Communities of Resistance (3/6)

interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) in his home in May 2009

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3HyRtdu1o0

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZt1AnUcwhY

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Nxa3n1w9s

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdkacynWk6M

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuD5ak_kjX4

Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGwKZ9rPXzc

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Oh boy, if there's one thing that depresses me about the American left, it's how we have to re-invent all the wheels every 10 years. "Oh! You mean that there were people who felt like this in the 19th century? What a surprise!" Well, this is because neither in high school nor in college are Americans taught anything about this. You have to be an independent scholar -- which, to my sorrow, I am -- in order that when you begin to drift into this research, you don't have the head of the department saying "Tsk-tsk-tsk. Remember? Tenure? You might not get tenure if you get involved in all this communist anarchist shit." Those controls are very real. And the upshot of it is that nobody knows anything anyways, so they don't care. They don't realize that they're being deprived of the chance to study. Of course, since the 60s, there's been a change in this, of course. In the 60s, there was a certain radicalization of the academy. We still have some tenured Marxists around. And some of them did pay attention to some of these ideas, and some of them were quite inspirational for me. I was thinking, I just finally, after years and years I met Jesse Lemisch, who did some radical papers back in the 60s on radical sailors in the American Revolution, and how it wasn't the educated bourgeouise who were out there punching people, punching British soldiers in the nose, it was drunken sailors. He has a wonderful essay called Jack Tar, which is what they called the average sailor in those days, as a radical figure in the American Revolution. Those kinds of scholars from the 60s did some wonderful work, and inspired me to go farther...

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[timluns]

This Guy is So Worth Listening to!

[bbbleaver]

great series... the point made in the first moments of this video is very telling of most of the arguments : is that we educate our populace to remain ignorant and dismissive of anything that isn't pumped up their asses in those formative years in school.

[sapodotroposo]

@MrThefutureisnotset

Let me tell you how it is:

@kooperwhyhello

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[sapodotroposo]

@danabooze

Why do you need someone elses head, have you all lost your own heads, or are they not accountable?

[patriot4220]

What does the left have to do with dropping out? Polotics as a whole is the enemy of the people. Left leaning polotics empower government, not people. This is a very very smart man who lacks understanding of what he wants. I would love to learn from this man.

[ORDENILLUMINATI]

Makes sense when you consider many of the Knights Templar became pirates...

[earinsound]

create your own community...but don't "drop out"--folks need to know there are other ways of living than what has been pounded into our heads since Day One.

the main point of an anarchist community is that there is no "head" of the group. it's run by a group of likeminded individuals.

[danabooze]

Myself and a few friend's families are interested in joining a drop out community. What do you suggest? Are you willing to head a community?

[ps3animalfunds]

XD long comment

[klingoncelt]

It's not the Left that represses intellect.

[MrThefutureisnotset]

people hate being told how it is.

[timluns]

Wow Mother Fucker!:>