[FUPQ-13] Practice corporeal politics
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by Pfenix Quinn
The Free University of Phoenix Quinn is a service of the Socialist Freedom Party, an e-political party that believes the revolution requires dancing, that the person in charge must be a servant, and that meals are best when they are shared.
This is Lecture Number 13 of a 20-part series on Combating Tyranny. It's shamelessly based on Tim Snyder's NY Times bestseller ON TYRANNY, adapted to our New World situation by R.F. Williams, who claims to have fallen to e-earth inside the SFP's secret undersea lair off the coast of Australia, where he discovered the prison notebooks of Phoenix Quinn.
Para traducir este lío es más dificil que cagar en un frasquito, pero podéis encontrar traducciones valientes al español de estas conferencias en VANGUARDIA SOCIALISTA.
Practice corporeal politics.
Power wants your body rotting on the sofa and your emotions dissipating into the screen.
Get outside. Put your body into unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and take a stroll with them.
Resistance to tyranny requires crossing boundaries. Two in particular:
First, ideas about change need to engage a variety of people who are not going to agree about everything. Second, players need to find themselves outside their home ground, among others who were not previously their friends.
Nothing is real that does not end up on the streets. If tyrants feel no consequences, nothing changes.
Freedom seldom follows a carefully constructed party line. Instead, it often requires those from the Right and the Left, believers and atheists, young and old, to band together in a way that builds trust amongst regular working people. This is why Sub-Comandante Marcos once said, "I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of the world."
The choice to have a public life and to engage with others across boundaries that may be difficult to cross at first, depends on the ability to maintain a private sphere of life. We can be free only when it is we ourselves who draw the line between when we are seen and when we are not seen.
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Examples of questions you might want to talk a walk with in response to this lecture:
* How are private and public spheres distinguished in the New World?
* What are some ways we can "get off the sofa" and "turn off the screen" when carrying on a political life in a virtual world?
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Examples of questions you might want to talk a walk with in response to this lecture:
* How are private and public spheres distinguished in the New World?
* What are some ways we can "get off the sofa" and "turn off the screen" when carrying on a political life in a virtual world?
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A veces, es imposible volver a lo que una vez amamos - At times it is impossible to go back to what we once loved. Nice video, btw. 🙂
I think we get outside in this game by leaving our comfort zones, by engaging on some level with people who are different from us, linguistically, culturally, or politically. We can stay in two-click mode and be quite happily private, of course, and sometimes we all need to do that, to refresh and renew ourselves. However, if we stay disengaged or only engage with a select group of like-minded people, we miss out on a multitude of rich experiences that the game can offer. It is also very possible, if we interact with people who speak different languages (not just different tongues, but also different ideologies, whether political, religious, or something else), we will find we have much in common. We may have different approaches to meeting our needs and those of our communities, but we all have the same basic needs, whether in New World or the old. Listening to learn, even if we think we will disagree, can open up new approaches to solving our common problems. Standing on our own little pieces of territory and screaming at anyone who might be trying to encroach will never solve anything, and just might foment the revolution that we fear.
Voy camino a la locura y aunque todo me tortura, sé querer.
I'm on my way to madness and even if everything tortures me I know how to love.
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To turn of the screen in real life is the way to really meet people. Listen and seeing that people who seems so different to you have so much in common with you will bring a lot of pleasure and understanding. It will not only make your life easier, but it can change the society.
To turn of the screen in eRepublik might end the game for you and when a lot of us do that it can end eRepublik. It is only a game but this game makes it possible to meet very different people and it can bridge huge distances. It is worth a try to talk in depth with other gamers. Maybe it can give bigger insight in the shortcomings of your own society or it can bring some real fun. Just try to bridge something and you might be surprised.
First, how it feels to be in Congress
Second, how one can feel in Congress
lol but in all seriousness
Interaction can be hard my wife for example has Social Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia which can make putting your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people literally panic inducing. However I don't believe it has to always be in the literal sense. An example in eRep would be to interact with people you don't normally interact with.
Say for example you are a member of political party A, you hang out on party A's discord all the time. Maybe join party B's discord and see what it is like.
Another perhaps you never interact with anyone in the game outside the game interface. Perhaps try to visit one of your country's meta resources. Be it a forums, IRC, discord, etc. Or even visit those resources for another eCountry and see what other people are like, and doing.
Great notes. Thanks. Speaking of games and social anxiety disorder, there was a group in Second Life for some time that was working on creating welcoming electronic spaces where folks could work on learning to engage with others. Not sure if that is still active though.