January 09, 2008
(Roots)
I got tagged a few days back by David at ...no third solution. The question is: What motivated you to start looking into Anarchist/Libertarian thought?
And of course there's the long answer, but I can actually make it short. My father was a catholic pacifist individualist anarchist who worked extensively with the anarcho-syndicalists. So I got the basics when I was a toddler and the general moral rejection of power stuck with me. I read Jurassic Park at age six which sent me down the anarcho-primitivist road towards Zerzan. Around N30 I went down the anarcho-syndicalist "campus anarchism" road and then to insurrectionary anarchism. Finally at "day of bombing" when we invaded Iraq I had a lengthy debate with a Libertarian counter-protester and went off to investigate the Ancap side of the fence.
Of course things weren't so sharp, there was always a lot of blending--for example Ken Macleod introduced me to "Anarcho-Capitalism" way back in middle-school (I laughed, thinking it was a delicious joke) and all the SF post-singularity stuff has been a pretty constant influence on my analyses.
I tag:
1. Brendan @ Thoughts on the Struggle.
2. Shawn @ In the Libertarian Labyrinth (and various other hives of blogging and villainy).
3. Roderick @ Austro-Athenian Empire (and assorted nefarious conspiracies).
I got tagged a few days back by David at ...no third solution. The question is: What motivated you to start looking into Anarchist/Libertarian thought?
And of course there's the long answer, but I can actually make it short. My father was a catholic pacifist individualist anarchist who worked extensively with the anarcho-syndicalists. So I got the basics when I was a toddler and the general moral rejection of power stuck with me. I read Jurassic Park at age six which sent me down the anarcho-primitivist road towards Zerzan. Around N30 I went down the anarcho-syndicalist "campus anarchism" road and then to insurrectionary anarchism. Finally at "day of bombing" when we invaded Iraq I had a lengthy debate with a Libertarian counter-protester and went off to investigate the Ancap side of the fence.
Of course things weren't so sharp, there was always a lot of blending--for example Ken Macleod introduced me to "Anarcho-Capitalism" way back in middle-school (I laughed, thinking it was a delicious joke) and all the SF post-singularity stuff has been a pretty constant influence on my analyses.
I tag:
1. Brendan @ Thoughts on the Struggle.
2. Shawn @ In the Libertarian Labyrinth (and various other hives of blogging and villainy).
3. Roderick @ Austro-Athenian Empire (and assorted nefarious conspiracies).
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