This work is intended as fiction and is to bear no resemblance to reality.

There was nothing left. Nothing of value. After the crash.

I told them I used to live there and they asked me how. I didn’t know. I lied. I said the government provided for me. It provided for everybody. That what it was there for. Before. Before the crash.

They taxed the rich and that was enough, I explained. Enough for me to live here that is. The middle of the city. People close enough to provide for each other. All within walking distance. Able to provide the services needed to have some honor. Honor had become important again. And was distributed via the computing power the remaining technology had provided. The programs only worked with an equal playing field and we got it. Our history erased, our memories lost, our culture destroyed.

It had become a meritocracy. Not a democratic society, not a sudden apocalypse, no more violence, none of it. Life was too short and we’re all that’s left. “Is that why you take care of us?”, they asked. I shook my head, shoulders and body. It was a strange response to combine it all. I said nothing. I should have said, “Who says you’re not taking care of me?”. But I didn’t. And it never happened. A lost chance. One among many.

Though, perhaps, not that many.

I always thought the end of times, if it were to happen, would be an egalitarian society. Something we’d accomplished. We’d distributed everything fairly. But fair had become a different things. Sure, after the riots (and they were smal in scale compared to the significance of the event) there was no more violence. None. That was surely a good thing. It wasn’t demanded. Not be force. Perhaps by fear. Or worse, apathy. People had stopped caring enough to be willing to kill. Life had become finite and too precious. I say precious because it had a price. It was easily calculable now. There are X people. We don’t know how many there were. We know there will be no more people. We know what we have. There’s no more virtual economy. There’s no more real economy.

First there were news reports about bombs and murders and disasters. It all seemed normal. Nothing suspicious about that. But it was the last news we had before it all really went bad. After the internet pretty much broke down, electricity soon followed. There was screw ups in the food supply and soon everybody who wasn’t growing their own plants was dead. It all happened so fast. The disasters piled up and nature wasn’t pretty after our fragile last fragment of ecomanagement crumbled. The floods. I’ll never forget the floods. The floated around. I picked them up. We’ve been together since. It was touch and go there for a while. Where did that phrase originate from? I never bothered to learn. Good thing perhaps. None of the planes can fly anymore. None that depend on fuel anyway. Or can’t handle a decent storm now and then. The humidity was inhuman. It was always humid now. I looked at the building and realized that if I’d live there now, it would never be as it once was. Besides, the person who lived there now deserved it. I deserve a lot, but this was a little too lucky to be honest. We walked away. Too many building have collapsed in the city. With the quakes and the rats, we may as well leave and had for the nearest town. It would be difficult, no doubt.

The remaining people had huddled together and every nucleus of Peoples that remained had gathered all material wealth. Entire trucks of non-contaminated earth was brought in with the remaining bio-fuel. We couldn’t get to the fossil anymore. It was all gone, outside of reach. Since then, we’ve not had a chance to exploit our surroundings. We’ve failed as a race. Well, as the human race. The little race that could. A rat race. They’re the only ones that could have survived us. But they didn’t. Our lab rats were released and a success. Artificial animals, though not born alive, were among us for a long time. But to survive and adapt in this climate, they soon become movable molds. Clinging to whatever wasn’t blown away by the winds. It wasn’t the smell that bothered me. It was the air. It became hard to breath when they were around. Whenever humans were around too, but never that bad. And it was always worth it. If things still have value. But they don’t. They can’t. We moved on. A village with some people remaining had decided that all were equally worthy. They had no outside contact, so they were entitled to do so. Provided they didn’t need providing. But that meant death. Perhaps they were right. A quick death. They couldn’t have lived over a month after we passed through. It was impossible to survive without help. We asked how long they thought they’d last. A couple of days, a week tops they responded. They were all so calm about it. Everybody was, I suppose. There’s nothing to panic about anymore. It ends with us.

Journal of a law abiding citizen

In Confoederatio Helvetica, a utupic future (and not so distant past), might look like this.
Morning, get up. Wash with water.
Need soap and shampoo from pant H. It grows on the mountainside and requires no maintenance.
Just water. Which flows because of global warming from our precious glacier.
I like the smell, so I made deodorant (also made from H) also smell like it. I´m not a lavander person.

