TOTW: ACAB Means Who?
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TOTW: Persistence or Purity? The Mirror of Non-State Power
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What does it say about anarchism that it so often chooses immediacy, aversion to form, and radical transparency—does it desire to win, or merely to remain pure while disappearing?
Zeal for insurrection burns bright and dies young.
However, if there is anything to be learned from formations like Hezbollah or the Houthis, it is not their ideology but their refusal of immediacy—their stubborn commitment to duration.
As they did not erupt fully formed, they sedimented. Layer by layer, year by year, they became difficult to uproot.
TOTW: Veganarchy from Inside
TOTW: Saint Luigi
Topic of the Week - I am writing a review of John H. Richardson’s 2025 Luigi: The Making and the Meaning. The back cover is a mural of him, out of London, depicting him in saintly fashion. Larger than life, solemn face, and a golden halo circling his head. The back cover also includes a quote from the book: “For a growing group of Americans who seem to be vibrating with existential anxieties, he became a screen onto which they projected their fears and dreams.” For anyone with interest in the fields of psychology , sociology, and history as applied to religion, this is nothing new