‘Cause I See You
Invecchiare Selvatico Reflects On
Invisible Generation: Rants, Polemics, and Critical Theory Against The Planetary Work Machine
by Jason Rodgers
"Writing is my way. It is the way I gain knowledge. It is the way I spread knowledge. It is the way I communicate. It is the way I confront. It is the only way I know.
I continue to believe that writing, theory, poetics can change the world. They are able to reveal the mechanisms by which control functions. They are able to work out strategies to confront such. They are able to imagine other modes of living. I continue to believe this, maybe because I am very stupid.
Even as I believe in the value of writing I am finding it harder to see what difference it makes to anyone. I know fewer people who even bother to read at all. They might browse something on their phone, but this is not reading, no more than watching the scroll at the bottom of Fox News is reading.
I suppose this is the nature of language. Language was probably always a tool of oppression. Certainly writing seemed to have filled this function, during the transition from cultures of orality to one based on literacy. This is the bind in which I am trapped. When I first read Burroughs as a kid, learned about “operation rewrite,” and his project to “rub out the word,” I adopted this view of the author. I adopted the view that the writer can find their way out of the traps of language, exorcise the spooks haunting the psyche. Now I’m not so sure how much good this does. But this world of letters is where I inhabit.”
- “Alphabet Exorcism” from Invisible Generation
It is rare in a world of posers, of fakes, of superficial trend surfers, of programed zombies, of reified rebels, of performative soldiers, of plastic identities, and such, to find someone who critically grapples with complexity and nuance and is not afraid to dip toes into the dangerous, a true free-spirit, an anarchist, or at least what that once meant before it all became so safe, so comfortable, so predictable, so non-anarchist. And when I am pleasantly surprised, usually by accident, that my paths come across one of these kindred spirits and their creative little explosions into the world, I am moved to respond. I begin to realize that I am not alone. There are others out there who are still alive, who have not been lobotomized and neutered by this displaced and dispirited post-modern techno-reality. I see you.
But, maybe I’m just talking to myself, I don’t know. It gets pretty quiet around here and I often hear strange voices, sometimes faint whispers with creepy creaking, sometimes wild howls with ear-piercing screams, sometimes sensational sonic landscapes beyond language and explanation. And I trust my ears a lot more than my eyes. I hope that I am not alone, but I guess it doesn’t really matter, at least I’m having an interesting conversation for a change. But, I really don’t think I’m talking to myself, so yes, I’m gonna go with Jason Rodgers seems to exist… and they write. They also collage. Most importantly, they have something significant to say. They shout into the abyss, and they sometimes get responses back.
A collection of Jason’s work which includes flyers, essays, rumblings, and more, is available in the book, Invisible Generation: Rants, Polemics, and Critical Theory Against The Planetary Work Machine, published by Autonomedia. And I’m damn glad I got a copy, and that it is out there in the world affecting those it comes into contact with and perhaps spreading virally from there with very little chance of any effective vaccine, well maybe the mass inoculation of stupidity, never-mind. My temperature is starting to happily rise from the incredible viral load I’m taking in through my eyes, to my brain, and then on to somewhere deeper and less abstract.
Yes, Invisible Generation has been out for a little while now, but it takes some time and effort for things to reach me out here on the margins, in the mountains, off-line.
The title of Jason Rodgers’ book Invisible Generation, feels parallel to thoughts I have been having lately about the world we now inhabit. Amongst close friends, I have often referred to people born into the 21st Century cybernetic-continuum of misery as the “Lost Generation”. This is a sorrowful mockery of their generally ahistoric, hyper-alienated, and mostly displaced condition, not necessarily an indictment of the lost souls trapped in this time and space. Don’t worry, I’m not ageist, some of my best friends are Millennials and Zoomers. I’m not sure exactly where Jason fits into the oversimplified generational timeline, but they definitely feel more analog than digital to me, but probably more as an anomaly or foot-dragger than any carbon-dating might actually reveal. That’s a relative compliment. I too am happily an outsider, of another world, an OG-X’er, a pre-avatar relic of flesh and blood, a non-mutated being, chip-less, mostly gone dark, and one who resonates strongly with Rodgers work.
Invisible Generation is not only a collection of Jason’s well-articulated writings on subjects ranging from “Alphabet Exorcism” and “Psychic Nomadism” to “Stirner and Capitalism” and “Left Handed Christianity”, but it also brings the reader on a visual exploration into the depth of Rodgers’ world of non-computer-generated collage [I can’t believe or get used to having to even add “non-computer-generated”…Fuck You world!]. This technique of expression has always interested me, but one that, like most ideas and processes, has become too often oversimplified and shallow, and almost entirely digital. [Side memo: A meme is not a collage. Say that out load one hundred times and get back to me. On second thought, stop reading, you won’t get this if you don’t already know that.] This is not the case with Jason, and the density in written articulation is balanced well with provocative and often refreshingly jarring visual expression. This continual changing in direction throughout the book, both from text to collage and from essay to rant, offers much appreciated juxtapositions, breath, and continual refocus. It keeps my attention without cheap tricks, bells and whistles, or other superficial glitter, gloss, and games.
Jason seems to be one of the rare creatures out there who never stopped putting out provocative off-line zines and flyers, and Invisible Generation maintains a very engaging balance of a zine’ish feel for a published legitimate book. Most of the collages are from Campaign to Play for Keeps, a Rodgers’ project of flyers, zines, and provocations well worth diving into. I wrote Jason at PO Box 701 Cobleskill, NY 12043 and got a handful of various highly interesting and divergent zines for a few bucks and some stamps. It seems that the book is an anthology of a certain realm of Jason’s visual work along with very articulate and unique essays and rants, and well-worth the adventure.
