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Anarchism: What Anarchy Means To Me

March 10, 2015 by Jivan Wild Leave a Comment

What Anarchy means to me

Anarchy! What do you define anarchy as being? Was your definition of anarchy defined by the media. I will tell you what Anarchy means to me. Now when I say anarchy, I refer to anarchism.

Now I can’t speak for all anarchist as we all have a different schools of thoughts, but what anarchy means to me is not some loose word that is thrown around.

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
― Emma Goldman

I am not an anarchist because it’s some cool trend to follow or because I want to belong to a group because in this society we all want to belong to something, so we could feel like we actually belong.

It’s not because I want to spray paint an A all over the place or break windows and cause vandalism. Nor is it because I want so-called chaos or live in a mad max type of world that so many people think.

Anarchism is founded on the respect for the individual. Anarchism nurtures the individual’s development whether it be physically, politically, spiritually, mentally, creatively…etc. The true anarchist goes through life developing his/her idea of himself/herself and this search for identity manifests itself in many different forms. The only way for the anarchist to discover his/her identity is to experience and distinguish his/her own individuality within the rest of society. The quest for ultimate liberation and knowledge of self is what makes anarchy appealing.

Now I don’t like labels and anarchism might seem like a label, but as I previously said in one of my blogs. Describing myself as an anarchist is a way of identifying ourselves to others who want true freedom. That is what anarchism means to me. True freedom!

Now as I said we all have different schools of thoughts ranging from green anarchism to Anarcho-syndicalism and there are many others. But for me, anarchism is not staying confined with one frame of thought, perceptions can alter our thoughts at any given moment.

You can’t really label us because each of us have our own frame of thoughts, but the premise remains the same. Freedom. Not to be oppressed or controlled.

“If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled about it, afraid, or ashamed. This is the time to boldly say, “Yes, I believe in the displacement of this system of injustice by a just one; I believe in the end of starvation, exposure, and the crimes caused by them; I believe in the human soul regnant over all laws which man has made or will make; I believe there is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another; I believe in the total disintegration and dissolution of the principle and practice of authority; I am an Anarchist, and if for this you condemn me, I stand ready to receive your condemnation.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre,

Anarchy means to live the way you want to live without anyone imposing their will on you. It means to respect others and do no harm to others and treat others like the way you want to be treated.

Not to exploit each other, but to work together, organized and unified. It does not mean a world where we have no rules, just means we live in a world without rulers. Not some corrupt jackass leading millions of people, being the voice of us all.

We often think the solution is to keep voting every 4 years, hoping we can finally elect the right jackass for the job and we just rinse, wash and repeat the same shit over and over again.

When we don’t realize it is us who can change anything we want and that starts with changing yourself first, just like I have. I was conditioned and indoctrinated like everyone else. I changed my perspective in life. Everyday I strive to be better than I was yesterday.

There are many people who are anarchist they just don’t know it. They yearn for that freedom, they yearn not to be controlled. We don’t want to be controlled, we were born free or at least in basic principle are supposed to be born free, like all the other species around us.

But we have become domesticated. We have been contained into this box that has become our lives and we want to break free from this paradigm. Free from the shackles that bind us. Free from this bullshit system that keeps us from progressing and evolving into a better world that could be.

“And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see.”
― Lysander Spooner

We as a society fear change, fear has been plugged into our heads since the moment since birth. We fear what might happen without this wonderful government to control us all. We fear to fully live. We fear our own true reflection in the mirror. We fear to express ourselves or to be who we truly are because we fear condemnation.

As an anarchist, for me at least and for many, we are open to changes. Open to progression, we don’t fear the unknown, we embrace it. We all carry this new world in all our hearts and we want to expand that new world to include everyone. We see this world through new eyes, not the shades of grey we are used to, or shall I say shades of green, since all we see is money.

“But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism?

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet, how can any one speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?

John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

Freedom, expansion, opportunity, and, above all, peace and repose, alone can teach us the real dominant factors of human nature and all its wonderful possibilities.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations.

This is not a wild fancy or an aberration of the mind. It is the conclusion arrived at by hosts of intellectual men and women the world over; a conclusion resulting from the close and studious observation of the tendencies of modern society: individual liberty and economic equality, the twin forces for the birth of what is fine and true in man.”
― Emma Goldman,

Change. Change is a beautiful thing. Those political jackass puppets have promised you change and all you get is the governments dick up your ass. Change is what we have to make, how we view this world and each other.

All the things we have been conditioned to learn, has to be questioned. We must build a new world over the old one and let the old collapse under its own bullshit. As I said, I am open to change.

