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Hey, what's up? Hey, I'm Drew back at it again with another podcast.

Today we're doing something a little bit different from the previous episodes that I've done.

We're having a bit more of an open discussion about a certain book that has been passed around for

about a decade now and has polarized members of the anarchist community for it that way.

Today we'll be talking about the book the infamous polymic desert by anonymous.

For those who are not aware of this extremely controversial text,

desert is a nihilist anarchist text with his published in 2011 that is mainly directed at other anarchists

and seeks to address issues of climate collapse and revolution.

It became somewhat of a meme to tell folks to read desert. I'm not sure when that was.

I just remember seeing it a lot I think in like 2020. Yeah, around 2019 2020

the re desert became a meme. Yeah, yeah, all over Twitter and Instagram and

Reddit. But of course, being a thing that exists on the internet, people naturally became

torn on the subject of it. And so there are a lot of perspectives and opinions and

think pieces about desert, some more less accurate than others. But we are here to discuss the book.

I'll put some experiences reading it. Things we think it gets right and wrong and

what we could potentially learn going forward.

So I would say the floor is yours. Whoever wants to go first.

I mean, I'm a huge fan of the quote that the book takes or that it takes its name from which comes

from Tacitus, who was a dude writing in the Roman period. And the exact quote that it comes from is

he's talking Tacitus is talking about the Roman Empire. Robbers of the world now that the

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