Breaking down walls, tearing down barriers and abolishing borders.

    • Danterious@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      From the comments that you have been making it seems like you have a very negative view of other people and their ability to work together towards things that they both want (i.e. shared goals). This might be informed by your life experience and honestly, I’m sorry for what you have experienced that has led to such a negatively focused view.

      I can’t convince you that anarchism can be good if you believe this staunchly. All I can say is that if you look at your surroundings you could find that people do this all the time.

      An example I like to think about is driving. You know almost nothing about other drivers (how sane they are, where they are going, etc.) but we still drive and trust other drivers not to crash into us, and a majority of the time people are able to get to where they are going unharmed. This is an example of anarchy working in our everyday lives.

      So, anarchism is being dead? Because that’s what happens when you reject authority - they fucking kill you. No exceptions; barely any delays.

      As for this, my philosophy is that as anarchists we should follow the ideas that are based on the paradox of tolerance.

      If we want a tolerant society, we need to be intolerant of intolerant ideas, or else those intolerant ideas over time become the norm.

      The same goes for freedom (which is what anarchists want for everyone)

      If we want a free society, we need to resist people that want to dominate, or else everyone will be dominated.

        • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          2 years ago

          I am sorry for the trauma you have suffered that has left you living in fear like this. I don’t expect you to believe me, but this really isn’t the world in which most of us live, it isn’t how things really are and it doesn’t have to be this way for you either.

            • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              2·
              2 years ago

              Look, I have no idea who you are, I don’t know anything about you and we have never interacted before. You assuming that I’m part of some grand conspiracy makes it pretty clear to me that you are suffering from paranoid delusions. If you’re not getting it already, I strongly urge you to seek help, and I’m sorry if I riled you up.

                • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  you still instinctively hate me, simply because I’m not exactly like you. I really don’t, I feel worried for you, and intimidated by your hostility. How would I even know whether you are like me or not? We know nothing about each other!

                  I am not questioning that you have been abused and that it must have been truly horrible. The paranoid delusion is thinking that every person is a sadist who’s out to hurt you, and that some stranger saying “sorry” on the internet is doing so with some undefined malicious intent.

                  I hope you get better.