9k:RD/ autistic people appropriating Liberalism (51,08)
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- autistic people appropriating Liberalism / autistic people appropriating Liberal-republican theory / autistic people spontaneously trying to appropriate "traditional" or "White" disciplines due to not being included in original prejudiced circles and diving into large existing body of information as special interest ->
this is me in a nutshell. I get way into reading about the history of Marxism or atheist anti-religious philosophy just because it's interesting, and people assume those things are inherently community identities for a specific group of White people and think that if you're interested in something you must be a monster, while in reality I just want to explore the idea of different possible worlds and how to know what's real and imagine all the possible afterlives or lack thereof, and worldbuild 50 possible versions of Trotskyism.
it's this kind of treatment that has really turned me against the entire concept of "community", and made me flinch whenever I hear that word. people seem to have this concept that there's not actually any such thing as knowledge or art or things that are invented or created, and somehow, there are only countable cultures that magically manifest art or philosophy while fans are socially linked and there, and also some countable cultures are inherently Good all the way through and some are inherently Evil all the way through just because they contain one particular individual (Richard Dawkins, etc). while in practice, if you try to believe that model, countable cultures easily just abuse each other for existing and based on stereotypes about each other, trying to eliminate each other, trying to change each other. I don't want to be part of a Community, not if it means that. I just want the objects the so-called "community" is about, like the books or the programming languages or the creative exercises (fan fiction and theories etc). the single exception is Marxism. I do Marxism in the attempt to be part of a socially-linked group of people, because the entire purpose of it is to understand and create societies, usually in the form of union republics or national populations.
what's the point of getting into a book or game or whatever if I'm just going to have to hide that I like that thing from other people the moment I like something else and start interacting with people that are part of its "community", where every "community" gets suspicious of you for ever getting too far away from the specific narrow obsession that defines it? the more I see of "communities", fandom or demographic identity, the more I feel like Community itself prevents "communities" from naturally going together in Rhizome and becoming a bigger Community. community itself can be a kind of lesser imperializing force just because it's Community. when people believe anarchism or post-Marxism (which is functionally blue anarchism), they believe this critical-theory concept that individuals being part of society can give them Power, but because that doesn't actually exist at the levels of society they think it does and only at other levels, it becomes this pain point where individuals are just kind of beating everyone up everywhere they go, metaphorically, until Somehow after you've become Goku and grinded up your RPG level by knocking people over that results in you having agency. nobody is actually happy with this. anarchism is highly traumatizing.
Related
- Being born autistic is counter-revolutionary to anarchism because autistic people have a defect in performing Rhizome, but everyone performing Rhizome on the basis of cultures and lived experiences automatically going together in a strictly subjective space is more important than anything else including autistic people / (9k)
Ideologies or fields
- / autism
- / Liberal-republicanism