Real anarchists aren’t thinking about politics all that much.

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We’re thinking about all the other things that being an anarchist frees us up to think about instead. Being an Anarchist creates a lot of free time. For the same reason, we’re usually not engaged in campaigns of political speech in various venues. We might ejaculate some critical material at home (the AsherNet is my home), the way some people might hurl things or epithets at a television (“don’t go down in the basement, you moron!”), but we’re usually not out debating people in various political forums. Anarchy is more of a comprehensive way of looking at things – like ‘organic’ or ‘green’ or ‘local’ – not much is immune, it’s all somewhat interesting, but we’re freed up to focus on our own particular interests or just flit around and mess with various things without having to offer up an explanatory pattern.

Anarcast #7: Tea Party Politics – Hate Everyone Else

The Playful Anarchist podcast, with Asher Black (Anarcast #7, AsherCast #7). The Tea Party are just asking for it, like lame gazelles to a predator. When does the politics of anger become the politics of hate. Asher compares the Tea Party movement to identity groups, and blasts their supposed Christian base. Music by Thursday Group (Like White on Rice) on the Magnatune label. Opinions: solely those of Asher Black. New call-center style headset. Smaller mp3 size.

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Anarcast #2: Jeremy Saw Monsters

The Playful Anarchist podcast, with Asher Black (Anarcast #2, AsherCast #2). One form of playful anarchy is doing something non-political or that precludes the artificiality of political speech, such as replacing it with truth in the form of fiction. Reading of original fiction by Asher Black. Story is copyright 2009 by Asher Black.

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Coffee Shop

I found a new coffee shop. Apparently, it’s going to fit reasonably well. I have three, now, and am scouting a fourth. Different hours, different times, different purposes. The least comfortable contrasts are generations and subcultures. All but one appear to be haunts for the young and the young middle class – the conformists. They still think some things are weird, and fear finds their faces easily, fear of being touched by the unknown. So many hippy outfits, but underneath is a kind of fascism. The other is more of a hippie place, with lots of older people, and it’s far more accepting, with a wider latitude for the bizarre. Of course that can be a mixed blessing. But it’s like home-cooked food, or dining at a mom and pop place – you expect unpredictability and inconsistency, and it’s part of why you like it. The rest is the Starbucks impulse.

The Hunted

The Hunted is an unforgivably deceptive film. It’s portrayal of events in Serbia is contrary to anything remotely like the facts. No evidence of mass killings on the scale suggested in the opening moments of the film has ever been produced. It is one of the many such examples of a military-industrial propaganda line bolstered by Hollywood. What would be really novel is a few films showing American soldiers slaughtering innocent children as they did in Viet Nam, Serbia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.