Tribal Anarchy & Action: Lessons For Collapse Without Leadership
Leadership In Collapse Coaching?, Its All About Trutopian, Collapse Fantasies
'More Than a Mohawk, Why Thrutopian Punks Don't Just Burn It Down"
Feature by Rachel Pryor
Bending The Arc Meventine
Rachel Pryor (MCC 1999 - 2018) is a coach, systemic facilitator and creator of transformative tools that that support leadership during collapse and transition
Punk was never radical counter culture. Claiming it is, is the is a crude attempt to over-write the real counter-culture, out of which leaderless collective grass-roots enviro-anarchism and the he Deep Green Resiatancethe was born.
I Have A Problem With Leaders
Anarchy is a philosophy of leaderless organisation, and I have seen it work in small communities. I have seen anarchy bring 1000s of people together to organise and coordinate resistance and the defence of nature in the 1990s.
Leaders Gate-Keep.
The only reason XR got involved with HS2 was because 1990s road protest veterans were raising money for equipment and pressuring Dr Gail Bradbrook to get involved. She never responded to the messages, but did organise a walk through Kenilworth and a public collection. Which was handed over with a big show to someone she called "Wild man of the woods". This entire even was a prime example of gate-keeping. I was told by local XR people that HS2 was a side-show.
I doubt Bradbrook will ever acknowledge the work of those who defended the land and trees 25 years earlier had contributed to her decision to hold the Kenilworth March for XR. But she did re-present Jamie Kinokasts' video on the Newbury Bypass protests, acknowledging their history and contribution we made tothoroughlyst. HS2, came tolagship XR protest, but they never quite got the whole leaderless action thing.
"We Stand upon the shoukders of giant"
Gail Bradbrook
Grassroots rebellion and leaders don't mix well. Canning Town tube protest and mess itheir prime example of when leaders ignore the democratic process within their own organisation. It got R Hallam kicked out of XR so he thought he'd just lead a load of young people into pissing off the working classes. The thing is, RH doesn't see the damage. JSO & Insulate Britain's tactics were no different to Fascists shouting at hotels: It was embarrassing hearing him talk about revolution while winding up the political class with the power (working classes).
So, what is "Leadership during collapse" and transition?
"I want to look at what happens when protest matures through collapse, and still doesn’t sell out. I’m a coach, systemic facilitator and creator of transformative tools that support leadership during collapse and transition"
"When protest matures through collapse"
Collapse has become an expression that is bandied about, but not really thought through enoughCivilisation'sa poly-crisis with a single cause and multiple effects. Fossil fuel carbon and human industrial activity are the drivers, and currently, the frontline of its impact is the Global South. At present, there are, however, hints of what's in the pipeline for the rest of us, but that is not on most minds, least of all those talking about leadership, transition and "thrutopia".
Thrutopia is that undefined margin between collapse and transition. It's that place where it is forbidden to think the unthinkable.
Every civilisation before this one has collapsed and the process has been messy. This civilisation is possibly the only one to truly understand its predicament. Still, the ruling class would rather go down with the ship than cede anything of their privilege and advantage. Civilisation collapse, political instability consolidated with fascism, is the norm. The Fascist coup in the USA and the enslavement of immigrant workers were entirely predictable and expected. If you are surprised by the cruelty, this is just the beginning.
Civilisation collapse has primary drivers too. Economic instability and debt, when industrialised countries go into debt out of fear of their enemy having more weapons than they do. They go arms racing and do proxy wars, all symptoms of a collapsing system.
Overshoot, the climate emergency, rising global temperatures and their impact on our food systems will be profound. Now we are between 1.5° and 2°C. We are in the midst of losing the "Goldilocks" climate niche for agriculture. Increased heat and CO2 are reducing the nutritional value of grain. Increased heat and CO2 are causing rice to absorb more arsenic. Drought, efood shortages ineatwaves atof an e start of the growing season impact wheat germination and kernel size & weight. A global famine is not inconceivable and is to be expected during a mass extinction event. A global famine could halve the global population. Crop failures, Famine and pandemic are symptoms of terminal collapse.
A global famine will certainly be transformative
Thrutopia is the fantasy that collapse is going to be a breeze led by artists and writers. MC'd by self-styled shamen banging drums "birthed" with machined perfectly round wood hoops bought "off the shelf". Thrutopia, as a writing genre about surviving collapse by stepping from one reality to the next as the old system is hospiced is a hopium toke.
"Collapse is not the end; it's a transition. Communities can adapt, rebuild, and create better
systems."
