I’m gutted about this, but that’s what losing feels like. It highlights what you said, and it also embodies the full symbolic violence: it’s ok as long as it’s ahistorical. Tech brogressiveness and spectacle wokeness. Policy of language. After today it made realise how much CTH was actually hated. I understand that: telling that the current system sucks and giving it names and reasons must not feel good for the majority of people who support it; but it also made me think: we were ever the baddies? Not in an evil way, I mean in a chaotic way. CTH used too much humour to the point of blurring the message, so it openly advocated for violence. Empty words, but violence nonetheless. I can’t help but think that policing the language would fare better, but also I realise it castrates movement.
I can thank left edginess for radicalising many people (and I have a lot to go in radicalisation) and even furthering my reading, left edginess was needed to balance out right-wing media domination, but I also think we needed to get past this type of humorous discourse. Even if we call the people who disliked leftiness as “libs” or “centrists”, they’re still a considerable chunk of the population, and so they may not see the oppression of the current system. Solidarity, even if late.
I’m gutted about this, but that’s what losing feels like. It highlights what you said, and it also embodies the full symbolic violence: it’s ok as long as it’s ahistorical. Tech brogressiveness and spectacle wokeness. Policy of language. After today it made realise how much CTH was actually hated. I understand that: telling that the current system sucks and giving it names and reasons must not feel good for the majority of people who support it; but it also made me think: we were ever the baddies? Not in an evil way, I mean in a chaotic way. CTH used too much humour to the point of blurring the message, so it openly advocated for violence. Empty words, but violence nonetheless. I can’t help but think that policing the language would fare better, but also I realise it castrates movement.
I can thank left edginess for radicalising many people (and I have a lot to go in radicalisation) and even furthering my reading, left edginess was needed to balance out right-wing media domination, but I also think we needed to get past this type of humorous discourse. Even if we call the people who disliked leftiness as “libs” or “centrists”, they’re still a considerable chunk of the population, and so they may not see the oppression of the current system. Solidarity, even if late.