roachboy

nice thread, will.

i'm still active in otto's thread at the moment, and have been putting some things there that run in the same direction as what's here.
i'll push over into this thread to continue, if need be, from this point.

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my basic point over there has been that if we are going to maintain the community--and this subsection of the community--then we have to alter it ourselves.
change it by changing how we interact.

other types of political action may be ineffectual in a messageboard, but the flip is that they can give hope to anarchists simply because it is the case that with minimal formal structures in place, change has to come from below. and we are all below.

there's nowhere else to look to, no-one else to appeal to.
we make this thing (goes to show that labor makes value, not capital--but that in the present order, capital is required for labor to make value. if capital made value, the board wouldn't need us to participate in it.)
if we want to make it differently, we just have to do that.

i too have found my interest waning over time. it think it just happens like that. time corrodes. activity undermines itself.
thinking about it in more paranoid long-term ways: we gradually wear down the floors we walk on as well: hypothetically, if we walked the same path in a room in our dwellingplaces long enough, we'd just fall right through.
that's one of many reasons why it's better to vary your path.

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