Friendstacy comments on Authoritarian Rule

 i'm not trying to change your mind. how could you possibly agree with my point of view, with it being so different than yours? but I am very grateful for the opportunity to discuss these things. the way I see it, dominance is aggression, aggression is violence even if it's not physically injurious (but there's always that threat of physical injury, isn't there?) If you have a chain of command, with some people above other people, you have rule based upon authority. the very organization of society into heirarchies of command is what makes it authoritarian. we have to start there, at the foundation upon which sits all the premises that attempt to prove freedom invalid.

ignorance is no longer a valid excuse

freedom is about
personal responsibility
is about not looking for someone
or something else to blame
for everything that went wrong

when we know better we do better

friendstacy on groupthink (again)

democracy is not freedom. it is majority rule. and the majority are idiots who agree to let the few rule over the rest of us, so we get a republic instead. which is even further from freedom than anyone cares to think about. but you know, people talk that smack. and they will say anything they think you want to hear except the truth. because bullshit sells and truth by definition is free. and freedom is the last thing they want to happen. it scares them terribly.

anarchy is not an ism

to define freedom negates it. and then they call that negative freedom something else, anything except what it really is, control.

freedom is the only logical solution to all of the problems that control creates, but they say freedom doesn't count as a solution, because you aren't telling people what to do!!!

the rules, a poem and a list

1. recognize that your poetry sucks
2. don't try to pretend it doesn't
3. write more poetry
4. it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks
5. write more poetry
6. you can't get better without practice
7. write more poetry
8. have fun writing your crappy poetry
9. not all art speaks to all people, and it shouldn't have to
10. if somebody likes what you write, that's just a bonus
11. write more poetry

because, trains

what if...

what if love was a gift
not an investment
and you stopped
expecting a return?

what if love were free?
no price to pay
no debt owed
no contractural fees,
administration costs,
nor balances due?

(your mileage may vary)

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what if love was a train?
would yours have wrecked?
where would it go?

"when my ship came in
i was waiting for a train..."
but that song grew old
like everything else

chattanooga choo choo
is just a fancy hotel
no trains go there now

and johnny cash
dead, still sings
about trains
and love

(from march, and edited august, 2014)

rejoice!

laws don't prevent crime. the system of control is not fixable. it can crash and take us all with it, or we can dismantle it slowly, but it was always doomed to fail. getting rid of bad laws would be a great step towards just that. once they start throwing out bad laws, it won't be long before there's no law left.

are we there yet?

if we become aware of the attempts to control our minds, then it doesn't work the same way anymore. thing is, it's not in the future, but the past, and we just deny that, which allows it to continue. but not for much longer...

the law only exists to limit freedom

...what scares people about freedom so much is that you can't predict what that will be like. and then their fear of freedom is what prevents it from happening. i don't think it would be so scary to just let people decide for themselves. they are gonna do what they want anyway, most of them in spite of all the attempts to control.

so all the expense, all the time all the money all the resources, put towards more controls could instead be redirected towards helping people to make better decisions, with the full realization that their better judgment might disagree with what anybody else thinks they should do. empowering people instead of oppressing them goes against everything plato told us to do, and that is exactly why it will work.

yesterday

a new improved better brainwash program won't solve the problems created by having a brainwashed society.  it isn't about changing the message being transmitted to a more positive one. it's about empowering people to think for themselves. big difference.  and if people started thinking for themselves, all those other people who make it their job to tell us what to think would be out of work, and there's big money in propagandizing. they won't want that to happen.

freedom, undefined (again)

to define freedom
denies everyone else
their right
to define freedom
for themselves.
it doesn't work that way.

that is why
freedom, undefined

words like
"consensus" and "democracy"
are groupthinkspeak

poem

love is...
a special kind of freedom that says:
you don't get to define what love is
or what it should be like, for me.

love is to be experienced
not fenced in, boxed in, restrained
hidden behind imaginary walls
twisted and distorted to fit your demands

my love won't obey your rules
the attempt to control it
only means you'll never have it
that special kind of freedom
what i call love

you know what they say...
maybe they're talking about something else

untitled

check
if such a thing were even possible
some kind of good government
somebody's gotta prove it...
would have to move the ideology
from one of controlling people
to one that empowers us instead
which would necessarily mean
we would outgrow the need
for government, like thoreau said.
mate.

a new day, anarchist rantings, chapter 45

progress means exploiting the land for profit. it is a system that cannot sustain itself any longer. people gonna have to start thinking for themselves instead of doing what they told. freedom is the only logical solution to all of the problems that control creates.

but they say freedom doesn't count as a solution, because you aren't telling people what to do!!!

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helping people means to empower them to decide what is best for themselves. it's not about raising them up to your level, because thinking that you are above them is the problem, that kind of thinking won't solve anything.

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emotional triggers serve to turn off people's ability to think clearly. the manipulation of feel good brain chemicals works almost as good as fear, in that respect. repeated abuses makes addiction. and then there's all that denial involved. when we know better, we do better.

when you are expected to get angry and fight, turning the other cheek becomes an act of defiance. they only know how to provoke and react to violence.

but that's a different poem...
sung to the same tune