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Petitions and the smugosphere – bwahahahaha
From here. Hat-tip to Sam
Guest post: “Take up activism”
Inspired by a rant about the utter ineptitude of an activist discussion last Sunday, I’ve been sent this by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. Let’s start by saying I’m a big fan of the ‘Give Up Activism‘ critique! I … Continue reading
Youtube: “Outrage is an anagram of…”
Went to a [name redacted on legal grounds] meeting tonight. After 40 minutes of problem, with no reflection how the group’s current numbers and “strategies” (cough cough) and, well, EVERYTHING ABOUT IT, I had had enough and law of two … Continue reading
The Smugosphere and the climate movement
Attention Conservation Notice: A far superior essay has been written on this topic (of the gap between our rhetoric and our reality). It appeared in Do or Die Seven, under the title of “Global Warming: No-one Ever is to Blame” … Continue reading
Posted in activism, climate, competence
Tagged climate camp, smugosphere, social movements
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Evaporative Cooling – or “overrun by muppets”
There’s that scene in “Starship Troopers” where the space marines look over the wall of their flimsy stockade and coming to towards them are thousands upon thousands of “bugs.” Not that this is what I thought about at all when … Continue reading
Posted in activism, competence
Tagged Evaporative Cooling, free-riders, muppets, parasites, smugosphere
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I think the meetings lemon is squeezed dry…
Following the guest post from Mrs Towers, and the map-less compass, I got this from a wise friend I started a comment on Mrs T’s guest post and abandoned it – couldn’t find the right tone. In essence what I … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, activism
Tagged meetings, movement-building, smugosphere
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Compass: pointless and going round in circles – I have no #timeforplanb
Attention Conservation Notice: I went to a meeting of a group that proclaims itself “Britain’s most influential politcal movement for real change.*” And guess what. It’s entrenched in the smugosphere and I was turned into ego-fodder. What. A. Surprise. The … Continue reading
Posted in activism, competence, politics
Tagged Compass, ego-fodder, irony police, meetings, movement-building, smugosphere, social movements
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“Let’s cut to the chase and have a fascist dictatorship* already”
Because the anti-fascist crowd (and here I don’t mean the street-fighting men – I mean ‘democracy campaigners’ more broadly), simply do not have their shit together. Last night I went to a small meeting (I’ll not mention the organisation’s current … Continue reading
Just sayin’
From this to this It was a) cathartic and b) useful for learning new GIMP tricks.
Ego and Ebbinghaus – when will we ever learn?
I have been ego-fodder at two events in less than 24 hours, so excuse me if the following post seems like it is written with a red mist… WHAT ON GAIA’S GREEN EARTH DO WE THINK WE ARE WE DOING? … Continue reading
