• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    What are you talking about? It’s not necessary or even advisable to come up with all your own ideas or develop thinking from first principles.

    Ignoring prior art is just sabotaging the quality of your ideas, and it is unhelpful to groups if some members do not educate themselves. If I want to start a farm to feed people the people that are most useful are those that know a bit about growing food.

    If you want to change society it is good to listen to the arguments for how and why it might be changed made by other people. Especially those which lots of people who want to change society in similar ways found useful or convincing.

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      9 days ago

      There’s an awful lot to address here, but doing so will require addressing a number of common anarchist myths and misconceptions, and it’ll be a lot of work.

      So we’ll start simply and see how it goes.

      If you want to change society…

      This is authoritarian thinking.

      Society is not yours to change.

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          9 days ago

          And that’s why I didn’t bother writing any more.

          You don’t understand even the first thing about anarchism. The only question was whether you were willing to learn, but judging by the insipid cant you’d already regurgitated, there wasn’t much chance of that.

          Eh. So be it.