Andrea Junker Jun 29
In a world of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, be like Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Show threadLevkaJun 29

@Strandjunker

In a world of Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez be like Nestor Mahkno, Emiliano Zapata, Maria Nikiforova, and Emma Goldman.

Show thread𝗖 𝗔 𝗧Jun 30
In a world of a bunch of politicians and dead political activists, be original.
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Show threadLevkaJun 30

@Radical_EgoCom @Strandjunker

How do you suggest we do that? Be specific. Thanks in advance.

Show thread𝗖 𝗔 𝗧Jun 30
Just don't try to be like other people, as if it already wasn't obvious what I meant. That's as specific as it gets.
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Show threadLevkaJun 30

@Radical_EgoCom @Strandjunker

That's *very* bad advice. The past is to be learned from, not lived in. But it *is* to be learned from. Ignorance is *not* bliss, it's a death trap.

β€œTo be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Show thread𝗖 𝗔 𝗧Jun 30
Did I say a single thing about not learning from the past? No, I didn't. All I said is that people should try and not be like other people and should instead be original. I have no idea how you interpreted "be original" into "don't learn from the past."
@LevZadov @Strandjunker
Show threadLevkaJun 30

@Radical_EgoCom @Strandjunker

I never said a thing about not being original. I suggested being like certain people from the past. In this day and age, being like those particular people *is* being original. Most people only try to be like each other, i.e., like the people they see on TV and the Internet.

You objected. Why would you do that? Do you actually *prefer* that we only learn from the people around us and on our screens? Why?

Show thread𝗖 𝗔 𝗧Jun 30
Being like someone else, whether they're from the past or present, is not being original, so you were recommending that people not be original, and for the last time, I never said people shouldn't learn from the past. All I suggested is that people should be original and not try to be like other people, whether from the past or present, not that they shouldn't learn from others.
@LevZadov @Strandjunker
Show threadLevkaJun 30

@Radical_EgoCom @Strandjunker

No, I did not. Don't put words in my mouth. It's rude. It's dishonest. It's very bad form.

In this day and age, in this society, being like honorable, woke, revolutionaries *is* original. Being like the people around us is old fashioned and obsolete. Trying to make up who you are purely from scratch is not only counter-revolutionary, counter-productive, it's and *exactly* what our oppressors most want us to try.

Show thread𝗖 𝗔 𝗧Jun 30
You were the one putting words into my mouth by suggesting that I was saying that people shouldn't learn from the past when I never said that, so you're in no position to start falsely accusing me of the same thing. People being exactly like other people who are different from the status quo is still then being unoriginal; the people they're copying being different from most people doesn't make it not being original; they're still copying their personality, i.e., being unoriginal. 1/2
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Show threadLevka

@Radical_EgoCom

Copy their successes, not their failures. Don't try to reinvent the wheel.

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