Bravo! William
“To turn Americans against their government the very first step is has always been appealing to their patriotism. America: We Kill Kings. America: We Don’t Need No Fucking Leaders. America: We’re Too Patriotic To Be Nationalistic. America: Freedom In Your Face. America: I Own A Gun To Shoot Cops. America: We Invented The Fucking Revolution. America: We Invited Empire Into Our Living Room For A Reason. America: It’s Only A Matter Of Time Before We Do The Fuckers In. America: It Didn’t Happen Over Here.
America: The Only Conceivable Ground Zero For The Revolution.
To understand where to go from here, we have to understand that Americans are in no way attached to Obama the individual, Americans are attached to the way Obama makes them feel.
It won’t win us any points to stick to our guns and pointing out just how sick and twisted of a psychopath Obama must be to want to rule us all and to actively seek out that position of domination over us. But if we suck up to the sentiment of the moment, pander to localized interests, and accept the image of a noble man while questioning his effectiveness under “the system” we do make three mistakes:
1. We look stupid, shifty and unprincipled.
2. We sound cynical and outdated.
3. We attack the individualist dream.
In short we throw away our strongest points! Anarchism is the most logical and principled position there is. We automatically win every ethical argument vigilantly taken to its conclusion. Anarchism is embedded in every advance and hope for the future. Every modern ethical awakening has struck against hierarchy, every successful component of the information age adopts more and more anarchistic attributes. Anarchism IS the individualist dream. You, you personally, can singlehandedly start the motherfucking revolution. You’re going to have to.
Anarchism is not some mechanical proletarian revolt, nor is it some impersonal mathematical reality of laissez-faire economics. And it’s certainly no throwing up your hands and saying to hell with it. Anarchism is a simple ethical and philosophical realization: to be a fully living, thinking human being you have to let go of your power over others. They must let go of their power over you.
The thing is, you already know this. (You’re awesome.) So why don’t you embrace it further. (And be more awesome.)
Things like pesky little election soap operas are just getting in the way. Never mind that Obama cat, he’s no where near as awesome as you. So, and I’m just saying this, what have you done today to spread your awesomeness?”
Comrade Gillis just blew me away with his latest post. I give him a hearty bravo! And no: I am not going to go shoot cops. Don’t take the wrong message from this post — especially if you’re one of America’s spooky NSA people.
6 comments Natasha | Anarchy, Ethics, LeftLibertarian.org, Personal, Quotes of the Day
1. We look stupid, shifty and unprincipled.
Bush and Cheney did this much better. So many lies, so much deciept. They just did it how it’s always been done. Scare you and make you belive it was them. OLD WAYS are going and the truth comes out. Your old views are nothing but fear mongering and have nothing to do with reality.
2. We sound cynical and outdated.
That’s why America sounded it’s voice and elected a man with integrity. A real man, not a spoiled pupet named Bush. He compeletely ruined us, and you thin President Obama did it. IT’s going to be a while to get this country feeling better again.
3. We attack the individualist dream.
Greed and fear is your message. It’s about time someone started protecting US from the individualist who takes advatage of another just to make a buck…. The OLD ways are SAD and are going and you are all going to go away screaming and kicking with nashing of teeth… FEAR MONGERS, GREED, and you are ok with the elite getting what ever they want. Humanity is far more precious than worrying about Socialism. You’re SAD, very SAD
York,
Are you under the impression that the passage you’re commenting on was pro-Bush, or that this is some sort of pro-Bush blog? Do you know what “anarchism” means?
“Bush and Cheney did this much better. So many lies, so much deciept. They just did it how it’s always been done. Scare you and make you belive it was them.”
I agree. Where do you see me praising Bush or Cheney in this post?
“OLD WAYS are going and the truth comes out. Your old views are nothing but fear mongering and have nothing to do with reality.”
Do you seriously think the government is never going to lie to you again? And you claim I am out of touch with reality!
“That’s why America sounded it’s voice and elected a man with integrity. A real man, not a spoiled pupet named Bush.”
America is not an organic entity. There are numerous individual Americans who voted for Obama, but you’re implicitly excluding non-supporters. Your equation of real manliness with Obama is interesting…to say the least.
“He compeletely ruined us, and you thin President Obama did it.”
Bush did a lot of horrible ruinous things, but the people before him did too. Obama voted for the warrentless wiretapping legalization bill and Iraq War funding during his time in the Senate. That was ruinous too. Nonetheless, I do not hold Obama responsible for evil he didn’t contribute to.
“Greed and fear is your message. It’s about time someone started protecting US from the individualist who takes advatage of another just to make a buck…. The OLD ways are SAD and are going and you are all going to go away screaming and kicking with nashing of teeth… FEAR MONGERS, GREED, and you are ok with the elite getting what ever they want. Humanity is far more precious than worrying about Socialism. You’re SAD, very SAD”
My message is: live your life to the fullest and pursue your own happiness. I am not trying to induce irrational fear into people. Where does William say anything about “individualists” exploiting others to make a buck? It may surprise you to know that William is anti-capitalist. As for the “old” ways of fear, lies, and exploitation disappearing; I haven’t witnessed the disappearance yet. I am not sure what elite you’re referring to, but I generally don’t support groups of jerks lording it over others. I agree that our values should be humanistic ones.
Anarchism is not some mechanical proletarian revolt, nor is it some impersonal mathematical reality of laissez-faire economics. And it’s certainly no throwing up your hands and saying to hell with it
It’s about time someone started protecting US from the individualist who takes advatage of another just to make a buck…. The OLD ways are SAD and are going and you are all going to go away screaming and kicking with nashing of teeth
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