#cornball shit

And the problem IS NOT that people don’t know consumption is bad. They know. They know it’s killing the planet. Which should be the clue that despite knowing, it still isn’t a conscious choice, as if people are saying “fuck the planet, I want McDonald's” If we start blaming, then who escapes it, really? 

And then you can’t point to a group in the so-called third-world like they are your political prop to gain leverage over other people in a blame-game. You’re doing that to escape blame! If you were really including yourself in that blame, you would be trying to figure out what the solution is, and how we all move on from blame altogether. All of our hands are dirty, we do need to take responsibility, but this all unfolded half-consciously. There is so much momentum pushing us in one direction before we are ever able to fully, consciously accept our roles in the world.

I don’t want to push Lacan too heavily but like, we didn’t choose our names, we didn’t choose our families, neighborhoods, language, birth gender, social conventions, web of signifiers we would find ourselves embedded in, etc. There are endless layers to push through before you get to a meaningful, real choice, one that you can own. You have to forgive yourself for how you acted with all those layers of signification choking you and weighing on you, but then that also requires acceptance of responsibility. 

So you forgive yourself, first, and then forgive others, and in that same move commit to action, to a collective project. Forgive, accept your individual helplessness, but then take responsibility simultaneously.

And again, I don’t mean forgive capitalists, or forgive rapists, I mean like forgive the normal everyday entanglements that none of us escape. But then yes, once you consciously avow that you have control in the situation, you act. It’s still a fallen world, you still have to go to work tomorrow, maybe you have to pollute the planet with your car, but push every minute of your day in some way towards that act of revolution. Don’t blame yourself for having to do other things besides direct revolution when that is in fact the case, but in each moment ask yourself if there’s a way to push things in that direction, and see if there are others in your environment, wherever you are, who will connect with you on that level. The revolution has to be everywhere. I really don’t care what some Bordigist says about immediatism, revolution is everywhere, and it is all of us.