Time to eat something. Ate last of my personally slaughtered chicken yesterday. Time for something less meaty today. Let´s see. Tomorrow I might eat soy, but for now, something more digestable. I´ll just take some seeds from plant H from the near brook. It´s got energy (567 calories/100g), Protein (30.6/100g), Carbohydrate (10.9) Dietary fiber (6), Fat (47.2), Saturated fat (5.2), Oleic (18:1 Omega-9, 5.8), Polyunsaturated fat (36.2), Linoleic (18:2 Omega-6 27.6), Linolenic (18:3 Omega-3 8.7), Linolenic (18:3 Omega-6 0.8). And zero cholesterol. About 5grams will be water from the near brook, but I’m cool with that.
It’s got Vitamin A, Thiamine (Vit B1) , Riboflavin (Vit B2), Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Calcium and Iron. So that’ll be enough for breakfast. Save some of the seed oil for treatment of eczema.
Also no gluten in it, so I can share it later with people who have celiac disease.

It´s noon. I just worked in the barn, feeding the animals with plant H I brought back from the mountainside. What they don´t eat can be used as hay. I´m exhausted. Still have a long day. Better eat something made of plant C butter. Can´t swallow the painkillers because they have too many side-effects on my stomach.

Evening. Just looked to see if plant C was doing fine. I try to keep it seperate from plant H. Otherwise it all turns H. Far relatives of hop, which I don´t brew. I don´t need to have an industrial only variety to make of for this lacking thirst as they call it. I harldy use Fords T-model. Made it after his and diesels design myself. Same fuel source and all. Made from, mainly plant H and runs on it too.
Time to relax. I eat some more butterscones from C. I throw some of the outdoor variety on the campfire, it was growing too close to H and might start mixing. I take some more blankets to keep warm, also made from H, as are my clothes.

As I write this down on paper made from H, I take some plants C and vaporize it to fight the depressing and grim reality. This isn´t utopia, this is the real world.

My plant H is of course, Herbicide. Plant C, Change.

Update: I couldn´t stop nature from crosspollinating. The plant spreads like a weed. Growing in all climates and deserts. Withstanding the conditions of central asia. Even though it originated from the rainforest. Started growing the domisticated variety, tribes used it a couple of thousand years in this manner. The molecule with medicinal values reaches 8% which is sufficient.

Violence as legitimate means

I just saw the clip “Rise Against – Re-Education (Through Labor)” and it reminded me of Fight Club. But also of 24 and Xe.
The clip started with a quotation from John F. Kennedy:”Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

Now, if all of us (wealthy worldcitizens, access to internet etc) were to adopt this principle; the world would be an ugly place.

Don’t get me wrong, I like JFK. But the (cold) war rethoric bothers me. If anarchists (meaning people who identify themselves with the anti-authoritarian tradition) were to use the ‘propaganda of the act’ as it were, we’d all be terrorists.

If ANYBODY, starts adressing their grievances (such as state terror on a massive scale) by mimicing the abhorrent behavior, we’re in for a very long and destructive circle (if not spiral, but I doubt cycle) of violence.

Imagine, the anarchist cookbook and the destructive nature of such literature being applied by all extremes of the political spectrum. From left wing commies, claiming all private property is theft, to right-wing contractors who feel the only way to keep order is to do it themselves.
That doesn’t include the people desecrating public property because they feel what one arm of government does, they should annihilate its legs.

The logic is destructive. Meanly because it’s war logic. If you look at this as a war, we’re all going to be fucked.
But as george carlin points on (on education -must see!-), the owners of this country won’t allow us to learn anything. So if we (the masses) can’t think (if that’s reserved for elites), we’ll have to act. Without rational thought I feel this could easily lead into harsh situations.

However, if one (leftist) would replace say, class warfare with class cooperation, he’d quickly have a fundamental change of position (even it’s its only implemented after nationalising the collectives’ wealth); we’d end up with fascism.

Which is a difficult position to maintain. Of course, if you WANT power and you want to achieve your OWN political agenda: Fascism is the way to go.

It is the only thing that does not tolerate anarchy. It doesn’t even tolerate the mob. CIA had to rebuild that with the french connection (drug money, prohibition excluded liquids again). There was order in the streets. The manifesto had been somewhat realised. People listened, and the ones that didn’t were dealt with.

If I lived in the world wars, I hope I’d have been a pacifist. Maybe I’d had joined the resistance, because there was so much suffering around me and no wealth.

But right now, even if I were to -for the sake of argument- think of the current world regime/empire is more totalitarian than it could have been over 50 years ago, I’d still use non-violent means to address the issue.
Like say, words, ideas, concepts, etc.

