UserWiki:Affiliated

This page is the ideas of the user Affiliated, who while being mainly Postciv, has been influenced by many different ecological, anarchist, or anti-capitalist thinkers.

Ideological Journey:
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[[File:Lib.png]] Liberal Era
I knew very little of politics at this time (not that I claim to truly understand it all now), beyond the conception that Dems, Labour, Hillary, etc, were good; Republicans, Tories, Trump, etc, were bad. A lot of it stemmed from liberal media I was consuming at the time, a podcast from three former Obama speechwriters, "Pod Save America", combined with my parents' political views and viewing MSM in school.

[[File:Libertarian.png]] Libertarian Era
Following that, I began to gravitate towards small-government policies, believing in natural law, etc., wishing that the government should just relax and let our local communities get to work themselves, somewhat being inspired by how the Scouts aided some communities.

[[File:Necon.png]] Neoconservative Era
This was something of a synthesis of the previous two, a combination of my liberal foreign policy and civic policy views and my libertarian economic views, minus a small state. I was against guns, against "illegal immigration" (but pro-"legal immigration"), for abortions, for Israel, but was somewhat iffy on other liberal social views at times, surrounding religion (I was highly antitheist at the time, wanting to restrict it as much as possible in society), some LGBTQ positions, and universal healthcare. I was still somewhat anti-Trump, preferring the late Senator John McCain and former President George W Bush, to him.

[[file:Klep.png]] Prisons:
I am against the idea of both rehabilitative prisons and punitive prisons. The Punitive Prison, and Death Penalty, may present a threat to the physical being of the dissenter, but the Rehabilitative Prison is a threat to the psychological and ideological being of the dissenter, as it re-educates the dissenter with the ideas of the Bourgeois Society.

[[File:Econil.png]] Eco-Nihilism:
Because there's no revolution coming today, nor tomorrow, nor any day after that, capitalism, industrialism, and the rest, will keep going and going and going. Some of these problems have been locked in since the very beginning, such as urbanism and monoculture. Eventually, it's going to result in total ecological collapse, may be quickly or slowly, and it will be unavoidable. In fact, one could even speculate that it is already upon us if we look at the overall state of the world.

[[File:Anprim.png]] Primitivism: [[File:Polpot.png]]
I am not a primitivist, despite what some of my detractors may say. A primitivist rejects technology, I reject a society based around technology. I am not against agriculture, but rather more for horticulture and permaculture, instead of the monoculture created by civilisation. I do not reject science, unlike primitivists, I just do not put it on a pedestal. Primitivists, while forming the basis for all anti-civ criticisms, are not nuanced. In addition, the structure of tribalism is quite collectivist, and usually very socially conservative and rigid. We CANT go back to the Stone Age, even if we wanted to. Moving forward, with more nuanced critiques of civ, is the only way forward. Plus, letting 7 billion into the woods with no training or survival tactics after the incredible domestication that has occured to the human race would be incredibly stupid.

[[File: Ecosoc.png]] Ecosocialism and other eco-leftist ideologies: [[File:Bckchn.png]]
Many eco-leftists are simply just leftists who add eco- prefixes because they like the environment to some degree. However, none of them want to strike at the heart of the destruction of the environment. Instead, they want to simply abolish capitalism, (and sometimes, the state), then live in collectivist agrarian eco-communes for the rest of their lives. Most of them don't even want to destroy the mega-machines of industrialism, and the ones that do still can't understand the problems presented by agriculture-monoculture. As such, many of are environmentalists, instead of ecologists, as they simply support the solutions to environmental destruction presented by liberal politicians, just simply put into a different economic system, which is environmentalism, as they are simply changing the method of stewardship of the environment, instead of letting the environment rewild and take care of itself. Many of them support the continued domestication, both of the human and of the non-human. In as such, I do not like nor support many eco-leftists. "The Marxists see only the mote in the enemy’s eye. They supplant their villain with a hero, the Anticapitalist mode of production, the Revolutionary Establishment. They fail to see that their hero is the very same “shape with lion body and the head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun.” They fail to see that the Anti-capitalist mode of production wants only to outrun its brother in wrecking the Biosphere." -F. Perlman, "Against History, Against Leviathan"

Positive:

 * [[File:BeryAbLib.png]] Beryab - I'm not particularly fond of your ideology, but you are a friendly user, and designed my icons, so I thank you for that.
 * [[File:Bsaheedism-icon.png]] Bsaheed527 - Fellow postie, but I've heard something about you being pro-nationalism (?), which is frankly concerning.
 * - Congratulations on biting the full postleft pill, a very good friend indeed.
 * [[File:Councilguy2.png]] Councilguy - Same story as above.
 * - Probably one of the most based users on this site, and converted Councilguy, which is cool.
 * [[File:Postselfism.png]] AshleyHere - Post-Postism. Funny.
 * - Quite based, congratulations on escaping (ego)communism.
 * [[File:Postniv.png]] Niveous Laccolith - Very nice job on the nihilism, but do not forget that T.J. Kaczynski and his contemporaries are not above criticism in their Luddism.
 * [[File:Smelegem.png]] Smelegem - I don't totally agree with her politically, but we have good talks and she recommends some Maoist reading.

