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“This conversation does make me wonder if there's something more we can do to address this sort of historical shortsightedness.”

Do you think the world can be solved through education? Or does the comment amount to saying “I wish people would stop saying and doing ignorant things.”

“everyone wants to place themselves at a precipice of history”

Part of that is expecting knowledge to accumulate in the population culminating in a climax that will lead to improvements or resolution of conflicts or social ills.

“I want to keep pushing new ways of subverting normalcy, but it's sort of difficult when so much of the discourse is about re-learning the same lessons.”

Abandon the discoursive role of hoping to be a teacher or luminary to the masses and apply those valuable historical lessons -that seem profound but one is mostly powerless to their implications, as one is to macro processes, specially those of mid to long duration- to yourself and put into practice this superior way forward based on historical insight and longsightedness(?).

“Maybe this is just how you have those conversations, and part of the necessary process?”

Yes, conversations are happening in this way, among others.

What necessary process are you referring to? Progress, as in a steady improvement in the “consciousness” -knowledge of history, critical thinking, battle tactics, shared experiences - of whole populations that will make them excel at revolt?

Knowledge is passed down to further generations when there is a common culture, tradition, lifeway. People learn how to live in this world as atomized mass consumer/produces, not as devotees of revolt.

Anarchists can barely keep generational line without breaking. Continuity of their legacy is very interrupted, newer generations often have to dig up what was buried, often times puposefully by its enemies. Contrary to mainstream culture which you can learn through cultural osmosis or any of the media feeding tubes.