June 21, 2008
(Five Year Anniversary)
There needs to be a framing narrative. Or so I'm told.
Okay. Catharsis.
On a March evening five years ago we invaded Iraq. Five years ago I stormed out of an anarcho-communist meeting. Lived on my own for a month. Applied to an elite college. Scribbled preposterous predictions on the road as the crowd moved over it. Fought with a counter-protester, stumbled and fell on a passage. Started a blog.
Over the intervening years Human Iterations has--quite naturally--been a lot of things, but it was started with specific intent and has steadfastly remained the centerpiece of a broader attempt to bring together left and right. To push as hard as I could to help redefine the spectrum in terms of liberty. I spent several years playing the conventional blog game with progressives and libertarians, constantly juggling readership, before slowly turning my attention entirely on the anarchist movement, the gooey nuggety core of that whole effort.
Today I am hardly alone. There are thousands around the anglosphere and beyond! redefining the political spectrum. Ron Paul, SDS, the Rothbard Caucus, Aliance of the Libertarian Left, Agorist Action Alliance... As Shawn and I gushed together the other day, Brad Spangler works alongside Chuck Munson!
Truly the times, they are a changing.
And I... I am getting bored.
I have other hills to storm.
I'm not throwing away the blog away. But I can't help but feel the battle it was built to fight has effectively been won.
There needs to be a framing narrative. Or so I'm told.
Okay. Catharsis.
On a March evening five years ago we invaded Iraq. Five years ago I stormed out of an anarcho-communist meeting. Lived on my own for a month. Applied to an elite college. Scribbled preposterous predictions on the road as the crowd moved over it. Fought with a counter-protester, stumbled and fell on a passage. Started a blog.
Over the intervening years Human Iterations has--quite naturally--been a lot of things, but it was started with specific intent and has steadfastly remained the centerpiece of a broader attempt to bring together left and right. To push as hard as I could to help redefine the spectrum in terms of liberty. I spent several years playing the conventional blog game with progressives and libertarians, constantly juggling readership, before slowly turning my attention entirely on the anarchist movement, the gooey nuggety core of that whole effort.
Today I am hardly alone. There are thousands around the anglosphere and beyond! redefining the political spectrum. Ron Paul, SDS, the Rothbard Caucus, Aliance of the Libertarian Left, Agorist Action Alliance... As Shawn and I gushed together the other day, Brad Spangler works alongside Chuck Munson!
Truly the times, they are a changing.
And I... I am getting bored.
I have other hills to storm.
I'm not throwing away the blog away. But I can't help but feel the battle it was built to fight has effectively been won.
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