This is a visionary angle of mine, meant to possibly inspire thoughtful discussion everywhere. I especially would like to see fellow visionaries "run with" this in a plethora of angles!
What is this word "orrior" about?
Well, the idea is the "or" beyond the "war" in the much taken-for-granted idea of "war-rior" (which I feel tends to tool us into traps we'd rather avoid somehow). The idea of permitting ourselves, validating ourselves to see ourselves and our desires for peace as having crucial abilities for previously uncomprehended or forgotten power (tho in this case of "peace", i'm talking about *radical/radicalized peace*; where *we* get to define our ideas of peace/sanity instead of forever deferring to others in a kind of "chain-of-command" structure of envisioning ourselves and this reality we find ourselves in).
One idea about this "orrior" idea is that the words we pick up and utilize either have a way of "going to the heart" of liberating vibes, or they tend to get tooled by tyrannical vibes and aggressions. Thus the idea of "orrior" is meant especially to escape/evolve from the "war" within the word, and to create a "new" power, while validating our *own* ways of envisioning ourselves.
(to note: my inclination is *not* to promote artificial avoidance of "war" itself, which i think is unrealistic in a world full of persons mobilized to such *physicalities*, but to avoid how the general use of the term has a way of "occupying" and filling up the territory of our minds and our visionary imaginations, with its variously alienating aspects--i.e. the intense alienation of elites pushing uncomprehending populaces against each other for reasons of corporate- and state-craft).
Notably, as you read about these ideas, they are not "pacifist"/passive; they are coming from CONFRONTATIONAL strategies of nonviolence, similar to the "mass ju-jitsu" ideas of Saul Alinsky (whose creativity I agree with, not his reformist polytricks).
Other terms relating to and providing a kind of foundation for "the orrior way" include the "cruciaL aRtz" and "spanarchy" (see links below).
Two links go into image details,
the updated intro to "the orrior way":
la.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/196344.php
and
the original full zine (or, what I *think* is the whole thing):
www.angelfire.com/indie/desir...indexOR.html
Background info can be found here:
www.angelfire.com/folk/crucialarts/ (the crucial arts)
and here:
www.angelfire.com/folk/crucia...anarchy.html (and an ideah called "spanarchy")
Note: all art shared here is by me, is anti-copyright (excepting use by government, corporate, or formal reformist-type media) and may be informally self-published everywhere (i.e. to help finance your survival desires, tho "not for profit")
For ideas relating to the "orrior" way, see Green Anarchy #23, Summer/Fall '06:
www.greenanarchy.org/index.php
...Especially the part where there is discussion of Mohawk scholar Taiaiake Alfred's new book _Wasáse_ (2005). Here is a portion:
"...[Alfred] asks the question, what prevents us from decolonizing our minds? Interestingly enough from a surrealist perspective, he points to the atrophied power of the imagination as a key impediment to decolonization. As he explains, "We have lost our ability to dream our new selves and a new world into existence. We have mistakenly accepted the resolution to our problems that is designed by people who would have us move out of our rusty old colonial cages and right back into a shiny new prison of coping defined by managed fears and deadened emotional capacities.""
What is this word "orrior" about?
Well, the idea is the "or" beyond the "war" in the much taken-for-granted idea of "war-rior" (which I feel tends to tool us into traps we'd rather avoid somehow). The idea of permitting ourselves, validating ourselves to see ourselves and our desires for peace as having crucial abilities for previously uncomprehended or forgotten power (tho in this case of "peace", i'm talking about *radical/radicalized peace*; where *we* get to define our ideas of peace/sanity instead of forever deferring to others in a kind of "chain-of-command" structure of envisioning ourselves and this reality we find ourselves in).
One idea about this "orrior" idea is that the words we pick up and utilize either have a way of "going to the heart" of liberating vibes, or they tend to get tooled by tyrannical vibes and aggressions. Thus the idea of "orrior" is meant especially to escape/evolve from the "war" within the word, and to create a "new" power, while validating our *own* ways of envisioning ourselves.
(to note: my inclination is *not* to promote artificial avoidance of "war" itself, which i think is unrealistic in a world full of persons mobilized to such *physicalities*, but to avoid how the general use of the term has a way of "occupying" and filling up the territory of our minds and our visionary imaginations, with its variously alienating aspects--i.e. the intense alienation of elites pushing uncomprehending populaces against each other for reasons of corporate- and state-craft).
Notably, as you read about these ideas, they are not "pacifist"/passive; they are coming from CONFRONTATIONAL strategies of nonviolence, similar to the "mass ju-jitsu" ideas of Saul Alinsky (whose creativity I agree with, not his reformist polytricks).
Other terms relating to and providing a kind of foundation for "the orrior way" include the "cruciaL aRtz" and "spanarchy" (see links below).
Two links go into image details,
the updated intro to "the orrior way":
la.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/196344.php
and
the original full zine (or, what I *think* is the whole thing):
www.angelfire.com/indie/desir...indexOR.html
Background info can be found here:
www.angelfire.com/folk/crucialarts/ (the crucial arts)
and here:
www.angelfire.com/folk/crucia...anarchy.html (and an ideah called "spanarchy")
Note: all art shared here is by me, is anti-copyright (excepting use by government, corporate, or formal reformist-type media) and may be informally self-published everywhere (i.e. to help finance your survival desires, tho "not for profit")
For ideas relating to the "orrior" way, see Green Anarchy #23, Summer/Fall '06:
www.greenanarchy.org/index.php
...Especially the part where there is discussion of Mohawk scholar Taiaiake Alfred's new book _Wasáse_ (2005). Here is a portion:
"...[Alfred] asks the question, what prevents us from decolonizing our minds? Interestingly enough from a surrealist perspective, he points to the atrophied power of the imagination as a key impediment to decolonization. As he explains, "We have lost our ability to dream our new selves and a new world into existence. We have mistakenly accepted the resolution to our problems that is designed by people who would have us move out of our rusty old colonial cages and right back into a shiny new prison of coping defined by managed fears and deadened emotional capacities.""
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