Hey brian … miss you buddy .. Re religions… could not agree more. You should read this great book: Erica Lagalisse Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=964 <https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=964> the book reminds us how free masonry and magic was at the root of all revolutionary movements….
and meanwhile on the zad we are busy thinking how a new cosmology might feel, one whose compass points towards a future where nature and culture is never separate … check out our latest ritual, here in our monthly journal - https://zadibao.net/2019/03/01/17-janvier-sera-jour-ferie/ <https://zadibao.net/2019/03/01/17-janvier-sera-jour-ferie/> JJ > On 3 Mar 2019, at 12:02, Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Keith's post addresses the global situation perfectly and he brings it to the > real point: > > "Time for a movement that addresses the problem we face now: where will we > find the popular political forces to stop all this? Probably not short of > another world war." > > Popular political forces are currently gathering in more serious and > organized form than I have seen in the past; but it's highly likely that only > war or major supply-chain breakdowns (due to drought, hurricanes or other > extreme weather phenomena) will force structural change. To me, the > conclusion that emerges from that is not how do you escape, or what will > "uncivilization" look like - those are fantasies, you won't escape and > civilization will continue. The question is what do you do today and through > the rest of your life to help prepare society for such a dangerous and bloody > transition? Because obviously, without people to move into the breach there > will only be a thousand varieties of armed violence. I'm just about sixty, > and it seems likely that this transition will begin in my own lifetime. > > We need something on the order of a new civil religion - a socialist version > of free masonary, whose internal codes and group relations are able to give > members the intelligence, the discipline, the foresight and the cosmology > that will allow them to contribute decisively when the corporate music stops > and life must once again be organized for survival at the scale of the > nation-state or smaller. These kinds of groupings need not be secret (beyond > an initiatory core) nor do they need to disengage from political and cultural > life, on the contrary. But they do need the collective construction of an > inner compass that points beyond mass idiocy organized by cunning and greed, > which is what is now called "global society." > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: ________________________________ ZADIBAO <https://zadibao.net/> Les battements du bocage, un nouveau journal en ligne ZAD FOR EVER <https://zadforever.blog/> a new blog in english, dispatches from the liberated territory where we now live. <https://labofii.wordpress.com/>The Laboratory of Insurrectionary <https://labofii.wordpress.com/>Imagination Laboratoire d'Imagination Insurrectionnelle Mailing list <https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/labofii> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/58916936705/?fref=ts> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/58916936705/?fref=ts>FB <https://www.facebook.com/groups/58916936705/?fref=ts> group twitter: @labofii mobile:+33 (0) 6 80 85 71 88 Notre livre-film "Les Sentiers de L'utopie" (Editions Zones/La Découverte 2011) twitter: @nowtopia. www.labofii.net
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