Communities of Resistance (3/6)

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interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) in his home in May 2009
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Oh boy, if there's one thing that depresses me about the American left, it's how we have to re-invent all the wheels every 10 years. "Oh! You mean that there were people who felt like this in the 19th century? What a surprise!" Well, this is because neither in high school nor in college are Americans taught anything about this. You have to be an independent scholar -- which, to my sorrow, I am -- in order that when you begin to drift into this research, you don't have the head of the department saying "Tsk-tsk-tsk. Remember? Tenure? You might not get tenure if you get involved in all this communist anarchist shit." Those controls are very real. And the upshot of it is that nobody knows anything anyways, so they don't care. They don't realize that they're being deprived of the chance to study. Of course, since the 60s, there's been a change in this, of course. In the 60s, there was a certain radicalization of the academy. We still have some tenured Marxists around. And some of them did pay attention to some of these ideas, and some of them were quite inspirational for me. I was thinking, I just finally, after years and years I met Jesse Lemisch, who did some radical papers back in the 60s on radical sailors in the American Revolution, and how it wasn't the educated bourgeouise who were out there punching people, punching British soldiers in the nose, it was drunken sailors. He has a wonderful essay called Jack Tar, which is what they called the average sailor in those days, as a radical figure in the American Revolution. Those kinds of scholars from the 60s did some wonderful work, and inspired me to go farther...

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@timluns 15 жыл бұрын

This Guy is So Worth Listening to!

@mntnwzrd66 3 жыл бұрын

I first heard the TAZ recordings in like 1998 or so, and it was the most out-there challenging thinking I could find to listen to in my shack on the mountain. Now I am starting to construct an eco-hobbit village in the permaculture forest, THIS is the voice calling me the thin edge of the wedge! Or at least was a decade ago.

@fumarolas 2 жыл бұрын

I’m coming from 1998 too, was re-reading TAZ and got me wondering what he’s thinking now.

@lsdmadman 8 жыл бұрын

yay the paid haters gave up....this guy is the best....his TAZ book is the very goods , zanies

@blissblossum6701 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for bringing up very valid points. We are victims of our own government installed ignorance. If we all began taking responsibility for our whole self, we would be less likely to fall prey to evil!