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I saw the most recent Spider-verse recently and maybe it's a little embarrassing to admit that this is what tipped the scales but it's the truth. this has been bouncing around my drafts for a little bit now and I've been struggling to articulate my thoughts and reasoning but I'm gonna do my best, really this a personal post about my own thoughts on how I've reached this conclusion, hopefully you (the reader) get something out of it, be it a new perspective or perhaps introspection.
This is very stream of consciousness so bare with me


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So for starters I've always kind of struggled to define what i believe in, what an ideal world for me looks like. For a time i thought maybe communism/socialism, some kind of blueprint based on production owned by the workers and a government that is accountable made entirely by the people, or at least that's how i understood it. See I've always struggled in life, I'm trans and I've got adhd. Capitalist society is basically designed to wear down people like us who largely don't fit in with the status quo. I struggled in school as most other people like me did cause none of it promotes the happy chemical, you'll be a good little cog in the machine and you'll like it.
After school and trying many different education courses, struggling to get a job in anything, I had determined that i do not fit in this world that has been created and I have struggled with this realisation ever since i had it.
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What does this have do with spider-punk?
For me quite alot. Spider-Man has probably always been by favourite fictional character more or less. As far as super heroes go he's also a black sheep, with him often being depicted as a poor kid who doesn't fit in. See the majority of Marvel's and especially DC's heroes don't really feel all that relatable from a perspective of wanting to be them. X-men being an exclusive club you have to be born into, Iron Man and Batman being rich billionaires, Super Man being an alien from another planet, the list goes on. Spider-Man however? Anyone could be spider-man, any one could be bitten by the spider and anyone could wear the mask. But a problem started to arise for me with Spider-Man around the time that the first ps4 game came out and the mcu movies were in full swing (ha). I realised that he still enforced the status quo. Criminals go to jail for doing crime and that was that. Evil corporations get brought down but only when they're obviously evil. He helps the cops even in stories where they're antagonisic towards him. Spider-Man strived to be good but only in Stan Lee's original vision of the character, big events happen but nothing ever changes. It's happened time and again with his stories.
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My love for Spider-Man reignited when i discovered the first Spider-Punk short story. A Spider-Man vehemently against the status quo. He's black, his costume is covered in spikes and patches, and his primary enemy is the state and the corporations. Dude caves in Norman Osborn's head with a guitar. I loved it. Sadly i couldn't get more about him though, either there weren't any more stories about him (short of the spiderverse comics which i wasn't really interested in) or i couldn't find them online. Either way i sought of forgot about him. Then the 1st spiderverse movie came out, I loved Gwen especially but i had a nagging hope that Hobie would show up in a sequel and oh boy did he make an impression when he did.
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Someone on twitter i followed had posted an article about anarchy 101 if people really wanted to do Hobie any justice, since they're all making spotify playlists with not even vaguely punk music and bad fanfics that really did not understand his whole deal. I ended up reading through it before even watching the movie out of curiosity and a lot of what i saw lit a spark within me. It summed up my already existing beliefs in a way i had struggled to articulate for basically my whole adult life. Stuff about society existing for the individual not the other way around, working within small communities to figure out what's best for each person and making sure those people have a voice. Communism doesn't fit that for me because I'm still going to have to work with a disability, and i wouldn't always be able to trust the people around me to respect that. We would still have to work to keep the cogs of industry turning. The article had an impact for sure but it didn't properly resonate until after I finished Across the Spider-Verse and having seen Spider-Punk as well portrayed as he was while also having the overall theming of the movie being very anti authority, it was the final nail in the coffin for me.
Dude is instigating Miles every chance he gets while ripping up spider society right in plane sight and no one batted and eye cause "oh that's just Hobie, he does that." It struck a chord, "can we do things like that to make difference? Would it work?"
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I'm not sure how to finish this mini essay (is that what this is?) with a closing remark that sums up anarchism accurately and why you should consider it as a core principle. But i will say this.
There is no blueprint for a perfect world.
Every day life is anarchy. The state doesn't choose what you eat, where you sleep, who you interact with, what you do with your life. The only time you it does? When you're so incredibly poor you don't even have a roof over your head. The state controls what you do when a cop decides you're a problem. When it creates laws that are made to kill you for being different and to keep you obedient. To keep you afraid so you too keep the cog turning.
I am still very much afraid, i still have too much to lose that i know could be taken away from me if I slip up, if i end up doing something a little too revolutionary, or even just straight up become a little too poor. Of course he's not the only fictional character that has had a part in shaping my ideologies (Jet Set Radio being an obvious one) but because of Spider-Punk and and the perception of him, I am an anarchist now. I don't have to follow their rules to make the world better and even the little things i do to fight back can have a part to play. I may be afraid to fight back but you know what?
With great power comes no future, so fuck this shit we're doing it scared.

Here's a link to that article if you're interested in reading it https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-anarchy-101.


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