Practical Anarchy - A Guide to Self Determination

This playlist presents the main video series based on Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination. Taken together, these episodes form a connected, cumulative argument rather than a collection of standalone videos. Each part builds on what came before, gradually dismantling familiar assumptions about power, authority, money, work, democracy, punishment, technology and control. Rather than treating anarchism as a political identity or future blueprint, the series approaches it as a practical method of analysis. It asks how authority is normalised, how obedience is learned, and how social systems that present themselves as natural or necessary are historically contingent and actively maintained. The series moves from critique to construction. Early sections expose the myths that underpin the State, markets and hierarchy. Later chapters explore how people already organise life outside those frameworks through mutual aid, informal cooperation, shared resources and non-coercive forms of accountability. The emphasis throughout is on understanding why existing systems fail before asking what might replace them. These videos are designed to be watched in sequence. They assume attention, patience and a willingness to question deeply held beliefs. The aim is not persuasion or recruitment, but clarity – offering tools for thinking about freedom, responsibility and social organisation without rulers.

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Currently Playing: WHAT PEOPLE GET WRONG ABOUT SCIENCE FICTION

📖 PART 61. Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination In this episode, we examine a common assumption: that science fiction is just escapism – stories about the future with little relevance to how power actually operates in the present. Dystopian worlds are often treated as exaggerations or warnings about what might happen one day. But many of their core themes – surveillance, managed obedience, algorithmic control and technocratic planning – are already embedded in everyday life. Some stories explore domination through fear and force. Others show control arriving quietly, through comfort, distraction and engineered consent. Both ask the same underlying question: what happens when order is prioritised over freedom? Science fiction is not prediction. It is a testing ground – a way of feeling how different systems shape human behaviour before they are fully normalised. Rather than offering slogans or ideology, this project asks what actually works – and what quietly reproduces hierarchy, authority and control. 📚 From the book: Practical Anarchy – A Guide to Self-Determination • Section 92 – Anarchism and science fiction – visions of freedom and control ► Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDT6pJU3_gViYVxWUTl8PcR29sW0GAcQK ► Join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1864387554451463/ ► Buy the book: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=9dOIqr4EMtGT3x43Y9bhrmDaCPKCIzif4Y1dUjMvxgr

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