• Vegafjord demcon@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Several things. The climate report of 2018 made me realize that the world fern isn’t regulating itself, it isn’t able to adapt to changes, because otherwise why would it not have adapted to the situation beforehand? It scared me, and made me want to bring about a change.

    I was still following progressive politics at the time and still identified as a democratic socialist. I rooted for Bernie Sanders in the american progressive movement, and was quite upset that he lost again.

    That was when I started listening to a youtube channel called re-education, which was some kind of edgy anarcho communist guy. I thought his videos was interesting, and so it felt like anarchism could be achieved. At that point I identified as an anarchist.

    However, I have been quite interested in language and how it impacts our conception of the world. Until recently I have identified as an anarchist. But Anarchism is as broad as hierarchism, and so identifying as an anarchist is like having a conversation where somebody is asking “Where are you from”, and me answering “I am from Eurasia.” It is true, but most of the time it would make more sense to be more specific.

    We should be clear about exactly how we envision non-state societies. Therefore I now primarily identify as a democratic confederalist and an oakist.