| Civil Disobedience |
[Jan. 19th, 2008|10:55 pm] |
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I enjoy playing with my brain chemistry. It's no secret. I sit here on a Saturday night with five different drugs in my system, some of which were taken to offset the negative side-effects of others. The end result is mellow and contemplative.
I wonder: why has the human race generally gotten it so wrong? For all our cleverness, for all our intellect and poetry and triumph, the history of our race is still one of narcissistic psychopaths reigning powerful over the masses.
Democracy has not improved this. There are enough psychopaths who are excellent actors/liars, and enough voters who are suckers, that it doesn't change the equation, much.
There are plenty of people who would like to see me sentenced to rape and torture in a cage for doing nothing more than I'm doing right now, despite the fact that I've never harmed anyone in my adult life.
I think Bill Hicks had it right: it all comes down to fear. Fear of The Other - that shapeless unknown, out in the dark beyond the cookfire. "Leaders" use our fears to pit us against one another - fear of crime, fear of terrorism, fear of economic insecurity, and fear of anything that is unusual or foreign. Leaders help people to believe that their personal opinions are moral imperatives - ie, "If I don't like X, then X is wrong." Not just different, but sinful and capital-W Wrong. And, as we all know, the job of government is to destroy all that which is Wrong in the world, thus freeing us from the responsibility of doing it ourselves.
So...what to do about it?
I think America has proven that revolution isn't the answer. The American Revolution created what was, at the time, the most noble experiment despite its many flaws...and here we are, just over two centuries later, right back under the thumb of the oligarchs. As if each generation must fight its own revolution.
I have a better idea. You don't have to fight a revolution to beat them. All you have to do...is disobey.
That's it. Power is nothing more than having a whole lot of people willing to do what you say, for whatever reason: because you're paying them, because they feel it's their "duty", or because... they are afraid of what will happen if they don't.
It's time to stop being afraid. It's time to disobey. They have no power, save what you give them.
Just disobey. |
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