Monsters will disappear when we banish the fear
Posted by Chuck on 2026-October-3 00:20:49, Saturday|
"The monsters will disappear when we banish the fear that gives them their true substance." -Raoul Vaneigem, 1934-2026 Q: You often address yourself to young people in your writing. What suggestions do you have for a young person (let’s say 16 years old) today? -- "Learn to live, not crawl like a dog at which one barks orders. Refuse voluntary servitude, experiment with modes of society in which it is no longer necessary to degrade yourself for a handful of dollars. (32) But what right do I have to give advice, and why should you keep it in mind, if you don’t feel in yourself the desire to live that way? (...) Q: "Gramsci once said, “the old world is dying, the new world is slow to appear and, in this semidarkness, monsters come forth.”(35) How to avoid them? "We are in the midst of a transformation in civilization; the old one is dying, the new one is being born, fearing its own novelty. The monsters will disappear when we banish the fear that gives them their true substance. (...) Q: The feminist movement has evolved a great deal in the last few years. What do you think about it?(27) "It has taken a long time to understand this: the liberation of women and the renovation of nature are inseparable. It will be up to the new society, which is slowly emerging from limbo, to surpass the confrontation between the ultimate arrogance of the failing patriarchy and a feminism that, motivated by a blind desire for vengeance, claims the rights to the worst prerogatives of men. Imagine: celebrating the wonderful victory of Thatcher’s mob! The wonderful emancipation of [a woman] becoming a government minister, a prefect of police, a soldier, a cop, a torturer, a businesswoman! "The human being is the future of men and women; it is the surpassing of [the opposition between] masculinism [virilisme] and feminism." [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonimisierungsdienst] |
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