I am an anarchist through and through. I think politicians are a hindrance on my life and the progression of society. I refuses to vote, and every chance I get I proclaim my exclusive declaration of independence; I am independent from society, from others ideals, from authority and from myself. I wash my hands of cultural norms and expectations. Having immersed myself into this philosophy I have had much time to think of rebellion and the nature of people who hold it close to their hearts, and I've come to a conclusion: we're all assholes.
Every rebellious person (myself included) has not the ideals we think. We do not rebel because we hate truly hate government, society, or any of their implications. We rebel because we are insurrectionary. If we lived in chaos every anarchist would be a democrat. We go against the majority rule because it is our base nature.
It has already begun to happen. In the 2004 presidential election, a new political movement began to take hold: conservative punk. In an Aristotelian effort, I tried to "entertain [this] thought without accepting it." At first I had trouble; this train of thought left me confused. I couldn't understand how a counter culture's ideals could co-exist so fervently with basic cultural ideals. Trying still to understand the meaning behind this movement, I continued my research. I found that conservative punk started with punks who angered by liberals. They rebelled against what was a societal norm within the punk movement, and created their own movement. This epiphany allowed me to entertain their philosophy, but I could never accept it.
I hate government because my misanthropic feelings manifest themselves as anarchy. I recognize this, and I accept it. Let's build a revolution and tear down the government until even that angers us; then let us build government from scratch, only to tear it down again. Let's eat nothing but rice and water, until those become delicacy; then let us eat nothing but steak and potatoes. I guess I'm just a Jacobin.
Friday, March 5, 2010
The Nature of Rebellion
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