Anarchist Bibliography, please? (was Re: Deconstructing an Institutional Slander...)

[Mirimir]

On 08/10/2016 07:53 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
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>> 11:00 PM, August 9, 2016, John Newman <jnn at synfin.org>:
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>> If you dig punk/hardcore, the band Propagandhi makes some great 
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>> Rage against the machine, while we're at it :)
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>> Personally I don't hold much hope for humanity..I figure the
>> solution to Fermis paradox is self-evident.
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>> That is so depressing, but there's no denying it. In such
>> discussions with people, i always claim cooperation and empathy is
>> just as human nature as selfishness, as a pro-socialist argument,
>> but deep down inside, i can't say i have much hope either.
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> Fermi's Paradox?  Per its .com address:
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> "The Fermi Paradox is the apparent contradiction between the high
> probability extraterrestrial civilizations' existence and the lack of
> contact with such civilizations."

Maybe someone is killing them off ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Star

> I don't mean to diss the "inevitable self destruction" model.  My own
> conclusion is that it's in progress here and now and can not be
> stopped by any human agency.  But while the end of civilization as we
> know it may be unthinkable for Civilized people and institutions,
> leading to the illusion that it means extinction, it is not
> unsurvivable.  Humans are the toughest weeds Nature ever made, capable
> of living on pack ice or dry rock desert for half the year armed only
> with Neolithic technology ... and loving it.  What will the first
> couple of Post Apocalyptic generations make out of the mangled
> landscapes and derelict infrastructure of Civilization?  A new kind of
> civilization, of course.
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> That thing that happened in Europe after the Black Death?  Homo Sap
> ain't seen nothing yet:  This time it's global, and post-scarcity is
> among the possible outcomes.
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> We don't see interstellar "civilizations" very often, because those
> who did not get over making everything bigger and more powerful for
> sake of bigness and power didn't make it.  For reals.  Some of those
> gamma bursts may be industrial accidents, or Bad Outcomes to MAD based
> defense strategies (an especially stupid kind of industrial accident).
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> If the absence of torrents of long range EM message traffic is
> surprising, that's only because we presume aliens talk with strings
> and tin cans "just like us."  If the absence of star drive signatures
> is surprising, it's more likely that our assumptions about what those
> signatures would be are faulty, than that there are no interstellar
> voyagers riding the starwinds.  If the absence of physical visitors is
> surprising, that just means a lot of people have not taken a hard
> critical look at UFO investigations:  Failure to invade and loot or
> otherwise dominate a technologically weaker species' cradle planet may
> be evidence of the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence, rather
> than its absence.
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> In my view practical anarchism is much more about developing
> adaptations for conditions after the fall of Civilization, than with
> making Civilization fall.  The latter task has already been done for
> us gratis [not], by the Powers and Principalities of the world.
> Building the best future possible for kids born in 2150 is gonna be a
> fuckton of work, and we better get as much done in advance as possible.
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