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Be hostile to hostile architecture
(files.mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15059816
transcript [text overlaid on several pictures of benches and outside windowsills. the benches have bars, or gaps to prevent someone from sleeping on them.
text reads "Ban anti-homeless arctithecture"]
sauce: https://mastodon.social/@AnarchistArt/112901196516297447
Hostile architecture is among the symptoms of the hostile modern city, where neighbours never say hi, and people die on the streets as people walk passivly by.
Not just that. But what if two anarchists disagree with each other? Who wins? The one who is willing to escalate the highest? My neighbor doesn’t like my native wildflowers, so we yell at each other until someone pulls a gun?
If you're both batshit insane, sure.
Of course normal people just have polite conversations.
Fortunately for us, everyone on earth has totally rational responses to all situations. And we all agree: we want things to be good, and not bad. And it’s very obvious what things are which!
The thing about the flowers is obviously trivial. There are other matters where a violent ‘direct action’ is obviously warranted.
There are a million things in the middle that are nuanced and difficult and entirely susceptible to ‘person who threatens the most escalation wins’ outcomes.
And hierarchies are made up of people who totally have rational responses to all situations.
Especially the people who naturally gravitate to the top.
Hence why maintaining a society without any form of explicit or implicit hierarchy is very very possible.