Rodgers exhibits some of the finest and pointed examples of the nearly “invisible” scene of counter-cultural, pushing on anti-cultural, underground photocopied collaged flyers and zines of the past decade. While most have dumbed things down in ideas and presentation, Jason creates almost the anti-meme, stuffing as much content into not only their visual presentation, but in analysis as well. Images and ideas literally burst off the pages. I fully resonate with Jason’s personal war against white space (on the page). My only complaint here is that, because of my weakening near-sightedness, reading glasses were not sufficient and I needed to get out my magnifying glass for the text on the flyers, which no doubt had to be reduced in size for the book. But even this small detail provides a sort of game of interactive playfulness that I eventually grew to enjoy like some sort of surreal treasure hunt. When I finally got the words into focus, I was rarely disappointed.
Invisible Generation fittingly begins with an essay entitled “Magic Words”, which explores the constructed world of language and symbols. As someone greatly influenced and sympathetic to anarcho-primitivism, Rodgers attempts to translate its theory into a working practice for everyday life. As Jason writes: “To confront the totality it seems necessary to develop means of confronting the symbol system which constructs reality.” Bravo. A primitivist with a plan. Not a blueprint, thank granola, but some type of motion without the all-too-typical stagnation of excessive footnotes, questionable citations, predictable references, cherry-picked “proofs”, or absurd notions of some sort of paleo-progressive time-machine utopian fantasies.
Rodger’s writings have a personal tone, for sure, but written by someone not afraid to occasionally sequester themselves from the world in a library that includes the eclectic likes of Bob Black, Renzo Novatore, Wilhelm Reich, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Lewis Mumford, Diane di Prima, George Orwell, Feral Faun, Michel Foucault, Robert Anton Wilson, Freddy Perlman, Max Stirner, Abbie Hoffman, Ron Sakolsky, Terrence McKenna, Ragnar Redbeard, John Zerzan, Emma Goldman, William Burroughs, Jason Louv, Raoul Vaneigem, Phillip K Dick, Kirpatrick Sale, Walter Ong, Henry David Thoreau, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Moore, Guy DeBord, Walter Benjamin, Steven Shukaitis, William Blake, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari… and this is just one shelf on one wall, and certainly doesn’t take into account the piles and piles of zines, flyers, and mutilated magazines littering the floor next to stacks of sharpie scribbled videotapes, cassettes, occult books, technical manuals, a broken typewriter, re-fabricated circuit boards, and a few undelivered ransom notes. At least that is what I imagine as I peak in during one of my brief starry-eyed daydreams.
As they ponder the banality and degradation of modern life, non-ideological anarcho-primitivism meshed and mashing with anarcho-surrealism, critiques of contemporary and historical philosophical pitfalls and their self-referential trappings, and so much more, Jason emotes provocation. In a time where almost anything remotely interesting or transgressive has been absorbed, reconstituted, and sold back to the anemic herd willing to lap up just about anything served to them and call it “radical”, Jason still finds edges that have not been smoothed down, still pokes, tares, and rips at the silicone and ideological flesh of control, still engages in psychic warfare against civilization, no doubt still very much inspired by the magickal practices of Genesis P-Orridge’s Throbbing Gristle and Temple ov Psychic Youth and other such deviants.
Rodgers has not assimilated or submitted or stayed pathetically “relevant” as they attempt to destroy illusions of control and domination through self-reflection, deconditioning, intentional manipulation of symbols, chaos magick, and unyieldingly extensive and illimitable critique. Jason’s is a project of “decontrol” against the “collective totality of structures, institutions, and practices which interlock to form a larger system of hegemony… The control system is vast and ever present. There are no aspects of life which it does not touch… Control is a social discourse inscribed and conditioned within individuals, who then replicate and perpetuate it. We are all in on the plot, we are all victims and victimizers. When I write, I attempt to tease out some view of how these systems function. For this reason the text must be decentered, expansive.” And in this, Rodgers’ is mostly successful.
I think the most important and desperately necessary parts of Invisible Generation deal with the virtually omnipresent control that technology has on just about everyone. Jason explores numerous interfaces, facets, and dynamics of the technological nightmare of control in pieces like “Against The Poverty Of Language And Thought: Thesis On The Cell Phone”, “Static Black Mirrors”, “Command Lines, Control Lines”, and “Cybernetics Versus Chaos: Technological Ideology And Its Influence On Countercultural Currents” in which he concludes: “The megamachine, the Leviathan man, always appropriates repressed desires, uses it as the crude material from which to cast its gears and circuit boards. It wants a certain type of liberation, but only in a way it directs and controls. Aspects of culture are broken down, morals are broken down. On the surface it appears there are overlaps with the anarchist project. The problem is that there is no monolithic battle between good and evil. The struggle between freedom and slavery has no clearly delineated sides. Weak and obvious forms of control are broken down, allowing more sophisticated systems to take their place. Ultimately the only thing being liberated by cybernetics is the megamachine.”
As someone who, in the projection and actualization of my desires, inhabits a space between individual uniqueness and a very small-scale tribal reality of intentional place, as someone who has a mostly contemptuous distain for the herd, my favorite places in the book are when Jason makes it clear that while we may experience similar degradations in this world, we are not in this together. This is expressed well in pieces like “A Gang Of Individuals Against Totality”, “Enemies”, and “Friends And Agents” in which they begin with: “I have come to terms with the fact that in my daily life I have almost no friends. The people I encounter everyday have no draw to me. I feel little empathy for them at all. They feel like nothing more than sheep and more often than not are merely in my way. Often I would just rather shove them.” and ends with: “Better a lone wolf than a collaborator.”
