Roul Vaneigem on grappling w/patriarchy planted in

in us, like it or not (i think). Didn't get a chance to read the ENTIRETY of this HUGE article/book, but the excerpt below should give one a glimpse!! i will say i was moved by this author's article/book "the revolution of everyday life" a decade or so ago. i look forward to reading all thoughtful and kind responses, even when you don't agree. Raoul Vaneigem (1) 1. Women’s self-defense is at the heart of individual and social emancipation. Freed from governmental and authoritarian feminism, the will to eradicate patriarchal behavior is the surest means of putting an end to the fear of and contempt for nature and life itself. 2. Against the resurgence of patriarchy. Religious or secular, leftwing or rightwing, patriarchal behavior is the foundation of hierarchical society. To bring it down, we must abolish the reign of all leaders, whether they are male or female. 3. Against ideological environmentalism. Rape and violence are inherent in an economy that is founded on the exploitation of nature. The misfortune of women dates from the plundering of nature, which inaugurated the reign of the commodity. Environmentalism [écologie] will remain an ideology of the market as long as the fight of women for their autonomy doesn’t involve a new alliance with the universe of life. 4. Against the manipulation of fear. The fear aroused by the appearance of a virus,(2) at once unusual and foreseeable, has been deliberately amplified by power for obvious reasons: a) to hide the disastrous state of the healthcare facilities, which have become profit-minded business enterprises; b) to obtain, at the planetary level, the confinement of whole populations, which is something that no totalitarian regime has ever managed to do; c) to stimulate the development of the security market. While augmenting the business assets of fascist populism (racism, sexism, fear of the Other), this market also benefits from a Left that is too happy to fight on the ideological front, rather than on the social one, where it is discredited; d) the terror in which each person shuts him- or herself works in favor of [solving] the principal problem for our rulers: lasting as long as possible, even while rotting away. 5. Against the pauperization of life. “Enjoy yourself today because tomorrow will be worse” has been capitalism’s most effective consumerist slogan. But these days, this slogan is no longer used because it confronts us with an accomplished fact. Capitalism now decrees: “The worst has come, you better get used to it.” The Chinese model(3) is in place; it expects increasingly effective technologies. The next remedies for pauperization – in addition to the suppression of “useless” people – will be bowls of rice(4) and transhumanism. 6. Against the return of Puritanism. The necessity of working for a living proscribes taking pleasure in oneself and in the world. Patriarchy has turned this prohibition into dogma. But by stimulating the market in consumable pleasure, consumerism has dealt it a fatal blow. The pauperization that menaces the quest for pleasurable consumption provokes the return of Puritanism in a particularly vicious form: the fear of and contempt for life. Confinement kills by killing emotional relationships.(5) Can’t you hear the cries of the wake reverberating with the clanking of chains? “Stop laughing! Stop having orgasms! Stop living!” 7. Against reification or the transformation [of beings] into things. Capitalism only sees life as a marketable object. It can’t tolerate life escaping from the omnipotence of money. The profit-making machine has shown that, using the pretext of a passing virus,(6) it is capable of unleashing a veritable emotional plague. Panicked hysteria has pushed millions of people to shut themselves into a corner, where despair and morbidity finishes them off. (https site) i'm not so into 'revolution' like Raoul, but 'evolving'! Link to Raoul V's article in full (huge!)(great for reading while in hyperspace!) [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonimisierungsdienst]