What is the pointy symbol?
I am guessing some anarch movement but which one?
The Chaos star, originally created by the author Michael Moorcock for his 1960 series Elric of Melnibone series. If you’ve not read it, add it to your reading list because it’s a master class in dark fantasy.
The actual symbol is an eight pointed star North, East, South, West, and the points in-between representing all possibilities. Law and order are represented by a single arrow representing the single certain road of Law. (This is not a reflection of Good and Evil, because Chaos and Law can contain both)
The symbol has be adopted by basically everyone. From Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40k to occultists and political activists.
As a note Moorcock himself (currently 86) identifes as an Anarchist, and loves that his creation is used all over the place.
He’s also been told to his face that it’s somehow an ancient symbol of chaos. There is zero evidence to back this up.
Will check it out, seems cool.
I will say that Moorcock had a commanding mastery over language and prose, he was held back by some of the pulp tropes of the time. But it’s still a classic. Elric is pure anti-hero in almost every sense of the term, and directly inspired later writers.
Anarcho-nihilism/Chaos Anarchy; the future is irreparably fucked and the large scale revolution needed for systemic change is too far off manifesting before the collapse, so burn the system down on your way out and take the bastards with you.
A healthy view in moderation imo. Still worth building up parallel systems on the sidelines so you can cover all bases.
tl;dr: Climate collapse anarchy, seminal reading being Desert: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert
Ah cool, I am trying to stay hopeful, but every day it seems more and more pointless so I kinda get it.
One could argue that the propaganda is to keep them in power while billions of us die. Something they touch on in the Epstein files.
Oh good one
I feel ya. Hope is hard, but we also need something to aim for.
Yeah I recently read exactly this in relation to scifi.
What visions of the future a society has may be related to the future it creates. We can see this in the writings of Le Guin vs the cyberpunk genre of media
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