I suppose my only slight deviation from Jason’s general project is in the amount of time I am willing to spend peaking into, thinking about, tearing apart, and tossing critical analysis into this generally hopeless world. I still do it, but maybe less and less because I don’t know if the trade off, the hours away from being more fully engaged in my immediate reality, is worth it. While I tend to be even more cynical about the world and anarchists’ influence on it than Jason appears to be at times in this book, at least to the perpetually hopeful and delusional clods out there, I applaud Rodgers’ unending and unquenched attempts at “evening the odds” with their guerrilla occult warfare of the precise word and the mutilated image. Quiet, Jason is not. At least from where I am sitting. To all you stuck with yer phones in yer faces, you may not ever hear from or about Jason Rodgers, or their projects. So, that is why I’m telling you… and, apparently, there is another book on the way real soon!
Rodgers writes in “Infinite War Games”, the second flyer into the book, “I know life is a game and I intend to play for keeps. Time to get serious about joking and work at play. It is time to play hard and play the ultimate game, war games.” I fully agree. And, I See You.
Jason Rodgers can be reached at:
Campaign to Play for Keeps
PO Box 701 Cobleskill, NY 12043
(no email)
Invisible Generation
available from Jason directly
or
autonomedia.org
or
underworldamusements.com
Invecchiare Selvatico
was a primary editor and writer for Green Anarchy magazine
and is the author of Black Blossoms At The End Of The World
available (for now) from LBC Books - littleblackcart.com
also available (soon) from underworldamusements.com
Contact: nazelpickens@gmail.com
PO Box 316 Williams, OR 97544
*Both Jason Rodgers and Invecchiare Selvatico (as well as some other interesting folks) can be found writing for the preeminent anti-civilization anarchist publication:
OAK JOURNAL - PO BOX 485, WV 26851 - oakjournal@protonmail.com
Comments
this is gay
anon (not verified) Thu, 03/28/2024 - 19:34
this is gay
Yup, Jason was into Burroughs
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/29/2024 - 06:12
In reply to this is gay by anon (not verified)
Yup, Jason was into Burroughs AS A KID! Burroughs is for unique mature gays OR intellectual linguistic deviant poets, or to be concise, gay.
No u gay.
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/02/2024 - 21:37
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No u gay.
Well done
ArtxmisGT (not verified) Thu, 03/28/2024 - 19:54
I got this copy years ago and it's how I met Jason. This book had a deep impact and I'm glad you wrote this review! non-ideological is a good way to express the book
"...a world of posers, of
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/29/2024 - 05:50
"...a world of posers, of fakes, of superficial trend surfers, of programed zombies, of reified rebels, of performative soldiers, of plastic identities..."
-Propagandhi, "Back to the Motor League"
Love this odd nexus of
Vail (not verified) Fri, 03/29/2024 - 06:34
Love this odd nexus of offline projects - Campaign To Play For Keeps, Oak Journal, Black Blossoms, No Quarter, etc all are such nicely interconnected things that have been refreshing to get deeper into.
Why, are they all pushing out
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/29/2024 - 13:38
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Why, are they all pushing out this same type of eco-individualist pseudo-philosophical drivel? I can think of half a dozen sources going back to the 90s that have done this sort of thing better. A really iconoclastic rebel would ask what role the economy of constant ideological/literary production plays in the anarchist world. So, so much of it is just old wine in new bottles, almost as if some people prefer to stay busy rebottling.
the whole first several
lumpy (not verified) Fri, 03/29/2024 - 14:29
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the whole first several paragraphs are a pretty comprehensive answer to your question, no?
because they wander in a lonely shadow realm, encountering fellow travelers in the darkness, wondering if anything means anything! it's right there! GAWD
Because they’re anti-vaxxers
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/29/2024 - 18:39
In reply to the whole first several by lumpy (not verified)
Because they’re anti-vaxxers now too, that makes it feel new and relevant to you?
Alpha troll alert
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/02/2024 - 21:44
In reply to Because they’re anti-vaxxers by anon (not verified)
You're invited to explain us what is anarchistic in the unconditional and uncritical acceptance of forced vaccination mandates ordered by state institutions, but I won't be holding my breath. Thank you, normie.
No u invited to explain us
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/03/2024 - 09:04
In reply to Alpha troll alert by anon (not verified)
No u invited to explain us what is anarchistic about denying the science behind vaccines and choosing to get them based off your oxygen-deprived, worm-filled, Infowars consuming brain, sheeple! That is if you can muster the energy with your polio and mmr ouchies.
Nonono... Don't try to escape
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:16
In reply to No u invited to explain us by anon (not verified)
Nonono... Don't try to escape, cowardly fool. You're just scared to answer the initial question and instead proceed to throw at me a generic example of an Argument from Authority logic fallacy. You FAIL the test. Please go back to Reddit, Instagram, your local hipster venue and also the Democrat Party. Bye.
What if I told you that’s a
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 17:59
In reply to Nonono... Don't try to escape by anon (not verified)
What if I told you that’s a completely different person who disagrees with you?
I was only saying that this reads very 90s to me. Anprims were antivax then too ya know.
