Oof I saw a link to an anonymous essay called Desert on the Anarchist Library, seemingly positioned as an anti-doomerism thing to read, at least based on the context of the post, but I tried reading it and oooooof

I read the first part and had to stop. That was yesterday. Today I tried reading more, but I could only skim it cause it's pretty much the most doom-inducing thing I've ever read

Basically from what I've read it... advocates to give up hope for a better world because that's impossible and also what capitalist class-based society runs on!? I haven't seen anything like "instead this is what people should do", just "you're all wrong and everything is fucked forever", but maybe I missed something?

Is anyone familiar with it? Cause it's just making me wanna not bother with anything anymore and just lie down and rot 😬

The text is here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert

@hazelnot whoever recommended desert as a "hopeful" text was pulling your leg. That's gotta be the most bleak anarchist writing ever. It takes a very particular kind of person to read it and be kicked into action.

I have it on my bookshelf and appreciate it for what it is, but it is not for the faint of heart. Honest reading guides usually suggest reading something extremely hopeful aferwards.

@thufie they didn't do that per se, and didn't call it hopeful, or really anything, they linked it to someone else who said they wish they were less aware of the stuff going on and more able to delude themselves, and then followed it up with a bunch of other stuff that seemed a lot lighter based on the titles that they just said are "honourable mentions"

I haven't really found any reader's guides or anything, just a mix of people saying it's too doomery and people saying it's somehow not cause... 🤷‍♀️