I am open to even smaller governments as long as they don’t intervene with how we choose to live and as long as they are just a mediator and really have no influences on our decisions. Anything that takes us to a road of freedom. But they won’t want that, governments just want to control us.

We want To live life how you choose to live it. If you want to walk around naked, then go ahead. Who said we need clothes. If you want to build a cob house or any earthen home, then you should be free to do it.

We don’t need laws and statutes to tell us how to live, we all have morals and follow natural laws. Again, treating others the way you want to be treated. Treating others like the brother and sisters that we all are.

Growing respect, consideration .Striving to better ourselves everyday. I go to the beach here and everyone can coexist together without police officers around telling them to behave.

They hold over us imprisonment to keep us in line. Some people would say damn with no government I would go kill everyone and rob people and all this other nonsense. But that is the mentality that has to change.

A threat of imprisonment should not be the reason that you are not robbing and killing people now. Robbing and killing is a product of our environment, a product of being governed, controlled, oppressed and exploited by a corrupt organizational mafia known as the government.

“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”
― Edward Abbey

Together we can come together to build that better world. It starts with producing for ourselves, it comes with sharing ideas, thoughts and organizing.

It comes to seeing each other as brothers and sisters and where we can come together in cooperation with one another instead of the endless competition with each other in this cutthroat world that we have allowed to be created.

Currently we are a product of this hostile environment where we are all closed off from each other and are no longer connected to the earth. I think gaining a connection back to the earth is the start. If people want to have leaders, then they should be free to have them in their communities and that is another thing we need, communities where we take care of each other in solidarity.

If you want a leader then by all means have some one lead you. But structure could come in communities. Talking to each other. Not having one sole voice for the millions of people, when they really don’t give a shit about us. It’s all about maintaining the infrastructure of the corporation that is the government

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I or we don’t have all the answers, but we as the people, have the answers locked up deep inside ourselves. each one of us has the keys to unlock it. We must break the indoctrinated molds of our minds. break free from this paradigm and ideas have more value than money as I wrote in a blog aptly entitled, “Ideas have more value than money“. and that is what we need more of. Look at what we have become, docile puppets with no thoughts of our own, just controlled and molded like putty.

Instead of disputing with each other, lets share ideas. Lets move forward. Lets be open to new possibilities. It’s not all about following each others point of view, but to take ideas and build on them and make them your own, so that you can live the way you want to live, not in this bubble of conformity.

We must think outside the box, hold no allegiance to a country or a flag, because to me that is what has kept us divided. As I wrote in this blog about patriotism being a disease.

We must bring in the new and out with the old. Learn from the past, so that can build a better future. A future where we are truly free and where we replace hatred and greed with love and togetherness. We need a revolt. A revolution of the mind and consciousness. A revolution for FREEDOM!

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin,

What is your meaning of Anarchy?

What did you think of my definition of anarchy? Are you tired of being of being oppressed and control? What other alternatives do you think can change our world?

I would like to hear from you, please comment down below and please let me know what anarchy means to you. Don’t forget to subscribe below and SHARE. Peace and love, unity and FREEDOM!

WATCH: Living Utopia (Anarchism in Spain Documentary)

May 5, 2014 by Jivan Wild Leave a Comment

Living utopia (Anarchism in Spain documentary)

A great documentary about the Spanish revolution and anarchism in 1936. I just wonder what would have happen if it continued and fascism did not destroy that movement. I truly believe this is something that we need. We can learn from them, we can take ideas from our past and evolve it for the present. Unity and solidarity with our brothers and sisters all over the world would be needed to stand together. To build a better world, a better tomorrow. Nothing is perfect. It won’t be this living utopia. But what we currently have now is far from perfect, we live in a system where a government of a select few oppress and exploit the many. Anarchism is freeing ourselves from those chains. To go beyond the mundane bullshit we have been living. I wrote a blog entitled what anarchy means to me, which can be found by clicking here.

There are many of us, many of us who are anarchist, but many don’t know it. Many people have this misconstrued definition of what an anarchist truly is as we often define it with what the media construes us to be. But many out there have this yearning for true freedom, this yearning to be free from the shackles and control of governments. What if instead of being born to an unjust system that like everything else, is indoctrinated into us. What if instead of conditioning ourselves into this competitive system with each other, this dog eat dog world. We condition our children to grow up to think freely. To develop their own way of thinking without the controls and indoctrination. Let them condition themselves and to learn how to treat others the way that they want to be treated. What if from the start they were conditioned to respect all living things. To be truly independent. They have molded our minds to fit in the constraints of boxes. What if our minds were molded to not fit in the confines of a box, but to be free!

