Inspirational Skeletorđź’€1d ago
Show thread(((Baslow)))1d ago
@skeletor
I've been reading and thinking about this a lot, lately.
FWIW...
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745331553/idiotism/
https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/the-communitarium-project
https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/socialism-is-a-way-of-doing-things-together
https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/socialist-media-platforms-part-ii-the-bigger-picture
https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/idiotism-and-the-liminal-self-reclaiming-personhood-beyond-the-western
Idiotism

Idiotism examines society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new 'common sense'. Using the Greek word idios, meaning...

Pluto Press
Show threadLevka1d ago

@baslow @skeletor

"Idiot" is a #ableist term with roots in #eugenics.

Show thread(((Baslow)))1d ago
@LevZadov @skeletor
No.The book documents its origins in Ancient Greek, referring to those people who refrained from public affairs to concentrate on more purely private concerns, a "civic deficiency" among the polis-minded. It came to connote a state of inadequate informedness, culminating in later drifting into meanings of mental insufficiency. The book is an attempt to revive the very earliest meaning.
Show threadLevka1d ago

@baslow @skeletor

I doesn't matter what the word meant to ancient Greeks. The word means what it means to us today. We are not living in ancient Greece and that's a good thing because ancient Greece was a war loving, patriarchal, slave based economy that deserves our disgust, not our emulation.

Show thread(((Baslow)))1d ago
@LevZadov @skeletor
If you believe the future will be won with such visceral responses (which deny the negotiability of collective meaning and simply dismiss the past instead of regarding it as a resource) then, I would maintain, you do not bring the necessary weapons to the conflict in which we are currently engaged.
I would prefer not to clamor for change by wielding rigidity.
Show threadLevka

@baslow @skeletor

(1.) Citing the thought processes of a bunch of dead, sexist, war loving, slavers as a justification of anything happening anywhere today *is* clamoring for change by wielding rigidity.

(2.) The past is to be learned from, not lived in.

Jun 22 at 5:57pmWeb
Show thread(((Baslow)))1d ago
@LevZadov @skeletor
This response confirms my impression that you are not ready to understand, let alone evaluate, what I am saying... or the means by which I arrive at my conclusions.
This argues that, as far as I am concerned, we are engaged in lobbing semiotic paintballs at each other rather than anything I would deem "discussion".
I bid you farewell
Show threadLevka1d ago

@baslow @skeletor

I do not allow ad hominem attacks in my timeline. Baslow is blocked.