Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/republican-spending-bill-passes-senate-by-62-38-10-dems-joined-r’s.1135161/page-16#post-137056383

Well if you don't care about progress then there's no reason for you to enter a discussion on how to bring about progress, now is there? A bit silly, innit?

Now, if this really is just an expression of frustration and hopelessness, and you actually do want progress but don't know how, then you should understand the fundamental truth that most of the progress in the world was indeed not had by Democrats or superheroes, but by masses of people organizing, initiating and performing projects, defending themselves and their homelands, reacting to the social and material conditions that lay before them, and ultimately moving in the understanding that we as humans are unique in the ability to shape and reshape our cultures, and we can use this gift to make a better world.

This idea that the only way we can save ourselves is through the same political apparatuses responsible for generating our own oppression is absurd on its face, and indeed it is this level of learned helplessness, this belief that you can only vote and participate in these processes to enact change, that has killed any sense of the community and organization that underpinned those great men and women we read about. If you want freedom, you take it. You build it. You start alone or you find others that want the same thing. And then you keep working at it, you make programs, you help your community, and you show off the results, and you be prepared for when those oppressors and their sympathizers still married to the system either mock you for daring to try, or sic the State on you to kick down your sandcastle. And then you rebuild it again with new knowledge, and you do so in solidarity and optimism.

See, ancap.

Frankly Era is not the place for meaningful discussion on these issues, both by design and because of the population that visits here, to the point that I don't really know why I waste time in such an environment typing out my knowledge and feelings.

I like how nobody there questions why an admin of all people keeps saying this about the forum, never asks her to elaborate because they know she just means it's too white (which she knows because it doesn't agree with her on everything) or asks what places do exist for meaningful discussion. 

Also, "knowledge"