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My Rebellion: A Look at Society.
I once thought this place was a paradise – home of the free. I must have had rose colored glasses on or something. The opposite is true. Our government is a corporation whose only purpose is profit. The humans who live in this domain, mere commerce property of said corporation. Not that they even begin to care, being brainwashed with reality television that blurs the line between fiction and reality. Most of them are so crazy from their conditioning – from public education teaching conformity, unquestioning obedience to authority, and materialism that there’s nothing worth redeeming to be found in these people. Selfish and lazy – fighting over crumbs while enforcing the system.
The sometimes is a rare soul who dares to think but that is about as far as their actions go. I call them “liberals” and I say they are useless. Utterly and complete trash. They spend their time complaining about the problems in society – knowing that we’re heading for a crash, but do nothing but watch. These people are spectators of life – allowing life to happen to them as if there was some unnatural force controlling their fate. They are too afraid to take the next step in realization: that we, humans, create the world we live in. That we have a choice: we can say “No.”
That’s where I fit in the picture. I have said, “No.” to the machine. Fate, fortune, or luck has afforded me the privilege of not having to beg for my supper. Some people aren’t lucky enough to have the option but most that do are too blinded by this desire to obtained man-made bullshit that they fall into line.
I am an anomaly. I want freedom from oppression and hierarchies. I want peace and equality. Sometimes I think I am the only one. Just by looking at the world – it is the way it is because people have made it this way. Now, they think some savior is going to come and fix this mess. Believing faerie tales and living life by a book. Things have been largely this way for the last ten thousand years and look where it’s gotten us. If this fucked up world isn’t proof enough that religion isn’t working, I don’t know what is.
I haven’t met anyone like me; someone else who wants to dedicate their life to changing the world. Just because I don’t work doesn’t mean I do nothing. I have been afforded the luxury to rebel so I am. I organize and form groups to try to promote peace, equality, and freedom. I haven’t had much luck so far. No one seems to think such a vision can be real but it is.
Peace is here if you want it. You need to only look to yourself. Most people can’t though. They are monsters. I’m a monster too being brought up in this capitalistic society but at least I know it. The others can’t admit imperfection. They model their lives off magazines and buy, buy, buy. Because of their greed we as a human race are going to die, die, die. What good is money when there’s nothing left to buy?
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Let’s Talk Politics! Here’s mine, what’s yours?
I am an anarcha-feminist. I believe in freedom from all forms of oppression and hierarchies. Peace, love, unity, solidarity, and punk rock. I don’t want to rule and I don’t want to be ruled. I don’t believe in any nasty isms - such as racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, classism, and specism. I am against homophobia, xenophobia, and transphobia. I detest violence. I am a pacifist. I am pretty extreme - I don’t watch violent movies or play violent games. I believe violence creates violence. That any peace held with violence - is a false peace. I believe that health care, food, water, and housing should be a right not a privileged. I don’t pledge allegiance to the flag - I want no nations, no borders. No human is illegal. I want community and people working to help humanity. I believe we have a responsibility to take care of our planet so all species can live in harmony. I believe thou shall not kill. Life is precious and should never be taken for any reason. I can see a world with no war - where people won’t ever want to leave their home because everything they ever need is right there in front of them. A world free of rape, starvation, slavery, and bombs. This world is possible - if you want it. The system is made up of people - with changing yourself, you being a person, you can change the entire world.
With that being said, I took a quiz which I took a couple of years back. When I took the quiz for the first time, my politics were aligned with Gandhi. 
Now, Gandhi looks moderate compared to me. See my results here.
What’s your politics? Take the quiz here. Post a comment with your results! I am curious to see what other people are. :)
Punk Rock 101: Anarcho-Punk
I consider myself to be an anarcho-punk. Anarcho-punk is punk that promotes anarchism. The band Crass was the first anarcho-punk band. Many anarcho-punks support peace, equality, freedom from oppression, and hierarchies. I found a cool website dedicate to anarcho-punk and you can download some music from there.
http://www.anarcho-punk.net/
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Peace Needs To Be The Foundation of Our Society
In order for there to be peace, the whole foundation of our society needs to change. We live in a society based on violence. If we are to have peace, we need to have a society based on peace.
Everything from entertainment to what we put in our bellies to what games we play as a child are centered around violence. We have the “good verses evil” scenario drilled into our heads. We are taught separation, “us and them.”
Most people are addicted to violence. Their life revolved around it and they aren’t even aware of it. If we really valued peace, why would we murder animals for food? Why would we watch superheroes fighting supervillains for “truth, justice, and doing things our way?” Why would we teach our children to play with weapons? Why would we later send our children to war?
Having violence in news, television, and video games are made to desensitize us. It trains us to even find violence to be entertaining and unquestionably accept it as another part of life. It makes it so when we hear of war people praise it instead of abhor it.
If we built a society based on peace, the current establishment would collapse. Our youth wouldn’t want to fight wars. We wouldn’t murder animals for pleasure. We would detest the taking of life and value tranquility.
Instead of viewing the world as a conflict; dog eat dog or us verses them, we’d start building community. Instead of seeing differences as a threat which is the hostile violent reaction to have – we would cherish our differences and embrace them. If we taught kindness and compassion in place of conformity and unquestioning obedience to authority – we’d have a nurturing and caring world instead of the hostile environment we have.
