• greedytacothief@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’ve been reading “the dispossessed” by Ursula k le guin, and I’m becoming increasingly interested in anarchy. Where should I look for more information on it?

    • naught101@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia was pretty inspiring to me

      (I’ll also add that Anna Funder’s Wifedom make Orwell seem a bit fucked in his personal life. I haven’t read it yet, just had convos with people who did. Seems maybe Homage to Catalonia could have been a better book if he was less of a mysogynist)

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          10 hours ago

          Me too though luckily I’ve only learned about Neil Gaiman just before all of this shit broke out.

          I think cancel culture might actually be a net good and hear me out. There are a lot of really good people and role models out there but it’s a crowded space and we should move quicker with social judgement to sort out the marbles. We still hadn’t figured out how to do it in a more organized manner but yeah fuck Neil Gaiman, there are thousands of other brilliant writers who are also great human beings, we should give them space to thrive!

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            10 hours ago

            A theory I have is that cancel culture as we will eventually know it will be considered to have simply had a rocky start. Instances where social cancellation is greatly overapplied or underapplied to an unjust degree continue to happen, but to a lesser degree each year it seems.

            The social media revolution was a huge shock to popular culture and the social patterns that communicate it. It makes sense that it would take time for society to level out its reactions in response.