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Journals: Anarchy and gardening.

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06.10.08
Green Journal

I find the juxtaposition of an anarchist publication next to a ladies' gardening club brochure on the library's "free resources" shelf to be quite amusing.

I'm always "impressed" by anarchist groups that use structured systems -- get your T-shirts! -- to promote dissolution of those systems. They'd probably say something along the lines of "using the system against itself" but I'd probably just say "lazy, ideologically confused, and not very creative."

As it is, I find a magazine promoting destruction of private property and the theft of phone cards so that older anarchists can make phone calls to "teenage lovers for phone sex*" dropped right next to a cheery publication promoting daffodils and a bristling program of classes on the finer points of mulch and compost to actually be quite the perfect pairing.

Perhaps a few printed chapters from Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, placed carefully inside each magazine, are in order.

* Though I do regret the kinds of searches that are now going to be brought to this site, I don't find it at all surprising that in a grand, ideological article about the finer points of anarchy and why it must be so, a paragraph on this activity seems to negate all of the rest of the oration and reveal the oddly typical and rote reason for "counter-cultural" activity.

Labels: journals, media, summer 2008