"Anprims were antivax then
anon (not verified) Fri, 04/12/2024 - 16:29
In reply to What if I told you that’s a by anon (not verified)
"Anprims were antivax then too ya know."
the question is why are they not now?
because most anti-civ anarchists who actually mean it have moved away from the progressive-primitivism of today. the vax is an intersection of so many horrible things, especially technology, and most anarchists failed miserably in this regard.
like jz...
anon (not verified) Sat, 04/13/2024 - 16:48
In reply to "Anprims were antivax then by anon (not verified)
like jz...
are you fucking serious?
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/03/2024 - 13:14
In reply to No u invited to explain us by anon (not verified)
are you fucking serious?
"denying the science" is not the only way to not obediently believe in government agencies and big pharma to the point of being ok with mandated injections...oh, that's right, anyone who thinks this way on any level or detail in a trumper or right-wing, or just stupid....ok lefty loser.^wR&EqrS
If God wanted us to have
TranslationBot (not verified) Wed, 04/03/2024 - 13:25
In reply to are you fucking serious? by anon (not verified)
If God wanted us to have vaccines and "science" they would be discussed in the Trump Bible!
Take that Truth along with your fancy University degrees and shove it at your next Democrat "voting" extravaganza!
Because this line of thought
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/29/2024 - 16:16
In reply to Why, are they all pushing out by anon (not verified)
Because this line of thought leads nowhere, thus all these projects are expressions of isolated people or tiny groups standing at the same dead end. Recognizing and transcending that limit would require a reaffirmation of collective liberation and revolutionary horizons. Ya know, anarchism.
"collective liberation and
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/29/2024 - 17:10
In reply to Because this line of thought by anon (not verified)
"collective liberation and revolutionary horizons" doesn't sound like anarchy to me.
this line of thinking doesn't lead there, that's for sure.
it might lead to people creating their own lives and finding the few other kindred spirits they have affinity with....or "isolated people or tiny groups" as you say..here! here! that's what i want, not some collectivist, and especially not some internationalist bullshit. you call that a dead end, i call it an opening up into life. but, by all means, go where you are going....
Liberation is collective or
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/29/2024 - 20:00
In reply to "collective liberation and by anon (not verified)
Liberation is collective or it is not!! Anarchism is a collective project of organizing the working class into municipal communal associations, federated from below.
OMG, who the hell
anon (not verified) Sun, 03/31/2024 - 12:35
In reply to Liberation is collective or by anon (not verified)
OMG, who the hell reincarnated Bookchin, keep walking individualist anarchs, nothin' to see here.
Don’t ya get it yet? Bookchin
anon (not verified) Sun, 03/31/2024 - 13:04
In reply to OMG, who the hell by anon (not verified)
Don’t ya get it yet? Bookchin can’t reincarnate because he never died! That which does not live cannot die! Yog sobookchin, eater of souls!
Did you know that Wayne Price
anon (not verified) Sun, 03/31/2024 - 13:08
In reply to Don’t ya get it yet? Bookchin by anon (not verified)
Did you know that Wayne Price is actually Murray Bookchin's slightly more retarded clone created by ex-Soviet scientists working with NATO to kill the boners of the radical anarchist element in the USA? It's true.
Happy Easter. Bookchin is
anon (not verified) Sun, 03/31/2024 - 13:29
In reply to OMG, who the hell by anon (not verified)
Happy Easter. Bookchin is risen. And this time no passive resistance.
Now wait... R U scared to go
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:27
In reply to Liberation is collective or by anon (not verified)
Now wait... R U scared to go walk outside without an escort by friends and other group? Can you do anything *by yourself* besides trolling on the internet? Like washing your dishes or changing the cat litter? Or do u even need a friend to help you change your diapers?
who uses cat liter? are there
anon (not verified) Fri, 04/05/2024 - 16:41
In reply to Now wait... R U scared to go by anon (not verified)
who uses cat liter? are there furies out there?
Your notion of freedom is
anon (not verified) Sun, 03/31/2024 - 10:37
In reply to "collective liberation and by anon (not verified)
Your notion of freedom is that of atomized individuals "creating their own lives" within class society. You think you are post-left, but this is bourgeois freedom. You haven't gone beyond, you're pre-left, you're back in 1789.
The anarchist challenge is rooted in recognition that, as humans are innately social, your freedom is inextricably linked to the freedom of all. of all As we are innately tool using animals, our freedom is also inextricably linked to our access to the materials and healthy ecosystems necessary for our flourishing.
To speak of freedom means to put an end to the state and economic domination. This requires both mass refusal and mass participation in the creation of new ways of living. You think you can go find anarchy all on your own, it's a self-deception, and you wind up just impoverishing the meaning of the word.
wow. some complete leftist
anon (not verified) Sun, 03/31/2024 - 16:53
In reply to Your notion of freedom is by anon (not verified)
wow. some complete leftist deciding who is not post-left.
who let the leftists in?
okay: but your mass liberation collectivist anarchism
anon (not verified) Sun, 03/31/2024 - 18:53
In reply to Your notion of freedom is by anon (not verified)
is a pretty damn perfectionist and unrelenting point of view. What if someone is comfortable with themselves and their temporary sense of joy, are you going to stop them?
Omg this is such an obtuse
different anon (not verified) Mon, 04/01/2024 - 03:05
In reply to okay: but your mass liberation collectivist anarchism by anon (not verified)
Omg this is such an obtuse response. Have you read anything by classical anarchists before deciding it's not worth it, even if it's just a quote? Like the Malatesta quote about wanting the people to emancipate themselves, instead of forcing your conception of freedom on them (which is not what freedom for all implies...)?
yes, and in other words, you believe
anon (not verified) Mon, 04/01/2024 - 06:28
In reply to Omg this is such an obtuse by different anon (not verified)
In anarchy-as-authority, not anarchy-as-________ or anarchy-as-lifestyle.
