Loading ...I Think I Might be an Anarchist
Another article Karl found interesting and posted the link in a comment
For me this is Extremely Interesting
An Anarchist’s take on Masks….sounds exactly like mine.
https://off-guardian.org/2020/06/22/face-masks-have-put-us-in-a-state
Unfortunately I don’t have time to look up this guy’s references on masks. The piece makes me doubt my own position on masks (I’ve been strongly supportive of using them). I still have a hard time not thinking that at least some of the time bad bugs will attach to droplets that are taken out even by thick woven fabric. I may be backward in my thinking. However the problem is he may be citing only the articles he sees as worthy of citing, he may be ignoring flaws in the studies (the studies may have been underpowered, ie, too few subjects), etc.
In other words, I think it is interesting that he comes up with so relatively much against the usefulness of masks, but I’d like to think about it some more and wish I had time to study the matter and see some calm learned discussion from the other side.
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I have my strong ambivalence about off-guardian.org for many reasons, but it is on a roll. Its most recent some of you might like a lot. They have just reprinted a piece by left-libertarian satirist, CJ Hopkins, that is better than his usual (and his usual is pretty good), but it isn’t funny so much as chilling
https://off-guardian.org/2020/06/29/the-new-pathologized-totalitarianism/
on society and COVID-19 from the perspective of someone who thinks the whole reaction (masks etc) is bunkum and far, far worse.
Off-guardian’s comment section is often pretty gaseous, but I think the comment section to CJ Hopkins’s piece is pretty good.
Wow right you are Karl…the comments on this piece are as good as the piece itself.
Really great to see there are some people who are on to this scam.
Don’t give up tenters…pass it on !!
Crowds go mad en mass and only awake one by one
“When the anarchist, as the mouthpiece of the declining levels of society, insists on ‘right,’ ‘justice,’ ‘equal rights’ with such beautiful indignation, he is just acting under the pressure of his lack of culture, which cannot grasp why he really suffers, what he is poor in– in life.
A drive to find causes is powerful in him: it must be somebody’s fault that he’s feeling bad . . . Even his ‘beautiful indignation’ does him good; all poor devils like to whine–it gives them a little thrill of power. Even complaints, the act of complaining, can give life the charm on account of which one can stand to live it: there is a subtle dose of revenge in every complaint; one blames those who are different for one’s own feeling bad, and in certain circumstances even being bad, as if they were guilty of an injustice, a prohibited privilege. ‘If I’m a lowlife, you should be one too’: on this logic, revolutions are built.–
Complaining is never good for anything; it comes from weakness. Whether one ascribes one’s feeling bad to others or to oneself–the socialist does the former, the Christian, for example, the latter–makes no real difference. What is common to both and, let us add, what is unworthy, is that it should be someone’s fault that one is suffering–in short, that the sufferer prescribes the honey of revenge as a cure for his own suffering.”
? Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Nietzsche, his intellectual frenemy Schopenhauer, and the “individualist anarchists” like Max Stirner, and “anarchists” in general, were all littermates, saying much the same thing, though of course there were the differences. Certainly there were differences between, say Nietzsche and Nietzsche and Nietzsche, who loves contradicting himself all over the place. Various anarchists have loved citing Nietzsche over the years.
“Anarchists” are and have been all over the place in what they have written. Personally (and I am setting myself up for attack here) despite trying pretty hard I can’t think offhand of found much worth of their writing that’s worthwhile other than esp invaluable valuable historical accounts of Spain esp in the late 1930s and of Russia in 1905 and circa 1917-1920; also Russians must have benefited from Bakunin’s translation of Capital into Russian. An ultra-leftist snidely wrote circa 1960-1970, since anarchists will tolerate each other they will tolerate anything.