Hello comrades and welcome to the fourth improvement megathread of August! bonfire

Some discussion ideas:

-    How was your week?

-    Do you have some plans for next week?

-    Do you have some tools or resources that you want to share?
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Intellectuals must unite with fellow workers, peasants and soldiers

知识分子必须同工农兵相结合

Zhishi fenzi bixu tong gongnongbing xiang jiehe

Good luck with your goals! unity

  • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    20 days ago

    While I can’t do much about the economy I can work on another goal I’ve had many times already that of finally quitting pornography. I’ll admit younger me has tried “no fap” to no success and no pornography to various limited success I think I was inspired by something I read today

    from an anarchist cook book recipe for disaster CW mature themes sex etc

    just as refusing to regard the products of animal exploitation as food can help you re- discover your ability to feel compassion in a desensitized society, it can be a worthwhile experiment to avoid pornography and conventional representations of sex. These gener- ally reinforce the notion of sex as a performance of domination and submission, and lust as a desire for objectified bodies that conform to unhealthy beauty norms-to such an extent that when two people who have spent their lives being conditioned by them come together in bed, it is not an intersection of two individuals, but of the images they put in place of themselves and each other. As my friend who counsels perpetrators of sexual abuse and domestic violence tells them, if all your sexual encounters have taken place under the influence of hierarchical programming, you’ve never made love–you don’t know even h o w what it is

    meow-anarchist deleted my porn gonna hop off sites I go on etc for at least a solid week. I’m without a partner and in no real place to find someone anyway so figure now’s a good time than any to deprogram myself. Even if I remain vocel my whole life all this improvement stuff if for my own benefit anyway.