THE ONLY CONSTANT IS CHANGE

The organization Tipping Point has found a brilliant way to dramatize the difficulties of living below the poverty line in San Francisco. Once you enter your salary, the site adjusts the prices of everyday items to be as unaffordable for you as they are for San Francisco’s poor. 

Psychologic-Anarchist:

“How the Status Quo is Maintained”

Step 1- Child-Rearing: Destroy the child’s emotional circuitry through culturally accepted abuses, including spanking and coercing, which occurs throughout childhood, so the child only knows fear and resentment.

Step 2- Education: Funnel children through educational systems that elevate obedience and authority above learning, creativity, and individuality. Also, instill sense of tribal loyalty and altruistic nationalism. Mold the person into a good, upright citizen drone.

Step 3- Workforce: Now the individual is ready to join the workforce where his money can be stolen via predatory tax regiments without even a thought of its legitimacy, as he is totally subservient to the system.

Step 4- War: Now that the individual is fully indoctrinated and emotionally detached, he can sign up to murder other human beings without a moral consideration or emotional impact. All his subsequent education and rearing prepared him for his duty. His life now belongs wholly to the State and its machinery. His soul is obliterated under the delusional pretense of fighting for freedom. Every country or tribe goes through similar motions, some with less freedom, but every murderous action is shrouded by cries of freedom, religion, a common enemy or another obsession. It is shared psychopathy.

Step 5- Mental Anguish: If the individual returns from war, his violent deeds and experiences return to him in the form of “PTSD,” which is simply how an emotionally frozen person deals with horror and atrocity. Metaphorically, it is a form of punishment for aiding and abetting evil, and for committing violence. It is the price these poor souls have to suffer for relying on their toxic culture to teach them “decent values.”

Step 6- Vicious Cycle: If the individual survived and had children, the acculturation and indoctrination should continue, perpetuating the cycle of social hell and damnation.

I say we all work to change this culture and mentality, and I believe it starts with parenting. We should not have to see so much evil and destruction. We should not be training people for violence and hatred at a young age. It makes no sense.

Nästa Station Rönninge - Since the murder of a young neo nazi skinhead in the Stockholm suburb Salem in December 2000, fascists from all over Europe have marched in his memory every year. In 2003 they gathered more than 2000 nazis, the biggest fascist march in Scandinavia since WWII. But they didn’t march without resistance. The antifascist movement tried out a wide range of tactics. In 2011 the nazis marched for the last time. This short documentary tells the story of how the antifascists tried to stop the Salem-march.

(Cont.) how exactly do we do that? Ideology is great, but what, exactly, are we waiting for? Not rhetorical. I have trouble envisioning a condition to move towards in order to make the liberation of the People actually, physically happen.

Class consciousness is key. There needs to be a realized understanding of class position (regarding relationships to production, not just income level as seems to be in the current mainstream progressive discourse) alongside a fiery desire for change in the hearts of the masses. Idea propagation, organization, protest, and direct action are things individual leftists can do, with added emphasis on the fact that the last two of those were always necessary during structural shifts throughout history and that’s how it will continue to be (since the surrounding culture vindicates direct action by historical figures but condemns it from present-day activists). Also, I’ve mentioned it before and I still believe it in large part: if the words “socialism” and “communism” aren’t palatable terms for people, and mass movements in the coming years instead frame anti-capitalist sentiment as “flat society” or “economic democracy” or simply “liberation”, I think leftists should absolutely work with this as long as the sentiment is rooted in democratic anti-capitalist and not a liberal reformation of capitalism. 

Psychologic-Anarchist:

Kids in the west join the military for many of the same reasons that kids in the Middle East join terrorist organizations. Excitement, money, indoctrination, and cultural machismo all play into their reasoning. Essentially, they are duped to believe their culture or race is superior.

It turns out that what Westerners call a terrorist attack is the same as what they call a military strike. Terrorism and military action are identical species, except the language used is based on perception of who is good and bad. This psychological befuddlement occurs so that one culture’s leadership can propagandize its soldiers and serfs to see the other tribe as an evil doer, as the terrorist.

The only real difference between terrorism and military action is the scale, language used to describe the event, and the clothing worn by the attackers. The similarities are obvious; one society instills fear and misery into another tribe, then tries to harm or kill that tribe’s people. In both scenarios, innocent victims die by the dozens and no one ever “wins.”

A multitude of people suffer, economic devastation ensues, flags are raised, and evil politicians and oligarchs are rallied behind.

Non-binary people can:

Have short hair

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Be skinny

Be fat

Be feminine

Be masculine

Be androgynous

Dress in gendered clothing

Dress in gender neutral clothes

Wear make-up

Not wear make-up