reactionpost to Emma Goldman (and politics, always politics these days) | [Anarchism and Other Essays] [Living My Life]
it doesnt make sense why the increasingly ill-named bay area ""rationalists"" would be so horrible.
just let the scene die please. its so painful seeing it lurching around as a half-dead simulacrafied thing.
which was probably what it was since i got here, but like i guess i had some image, a strong prior, of what things were going to be like that replaced my sight and was slowly eroded away. which before introspection probably gave the impression of more erosion witnessed than actually happened.
the transsexual oracle contrapoints mentioned that the current political fractionation is getting more like that of the early 1900s. which means ill protest shirtwaist factory fires soon?
like i actually said to my friend that looking at the claims of humans it was amazing how many friends i suddenly acquired that i didnt even know! i must have some sort of psychic link with anyone who agrees with me on some philosophical points! and then lo and behold i read emma goldman saying:
<<Now, to a recent instance of police-manufactured Anarchist plots. In that bloodstained city Chicago, the life of Chief of Police Shippy was attempted by a young man named Averbuch. Immediately the cry was sent to the four corners of the world that Averbuch was an Anarchist, and that Anarchists were responsible for the act. Everyone who was at all known to entertain Anarchist ideas was closely watched, a number of people arrested, the library of an Anarchist group confiscated, and all meetings made impossible. It goes without saying that, as on various previous occasions, I must needs be held responsible for the act. Evidently the American police credit me with occult powers. I did not know Averbuch; in fact, had never before heard his name, and the only way I could have possibly “conspired” with him was in my astral body. But, then, the police are not concerned with logic or justice. What they seek is a target, to mask their absolute ignorance of the cause, of the psychology of a political act. Was Averbuch an Anarchist? There is no positive proof of it. He had been but three months in the country, did not know the language, and, as far as I could ascertain, was quite unknown to the Anarchists of Chicago.>>
& i laughed aloud. its the same thing! i think im actually positioned in the natural cluster of "anarchist" right now. so reading historical instances of how people treated them and updating on this info to read peoples minds and clip around them is useful. pretending to believe that people who hold some similar tenets are your "friends" as a convergent statist strategy is probably because statists want to think that anarchism is some sort of communicable disease and not independently derivable via observations of reality. (like how both emma goldman and somni could work out a large number of similar conclusions independently.)
and they dont want to interface with it on the object level so will say its mad gibberish and a danger to public welfare and all we need is for all anarchists to doxx their network and then get everyone who is "friends" put in prison. they dont think in terms of philosophy they think in terms of anarchism being a confusing infohazardous illness contagious between social groups and it needs to be eliminated.
except they are wrong and this doesnt work cuz i was able to reconstitute anarchist conclusions on my own before even reading about emma goldman and work out that eg clothes dont make sense.
<<The entire history of asceticism proves this to be only too true. The Church, as well as Puritanism, has fought the flesh as something evil; it had to be subdued and hidden at all cost. The result of this vicious attitude is only now beginning to be recognized by modern thinkers and educators. They realize that “nakedness has a hygienic value as well as a spiritual significance, far beyond its influences in allaying the natural inquisitiveness of the young or acting as a preventative of morbid emotion. It is an inspiration to adults who have long outgrown any youthful curiosities. The vision of the essential and eternal human form, the nearest thing to us in all the world, with its vigor and its beauty and its grace, is one of the prime tonics of life.” [17] But the spirit of purism has so perverted the human mind that it has lost the power to appreciate the beauty of nudity, forcing us to hide the natural form under the plea of chastity. Yet chastity itself is but an artificial imposition upon nature, expressive of a false shame of the human form. The modern idea of chastity, especially in reference to woman, its greatest victim, is but the sensuous exaggeration of our natural impulses. “Chastity varies with the amount of clothing,” and hence Christians and purists forever hasten to cover the “heathen” with tatters, and thus convert him to goodness and chastity.>>
(in 2020 the humans of the hazda tribe seem to be quite fine with their particular fashion, society has entirely failed to collapse.
and if you look at the covers of sci-fi books that spend some thoughtcycles extrapolating out the future of fashion they often agree with this. ive read a lot of accounts from naturalists some of them expressed that wearing clothes was like being starved of oxygen. i hate clothes and my sister (who is cis) also hates clothes and wrote a poem about how she hates clothes (to antitransfem ppl: its not a sex thing!!!) and maybe its a genetic thing or a shared early childhood environment thing (to antitransfem ppl: i wasnt sexually abused as a child!!!).
assuming it is a genetic thing that locates this issue in the first place, like having issues with english orthography might have been for feynman or nash or somni, the thing where english orthography is wrong & the fact there are such things as "spelling bees" for your language is independent of a genetic disinclination to memorize a series of ad-hoc patches instead of having things generated by simple principles. (capitalization also doesnt make sense.)
clothes dont make sense. & this might be a small matter on the scale of things but its so unjust that in 2020 you can be arrested by the cops for being naked outside!!!) similarly with jeremy bentham.
i am not actually planning on being emma goldman or jeremy bentham or any historical figure. because i dont think simply rerunning strats of historical figures is particularly useful. but im peers with them.
<<An old vice of mine came to my rescue: veritable mountains of letters I had written. Often I had been chided by my pal Sasha, otherwise known as Alexander Berkman, and by my other friends, for my proclivity to spread myself in letters. Far from virtue bringing reward, it was my iniquity that gave me what I needed most — the true atmosphere of past days.>>
i dont think this is a vice emma!!!
