That a revolution might work out well.

I used to think starting over fresh sounded like a great idea, and the only question was if it actually justifies spilling any blood. Now, having learned a lot more about human nature, and having seen a bunch of politics as it’s actually practiced, the French and Russian revolutions turned out exactly like they always had to.

For reference, the French one sucked all the way through and then failed, with the silver lining that it planted ideas which became useful and important generations later. The USSR is too recent to objectively comment on in that way, but it’s not impossible it will end up seen in the same light.

You’re right, it is a thought terminating cliche for a lot of people. If you get rid of the thought terminating cliches and put in the work to understand, you open yourself up to all the ideologies, not just anarchism.

but that doesn’t make us incapable of moral judgement or unable to imagine radical alternatives to the status quo

If you want to turn this around and sell something to me, fill that in with details. Anarchists have a way of pointing out things that seem terrible, but then when you ask how things should work instead, getting really vague.

On it’s own that says nothing about the movement itself. But, when it’s literally all you can find even looking hard at an old idea, it starts to seem like there’s nothing there.

Yes, things are the way they are now for a reason, but rarely a good reason.

Doesn’t “a bunch of other things have been tried, and they had X problem” count?

On policy specifically, that’s usually the gist. There’s been a lot of history, very little is original unless new technologies are involved, and even there it’s uncommon (eg. tech monopolies are railroad monopolies).

I recommend the book Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, as it is what snapped me out of being a social democrat, personally.

You know, maybe I will. I’m pretty sure I did read Bullshit Jobs. Or maybe just the notes?

Oh? Which ideology on that list the push for, then? I’m in the picture, I used to agree with OP on a lot and now I agree on less, but can you even guess how?

Nothing is being sold here, I literally just listed a couple anarchist things OP believes. Learning as you get older is a real phenomenon, at least for most people. And, there’s no shortage of older people who have more complex, less absolute ideas about any number of things than they did when they were younger.

You did this yourself by extolling the virtues of markets as a defense of capitalism, apparently not knowing that markets are not exclusive to capitalism.

I used a different word on purpose, because capitalism doesn’t really have a consistent definition. According to Hexbear, China isn’t capitalist despite having all the associated features, for example.

Did you ever play with the pre-NN chatbots?

You’re basically down to 0 strong parties. And really 2 is a minimum, since if there’s more, the other parties can just go around any one or two that are being dumb.

Actually, you pretty much nailed it, nice. TBF that makes it kind of a trick question, since it’s not neatly in any of the categories.

Do you think the world isn’t complicated? Even anarchists usually do. If anything, you see the argument that the world is too complicated to be reduced to numbers and laws.

Larvae or maggot-based dishes would be my go-to. Or maybe edible mite gulls, which IIRC is a thing. You go too small and at some point you end up with questions about if the critters are so simple they’re actually vegetarian, though.

The irony there being you now have more car than just a single large vehicle. Although you won’t be driving more than one at once.

Obviously, it varies, but a thing often happens where as you’re exposed to the details of how the world works (in person) you start to realise the generations who came before and made it weren’t total idiots.

Thinking it all makes sense isn’t where that goes, but “a monopoly on the use of force is probably necessary” or “markets are more airtight than people think” can be.