Crushing reality, Hurtling towards destruction. I need to do more.

Yes I agree bartering is mostly as you describe. I only want to point out that economies are not only bartering, and that no one should ignore the authoritarian nature of how a “market economy” is formed and maintained.

Market economies have authority from the very beginning. You have to take land and resources away from people communally using them, and then keep them from using them again with soldiers or police.

“And I thought they smelled bad…on the outside!”

I don’t know enough Star Trek to make an amusing change to “some mothafuckas always trying to ice skate uphill” but I wish I did.

Pants dry, trees die!

Kind of a cutesy medium if true

Big if true

“Slowly, I told myself that evolution failed itself by giving a bit more individual selfishness over community/species survival.”

There are a lot of great answers here already, but I would like to put forth the anticapitalist position that the quote above is likely false. Humans can work together, we have developed systems of cooperation that can deter selfishness from destroying a community. This is possible (and despite decades of propaghanda…popular!) What is stopping it is the greed for wealth and power of the 1% at the expense of everyone else and the planet. The masses of people are constantly trying to stop this, and mostly fail. But cracks in their power do open occasionally, and you just have to do what you can until a Crack is available for you to help widen. I think it’s possible to win, but not through personal lifestyle changes and voting alone. Only through activism and protest is it possible. Most humans keep trying to solve this, and that gives me hope.

Early in the article: “Poll numbers have dropped due to his handling of Israel and Hamas”

Hmm, how could he handle this one? Stop sending weapons and $$$ to Israel?

Later in the article: “Some advisers have told him he should walk faster out of concern that his gait feeds impressions that he’s too old”

Counter measures against warlordism would be crucial for effective anarchism for sure!

I think the easiest approach to anarchism is searching for Chomsky talking about it.

This is correct. If society becomes a place where a few people are running everything by force it is not anarchy, even if technically there are no written down laws. A lot of anarchist philosophy is about how to achieve and maintain anarchy without it devolving back into hierarchical power structures. There are a lot of different ideas that have spawned their own subgenre of anarchy. I personally think some checks and balances combination of unions and community councils is the most likely to succeed. This is anarcho-syndicalism.

lots of butter my dude