Post #2306280

2023-11-27 18:50 UTC

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems directing people to read an author or a specific book on anarchism is kinda silly in general, too. the ideas often become seen as the author's, to the exclusion of others. by and large the ideas are our ideas, coming from everyone thinking and discussing and doing and examining things and so on. so often, i see people recommending a book, instead of talking about the ideas directly with each other, where we can more effectively propagate our knowledge and create more

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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems 2023-11-27 20:09

@wruffian@bark.lgbt Seriously. This is something I've really been noticing with someone who I generally kind of liked while he was alive (but do still have a lot of issues with because of what he routinely left out in his work despite everyone around him basically going "Hey, uh... what about...?"), and it really starts feeling like we're overemphasising the attribution of these ideas to the *one* person, as if they're the *only* person who has anything to say about it. But also, I like the point you make about how people recommend things rather than talking about the ideas (and it really feels like a replacement, rather than using the recommended thing as a shared experience + jumping-off point). Definitely agree there.

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