Capitalism is the middle ground between fascism and libertarianism.


We must see people simply as people. an enemy is simply whom reconciliation with is impossible or too taxing. we have a lot less enemies than we think.


government propaganda = bad. advertising that reduces autonomy in consumers = perfectly fine


The most selfish people are the ones who argue that everyone is selfish. they've already forgiven themselves for being immoral and apathetic.

Split humanity into owners and workers, and you will quickly see how very weak the owners are.

Unless you're living on the shore, the only nice view you'll have is of our profusely corporate culture


Everything is a waste of money when you're broke.

White privilege: optimist as logic, not fear.

To be jaded in this redundant society is to be consistently observant.

this society slaughters the souls of young men and forces all of their anger to be withheld and forced upon its own ostensibly perceived creator; instead of rightfully attacking the system that produces this repression, they attack the most easiest of foes: women, friends, relatives, or they resolve to game and rituals to express their angst.

Isaac Brock laid the roots that grew and became socialism; ''do you need a lot of what you got to survive?''

Surely the best we can do would yield better results.

“This instrumentalist impoverishment of struggle is not characteristic just of particular parties or currents (Stalinism, Trotskyism and so on): it is inherent in the idea that the goal of the movement is to conquer political power. The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and ‘betrays’ its promises. It is lost once power itself seeps into the struggle, once the logic of power becomes the logic of the revolutionary process, once the negative of refusal is converted into the positive of power-building. And usually those involved do not see it: the initiates in power do not even see how far they have been drawn into the reasoning and habits of power. They do not see that if we revolt against capitalism, it is not because we want a different system of power, it is because we want a society in which power relations are dissolved. You cannot build a society of non-power relations by conquering power. Once the logic of power is adopted, the struggle against power is already lost.”
— John Holloway - Change the World Without Taking Power

And

"It takes strength to be gentle and kind." - Morrissey

What has clicked as of tonight is the fact that love is subversive for one specific reason: because it takes strength to develop and keep. True peace is attained through a similar fashion: remaining diligent in effort to be integral and kind. Is that not what we lack? What war began with civility and empathy, or even the sacrifice of one deciding more or an alternative is not needed?

So fuck capitalism.


Also, I Know its Over is probably now my favorite break up song. Its inspiring in a way.

Peace

Whether individual, communal, societal, or on any scale, is the product of determining how to feel. Deciding what you need and what you don’t need, deciding what to make of the past’s disappointments and shame, deciding if the worst that can happen is tolerable or not.

Otherwise we’re just animals with the wind for a puppeteer, chaotically woven into the earth’s soil before long. Also, we’ll always be subject to authoritative rule and instructions/discipline if we can’t even settle disturbances within.

“In a world that makes you feel alienated, capitalism gives you drugs to make you feel better.” - Spoonboy, David Combs

Personal responsibility and peace

Are equally as idealistic as the other. If we were to live in peace, we’d have to take responsibility for our own actions and their effects. But as we are right now, no one really adopts the idea of peace as plausibly attainable in any manner. But no one has a problem saying we’re all responsible for our own actions, as if to say we’re individuals raised by ourselves, loving ourselves, living surrounded by nothing. Autonomy is such a fib. Entirely illusory in nature, it implies we can actually be in control of ourselves. We, however, perpetuate this idea that we are autonomous and should be punished for our own actions, and never really consider the fact that we’re all essentially effects of some long forgotten cause. We’ve got to ease up on pointing our fingers. Put them to better use and write a book or a love letter or something

The Ethics of Hatred.

Just why exactly must we limit the applicability of a word? Loneliness doesn't only mean being alone in one's misery, but it can also mean a more broad alienation felt even in the company of others. Love isn't entirely about completion, because it is also experienced with in one's incompleteness. And in the same way, hatred must not be seen as an implication of envy or misery felt on the hater's behalf.

THe immoral run rampant in this country, and this world, yet people don't want to 'waste' their emotions. People don't want to be consumed by that idea that someone is the moderator of pain felt by others. People, most simply, don't want to hate them. Part of it seems to be because of the fact that we've been given this idea of autonomy, and as long as an individual doesn't appear to directly harm me, then I've no reason to feel hatred or loathing for them.

But I ask you, what does that establish? What has been established in the name of apathy or indifference? WHen has a mass of unhappy people ever changed anything drastically when they've convinced themselves that things are fine as is?

THe idea of hating one of these individuals, or at least deploring them and boycotting what they produce, should be a more commonly acceptable form of protest and intervention. If we are to put any control back in our own hands, we must place blame on people who don't support the sympathizing of harmed people, of down-trodden families and individuals. ANd in that blame, we must seek communion in each other for the castrating of their resources that we probably didn't need (or could easily find an alternative to) in the first place.

Cough, cough, cough, anarchism, cough, is the way of the careful, cough.