The past has given us much too many bad answers for us not to see that the mistakes were in the questions themselves. There is no need to choose between the fetishism of spontaneity and the organization control; between the "come one, come all" of activist networks and the discipline of hierarchy; between acting desperately now and waiting desperately for later; between bracketing that which is to be lived and experimented in the name of paradise that seems more and more like a hell the longer it is put off and flogging the dead horse of how planting carrots is enough to leave this nightmare. The Invisible Committee
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Here’s the thing: the world is a mess. It’s a really bad mess, so let’s take a moment to admit it to ourselves and each other. Let’s take steps to deal with it together. We can start by being honest about how bad things have become, and we can start there for a good reason: because we won’t know what’s going on if we don’t first admit that things are as bad as they actually are. And then we can work together to figure out what’s going on.

Source: Coming Insurrection, The

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