If Mort Divine ruled the world

https://quillette.com/2018/12/11/sad-radicals/

Poor Mort.

When I became an anarchist, I was a depressed and anxious teenager, in search of answers. Radicalism explained that these were not manageable issues with biological and lifestyle factors, they were the result of living in capitalist alienation. For, as Kelsey Cham C notes, “This whole world is based on fucking misery” and “In capitalist systems, we’re not meant to feel joy.” Radicalism not only finds that all oppressions intersect, but so does all suffering. The force that causes depression is the same that causes war, domestic abuse, and racism. By accepting this framework, I surrendered to an external locus of control. Personal agency in such a model is laughable. And then, when I became an even less happy and less strong person over the years as an anarchist, I had an explanation on hand.
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Activists anxiously pore over interactions, looking for ways in which the mundane conceals domination. To see every interaction as containing hidden violence is to become a permanent victim, because if all you are is a nail, everything looks like a hammer.
 
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Anarchy isn’t a great way of life, but it can be an immensely useful tool for interrogating the world in which we live.

I’m reading Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method right now, which basically pushes this idea to an untenable degree—but it’s still a compelling argument.
 
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Anarchy isn’t a great way of life, but it can be an immensely useful tool for interrogating the world in which we live.

I’m reading Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method right now, which basically pushes this idea to an untenable degree—but it’s still a compelling argument.

Well as a reformed Rothbardian, I'm not entirely in disagreement. But my interrogation didn't look anything like what is described in that article; that article describes exactly what I observe from the SJW crowd, or however one wants to label them. Miseducated, unhappy people externalizing problems that are substantially of their own making.
 
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JP has previously been on a lot of podcasts and mostly just kind of going through a script related to 12 Rules or stuff mostly covered in his classroom based videos (which was also the case the 2 previous times he was on the Jocko Podcast (also "JP" lol)). This was a welcome break from that trend, and they really dig into human capacity for evil via the Gulag Archipelago.

 
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