Dear Conservative Assholes

Not everyone who disagrees with your facist world view is a liberal, or as you like to call them “hippie liberals.” While conservative and liberal may loosely coincide with republican and democrat, both parties look the same to me – full of the same morons only concerned with getting and keeping their high-salary-do-nothing jobs. Reguardless of who’s in the seat, I see the same bullshit coming from both parties. So I’m not a democrat, and I’m not a hippie liberal – I am a LIBERTARIAN! GET IT STRAIGHT!

Truthfully, I’m an Anarchist, but for this generation at least, Anarchy is a far too utopian idea. No one wants to have all that responsibility on their own shoulders. Until the general population lives with geniune concern for others and the planet, Anarchy will not be possible.

But, for this lifetime at least, it doesn’t look like I’ll be enjoying the true freedom of Anarchy. So, I fight for Libertarianism (the next best thing), the idea that that every person is the absolute owner of his or her own life and should be free to do whatever he or she wishes with his or her person or property, as long as he or she respects the liberty of others. I believe that all human interation, including government interaction, should be voluntary and consentual. This means no draft, no taxes, no laws (espescially silly ones like drug prohibition) etc. But of course this again borders on the line into anarchy. So, having to be forced into some type of government I would have to side with Milton Friedman in that people should live with “the least intrusive government consistent with the maximum freedom for each individual as long as he does not interfere with individuals pursuing their own freedom.”

I find it laughably silly when these gung-ho “America is #1″ people, who take pride in the “wonderful freedoms” our government grants us. GRANTS us? We’re GIVEN freedom? How did that happen? And we should gracefully thank those who tell us what freedoms we do and do not have? How is that freedom? Even better, is when they tell me that “freedom isn’t free,” are they pulling my chain or something? Of COURSE it’s free, that’s what it’s FREEdom!

I was BORN FREE, and any form of government is a constraint on that freedom.

Wake up, America! (no, really)

Your owners have some new toys for you. They’ve taken your money to feed their greed, now they want your privacy, they want your every move to be tracked and documented. The establishment cannot be trusted, ever.

“Either the general population  will take control of its own destiny – and will concern itself with community interests, guided by values of solidarity, and sympathy, and concern for others – or alternatively, there will be no destiny for anyone to control.”

“As long as some specialized class is in a position of authority, it is going to set policy in the special interests that it serves … The question is whether privileged elites should dominate mass communication, and should use this power as they tell us they must. Mainly to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and deceive the stupid majority, and remove them from the public arena.” Both quotes from Noam Chomsky.

When people gloat about the freedoms they enjoy in the free world, I can’t help but laugh. To me, I was born free and any form of authoritative government, telling me what to do, and stealing my money, is a hindrance on that freedom. No matter how much you’d like to think it isn’t so – you are NOT free in America. But my anarchy speech can be saved for another day.

Authority Prevents Learning

Today, I would like to share with you some wisdom, as uncovered by Jiddu Krishnamurti.

We generally learn through study, through books, through experience, or through being instructed. Those are the usual ways of learning. We commit to memory what to do and what not to do, what to think and what not to think, how to feel, how to react. Through experience, through study, through analysis, through probing, through introspective examination, we store up knowledge as memory; and memory then responds to further challenges and demands, from which there is more and more learning… What is learned is committed to memory as knowledge, and that knowledge functions whenever there is a challenge, or whenever we have to do something.

Now I think there is a totally different way of learning, and I am going to talk a little bit about it; but to understand it, and to learn in this different way, you must be completely rid of authority; otherwise, you will merely be instructed, and you will repeat what you have heard. That is why it is very important to understand the nature of authority. Authority prevents learning – learning that is not the accumulation of knowledge as memory. Memory always responds in patterns; there is no freedom. A man who is burdened with knowledge, with instructions, who is weighted down by the things he has learned, is never free. He may be most extraordinarily erudite, but his accumulation of knowledge prevents him from being free, and therefore he is incapable of learning.