The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you.
-- George Carlin
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The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. You may be wondering if I'm joking or serious. I'm joking and serious. Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. I am unique. My flesh is not their flesh, my mind is not their mind. The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the anarchist creed. I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. The most complete freedom for the individual, his right to full satisfaction of all his needs, are absolutely legitimate claims, and there was no need to go out to dig up Nietszche and Stirner to give them some consecration. We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity. The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today. I am unique. My flesh is not their flesh, my mind is not their mind. Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal. The critical human flaw is not that as a species we're particularly aggressive. It's that we tend to respond to aggression very poorly. So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. Anarchy will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power. All my political ideas boil down to this formula: political federation or decentralization. The state, therefore, is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. |