News flash: The world is the way it is because of us. Humans make the world the way it is. The only way the world is going to change is if the people change. The only way the people are going to change is with education. The way we’ve been educated: from pre-school to college is inept. There are so many problems in this world because people weren’t taught properly. Humans aren’t born knowing how to be human and most people forget that. The current system doesn’t teach people brotherhood, solidarity, or sharing. We need to focus on unity regardless of what limits our meat suit proscribes us. The current school system isn’t focused on building the best people it can. It’s more focus on building the best worker it can.
The quality of people today is terrible. It’s just messed up people having messed up children, teaching their kids the same mistake they were taught. No wonder why the world’s a mess. The cycle needs to end somewhere. It can start with you by learning to be a kind, compassionate, and loving human being. Philosophers, religions, and thinkers across the ages have all been trying to communicate the same idea: That we need to love each other and get along. That we are all human. We are all one.
We need to teach ourselves that fighting amongst ourselves is not okay. That violence is not acceptable. We need to find a way to tolerate each other and not hate. There’s so much hate in this world when the foundation should be love. I was told once by a friend’s mom that “People only act out of pain.” I thought about it, and she was wrong. People act out of love too, not just pain. If we all learned to love a little and have our actions be based in love – the world would be an amazing place.
Punk Rock 101: Wearing Bullets
I have a tendency to wear bullets (empty shell casings). I have a few bullet belts, a bullet wallet chain, and bullet on a chain necklace. The idea of wearing bullets is to make people think. When something is out of sight, out of mind, like war being an ocean away it’s easy to pretend it doesn’t exist. The idea is to confront people and make them think about what their tax dollars are doing. It’s a protest. I am an anarcho-pacifist punk - so war is the last thing I want being served.
Today, I was confronted by airport security guards about wearing my bullet chain - a chain with some bullet shells on it. They didn’t like it because it might make people feel “uncomfortable.” Here, in captalistic America - it’s not PC to make other people uncomfortable and think. Being that I was in a zone with zero rights, I wasn’t about to explain my position that making people uncomfortable is kind of the idea so maybe they think about what’s going on in the world. That war is real and not just something you hear about on television. Anyways, the guards let me go with my chain as long as I agreed to be censored and keep the harmless bits of metal in my pocket since someone might be upset by it. What happened to my freedom of expression?
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Capitalism and Greed is Destroying the World
At least this year, no one was trampled to death on Black Friday unlike last year. I always shudder during the holiday season and people’s greed. It’s such a joke that people spend money on buying fancy gifts and cards wishing each other peace and love while every day 30,273 people starve to death. If people really cared about peace, they would stop funding violent wars with their taxes and feed the poor. They would also stop feasting on flesh - which is tormented in it’s life on factory farms. How can we promote a society based on peace when the mere foundation of ours is based on violence?
I think the ugly truth is that people really don’t want peace - or at least the people in power. The rich, us in the first world, spend our monies making things quicker and better and brushing asides the problems that have always plagued humanity. I suppose that is some sort of justification for the world being the way it is, “It has always been this way.” It doesn’t need to be -this- way. If the rich would stop being so selfish and care about their fellow man and animal, things could change.
As Aus-Rotten puts it, we’re all guilty by nature of living in this capitalistic society. The rich exploit the poor, just caring about profits not people. My underwear is more well traveled than I am. It bothers me.
I was eating a carrot the other day and it dawned upon me I didn’t know where any carrot farms were. I turned to my dad and asked him if he knew where any were, he didn’t, he tried googling it, but the search turned up nothing. He just shrugged his shoulders. I asked him if it bothered him that he didn’t know where his food was coming from, he said it did not. Both issues, the fact I could not locate where my food was coming from and the fact it did not bother my dad, really disturbed me. Maybe he’s been conditioned not to think about it - being a meat eater, because anyone with an ounce of compassion after knowing what horrors farm animals are put through wouldn’t be able to eat flesh. But, being a thinker and a concerned citizen, I wonder about where my food is coming from. I’ve been told I should watch the movie Food, Inc.
In 2005, an article in the Guardian reported that two-thirds of the planet’s resources have been used up. Since that time, it doesn’t seem like people have done much with the warning, as we continue to consume the planet thanks to capitalism. The biggest problem I have with capitalism is that it’s a system that thrives on the have’s and the have’s not. As long as you have a system that institutionalizes the poor as part of the “system” there will always be poor. I think that food and water should be a human right not a privilege.
To quote http://www.worldhunger.org: The world produces enough food to feed everyone. World agriculture produces 17 percent more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago, despite a 70 percent population increase. This is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 kilocalories (kcal) per person per day (FAO 2002, p.9). The principal problem is that many people in the world do not have sufficient land to grow, or income to purchase, enough food.
All it is, is greed, baby. And it’s killing people, ruining lives, and causing lots of suffering. The solution starts with you. Instead of getting a new Ipod for the holidays, help someone who’s hungry. It can make a difference.
I am asking for “world peace” for the holidays but unfortunately, that can’t be bought, or if it could, we don’t have the funds. I’ll probably do what I did last year and get money to go grocery shopping and drop the food off at the food bank. If everyone did that, imagine how the world would be different and there would be a lot less suffering.
Peace can happen - but it requires your involvement. It means time to turn off that violent television show or stop playing that first person shooter and getting virtual human entails all over yourself - and start living peacefully. I don’t watch any violent movies and it’s scary how many people find “Violence entertaining.” The only way to end violence is to stop putting it in our collective unconscious. We condition our kids to play violent games and we get surprised when we get violent citizens. There’s a connection. We get what we sod, so plant something good.
- Jess
