Alms for the sober?

This is what happened to meme today.

Blub is the synthesis, the excrement of mind. An idea is poo, to be discarded while getting on with the proper business of flux.

I need a job... oh, thats right, I do have a job. I just chose not to show up today.

I need another job.

I'd like to thank jesus, the academy, and Reagan's right nipple (which contained all of his evil).

A self-sustaining anarchy can not come about through means of physical force, only by the adaptation of certain ideals by all (literally every single human) in a society, can an atmosphere without the need of brute force be created. This by no means takes into account the amount of pschological coercion that may exist between two humans. Is the anarchist ideal an earthwide cult where there is no need for police or states or government because people have adopted ways of influencing things to their liking through the manipulation of the collective psychi over generations. Is, say, an anarchist leaflet just an attempt to cause someone to think differently than they already do? What is the difference between influence and coercion? Surely if coercion is the use of authority or force in order to cause something, and ones ability to influence is an indication of their authority, then the more an anarchist influences the populace the more authority they command. The more authority an anarchist commands, the less he is the anarchist and the more he is the archy. The only way to escape this trap is to not tell people this or that but make them question (Itself a kind of coercion).

The role of an anarchist ideal at the present state of things is to continually question those who would coerce another for the purpose of furthering their own agender. This ultimately and most importantly involves questioning one's own agender in attempting to coerce either through force or disseminating information. Anarchy like veganism or Plato's Republic, are impossible and simplistic ideals that could not exist on earth amongst humans. Only a man on a desert island can be an anarchist.

Even non-violent resistance is a kind of force. It is a trite comparison but try stopping a bowling ball with a relaxed hand, force is required in order to resist. When an anarchist resists coersion by the state they are applying a kind of violence. There is a large and incredibly grey area between resistance attack. Any action can only be justified by arbitrary beliefs in right and wrong, there is no deductible logic outside of pure belief that can be used to prove whether things are good or bad. However there can be inconsistancies between a persons actions and their belief system that have occured because of failure of language and the intoxication of "emotional truth."

Language is infinately falible in describing anything even remotely accurately. When language is used carefully and with precision it is still flawed in that for any statement to be true it would need infinite qualification. Emotional truth is slippery and changes from person to person, reflecting only their constitution at a particular point in time and ever changing its form.

So many mindless suckerfish punks these days just soak in the simplistic lyrics like so much unfilltered gospel. They dont seem to get that the point many bands are trying to make is to "do as we do and not as we say." What do many (certainly not all) punk rock bands do? I here you ask. They generally try to think for themselves or at least write lyrics that give the impression that they don't just tow the conventional and societal lines. Sure many follow the aesthetic conventions of their social group, but they are differentiating themselves from mainstream society. You don't have to. You may want to and that's fine, but by regurgitating a bunch of ideas you picked up in a song you're worse than the preacher reading from the bible, at least he's got more material to work with. That's not to say a preacher is more right or truer but he is certainly armed with more things to say. 

Quantity is not the be all and end all but if you have more of the picture you can better recognise what it is and possibly what it means  to you. Punk rock is the impetus to action, a spark that may ignite a hungry mind, it is not dogma, it is the destruction of dogma. Don't preach punk, because the bands are already doing it for you. Let their simple and catchy but socially aware lyrics give you the strength to learn and question. Question yourself, question the music and read some goddamn books. Not just, "How to be a green-lefty anarcho-punk for beginners," but shit that goes against your views. If you are affraid of seeing the other side of the coin then there is a breeze behind your convictions, with the mere facade of a gale. A facade of peircings, spiked hair and torn denim. 

The best way to prove someone wrong is to walk them through their own argument until you both hit a wall. This wall will usually be a moral one, something that cuts to very point at which logic becomes belief. The "what is actually good or really important argument" has no end and cannot be resolved, but taking a person to this point in their own argument may serve to reveal to them that what they thought was true wasn't based on logic but a pure belief in this or that. Depending on how deep this was buried under "false" logic it may reveal to this person something they don't like about themselves. This will most likely result in irrational hardening of stance and anger as opposed to a heartfelt "forgive me for I was wrong." 

It is rarely a few contrary words that will fundamentaly change a persons beliefs, only large life events or an evolution over time of the persons own thought processes, by means of their own thought processes, can alter fundamental beliefs. That said it also pays to be prepared on your own side because something you say may just possibly plant a "meme" or thought virus in this persons mind leading to an eventual change in beliefs down the track, or cause a humble (not to be confused with weak) person to admit that societal and neurologically derived "memes" were imposed, by life and living, in their dominant thought processes and clouded their judgment on a certain issue.

Personally I listen to punk rock because of how it makes me feel, not how it makes me think. Listening to NOFX's, The Decline, once through or some Propagandhi should plant enough seeds in the old noggin' to compel some further socio-political research. For so many however, the catchy lyric is the end, not the beginning of the road. Rember, nothing is true, only permitted. Even these words and that statement. You are never more right than the person you are arguing against, you just believe you are, and that's ok.

It is a small step from difference to hierarchy and one easily stumbled across.

Hmmm... I think i'll have a beef shnitzel for lunch. Do you believe that?

All Hail Discordia! (or don't, all I know is that I'm about to have one damn fine shnitzel)