CHELSEANACHT 2021 | Unfash the Web | LS:FTP

[FISHSTICKS]

[Dracon, a marauder who has fucked off from FB has asked me to post this on their behalf. - Fishsticks]

Chelseanacht is coming.

'UNFASH THE WEB' is my suggestion for this year's theme.   LS and the DKMU is inherently anti-authoritarian.  Exploration of differing realities is directly opposed to mono-culture and ideologies that seek to enforce it.  Sure, in a limited space and time you can have a mono-culture, or a reality that is intolerant of opposing realities in the same space.  This is necessary for there to be any distinct things at all, apart from one undifferentiated blob.

But authoritarian ideology wishes to impose itself upon all spaces and at all times.  That is the difference.

Furthermore, for exploration to be possible, free travel between these realities is necessary.  One would think any dipshit could figure out that the Assault on Reality is antifascist and anarchic, but apparently this isn't the case, and forces attempt to co-opt our work.  Therefore I suggest that the intention of this year's sigil and associated workings be to reinforce the anti-authoritarian intent of the AoR and push out or destroy these recuperative forces from the web and all spaces which it touches.

This is not the same as destroying local order or local realities.  We want a multitude of realities, overlapping and with roads between.  It is the same as destroying vast mono-cultures which attempt to be or present themselves as The One Reality and power structures which rely on the inability of their slaves to escape to somewhere better.  Particularly anything which propagates itself by enslaving the mind and spirit of its adherents by hiding the existence of alternatives, or presenting these alternatives as unrealistic.  This includes, but is not limited to national bureaucracies, capitalism, domestic abuse, religious cults, schools, prisons and police, most mental illnesses, media saturation, poverty and terrorism committed by large military powers.

The assault on (consensus) reality has always proposed that the disappearance of magic in our worlds is caused by the suppression of imagination due to these, and allied, factors.  Let's make that really clear to everyone.  Let's make it so that any archist or statist who touches the web is ensnared and drowned in empathic knowledge, or else burned explosively.

Linking Sigil : Fuck The Protocol   (LS:FTP)

[Maelhavok]

How do you propose avoiding the inevitable growth of more fascism in response to a direct assault on it? Fascism thrives on having Enemy Others to blame for everything. How would we avoid becoming one more collection of "useful idiots" who gave them a convenient enemy to focus on?

[Seisatsu]

How do you propose avoiding the inevitable growth of more fascism in response to a direct assault on it? Fascism thrives on having Enemy Others to blame for everything. How would we avoid becoming one more collection of "useful idiots" who gave them a convenient enemy to focus on?

Not fighting fascism at all to avoid becoming its enemy is a super bad argument, sorry. But I'll humor you by saying that it is in my opinion extremely unlikely that fascists are going to get the public at large to rally against a bunch of chaos wizards in the short term, and even if they do, it'll just bring more people to our side by making us more visible to other people who are against fascism. And the factions that are coming for us, well, there is ample evidence that they have already started prior to this operation.

Fascism is a cancer, and if you don't fight against it it will eventually turn against and consume everything and everyone that isn't itself, until it runs out of "others" to hate and begins to turn inward and self-cannibalize.

[USA_MUTUALIST]

Over the last few years, as I've learned more about tech and absorbed myself more into the world of earning money, my strangeness has faded quite a lot, but around every corner and in the night when I sleep at times, I still get faint glimpses of other realms, and I am thankful people like you are out there fighting this good fight. Fascism for me, isn't just an ideology, or a people, it's a cancer, and it can even get us to hate ourselves at times. As a person who has struggled to free my mind from the chains of Christianity, mental illness, and internalized homophobia my entire life, I recognize fascism not as a force outside myself, but as a Satan within, trying to slowly devour me from the inside.

For me, patience and compassion for the person driving slowly in front of me is anti-fascist action. For me, self love is anti-fascist action. For me, every expression of peace and creativity in the face of a world that just wants to wring us dry like some kind of commodity is anti-fascist action.

I hope you all well in the years to come. May the golden age dawn once and for all and warm these bones from this long winter's cold.