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Thoughts on Strategic Optics / Anti-Cat Boy Action (Patreon)

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2022-12-07 00:04:43
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The podcast has a new logo (but everything else is the same)! While I'm at it I figured I would share my thoughts on how to optimize optics for the anti-imperialist cause. We are nothing if we cannot relate to the masses!

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Sean Atkinson

I feel like the Hammer and the Sickle, and the iconography are like our gay flag. At least in south Florida the repression, antagonism, ignorance, disgust and incredulity (against communists) are real. We have been demonized in a manner similar to casual gay bashing in the 70's and eighties, ninetines. Def not as much, so the scars are not as deep. Still- its lonely to have to pretend you are someone you are not, that you really don't share about obsessions that define south florida. I'm not ready to leave behind the remaining visual remnants of soviet and Chinese and Cuban success, at the high water mark of communist power. We are so expected to be selfish, you actually have to explain yourself for any act of solidarity with neighbors and acquaintance's. That has nothing to do with the first sentences, but I guess I needed to rant it.

Jillian

Real shit, Brigid! I'm a woman that lives in the South, and I *look* conservative - I'm in the habit of wearing long skirts and covering my hair with colorful headscarves - and it means that people are generally more willing to talk to me openly. It has its pros and cons, but I'm happy with the way I dress. I also think it's interesting how the idea of "dressing eccentrically" has turned into a very specific style of dress. Saying that someone dresses "oddly" in the USA brings a very specific image to mind, and I think it's weird that peoples' creative potential in terms of how they dress is almost stifled and put into a box that is just as normative. As humans, I think it's natural for us to have fun messing around with how we dress... I wonder if that uniform "communist" look ends up attracting and ultimately repressing/controlling that human urge to be creative.

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>>97152437

I agree-- I don't think there's any need to leave these symbols behind at all, but I do acknowledge that there is a time and place for everything. And honesly, unfortunately, in the west the hammer sickle is now used as a way to be edgy more than anything else. It's not the symbol's fault though..

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>>97434805

I think about this a lot as well. We see organic impulses in human creativity which then get immediately scooped up and commodified in a market (I'm thinking like 60s subcultures and then later the punk movement). We have gotten to such a point of commodification that individuality is sold back to us as identity/fashion categories. I wonder wbout the uniformity of culture as well and I think we could perhaps look at the Soviet Union for inspiration. A lot of art was censored but they also produced some of the most gorgeous paintings, sculptures, and artistic films ever made. There was a human quality to the art that was being produced. It's rare that I see this captured today considering almost everything is made to be sold on a market.