'The only leftist politics are the politics of ego and personality.
The only rightist politics are the politics of conspiracy and greed.
Centrist politics are the politics of smug assassination.
Politics is the creation of the degraded dream, self-delusion and reasons for antipathy. It is to make false connections of cause and effect. A politician must be ill, pathological.
The answer to politics is opposition and association.'
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i just stumbled in here from someone's blogroll...this is exactly how i feel, and i dont think ive ever seen it said so well/succinctly
applauds!!!
I believe there is no doubt that the accelerating decline of the United Stated is increasing the danger to the world's people.
Something needs to be done.
The United States has reached a stage of undevelopment whereby it is only a huge tax-gathering centrality that maintains the support of a predatory economic network by grabbing resources and defending markets by war. It only justifies its very existence by continuous war. It seeks enemies. It invents histories. It invents principles. It invents Gods. It lives on false story. It eats the world's resources.
I think it is prudent now for people to dissolve the stories, dissolve the markets and dissolve the structures of America.
This is just as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is dissolving, just as Rome dissolved.
The United States, like the Imperial Empires before it, like Rome, like others, was built on smaller, more direct communities. Go forward to them.
Like the kingdoms that arose in the renaissance it grew up to replace communes, communities and popolos, monopolise trade for a few elites and retard independent citizenship and direct participation in life. It now resembles an automobile monopoly molding the world as a freeway, throttling the streets with iron, hiding or suppressing alternatives, building bigger for war.
America formed itself by massacring thousands who wanted only states' rights and free river navigation while pretending later it was all for a principle, the end of slavery, that it in fact hated.
It was for the organization of slavery in a new way.
When Rome was dissolving, the people in the dark age countryside and craft villages stayed away from the useless bandit military towns. They ate better, were clothed better and were untaxed. If some new ruler came around they would say, 'Hey, we're part of Rome, better bugger off or we'll get the legion here.' They stayed away. They hid in the forest. But they weren't part of Rome; they were a sneaky little place doing ok and trading good. Kings call this the Dark Ages.
Later the the Holy Roman Empire became just a story bandied around like the Holy Roman Church. But it came back worse and bloody. An excuse for murder. If you bought in they had you. If you disbelieved you stayed out. Unless they came to kill you.
In Italy the city communes, say of tailors or neighbours, made the places beautiful and interesting until some Mafia took over with foreign help and the Pope's bankers. That happened in America in a way.
America is a sticky web of products and debts with a military. It isn't even a combination of unique language and elitist social organization like Rome was. It doesn't organize nations; it disintegrates them. It isn't a nice hierarchical storytelling-for-cash network, like the church is, which is after all a useful and popular service negotiating on the fate of the dead. America offers no service but itself.
But America hasn't even figured out what an American is. It keeps changing the story on what it is doing, what it is there for, who it is there for.
We should help it to give up the past and to evolve into some nice self-sufficient little states. Give it a rest and a place in History. The rest of us then can take care of ourselves.
-Robert E. Lee.
What Is To Be Undone
A wave of narcotic nostalgia and fantasy engulfs the raving classes of our nations.
It is the times we live in.
But this is not the time to dream.
The central feature of the times is that America has reached a terminal phase in its development, a very dangerous phase where it exists to create chaos, must create chaos, is creating chaos throughout the world. To secure resources, to secure profit, to secure its elite and manage the dreamland they rule there must be war. Literally the world must be destroyed.
Everywhere lawlessness reigns. International laws evolved to stop aggression and exploitation are mocked, the laws of nations to ensure peace are broken, even the rich they were designed to protect are tortured, all common laws, rights and the natural justice humanity created for maintenance of society smashed.
Everywhere destruction is imposed. On the land, in the seas, in the skies, on every child, woman and man. All institutions are corrupted to serve the interests of the global vampires.
What do nostalgics do? They call for defense of the institutions that are failed. They float in pleasant reverie mouthing the liberal dreams and opportunist hypocrisies of the past. They revive their rosy memories. They try to belong. This is cowardice and lunacy. It is seem as much. How the reaction must laugh when they return over and over to the same mistakes and, befuddled, hold hands around the graves of ancients. An empty and cowardly response.
No! If we want reform of these systems we must give the reform some content. The demand of the world's people is for the reform of dismantling the U.S killing machine. A correct international policy which is genuinely anti-war is that the United States disarm. The structure that has produced the killing machine should be dissolved.
Our governance, based on maintaining a self-serving, corrupt cabal needs to be changed too. How? By making it all a matter of choosing better people? No, what is needed is the evolution of governance to self-reliant regions and communities. Managed directly by the people in them. This is a matter of urgency. The economic system is rotten to the core. It is constantly destructive to society, to the possibilities of life.
How can the economic system be reformed to ensure the well-being of the people? The commanding heights of production and service have to be managed directly at once. There must be heavy investment in them paid for from the surplus from less necessary enterprise. The economics of harm, carbon destruction, war manufacture, lunatic manufacture of addictive consumptives has to be stopped. We want to nurture a world that delights us.
Our politics need to be now the politics of inclusion. Everyone is invited to be a political entity. Not an economic one, not a spiritual one, but a participant. Every group is invited, every community. From that comes the political program.
Our culture. What is it? Is it not parochial? Is it not precious, banal and official? Is it not near insane nostalgia and stupidity? Is it not nightmares and boredom? Could it be any better in service of reactionary domination? When will we break out of all this dreaming? Necessary change comes about because of clarity and people. Not from memories. Not from memories of memories. Not from theatre of one character and that one, a dead evil speaking the language of the grave.
What has to be undone is that which is not the future. The United States must disarm and dissolve the war structures. Natural justice and inherent rights must be secured by self-defense. Our nations should be governed directly in self-sufficient communities and regions. The economy must be re-organized so that a public stewardship maintains and develops people's well-being. A liberating culture must be released and defended.
First the revolutionaries should adopt the genuine political program of those struggling for a just, secure society and not navel gaze yesteryear while serving up old corpses for the hungry.
It is the time.
Regards,
Flynn.
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