Double victory
“[witches are] the embodiment of a world of female subjects that capitalism had to destroy: the heretic, the healer, the disobedient wife, the woman who dared to live alone, the obeah woman who poisoned the master’s food.”
— Sylvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
I’m watching Doomsday Preppers. These people have an unbelievably bleak view of humanity, like, I’m just saying my family survived the complete disintegration of Lebanese civil society without shanking their neighbours for water or stockpiling hand grenades.
If your reaction to a foreseen future economic collapse is to set traps and stockpile guns to kill your neighbours who want some of your huge food stock, you are broken and I have no idea how to fix you.
^^^ The ability to cooperate with others is an evolutionary advantage
My husband and I used to think we were “preppers,” until we discovered that for most people, “prepping” means hoarding guns and ammo and bear traps and nonsense like that, and planning to turn on other survivors in the event of some society-destroying cataclysm. And here we were geeking out about woodworking and first aid and sustainable edibles foraging and water purification and subsistence farming and how best to set up an agrarian community to maximize square footage.
Turns out we’re just prepared solarpunks. I think I’m fine with that. Miss me with the toxic, gun-crazy, neighbor-hating Prepper culture and join me in my garden of native wild edibles.
Isolationism is a dead end and has never worked for anyone ever for more than like one generation. No amount of hoarding will supply your line forever, you have to rebuild eventually, and if your idea of rebuilding is locking your family in a compound and doing small scale farming until you all die don’t forget to collect your Darwin Award on the way out. Survival of the fittest is not shooting every other human you see.
boogie by brockhampton always got me so hype. i have to wait a good 30 minutes after listening to it to like. calm the fuck down.
phat mood
