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Profound Ignorance
Jan. 13th, 2013 10:09 amOne of the reasons I have not been able to handle face book, especially recently, is the mass amount of ignorance that exists in it. It is amazing to me, to think, that so many people lack the ability to critically reason about anything, whatsoever - and this will of course tie into the rest of my life, in shambles as it is. One of the reasons I don't make friends easily is because I can't stand to be around people who support violence and war, who support political parties, who support government in its current form in general - who watch television and talk about it as if it's a meaningful pastime, or competitive sports. People who focus only on what they are gaining or achieving with no concern for the expense it costs those around them.
I'm not a liberal, not a conservative. I'm an anarchist, anti-government to the extreme. Outside of public services such as roads, hospitals, a system of law and some degree of a social security net, government has no need to exist...and arguably, many of these things would take care of themselves if they were privatized or unionized separate from government. The concept of military, too, is ridiculous. As long as we have nuclear weapons, and as long as we keep a just amount of military might on the home front, we need not ever fear any kind of invasion. Although we will certainly spend billions of dollars to murder foreigners, with no real financial benefit reaped. Such is the military machine - a gigantic waste of material resources that only serves to reduce the standard of living of a nation's people (and for every person that joins, yes, you are stealing from the very people you seek to protect - when you do not protect in the slightest bit.) Patriotism - Nationalism - is precisely the kind of dangerous mentality that our forefathers fought against in the revolutionary war. Easily forgotten, it would seem. They weren't fighting for American independence - or this nation - they were fighting to keep themselves from being ruled. And even then, there were numerous people, some figures estimating very close to half, that were "tories" or pro-British rule.
Those who have not reasoned themselves to this rational point are simply part of the problem, giving their energy and their sovereign right over to entities and power structures that serve essentially only themselves and high-brow financial interests, a fact that becomes more and more apparent as time draws on in the United States. The media itself has gone just in my lifetime alone, from questioning government actions and unbiased reporting to extreme ends of the spectrum. One instance in particular sticks with me - the case of a few members of the Occupy movement being convinced to blow up a bridge by CIA operatives and then sold fake explosives. Such an act would have NEVER been spoken about openly in the 60s, and in fact, there is a large history of undercover operations that were less-than-honorable in intentions which served to undermine certain groups or foreign nations, all of which where "black operations." Even some of our military actions today, would have once been black operations, including drone assassinations. I can only imagine, therefore, what our modern day black ops consist of, what kind of disgusting war crimes that are committed and not spoken of openly, when we have many such instances plastered all over the media openly already.
It is incredibly hard for me to continue my life, knowing that by continuing to exist, and performing valuable work that keeps the modern society functioning, I am only serving to allow the vicious, ignorant masses to continue their apathetic, uneducated ways, all the while living without concern for human life - unless it is their own or those they care about - without concern for the suffering of so many people, in our country and others, often the result of our own actions. My life may be lost, and I may never find real functional happiness or love in this life, but I know that I may not be able to live with myself, if I continue to provide this power structure, and ignorant Americans, the fruits of my labor.
And contrary to popular belief, the fruit of my labor is not the money i receive in compensation...it is what I and my union brothers produce.
I'm not a liberal, not a conservative. I'm an anarchist, anti-government to the extreme. Outside of public services such as roads, hospitals, a system of law and some degree of a social security net, government has no need to exist...and arguably, many of these things would take care of themselves if they were privatized or unionized separate from government. The concept of military, too, is ridiculous. As long as we have nuclear weapons, and as long as we keep a just amount of military might on the home front, we need not ever fear any kind of invasion. Although we will certainly spend billions of dollars to murder foreigners, with no real financial benefit reaped. Such is the military machine - a gigantic waste of material resources that only serves to reduce the standard of living of a nation's people (and for every person that joins, yes, you are stealing from the very people you seek to protect - when you do not protect in the slightest bit.) Patriotism - Nationalism - is precisely the kind of dangerous mentality that our forefathers fought against in the revolutionary war. Easily forgotten, it would seem. They weren't fighting for American independence - or this nation - they were fighting to keep themselves from being ruled. And even then, there were numerous people, some figures estimating very close to half, that were "tories" or pro-British rule.
Those who have not reasoned themselves to this rational point are simply part of the problem, giving their energy and their sovereign right over to entities and power structures that serve essentially only themselves and high-brow financial interests, a fact that becomes more and more apparent as time draws on in the United States. The media itself has gone just in my lifetime alone, from questioning government actions and unbiased reporting to extreme ends of the spectrum. One instance in particular sticks with me - the case of a few members of the Occupy movement being convinced to blow up a bridge by CIA operatives and then sold fake explosives. Such an act would have NEVER been spoken about openly in the 60s, and in fact, there is a large history of undercover operations that were less-than-honorable in intentions which served to undermine certain groups or foreign nations, all of which where "black operations." Even some of our military actions today, would have once been black operations, including drone assassinations. I can only imagine, therefore, what our modern day black ops consist of, what kind of disgusting war crimes that are committed and not spoken of openly, when we have many such instances plastered all over the media openly already.
It is incredibly hard for me to continue my life, knowing that by continuing to exist, and performing valuable work that keeps the modern society functioning, I am only serving to allow the vicious, ignorant masses to continue their apathetic, uneducated ways, all the while living without concern for human life - unless it is their own or those they care about - without concern for the suffering of so many people, in our country and others, often the result of our own actions. My life may be lost, and I may never find real functional happiness or love in this life, but I know that I may not be able to live with myself, if I continue to provide this power structure, and ignorant Americans, the fruits of my labor.
And contrary to popular belief, the fruit of my labor is not the money i receive in compensation...it is what I and my union brothers produce.
