So 89% of catalans voted for independence, one the one hand, it won’t matter, any more than the astonishing million plus person protest in london against the proposed war when tony bliar was in power mattered.
One the other hand, it is yet another brick in the wall and answer to the question of what would happen if they had a vote / war / whatever and nobody turned up, and another brick in the wall and answer to the question of whether power and law comes from the will of the people, or is imposed on the will of the people.
If I killed someone last night, we all know it would be a very stupid thing to take to fuckbook today and post some snide remark about it today as a status update, because that comment can and will be used to convict me of murder.
Inside the box with Schroedinger’s cat lies AfOR’s conscience, so you have no way of knowing if I did not steal from you because I thought it morally wrong, or because I thought it never worth the risk of detection and conviction, and to most sane people there is no need to open the box, your valuables are safe from me.
But increasingly we are moving to an age (again, we have been here before) where the very question of your future liberty will depend on the contents of that box, and the people who will decide will not be like you and me.
History is replete with examples of people who did nothing but write some words expressing their disquiet or displeasure at how society was going, and next thing you know they are imprisoned or dead.
It matters, to those in power, what is in the box.
The moral based reason is a problem, so is the decision based reason, but it is easier to manage, all you have to do is make sure the decision never changes, and the easy way to do that is make sure I never ever ever ever ever think it is worth it to make that decision or choice.
It’s not so much harder to protect against a shift in the moral choice, it just requires different tools, propaganda.. not violence
What we saw in spain is what we see everywhere every single day here in the west, we see both a campaign of propaganda and a campaign of violence against those who fail to co-operate and comply.
Far from our media “reporting on it” as it were, they are just showing us enough to make it a lesson, watch this, study, learn, comply… or else…
This is why I have always had such a problem with the whole evil man abuses young girl and uses threats and power differential to get his evil way with the poor hapless victim thing.
I’m not say that that is, or is not, what is going on in such a dynamic, all I am saying is that as an example of coercion, it’s chump change with what goes on all day every day all around us, so it’s a bit rich to lay so heavily on the coercion angle with the poor powerless helpless victim.
If sending snapchat messages to a bunch of vigilantes pretending to be a 12 year old girl who wants to meet me for sex, or posting updated on fuckbook about my latest shipment of drugs and 9 mm, is likely to end up with me in the limelight for 20 minutes and jail for a few years…..
…. posting intellectually framed arguments highlighting the sheer iniquity and hypocrisy of the system we have is likely to end up with me being “processed”.
“Processed” was a thing we knew about as far back in my own personal memory as 1980 here in the UK, it was simple, you were arrested for a crime, and then in court concerns were made public about your mental state or drug usage prior to your appearance in court, so you’d be sent off to a more suitable place where they could assess you.
So this guy, and yes, I fucking knew him, knew his middle name, knew his brother and sister, knew his parents, knew where he lived, hell, I bought a motorcycle from him one time, so this guy, who only ever smoked a little lebanese mixed in with his tobacco, get’s picked up… there is a not relevant back story here about *why* he was picked up, suffice it to say “shame if something bad happened to your other two kids, or your wife, or you” wasn’t a million miles away, afterwards the whole family was wracked with guilt and could no longer bear the sight of the guy/son/brother in question
So next thing you know this guy is in a “hospital” where they “asses” him by giving him different drugs every day, and different doses, and a bit of good old electrotherapy thrown in (sorry, did you think clockwork orange was entirely fictitious?) and six weeks later this shambling wreck leaves the “hospital” and the next three years that I knew him he basically self medicated with lebanese all day every day to keep the tremors and anger buried, in six weeks he went from being a natural engineer who could and did tinker with everything into a shambling shell of a man who if you asked him the time (or anything else) while he was getting on the bus to pay his fare, he’d get off again and wait for the next bus, because you just overloaded his mind.
It’s so much easier for the state today, there are hordes of shambling broken people on the payroll, want six people to come out of the woodwork and make claims that you sodomised them when they were ten years old, no problem, just do this thing and you can continue to get your fix and your rent… does anyone even remember the strange death of Dr Kelly, the intellectual and scientist who said that all of tony bliar’s claims for war in the middle east were lies, and he could prove it… just need you three guys to do this thing, and you can continue to get your fix and your rent.