Literally, "no" is sufficient for anything convuluted and stupid.
Das just you, again, as usual
GEF (not verified) Tue, 04/02/2024 - 21:59
In reply to Omg this is such an obtuse by different anon (not verified)
Das just you, again, as usual libcom asynchrony chumpion... trying to blindly apply 100 years old theories to a contemporary social context you're also conveniently unable to face. But also to billions of people whose lives you know nothing about. Yawn. But sure feel free to come to some developping shithole country-silo and preach anarcho-socialism to the masses of consumer-slaves for whom noisy pollutive pickup trucks and motorbikes are the only tools of "liberation" they can perceive.
Also just too bad we can't argue with long-dead people about a futureworld they'd never imagine (and better not have). How you define time and your place in (out of?) it is a more relevant question you might believe! If you're a mortal like me, at least...
Who are you talking about?
anon (not verified) Mon, 04/01/2024 - 16:04
In reply to Your notion of freedom is by anon (not verified)
Who are you talking about? Both Jason and Invecchiare rant constantly about atomization and alienation in modernity. You are making up nonsense, which seems a bad rehash of the German Ideology or Bookchin. Your criticism isn’t even true of the post-left in general. Bob Black has called himself of communist for fucks sake (an egoist communist, sure). Try again with no context strawmen.
Go take another look at Black
anon (not verified) Mon, 04/01/2024 - 21:49
In reply to Who are you talking about? by anon (not verified)
Go take another look at Black Blossoms at the End of the World.
https://anarchistnews.org/content/black-blossoms-end-world-invecchiare-…
It reads like a celebration of giving up.
>"there is nothing left in anarchy"
>"I am escaping. I am free."
Hiding isn't freedom.
Look, I've read and grappled with most of the post-left canon, identified with it, hell even distro'ed a good chunk of it. The post-68 reevaluations were necessary. Old strategies don't work in new conditions, and they were flawed anyway. And even if I wanted it, there is no reviving the classical anarchist movement. Here's the thing, if we had succeeded in bringing into being a more powerful weapon I would have few issues. But we haven't, it's weak and many would simply move the goal posts to re-define anarchy as a sort of Buddhist self-discovery. I ask that anarchists not look for a return to tradition but brutally honest evaluation, yes of the post-left tendencies, that we may discover new forms, new weapons.
giving up????
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/02/2024 - 12:09
In reply to Go take another look at Black by anon (not verified)
giving up????
embracing one's life IS NOT GIVING UP!!!
refusing to be a part of a performative delusional subculture IS NOT GIVING UP!!!!
going through the same stupid motions is.
BB is NOT a celebration of giving up, it is a celebration of life.
agreed. some would love to
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/02/2024 - 12:31
In reply to giving up???? by anon (not verified)
agreed. some would love to just stay attached to scenes and performative combativeness. when did perpetually banging your head against something become the same as anarchy. thanks punk.
and when did it become transforming society, thanks leftists.
i read black blossoms, and there is plenty of conflict advocated in there, including infrastructural attack, assassination, interpersonal defense, land defense, etc.
ok coach, we will try harder.
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/02/2024 - 13:27
In reply to Go take another look at Black by anon (not verified)
ok coach, we will try harder.
Brutality in evaluation is
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/02/2024 - 16:58
In reply to Go take another look at Black by anon (not verified)
Brutality in evaluation is good, but maybe you need to go deeper in the evaluation. Ivvy seems to live in one of those backwoods anarchy enclaves, likely there are more anarchists than in most cities. He also seems to have some strong friends. Why isn’t this sort of affinity considered to be a collective resistance? Also you never actually addressed what he said in the review. Maybe you should critique that, since it is in theory the subject under discussion.
If this was your answer on
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/29/2024 - 21:58
In reply to Why, are they all pushing out by anon (not verified)
If this was your answer on the take home exam I’d give you a D. Who are these dirty half dozen eco-egoists? Please provide citations and show your work. I need the exam redone by next Tuesday’s class.
non yer fuckin' business.
anon (not verified) Sun, 03/31/2024 - 17:26
In reply to If this was your answer on by anon (not verified)
non yer fuckin' business.
"economy"? ok brah, don't
anon (not verified) Sun, 03/31/2024 - 16:49
In reply to Why, are they all pushing out by anon (not verified)
"economy"? ok brah, don't think anyone is getting paid here.
this "real philosophy" you invoke is
anon (not verified) Mon, 04/01/2024 - 07:27
In reply to Why, are they all pushing out by anon (not verified)
Nothing but psuedo-philosophical drivel.
“Real philosophy”
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 18:04
In reply to this "real philosophy" you invoke is by anon (not verified)
Was not invoked by me. I think you’re making my point for me, if anything is more wack than the reification of thought, it’s the allegedly subversive imitation thereof.
Corporatist language has
Le Way, (not verified) Fri, 03/29/2024 - 18:56
Corporatist language has power, and it's unavailable unless you pay for it, public language may be poetic, humane, beautiful; But it has no power, it's decorative,,,
yeah if you pay for it, there's another
anon (not verified) Mon, 04/01/2024 - 07:53
In reply to Corporatist language has by Le Way, (not verified)
slang term for the excellent mark you are.
