Category: Inchoate Speech

  • “I Told You So” on a Sinking Raft

    If you, like me, have a lot of people in your social media feeds who are older, whiter, and consider themselves progressives because they voted Democrat, I’m confident you’ve seen a lot of “I Told You So”s in the last several weeks. Lots of holier-than-thou “Is this what you voted for, Republicans?” and the like.…

  • I Didn’t Think It’d Be Like This

    I know for someone who purports to have meaningful and worthwhile insights into the world as it is, as it could be, and how to bridge the gap from one to the other, that’s a very uninspiring title. But the last “real” post I made was well before the new year, and like a lot…

  • Just One Man, or Throw Yourself Upon the Machine

    There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to…

  • Nobody’s Coming to Save Us

    I suppose this title is the closest thing a blog can get to clickbait, but it is true. One of the core ideas of mutual aid, to me, is to establish self reliance in a community to provide for itself when the state is unable or unwilling to do so. If we can’t trust the…

  • And the Crowd Goes Mild

    When I sat down to write this post originally, I discovered that even though this blog is anonymous, and part of why I created it was to share my thoughts, I feel very uncomfortable actually sharing my thoughts. Sad trombone noise. I’m hoping that it’s something that will become easier over time. Maybe it will…