And as always, there is always the stick and the carrot of exotic forbidden fruit, just look at Julian Assange, he lives a life of a hermit, but he gets to fuck a baywatch babe now and again, it’s never all bad, not when it is fake, when it is real it’s all bad, Breivik doesn’t get visits from baywatch babes, not because there aren’t willing participants, but because he isn’t on the fucking payroll dude.
“You become a zombie where the highlight of your day is purchasing a 1000 Euro garment or a 100 Euro sushi meal, or getting a blowjob from someone you met outside the toilet at a club that Saturday. On your way home you see a girl getting gang-raped by 4 Somalis. You don’t offer it much thought as the slag probably had it coming anyway.”
The catalan fiasco is set to breed more Breiviks, not less, because most of the players are *exactly* what breivik describes as category A and category B traitors.
At this point IT DOES NOT MATTER if you agree with breivik or think he was an insane piece of shit, the relevant points are that he creates a set of labels, and proceeds to categorise people and put them in those boxes, and that in and of itself is not a game that stops being played when he gets life in solitary, anyone can play that game that far, and if you do, lots of what breivik ranted about becomes prescient.
Eerily, even AFTER all his crimes, assuming his manifesto is true, breivik would make a better neighbour for many of us than many of the neighbours we do have, he would certainly have no interest in telling me that I should shut the fuck up, when I tell you, entirely truthfully, that my own mother has been on the council house waiting list for 26 years, and they do not even bother talking to her, as a native old white woman she fell off a list that is dominated by skanky single moms pumping out a succession of womb turds and fucking refugees that do not want to become english, it’s Ok, she has been privately renting for 26 years and every single year when the landlord visits he calls the property “impeccable” and her a “dream tenant”…
I’d have less qualms about a released breivik being her neighbour or yodel delivery driver or her window cleaner or gardener than some of the types that *are* about.
Because all of this brings us to an interesting dilemma.
The stuff breivik writes, it is clear, concise and logical, and in any event, it is just words on paper.
breivik the man may be a complete fucking loon, and it is only his insanity that allows him to make a connection between clear concise and logical arguments, and the going out and slaughtering a bunch of privileged kids of powerful people…
…or…
well, there is the question…
Because fundamentally the question that we are going to have to address here is this, is Breivik insane because he put his thoughts to deeds?
Is the definition of insanity to take up arms against a corrupt state, for there is no doubt that his state is as corrupt as the rest here in the west, so is the question of his sanity hinging on dealing out to members of the apparatchiks, category a traitors as he calls them, the sort of impersonal cold violence and callous disregard for individual rights and freedoms, that these states use against their peoples?
So if breivik is insane, how is the state sane?
When US National Guard killed civilians at Kent State, did the US Government end up in the dock charged with multiple counts of murder?
Is that an insane question to ask?
Is it sane to say that *clearly* a government or a state or a corporation cannot be put in the dock and subject to the same sort of treatment as a breivik or mcvee or carlos or baader or anyone else?
And this sort of simple logic is what makes this whole piece “dangerous” and “seditious”, because it asks everyone to make a reasoned analysis, and as we have said before, a reasoned analysis is the absolute worst fucking thing possible to a power that depends on the stuff in green bold text above.
They DO NOT WANT a world in which everyone opens their own Schroedinger’s box of moral compasses and examines the contents for themselves, they want a world where that box is forever sealed, and only they are the arbiters of what it contains, or does not contain.
Yes young man, you were born with a penis, and that box is filled to 5,000 psi with urges to rape and kill and steal, do not open it, do not look at it, do not even think about it.
Trust us, we are the state, and we are here to help you.
We’ll see how well that goes down in catalunya over the next months.
Stands to logical reason, sooner or later, the bough is going to break, somewhere…. like Yellowstone, predicting it is an exercise in futility, being aware of the possible ramifications, is an exercise in survival.
But then, I always liked actually using my fucking brain, who cares if it is intellectual onanism, at least I am fucking using it and keeping it fit and healthy.