why don't i march any more?

i was always looking for a broader movement; i've never held out much hope that any specific protest is going to really accomplish much, and to a certain extent these marches are even really a symptom of the problem - if these people would march on factories instead of down streets, right? we'll know we're ready when we stop marching and start doing.

the march was always a meeting place, somewhere to try to network, and that was always it's real value, as a stepping stone to broader organizing. so, the most important thing that came out of occupy was that i found myself in a social group that included a lot of self-identified anarchists - not because of anything specific to the action, but due to the long term implications around movement building.

i more or less stopped entirely when i got to windsor. it's partly because i found myself immersed in my art, which is a good thing, but i could have made time. that i didn't had more to do with a level of cynicism that sunk in around the ubiquity of capitalism, and the realization that these activists would never be ready to actually change anything. they were, in truth, capitalists to their bones......and i just found myself wanting to get away from them.

there was never a point where i thought that a climate march would have any meaningful actual effect on policy, but there was a point where i thought it might be a good place to meet people to plan deeper organizing around. i've largely abandoned this, in favour of a technological determinism: we're going to have to wait for things to fail, first, and then react. sad, but probably true...

i like the politics, but i don't like the people.

i'll be more productive arguing with people on the internet than i will be marching.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.