[Shadow_Group] Fw: [nwanarchy] a revolution requires...

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> > No, my intention is not to troll for a fight.  I was responding to
> > entrophicmind's message that "maybe
> > it's time for action instead of talk."  I found it to be impatient and
> > reckless...I feel it is my responsibility to think before I act.
>
>
> --okay, nice, i like to think before i act as well. specifically, i mean
> that people (particularly priveleged ones) sit on their asses thinking
> while the world passes them by, and the worst ones have the overbloated
> egos to even think that they possess the wisdom and genius to tell other
> people what to do.  in other words, what i'm saying is:
>              fuck academia! and fuck theory!
> i envision here a gnarled, dusty corpse with its boney fingers stuck on a
> page.
>
> how about APPLIED theory? and here's one: meet the people around you with
> a sincere heart. listen to what they have to say. work together. all the
> textbooks in the world can't teach you what another living, breathing
> person is like.
>
> as far as impatience goes, i didn't just bake this way of thinking up. i
> didn't even think it at all. i'm trying to live it (which takes patience
> for myself and others), and through my own experience, it is hard because
> we are a very fragmented community with inconsistent support networks.
> people more easily talk shit than love and understand, and i am so tired
> and bored of that. is this reckless? a revolution doesn't happen
> overnight. it happens slowly, as ideas and examples subliminally slip into
> people's minds, as people slowly accept change and find new ways of
> living, creatively. i plan on living my whole life this way.
>
> jamie


  A few comments. Theory gives you the possibilities of directions to go but
experiences give you the realities that theories have to be applied to. When
theory stands in the way of the realities of every day life and the
struggles that come out of that, then the theory becomes meaningless. People
 do not rebel against systems and the state because of some fool theory,
they rebel over conditions such as oppression, exploitation and so on, and
theory is just a tool to use to get from where they are to where they want
to be. It should not, in my view, be the controlling factor, though your
values and principles should be.
  As for the way people are. We must remember that the system and the
culture does not just control us in a few ways. The values, interests and
loyalties of the system exists in every aspect of everyone's lives. We may
come to understand and be against some of the elements of the system but
none of us are able to see or understand the whole picture yet. And we
become frustrated and we still deal with each other in the ways of the
system. Remember the system and its culture has had hundreds of years to
develop and we can't knock it down in just one blow. That is why the social
revolution cannot, in my view, just be the act of defeating the ruling
class, the social revolution needs to be a living thing that continues to
grow as we replace all aspects of the system and culture with new
possibilities of people living together in cooperation and without
oppression and exploitation.
Arthur J. Miller

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