I dislike identifying as this or that, but for simplicity's sake I'll say I'm an impossibilist. I don't consent to the structures of society or how they manifest, and conditioning aside, I don't think a majority do. That's an oceanic sized aside though. I disliked Benoit's email for it's imposing tone, and the way it ratchets up the tension and provides fuel for those with accelerationist tendencies.
I completely agree with your critique of the protests tactics with respect to what I'd like to see. I also remain observant and unsure of the strategic merit of short term gains won by pragmatists of the past few generations. I do see the problem requiring a solution that's generations in the making, it just seems so haphazard to me and is hard to see any kind of trajectory. So many of these gains regress to become symbols used by the state to misrepresent its interests as lying with it's constituents.
I would likely plant myself an old school 20th century 'impossibilist' like the socialist party activists who also made the world better building unions and working class civil society.
Another great, thoughtful piece. Thank you.
I dislike identifying as this or that, but for simplicity's sake I'll say I'm an impossibilist. I don't consent to the structures of society or how they manifest, and conditioning aside, I don't think a majority do. That's an oceanic sized aside though. I disliked Benoit's email for it's imposing tone, and the way it ratchets up the tension and provides fuel for those with accelerationist tendencies.
I completely agree with your critique of the protests tactics with respect to what I'd like to see. I also remain observant and unsure of the strategic merit of short term gains won by pragmatists of the past few generations. I do see the problem requiring a solution that's generations in the making, it just seems so haphazard to me and is hard to see any kind of trajectory. So many of these gains regress to become symbols used by the state to misrepresent its interests as lying with it's constituents.
I would likely plant myself an old school 20th century 'impossibilist' like the socialist party activists who also made the world better building unions and working class civil society.