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we are past the point of politics. beneath the fundamental expectations of sociology. We are now at the level of anthropology, studying a seismic shift in our culture, one well-attested and studied for a century. what we are seeing now is the conversion of pathology and iniquity into history. There is a cure. It only works if you apply it now.

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Big believer in this idea

One of the really interesting tonal shifts in children's media lately is a shift away from "let me help you understand this scary and/or thing, but let's put it in a safe context" to "let's occupy you in a safe, non-threatening way"

And that isn't to say there aren't plenty of great kids shows coming out in the former category, but it's important to recognize that it doesn't really seem to be the norm in the same way anymore

What anarchists regularly attempt-and what puppets embody-is a systematic and continual challenge to the right of the police, or any other authority, to define the situation. They do it by proposing endless alternative frameworks. Or they do it by insisting on the power to switch frameworks whenever they like. This is, clearly, the point of the "puppet intervention," just as it was the effect of the sudden appearance of the Clowns and Billionaires in Philadelphia. They aggressively shifted frames. They also did so in a way that was very much to activists' tactical advantage, and threw the police completely off their game.

David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography

comments by @SimoneRobutti :

the problem with this practice, which is also probably the most harmful legacy of Hakim Bey, is that these alternative realities built by activists become cages for the activists themselves. The resources required to sustain the "carnival" against the hegemonic reality either make it subside and lose very quickly or they force the performance to be a closed system of meaning, disconnected from the material world, because it would risk bursting the bubble. The result is often forms of escapism and isolation presented as some form of empowerment of imagination. The activists are caged within, have impact only on their own narrative and no impact on the material world.

Not sure if this is going to be the outcome of this wave of American protestors though, because there's probably not going to be much room for escapism and ornamental politics in a fascist regime.

To me it's a deeper problem: the whole frame is deeply rooted in a dualism that doesn't reflect the material world. There's "the system" and there's an outside. There's culture and counter-culture. There's an impure system of thinking and living, and taking distance from it purifies you. This line of thinking makes you inevitably detached from the phenomenon you want to alter, making you ultimately less powerful and self-isolating. To change something, you have to touch it, be in contact with it, perceive yourself embedded in it, even if just to syphon the resources it provides and reroute them though a different logic into a future you find more appealing.