| "It regards reality as the sole enemy and as the | | | | including myself, have developed group senses -- |
| source of all suffering, with which it is impossible | | | | we develop a subconscious that analyzes and |
| to live, so that one must break off all relations | | | | understands where everyone in the room is and |
| with it if one is to be in any way happy. The | | | | where they are looking. This allows us the |
| hermit turns his back on the world and will have | | | | capability of seeing if we are being watched, an |
| no truck with it. But one can do more than that; | | | | invaluable skill for us lifters.Without poverty, there |
| one can try to recreate the world, to build up in | | | | is no crime. Crime is caused only by the poor |
| its stead another world in which its most | | | | conditions in which human beings live, and their |
| unbearable features are eliminated and replaced | | | | dire attempts to escape those conditions. At |
| by others that are in conformity with one's own | | | | least, this can be considered true with all those |
| wishes."-- Sigmund Freud | | | | conditions in which property crime is involved. We |
| "Civilization and Its Discontents," by Sigmund | | | | want to develop a system, an order of society, in |
| Freud, chapter 2If a generation that cherished | | | | which crime is completely eliminated. That is our |
| love and affectionately adored honesty were to | | | | objective. What ways would we mend or forge |
| create two gods, they would be pessimism and | | | | the current system so as to complete our |
| optimism. The first gave them the sight and vision | | | | objective? Well, when we look at those who have |
| to realize what is wrong, without holding steadfast | | | | been inflicted with the miserable profession of |
| to prejudice and bigotry. The second gave them | | | | criminal, what class in specific are we examining? |
| the strength and endurance to create a better | | | | The working class. Their relationship that brings |
| world, even if it started and ended with one | | | | them to poverty and eventually crime is the their |
| changed soul. The bible of this generation, the | | | | relationship with the Capitalist class, or the |
| religious text and scripture which they would refer | | | | employer class.The only way to mend this |
| to in their daily lives, would consist of dialogue | | | | relationship, between the haves and the have |
| between these two gods. Pessimism always | | | | nots, is to make it so the result of it is more |
| seemed to represent apathy, a sense of | | | | wealth in the pockets of the have nots. This could |
| deadness accompanied by lost dreams. But, then | | | | be done with a policy so limited and conservative |
| again, it was the agitator, the creator, the mover. | | | | as minimum wage, minimum working hours, safe |
| Optimism would always seem to represent | | | | working conditions, lowering the work hours per |
| activity and growth, a sense of life and a desire | | | | week, etc., etc.. All of these laws, if they were be |
| to do something about it, as well as ecstacy and | | | | implemented into a government's laws, should be |
| pleasure. This generation of lovers and thinkers | | | | based on the collective's understanding that the |
| would worship these gods through acts of | | | | working man must be protected -- not from |
| kindness, mercy, and love. The names they would | | | | other working men, but from those whom they |
| give their children would have hidden meanings, | | | | work for. With these limited policies, the employer |
| like "romantic poet," or "moment of orgasm."If a | | | | class would be viewed much like the government: |
| good person were to try to live up to the | | | | a necessary evil, without which we would have |
| expectation of change and growth with the bold | | | | tranquility and peace, at least for a little while.In a |
| honesty to look forward, he ould be a cynic as | | | | more concerned effort, we might eliminate the |
| much as an optimist. His sacred scripture would | | | | employer class entirely, dissolve it into the |
| simply be: "A Better World Is Possible."When we | | | | working body of citizens. It has been said that to |
| look upon our own society, examine its ways and | | | | establish Democracy, every citizen must be |
| its manners, we discover a great deal that we | | | | treated like a king. If we apply the same |
| wish to change. We see crime, we see poverty, | | | | reasoning to economics, in an effort to eliminate |
| we see drug addictions, murder, war, domestic | | | | the poverty that comes from Free Trade, then |
| abuse, child abuse, rape, theft, brutality, and abuse | | | | every citizen must be treated like a Capitalist. |
| of every power. Those of the humane way have | | | | Using this system, the entire conflict that would |
| always believed that it was the goodness of men | | | | arrise in a Capitalist system -- with workers |
| that brought them together for unity and | | | | fighting for living wages and the employer class |
| strength. Today, we stand on the corpse of | | | | fighting for worsened sweat shop conditions -- |
| modern life. It may have been the social instinct | | | | this entire conflict would be removed, and |
| which has brought us together and has formed | | | | something called Communism or Socialism would |
| our families, our towns, our cities, and our nations, | | | | take effect. The relationship that causes poverty, |
| but there is so much more to it than that. Cities | | | | misery, and so much abuse of the spirit is the |
