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Were the Transcendentalists like Emerson and Thoreau proto-anarchists?

I read “Civil Disodedience” in High School and its opening lines seemed pretty anti statist to me so I did research and that’s how I first learned of anarchism. And I recently read Emerson’s essays “Self-Reliance,” “History,” and “The Oversoul” and he seems pretty aligned with individualist anarchism as he seems to criticize statism and wage labor.

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u/Any-Sympathy7540 — 1 day ago

Can Emersonian self-reliance and Garveyite black separatism be applied to the most alienated factions of the queer community (bisexuals, asexuals, and trans people) to create cooperative enterprises and horizontally-organized support groups to empower them?

As a white cis bisexual anarchist guy who deeply admires 19th century Transcendentalism and black separatism. I too want to create an ideology of cooperative self-sufficiency for bisexual people and allow asexuals and trans people to do so as well.

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u/Any-Sympathy7540 — 1 day ago

Can Emersonian self-reliance and Garveyite black separatism be applied to the most alienated factions of the queer community (bisexuals, asexuals, and trans people) to create cooperative enterprises and horizontally-organized support groups to empower them?

As a white cis bisexual anarchist guy who deeply admires 19th century Transcendentalism and black separatism. I too want to create an ideology of cooperative self-sufficiency for bisexual people and allow asexuals and trans people to do so as well.

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u/Any-Sympathy7540 — 1 day ago

What are some queer theory books by bi men for bi men about bi male issues?

I’m sorry for the posts I’ve been making. It’s just ever since I’ve dropped out of college in 2022. I’ve had little contact with the outside world until joining the Catholic Church. I’m involved with NEA Pride but all the people involved are monosexual gays and bi women. No bi men. I want some solidarity in my experience so I read authors like William Burroughs trying to find that solidarity. Are there any other bi male writers who wrote queer theory for bi men.

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u/Any-Sympathy7540 — 2 days ago

Can a queer guy have a mystical belief in metaphysical essentialism, teleology, natural law, and idealism (as in Neoplatonism, Vedanta, Kabbalah, Catholic Mysticism, Transcendentalism) while believing the sexual binary is socially constructed through conditioning (as in the theories of Foucault)?

So this post of mine was controversial: https://www.reddit.com/r/QueerTheory/comments/1ti04g2/comment/omqwf1s/?context=3

I thought it was well written. But I get why questioning the sexual binary can be seen as invalidating to monosexual gays. But part of being politically queer is seeing the sexual binary as a construct. A tool of power. So I ultimately do not regret it. I see it as a bold act of transgression against monosexual oppression. But I’m also a Neoplatonic Catholic (was confirmed on Easter which U always wanted to do as my Mom was raised Catholic but she didn’t raise me that way) and I‘m also a green anarchist influenced by 19th century Transcendentalism like Ralph Waldo Emerson, and I wonder if my belief in metaphysical idealism, metaphysical essentialism (as in belief in transcendent essences from a common source not like bioessentialism nor gender essentialism), teleology, and natural law ethics. I just wonder if that’s compatible with the constructionist view of sexuality.

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u/Any-Sympathy7540 — 2 days ago

Monosexuality is the Most Oppressive Construct, Besides The Nation-State and Industrial Capitalism, And Must Be Destroyed Alongside Them

Monosexuality (heterosexual or homosexual) isn’t real. It’s an oppressive construct impeding on God’s Nature. Just like the Nation-State and Industrial Capitalism. Bisexuality is built into human nature as it is into the nature of all creatures. We are just another ape that will fuck anything that moves. That is what makes Nature beautiful is its bisexuality. Great men have tried revolting against these constructs. Saint Paul in his Letters to the Romans wasn‘t condemning queerness but rather Hellenistic bisexuality of the heroes and philosophers degenerating into monosexual pederasty and sexual slavery. The construct of monosexuality has erased the glory of us bi men. We used to be the majority of the male population on earth. We used to be great men like William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, William Burroughs, and David Bowie. Now the elites have covered up our existence. So we must abolish all these oppressive constructs like monosexuality, the state, and capitalism, and return to Nature and the essence and source of Nature.

EDIT: Had to delete and repost to edit an “and” in the title for grammar purposes.

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u/Any-Sympathy7540 — 3 days ago

Monosexuality is the Most Oppressive Construct, Besides The Nation-State Industrial Capitalism, And Must Be Destroyed Alongside Them

Monosexuality (heterosexual or homosexual) isn’t real. It’s an oppressive construct impeding on God’s Nature. Just like the Nation-State and Industrial Capitalism. Bisexuality is built into human nature as it is into the nature of all creatures. We are just another ape that will fuck anything that moves. That is what makes Nature beautiful is its bisexuality. Great men have tried revolting against these constructs. Saint Paul in his Letters to the Romans wasn‘t condemning queerness but rather Hellenistic bisexuality of the heroes and philosophers degenerating into monosexual pederasty and sexual slavery. The construct of monosexuality has erased the glory of us bi men. We used to be the majority of the male population on earth. We used to be great men like William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, William Burroughs, and David Bowie. Now the elites have covered up our existence. So we must abolish all these oppressive constructs like monosexuality, the state, and capitalism, and return to Nature and the essence and source of Nature.

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u/Any-Sympathy7540 — 3 days ago

The Liberation of Bisexual Men in the Context of Anarchism

With Pride Month around the corner it’s worth remembering that the Pride movement wasn’t made for us bi men. It was made to exclude bisexuals, especially bi men. At most include only bi women as a bi woman organized the first Pride events. As the individualist anarchist Lysander Spooner says in “No Treason” to argue the Constitution is invalid, a contract is only valid when all people it applies to agree to it. Most bi activists today (Robyn Ochs for example) are women. How can they possibly represent us and our glorious history? We were philosophers, poets, musicians, actors, kings. We led history. But some seek to erase that. We led empires, Greece, Rome, Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire. Now bi men are rejected by women and forced only to date men and are perceived of as gay. 63% of women say they would never date a bi man. Bisexuality is built into primate behavior. But society and elites construct monosexuality as a form of social control. So we must return to the ways of old by forming anarchist communes built on cooperative economics and mutual aid to return to Nature’s Over-soul and become bisexual Over-men with our bisexual Over-women by our side.

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u/Any-Sympathy7540 — 8 days ago

I’ve just read “Tower of the Elephant” and “Queen of the Black Coast.” And I enjoyed both of them. They both were great intros to the character. I enjoyed the exotic setting. I enjoyed the Cosmic Horror style monsters and enjoyed the side characters (and felt pain at their passing). Great times.

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u/Any-Sympathy7540 — 21 days ago

I’m a 23 year old AuDHD bipolar bi man. I’m a libertarian socialist. I’m sadly a bit of a misogynist because women have always been in positions of authority in my life and I don’t trust authority, like my mother and teachers. I need to deconstruct that and am working on that. I also have tended to advocate for bisexual empowerment through bi4bi dating, generalizing monosexuals as a whole as biphobic, saying humans are naturally bisexual, saying bisexuals need a state, really being loud about the underrepresentation of bi men in media and blaming it on a certain ethno-religion running Hollywood. All actions I deeply regret and wish I hadn’t done. I thought I was trying to emulate seperatist liberation movements like the Nation of Islam, the logic being the typical integrationist model of queer politics hasn’t benefited us bisexual men; I was being delusional. For my delusional behavior I’ve been banned from all major bi subreddits except this one. Can you forgive me?

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u/Any-Sympathy7540 — 21 days ago