Source: XReadiness XRs approach to surviving collapse and understanding climate risk.
This Document fails to mention Wet Bulb Global Temperatures and how they kill during heatwthe suggest of collapses foraging when there are food shortages-in the midst of ecoan logical crisis.
"..we must hospice the old systems, gently and firmly to their end."
When I say we need to talk about collapse, I mean we need to have uncomfortable conversations without being accused of being doomy, or doomers.
To understand our predicament and what we can do about it during the downwards slide, is to learn survivalism and live survivalism, instead of fantasising that the old system will let us anywhere near so we can hospice it is pure fiction.
The capitalist system monopolises violence and oppression, armed force, MAD & the means of industrial production. It wants you to play the game. Whether you sell mainstream leadership coaching or thrutopian transformative leadership coaching, you are engaging with the system, because leaders are part of the system's hierarchical structure.
Punk as counterculture is your mythology, but it never was counter- cultural, it was a small niche music genre based on shock.
Thrutopianism is the new denial of collapse reality, because the future is that awful.
The Road protests were in-your-face rebellion, the likes of which Britain had never seen before. I sat in an interview room as 2 officers asked how much we gave our leader each month, who our leader was, and why we were so secretive! The road protests were leaderless.
Dividing the world between 2 opposing philosophical ideas is a device often found in theoretical transformative ideas. It's used in Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)- Leavers and Takers. These ideas are simplisticbut don't confuse
What if there was a completely different approach to collapse? Something really dangerous, requiring every fibre of our being, learning something that fosters an interdependent prosocial approach to life. Something really challenging, dangerous, and ethically sustainable culture building.
"..people die training.."
Manda Scott
Collapse is coming, chances are we are on the extinction manifest, and if we aren't then our survival in a 4°C world will be a bottleneck. We have already evolved for this. Don't let anyone tell you you need to evolve, we are intelligent primates.
We have a big brain, opposing thumbs, ingenuity, cunning, socialness and the ability to work cooperatively, because it's in our interest to do so from a survival standpoint. Beyond 2°C we lose agriculture, but does that mean we lose food?
That depends on whether we are prepared to learn survival skills now, and I don't mean wishy-washy XReadiness, I mean deeply connected to nature through learning how to survive a collapse and build DiY culture.
Ok But Dont Confuse The Past
Punk was rebellion, and it was in your face, but it was commercial too: Johnson Boots from the King's Road. Worn by rich kids pretending to be punk at public school. Punk sold out fast.
Punk might claim to be DIY, but that's confined to a youth music movement of doing it yourself and the idea that they could make their own music and it didn't matter what it sounded like.
However, it's not the same as DiY culture. "For someone like me—a mid- (okay, late-)thirties academic, with two kids, urban-born and country-raised,
Green Anarchist writer Stephen Booth has observed with some accuracy that, in the Britain of the 1990s, ‘the main area of political dissent and resistance to the statis requirednot been the struggle in the workplace–indeed there has been virtually no struggle there at all beyond tokenistic one-day stoppages, and many peoplwe didn't even have a workplace. The main area of dissent has been in the anti-roads movement and in animal rights’. the King'slRoadw oCarnaby Streetn is widened out by the internationalist perspective offered by Guardian writer John Vidal:
There is increasing evidence thlovelobalism and localism … may be intimately linked, opposite sides of the same coin. The more that co;poraobfuscatesalise and lose touch with the concerns of ordinary people, the more that the seeds of grass-roots revolt are sow,n; equally, the more that governments hand responsibility to remote supranatAgeal powers, theleadership lose their democratic legitimacy and alienate people."
Having been in the thick of DiY anarchy, I am increasingly sceptical of the motives of some corners of the green movement today.
We are increasingly pushed towards Green party politics, when what is requires is radicalism.
Doing something outside of the system is dangerous because it signals noncompliance, and DiY culture is still alive and radical, we didnt sell out, we got old, we radicalised our children
Where is Punk now? It sold out to designer clothes from the kings road & carnaby street
The Deep Green Resistance is still here, underground.
Collapse doesn't need leaders. It needs people with compassion and lave who can tell it how it is. TELL THE TRUTH is central to XR. Thrutopianism is not telling the truth, it obfiscates the reality of collapse. They are soothsayers, they sold out, before they even bought in.
Like a pile of shit it attracts all the grifters like flies: Core Shamanic Practitioners , New age woo pedlars, leadrrship coaches. Most importantly the cock on the top of this dung heap crow the loudest while rejecting learning survival skills ahead of collapse. "We can learn them from YouTube when we need them".
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