Let's try this again
Today was amazing. Kalisa and I amused ourselves with the analogy of leading our troops, in the midst of much laughter and mad references to might Napolean Dynamite. I am not a leader, however, and any attempts to label me the new leader of our movement shall be met with resistance. I accept this responsibility as I would the geis, the curse, oath or obligation, that was taken to a spiritual depth by my Celtic ancestors. I accept it because no one else has stood up and I can not watch this tiny candle of ours flicker and die before we can reach that distant pile of deadwood we begin to realize must be set aflame.
We speak of political and social theory as well as we can as we sit outside J&B drinking bad coffee and bartering for cigarrettes. I occasionally throw in the perspective of an almost-anthropologist with an obsession for the patterns of human culture; we toss about Marxism, modern communism, commune experiments, the red tape beuracracy, old confederist ideals, the original vision of the Republic, I fling random quotes from Jefferson my hero. Yet these are all things that have been attempted already, ideas that though brilliant have without fail proven to have a limited life span; I tend to argue that it's time to tear down all the crap that's built up in over two centuries and reestablish the vision of the Founders, but then we know that the process will only repeat itself and destruction and reconstruction will have to happen again a few hundred years down the line. Communism can't work on large scales, especially not if individual freedom is advocated. Empirial/colonial systems eventually fuck over those being ruled over if they refuse to replace their ways with those of the conquerors. Feudalism is the ultimate devolution of anarchy in sedentary cultures; otherwise you end up with the old tribal/nomadic system reasserting itself. And in all the various mixes possible, as no system in nature is pure, there is always the factor of the power of organized religion, which serves a social rather than spiritual purpose in most cases and can completely screw over a governmental system if they are not either woven together so thoroughly as to be one and the same or else there is a very strong cultural element that maintains a very clear cut barrier keeping the two separated under all circumstances. (The rise of the Right is an example of what happens when this barrier begins to break down but there is no element to the official system for it under the original establisment.)
I feel in a strange way that it is time for something entirely new and original, perhaps made wholly from recycled parts but reassembled into a creature never before seen. I have a vague notion in my mind for the moment of a strange interbreeding of capitalism and communism, of a system dynamic enough, perhaps quantum enough, to reflect the strangeness of nature that allows the very small to exist under completely different rules than anything larger, even though the small bits make up the large bits and intuitively it does not make sense, yet it is none the less the reality. I openly admit that I lack the knowledge and understanding at this time of political science, economics and social theory to truly map this idea out, but I have the seed ready to plant once I have gathered the proper soil for it to flourish in my mind and the minds of others.
We speak of political and social theory as well as we can as we sit outside J&B drinking bad coffee and bartering for cigarrettes. I occasionally throw in the perspective of an almost-anthropologist with an obsession for the patterns of human culture; we toss about Marxism, modern communism, commune experiments, the red tape beuracracy, old confederist ideals, the original vision of the Republic, I fling random quotes from Jefferson my hero. Yet these are all things that have been attempted already, ideas that though brilliant have without fail proven to have a limited life span; I tend to argue that it's time to tear down all the crap that's built up in over two centuries and reestablish the vision of the Founders, but then we know that the process will only repeat itself and destruction and reconstruction will have to happen again a few hundred years down the line. Communism can't work on large scales, especially not if individual freedom is advocated. Empirial/colonial systems eventually fuck over those being ruled over if they refuse to replace their ways with those of the conquerors. Feudalism is the ultimate devolution of anarchy in sedentary cultures; otherwise you end up with the old tribal/nomadic system reasserting itself. And in all the various mixes possible, as no system in nature is pure, there is always the factor of the power of organized religion, which serves a social rather than spiritual purpose in most cases and can completely screw over a governmental system if they are not either woven together so thoroughly as to be one and the same or else there is a very strong cultural element that maintains a very clear cut barrier keeping the two separated under all circumstances. (The rise of the Right is an example of what happens when this barrier begins to break down but there is no element to the official system for it under the original establisment.)
I feel in a strange way that it is time for something entirely new and original, perhaps made wholly from recycled parts but reassembled into a creature never before seen. I have a vague notion in my mind for the moment of a strange interbreeding of capitalism and communism, of a system dynamic enough, perhaps quantum enough, to reflect the strangeness of nature that allows the very small to exist under completely different rules than anything larger, even though the small bits make up the large bits and intuitively it does not make sense, yet it is none the less the reality. I openly admit that I lack the knowledge and understanding at this time of political science, economics and social theory to truly map this idea out, but I have the seed ready to plant once I have gathered the proper soil for it to flourish in my mind and the minds of others.