We Have The Power To Make An Irreversible Break.
We wake up day after day, generation after generation, going to work in order to recalibrate the same nightmare that forces us to work. We hustle to get by, feel the stress of the commute and the sleepless night, live paycheck to paycheck or one precarious gig to the next, all just to keep the water on. Our labor made this world and keeps it running, but not one of us feels at home. It’s not surprising that so many people throw themselves into anything that promises it could be better— movements, health trends, subcultures, militias, gangs, whatever.
We want a dignified life. We desire the freedom to turn our calloused hands to experimentation, to become so much more than our jobs. If the potency of our time is any indication, it’s that we’re capable of more than mere survival. The very labor we give—our strength, creativity, and intelligence—can be our weapon. The possibility to endure is in our capacity to strike, and in the seduction of our shared power. Our strike will be the immediate practice of reconfiguring how we live, without respect to our bosses, the rich, or the robots intended to replace us. Together we have the know-how and the drive to build a better life, a life on our own terms, and it’s up to us to create and inhabit new worlds to replace this one. Our ingenuity, our passion, our determination—we are the hinge on which every future rests.
– Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy
You don’t start out hacking good stuff. You start out hacking crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
– Octavia Butler
Learn to hack
The hacker space will be what we make it, bring your curiosity and any tools you’d expect to need for projects that you find interesting.
Accessibility: the space is indoors and is wheelchair accessible.
Masks are encouraged and will be available at the hacker space.
This zine was submitted for the hackerspace/for circulation during SmashBy: https://archive.org/details/tech-medic