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- [ Encounter With The Populace ] [ By Joseph & The GNN ]
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- ENCOUNTER WITH THE POPULACE
- endured and written by Joseph and The GNN
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- This is a transcript of an actual conversation. It took place
- at the Indian Palace pub in Gothenburg (Sweden), February 15
- (1997), during a minimalistic, but charming, uXu-gathering.
-
- [A pleasant evening in a crowded and smoky bar turned into a living nightmare
- as the attention of some poor uXu members was suddenly called upon by yet
- another bragging ignorant slave of the system. The slave in question was a
- drunk woman in her mid-thirties. Her interest was our political standpoint.
- Obviously, she did not know whom she dealt with. If she had, she would never
- ever had confronted us with the ridiculous question:]
-
- "Are you right- or left-winged?"
-
- [Needless to say, this question was not intended as an invitation to a
- political discussion, but more as an embarrassing attempt to get laid.
- However, members of the uXu do not copulate with pseudointellectual and
- frivolous barflies.]
-
- "We find the question in itself annoying. You expect us to choose between
- two alternatives, none of them appealing. Our main principle in life is to
- develop ourselves and others. Therefore, we cannot walk left or right;
- because that implies no progress. The only way to go if one want to get
- somewhere, is the most underestimated road of them all; namely, the one that
- leads _forward_."
-
- [A puzzled expression spread over the face of the woman.]
-
- "I see..."
-
- [Note how the above statement is completely inconsistent with her follow-up
- question:]
-
- "Eh... now what the hell does that mean?"
-
- "Practically speaking, it means that we do not descend ourselves to choose
- between right or left. Neither do we vote, nor do we accept the institution
- of voting. We do not accept 'democracy', on the basis of it being inherently
- oppressive by its very nature - thus a threat to human fulfilment. We oppose
- this inadequate system. Political labels are the work of less intelligent
- people, but in spite of better words we call ourselves anarchists."
-
- [This humble fact clearly upset the woman. She cleared her throat and leaned
- over to our side of the table, as if she was about to share something of
- great importance and wit with us. That, however, was not the case:]
-
- "Anarchists? So you want anarchy, yes? That's horrible! A society that's
- based upon anarchy would be completely chaotic! Everyone would kill each
- other, drugs would flood the streets, no one would feel safe!"
-
- "Please do not speak if your only aim is to expose your lack of knowledge.
- You are clearly confused concerning the basic principles of anarchism."
-
- [Short pause. A fuse burned in the head of the woman.]
-
- "Oh... oh, really? Well, uh, what's anarchism, to you, then?"
-
- "Anarchy is a state of affairs that involves the most complete and total
- freedom that is conceptually possible."
-
- [Using the filter of ignorance that interprets everything said into nice
- newspeech (most modern people are equipped with this feature), the woman
- managed to misunderstand the whole statement.]
-
- "So? I mean, was that it? I mean, that's just the way our society is
- constituted today. Democracy! Freedom! No dictatorship. Simple as that."
-
- "'Democracy' does not imply freedom. It only says that the people in a
- society are personally involved in choosing the ones who rule. Of course, the
- rulers are also supposed to make decisions that adhere to the public
- interest. Needless to say, the latter is not the case in our world. This is
- because it is impossible to make decisions that will satisfy all interests.
- Therefore, democracy can only exist in a pseudo-form, hence it is inadequate
- as a pragmatic political system.
- You connect 'freedom' with 'democracy' because you have been taught that
- 'democracy', like 'freedom', is a concept that contains positive value.
- 'Democracy', however, includes _more_ intrinsic value, according to you, and
- can thus override 'freedom'. Nothing could be more wrong. While 'freedom' is,
- by definition', positive, 'democracy' is strictly neutral. It only
- _describes_ a state of affairs, it does not _judge_ this state of affairs.
- If it was not the case that you, and people like you, applied positive
- value to 'democracy', it would not work. Democracy only works if people
- falsely believe that it works. Tyranny (as we will find in a dictatorship),
- on the other hand, does not require that the masses incorporate false beliefs
- into their minds. A tyrant can fight all opposition with force, but a
- 'democratic ruler' cannot do that. He must convince the masses, with lies and
- soft force, that his position is for the best. You believe that this is the
- case, you are fooled. Order is high, but the truth is even higher. Therefore,
- an honest dictatorship is more true than a false democracy.
- But anarchism, on the other hand, requires no deception and no tyrant. It
- is a state of affairs that is judged positive, since it includes no neutral
- concepts but only positive ones - as 'freedom'. Dare not say that it includes
- negative values like 'chaos', because chaos is also a neutral value. It
- becomes negative in relation to other values that you _falsely_ believe to be
- positive, that is all.
- Hence, we ought to bring forward a state of affairs that is 1) true, 2)
- carrier of positive value, and 3) possible. The only state of affairs that
- make this happen (bearing in mind that we seek what is good for the humans,
- not the abstract 'state') is anarchism."
