TotW: Finding subtexts

As anarchists, I expect we're all pretty good at finding ways that some normal things that people take for granted, speaking English (or whatever language), ways of relating, ways of story telling, et majorly cetera, train us or encourage us away from autonomy, creativity, empowerment. And sometimes maybe (seems much more rarely) encourage us *towards* those things.

My Anarchist Life

from Gods & Radicals Press

“I began to see a connection between my anarchist mentality – which, for most of my life, was more of an instinct than a philosophy – and my pagan religion. Specifically, I began to understand a pagan and animist worldview as the spiritual core of a future free society capable of living on this planet without destroying all life here.”

Does one have to be a perfect person to be an anarchist?

from Pensar en el margen via El Libertario, English translation by Anarchist News,

What is being anarchist?

by Laura Vicente

I would like to dismantle that idea that many people repeat that you cannot be an anarchist because that implies almost perfection in terms of the way of living and being. I am in favor of denying any transcendence to the term "anarchism" since it is the work of human beings. Anarchism is creation, or rather self-creation. The idealization of the term is always denied by reality since the human being is imperfect and contradictory.

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