Hi, there! You can call me Rabbit.
I was born in Florida in 1988 and grew up north of Tampa until moving to Tennessee in 2007. In 2021, I uprooted myself, again, and headed to New England. I’m a perpetual student with almost 20 years of cumulative university study under my belt… and not a single degree to show for it! Why? I’ll tell you, later. For wage slavery, I’m a software developer, but that’s not very exciting….
I’d much rather be making money as a career musician. Or a writer. Or literally anything other than a participant in capitalism. I’m a philosopher in the truest sense of the word, particularly fond of neoplatonism and transcendentalism, but also of Mill’s utilitarianism and Stirner’s Egoism (balanced with a healthy dose of ethical philosophy, mind you!). I’m an occultist, and an initiate of transgressive mysticism (yeah, nobody knows what that means, that’s okay… I got you!) but that doesn’t really concern anyone else (unless you want to talk to me about philosophy and magic and weird shit? Please? Please!?).
I guess you could say I became an activist in 2002 when I started working with my local FNB and a direct action animal rights advocacy group. I was 11 years old when I first labeled myself an anarchist and, despite all efforts, that has not changed in over a quarter of a century.
I did, at one point, try to maintain an open-mindedness towards “statist” politics — I dabbled in democratic socialism and liberal socialism and put a genuine effort into trying to “accept” them as “the best possible option.” I could not.
I usually call myself an anarchist without adjectives; properly, I’m a mutualist and a syndicalist but I’m also heavily influenced by environmentalism and sustainability, and I’m not opposed to working with any other “kinds” of anarchists. These different flavors of anarchism are all just theoretical, right now and I don’t see a reason that we need to settle on just one for the whole world after the revolution… Pragmatically, I don’t think it matters what we call ourselves — what really matters is what we actually build and whether it is efficient, liberating, and fair. That should be the goal, and I expect the solution will be somewhere between socialism, syndicalism, left-markets, and localism (and, yes, I have intentionally excluded communism from this list — I’ll explain later and it’s not because I “hate” communism).
I can’t think of anything else to add here for now. Why don’t you just say hi? I’m always happy to make new friends! E-mail me!