Anarchism

just seems so incredibly dull now

am i doing this right?

i guess i've followed this thread with a little bit of interest - but not too much, seeing as somewhere along the way it got diverted somewhat. so this is a bit of an attempt to bring it back on track....

yes, i describe myself as an anarchist.

as for indymedia: i'd like to turn that question around and, perhaps, break it down a bit.

what do you think of indymedia?

in fact, when you say "indymedia," what do you mean? the UK indymedia site? the london indymedia site? One of the other sites, or the entire global network - or something else entirely?

do you think indymedia is exclusively for anarchists? or, should that be, "political activists"?

are there things that you think indymedia should be doing, but doesn't?

do you think that indymedia tries to do too much - is there even a role for indymedia given facebook, twitter, flickr and the other corporate websites that exist nowadays, doing a similar thing?

maybe after there've been a few responses, i'll chip in with some of my own thoughts...

solidarity,

  -- d0cA

My main problem with Indymedia: i think it's a great idea but there are soooo many wingnuts (e.g. 9/11 'truth' etc) who see indymedia (and the anarchist milieu more generally) as free spaces to dump all their ramblings, that as some have said, the good stuff becomes associated with and/or hidden by the bad stuff. I find a lot of anarchists to be too tolerant of that kind of stuff. That's not a criticism of anarchism, but of anarchists, who are too quick to judge themselves for 'oppressing' others, when a lot of hangers-on that circulate around the anarchist milieu are in fact promoting rather oppressive ideologies themselves (e.g. preachy, judgey sorts of politics that belittles and berates the good work of others from their comfy ivory tower of conspiracy and intrigue that doesn't actually involve any systemic critique, but instead relies on critique of corrupt individuals)

Although they are less entertaining than reading the garbled ramblings on indymedia, i find sites like Anarkismo to be far better written, reasoned, serious and thought-provoking. I only really use indymedia (and similar sites like infoshop) for teh lulz and some decent pics and reports on events.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/02/food-fear-mystery-beehives-collapse

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/02/food-fear-mystery-beehives-collapse

Fuck 'em, they stung my ass when I was 14, all I was trying to do was poke their compound eyes with a twig, fuck 'em, they brought this on themselves.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/02/food-fear-mystery-beehives-collapse

This is a bit thick:

"Their extinction would mean not only a colourless, meatless diet of cereals and rice, and cottonless clothes, but a landscape without orchards, allotments and meadows of wildflowers – and the collapse of the food chain that sustains wild birds and animals."

Why should it be so unbelievable..if you tili the planet an extra 10 degrees all at once...then the water, that is 'pulled' to the sideswith the centrifugal force, and being contolled by the moon also will to all intents and purpose stay where it is. the water doesn't have to rise at all...you just move the earth.
An equivalent model? An orange travelling around in a orbit with a 20ft diameter at a thousand miles an hour, and whilst doing that it spins on it's own axis(ie by itself) at ( I cant remember this one)...I would have thought maybe 500 miles an hour.

All this is affected by gyroscopic action, a tiny fluctuation could make huge diffences to the skin of the orange (remember the earths crust is very very thin).

I know exactly what you mean - I once hit an orange with a cricket bat, and any sentient civilisations that were living on the skin are probably writing epic poetry about it to this day.

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