The Internet's love/hate relationship with me.

[zeroenthusiasm]

At literally the same instant over the Internet I received these two bits of commentary on my writing, opinions, and existence. One was full of hate and the other was full of admiration

Comments

[lorrilai]

WELP. I just read all of that and I still don't see how you are a bad person. Sorry you aren't one of those people who get your perfect, modest life handed to them on a silver fucking plate.

Fuck that video game tester kid, seriously. Sorry not all of us can have cool jobs and get paid a shit tonof money while we live in our parents basement.

None of this made any sense. I am so tired.

[zeroenthusiasm]

Thanks, Loren. I'm glad you understand. It's more believable that maybe I really am a good person when someone like you, who has known me for a while now, thinks so and the only people who seem to hate me so much are total strangers who have never met me. It's pretty uplifting when I look at it from a broader perspective like that.

I should have asked that tool how he paid for college and if he's ever paid taxes himself while I had the chance.

[lorrilai]

I'll know you for two years this September. :)

Such a creep for knowing that. v.v

You should've! If I went to College for something I loved...I'd be in debt my whole life. If I did go, which I won't, it'd be for marine biology. 5-6 years in College and no promise of a job, yay!

[zeroenthusiasm]

Hey, if you're a creep, then so am I, because I totally knew that, too!

It sucks you have to pay or sell yourself out to life-long debt just to do something meaningful with your life like become a marine biologist or doctor. :(

[anonymous]

Where did race come into the picture when he spoke of welfare mothers? These are your own crypto-racist projections. The way the welfare system is currently set up in such a way that it produces perverse incentives to "pump out kids," and this is something practiced by all races. I'm not here to judge whether a welfare recipient is blameworthy for doing this (sometimes they are genuinely desperate, sometimes they are drug addicts or entirely negligent), but rather to be wary of your own instinctive prejudices

[anonymous]

There are a lot of grammatical/syntactical errors I overlooked, but I'd like to include (so as to obviate a certain charge against me) that I do not see voting, green consumerism, etc. as an end. I think these are useful endeavors, but the focus should be on creating new communities and (even if this sounds antiquated in post-Marxist radical politics) preparing for class struggle. Direct action is important, too, especially in relation to environmental and animal rights issues. The point I'm making is that you still owe things to your community, and you still should work in such a way that you produce useful goods or services to your community. You still have a web of people who provide a backdrop of support and comfort even if they are still enmeshed in the logic of capitalism (and it is important to note that they are more often than not the victims).

[zeroenthusiasm]

I didn't express this early, but I think that personal revolution is a more practical and, in the context of living life to the fullest, a more self-beneficial goal. Since widespread revolution is nearly impossible now, I think it makes more sense to individually change and live according to our own laws and hope that others follow our lead after seeing that it's possible and enjoyable.

We're all potential flames, after all, and the goal of setting this system totally on fire and burning it to the ground starts with us as individuals. It all depends on whether or not our fellow humans are still flammable or not.

[zeroenthusiasm]

"I don't know you. This is more a critique of lifestyle-oriented Crimeth(inc) kids who have a similar set of rhetoric."I really feel that these two sentences negate your entire comment. Because you're right, you don't know me, and because of that the majority of this comment was insulting and non-applicable to me, my life, and my political positions. If you have a problem with so-called 'CrimethInc kids', hash it out with them on a forum, not here. Because I am no blind follower of any single name, brand, or person; I don't have a savior, but a collection of ideas that I have accumulated, combined, and made my own for my own reasons, not the teachings or fashions of others. And I think it's immature and needless for you to devalue a great group like the CrimethInc Anti-Workers Collective by associating them with a small and irrelevant class of faux-punk crust kids whose rebellion begins and ends with their parents' debit card and the clothes they can purchase at Hot Topic

Job: DENIED!

[tiggerpaws]

Again I say, America the free my butt

Re: Job: DENIED!

[tiggerpaws]

Who will not hire me?

You are the reason I am
on disability.

[anonymous]

I'm not saying that being anti-tax is wrong, but it isn't unconstitutional, given that the 16th amendment specifically allows for the federal government to collect an income tax, and Article 1 Clause 1 allows for excise and various other taxes

[zeroenthusiasm]

Technically, it is not. 'Income tax' in the Constitution is referring to indirect taxes that come with employment; it does not literally mean 'income that is taxed' (these are called 'excise taxes'). Under the Constitution, reimbursement for your labor is your 'property' and property can not be subject to excise tax. Furthermore, 'Income tax' in the Constitution also entails the exhibition of a 'privilege'; since labor is an 'inalienable right' of every American citizen, it is, again, not subject to these excise taxes. It's all about wording and no one is better at finding loopholes in our own Constitution than our own government

[anonymous]

Who cares about the constitution?

[zeroenthusiasm]

Not me. But if you bother to read the conversation, you will see that the Constitution happens to be relevant to the topic.

[acetank]

I really like you. Your opinions make complete sense and people need to get their heads out of their asses.

[zeroenthusiasm]

Well, thank you. It's a breath of fresh air to read someone saying that my ideas make complete sense; most of the time, even the simplest of concepts (people living the way they want to before they die?! not eating the flesh of dead animals?! America isn't the best country in the world?!) are so far beyond the realm of comprehension that I'm presented with nothing but a misguided, incoherent hostility.