wait, Gek is not the only one accused. apparently me, the "tree-hugging California mystic hippie primitivist", is also a "fascist". presumably because of my comment: "if i had real balls i would become (what the imperialist oppressors would call) a 'terrorist'"
there are 1 or 2 differences between armed resistance to oppression and fascism, Vimothy.
and simple and common fantasies of violent social upheaval on a mass scale does not a fascist make either.
Sorry, I was annoyed at how casually Gek chucked my name in with the charge of racism. You’ve been as guilty of that as anyone else has and it all got chucked together in my head.
And I think that the actual phrase you used was “suicide bomber”. However, that and the nature of your ideological bedfellows like Zerzan and the Unabomber, your valorisation of the fascist ur-myth of Eden lost and a people betrayed and beset by nasty liberal progress, to say nothing of the obvious outcomes of
all previous attempts at creating such utopias, are beside the point. I could construct arguments like that all day. I’m sure that you could too, and so could everyone else. My point really is that it’s not very nice when people just throw hateful terms like that around, when they don’t explain why or seek clarification, when it’s not done in the spirit of free exchange of ideas, but just for the sheer hell of it.
So what happened -- did we all have a sense of irony bypass yesterday?
We should think of this as an experiment in alternative social structures, an anarchist or pirate utopia of self-reinforcing contracts. (We are veering dangerously close to a
reducto ad absurdum of that theory at present). Are we going to spend all day calling each other names, or are we going to try to have interesting and contested debates about subjects that matter to us? I think that the benefits of free interaction, exchange and collaboration will always greatly out way the possible costs in terms of having to read ideas we disagree with. But then, I am a neo-liberal-con-Nazi-paedophile wankaaaaaaaaa….