How Do We ACTUALLY Survive Societal Collapse?
How Do We ACTUALLY Survive Societal Collapse?
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Whether we like it or not, what we believed to be the pillars of western society are falling apart right before our eyes, and it’s time to give oursleves permission to imagine a better future for all of us.
A multiplicity of answers are already here. It’s up to…
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1:19:16 made me laugh ENTIRELY too hard
I'm processing this video in chunks because there's a lot of good stuff in here.
I just needed to comment that because I really haven't laughed like that in the last couple of months. Thank you 😊
For Engagement! 🙂 I hope you keep doing more long form videos. I didn't realize how much I missed your content after I got off TikTok
Commenting again because this video is so good!!
1:56:10 now that's a fucking word
I'm glad the algo fed me this. I can't share your hopeful association with my people as you do about your native people. My people are suicidal vampires, with an ideological superstructure, mythology, and identity to support it.
my favourite Tiktok creator has a youtube channel?? Great video so far, I never expected such a long video but I love the format ❤❤❤
For anyone who watched this video and found it helpful, doing your own research about the Zapatistas in Mexico might be interesting.
I think it's important to remember that multiple versions of freedom can exist at the same time. Zora Neale Hurston writes in her book, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," that "this freedom feeling was fine." Yes, there are material conditions that need to be met to be free, but it is still a feeling. No one version of freedom is going to include everyone, but everyone should be free to create their own (so long as it's not hurting anyone).
Thank you for your soulful brilliance. An alternative to the myth of the martyr can be found in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire's brilliant work speaks to breaking the oppressed/ oppression cycle through a blueprint for revolutionary liberation. So much of what you spoke to was as if I was hearing a reading from the Pedagogy….Peaceout All 💜✊🏼☮️
What a phenomenal video!
A great demonstration of how empire and coloniality are related to trauma, and how the "usual" forms of resistance/survival (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) won't cut it if we are to truly turn things around.
On the idea of reindeginising ourselves: One of my takeaways from the dawn of everything is that the question of decoloniality isn't necessarily a question about when did we start introducing hierarchy into our relationships with each other and the land (among other things), but rather: when did we stop adapting and confirming to the needs of the land and community?
I'm struck by a friend of mine who was recently attacked by the police, and after her initial period of shock and activation, she chose to turn to community for healing and to reconnect to a sense of herself outside of the incident. Similarly for me, my relationship with decoloniality has been so much about process, and remembering that I can always turn to myself, to my community, to my connection with the land, and to my part of a much wider whole to start to help me connect to how I want to do or be differently in the world.
2:50:20 I feel this idea of non-hierarchical power structures naturally arising ignores the possibility that hierarchies would continue to reproduce itself regardless of how many times it fractures or the sustainability of its form. We must consciously build power structures anathema to it, take space (mental, physical, etc) from it and learn the skills and practice the culture and build the economy to rely on before it is needed. No collapse, but outcompete it before the polycrisis gets worse.
This is vitally important for the people who aren’t already “living the revolution” (prefiguration) (mostly students and/or privileged people living in the core but wanting to make change) to understand because unless it comes to them (or they come to it), they’ll be lacking the capacities and drives required to reproduce anything but the old structures, meaning they and what’s left of the old system will continue to rely on exploitation and will seek to do to new horizontal power structures the same they did to the old ones. They’ll lead by their own misguided ideas of revolution ( cough cough see “Socialist” “experiments” cough cough )
!!Also friendly reminder that the system already relies on exploiting pockets of horizontality not to collapse!!
This is where the “anti-“ is essential. The “XYZ got no chill” is intended.
Just like experimenting new forms of being, we must stand atop the shoulders of giants! (or the corpses of those before us). There’s no need to commit the same mistakes when the lessons are already out there.
Hierarchy is a hungry and active agent and it will seek to leech off the seeds of our horizontal efforts. Unfortunately it won’t go down without making a ruckus, so give it no chance
BRAZIL MENTIONED AND VISITED HELL YEAH TO THE SOLARPUNK ANTI-HIERARCHICAL FUTURE BROTHER
You should translate this into Portuguese!
I am so grateful to have found you here, @joris_unpacks! I dumped IG after the inauguration. Your content is powerful!! I was sad to have lost it in my attempt to dump the brolegarchy. Watching this video feels like home 🏡
1:18:45 the people worth our time will come to us as long as we’re visible and accessible. The only people we should go out of our way to engage with are those seeking help, those which the system is neglecting
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
-Buckminster Fuller
It is fundamental that we have somewhere to sink all that we take from this system, those alternatives can then support the people struggling within the system, that’s how the anarcho-syndicalists were so effective in the last two centuries. The same applies to culture, ideas, skills, forms of organizing, not just labor and resources.
It’s also essential that your efforts cease relying on the system as much as possible and ASAP, which is why the trade unions failed (because they were assimilated, that or repression)
amazing work!!!
Thank you Joris you give us a great perspective on all this madness.
12:46 that's the party and electorate MP I voted for 🙌Te Paati Maaori . 2026 election I may party vote green this time bcuz in 2023 TPM got less than 5% of the party vote but won 6 of the 7 Maaori electorate seats, so Te Paati Maaori party votes didn't count toward any seats in parliament, the 6 seats they currently have in parliament were voted in to represent 6 of the 7 Maaori electorates. For context there's 65 general electorates and 7 Maaori electorates, if we take the Maaori population 17-18% of national population then 12-13 out of the total 72 electorates should be Maaori electorates but they're not. Government outright attacks Maaori, parliament refuses to accomodate Maaori but won't let Maaori do our own thing so we gotta do what we gotta do
I like this train of thought💭 felt like a organic ride bcuz it stopped at the stations that also came up in my mind👍 well articulated
What a pleasant surprise to see you on my YouTube feed! I haven't come across your tiktoks in a hot minute, but I love your content.
It's interesting where I personally don't know how to navigate let alone engage with other people. It feels like I'm the ostrich that took its head out of the sand and said a yo we on a farm and all I can hear are the muffled laughter of everyone else
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