Jesus Wept
28th October 2015, 21:03
Greetings to all from Arizona! I'm an anarchist college student believing in the dismantlement of capitalism, the state, class (this includes the patriarchy, racism, etc...), and perhaps even industrialization as a whole; the latter being a topic I've very recently started exploring. It's my belief that combating climate change should be a first priority as it is, as we speak, completing the genocide of indigenous communities (not to mention it will eventually kill us all).
The Phoenix punk scene, which I associate myself with minimally, has a fairly solid population of far left radicals, yet the scene (as well as most/all other punk/hardcore scenes around the country, I'd assume) is fairly split over the integration of PC thought into their community. Middle-aged white men who have "been there since the beginning" always complain about PC culture creating too safe of a space in hardcore, hence draining all of the fun. I, for one, take this is as total bullshit and an example of 1-dimensional thought. Due to this, and many heated confrontations I've had with other members of the scene, I've slightly distanced myself to the point of being an occasional participator.
I also am a passionately occasional user of psychedelic drugs in all forms, including LSD, Psilocybin, DMT, Salvia Divinorum, MDMA, & more. I credit a bulk of my anti-authoritarian/anti-capitalist thought to realizations I've had under the influence of such drugs. While I'm always very fascinated by these substances, I have no interest in entering any sort of psychedelic community at large. My biggest complaint of these circles is that they lack a core radical critique of the world, & such results in a great deal of ignorance.
I don't have many peers who are radical enough to be interested in much conversation related to many of these things, so I'm eager to be apart of this. :)
The Phoenix punk scene, which I associate myself with minimally, has a fairly solid population of far left radicals, yet the scene (as well as most/all other punk/hardcore scenes around the country, I'd assume) is fairly split over the integration of PC thought into their community. Middle-aged white men who have "been there since the beginning" always complain about PC culture creating too safe of a space in hardcore, hence draining all of the fun. I, for one, take this is as total bullshit and an example of 1-dimensional thought. Due to this, and many heated confrontations I've had with other members of the scene, I've slightly distanced myself to the point of being an occasional participator.
I also am a passionately occasional user of psychedelic drugs in all forms, including LSD, Psilocybin, DMT, Salvia Divinorum, MDMA, & more. I credit a bulk of my anti-authoritarian/anti-capitalist thought to realizations I've had under the influence of such drugs. While I'm always very fascinated by these substances, I have no interest in entering any sort of psychedelic community at large. My biggest complaint of these circles is that they lack a core radical critique of the world, & such results in a great deal of ignorance.
I don't have many peers who are radical enough to be interested in much conversation related to many of these things, so I'm eager to be apart of this. :)