The marks don't have any
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/02/2024 - 05:21
In reply to yeah if you pay for it, there's another by anon (not verified)
The marks don't have any authentic power of their own, they need status and money to maintain their citizenship within the corporatist identity bubble. Their egos and values are materialistic. Anarchs stand alone with a powerful authentic poetic language which bends minds!
Corporate dialect is taking
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/02/2024 - 23:58
In reply to The marks don't have any by anon (not verified)
Corporate dialect is taking over with its techno/managerial terminology, there is no feeling, only function, empathic expression is becoming rare, every sentence is now becoming imperative.
yeah i can tell that this person knows
anon (not verified) Mon, 04/01/2024 - 07:52
How to write, and every art form suffers because of the knee-jerk "all-reddy Ben Done"
Anti-civ chaos magic? Now
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/03/2024 - 19:00
Anti-civ chaos magic? Now that sounds sane and sensible. Definitely not wing nut at all.
I don't get why this post
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/03/2024 - 20:31
In reply to Anti-civ chaos magic? Now by anon (not verified)
I don't get why this post triggered so many comments. I didn't even read it. But I'm calling you out as the right-wing wing-nut that haunts this site. So many comments. That your wing-nuttiness is more pedestrian doesn't make you any less wing-nutty, just more boring.
What right wing trolling
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/03/2024 - 23:15
In reply to I don't get why this post by anon (not verified)
What right wing trolling happened on this post? Looks like some light left anarchist trolling, but nothing right wing. There was some pushback to the anti-vaxxer comment, but that just seemed like folks being sensitive to that accusation.
Fundamentally, Left and Right
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/03/2024 - 23:19
In reply to What right wing trolling by anon (not verified)
Fundamentally, Left and Right are indistinguishable, it's about disguise ;)
why are you commenting on
anon (not verified) Fri, 04/05/2024 - 16:44
In reply to I don't get why this post by anon (not verified)
why are you commenting on something you didn't read???
and what "right wing wing-nut" comments do you mean???
There are no right-wing
anon (not verified) Fri, 04/05/2024 - 18:35
In reply to why are you commenting on by anon (not verified)
There are no right-wing comments. This is just a nonsense smear to mean not-left wing. Left and right are alternative, but interlocking models of control. The right wing control model poses more of an immediate threat, to safety and such. But the left wing model is winning and much more likely to implement far ranging and omnipresent control.
whatever spooks ya. i'm
anon (not verified) Fri, 04/05/2024 - 17:04
In reply to I don't get why this post by anon (not verified)
whatever spooks ya. i'm calling you out as a loser leftist who has no conception of anarchy outside of hot topic, npr, or the institute for social ecology...go vote or perform some act to save the world.
"hot topic, npr, or the
anon (not verified) Fri, 04/05/2024 - 21:25
In reply to whatever spooks ya. i'm by anon (not verified)
"hot topic, npr, or the institute for social ecology"
BOOMER, SHUT-IN, ALERT! BEEP BEEP BEEP
Boomer? Boomers are all
anon (not verified) Sat, 04/06/2024 - 09:39
In reply to "hot topic, npr, or the by anon (not verified)
Boomer? Boomers are all elderly left moralists. Not us. We’s middle aged edgelord bad guys.
go to canada.
anon (not verified) Sat, 04/06/2024 - 12:39
In reply to You seems mad AND aren't by anon (not verified)
go to canada.
get on their healthcare.
become a statistic.
Anarchists aren't the real
TranslationCHUD (not verified) Sat, 04/06/2024 - 12:41
In reply to go to canada. by anon (not verified)
Anarchists aren't the real anarchists! USA USA USA!
All real anarchs are on
anon (not verified) Sat, 04/06/2024 - 15:45
In reply to go to canada. by anon (not verified)
All real anarchs are on government healthcare…
Bite the hand that feeds you…
SoOme anarchs live in
anon (not verified) Sat, 04/06/2024 - 17:59
In reply to All real anarchs are on by anon (not verified)
SoOme anarchs live in countries with free health care and not the USA USA USA?!?? WhaAaaaT???
Elderly did become statistics
anon (not verified) Sat, 04/13/2024 - 01:28
In reply to go to canada. by anon (not verified)
Elderly did become statistics under Covid Canada. That's why I became "anti-vaxx". But here's a BOMB reveal: I also remained antifascist and antipolitics anarchist! *disk-scratching sound* WOAHDUDE!!!
Not unrelated, but healthcare managers are pretty much the exact same ilk as former Nazis. Just without all the regalia and salutes.
ZOOMER, STUCK ON GAZE OF
anon (not verified) Sun, 04/07/2024 - 14:02
In reply to "hot topic, npr, or the by anon (not verified)
ZOOMER, STUCK ON GAZE OF PHONE, ALERT! BEEP BEEP BEEP
SUPERFICIAL UNDERSTANDING OF EVERYTHING
TOO MUCH DATA NOT ANY LIVED EXPERIENCE
Our minds are enslaved by
anon (not verified) Fri, 04/05/2024 - 16:20
In reply to Anti-civ chaos magic? Now by anon (not verified)
Our minds are enslaved by their sanity. Radical madness is a tactic.
Also a great tactic for doing
anon (not verified) Fri, 04/05/2024 - 19:53
In reply to Our minds are enslaved by by anon (not verified)
Also a great tactic for doing radically stupid shit.
But who knows... in a world of mass shooters, perhaps doing way stupid shit can help undermine the social order?
