Scrounger
6th August 2011, 02:10
Hello everybody, I am your newest addition to these forums. (or was, for a couple of minutes anyway)
I hail from a cold (it's not particulary cold right now) northern country known as Sweden, known for its blonde attractive women (most of which are dyed), manly vikings with braided beards (most shave and we're no different from other people, but sometimes we wear horned helmets to work) and widespread internet infestation that makes our population of nine million appear ten times bigger.
Now you probably wonder, "What was all this about? Is he trying to be funny?", and my answer is yes; I am trying to be funny with all my bracketed jokes. By the time you've been entertained for free by the paragraph above you won't hesitate to read the introduction below hoping for more, or that's the plan anyway.
I've considered myself a revolutionary socialist for over a year now after being pulled out of political apathy by a friend five years ago. I grew up in a socialdemocratic family where most people worked in the cardboard industry. My mother, for instance, worked (and still works) 12 hours a day so I rarely saw her. That's pretty sad, no? I was very young, but I still wondered why she had to work so often but still didn't earn as much as the parents of my friends.
Like most people I didn't question the situation much. I was a pretty dumb kid and my thoughts didn't stretch longer than what my hands could grab and eyes could see. I took the situation for granted and didn't realise what could be worse, what could be better and what had happened in the past that could happen in the future. Because hey, something else could just do that kind of thinking while I binge on the simple and materialistic pleasures in life.
Like I said I met a friend in an online game five years ago (give or take) that was very interested in politics. He'd go on and on about subjects I didn't care about, trying to convince me to share his interests in society and the future, which he eventually managed to. I'm not sure how, but I think it had to do with linking horrible stories from Amnesty International about people being tortured and throwing videos of puppies being subject to commercial testing in my face.
Eventually we, or rather he, got into revolutionary socialism after watching videos and listening to speeches by Noam Chomsky about libertarian socialist alternatives that he passed forward to me.
It piked my interest and seemed like a much more rational and sensible theory than Communism for instance (no offence to all commies out there, we're still on the same side, no?) so I decided to gather more knowledge about it by reading a few essays here and there, googling points of interests there and here and lurking forums such as RevLeft.
I'm still pretty new to anarchism to this date and there are still many questions that I need answers to, but it's currently the theory I am currently leaning towards the most. Education and other things (mainly entertainment) occupies most of my time, however, and I am not able to read as much as I'd like to.
Most of my acquaintances me are indifferent to politics or only concerned and aware about things being discussed within the current medial spectrum. I don't know any other anarchists.
That's all for my long introduction.
tl;dr version:
-is swedish
-tries to be funny and witty
-is an since one year
-doesn't know any other revolutionary socialists
I hail from a cold (it's not particulary cold right now) northern country known as Sweden, known for its blonde attractive women (most of which are dyed), manly vikings with braided beards (most shave and we're no different from other people, but sometimes we wear horned helmets to work) and widespread internet infestation that makes our population of nine million appear ten times bigger.
Now you probably wonder, "What was all this about? Is he trying to be funny?", and my answer is yes; I am trying to be funny with all my bracketed jokes. By the time you've been entertained for free by the paragraph above you won't hesitate to read the introduction below hoping for more, or that's the plan anyway.
I've considered myself a revolutionary socialist for over a year now after being pulled out of political apathy by a friend five years ago. I grew up in a socialdemocratic family where most people worked in the cardboard industry. My mother, for instance, worked (and still works) 12 hours a day so I rarely saw her. That's pretty sad, no? I was very young, but I still wondered why she had to work so often but still didn't earn as much as the parents of my friends.
Like most people I didn't question the situation much. I was a pretty dumb kid and my thoughts didn't stretch longer than what my hands could grab and eyes could see. I took the situation for granted and didn't realise what could be worse, what could be better and what had happened in the past that could happen in the future. Because hey, something else could just do that kind of thinking while I binge on the simple and materialistic pleasures in life.
Like I said I met a friend in an online game five years ago (give or take) that was very interested in politics. He'd go on and on about subjects I didn't care about, trying to convince me to share his interests in society and the future, which he eventually managed to. I'm not sure how, but I think it had to do with linking horrible stories from Amnesty International about people being tortured and throwing videos of puppies being subject to commercial testing in my face.
Eventually we, or rather he, got into revolutionary socialism after watching videos and listening to speeches by Noam Chomsky about libertarian socialist alternatives that he passed forward to me.
It piked my interest and seemed like a much more rational and sensible theory than Communism for instance (no offence to all commies out there, we're still on the same side, no?) so I decided to gather more knowledge about it by reading a few essays here and there, googling points of interests there and here and lurking forums such as RevLeft.
I'm still pretty new to anarchism to this date and there are still many questions that I need answers to, but it's currently the theory I am currently leaning towards the most. Education and other things (mainly entertainment) occupies most of my time, however, and I am not able to read as much as I'd like to.
Most of my acquaintances me are indifferent to politics or only concerned and aware about things being discussed within the current medial spectrum. I don't know any other anarchists.
That's all for my long introduction.
tl;dr version:
-is swedish
-tries to be funny and witty
-is an since one year
-doesn't know any other revolutionary socialists