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[-] sunsofold@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago

The perpetual paradox of political education. Books transmit information. The knowledge they confer will simultaneously make you better informed about how to design a better society, but less and less certain about whether revolution will encourage or even allow that kind of society. Memes transmit emotions, instilling the passion to enact revolution, but leaving you with no knowledge of how to revolt, or how to rebuild afterward.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Reading theory and history has only made me more certain that revolution is necessary and good.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

the dialectic at work :)

[-] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

So, memes first to get passion. Then books to get info. Then memes again to get back the passion?

Or Books then Memes if they are already interested?

[-] sunsofold@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

The passion drives one to act, not read. The informed are resistant to the emotional manipulation of memes.

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago
[-] square@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Are the kids these days still doing zines? Like actual physical ones, not online? I used to love contributing to those, and reading them, back in the 90s.

[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Zines have just kind of become printed memes, but Food Not Bombs still keeps them at their distro tables. One group I read about was actually printing them on napkin paper and wrapping homebaked bread in them. Which is just genius, imho.

[-] mxd0_othxng@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 1 week ago

Zine culture is about as active as it's ever been in the subcultures it has always been a part of (punk, diy, activism, etc).

[-] square@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's good to hear. Zines are a part of my youth I look back on fondly. I'm glad they're still around, and surprised, I would have thought being online all the time with all the self publishing options available would have killed them.

[-] mxd0_othxng@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Honestly, if you consider why you were likely attracted to them, it'll probably beceome clear why they'll never die. For me it's DIY culture, something that while available online through personal websites,^[aka the indie web or small web. Which is similar to zines in both aesthetics and community, actually] within zine culture also comes with the possibility of both arts & crafts as well as meet-space level community events.

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, one of the protestors got like 50 years in prison for transporting them a couple months back :(

[-] deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I make zines. Usually I just reprint (literally with a printer. Yea it’s super fucking annoying to use even when it works right) stuff that the PSL sends me, that stuff is all really solid, usually just history told in short, concise paragraphs.

I am working on my own comics and my own lil character guys that I plan on making real zines with. I found an anti flock paper that had One of my work friends’ art on it credited to her and I told her I found it and she was like “???? That’s cool tho”. So yeah we’re out here making shit you just gotta find it. Free little libraries are perfect, but nothing beats handing them out to people directly.

[-] lemonsorrel@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

when all you have is a string to pull on

you pull on it to keep caring

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

Reminds me of something Alok said about playbooks: we focus on the books but forget to play.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

that's the internet era's way. rock on.

[-] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I didn't know that quote by Voltaire.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

The truth never needs long explanations

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