In his Quit Everything book Bifo addresses why nobody has friends anymore and I remember sort of disagreeing with his reasoning but also feeling a huge sense of vindication about my own cultural American lived experience that he was even addressing it because it seems moody does.
This person is wrong by the way, but the force and brutality of their religion causes a sort of ever expanding social cancer that causes people to act out and live out in ways that spread this sickness, making it actual. I sort of don’t even know how to talk about it really but it’s fucked.
I've never read Bifo and the adjective that pops into my mind when I hear that name is "accelerationist" but, yes it's one of those questions that we should be working through so I'm going to grab the book.
Ohhh I never interpreted him that way but what do I know? I got a lot out of several of his books while not always agreeing with every conclusion he came to. Here’s a drawing I did a few years ago of him and David Graeber together in Bologna in 2019.
Our enemies are largely isolated, lonely, joyless people who have so thoroughly identified with the dehumanizing structures that shape our reality that they only have those same structures to orient themselves
This is a good reminder to check in with someone you love. Our connections make us strong
Lots of people are also isolated, lonely and unhappy, but what prevents them from turning into miserable Randian sociopaths is the knowledge that it doesn't have to be this way. That there are worlds we can build through shared struggles built around a love for each other.
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Great drawing
This is a good reminder to check in with someone you love. Our connections make us strong