in the world we've inherited.

Being hopeless comes from thinking you have control over the wider world. You don't and that's okay.

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

I came here to say something like this.

I think there's a huge amount we can do when we take on realistic goals, and that we're fed revolutionary narratives that are so grand-scale that they can destroy our sense of possibility (hope) when we realise just how much they would take.

I'm personally looking forward to what I can create with people I love in the space that I am, despite a sense that global revolution is a pipe dream.

There's also a lot of peace to be found in those other people who have abandoned hope for what are mostly ridiculous goals. Which is not to say that it isn't hard.

There are also substantial ways in which you organise your rebellion differently when you change your relation to goals/hope etc.
And these tend to work well with anarchist ideas, I think, because we are decentralisation-friendly.

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surreal wrote

"i don't hope, i don't fear, i am free"

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zzuum OP wrote

Can you elaborate? I get this in theory but it's not a lot to go off of

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surreal wrote

it's a quote from a writer. i don't think there is a recipe for this, you have to work with your consciousness and every person will reach there from a different path.

I started by trying to not have expextations at all. also reducing materialistic desires helps reduce fear a lot, cause you have less to lose.

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