Enjoy the documentary. Please leave any comments down below on what you thought of the video. if we need something more than how we are living. PLease share. peace and love

The Future And Economy of Puerto Rico

January 15, 2014 by Jivan Wild 1 Comment

The Future And Economy of Puerto Rico

I am currently in the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, which is a “U.S. Territory”, a commonwealth. Which means it is a self-governing unit voluntarily grouped with the US. This post will be directed to Puerto Rico as it is a prime example of the current system being employed and can also be applied to all parts of the world since it has to do with capitalism and how it affects the economy.

The Future And Economy of Puerto Rico and of the world is in bad shape and in this post we will look at why, even in the US, Detroit being a great example and speaking of Detroit, this island is heading towards that direction and I believe the people must collectively steer the ship in another direction. So let’s dive into the economy of this island.

The land and food

This island has a rich history in growing coffee, pineapples, sugarcane. and tobacco. This island is rich with fertile soil and warm tropical weather year round. perfect for growing an abundance of food. But it is staggering to find that 85 percent of the food is imported. So much land that goes unused here to have that much imported. So what we have is food filled with pesticides and chemicals with a deterioration of nutrition being imported here.

On average, food products imported from the mainland U.S.—the island’s main food supplier—travel 2,800 miles from the source of production to the dinner table. At the very least, they must spend three days at sea. Products coming from China, the second major food supplier, travel some 9,500 miles, a nearly month-long voyage. The transportation of food cargo costs at least $300 million a year.

What cause does this have with the islands bad economy. Well very simple, I don’t need to have a major in economics to figure this one out. We are buying imported goods from other countries thus the money goes out and never stays in. We have all this unused land going to waste because the people have forgotten their roots and their connection to the earth.

The people have become dependent on getting hand outs from the government by the means of food stamps, thus they go on purchasing the imported food, hence, you have the dwindling down of the economy. I think the mentality is why grow food when they can give you a magic card that gets you that food. If the people would empower themselves and grew their own food, that would be the start of regaining independence. Instead of importing, they should be exporting.

Corporations

But let’s go further shall we and get further to the root of the problems of their economy and as I said the economy we face with all over the world. The towns known as pueblos here that once flourished and thrived with small locally own businesses, now has turned into a ghost town thanks to the emergence of large corporations such as Walmart and the such, with many fast food places all over the place. As many as three McDonald’s per small towns. The same applies to the imported food. People are purchasing imported goods from these large corporations who pay their workers a pittance for their labor.

Again, what we have is all the money being imported out. Just a little money left over to pay the people who then use what money they have left to purchase from these same corporations that keep the money out and so we struggle further with debt and struggle to live as we continue to plummet in unemployment. Therefore leading to poverty and in turn leads into a high crime rate which is what this island has and what many impoverished countries are facing even in the USA, all thanks to capitalism as people will do anything to survive, even if that means robbing and murdering their own grandmothers as they go on trying to chase the “american dream”. Of course, corrupt governments come into play with all of this as well.

Capitalism

Let’s call this system what it truly is and that is Corporatism. The system we have is downright bullshit and it was built for the rich to maintain their status and for the poor to be slaves. We have become slaves to corporations and to the government which is a corporation in itself. We are now on the totem pole, struggling to provide for our families because we are busy propping the rich up above us. We are making the richer rich, while the poor continues to deteriorate.

They have built empires under our labor, while we continue to build piles of debt and go no where. While they keep feeding us the same old line that if you truly work hard enough, you can get out of that hole that we have dug ourselves into and join them in prosperity. This system is a parasite leaching off the poor with the rich benefiting from it, as we see this in this island and around the world and so now we have a dependency on a corrupt government who only favors corporations that they are in bed with, not realizing the government is a corporation themselves.

At one time here in Puerto Rico, you had US corporations buy large amounts of land in order to grow what was Puerto Rico’s backbone of the economy, sugarcane. They would pay off their workers, who were the natives of this land, a measly wage while these corporations made millions by exporting the sugarcane.

We see a similar trend now with all these corporations making millions off the work of the minimally paid workers, but let’s call them for what they really are, wage slaves.

We must stop supporting these corporations and stop supporting the corrupt government. We must take back the power they have derived from us and empower ourselves to move forward. Here I wrote why cannabis hemp could be Puerto Rico’s new sugar cane. But I think it is the people from the island who should be in control of the land and it’s products produced by hemp, not an outside entity.

