The Anarkat @Anarkat@computerfairi.es

@Alyx Whenever I see talk of chemicals and chemical synthesis I worry that I'm learning forbidden information, like how to make c4, or what's actually inside twinkies.

@evie You know how people say a boat is a hole in the water you throw money into?

A razer is a hole in your bag that money disappears through.

Some people just like their money-holes.

@starwall Even as we're told all about how the people of the past made radical change, the idea of actually doing it is elevated conceptually to be beyond our ability. But it's not beyond our ability. We all have the ability to make a change in our own environment. We just have to cast off the conditioning that tells us it's pointless or taboo.

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@starwall But all it does is make us feel like we accomplished something, when the reality is that any one election is likely already decided. We're told we have the power to make change, but only through the "allowed" outlets, through voting, and maybe if you're *really* crazy, through holding a sign with a few dozen other people holding a sign.

But past that, it's not considered acceptable to take control over your own space and environment in the face of corrupt or hostile systems 2/3

@starwall That's another part of the abstraction of power. We've been conditioned to believe that the power to make change resides in other people. That we need to put our trust in other people to make the decisions that affect our lives.

Some people make fun of anarchists for being against voting, but the reality is that voting is a subversion of personal responsibility. Anarchists abhor it because it is a relief valve for radical thought and change. 1/2

@starwall And not only is the misery abstracted away as a personal issue, that a person can't fit into society comfortably, but even those that may be aware of this are prevented from taking action by the necessity of sustaining oneself. All the energy that might go into making change is subverted into basic survival.

@starwall I was talking with someone and they said something that struck me. They said that we don't have the misery today that sparked revolutions in previous years.

Except we do. People today are miserable. Miserable in their jobs, their cities, in the lives they lead.

The difference is that our modern misery is abstracted away as an immutable facet of living life in society. People are prevented from believing change is possible by being convinced that the system is unchangeable.

@Odi@snouts.online Technically true and also supremely unhelpful.

@Excuse_haver Graham's number, ostensibly.There isn't really a biggest number, but graham's number is the largest one that we can concretely identify

@daggers_drawn You know how royalty used to have jesters?

Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are today's jesters.

People might think I'm exaggerating But I swear to god I'm not.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQsuny2VXnM

Sure, the multi-functional space is neat.

But if there's anything I could toss into the trash about modern interior design it's the fucking blinding white interior walls.

@daggers_drawn hi queer I'm anarkat

@ark that just means bougie scum will stay away.