Me: you need to rest and recharge!
Also Me: ok let's listen to an hour about fighting the fash
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@susankayequinn I especially liked how he framed the struggle as multigenerational: that you fight because of course you do, and how through that fight, you demonstrate to others the possible.
It was a hell of a ride.
"Our only chance to overthrow corporate power and halt the looming eco-cide comes from those who will not surrender to it, who will hold fast no matter the price, who are willing to be dismissed and reviled by a bankrupt liberalism. They expose the hollowess of the ruling class."
"We may feel in the face of the ruthless corporate destruction of our nation, our culture &our ecosystem,powerless &weak, but we are not—we have a power that terrifies the corporate state. Any act of rebellion, no matter how few people show up or how heavily censored, chips away at corporate power"
"The corporate forces that have us in their death grip will destroy our lives. They will destroy the lives of my children. They will destroy the lives of your children. They will destroy the ecosystem that makes life possible. We owe it to those who come after us not to be complicit in this evil.
We owe it to them to refuse to be good Germans.
And in the end, I do not fight fascists because I will win.
I fight fascists because they are fascists."
IDK if you saw this thread but this video (while very much politically focused on "revolution") does speak to that scaffolding work, where the artists & philosophers do the visioning work that, once the spark of revolution occurs, provides the WHAT NOW for the next phase. It's laying the foundation and framework for that new world... it's the seeds we are both planting and growing (like so many because again it's widespread, mycelium, not a singular thing that scales).
"Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil holds that only a few people have the fortitude to look in times of distress into what he calls the molten pit of human reality. Most studiously ignore the pit. Artists and philosophers for Nietzsche are consumed, however, by an insatiable curiosity, a quest for truth, and a desire for meaning..."
"They (artists and philosophers) venture down into the bowels of the molten pit...This intellectual and moral honesty, Nietzsche wrote, comes with a cost...Dying civilizations make war on independent intellectual inquiry, art, and culture...they do not want the masses to look into the pit. They condemn and vilify the (artists and philosophers)."
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"The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth intellectually and emotionally and yet rise up to resist the forces that are destroying us."
"A population rises up against a decayed system not because of revolutionary consciousness but because as Rosa Luxembourg pointed out it has no other choice. It is the obtuseness of the old regime not the work of revolutionaries
that triggers revolt."
"While the moment of eruption is mysterious, it are the visionaries and utopian reformers such as the abolitionists who make possible real social change, never the practical politicians."
@susankayequinn this is relatable. I’ve noticed it happening to me around 8-9pm where I’m like “huh, maybe this is my cue to go to bed early tonight” and I proceed to do something else 😂