Published Date 1/2/12 5:52 PM
This is from 07/03/2005
You can go on this journey and find these things out, thus creating a possibility, or you can push them under the surfaces, smother or bash them every time they spring or seep out of our subcultures.
The lack of any group memory
In activist cercals it is thought a good thing to constantly re-invent the wheel… it’s a symbol of belonging to not rock the bout.
* Tribalism – it’s symbols and seint markings – cercals and their disappearing spirals
* Ridged thought – political correctness and it hidden fidgety – re-creating the Soviet Union
* Stupid individualism
What do all these things mean?
#Stupidindividualism – is all bound up in the smallness of the ego that capitalism makes in us all. Me, me, me is a strong priority even in our most enlightened people.
Re-creating the Soviet Union – is an excellent way of describing the rigidity of much “thought” and clocking of real process. Just as the Soviet Union had a model constitution on paper, but acted in a very different way, activist are continually re-righting and re-righting paper utopias and then, actively working under completely different ways – this has been a continues problem for outreach of most projects I have been involved in. The paper ways fall over as they are never enacted by the majority of people. And the hidden ways though often surprising affective at getting things done are very disempowering beyond the small claque at the centre. If we keep re-creating the “Soviet Union”, unconsciously certainly, nothing can be achieved by this… they had the secret polices and a highly authoritarian polices state to make there paper constitution in to a big illusion and there hidden workings into an affective administration… we just have a paper illusion that confuses and a hidden minority who burn out and move on.
Tribalism – gives the sense of belonging, which for the majority is the attractive part of the activist project. The outcome is relatively unimportant to the majority of the people involved in any campine, they simply move onto the next issue as the passion/creativity of the last issue burns out. This churning ends with most individuals returning to the traditional tribes of consumerism and careerism.