FedPosterman5000 [none/use name]

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Cake day: February 24th, 2025
  • FedPosterman5000 [none/use name]@hexbear.nettoanarchism@hexbear.net•Which Kropotkin book should I read first?English
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    8 days ago

    The first I read on that list was Conquest of Bread, but all are good and you’ll likely read through more than once (at least I needed to in order to annotate/take in the info.

    My tastes skew ecological and so I personally really like Murray Bookchin’s writings Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), Our Synthetic Environment (1962), The Ecology of Freedom (1982), and Urbanization Without Cities (1987).

    And i always recommend HT Odum’s Environment Power and Society (1971) as a good primer on the relationship between energy, power, and societal organization.

    “It uses models of systems, particularly human systems, to explain how societies are structured and how subsystems within those systems function.”

    I like Arne Naess’ writing on “ecosophy”- his term for philosophy rooted in ecological knowing. I think he builds off Bookchin/Kropotkin and other anarchist analysis, albeit from a more liberal lens and I don’t recall if he cites them but the threads seem to be there. His text “‘Truth’ as Conceived by Those who are Not Professional Philosophers” (1938) lays the groundwork for his understanding of philosophy as a decentralized, individual formulation rather than a universal code. His book “Ecology, Community and Lifestyle" (1989) explores the relationship between philosophy, environmental degradation, and the rethinking of humanity’s connection with nature.

    I think Naess’ work is kind of a “re-skin” of the philosophies of Indigenous peoples, but that’s primarily from listening to Elders and other knowledge keepers- haven’t had much success in finding published source material (I understand it to be typically passed orally). But definitely would recommend research into Indigenous people’s viewpoints on the topic as well - I feel this is an area where there’s much to learn, and have only scraped the tip of the iceberg.

    Hope you find some good recommendations

  • FedPosterman5000 [none/use name]@hexbear.nettoScience@hexbear.net•Study suggests we don’t just hear music, but ‘become it’English
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    11 days ago

    Came here to make a joke about this “explaining why I’ve always been ‘baroque’” - but after reading it my new takeaway is that this is another good descriptor of why white people have no culture :

    NRT maintains that rather than relying on learned expectations or prediction, musical experiences arise from the brain’s natural oscillations that sync with rhythm, melody and harmony. This resonance shapes our sense of timing, musical pleasure and the instinct to move with the beat.

    Just consuming other cultures while repressing everything through joyless religiosity and wondering why they have no ‘rhythm, melody and harmony… sense of timing …and the instinct to move with the beat’

  • FedPosterman5000 [none/use name]@hexbear.nettovegan@hexbear.net•A Shocking Number of People Still Think Cows Produce Milk Just Because They’re CowsEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Wasn’t sure about level of cw required for talking about veal farms, so I did the whole thing

    spoiler

    Growing up I remember going to a family-friends “veal farm”, and when I learned what that actually meant (maybe ~8yo at the time) it was my first step to reconsidering everything I ever heard about the dairy industry, and ultimately, veganism. I just remember meeting all the calves, and how cute they were and that they would suck on your thumb, and then, as a child, to learn that it’s more of an “kidnapped juvenile death camp” than a “farm” is a strong lesson. I try to shame carnists on the topic by saying I have a firm “no eating babies” rule, but they really do be shameless - big Saturn eating his son energy.