Watched it on libretube- seems to work well enough. I'd definitely be happy to watch anything posted on peertube, but I hadn't even talked most of my "people" into trying out the fediverse yet.

We'll keep trying...

(Nice vid tho thx)

Ah, yes, the assumption that any detractor doesn't actually know your preferred brand of stupid.

How typical. 😚

Imagine how much Good she could've accomplished if she hadn't been an active participant in brainwashing children, too! 🤌🏼

It's a high bar but we might just have a contender.

Thanks for the heads up, link added.

Link is missing :)

Agreed, but this is a video based community, and unfortunately Peertube is not yet used enough to completely replace YouTube.

In the meantime, there are ways to avoid YouTube's tracking, such as Freetube, Invidious instances, NewPipe, and Grayjay (grayjay is not GPL, but it is source available, and can sometimes work when the others are temporarily blocked by youtube and need to update a new solution).

Freetube videos cannot be linked to, it's up to each individual to use manually on their end.

Invidious instances can be linked to, but unfortunately instances die fairly frequently, and links using them often die with them after a couple months or more, requiring the poster to search out new instances to replace them (having to comb through my old posts to replace the links with working ones eventually turned me off using it, I'm afraid).

Fuck yt

Thank you for sharing, this looks powerful. I'll watch it as soon as I can here (site found throught Free Media Heck Yeah).

I use newpipe in mobile, you can just paste the YT url into the search bar and the vid comes up.

I didnt know this for months using newpipe until someone told me.

This is a video based community, and unfortunately Peertube is not yet used enough to completely replace YouTube.

In the meantime, there are ways to avoid YouTube's tracking, such as Freetube and Invidious instances.

Freetube videos cannot be linked to, it's up to each individual to use manually on their end. Invidious can be linked to, but unfortunately instances die so frequently, the links often become unusable after a couple months or more, and require the poster to search out new instances frequently (having to comb through my old posts to replace the links with working ones eventually turned me off using it, I'm afraid).

Is the trick convincing people to click youtube links so they make money?

"to accept any chaos before any new order arrives"

Enjoying this video way more than I thought I would

💯

That was a genuinely fantastic video, great flow while still being information dense, and quite witty as well. Thanks for sharing! :)

The baboon research he references seem to reinforce David Graeber and David Wengrow's arguments against humans having a natural inclination toward hierarchy and domination in their book The Dawn of Everything.

Ah reminds me of the politicians who think Rage Against The Machine isn't political!

I agree with the message.

Two novels that this reminded me of.

"The Iron Dream" by Norman Spinrad. The book starts with a forward that explains that Adolf Hitler left Germany in 1920 and started illustrating science fiction pulps in New York's Greenwich Village. By 1933 he felt comfortable enough to transition to writing stories. Cut to the 'novel.' A young man returns from exile to find his homeland overrun by vile mutants who use mind control to subjugate the pure humans. With fire, steel, and a magic weapon he leads his troops to victory.

"Flashman" by George M. Fraser. Flashman was originally a minor character in a book titled "Tom Brown's Schooldays" That book was read and loved by generations of British boys. Flashman was a bully and a rogue who is expelled. In the Fraser novel Flashy comes into his own when he joins the British army. He's a coward, thief, murderer, rapist, and at one point works as a slave dealer.

It's one of the few books that paints the colonizers as they were.

It's been a while since I read it myself so it's likely I'll misremember some stuff, but from what I can remember, the central computer that assigned things was due to the extreme scarcity of resources on annares, to the point where they were reliant on following the computer's optimized planning just to avoid starvation. I also seem to recall that the assignments from the computer were still voluntary, it was just that there was that social stigma you mentioned if one opted not to take the assignment given.

In most ways, Annares is structured in a very anarchist way societally, with the exceptions of the council and some positions of power within the education/research sector. The rest of the problems on Annares are mostly social and cultural oppression, which is why I think it's a good example of a work that explores the concept of an Anarchist society that is going awry, making it a good companion piece to the video.

We agree, check out "A Half Built Garden" by Ruthanna Emrys for a better way to organize things.

A better book is "A Half-Built Garden" by Ruthanna Emrys. It focuses more on 'knowledge capital' than social, and uses systems and algorithms which help out with this.

I don't think Anarres was ever anarchic. The system was built to perpetuate hierarchy from the start by founders too afraid of their descendants to treat them as equals.

They attempted to achieve anarchy through disempowerment of individuals such that they can only conceive of the current social-political arrangement.

It's fundamentally bureaucratic. You aren't meant to understand the choices the state makes, only to obey. An unpopular programmer of the central computer's internal logic has more power than a village hero. State-assigned role is more important than social standing.

The state chooses your profession and place of living or labels you as a bum/criminal, and popularity in open defiance of the state gets your family bullied and socially isolated as part of the bureaucracy socially maneuvering you into voluntary exile.

It starts from childhood, where thinking for yourself rather than for the group is the sin of egotizing. Where the language has the same word for disloyalty to the bureaucracy and being a bum who doesn't do their share of the work and being a repeat sexual assaulter. Where hierarchy is a boogeyman people are made afraid of rather than something people are helped to understand so they can challenge it whenever it arises.

The frustrating thing is that the original Odonian vanguard must have been a living counterexample. They formed an anarchist(ish) society by choice with all the trappings of hierarchy still stuck in their mind. But rather than perpetuating their revolutionary mindset to their descendants, they built a bureaucracy to subjugate and conform their descendants to their opinions even after their death.

Anarres is as anarchic as state communism is communist.

This is not a condemnation of the book, which is about a character who resists the state anarchist bureaucracy. It makes me wish for a book about a proper anarchic society, or at least one that gets closer, and that's LeGuin's point.

Feces Capital.

As a good companion to this video, the excellent book The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin explores how social capital may arise in a negative way in an Anarchist society, and how that may need to be challenged.

Finally got the chance to watch this. It was a refreshing video.

It definitely makes me want to work towards reducing the amount of meat I eat. I had some success in the past with meatless Mondays, but I have fallen out of the habit.