| have become the hives of vice and misery, the | | | | relationship that exists between those without |
| perfect strangers to loneliness. Our modern poets | | | | property, who must sell their labor to survive, and |
| and romantics stand before this marvel of life, | | | | those with property, who employ the masses to |
| and are speechless.When we think of pain and | | | | work for them. To eliminate this relationship, thus |
| suffering, what do you think it is that is the most | | | | eliminating the conflict, we are establishing a |
| ominous source of suffering? There is no doubt | | | | better world. Among the most important |
| that it is from some relationship within society, or | | | | revolutions, Socialism and Communism are of the |
| at least within human civilization. Perhaps it is the | | | | highest degree for any revolutionary.When we try |
| unjust social relationship between men and | | | | to think of the relationships in society that allow |
| women, resulting in sexism and domestic abuse? | | | | for a great deal of unnecessary suffering and |
| Perhaps it is the unjust relationship that exists | | | | misery, we tend to think about the relationships |
| between nations, resulting in economic embargos | | | | that exist between us and those that we love |
| and wars? Maybe it is the relationship between | | | | and care about. In literature of every culture and |
| citizens, involving crime and theft, or the | | | | every era, we find that adultery has been at the |
| relationship between employer and employee, | | | | source of misery for so many lovers. It has been |
| resulting in poverty and misery? Whatever it is | | | | the inspiration to a volumes of sad poetry. It has |
| that is the greatest cause of suffering in the | | | | been the cause of so much conflict, so much |
| world, there are some things that must be | | | | fighting, so much quarreling and violence. I admit |
| considered. First, we are analyzing the relationships | | | | that some cultures were intelligent and thoughtful |
| that exist between each other to discover the | | | | enough to avoid such useless brutality and misery. |
| roots of this suffering. It is an internal problem. It | | | | However, as we see it in our modern world, it is |
| is not a question of natural disasters and the fury | | | | quite easy to see that the relationship that exists |
| that nature has wrought on mankind. No, it is a | | | | between lovers is one of great distress and pain. |
| question of the way that we act among | | | | We are attracted to it by the thought of |
| ourselves, the customs we forge anad the rules | | | | happiness, pleasure, a feeling of connection and |
| we make. Second, as Freethinkers and those | | | | mutual understanding. The origins of intimate |
| genuinely concerned with justice, when we | | | | relationships are the same in any culture: they |
| analyze these relationships in society, we do so | | | | come from the most natural desire to feel love, |
| with the intent of creating a more free and more | | | | as though the universe could end and all a lover |
| just system.The essential difference today | | | | could do would be to welcome it.Yet, we see so |
| between an Anarchist and a Liberal is this: the | | | | much abuse come from this relationship that |
| Liberal wants to repair the damage done by the | | | | exists between lovers. The time for a new moral |
| system, the Anarchist wants to repair the | | | | code is necessary. The time has always been ripe. |
| system. The first looks to poverty and creates | | | | I suggest that lovers learn to love more openly, |
| welfare, completely leaving the economic system | | | | that their relationships are not confined to one |
| untouched. The latter wants to completely abolish | | | | person only -- what in fact has been the cause of |
| any economic system that will lead to | | | | all these problems. If sexual activity with other |
| homelessness, poverty, or misery.It was not | | | | partners was accepted in our modern society, |
| uncommon or rare in our past for these social | | | | then the problem of the lonely and disheartened |
| relationships to change, become altered, or | | | | lover disappears. When we learn to accept that |
| become completely abolished. It was once | | | | sharing sexuality with others is a positive aspect |
| tradition that men treat women like property, | | | | of life, in that it creates affection, something |
| that wars between nations were glorious events, | | | | beautiful, and a connection -- when we learn to |
| that poverty was god's naturally awarded | | | | accept this, then so much misery, pain, and |
| condition for a certain class of people, that crime | | | | depression would be swept out. But, the problem |
| was simply second nature to each human, and | | | | of the matter is in changing ourselves, in learning |
| therefore indefeatable. All of this was believed by | | | | to accept that you cannot tell anyone what to do |
| the people, they took it in as unquestionable | | | | with their bodies, even in a relationship. I'm not |
| truths. Well, it was the liberating experience of | | | | evading a double standard. Men should be as |
| any honest individual, to realize that every | | | | promiscuous as they like, as should any woman. It |
| conscious organism simply wants to be free. From | | | | may be difficult and long for individuals to |
| such a humble start, the progression of humane | | | | overcome these social prejudices. We wince |
| thought has come a long way. Citizens have | | | | every time the thought of a forgotten lover |
