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Welcome to July 8, 2018 – 12:11 AM
The world seems to be on fire (as far as American Democracy, climate change, and freedom, itself, is concerned), but I am oblivious to all of this. I left social media about 30 hours ago, and when I checked Google News, I ignored all the terrrrible stuff occuring in the headlines, closed the app, and I was happy again.
You see, I hate social media. All of it. The only thing keeping me “in the game” was a psychological addiction to Twitter. Well, i downloaded all my data (idk why) and closed my account. I look forward to it being totally deleted altogether. But even if it didn't delete at all, I would still not use it because when I quit something, I mean it.
Social media is a bubble. Smartphones are a bubble. The Internet, itself, is a bubble. Meaning an economic bubble that is bound to pop when the first signs of a bad stock market show up. You see, regardless of the advancement of civilization, the intelligence of humans, the capabilities we possess, all of these things take a back seat when it comes to money. Now we could simply build a society that rewards creativity, abundance, good health, and free-thinking. Do these things instead of having a money-system, and all would be at least better, imo.
But class. Class is the most important things to those who have never known otherwise. And they are the ones calling the shots. The people who are voted into office, elected members of corporate boards, the ones making the system function as it currently is. They are the ones all the “wanna-be-rich” status quo folks vote for, to protect their own meager fortunes.
But all of this actually plays a second fiddle compared to one other thing: power. Money, class, status; all these things are mearly parts of the overall end-gae which is, to have as much power as possible. You get money, you feel like you have more power. You already have money, you already have some power. Class and status are mearly the level of power you have. Now, this isn't to say that power for these people, this small group of humans who have concentrated wealth, is inevitably theirs. No. The majority of these people (be they corporate billionaires or politicians) rely on the vote of the average citizen. But people decide tovote the lesser of two evils (whatever that means) into office time and time again. Because the majority of the American population is terrified. What they fail to realize, is that no one can take power away from you (an American citizen). You can only forfeit your God-given power to the people who are claiming to be representative of you in the world of law-making. To go about your time, and not vote, and to ignore their influence, to take every opporunity you have to criticize those seeking office, to build stronger bonds within your community and use YOUR influence to make your own world better, IS power. Your power. Not someone else's.
These are (some of) the reasons I am an anarcho-primitivist. We can go about doing what we do everyday, without “radical” change, and retain our own power, our own integrity, our own lifestyle, without having to trust (foolishly) a law-maker to make decisions for us on the most relevant issues of our day.
If people stopped being terrified. If they stopped rejecting rational thought. If they stopped forfeiting their Earthly rights to strangers of influence. If people chose love over fear, we would see a radically changed world overnight.