Saturday, October 25, 2008

More Anarchic Reconstructionism

In Secessionists to Sarah: "Baby Come Back!" I waxed a bit poetic about what the true nature of democracy is:

"...removal of all but the absolute minimum of governments everywhere, and the submission of all State and Federal governments to the smallest, most local neighborhood democratic committees possible. Limited government will then come from the grassroots up, with the local, involved citizenry everywhere having the loudest possible voice, amplified through the authority of local, controllable by the individual, neighborhood town meetings. Free association is key, so folks may have to be permitted to move. With the power in the people, money should be supplied directly to them in order to allow for moving, establishment of the previously mentioned neighborhood committees, etc. A single week of Wall Street and banking class crime, facilitated by the Federal government, aka, $1.3 trillion, should be more than enough..."

Informed, happy, educated people with their physical needs met make democracy work. Ignorant, miserable, stupid people who fear for their daily bread make tyranny work. (Strangely enough, fear for bread often forces those in group 2 to become those in group 1) True democracy only works on a small scale, with free association to neighborhoods, small communities and unions. People have to be able to control directly the representatives, and they must have all the power, so then final authority for one's own locality and workplace must be in the hands of the representatives they dictate to in person at meetings and so on.

Any separation between the people and any representatives is tyranny and non-representation.

This true democratic, anarchic reconstruct is impossible to police properly with widespread ignorance and poor education among the people. The tyranny of ignorant and uneducated masses dictating to their fellow man on a small, in person scale would not be any better than the current system, which has ignorant and uneducated masses endorsing tyrants to dictate to them and their fellow man, tyrants who answer only to corporate and banking oligarchs. Voting in such a system is truly a disgusting and immoral sociopathic behavior which education and personal responsibility can solve.

Education combined with personal responsibility leads to responsibility to humankind in general.

Schools which dictate to children to regurgitate half-true facts instead of learning how to critically think to find higher truth combine with alpha-wave inducing television to create unthinking zombies.

Personal responsibility should lead moral and thinking humans to stop that cycle and educate themselves.

Encouragement of personal irresponsibility leads to disrespect for one's self as well as humankind in general.

Tyranny starts with the individual.

Stop tyrannizing yourself, me and everyone else with your ignorance and irresponsibility.