I am an anarchist. This means that there are many things I am “against”;
I am against the government, racism, oppression, colonialism, imperialism, and
capitalism. These things are merely a consequence of being an anarchist; they
are the end point of the “why”. In other words I didn’t become an anarchist
because I hated government, or money, or racists, I became an anarchist because
I love you. Not that fluffy bullshit Disney
love, a true hard and messy love. I love you as a human and thus I want you to
have the opportunity to flourish, the best way to do that is to oppose those
things which keep you from doing this.
We are the termites of the mammal world. We are soft, pathetic and expendable as individuals but a raging flood of power and change when we work together. And we are too many not to work together. Many, if not most things, are incapable of existing within a single mind. They exist between us.
ReplyDeleteWhat is government but an expression on the hive mind? A agreed compendium of behavior and rule so that we operate as a beast infinitely greater than ourselves. When 'they' are evil, or wasteful or authoritarian I believe the wrong pronoun is being used. We have met the enemy and he is us.