david on structural violence
david graeber on structural violence
via tweet [https://x.com/Graeber_social/status/2022854234991993133?s=20]
notes/quotes from 1 min video clip:
it’s not like we’re lacking for good ideas.. there’s probably nobody in the world.. not a single person.. who couldn’t come up with one creative idea that neither of us would have thought of.. some creative solution to a problem.. none of us would have anticipated.. everybody’s got something like that in them.. the problem is.. the vast majority of people on earth are being told to shut up every day.. nobody cares what they think..
any form of measuring/accounting/people telling other people what to do
need 1st/most: means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening as global detox so we can org around legit needs
if we created a system that opens that up.. t we’d have an endless deluge of potential solutions to problems..
or even deeper.. no more problems..
but we have no idea.. because nothing to date has gotten to the root of problem
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. [again].. for (blank)’s sake..
and that’s what people like peter thiel don’t recognize.. that there are structures of violence telling people to shut up.. because it didn’t happen to them..
structural violence.. spiritual violence.. any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
i mean if you’re in a situation where the only way you can support your family is to work in a factory or become a prostitute.. whatever you have to do .. a poor person in indonesia.. it is a structure of violence.. if you don’t do that.. then you can’t have food.. if you try to take the food.. they’ll hit you..t
we need a means to try life over survival ness et al
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