quarta-feira, março 29, 2023

"wait for the coming of the meteor"

Na passada terça-feira no JN li:


Na segunda-feira, numa conversa com o meu parceiro das conversas oxigenadoras, falámos do crescente número de famílias dependentes de apoios do estado. Falámos do interesse do sistema na manutenção da situação. Já imaginaram que o sucesso de um programa de apoio levaria ao fim do posto de trabalho dos trabalhadores do programa, porque o objectivo de apoio teria desaparecido? Quem aceita isso? Recordei a minha primeira leitura de Peter Drucker, mais de 900 páginas, onde ele propunha que muitos programas do estado fossem iniciados com data de encerramento.

Recordei o trecho que li numa das caminhadas durante os primeiros tempos de lockdown em Devo ser muito burro mesmo! (parte II) - "Toyota leaders swore they would never be reliant on banks again." Quando recordo a estória da Toyota vou sempre aterrar no racional deste postal de 2021, Quando o povo estiver maduro os diques e comportas serão abertos

Enquanto o povo não estiver maduro não vale a pena lutar e gastar energia. Ainda na segunda-feira disse o mesmo.

Entretanto, ontem li "We must become barbarians" onde sublinhei:
"The historian Malcom Yapp invented a wonderful term for this kind of dispersed culture of refusal: jellyfish tribes. In Scott’s words, jellyfish tribalism is “a process of defending cultural and economic autonomy by scattering” to “make the group invisible or unattractive as object of appropriation”.
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This is why I find the notion of the jellyfish tribe so intriguing. Any attempt at building utopia will fail — but utopia should never be a goal. Some form of free survival is the goal; survival in order to uphold the values of a true human life. There is no easy or standardised way to emulate what Scott calls the “state-repelling characteristics” of the Zomians, but there is one question it might be useful for anyone who seeks to evade Leviathan to ask themselves: what kind of barbarian do I want to be?
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What we see here, then, is two potential escape routes: one outside, one inside. Shatter zones do not have to literally be in the hills: they can be within our homes and even within our hearts. My heart soars whenever I hear of some remote monastery or surviving rooted community with no online access or even electricity, whose people know exactly where they stand: outside the state, the better to see God and experience creation. Such places are the work of the raw barbarians, and we need more of them.
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if we coalesce as a jellyfish tribe, we can begin to dissociate ourselves from the state, while creating alternatives to it. Plenty of people are already doing this. They create cultures-within-cultures, parallel economies and ways of living. Like small furry mammals running unnoticed beneath the feet of the tyrannosaurs, we can thus build our own little worlds on the margins and wait for the coming of the meteor, which we can already see coming in the very un-sustainability of technological modernity. The mice don’t attack the dinosaurs, and neither do they wait for them to die out: they just avoid them as best they can, and get on with their work."
Sei que o tal sistema lá de cima não é sustentável, vai durar graças aos apoios dos trouxas frugais do Norte da Europa enquanto por cá se esbanja dinheiro:

 

Só nos resta esperar pelo meteoro. 

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