Neutral:

 * [[File:Balodismaxesmall.png]] IvarsBalodis - I can't say anything about you as a person, but from what I've seen about your ideology, I don't like it.
 * [[File:NSL.png]] Pirate Tails - You seem like an okay person but Social Liberalism isn't my cup of tea. What's with the anti-intelligentsia?
 * [[File:neoairisu.png]] SumisuAirisu - One of the most (unintentionally) funny users on the whole wiki. The idea that I am a *quote* "Cringe Post-Leftist anprim lifestylist who does nothing but strawman Bookchin" is very funny to me. On a serious note, the fact that you're an anarchist is based, but stop being such a collectivist, and crack open an ecology textbook once in a while.
 * [[File:Tony.png]] Tony567 - Quite wacky and only at 13 years old, but you seem nice enough.
 * [[File:IrishNeoMarxist(alt).png]] YugoslavPartisan2 - Interesting character, can act completely brain dead at times however.
 * [[File:Bmanthought.png]] Bman - I don't really like Marxismleninism that much, but you seem decent.
 * [[File:Chirotesla.png]] ChiroPro - Very moderate, very tame.
 * [[File:LeninisBasedsmall.png]] Leninisbased - Annoying at times, but bearable.
 * [[File:Realisticamm.png]] Amm - I had such high hopes, but you reverted back into the System.
 * - Average Social Democrat, nothing new.

Negative:

 * [[File:Ukraiana Tiny picture2.png]] Ukraiana - I have nothing positive to say about this user.
 * [[File:KaiserKlaus.png]] KaiserKlausMouse - Nor this one, but you are a fellow environmentalist, so I'll give you that much. You and Ukraina are practically made for each other.
 * [[File:Typicalfan2.png]] Typicalfan4 - Based how you don't want gun control, but why are you against abortion and drugs? The capitalism's cringe in my eyes too.
 * [[File:GenShrekf.png]] Comrade Shrek - Scary.
 * [[File:EpicConIcon.png]] NazBolGANG12 - Classical Conservatism and Distributism, two pretty uncommon things tbh, I still find it quite disagreeable, however.

Positive

 * [[File:Neolud.png]] Theodore Kaczynski - You did what had to be done, and you were right about some things, but damn, your critique of leftism sucked. I was genuinely devastated when I found out about your terminal cancer, though.
 * [[File:Anarchristian.png]] Jacques Ellul [[File:Chrisan.png]] - Your book, "The Technological Society", was an inspiration, and is correct about many things.

Mixed

 * [[File:Landian Accelerationism.png]] Nick Land - You used to have legitimate criticisms against an inert left, a sleepy left, laid down the foundations for /Acc, and inspired Fisher, but now you're a weird racist neoreactionary.
 * [[File:Anin.png]] Hakim Bey [[File:AnindnoI.png]] - You've had an effect on both individual anarchism and spiritual anarchism, but you're a disgusting paedophile.

Negative

 * [[File:Chomsky.png]] Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent was decent, but most of your other work is just you being a pseud! You denied the fact that our primate cousin, the Gorilla, had his own form of language because you found it didn't hold with your theory of linguistics, for example. Also, you denounced the Cambodian genocide? Why???

Negative

 * [[File:Transh.png]] Transhumanism and its many offshoots - I find that often transhumanism emerges from an unfounded fear of death and a fundamental misunderstanding of nature and the lives of our far-more ancient predecessors. The Anarchist variant reminds me of the socialist, particularly the market variety, in that instead of wanting to destroy the old Boss (this being the MegaMachine), it would adopt these structures to its own intentions. There are also some concerns about the concept of a stateless global supply chain to accomplish a lot of this. (The previous referring to the anarchist variant of transhumanism.) On top of that, I see no reason why I would want to meld my flesh with steel. Increasing many of the effects of modern society (our current techno-industrial civilisation), due to some odd techno-utopian vision, has always made very little sense to me.

Q&A?
Ask ideological or philosophical or even just general questions here.

Comments
AshleyHere - Add me?

Leninisbased: add me

- Add me please

UserWIki:NazBolGANG12 - Hey I added you, can you add me?

UserWIki:DragonRed Now I looked. According to you, I am a very authoritarian transhumanist technological industrialist statist.

-“often transhumanism emerges from an fear of death” yes in fact as a transhumaist myself the reason i am a transhumaist is becuase i do want to die.

Leninisbased: "Annoying at times, but bearable." Could say the same about you tbh you're the least annoying postie