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Viva la Revolucion???
2003-10-23 06:36 pmStudying Anarchism and also looking at various other sources of information/beliefs, all related to a future Utopia, i've come to realise one startling fact...
...no matter how peaceful the Utopian vision...
...no matter how 'free' we'll be...
...how liberated...
...'saved'... from ourselves or the tyranny of evil men...
...there seems to be a lot of ambiguity of how we actually 'get' there.
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I've been there...
...infact i still am of a Utopian Mindset (there's a philosophy book written about the 'Utopian Mind', entitled, funnily enough, 'The Philosophy of the Utopian Mind'. I gotta buy it someday)...
...you begin to advocate and believe in the end of the world as we know it, mainly because you really want it to happen.
The 'end' can happen in a variety of ways, ranging from natural disaster, human intervention, even divine intervention, and some ways are even prophecized... gives them a little more 'umph'.
The thing is this... violence... death... suffering... revenge...
...a common theme in most ways to 'Utopia'.
I'm completely aghast, worried that people can hold these ideas...
...ideas which completely contradict the idea of a Utopia.
Violence breeds violence... among other things...
...such as revenge... hatred... etc.
I don't care if you're going to 'save' us...
...we need saving from people like you.
Violence is not the answer.
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So... if i still dream of progressing to a Utopian society, how do i envisage 'getting' there?
Well, 'progress' is exactly the way.
Not some instant, bloody, revolt.
But a gradual erosion of the things that restrict our Liberty.
A realization of the evils in the world, and a gradual removal of the means by which 'evil' has power.
I believe one good way of doing this is by properly educating people.
I think this is the main thing i'm going to be concentrating on in my life.
But i have other ideas... not 'mine' par se... but ideas that i 'hold'.
Such as the decentralization of the production and distribution process.
Getting rid of big business, splitting financial power from the few, and sharing it among the many.
Also, taxes should trickle 'up' the system, not down it.
Going to local government first, and working it's way up to 'central' government.
This way, any corruption along the 'line' will be the governments concern, and it WILL concern them... corruption will have to be rooted out for government to increase its effectiveness.
Because any corruption in the line, removes money from their pockets, not ours.
Seperation from 'State' and Education will be my main concern though...
...it's such an obvious conflict of interest that i cannot see why it hasn't been done already.
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Anyways... dunno how to end this, so i just will :D
...no matter how peaceful the Utopian vision...
...no matter how 'free' we'll be...
...how liberated...
...'saved'... from ourselves or the tyranny of evil men...
...there seems to be a lot of ambiguity of how we actually 'get' there.
- - - - - - - -
I've been there...
...infact i still am of a Utopian Mindset (there's a philosophy book written about the 'Utopian Mind', entitled, funnily enough, 'The Philosophy of the Utopian Mind'. I gotta buy it someday)...
...you begin to advocate and believe in the end of the world as we know it, mainly because you really want it to happen.
The 'end' can happen in a variety of ways, ranging from natural disaster, human intervention, even divine intervention, and some ways are even prophecized... gives them a little more 'umph'.
The thing is this... violence... death... suffering... revenge...
...a common theme in most ways to 'Utopia'.
I'm completely aghast, worried that people can hold these ideas...
...ideas which completely contradict the idea of a Utopia.
Violence breeds violence... among other things...
...such as revenge... hatred... etc.
I don't care if you're going to 'save' us...
...we need saving from people like you.
Violence is not the answer.
- - - - - - - -
So... if i still dream of progressing to a Utopian society, how do i envisage 'getting' there?
Well, 'progress' is exactly the way.
Not some instant, bloody, revolt.
But a gradual erosion of the things that restrict our Liberty.
A realization of the evils in the world, and a gradual removal of the means by which 'evil' has power.
I believe one good way of doing this is by properly educating people.
I think this is the main thing i'm going to be concentrating on in my life.
But i have other ideas... not 'mine' par se... but ideas that i 'hold'.
Such as the decentralization of the production and distribution process.
Getting rid of big business, splitting financial power from the few, and sharing it among the many.
Also, taxes should trickle 'up' the system, not down it.
Going to local government first, and working it's way up to 'central' government.
This way, any corruption along the 'line' will be the governments concern, and it WILL concern them... corruption will have to be rooted out for government to increase its effectiveness.
Because any corruption in the line, removes money from their pockets, not ours.
Seperation from 'State' and Education will be my main concern though...
...it's such an obvious conflict of interest that i cannot see why it hasn't been done already.
- - - - - - - -
Anyways... dunno how to end this, so i just will :D