"One response to all of this is to say to hell with it and try to go back to the land" - yeah, it's a romantic and in some ways admirable idea. But the last time it was seriously tried in America (1970s), it mostly failed, because people discovered that agricultural work is HARD and not romantic at all. They also discovered that severing their connections with the modern economy was neither feasible nor desirable.
No one can live off grid. It is an ideological individualist effacement of the factual interconnection of all life on earth in all its manifestations. A childish notion akin to believing no one can see you if you place a blindfold on. All living beings exist ‘in’ a grid.
Fascinating. Certainly makes sense. The new right—Project 2025 and others are worried about increasing the birth rate. Is that just a reaction to replacement theory, or do they want more workers? And if the latter, it would seem we really need fewer workers in post-industrial society.
Used to be obvious that we by habit would transact deals with our friends, and you could return to the soulful by mere recall. Now we need pet names for our friends-honorifics- and an whole handful up to and not including "my lackeys". My mushrooms? My lab grown meats? We are who Adam Curtis was editing his movies about the "Leviathan on Wolf Mntn" , saying that rockstars make transactional Helpmeets. There is a worn path here which is to say that pretend emotions, knowing you require your people's acceptance is the big word, but showing that in an actorly way will help everyone to suspend disbelief if your next move in your movie is not obvious. Let me One more time W feeling remind all that in conservatives' every-daily emotional baselines: they say to themselves " I wld not be here, Alive, w/ out the services of my tribe. Then that switch is flicked that makes your folks "the best people". We have_heard t language from Don JuanT. Another way to say this for whose moral baseline is less bloodlines and more liberal, maybe, is to say that our personal styles and brands can use the process art attitude from the Stellas (Frank) et al from the top of the 20th cent'y.
Nice job, Sam. For what its worth, in Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters I use the image of the archipelago to situate inquiries into modernity. Maybe one day I'll respond with some of the limitations of this imaginary. Happy Thanksgiving!
“and it becomes possible, not easy but possible, to create identity not based on one’s rank within a structure but through the pulsation of energy distinctive to you, through a kind of personal integrity.” Love this! Also it is true!
"One response to all of this is to say to hell with it and try to go back to the land" - yeah, it's a romantic and in some ways admirable idea. But the last time it was seriously tried in America (1970s), it mostly failed, because people discovered that agricultural work is HARD and not romantic at all. They also discovered that severing their connections with the modern economy was neither feasible nor desirable.
No one can live off grid. It is an ideological individualist effacement of the factual interconnection of all life on earth in all its manifestations. A childish notion akin to believing no one can see you if you place a blindfold on. All living beings exist ‘in’ a grid.
Fascinating. Certainly makes sense. The new right—Project 2025 and others are worried about increasing the birth rate. Is that just a reaction to replacement theory, or do they want more workers? And if the latter, it would seem we really need fewer workers in post-industrial society.
Used to be obvious that we by habit would transact deals with our friends, and you could return to the soulful by mere recall. Now we need pet names for our friends-honorifics- and an whole handful up to and not including "my lackeys". My mushrooms? My lab grown meats? We are who Adam Curtis was editing his movies about the "Leviathan on Wolf Mntn" , saying that rockstars make transactional Helpmeets. There is a worn path here which is to say that pretend emotions, knowing you require your people's acceptance is the big word, but showing that in an actorly way will help everyone to suspend disbelief if your next move in your movie is not obvious. Let me One more time W feeling remind all that in conservatives' every-daily emotional baselines: they say to themselves " I wld not be here, Alive, w/ out the services of my tribe. Then that switch is flicked that makes your folks "the best people". We have_heard t language from Don JuanT. Another way to say this for whose moral baseline is less bloodlines and more liberal, maybe, is to say that our personal styles and brands can use the process art attitude from the Stellas (Frank) et al from the top of the 20th cent'y.
Nice job, Sam. For what its worth, in Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters I use the image of the archipelago to situate inquiries into modernity. Maybe one day I'll respond with some of the limitations of this imaginary. Happy Thanksgiving!
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“and it becomes possible, not easy but possible, to create identity not based on one’s rank within a structure but through the pulsation of energy distinctive to you, through a kind of personal integrity.” Love this! Also it is true!
David Graeber “Bullshit jobs”.
This epidemic crisis is mainly one where meaning is missing.