There was a massive movement, even followed by the Czar (because his poor weaponry) leading up to the Great War. In the Second World War, it becomes hard to repeat Dwight on the american version of The Office and say that “it was a war we never should have gotten involved with”.
Even Einstein and Chomsky thought fighting it was right, and I kinda look upto these guys. But winning a war never determines who’s right, only who’s left.
In this case, the guys with the nukes won. Thank you a lot, Einstein!
And then there’s an MIT (pentagon budget) professor who teaches linguistics who can’t decide on paying taxes or not (or any other act of civil disobedience) because it might lead to fascism.

Of course, I don’t live in a country with the same budget lay-out (military is lik 15% here and most of it goes to social security and health, my region gives most its money away on education and health), so I pay my taxes (well I don’t because I’m a student and I hardly work, when I do the tariff is low and I give most of it away on causes so I get a refund). So even non-violent oppossition isn’t really an option for me either, either by voicing my opinion (because it’s easier to encounter people who might actually recognize me then in such a small country as mine) or by not paying taxes (even though 147 dossiers of 100000 known fraudulents cases are handed over to the justice department of further selection).

As for violence as legitimate means…To what? For what? What’s the end? In my world view it’s peace and non-violence. It’s dialogue, reason, and above all freedom and justice. The first two being the means. The latter two the goals, incompatible with legitimating violence.

For the ends are the means, and anarchism ought to be about deconstructing institutions of power (when classified as illegitimate), not about repeating mistakes of the past.

Make new ones. Do anything, try anthing. Just try not to infringe on other people’s right to do the same. And violence tends to target the weak. You may feel strong knowing that information is free and it’s surprisingly easy for any individual to destroy a lot of infrastructure, human lives, systems of dominance and whatnot.

If not, I’m sure EVERYONE will be able to find SOMETHING they’d be willing to burn, pillage and rape over.
Albeit, most might not abide by that order.

Overview

Geopolitical powers

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Anarchism

Deconstructing is the core of anarchism. Not destruction. The general consensus (and the media ferment this idea that the masses are violent and best adressed accordingly) seems to be that anarchists all want anarchy. That is to say, disorder, destruction. Destruction of wealth, merely because it is property (for the masses have little else to touch or stir when it comes to economy, especially in disarray). Rather than declaring it eg. a public good. Or concentrate on the fact that anarchism refers to the political theory which essentially deconstructs all systems of power and authority untill they are legitimized. And even then, further analysis has to prove that it works. Tradition and rituals are false gods.
That’s about it from a religious metaphor. I could give you an ideaological simile, but I’d be understood as being somebody decreeing some thing. And not another, to define oneself in the spectrum.
But that’s the problem within the mainstraim thought of both intellectuals and the sometimes hardly literate masses: The idea that politics is narrow and anything to fundamentally alter it must be violent in its nature, or at least very, very hard work and best done by the workers or, respectively, brainiacs.

Anarchism is deconstructing. Those systems of thought. And many others. For me, it’s about freedom. And perhaps that is justice, because it is inevitable, that one day, we will all be equally free. When vengeance becomes so codified as to agree to call it just and all else immoral.Or perhaps that day has already come and we move on. To something in which all of humanity has the same rights, conditions. abilities and all else that could be regarded as core fundamentals. Of the individual, within his community, within the environment and to know that they are all interconnected. And that frustration is not a stable path. All members of society ought to be free in mind and body. To decide their own path, within their own identity. I believe that identity begins with the human race (homo sapiens sapiens) and perhaps, in many years (Spain leading the way), all primate descendants. After that, mammals (starting with dolphins and whales), moving on to fish (like sharks etc) and so on and so on, untill we realise that we are all one.

As Hicks said, let us explore space. Both inner and outer. Together.

Confidence

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats wrote that.

When capitalism was in competition with communism, and consequently embellished. Equal voting rights, minimum wage, pensions, education and pensions were established as part of the welfare state. These marxist principles were adopted without the slightest hint of hypocrisy. Social democracies such as the ones in scandinavia thrived, canada and europe lagged behind.

However, the financial and banking elites remain to rule the regulators. Liberal democracy is as fragile as the next idea. With recession which reminds us of the years running up to another world war, and prohibition of alcohol and the main crop the US since the 1600′s.

Change is not impossible, it’s inevitable.
So is death.

