Against Everyone with Conner Habib AEWCH 279: THE FEELING OF POLITICAL DEATH
Nov 13, 2024
In the wake of a contentious election, the podcast explores the pitfalls of excessive emotional expression in politics. It questions the effectiveness of mourning over action and highlights the disconnect between marginalized communities and political accountability. Reflecting on personal experiences during the AIDS epidemic, the importance of community connections emerges as a potential pathway to understanding and healing. The discussion also emphasizes de-escalation tactics and individual transformation as avenues for creating a new political life.
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Feeling Replaces Political Action
- Politics has become a theater of amplified feeling that replaces real action and mediates participation through emotion.
- Conner Habib argues we must redirect feeling to meet thinking and action appropriately instead of mistaking intensity for political effectiveness.
Raw Milk Raid Illustrates State Alienation
- Habib recounts a Pennsylvania community raid over raw milk to show how state interference breeds political alignment.
- He connects that sense of invasive enforcement to why some communities saw Trump as a defense against interference.
The Political Realm Has Died
- The current political sphere is described as dead because it no longer mediates between people and power with trust or reciprocity.
- Habib suggests only local, flexible organizing that can 'undo itself' avoids becoming extractive like permanent states.