Organizing, and also producing the collective humans we long to be

It was an amazing site, world over. Eight-plus million people saying “F no!” Now what? Here is my take on the hot takes, which—foreshadowing—are all correct, and we must get on with the business of Worlding.

To summarize the hot takes:

• People are mobilized; now locally organize.
• If you are only taking aim at a person, even the one at the top, and not the system, you are going to miss people on both the Left and what has become the Right.
• Connection, visibility, joy, peace, and numbers matter.

All of that. And we have to think new thoughts, or rather be both more creative and more disciplined in our thinking. We figured out in the past few years that what the Right had was an information<–>thinking ecosystem that blew ours away, that actually mattered, so we are playing catch up.

The Right grabbed the Left’s critique of Truth and were like, “Yeah, we’ll show you some postmodernity. We can make anything be ‘true.’”

So: well done yesterday. What smart creative thinking to collect under the banner of No Kings, but disciplined also. It is something that pretty much everyone (Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel et al excepted) can get behind. It’s easy to say; it’s easy to meme; and in name anyway, it seems so American, at least the best that America thinks itself, as America heads into the 250th anniversary of its revolution from a king. And it’s, in reality, so 2026. People have had it with billionaires, who are our present-day kings. Thank you Occupy (“we are the 99%” —also a pretty good slogan that now is smack inside the Overton Window), thank you BLM, thank you Free Palestine, thank you Sunrise, thank you abolition then and now, and all the radical and decolonial and artistic and middle-of-the-road civil rights movements of the last 400-plus years before this.

And thank you thinkers, who are not just thinkers, but Worlders: Karl Marx, Walter Rodney, Abdullah Ocalan, Marquis Bey, Hannah Arendt, inter alia, and my fav, Sylvia Wynter.

Community organizing is the prefigurative action of worlding a world where we can only produce that world together. If I can do it on my own, it ain’t organizing. This what I am doing right now, writing this post, is not organizing, though it plays a role. Organizing assumes a counter to the Great Man [sic] theory of history. The utterly ordinary human… ubuntu, “I am because we are.” In fact, vis Wynter, in community organizing, we can only produce humans who human together, winging it, queering it, building human as we fly it. Wynter tells us we must reHuman the species. We did that big time yesterday.

This is the additional long-term intervention, to counter and get underneath and steal back what we know about being human. Because, Wynter says, we actually know nothing about being human since the study of humans has been microscoped down to Euromodern Man and then pasted over all our faces. What we know is that Humans are Being–we are, as Wynter says, “autopoetic,” self-making. Not as individuals, but as a collective. There is no single, Darwinian explanation of human nature that explains this:

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All kinds of content online is being suppressed so that it is harder to use the billionaires’ tools against the billionaires’ multifarious houses, but we are using them. I mean–8 million people’s posts are hard to suppress.