| collectively allocated women's rights, worker's | | | | comes to mind, and we are reminded of the pain |
| rights, children's rights, citizen's rights, etc., etc., | | | | that comes from a dead passion. We do not |
| protecting the freedom, security, and happiness | | | | forget the misery that we have suffered, that |
| of those who have been oppressed for so | | | | others have, that others still will, and it is our |
| long.Do you think the happiness of the average | | | | intention as revolutionaries to uphold our scripture: |
| person, from these prehistoric times to our | | | | a better world is possible.There are so many |
| current situation, has increased? I imagine that | | | | origins of pain and so many other great reforms |
| few would disagree with me. It was by altering | | | | and alterations that could happen in our modern |
| and changing these relationships between the | | | | society to abolish the sources of misery. The |
| different groups that a better, more peaceful | | | | animals of the world are slaughtered for the taste |
| terms of living came about. So, when we decide | | | | of their decomposing carcasses. Presidents and |
| to examine the social mores and relationships of | | | | tyrants switch places constantly as I find more |
| our own era, and discover such large amounts of | | | | and more people confused at the political situation. |
| suffering, the only reasonable response to these | | | | Books are banned at the same moment courts |
| situations is this: we must reorganize society, | | | | rule guilt by association is "reason to convict." Men |
| change the relationships, repair (or revolutionize) | | | | and women are thrown in jail when they make |
| the system itself, before we will stop seeing the | | | | the personal decision to inebriate themselves, and |
| damage that it causes. What we would be doing | | | | gain a gentle happiness via artificial means. |
| would be a revolutionary activity, in that we | | | | Workers slave away at work, hours of their lives |
| would be altering our own world to attain our own | | | | taken away with dreams crumbling and sinking.I |
| ends, in the most radical way possible. It would | | | | want to explode when I see the walls of chain |
| also be the tradition of spirited independence to | | | | convenience stores and rip apart the monotony |
| overthrow oppressors and cast off any chains or | | | | of a "brick after brick" architecture. In my |
| bondage they have given to the innocent.Our | | | | dreams, I am taking enormous buckets of paint |
| questions must be twofold. 1) What are the | | | | to make child-like paintings of clouds on the side |
| relationships that are causing so much stress, | | | | of every Walmart. I want to place a paper-mache |
| misery, pain, and suffering on others? 2) What | | | | rose on the doorstep of every girl who feels |
| can we do to change them?Crime. What causes | | | | alone, give a confident speech to every boy who |
| it? Any educated person will give the same | | | | feels alone. I want to scream for every rape. I |
| answer: the desire or need of material objects. If | | | | want to die for every resurfaced memory. I |
| the wages offered by employers do not satisfy | | | | want people to worry less about death, and think |
| the needs of the workers, that is to say, the | | | | more about their life as a unique and beautiful |
| people who have no property, then criminal | | | | experience. I want people to stress less about life, |
| activity becomes the result. Psychologists and | | | | and concentrate on the parts of living that give a |
| psychiatrists might try to classify criminal | | | | feeling of ease. Everywhere that I turn, every |
| behavior, trying to put boundaries and lines | | | | voice of the strangers I talk to, they are based |
| through it so that they can understand it. The one | | | | on so many petty things. I want swing my arms |
| thing that they do not understand about criminal | | | | and lose understanding of my consciousness, and... |
| behavior is that it is not unique, that it is not | | | | let go... I want to let go... And maybe find a little |
| special, that it is perhaps the most natural part of | | | | peace, a little understanding, a little "the beautiful |
| animal life. If a mother bear is interested in | | | | part of life is that society can be called the |
| obtaining food for its young, does it ever consider | | | | collective experience of every living and breathing |
| the fact that it is violating trespassing laws in | | | | creature," maybe in the bossom of intoxication. |
| doing so, or does it ever consider the opinion of | | | | Life, |
| other bears? Maybe only insomuch as it concerns | | | | PunkerslutPunkerslut (or Andy Carloff) has been |
| her and her cub's welfare, but beyond that, not at | | | | writing essays and poetry on social issues which |
| all. The creature is simply committing an act that | | | | have caught his attention for several years. His |
| is required for life. So, too, is the human who | | | | website provides a complete list of all of these |
| commits crime to survive, when no legitimate | | | | writings. His life experience includes homelessness, |
| means of income will suffice.The psychologist | | | | squating in New Orleans and LA, dropping out of |
| might be right that the brain changes somewhat | | | | high school, getting expelled from college for |
| with criminal behavior. New instincts, behaviors, | | | | "subversive activities," and a myriad of other |
| reflexes, and understandings are required in group | | | | revolutionary actions. |
| behavior. All of the shoplifters that I know, | | | | |