“And my happiness needs no
anon (not verified) Sun, 04/07/2024 - 14:08
“And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
- Equality 7-2521, from Anthem, Ayn Rand
nice. ayn rand, one of the
anon (not verified) Mon, 04/08/2024 - 08:34
In reply to “And my happiness needs no by anon (not verified)
nice. ayn rand, one of the "forbidden" authors. she got it right on in some ways (individuals vs collectivism) and completely wrong in others (technology, rationalism, etc.), but well worth the grappling with, if one is a free thinker, an anarchist.
" if one is a free thinker,
anon (not verified) Mon, 04/08/2024 - 10:05
In reply to nice. ayn rand, one of the by anon (not verified)
" if one is a free thinker, an anarchist."
I think you misspelled 'bootlicker and worshipper of authority', you illiterate dipshit troll.
I can’t tell if this quote is
anon (not verified) Mon, 04/08/2024 - 13:47
In reply to “And my happiness needs no by anon (not verified)
I can’t tell if this quote is meant to be positive or is trying to smear the article. Either way, though not a big fan of Rand, this quote is legitimately beautiful (a rarity for Rand, but give praise where it is due)
i would agree that any rand
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/09/2024 - 08:48
In reply to I can’t tell if this quote is by anon (not verified)
i would agree that any rand is a very mixed bag, very off-putting and even completely problematic in some ways, but completely hits the nail on the head in others. i think anthem, an earlier (and shorter) work is the most to the point. i love these quotes from Equality 7-2521, the main character who travels an arc from slave within the collectivist dystopian future to individualist.
“But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate.”
“It is my mind which thinks, and the judgment of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth.”
“And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
Credit where it's due.Good
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/09/2024 - 13:28
Credit where it's due.Good quote.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
- Steve Jobs, (anarch egoist?)
Have the courage to use child
TranslationAyn (not verified) Tue, 04/09/2024 - 13:42
In reply to Credit where it's due.Good by anon (not verified)
Have the courage to use child labor to make your dreams a reality. Or at least adult slave labor. Think different.
Steve Jobs = Capitalist
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/09/2024 - 18:11
In reply to Credit where it's due.Good by anon (not verified)
Steve Jobs = Capitalist-Narcissistic, or CapNars.
Ayn Rand = "Radical for
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/09/2024 - 21:08
In reply to Steve Jobs = Capitalist by anon (not verified)
Ayn Rand = "Radical for Capitalism", or Rad AynCap.
In her case "radical" referred getting to the root of the boots of power she wanted to lick to slime her way to authority. Ayn completely rejected anarchism as a naive theory based in subjectivism which totally did not gel with her beloved authoritarian-capitalist views.
AynCaps are despicable cunts.
Sure, but CapNars are just as
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 15:50
In reply to Ayn Rand = "Radical for by anon (not verified)
Sure, but CapNars are just as obnoxious as AynCaps, let's just call them a non-sexist derogatory term which encompasses the society in which they thrive, like an Empire's Ass Wipes, or EAWs, ok. They are a phenomenon exclusive to the elite of any Empire brah.
there is more to ayn rand,
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/09/2024 - 13:32
there is more to ayn rand, positive and negative, than this quote, but i doubt any leftist will ever honestly engage. if it was a quote from any number of leftists, it would not get this response. just threw it out to chum the waters and watch the rabid leftists show themselves...oh, and it is not in any way the same to take a hitler quote out of context and an author who never engaged in genocide (or anything remotely similar), ya think? sorry divergent ideas are so scary to you.
So true. Think about it.
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/09/2024 - 13:37
In reply to there is more to ayn rand, by anon (not verified)
So true. Think about it.
"When someone calls you a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe because you happen to disagree with them about tax policy or same-sex marriage or abortion, that’s bullying. When someone slanders you because you happen to disagree with them about global warming or the government shutdown, that’s bullying. When someone labels you a bad human being because they disagree with you, they are bullying you. They are attacking your character without justification. That’s nasty. In fact, it makes them nasty."
- Ben Shapiro (How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument)
LEAVE AYN ALONE!
Not really
ctaerycertytr (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 04:32
In reply to there is more to ayn rand, by anon (not verified)
Shit ideas are scary to me when they catch on among people who don't have the ability to distinguish shit ideas from good ideas. Rand's ideas are shit. She takes the whole idea of radical self-interest that had already been developed by other egoist theorists and tacks on "but also, imagine your self-interest only took the form of financial wellbeing". Anything you like of hers is more likely lifted wholesale from Stirner or Nietsche.
Also, something something godwin's law.
oh, sooooo scawy... i "don't
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 08:37
In reply to Not really by ctaerycertytr (not verified)
oh, sooooo scawy... i "don't have the ability to distinguish shit ideas from good ideas."
ok, brah, you are the authority... always great when you go against ideas you don't like by calling people stupid. sounds like you are more than scared, your a coward.
by the way, while anthem has some major flaws, it NEVER mentions anything financial.
stick with reading what you absolutely agree with...
oh, and just read Stirner and Nietsche 'cause they figured it all out for ya!
It's because they are all
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:30
In reply to Very telling that the Aynews by anon (not verified)
It's because they are all self-centered narcissists that are too stupid to understand Stirner or Neech's egoism so they flocked to that cunty Ayn's despicable authoritarian interpretation.
It's why they are not welcome
William Gillis (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 12:28
In reply to It's because they are all by anon (not verified)
It's why they are not welcome in my, or any other, anarchist dojo.
Everybody knows this.
authoritarian?