Entrepreneurship

I strongly believe we must do what we love. We must take the initiative to start controlling our fate and our world. It all starts with producing for ourselves. Starts with growing your own food, starts with supporting your locally owned businesses. I think this world needs more entrepreneurship, which is what most of us want but don’t have the capital for it as they continue to bleed us out.

They impose licenses and taxes for many things to start your own small business and I believe that is bullshit. This is how they have enslaved us. You either have sufficient capital, I.E. be rich enough or saving your money through out the years which is becoming harder by the day or you are poor and must work now for the capitalist which goes back to the system of “capitalism”. That to me is the problem we are facing in this economy. Let’s free ourselves from the shackles. We have participated in this farce long enough. We must obtain our freedom back. We must get our true independence back.

Going back to the ghost town and all those empty stores collecting dust. Why are they collecting dust. They remain relics, just ruins rotting in time. When just like the massive abandoned houses and land, we could take it and build something better. It all starts with the people and us taking back control.

Independence and statehood

This island, being a commonwealth could vote for statehood or independence, which has the island split with different political affiliations. Those who believe in statehood, believe the government of the USA will come and fix this island and create new jobs. Little do they realize that the government of the USA would do everything it can to exploit the island and ensure they raise the taxes even higher creating a gentrification of the poor, even under the current government. That is what we are currently seeing as many flee for greener pastures to the US.

As for those who believe in independence think that they can be free from the united states and be known as an independent country as they want to vote for a man to lead the island as their president as they currently just have a governor running the island.

But little do they realize, you never know what type of leader you get in that case. You might get a dictator who can make things worse. People always seek for a leader to come lead them and take responsibility for how they live their lives, when they should start leading themselves. Then you have those who want the island to remain and get the best of both worlds, sort of.

So what do I think would be best for this island and pretty much the world.

Transcend politics

As of July 13th 2019, I have revised this post, originally I proposed Anarchism, I wrote a blog entitled what anarchy means to me which can be read by clicking here, where I elaborate on what anarchism to me is. But my perspective now is that I don’t feel the people here or anywhere for that matter are responsible enough for that.

However, I still feel that the people need to start taking that responsibility and Free themselves from the dependence of the governments. Build a sustainable world as I wrote in visions of a sustainable future. We must be the change and spread the change. The land is the foundation and is something we need to take back.

On this island and the whole world in general I still feel Independence is the right course. I believe the people should take responsibility cultivating a different mindset that they can continue to grow and pass on to the future generations. Join each other in solidarity to lead their own lives and produce for ourselves. Sollidarity is another component strongly missing.

I still feel that we don’t need a government who only is out for their own benefits as they enslave and oppress the people. We think we need them as that is all we know. but to be truly fruitful world we must obtain our independence in order to have true freedom and to have a prosperous economy.

Time to evolve from this artificial prison they have put us in. Every 4 years we vote for someone else thinking it will change something. All it leads to is minor reforms and we don’t need that. What we need is a radical change in the way we think and how we view each other and this paradigm.We don’t need them, the very few and powerful who just exploit us. We need each other!

I think if we need a government, it has to be a government for the people, not for the corporations. We need people in charge who truly give a damn about change. Not with filling their pockets. I think we need more communities and community leaders just like tribes and the tribe chief. There has to be a better way, which is why we need new ideas and perspectives.

Cannabis and producing

As I mentioned before, I truly believe Cannabis Hemp could be the key to a sustainable future. I believe can produce for each other with this wonderful plant. we can build homes, clothes, it can be our medicine. It can provide everything. It was called the billion dollar crop and I think we can surely do so much with this land here. Going back to what I was saying about the land, I feel that this island should take the opportunity to cherish all this valuable land so we can all thrive together.

In conclusion

People think we would have a mad max type of world with no government, but that is exactly what we have with the government. We are running around like savages as they made this into a dog eat dog world. It’s all about competition with each other. A new world is possible, we just have to open our minds and our arms to embrace new ideas.

We must stop supporting these large corporations, we must take control of our lives and in the direction in which we are going and stop with the worshiping of political so-called leader. We must shift our consciousness now.

Ultimately, we are responsible for the economy. You alone decide the fate on how you choose to go on with it. We must stop allowing ourselves to be exploited by the corporations and the government. Now is the time to assume responsibility, so that future generations won’t find themselves deeper in the hole that we have dug.

Over to you. What do you think of the economy in Puerto Rico? What do you think is the best thing for Puerto Rico. Would love to hear from you. Please Leave any comments down below.

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