You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
4 points

As an anarchist, I wouldnt think this is a remediation. To move grip from one holder to another would still cause concentration of power. Id suggest that we instead shape our languages to limit grip as much as possible. Degrip is remediation.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

So let Elon keep all his ill-gotten gains but we talk in a contrived and awkward way so that in six generations they might be so used to it that they’re no longer able to describe the inequity in which they live?

Do you have a practical example of words we can switch out rather than taxing the billionaires?

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

The reason I emphasize language is because we oftentimes lack the remediating words that we need.

Elon got his wealth is because we gave it to him. We gave it to him by accepting our roles as consumers, voters, and grippers.

Instead we need to find remediating roles. Roles that has action, attitudes and spreadability that causes remediation.

A role can be a degripper. One who strives to remove one’s own grip, guiding others to degrip themselves and do action to degrip griphoarders.

Generally though, by using words that shifts our focus away from consumerism, towards nature, our peers and blossoming, we degrip. An example of this would be to integrate natural elements into our language. For example in norwegian, instead of “mastery”, I say “blossoming”, or instead of saying “rich in colors”, I would say “bloom in colors”. Or being aware of the species around us and pointing them out for our peers.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

!climate@slrpnk.net

Create post

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

Community stats

  • 4.6K

    Monthly active users

  • 6.7K

    Posts

  • 30K

    Comments

Community moderators