'why rad social transform seems unrealistic..When asked to be realistic..violence define(s) parameters of existence..turn every relation into form of exchange..acting as if already free?..how contribute to overall strategy' itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday to connect via nonjudg expo labeling

myth of normal - gabor maté graeber make it different law

'what i did was follow my heart'

'we (the people) have the power to end these wars (acts of mass murder) today.. follow the call of my (your) heart' guido reichstadter

not yet tried: the unconditional part of left to own devices ‘in undisturbed ecosystem..individual left to own devices..serves whole’ dm whatever for yr.. a legit sabbatical ish transition via tech (nonjudg expo label) to facil seeming chaos of that global detox leap sab vs ubi

'secret to all bureaucracy.. rise out of ability to pretend that people rise according to merit' dg

Posters for David Graeber's Pamphlet: POETIC VS BUREAUCRATIC TECHNOLOGIES. Poetic technologies are when you harness rational, systematic organization (bureaucracy, engineering, precise coordination) to realize imaginative, crazy dream. What we now have are what I'd call bureaucratic technologies.

'equal access to very nice housing..basic req's of living provided w/in houses..no one has to run to river every time need water..rather than leaving every house to solve (issues)' adam oikos (econ souls crave): ‘house allows one to dream in peace’ - gb, the poetics of space

'Graeber's project of imagining new ways to live..This for Graeber, is what revolutionaries do “break existing frames..create new horizons of possibility..allows rad restructuring of social imagination”' the thing we’ve not yet tried: the unconditional part of left to own devices

'In illusory world of commodities, play is also an illusion. We imagine we are playing, while really monotonously repeating roles assigned to us by capital' bonanno armed joy theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfr... art [play/whatever] by day..sleep by night..as global reset to fittingness

ie: listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of that global detox

'the surest sign of the spread of empire is a universalising language' trocchi to succeed theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alex... language as control/enclosure.. et al.. need to try self-talk as data via idiosyncratic jargon ness

'we’ve got to change the whole system' ap same song until sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do not yet tried: unconditional part of left to own devices ness ‘in undisturbed ecosystem..individual left to own devices serves whole’ dm

'millions of workers have now seen 1st-hand how disposable lives are to employers, who..have openly sacrificed them to plague rather than risk putting a dent in company’s bottom line' ziq kill god of work theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-... virus noticings bs jobs from birth

'atmosphere of anxiety that compels compliance. People who refuse to conform..prisoners, homeless, drug addicts..are displayed publicly for all to see, as terrifying ies of what happens to those who challenge societal norms,' ziq no rules no rulers theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-...

“Since one cannot know a radically better world is not possible, are we not betraying everyone by insisting on continuing to justify, and reproduce, the mess we have today? And anyway, even if we’re wrong, we might well get a lot closer.” - David Graeber

'if think about human history in large scale.. obviously nonsense.. people have just created this stuff' @davidwengrow.bsky.social

Today is David Graeber's birthday. He'd have been 65 years old today. His ideas are still here and his message is more important than ever before which must remind us that a better world is possible.

'“WE CAN’T IMPOSE WILL ON A SYSTEM. WE CAN LISTEN TO WHAT (IT) TELLS US” dm in pathways greenpill.network/pdf/pathways... need 1st/most: means to undo hierarchical listening to self/others/nature as global detox to org around legit needs if any form of m\a\p.. not listening deep enough

oikos (the economy our souls crave).. ‘i should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.’ – gaston bachelard, the poetics of space

They want you to feel hopeless and believe that nothing can improve.

'all we are saying.. is give peace a chance.. '

Welcome to David Graeber’s music library. We’ve compiled a playlist from David Graeber’s music library, featuring influential anti-war songs that shaped the movements he often wrote about. music.davidgraeber.org/the-vietnam-...

a factory that produces laughter can also become a factory of dangerous ideas.​' 'what ultimately lies behind the appeal of bureaucracy is fear of play' david graeber

the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness [‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows] ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition

'david coined 'poetic tech' built on open model..people not only need food, shelter, water..also need freedom' @nikadubrovsky life (freedom) over survival ness legit freedom: only if all for all: sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

there's a nother way the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness [‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]

cancerous distraction ness et al..

perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. [again].. for (blank)’s sake..

aka: people telling other people what to do ness

graeber can’t know law et al

graeber unpredictability/surprise law et al

voluntary compliance.. because spiritual/structural violence

'outsider art..people who didn't go to art school..being creative is as essential to human beings as being hungry' brian need means for everyone to do their art.. art (by day) & sleep (by night) as global reset to fittingness (undisturbed ecosys) via a sabbatical ish transition

'The reality is that there is no "true identity", there is only constant changing of clothes and the inability to match with oneself permanently. Understanding this, how can you justify war..' 'when you understand interconnectedness it makes you more afraid of hating than of dying' robert thurman

'i think internationalism has an equal opp for revolutionary action.. to articulate in radically diff situations' michael hardt legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

'how do you create freedom in an unfree system?'

oikos (the economy our souls crave).. ‘i should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.’ – gaston bachelard, the poetics of space

'(on 4\20 hash bash) as possibly frivolous test case..it is possible to transform societal behavior simply by designating a time when it's ok..you show people it's not so scary.. and also not special..and it's simply becomes a different way of life' benjamin paloff ie: a sabbatical ish transition

'so what if wind had eyes.. blind to objects in actual world.. yet wide open to world of possible.. so the way of art is to see with the eyes of the wind.' tim ingold quiet enough to see ness

'white west patriarch ordering of things requires we believe inherent conflict between feel/think..between poetry/theory. We are easier to control when one part of selves is split from another, fragmented, off balance' bereano on lorde's sister outsider usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/audr...

ann: 'beginning to think about alts to dollar' we need to think about (try) alts to measuring things

'We cannot really conceive of problems that will arise when we start trying to build a free society. What now seem likely to be thorniest problems might not be problems at all' huge.. so let’s design for that w/o all the cancerous distractions

legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

'nothing dulls the mind as thoroughly as hearing familiar words and slogans' paul feyerabend against method theanarchistlibrary.org/library/paul...

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

Thinking about Carnival, clowns, and politics — about how much we all need a space to remake the social order, to begin again, to rid ourselves of the old bad rules: to burn them ritually, laugh at them, send them off into space as kites. 1/

'Politics involves the administration of fear, it is the fear of fear itself.' duane rousselle after post anarchism theanarchistlibrary.org/library/duan...

'when one looks a little closer, one discovers that these two elements—the violence and the quantification—are intimately linked' - david graeber

'Central to this is a focus on study to uncover underlying structures of exploitation/ineq in order to overcome them' gibson theanarchistlibrary.org/library/morg... rather..need to uncover underlying structure/conditions for freedom & do/be that all else at this point is cancerous distraction