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Andy fisher- radical ecopsychology. If you haven't heard of him already check out his lecture on youtube.

He's talking about we're discussing here.

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I’m fairly new to anti-capitalist philosophy and practices, but I’ve been following the “psychedelic renaissance” and the accompanying studies and literature for a couple of decades now. The last graphics in your article (Nation State vs Anarchist Ecological models) remind me of the brain network communication diagrams that were illustrated in a study on psilocybin (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2014.0873 - scroll to section 6. Discussion for the one I’m talking about). But basically, the study showed that subjects’ default processing networks/pathways were expanded and compounded exponentially. Obviously in the case of psychedelics, that can be a net positive OR negative experience depending on mindset of the subject, the setting of the experience, and positive integration support.

But I found it interesting that the models resemble one another so closely, and because I have been helping people integrate psychedelic experiences (unofficially for over 25 years, and from a more trained/culturally aware/trauma informed perspective for a few years), seeing it illustrated this way really helped me understand how to begin to integrate more anarchic and community based principles into my work and life.

Thank you!

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Hi, Ayesha. I’m Tina, from instagram as titigo57. I commented on the instagram version of this post, but I don’t think I asked it properly. So I wanted to clarify here.

In places like Europe, cultural/ethnic identity is very much intertwined with state/national identity (Danes/Denmark, Serbs/Serbia, etc). This has spawned fascism (both past and present), as well as anti-migrant groups who seek to “preserve and protect” their culture.

How would Europeans then come to embrace their cultural/ethnic identities (whether Swedish, Latvian, or Greek) in an anarchic society?

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Cultural identity doesn’t have anything to do with a made-up border or nation state that enforces power over people. Culture comes from community & connecting with people, land, traditions & none of that requires a hierarchical oppressive government to exist to coerce people into obedience. Nation states actually violate and cut across cultures which is the cause of endless violence & bloodshed like the partition of India and Pakistan. When people have freedom of movement & are able to build community around their local system, diversity of cultures are free to thrive without being forcefully and violently homogenized under a single national identity. Culture is not a monolith & as this newsletter explains, nation states lead to erasure of the diversity of cultures & traditions to enforce a dominant one that makes people easy to govern and control. People having culture has nothing to do with creating made up lines in the ground- the latter is about asserting power and control over people. This all becomes abundantly clear if you read into the basic principles of anarchy- there’s a link in my IG bio to the anarchist library FAQs. And a lot of people are deeply entrenched in oppressive systems including colonialism and capitalism- that doesn’t justify their existence.

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