You do nothing less than refresh my soul with chamomile every time you write something. ❤️🙏 Yes, we do need a new movement that teaches us all how to be new people. That would be good and useful.
Completely agree. I’ve been curious about your take on Burning Man.
Our movements can be much stronger if we bring more culture into them. People just want to belong in an uncertain world. Why not show people and bring them into the hopeful, fun vision for a sustainable, equitable future?!
I love your work! You are a genuine born leader, I can see this having only read a couple dozen of your stax.
Thank you for what you do!
I most certainly love this topic as all the world seems so inherently obsessed with likes and RTs or anything similar. I follow some substax, but dumped social media mostly & couldn't be happier. I like growing food, donating it when I can, and flipping off the X-ray satellite the DHS has trained in on me(wish I was crazy or kidding... But nope)!
Keep up the good work!
What seems to be the epitome of cool these days is gatekeeping other leftists, and making sure nobody has room to grow as people stay hyper focused on everyone and what they might not have perfect, vs spending time fixing their issues.
May we all find the room we need to grow, and encourage others vs judge 💜🥕🐝
definitely have been trying to radicalize coolness for a while myself and redefine it in a way that demotes capital in any sense, i love that other people are thinking of this as well
A minor version of this is seeing nice suburban kids with CBGB or Ramones t-shirts. It’s 2023, invent your own living rebellion for Jah’s sake. In 1979 you could find people slumming at clubs like CBGB, or The Rat in Boston, but it wasn’t as jarring as what Burning Man has become.
I don’t think that teenagers exploring the history of rebellion fall into the same category as middle aged billionaires playing at counterculture. And, in fact, gen z, including the ones in the suburbs, are at the forefront of two relatively new kinds of living rebellion: radical climate activism ( see the kids who sued and won against the state of Montana for its failure to act against the climate crisis) and the destruction of the gender binary and its role in upholding patriarchy.
To compete with the allure of wealth, you need to offer something better than unions.
I say this as someone who believes in capitalism but also believes that in today's America, capitalism has been taken too far. We need reforms to capitalism, and perhaps one of them is to make unions easier to form and more powerful. But, ultimately, unions are a counterweight to capitalism, not an alternative to capitalism.
It should be renamed Burning Money. Man.
Or, Burning Planet. Either one.
You do nothing less than refresh my soul with chamomile every time you write something. ❤️🙏 Yes, we do need a new movement that teaches us all how to be new people. That would be good and useful.
Completely agree. I’ve been curious about your take on Burning Man.
Our movements can be much stronger if we bring more culture into them. People just want to belong in an uncertain world. Why not show people and bring them into the hopeful, fun vision for a sustainable, equitable future?!
I love your work! You are a genuine born leader, I can see this having only read a couple dozen of your stax.
Thank you for what you do!
I most certainly love this topic as all the world seems so inherently obsessed with likes and RTs or anything similar. I follow some substax, but dumped social media mostly & couldn't be happier. I like growing food, donating it when I can, and flipping off the X-ray satellite the DHS has trained in on me(wish I was crazy or kidding... But nope)!
Keep up the good work!
What seems to be the epitome of cool these days is gatekeeping other leftists, and making sure nobody has room to grow as people stay hyper focused on everyone and what they might not have perfect, vs spending time fixing their issues.
May we all find the room we need to grow, and encourage others vs judge 💜🥕🐝
We can have no reforms to capitalism
definitely have been trying to radicalize coolness for a while myself and redefine it in a way that demotes capital in any sense, i love that other people are thinking of this as well
also! i think you linked the wrong piece of news about the rico indictments on the end of the stack? it took me to a link for the fight like hell book
Ah dang, thank you fixing now!
A minor version of this is seeing nice suburban kids with CBGB or Ramones t-shirts. It’s 2023, invent your own living rebellion for Jah’s sake. In 1979 you could find people slumming at clubs like CBGB, or The Rat in Boston, but it wasn’t as jarring as what Burning Man has become.
I don’t think that teenagers exploring the history of rebellion fall into the same category as middle aged billionaires playing at counterculture. And, in fact, gen z, including the ones in the suburbs, are at the forefront of two relatively new kinds of living rebellion: radical climate activism ( see the kids who sued and won against the state of Montana for its failure to act against the climate crisis) and the destruction of the gender binary and its role in upholding patriarchy.
💯 this.
To compete with the allure of wealth, you need to offer something better than unions.
I say this as someone who believes in capitalism but also believes that in today's America, capitalism has been taken too far. We need reforms to capitalism, and perhaps one of them is to make unions easier to form and more powerful. But, ultimately, unions are a counterweight to capitalism, not an alternative to capitalism.
Here is my post comparing American capitalism in 1987 to today through the kens of the movie Wall Street: https://robertsdavidn.substack.com/p/greed-is-good-oliver-stones-wall
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Check out The Conquest of Cool by Thomas Frank if you haven’t already, very similar terrain.