Before you die, don’t you want to be confident enough for a spontanious uprising?
To do, what has not yet been done. To know what has been and to acknowledge that redefining democracy can exist within our lifetime. Participatory democracy, deep democracy, including the economy. That includes the distribution of land. The whole idea that some people ought to be homeless and others ought to have several houses has already been dampend by taxing the inheritance of land (100% in marxist conditions)
and social housing. Taxing goods (flat-tax) is something freemarket proponents like, taxing labor (50% in say belgium) is ineffective and would fuel labor being done without the social benefits (such as ensurance) this implies. Smuggling goods could perhaps be dealt with with capital punishment (together with adultery and thievery this is the main use of it when its particulary brutal).

To steal with your hands is filthy, to do it with a keyboard and a cell phone; it’s white collar crime and should be fined. But not too much, these people are the engine of our economy. I suggest another economy. If you produce with manual labor or with intellectual contributions (this excludes setting up complex systems to funnel money through credit into your pocket). Credit should be given on an individual scale, not to banking institutions such as the Federal banking institutions, in America OR in Europe (ECB).

“The example of a successful elected Marxist government in Chile would surely have an impact on — and even precedent value for — other parts of the world, especially in Italy,” the memorandum warns Nixon just hours before a critical National Security Council (NSC) meeting in which Kissinger urged his boss to reject the ”modus vivendi approach” recommended by the State Department.
They were calling for real socialism. Not communism. Dispersed where it was centralised. Participatory where it was bureacratic.

The ability to have a democratic system, rather than a totalitarian one. To be cooperative, rather than competitive. To have the total sum grow, rather than relying on stealing what’s already there (or made by those who would work the most for the least money). To have the confidence to chose for different, like the voters of Indonesia voted many years ago. This is something we should all strive for.

Because if we don’t make the decisions, someone else will. Somebody who is above you, above the law, above justice. Solidarity with all of humankind can set us free. We can have a freemarket. Free of the, mandatory by law, profit-seeking corporation. NOT to be owned by its employees. Banking institutions and schemes like Enron did pay in shares, rather than inflated money.

Jeffrey Sachs likes Poland, with its 40% unemployment rate. But who cares if you can buy the land and the institutions? People are starving to death, have to migrate all over europe, but prices are stable. The economy is ready to be taken over.

Another historic moment of possibility is the end of apartheid in South-Africa. We can end slavery, racism, unequal wealth distribution. You may end in whatever condition, but the starting conditions have to be equal for all. They’re not yet, let’s fix that first. For all of the human race.

NATO Mission Afghanistan and Obama

It seems clear now that Europe may rebuild Afghanistan escorting military operations conducted by US troops and contractors. NATO will continue to turn over people to the regime which will torture them in many cases (and who knows, maybe before it’s all over, he’ll be a terrorist). Basically, NATO will have to join the fight to control the mass population. This is a mixed strategy because the european army is still more or less mixed. The variants that come into play are along very nuanced and interacting paths. Belgians way of training troops (military or neighbourhood cop) will define the post-revolution (1979) landscape and shape the future junta. Civics lessons are nice idea, law and order is currently the talibans monopoly.
If post-colonial powers cannot succusfully install a stable oilpipeline, there’s no telling what Russia will do. Their willingness to make sacrificies is equalled only by the largest empire history has ever seen, funded by the chinese.
If India gets its tech people to run the japanese fighterdrones (they’re decades ahead, don’t tell me they don’t have transformers fully functioning), there’s no predicting how this will end.
Europe will be sick of getting a lousy oil/gas deal from its Ursidae second-world, almost complete capitalist third-world (those are the only ones that AREN’T protectionist, are weren’t because they were raped and pillaged on a metaphysical level) country.
Seriously, there’s nothing there but rocks. Leave it alone, a good part of the 20th century were moderate. Giving women the right to vote that is, maybe that’s too radical.
Exactly what kind of reaction are we trying to provoke with locals?
“Hello, I’m white and well armed. I’m here to help,”?
The Fundament (Al Qaida) is likely to hold a firm ground where the biggest army decides to draw lines in the sand.
Obama’s adviser (from Carter era) still wants a capitalist state of whatever regime, despite what the populations’ desire for afghan democracy and independance. The Mujahedin were his doing and Bin Ladens’ CIA training was hybris in the making. Breeding this medieval environment is manifest doom.
We will not win. Winning has no parameters, they’re infinite. The afghan civil war has to be thrown aside for securing oil and gas. The history of this region has only one, dominant lesson. It has huge blowback. In the long run, the gorilla movement has owned those caves. Even if we end up nuking every square inch (I think there are enough nukes for that on the planet) of that state, we’ll still end up with radiated oil.
So, what ARE we doing there?

