Beginning with a continuation of his take-down of Marx, he then uses the perspective that he employs for this to explain why the scam was concocted. As usual with anarchists, he offers no explanation of how anarchistic populations are to defend themselves and their way of life from the overwhelming force in the hands of big-machine technocrats. Much as I love the idea of anarchism as simply the best form of human societies, which organises itself naturally within sub-Dunbar sized subsistence communities living in extensive wildernesses only lightly populated with humans, I see no hint from Darren, as with all the other anarchist luminaries, as to how this return to the Garden of Eden is to be achieved; and equally importantly, maintained once achieved. Shame! Still, the anarchist, anti-mechanistic view which Darren promotes remains an ideal to dream into being - somehow!
But meanwhile, mixed-economy state socialism still looks like an actually-doable second-best, far ahead of neo-feudalism, which is also an actually-doable possibility that the world’s gics are currently trying to impose, as the Long Descent claps its ultimate-destroyer brakes on the careering of insane techo-fascistic capitalism:
Darren makes some great points but he is veering into hand waving quite a lot these days. However:
All ‘solutions’ that seem to have a replacement system lined up to replace the cancerous old one that they propose to cut away should consider that, actually, it’s cutting out the tumour that’s the important bit. The longer we argue about how to fill the (supposed) void the deeper the disease spreads and the less likely it becomes that it can be excised.
Arguably we are beyond the point where any of this is doable, agreed @RhisiartGwilym.
No not agreed, K. I recommend again the long view: the current hysterical situation will wear itself out through exhaustion, and people will drift - are already, in fact drifting - away from taking the hysteria-generating lying propaganda as anything more than a nuisance-noise background to the important things in their life, to be discounted and ignored as far as possible.
Meanwhile, the technosphere that has so many humans in its insane grip at the moment continues its ultimately fatal (to itself) struggle with the Long Descent.
But my sense is that, long before that victory of geo-physical reality over the techie-techie delusion is complete, this whole global-plague-panic will have failed in its main purpose of a total gic takeover of control of the world, and all the apparatus of deceit and control gathered around it, and all the hypnotised cultism that has so many in its grip right now, will have been binned.
We’ll be indulging in hysteria about other things by then. As also with the population-overshoot problem currently besetting us, we’ll do nothing effective collectively to get rid of the pseudopandemic scam, but it will cure itself spontaneously, by natural human psychological processes: we’ll just get bored with it, and move on to other obsessions-de-jour, Chicken Little style. And the gics will have made a small extra harvest of WealthPowerStatus as a net ‘gain’. Not so much in the Russia-China+satellites nexus, though, now in process of becoming the dominant influence in the world, as the empire that serves as main base for the scam-pusher gics goes down, taking their dreams of global government with it…