-
- [Now it was time for the woman to present a good con-argument. As expected,
- she failed big time:]
-
- "Everything you say _sounds_ good. But that's all. You paint a picture of
- a world that doesn't exist, and cannot exist. Our world is, and will always
- be, ruled by the free market. This is the hard reality. You are childish
- illusionists. I'm a realist. Your ideas doesn't fit with the real world."
-
- "Let us make one thing perfectly sparkling clear: the thing you refer to
- as 'the hard and unchangeable reality' is not any form of 'reality'. You
- confuse the meaning of 'realism' with 'dogmatism'. You are convinced that
- something is the matter (market rule) but you do not stop there. You also
- believe that this is, by necessity, some kind of eternal fact; likewise, the
- hard-core Christian believes in God, but do not stop there. Instead, he
- continues to make up certain rules and eternal 'facts' from this belief. And
- suddenly, the Christian does not only believe that he believe in God, he
- believe that God (and all principles that follows from that concept) is a
- matter of unchangeable fact. Nothing could be more wrong.
- The only thing that one could for certain refer to as 'the hard reality'
- is the concept 'anything goes'. To deny this obvious fact is to be mentally
- insane - like you. 'Anything goes' is, ceteris paribus, a true normative
- ethical standpoint. All standpoints that are incompatible with this truism
- (like 'anything goes not') are by necessity false. Since morality is made for
- man, not man for morality, we ought, for the sake of humanity, not spread or
- accept false ideas.
- However, 'the state' is not interested in the human good, only its own
- good. Therefore 'anything goes' has been removed from the public sphere,
- thanks to millenniums of state propaganda. 'Anything goes not' is what the
- state wants you to believe, 'anything goes' is what common (which
- unfortunately is not so common nowadays) sense says."
-
- "Okay then, now explain to me: how would it look if you got the power in
- our society?"
-
- [The statement above is interesting because the woman assumes that she
- herself cannot play any active role in changing anything. This is, except for
- the obvious ignorance, the most scary part. Only after talking to us for a
- couple of minutes she is ready accept us as the 'new leaders'.]
-
- "There is no such thing as 'power' in such a society. In fact, it is
- hardly a 'society' at all. The reason why you ask such a question is because
- you are conceptually confused. This confusion stems from the fact that you
- have been brought up with these terms, like 'power', in an indoctrinative
- manner. You 'know' that 'society' needs someone in 'power', i.e. you connect
- the very concept of 'society' with 'power'. However, you do not really know
- what the concepts mean. You only repeat things you have been taught, but you
- have never questioned the things themselves."
-
- [The woman tried to save her own face by a classical argumentum ad hominem:]
-
- "My God, what a load of bullshit... You just talk. You just produce words.
- You don't know what you are saying."
-
- "On the contrary. _You_ are using words without meaning. We, on the other
- hand, use them perfectly correct. That is the difference between you and us.
- We understand the full meaning of the words we are using, while you
- shamelessly - without really knowing about it - merely abuse them."
-
- [Kindergarten semantics and basic human psychology was not the woman's
- strongest side, so she decided to quickly change the subject:]
-
- "Yeah, yeah. Whatever. Tell me, how's all this supposed to be carried out
- in _practice_? By which means will you create your... world?"
-
- "By all means necessary: terrorism, that is."
-
- [We find it rather strange that the woman did not react more emotionally than
- she actually did:]
-
- "What?! But that's... outrageous!"
-
- "A person can live his whole life with a bad tooth. He can live with that
- pain. He does it because he knows that if he pulled out the tooth, he would
- for a short moment experience a pain that is far greater than the pain he now
- experiences. But if he actually removes the tooth, his life will become much
- better - there will be no pain at all.
- People like you are only aware of feelings like pleasure and pain. When
- you feel pain, you run away. Those things that give you pleasure you stick
- to. The society of today offers you a drug that gives you a nice and drowsy
- pleasure; and that drug is ignorance. You fear knowledge, because that will
- make you experience pain. Therefore, we must give you your needed pain. We
- must kill you, so that you can be born again."
-
- [By this stage, the woman had nothing better to say than:]
-
- "I still don't buy your arguments! I don't find 'em good at all."
-
- "We know. We did not expect that either. You see, people like you are
- beyond any kind of help. You are, and will always be, the populace, the
- plebs, the mob. You have been programmed to uphold the existing system; that
- is your only task in life. We cannot convince you - but that is no problem,
- because we do not have to. It is in your nature to be ruled. You know no
- better, because you do not _want_ to know any better. If you wanted to know
- better, you would be like us. But you are not. Our mission is not to convince
- you that you are wrong. Our noble mission is to save you from yourself.
- It is wrong and inappropriate of you to say that you do not 'buy' our
- arguments. Because the real truth is not that you do not accept them, the
- real truth is that you do not _understand_ them."
-
- [The lights turned on, and you could clearly see that the woman felt quite
- relieved from that. She quickly left the table and headed for the exit. But
- before that, she said goodbye. And so did we, in the most correct and
- suitable manner of them all.]
-
- "Oh, well, it has been a nice chat. But they are closing now, so I ought
- to get going. Thank you and good night!"
-
- "Suck our cocks, bitch."
-
- [End of transcript.]
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