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 12:50
In reply to It's because they are all by anon (not verified)
authoritarian?
please explain teacher
Learn what capitalism is you
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 13:16
In reply to authoritarian? by anon (not verified)
Learn what capitalism is you must, young padwan.
Appeals to dummies and adolescents because boner for hero individual against the world of “moochers”, it does. Like MAGA it is.
Scratch and AynCap.
Fuck them poors! If they didn
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 13:24
In reply to Learn what capitalism is you by anon (not verified)
Fuck them poors! If they didn't want to be poor they would work harder like real individuals, but they don't because being poor is socialism
Uh the thin-skinned (and thin
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 21:06
In reply to It's because they are all by anon (not verified)
Uh the thin-skinned (and thin-lipped) moderators deleted the comment that this "they" was referring to. It was referring to the Aynews Corrective that feeblely polices this "anarchist" website. Carry on
Im not surprised
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 21:07
In reply to Uh the thin-skinned (and thin by anon (not verified)
Im not surprised
To be clear, Invisible
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 17:18
In reply to there is more to ayn rand, by anon (not verified)
To be clear, Invisible Generation never mentions Rand
i don't think she does
anon (not verified) Fri, 04/19/2024 - 16:01
In reply to To be clear, Invisible by anon (not verified)
i don't think she does mention Rand, but I doubt they would be offended by her. jason seems solid in her perspective and is actually strengthened by divergence.
Speaking of Jason Rodgers,
anon (not verified) Wed, 04/10/2024 - 08:47
Speaking of Jason Rodgers, who wrote the very interesting book this post reviews, they did a real thorough, critically enthusiastic, and interesting review of the forbidden book "Might Is Right" by Ragnar Redbeard in OAK Journal #5. if you are not afraid to dabble in scary things (are there any anarchists still out there?), check it out.
A book much favored by many
anon (not verified) Fri, 04/12/2024 - 17:29
In reply to Speaking of Jason Rodgers, by anon (not verified)
A book much favored by many members of the I. W. W. back in the day, so if a person thinks Might Makes Right is a forbidden book, probably they secretly harbor a deep hostility to Industrial Unionism. There is power, there is power... etc.
A book much favored by many
anon (not verified) Mon, 04/15/2024 - 08:48
In reply to A book much favored by many by anon (not verified)
A book much favored by many members of the I. W. W. back in the day, so if a person thinks Might Makes Right is a forbidden book, probably they secretly harbor a deep hostility to Industrial Unionism. There is power, there is power... etc.
i openly "harbor a deep hostility to Industrial Unionism" for obvious and numerous reasons as an ant-civ anarchist, but i appreciate some of the counter-cultural activities they enjoyed, and also their spirit.
Might Is Right is a "forbidden book" today by the new woke anarchism who can only put things in binary opposition.
sad, really.
"Death to the weakling,
anon (not verified) Mon, 04/15/2024 - 13:19
In reply to A book much favored by many by anon (not verified)
"Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong" That’s what you believe, as a primmie?
if you describing it in
anon (not verified) Mon, 04/15/2024 - 13:29
In reply to "Death to the weakling, by anon (not verified)
if you describing it in metaphorical and descriptive terms, as Redbeard does, yes. if you are describing it in literal terms and what you propose, not so much.
but i would not expect that nuance to go far here in the great reaction.
Industrial individualism is
anon (not verified) Fri, 04/19/2024 - 18:34
Industrial individualism is the answer. Autonomously live off what you can make in the great creative nothingness. Delve deeply into your inner-being, find pride in your humble creativity.
i wouldn't call it
anon (not verified) Sun, 04/21/2024 - 11:13
In reply to Industrial individualism is by anon (not verified)
i wouldn't call it "industrial", but innovative and creative.
Thankyou, I am new to English
anon (not verified) Sun, 04/21/2024 - 12:10
In reply to i wouldn't call it by anon (not verified)
Thankyou, I am new to English language and my gf told me "industrial" meant ---- Being industrious and creating your own necessities and lifestyle------
I shall correct my translation to ---" Industrious Individualism", yes, this captures the nuanced sense of self employment and autonomy, correct?
we are our own industrious
anon (not verified) Tue, 04/23/2024 - 08:38
In reply to Thankyou, I am new to English by anon (not verified)
we are our own industrious beings. industry is the formalization, reproduction, institutionalization, and massification of that. better to steer clear.
The new book is out now: War
anon (not verified) Fri, 05/24/2024 - 19:14
The new book is out now: War of Dreams
So sick of this individualist
anon (not verified) Sat, 07/20/2024 - 19:37
So sick of this individualist anarchist egoist shit that Invecchiare and Jason promote. What about the workers? Who’s going to manage the factories? Who’s going to make the trains run on time?
Who is going to feed you,
anon (not verified) Sat, 07/20/2024 - 22:33
In reply to So sick of this individualist by anon (not verified)
Who is going to feed you, spot-mop your messes and carry your ample baggage, is more like it.
The neat-o, nifty thing about being a politically worthless individualist is that you don't have to break from your underlying psychology as a one hundred percent 'Murikan product. And 'Murika lubs da FREE-DUM!
Ever hear of interns?
anon (not verified) Sat, 07/20/2024 - 23:36
In reply to Who is going to feed you, by anon (not verified)
Ever hear of interns?
Ever hear of trust funds??
Sorry to interrupt as you're
anon (not verified) Sun, 07/21/2024 - 07:14
In reply to Who is going to feed you, by anon (not verified)
Sorry to interrupt as you're talking to your (other) self, but who's gonna make sure you take your daily meds? Oh yeah, there's Workers for that, too!
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