I may sound like I'm rambling here, but it's an attempt to get something across. Part of an ongoing process of awareness. Maybe those who like to think will pick out something valuable to them and we can toss it around. That's all I can offer, perhaps. And you know I'll keep at it,,,I've found no other forum nearly as thought-provoking, even tho it feels sooo deadening even then. (Maybe if you want to truly get rid of me, you can suggest a more lively, thoughtful forum? And no, the GA thing doesn't interest me much,,,,)
People I pay attention to say that the Left is the left-wing of capitalism/capital and I see this as true, yet only part of the truth.
The Left is the left-wing of colonization, aka colonialism.
Formal and informal colonization. The colonization planted in our heads, in "our" politics, in our very imaginations, not to mention all the cammoflauged programs, formal and informal, getting us (and so many others) to give away our power, and assume that we never had any in the first place.
And then to "fall back" on all that we've been programmed with: war. STupidity.
To me saying that the Left/left is about colonization goes to the heart because it exposes the game without all the bullshit.
To not expose the big picture of bullshit that the Left is (not to mention the Right/right/rightism, etc.) is to continue around and around in the same old shit--that is, the way we "anti-politicals" continue with these internecine fights about Who's Right (pardon the pun) and Who's Wrong, and yadda yadda yadda. We go in circles, and it's just like a certain aboriginal said about us settlers--such actions/inaction expose how *we don't REALLY want to solve the difficulties facing us all.*
I want to think about this, and I say it's about time others did, as well, and stop this nonsense about labeling aboriginals (in "australia" and every other occupied land--such as the "U.S.") with euro-centric simplifications like "nationalist". Or labeling *anyone* with reductionisms which hide within them games designed to control thought.
It's this superficial consciousness, I think, which keeps "anti-politicos" in yet another form of corrall...going in the same old intellectual circles...
Take crime. The idea of what crime is and how such *symptoms* of people unable to cope bubble up time and again in myriad forms seems to escape the consciousness of those supposedly in solidarity with "the workers" --as if "working people" are somehow hierarchically important over all others.
Why not direct such sentiment to HUMANITY AT LARGE? Why not speak to human beings in GENERAL--human beings who hate their superficial lives, who feel numbed and dumbed. Who are sick and tired of the same old bullshit! "The workers" are not the only people in pain, and not the only people who can bring solutions. They may be the "biggest group", but that sentiment plays into the perpetual war of the need for 'constituencies'. Many of us talk about "mutual aid" and "interdependence"; why don't we broaden that out upon the general public as well? (And those actually imprisoned within the supposed "wealth" of the Ivory Towers).
I say it's time more of we began seeing that the Button Pushers/Orderers and designers of this hell are simply only CRAZY. I'm crazy, myself, and it takes one to know one. To respond to such CRAZY (ready at a moment's notice to become INSANE, with B2s bombing whole neighborhoods, et alli), we must see the value of not "fighting" fire with fire, but by creating radical's radical bridgings.
Of the kind that bring out the John Stockwells from their indoctrinations. And once bringing them out, not mowing them down (in the stupidity of "revenge"), but being radically human with them.
For instance, radically human by inviting them, in their fear, to the worlds we set up; and to invite them to discover who they are, more than what they understand in the world they've grown up in. You may label such "naive" (based on reading only???), but I have to ask what are your actual interests?
And why MUST so-called "radicals" forever follow along with the 18th/19th century imagination about all of this??
Why can't "we" see the value of attacking alienation and challenged behavior, instead of human beings? (I can turn that back on myself, as well, then; as long as the kind of dialogue is allowed where contexts and reasoning is explored)
Take the generalized attack of Trotsky. I'm quite ignorant about him (tho have some experience with when trotskyists tried to allegedly "take over" a group I used to be involved with); but I bet you money that he was like a lot of formalized, reduced human beings of his era. Probably like most "pragmatic", "well-educated" aspirants of authority. That he was merely a product of his era's larger system! And that his ideas wouldn't have been allowed a second of serious engagement hadn't many other "pragmatists" been acting behind the scenes!
That we are supposed to focus only on these single characters/persons, or these *symptoms* of alienation and the stupidity of "our" cult-ure, seems to me to be basically doing the work of tyranny for them! The war cult-ure is perpetuated forever! How convenient.
And then you have people like Sascha and Wolfi trying to label me, as well. You don't try to understand, you just keep the knee-jerk lockstep, and reflect the reality of your alleged vision.
Yes, I'm more and more "enraged". But you don't want to hear about me as a human being, much more than my dared confessions! All you know is war war war, and if someone who has spent a lot of time here, bringing input from another perspective and praxis confesses "the wrong things" then chalk up another of the mass of despised. Really, how different is this bullshit from tyranny? (Oh, you just don't have the so-called "power", is that it?)
To continue with the Left as yet another game of colonization, we see that
"The Law" is hallowed, like the christian bible. (Religion persists far beyond those organizations perceived as 'religious'!) And the game of criminalizing (and punishing/suppressing/invalidating) inarticulate/under-articulated dissent is ignored, EXCEPT when it fits within these 18th and 19th century ideas about what to do and when to intervene. I.e. apparently only at work, or when riots surge up.
WHY do we subordinate ourselves to the 18th and 19th century, anyway??
I'm not going to rant on much further. I "understand" about the meta game that has to be played (the meta game of propaganda in a propaganda-oriented society). Yet I see this belief that things "have to be done" as a game; a choke-chain pulling so-called "radicals" around and into the stupidity of war war war.
As one who is slated for the worst that humanity can do to me (and has experienced to various extents), I remain *still* wanting to hold onto my visions; they are the only thing that makes me want to continue in this life, actually.
How about these other things we don't think through. The idea that "wealth" can be accumulated, instead of experienced. The idea that people are "rich" if they buy into the colonization game, and largely discard their humanity (or human potential).
I may sound like I'm "way too" simplistic here, but I really think that the biggest thing we're facing is one of uncritically accepting a whole set of values. And then acting as if we must react to that, instead of getting back in touch with the values that brought us to this kind of thinking in the first place!
...As if those lost (they smile, yet look at them as their faces fall in old age; their faces speak them more honestly than their illusory possessions) persons who accumulate huge resources via terrorism (I'm thinking of State (and para-State) terrorism) have "power". The idea that they are somehow "happy" while others "cannot" be.
What are some others we take so much for granted?
Really, we've got to see the value in thinking these things through (I know the longtime regulars have thought through these things, generally, but I'm not addressing this to you, unless you want to have your periodic "check-up" for yourself) (then again, I recall that self-critical thinking isn't supposed to be "valid" --right?-- and I have to ask, in what context?)
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