Binging Hell of Presidents, Matt (the largest of the chapos, who should be able to eat the smaller ones) said something that resonated with me- the idea that our connection with class is so disassociated and immaterial that the only way we can express ourselves is through consumption.

I realised he was 100% right, but sadly realised I couldn't figure out alternatives. Is there any answer apart from getting off our damn iphone? (it's community connection right? But we still have to consume food and culture to do so...- or am I taking it too literally?)

  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    All common spaces have been commercialized. If you're going to meet up with friends and don't want to pay, your choices are that one of your friends has a large enough place to host things, you go to one of a dwindling number of tiny parks that are mostly oriented at kids, or drive to a hiking trail. Otherwise your choices are malls (which are decreasing), movie theaters, bowling allies, bars, coffee shops, clubs, etc. A list of places you have to pay to exist in.

    There's churches, but they have so many problems, especially in the US where the dominant religion is a bizarre evil version of Christianity.

    I guess someone should start a chain of anarchist, communist, atheist churches.

    • KermitTheFraud [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I guess someone should start a chain of anarchist, communist, atheist churches

      Yes yes yes yes yes. Could even just be secular rather than atheist. I know there are Christians in my area who can’t stand the way that churches around here act

      • Tormato [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        This actually is a gold nugget of an idea.

        Serves to both give disillusioned Christians a place where the true Socialist word of Jesus is spoken, and, serves mainly as a community center for radical folks to organize, socialize and build community bonds outside of the hideous commodified culture we’ve all been suffocating in.

        Could really work.

        There’s so many goddamn churches already all over the place, especially cities. What’s to stop us from starting our own Anarcho/Socialist ones? Pay no taxes and get city mandated No Parking in front. Off the curb we can run all kinds of Mutual Aid activities, free goods and services straight out into the street.