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here's a little bonus release to my recent "Mosquito Love" album.  

out now via Sumoclic: https://bfan.link/moth-love 

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Produced by Maxwell Byrne
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What is techno-skepticism? One of the most vital seeds that we could plant today! One of the clearest extensions of a colonial progress narrative throughout the planet today is the pathetic belief in Silicon Valley and its tech-bros. Indeed, perceiving arrogant criminals like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos as innovative leaders is one of the clearest signs of the profound misunderstanding that currently afflicts millions of our loved ones. If you’re concerned about extractivism, did you notice that it’s technology that’s enabled extractivism? This is important to observe. If you’ve ever heard someone talking about climate change who says ‘technology will save us!’ while failing to recognize that technology is a principle factor for what got us into this mess to begin with, this seed is for you. Let’s break it down. 

PS- Yes, I’m sharing snippets of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. 

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Techno-Skepticism: Seed #2 (FV Ep. 21)

Unlearning the illusion of hyper-individuation is easier said than done for those of us in deeply capitalist contexts like the settler colonial US. Alas, atomization is as American as apple pie.

Hyper-individualism is a result of having been divided and conquered. As a matter of fact, that mentality dovetails nicely with a common military strategy. It separates communities and individuals who could be coming together to end oppression and move the fuck on with this miracle that is life. This mentality encourages competition instead of cooperation. And here’s one part of the divide and conquer individuation scam that’s even more insidious. It divisively classifies how we understand oppression to begin with! Into silos. We’ve gotta be able to connect the dots, tho, to begin to deepen understanding. Unless we’re doomed to stay small and disparate, that is… 

What do LSD, perseverance porn, & the 1968 Beatles song ‘Revolution’ have in common? Have a listen to this discourse on hyper-individualism to find out : ) 

PS- Yes, I’m sharing excerpts from my book Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment. Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. 

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Hyper-individualism: Weed #4 (FV Ep. 24)

What is co-optation? Let’s talk green-washing, diversity & inclusion campaigns, misunderstanding decolonization, land acknowledgements, & more. 

Just cuz someone’s talking about a thing doesn’t mean they know what they’re talking about! For example, they might be a business trying to bank off of a social movement. As a matter of fact, did you know exactly that was actually one of the first major experiments in public relations (aka advertising) in U.S. history? Yep, Edward Bernays tried to sell women cigarettes by coupling their consumption with the suffrage movement in the US. He came up with the catchy slogan ‘torches of freedom’ & did some savvy product placement at an event and it caught fire. To the order of countless women subsequently getting hooked and dying of lung cancer & other cigarette-related diseases. 

So what is co-optation exactly? Merriam-Webster calls it “the act or an instance of co-opting something: a taking over or appropriation of something for a new or different purpose. // the co-optation of the raised fist as a patriotic symbol- Niela Orr” is given as an example. Co-optation is one of the perennial concerns of movements for collective liberation. Liberals, politicians, businesses, and celebrities consistently try to subsume the potency and resonance of revolutionary organizing to serve their own aims. They parrot style and lack substance. And distract a whole lotta our loved ones who could have otherwise gotten connected with legit groups and community spaces and purpose and power. 

PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. 

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Co-optation: Weed #5 (FV Ep. 26)

How does our knowing get impacted by subjectivity, values, & identity? Find out thru this talk on feminist & indigenous epistemologies & so much more. Plz lemme know in the comments what you found evocative- I’d love to hear. Also plz be forewarned that I nerd out on theory a lil’ in the intro, but then it gets less jargon-y : ) 

PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. 

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Context: Seed #5 (FV Ep. 27)

When violent crime is discussed in mainstream echo chambers, is the term more likely to be associated with polluting lakes & damming rivers or a stabbing? I’ll bet you know the answer. Yet, which is overwhelmingly more catastrophic for people and the planet? What a deadly bias. Who & what benefits from that limited interpretation of crime? Who and what doesn’t? There we go again with that *disproportionate focus on individuals obscuring institutional wrongdoings.

Not only have conventional notions of crime in the settler colonial US always been anti-Indigenous, anti-Black, classist, homophobic, and transphobic. They also open the floodgates for incarceration, banking off caged labor, increased surveillance, ripping apart families, siphoning off taxpayer dollars from vital social services, and pitting communities against one another. Ultimately, one of the most dangerous consequences of “normal” understandings of criminality is that they let annihilationist companies off the hook as they’re racing to push humanity off a cliff into unbridled climate chaos.

In a settler colonial empire, who gets to define crime? And who pays the price? Let’s unlearn propaganda around criminality to clarity which corporate culprits really need 2 be held accountable.

PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you.

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Criminality: Weed #6 (FV Ep. 28)

One of the greatest gifts that you could give your imagination is learning about the abolitionist movement (and getting involved).

While oppressive injustice would have us in-fighting over toxic crumbs, abolitionism invites us to have standards, respect, and dignity. Previously impossible within this nightmarish empire. Let’s talk about it. 

While the capitalist mainstream would make excuses for perpetuating horrific atrocities, abolitionism draws on thousands of peer-reviewed studies to make an undeniably compelling case for life-affirming alternatives.

Give thanks that we can move from weaponized & implanted ignorance to having humility. Let’s learn from some prolific scholar-activists who have been proving for decades that abolition is the only sensible way forward.

PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. 

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Abolition: Seed #6 (FV Ep. 29)

Public private member of the riot citizen Person
i know all Your secrets
justice can see in the dark
what's worse than feeling unworthy?
did You Work for it? are you good enough? do You have the right stuff?
break your Body for it
fall to your knees
go on and clench your jaw tightly
You can try n hide but justice can see in the dark

Justice can (see in the Dark)

What if the least reliable people about spirituality are those who call themselves ‘spiritual?’ Let’s talk about the new (c)age psy-op and how to unlearn it. 

Let’s have some respect for the power of spirituality by disentangling it from insultingly commercialized distortions. Why let our ancestral wisdom continue to get tainted by marketing manipulation? In the settler colonial U.S., spirituality is widely associated with anti-intellectualism due to a tragic conflation with the new (c)age psy-op. What a massive con job. Sloppy generalizations, a lack of vetting sources, and the entitlement of rape culture have coalesced into a deadly market of half-truths that ensnare millions of our loved ones. Let’s unpack how these opportunistic scams get perpetuated & how to stop the bypassing so folks can reconnect with power & potential. 

PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. 

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Justice can (see in the Dark)

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