to clarify a few things
there is a war on, and i think one of the most common excuses people have for sqeulching their outrage about this, or any other important matter, is to talk about how they just don't have the time to plan any kind of meaningfull resistance. what i want to clarify is: this is no excuse. i hear myself saying it to, and it disgusts me. because this is the whole thing about life in the society we live in: our time is taken up by work and by auxiliary responsbility thereby reducing drastically the amount of time we have to pursue any kind of creative, resistive, or new ideas and actions. this applies to everything, not just protest, resistence. it applies to having time to see your friends, to have meaningfull moments with them, to feel your life before it passes. it's about really knowing your life exists instead of allowing yourself to fall into a self defeating and pathetic mode of conversation that expects pity from other people because you work so hard and it's killing you and you can't come over and make art or go out to any kind of event or take the time to plan anything. "sorry i have to work" it gives you a kind of depressed power doesn't it? but is the life you want to live? a life of i thought something, i had an opinion, i even cared about being alive, but i have so much to do, so much work to do, that i never really could do anything and i missed my chance. this is the stuff of mid life crises. this is where you start saying "and where was i when the american empire was stumbling" "where was i during the ecological wars" "where was i when we lost our rights?" "oh ... i remember. ... i was working as a telemarketer."
the point is that this is your life, there are things happening in the world, there are things happening in your home... you are responsible for all of it. don't make excuses... it's a question of priorities. what's really important to you? the things that you've always known are really important or the things that your society feeds to you? there's plenty of time for everything, in reality.
the hard part is, it really is a battle. the structures around you will try to point you in the least productive direction. you'll spend all your creative energy building a website to sell nike shoes and then have nothing left for building a local wireless WAN. you'll spend all your days filing papers and have nothing left for writing your zine about what you see happinging around you. worse, you'll be so lonely that you'll spend all your spare time just trying to grasp a few shreds of human closeness, fellowship, and brotherhood and then it will be time to 'go back to the grind' before you can form lasting connections with people and build the kind of community that both changes the world AND nurtures the soul.
so set your priorities straight shapeshifters, you've got a lot of the world to reckon with and only the strength of your personality to react with.
some days are like canopies, other days are like bombs. either live in the world, or die with it
the point is that this is your life, there are things happening in the world, there are things happening in your home... you are responsible for all of it. don't make excuses... it's a question of priorities. what's really important to you? the things that you've always known are really important or the things that your society feeds to you? there's plenty of time for everything, in reality.
the hard part is, it really is a battle. the structures around you will try to point you in the least productive direction. you'll spend all your creative energy building a website to sell nike shoes and then have nothing left for building a local wireless WAN. you'll spend all your days filing papers and have nothing left for writing your zine about what you see happinging around you. worse, you'll be so lonely that you'll spend all your spare time just trying to grasp a few shreds of human closeness, fellowship, and brotherhood and then it will be time to 'go back to the grind' before you can form lasting connections with people and build the kind of community that both changes the world AND nurtures the soul.
so set your priorities straight shapeshifters, you've got a lot of the world to reckon with and only the strength of your personality to react with.
some days are like canopies, other days are like bombs. either live in the world, or die with it