This blog will be put out to pasture some time on or around July 17th, 2010 when the hosting expires. I don’t have the $99 or frankly the will to continue blogging. I think that much has been obvious for some time.
I will retain the url and may at some point find free hosting to create an archive. I’m hoping to get everything download, pictures, database, etc and on disc over the next month.
Oh blogoshphere, waster of time and space, I bid you a fond adu!
“Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ‘Patriotism’ is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ‘patriotism’ I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one’s own nation, which is the concern with the nation’s spiritual as much as with its material welfare–never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.”- Erich Fromm
There’s no “anarchist state” – or even a potential “anarchist state” – any more than there’s an “atheist church.” Atheism is the belief that there is no god or gods. You can be an atheist without bombing churches or murdering priests, even if you believe the world would be a better place without either. Atheism does not advance its own theories about ethics. Atheism simply says, “All this stuff about gods? It doesn’t make any sense, does it?”
Similarly, anarchism is the belief that there is no State. By “State,” I mean “some independent body of law that limits the unjust use of power.” There is no such animal. I can’t sum up my entire argument in a blawg’s comment box, but, in brief: (A) what we call the State is not a singular entity but a network of agencies with different agendas; (B) the State is no more immune to human folly than the humans it governs; (C) the State is a concentration of power, not a bulwark against it.
My ultimate point: we are already living in anarchy. We are already living in the world that you predict anarchy would turn into – a world where the biggest gang has grabbed all the guns and cowed everyone they can’t shoot. That’s the state of affairs right now. Anarchism, as a philosophy, simply exposes that. Anarchism states that the idea of Power Subservient to Justice – a/k/a, a benevolent State – is a myth.
- John Perich AKA Professor Coldheart,
via the comments section @ Who is IOZ?
Blue Oyster Cult: Then Came the Last Days of May
I exist up here on this hill with minimal “Government.” There’s the Mailman. Snow plow man. The Town guy who mows the ditches. Minimal code enforcement. Vehicle registration and inspections. State mandated car insurance. FDA’s suppose to check out my food and the EPA suppose to keep the air and water clean. I get my electricity from the state power monopoly. The Police man or the Game Warden will come if I call him. My kids ride the bus to school and I see the Town Clerk to pay my land and school taxes three times a year.
I’ve listened to the Anarchists and the Libertarians. I’ve suffered the Liberals and Progressives, the Conservatives and the Republicans. Nobody’s arguments hold any water anymore. I go my own way. Take the best part of each and keep to my own. Good day.
