An Anarchist's brief perspective on the New Orleans situation

Anarchy is a wasteful and useless idea.....alot of you have this idea we would all come togeather if we disolved the goverment....maybe a lesser form might work but...you keep forgetting human nature....Chaos will always be the end result.
and if there is a organized group or nation nearby....they will always dominate or try too.

 

Can you PLEASE stop talking as though you have any knowledge or expertise on ANY subject at all?!! Return to your Playstation, or X-box and listening to Blink182 you stereotypical clone.

(I'm sorry Skip, this guy represents everything I hate about mainstream America)

 

"and if there is a organized group or nation nearby....they will always dominate or try too."

It almost sounds like that's what you'd want...like you're a glutton for punishment or something. Dude, have some faith!

"Nothing at all remains of efforts to halt man's imminent demise,"

Skip, I assure you, that's not true! Even though it seems it, there remains an active pre-Revolutionary movement in existance that is currently devising strategies to counter this assault on everything that is good and green. We all need to stick together, and yes, eventually...probably sooner than later, we will have to unite in person...and no longer on the internet.

 

Of course it has to be decentralized. Uniting in person wouldn't change that...in fact it would help facilitate it! lol

This movement is vast...much of the coordination is on the internet, but demonstrations happen on the streets. Those demonstrations, at best...are completely decentralized. I've seen it in action and been a part of it, and I plan on continuing!

 

What's even scarier is that these people are perfectly contented to remain blind. In fact, if you show them a glimmer of truth, they will cringe and even retreat.
It seems that showing them another way to look at the world shakes up their entire psychological makeup and jarrs their system to the point of revulsion, like Neo in The Matrix when Morpheus shows him the battery analogy.

 

Anarchism is a range of political views whose name is derived from the Latin word anarchia which was first employed in translating Aristotle's Greek term αναρχία the privative prefix αν an- "without" is combined with αρχία arkhê — meaning "command" or "rule"). Thus anarchism, in the most generally understood sense of the term, refers to any political position or belief that is opposed to all manifestations of rule or domination. Thus, in theory, anarchism, in its various forms, is opposed to all instances of enforced or representational government — including the State — and instead favours social relations that are voluntarily and freely established among individuals.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

I am an adherent of rational anarchy because I deny that anyone has the moral right to have power over me. There are many people who assert their right to power over me and I have to pick my battles carefully and accept the results of my actions. I have been beaten and imprisoned for my "crimes" in the past. Some of these crimes included being a "long haired freak" or “a niger lover" or "an un-American communist" or a "filthy pervert". However, I will not accept that anyone rules over me. I agree with the comment regarding the potential of the web. I only hope we can keep them from taking it away from us. I think that in the truest meaning of the term everyone that posts here is a believer in anarchy

 

so, i understand what you're saying about the benefits of the long term view for society. but how do we deal with the pack of enraged, foaming at the mouth, marginalized males who've been denigrated by society until we've had a chance to repair the social functions that will drive these males towards abusing the physically weak?

 

A great site to learn more about anarchy is www.anarchyfaq.org

 

i see. so it's a somewhat more formalized version of natural human behavior. that's cool. but wouldn't it lead to a more radical degree of racial segmentation? i'm extremely grateful for some of the random associations in my life. it's the big nasty scary ones that bother me.

 

arbitrary borders are a bitch, that's for sure. i don't suppose that at this point we would altogether stop associations with other groups, anyway. but it seems as though it would be hard for some people to find their "group." what if the place they call home is taken over by some other group? i guess it would be "adapt or be removed." but, that's pretty natural to the animal kingdom, too, of which we are part, no matter what our egos like to tell us.

 

Don't forget what Bill O'Reiley said about the victims in New Orleans, and he speaks for most.

Don't be a victim, yet don't let Bill O'Reiley preoccupy you with fear.

Deal by recognizing that all our lives of repressed fears are only marginal Bill O'Reiley-lives at best.

I suggest that you continue exploring your social environment with the same piercing yet compassionate eyes you show here on the Forums.

Explain to your children how repressed fear has molded the condition of our hyper-competitive Primate Sexual Hierarchy.

Remind them that Woman, exercising her power of Natural Selection, has a persistant influence over Male Social Behavior.

This may help them develop their own piercing yet compassionate eyes.

 

i just love disasters ....

 

yeah, i get the anarchy/chaos difference. there were a few groups working together very well, it's a natural way to go about it. i think the news outlets were calling them "tribes," which suits just fine, i think. but i have to confess that i don't have a lotta faith in human behavior, i really don't. i've gotten the ugly side of them too often and it's made me harsh. i WANT to believe the best in people, but then i've so rarely seen it. it's a huge amount of faith required to make such a change in the large world view, especially since i consider the more ego-centric survivalist mode to be more common.

 

fear is definitely a problem. i've been dealing with the results of my fear-induced rages for a little while now. i'm working on my daughter's life by choosing communities that will in fact allow a more integrated and natural social interaction than the one i was raised in on the navy bases and in Southern California. but i've already come up against the male socialization problems that include allowing their small male children to run rampant and be aggressive with a shrug and a "boys will be boys" smile. my daughter is only 3 and she's terrified of boys. it's so sad. i just don't know what to do about it.