Imagine living in a place where people accepted that there were things in their world about which they could not exert their freedom to choose.
So we all get that there are the common legal things like you can't kill anybody in real life. So we don't really have total free choice in this world.
To get there, first off we'd need to get everybody to start thinking about it that way. Get their gears rolling before we bring them in on the good stuff.
Because the good stuff is in the culture. The good stuff is all the places we think we could have freeway, but, really, we don't. A lot of people think it's the cops keeping them from offing someone.
So we don't actually have free choice in this world only we're trained not to think about it that way. Instead, the things that make us who we are actually take those freedoms from us.
It has always been our culture that binds us; and it is the corporations that get paid to take our minds off it. Is anyone surprised then, that the corprations got into the culture business?
Don't get me wrong. I'm not with the shoot anyone you feel like crowd. In fact, I'm in the don't shoot anyone anytime, most of the time, crowd.
Maybe Anarchists have the right direction, but they are missing the point on execution. The idea that no one rules is a stupid idea. We got that right now except that the "everybody" who are doing whatever they want have convinced the rest of us that we're still in charge.
It's not that you shouldn't shoot people, it's that most of us can't shoot people. Don't even want to have to shoot people. But that's not the law, that's the culture. Believe me, if the corporations wanted you killing each other, you would be--across borders, or across neighborhoods.
But most of us are bread for pasture; fed on a ration of poison and injected with the sense that we chose it. And when the whole thing makes us so crazy we can't stand it, we can only go back to the same farmer to find our escape.
Side note. If people already can do what they want (ie finance, everything, etc) haven't the anarchists already one? Make a note to ask them what the hell they're bitching about.
This is the part where I tell you to ram the gates and head to the city before they take you for slaughter. But this is not where I tell you to take back your right to choose. That's my whole point.
Thinking you have a right to choose is part of the illusion. It's the misdirection that keeps the trick going.
When you start to see the world in those terms, you can try to focus on the slighted hand.
After all, would you give any stranger the key to your heart? How long would you play poker with someone who had discovered all your tells? When was the last time you beat gravity?
It is inescapable that the elements of our culture form the limitations of our consciousness by defining how we think before we ever get close to what we think.
"Thou Shalt Not Kill?" As a law, no matter it's relative distance, it must exist on a plane with speed limits and jaywalking. As a cultural message, it gets listed with stuff that they dont have to legislate, like love your mother, don't sleep with your sister, or only drink bottled water.
How did they figure out how you think? How can they the thoughts in my head? They know because they put them there.
If we understand that we can be fouled. Everywhere. Allthetime. Then we can try to understand why we made that decision.
We don't have a choice about what we think. But maybe we can try to choose how we think.
At any rate, we can stop the free lunch for the bastards that are selling us back their leftovers.
...must sleep. To be continued.
-- Mobile and Free
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