Individuals with the initiative to make plans, get their friends excited, and then competently execute on them are not a dime a dozen
I completely agree with this but I actually don't think that means "leader". I take initiative, i get my friends excited and competently execute tasts on their behalf. That doesn't mean I am my friends' 'LEADER'. I'm just helping them because I like them. We keep getting tricked into a top-down authoritarian hierarchy by pop culture because thats how predatory finance is structured and now its the only business model in the world.
What I'm building isn't a business so we don't need the same model. I don't need you to do everything I'm doing and follow my lead if you're doing your own thing towards the same goal. Our messaging needs to be identical but our optics and tactics can be totally different. The entire message is this:
Cooperation > Competition
Do anything where thats the message and you're a part of the movement. Just tweet out 10 things that might make people want to work together instead of fight each other and you're Leftist Steve Bannon. On the left, we can all be the Steve Bannon and none of us have to do coke or take orders from finance oligarchs, we just need to actually come together. If I'm wrong all you did was type a few sentences and click submit but if I'm right, we can change the world. Leftism is actually a no risk, high reward proposition if you do it without being paid.
That's exactly what it means. You're the But-For cause of their participation. You are the perverbal Vanguard.
We keep getting tricked into a top-down authoritarian hierarchy by pop culture because thats how predatory finance is structured and now its the only business model in the world.
Authoritarianism isn't something humans invented in the last generation. And even then, there's a huge difference between taking initiative and taking command. Showing leadership doesn't mean becoming a dictator, it means becoming a rallying point for collective action. And yes, every group has some minority of participants in that role. Some individual that is striking out farther than the herd and guiding them in a given direction.
Cooperation > Competition
Even cooperatives require some level of entrepreneurship. The big distinction between capitalism and communism isn't the absence of authority but the distribution of rewards.
Okay but if you don't buy into the whole ayn randian bullshit narrative that there a select few "CEO types" and we're all "supposed to work for them" then you realize everyone can be an entrepreneur. You're doing capitalisms job for itself by convincing yourself you need to submit to authority or make others submit to you if you want to help.
We're trying to fight. We're trying to help. If fighting helps, then lets do that but how are we actually fighting and how it is it actually helping?
I completely agree with this but I actually don't think that means "leader". I take initiative, i get my friends excited and competently execute tasts on their behalf. That doesn't mean I am my friends' 'LEADER'. I'm just helping them because I like them. We keep getting tricked into a top-down authoritarian hierarchy by pop culture because thats how predatory finance is structured and now its the only business model in the world.
What I'm building isn't a business so we don't need the same model. I don't need you to do everything I'm doing and follow my lead if you're doing your own thing towards the same goal. Our messaging needs to be identical but our optics and tactics can be totally different. The entire message is this:
Cooperation > Competition
Do anything where thats the message and you're a part of the movement. Just tweet out 10 things that might make people want to work together instead of fight each other and you're Leftist Steve Bannon. On the left, we can all be the Steve Bannon and none of us have to do coke or take orders from finance oligarchs, we just need to actually come together. If I'm wrong all you did was type a few sentences and click submit but if I'm right, we can change the world. Leftism is actually a no risk, high reward proposition if you do it without being paid.
That's exactly what it means. You're the But-For cause of their participation. You are the perverbal Vanguard.
Authoritarianism isn't something humans invented in the last generation. And even then, there's a huge difference between taking initiative and taking command. Showing leadership doesn't mean becoming a dictator, it means becoming a rallying point for collective action. And yes, every group has some minority of participants in that role. Some individual that is striking out farther than the herd and guiding them in a given direction.
Even cooperatives require some level of entrepreneurship. The big distinction between capitalism and communism isn't the absence of authority but the distribution of rewards.
Okay but if you don't buy into the whole ayn randian bullshit narrative that there a select few "CEO types" and we're all "supposed to work for them" then you realize everyone can be an entrepreneur. You're doing capitalisms job for itself by convincing yourself you need to submit to authority or make others submit to you if you want to help.
We're trying to fight. We're trying to help. If fighting helps, then lets do that but how are we actually fighting and how it is it actually helping?