Aliens visit our planet:

Disclaimer: Narrative may vary in time according to your place in the Universe. General and special rules of relativity apply.

“Look, lifeforms on the dry part of a watery celestial body.
They seem to multiply quite hastely. Oh look, they’ve developed a hierachic structure. Oh no, the top is inbreeding.
Let’s see what the masses are doing. Oh no, they’ve even more narrow sighted. Whatever instantly satisfies is chosen. The surving specimens are rather happy, the sad ones die quickly. The sad ones die quickly. Cognitive abilities are hampered due to massive consumption of dehydrating liquids.
Look at their habitat, this mammalian creature will probably have to evolve to adapt to such a drastically altering environment. The radiation might speed up the process. Then again, after growing thumbs; what’s left?

Ambition

When I was child I wanted to suit up, with a briefcase and GO places. Now that I’m a little older, I realise that that’s not going to accomplish anything. I mean, there’s nothing you can do that can’t be done. Why should I want to achieve anything? Are my desires not just as much me as my performances?
You’d say it’s part of selfrealisation, that labor enables man to exist in its purest form. Being part of something greater is its own reward and makes you feel good about your’self’. But isn’t having a good time worth just as much? When did feeling good, and feeling good about yourself or nobler good (grand collective identity, tiny community) came to be at a par, and perhaps beyond. Our first duty now, is not just to obey the law anymore, it’s obeying the laws of economics. However, there’s not written by the people or for the people, they’re abstract musings which in practice often translate into inhumane policies which are forced upon small ‘states’ (former colonies) who must endure rules, never imposed upon industrial world.

So really, just tune out, and relax. It’s all fine. It’s not going to be fine, but right now it is. And there is only now. And here. And nothing else. No added value, no extra meaning.
Humans are a cosmic blimp on the grand scheme of things.

Little known facts

Because “Answers” is the honoray title of this site; I’ve decided to do a edited version of my previous post. It was a bit engimatically structured. This post may seem a little full of ‘Truthiness’ but oh well.

We can fix the deficit.
Tax the largest cash crop in existance and the others too.
We can fix our energy dependancy.
Biomass from weeds. (90% of fossil fuel can be replaced in this manner)
We can fix our warlike desire to compete.
Increased tolerance, creativeness, mutual respect and cooperation. (India had Ghandi)
We can cure cancer
(or at the VERY least fix chemo side-effects) and various other illnesses.
We can rebuild the world (Youtube: Hemp building materials)
(the blueprints can be written on the same hemp the US Constitution was written on)
We can rewire the world
Not just the way we think, but ropes made from hemp were strong and plentifull once. (Cellulose, same reason its better than paper and cement)
We can have our own sun. (Don’t blot it out just yet though)
Essential oil can be used for perfumes, cosmetics, soaps, and candles.
We can redraw our reality
Hemp oil can be used for lubricants, paints and inks. (preferably on a canvas

Of course, there are some medical uses:
Between 1840 and 1900 over 1000 major medical articles recommending cannabis as a therapeutic agent were published.

It is still puzzling that no serious modern survey of the therapeutic value in cannabis has been conducted. This is because it is illegal, and may well be due to pressures from the pharmaceutical and drug companies who fear loss of profits if cannabis is accepted medicinally. Just imagine all those people growing their own remedy!

CANNABIS HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY USED IN THE TREATMENT OF:
* DEPRESSION
* ANTI-NAUSEA
* Appetite stimulant
* AIDS PATIENTS.
* MUSCLE SPASM IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.
* ANTI-NAUSEA AFTER CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT ON CANCER PATIENTS.
* PAIN RELIEF in spinal injury, arthritis, rheumatics, sprains.
* RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
* ASTHMA
* GLAUCOMA.
* PARKINSONS DISEASE
* SPASTICITY.
* EPILEPSY.
* ALCOHOLISM
* WASTING SYNDROME, LOSS OF APPETITE IN AIDS SUFFERERS
* ANOREXIA.
* ANXIETY.
* PAIN RELIEF IN CHILDBIRTH AND IN MENSTRUATION AND IN SPINAL INJURY.
* INSOMNIA.
* HERPES.
* NEURALGIA.
* DRUG ADDICTION.
Marijuana Could Help Cocaine Addicts Kick Habit: New Scientist, 4 October 2001
* BRAIN TUMOURS.
* MIGRAINE
The other option is disregard one quarter of the population because they’ve used it at one point in their lives as ‘pothead opinions’. And claim their views are obviously skewed (on the basis that once you’ve gotten high, you can never get be properly low again).