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?

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