Voting, Politics and the Xartus: Paganism in Practice
a fine and thoughtful post about balance, chaos, revolution and Druidry…
Originally posted on Treasure in Barren Places:
I���ve been having a debate with with a friend about politics and voting. (See Cthuludruid���s blog post here.) I���ve been doing my usual reaction to people who yell ���Revolution!���, nearly as gleefully as American apocalypse-wishers who hoard food and guns and wait for humanity to return to its true wild ways (only this time with better weapons). Cthuldruid points out to me, elsewhere, that he���s not talking about violent revolution ��� although that���s primarily what we see, in revolutions throughout history. But even where that���s not what happens, theorising about change feels so useless sometimes.
This is about��the current, real struggles of people who are dealing with some horrendous shit, to a degree that we haven���t seen since Thatcher���s reign of terror ��� maybe since Victorian times. (As my partner said the other day ��� at least there were workhouses to go to, under the Victorian regime.)��Think of Marx���
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