TOTW: Forever Young

All that lives will inevitably die, but getting old is optional.

Anarchists take this challenge literally at times, joining the lineage of bombastic figures who meet an early grave, while most combat the aging process by staying “young at heart” despite their aching joints. To those who resist it, “growing up” often means trading away whimsy, delight, and Romantic notions of infinity for stress, alarm clocks, and tax forms. Anarchists have long made enemies with linear time—the type that makes you old—to escape its deleterious and conformist effects.

Politics at all levels, by all means

From Freedom News by Jonathan Eibisch

A fascist in the White House, and the ‘traffic lights’ go out in Germany

The promised turning point is clearly coming much louder than many would have expected. Why do anarchists care who is in government, one might ask. In fact, the ruling order remains the same precisely because of the replacement of its political decision-makers. One thing is clear: the neoliberal-technocratic model of government is being replaced by the protectionist-nationalist model in this phase. And ironically, both are still sides of the same coin.

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