Inatt missade jag sista tåget hem och vandrade runt på stan. Då slog mig tanken att det skulle vara bra att börja varje vecka med ett citat. Det är på engelska men jag tror att dom flesta av er kan det språket. Men om nån orkar översätta det till svenska så kan jag ändra det.
"Niceism: a tendency, more or less socially codified, to approach reality in terms of whether others behave cordially; tyranny of decorum which disallows thinking or acting for oneself; mode of interaction based upon the above absence of critical judgment or autonomy. All of us prefer what is friendly, sincere, pleasant-nice. But in an immiserated world of pervasive and real crisis, which should be causing all of us to radically reassess everything, the nice can be the false.—
In the context of a mauled social life that demands the drastic as minimum response toward health, niceism becomes more and more infantile, conformist and dangerous. It cannot grant joy, only more routine and isolation. The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society. Niceism keeps us all in our places, confusedly reproducing all that we supposedly abhor. Let’s stop being nice to this nightmare and all who would keep us in it." - John Zerzan
- Wainamoinen
