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Maybe I'm remembering
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Content Warning, Trigger Warning - trauma, suicide.
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It's funny the things we forget and the things we don't. It's strange what kinds of information get convoluted in the bowels of the beast. Scary the information we actively choose to ignore. It was the 11th of September on Sunday, and I stumbled across a long read about a photograph that was published in hundreds of newspapers on September 12, 2001. This photograph has, in the past, been censored by Facebook as a violation of the clause that you cannot post “content related to suicide or self-injury.”
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Beyond the obvious problem of tech companies acting as arbiters of knowledge, there's an interesting taboo surrounding public conversation of trauma. Victims of trauma get to repress their realities so as not to make anyone uncomfortable. Potentially problematic feelings, inhibitions and tendencies may be left to fester though people have the capacity for change provided they grok why change is necessary.
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Maybe I'm radical
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I wrote a short essay about coops, submitted a grant application to help community businesses go digital, wrote a sort of case study on the Keep Badges Weird community, and was verbally assaulted by a Nazi in a wheelchair this week. I have since become determined to write an album entitled "Nazi in a Wheelchair". I don't have a band or anything, but I feel like I could make this album work.
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I'm reading a book at the moment that is unapologetic in its radicalism. It's from 2013, written by Heather Marsh "the only person to have played a pivotal role in the formation of the three most influential movements of the last decade, Anonymous, Occupy and Wikileaks." She is a human rights activist and technologist, and I'm having a real hard time not agreeing with every sentence.
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The simplest way to describe a lot of the ideas in the opening chapters of Binding Chaos is that the people should have the undeniable right to privacy and groups should be unabashedly and 100% transparent. It is against our rights as human beings to be caught in a system where groups, rather than individuals, are governing. Our systems of governance put "the greater good" in front of our natural individual human rights. This structure of governance (and she makes the case that it is inherent is all the governance systems we've tried - democracy, communism, fascism, all the isms) puts us in states of permanent disassociation and perpetual childhood, and
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It is not often that I'm humbled by my inability to comprehend how something theoretical* can be made practical. Rethinking how the world works at a macrosystem level** is humbling.
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*I'm talking about sociological theories here, not particle physics
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**Dunno if I'm allowed to apply childhood development psychological theory to societal development, but since we're "perpetual children" being conditioned by our governance systems, I feel like this works.
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Maybe I need help?
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JFC, man. Trauma and social metacognition in the same newsletter? Someone turn this thing off. How are you doing?
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