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Anarchism in America
By News Desk | September 16, 2008
All peoples of this world are born into and die under the control of an organized elite ruling class. This has been the case through most of our recorded history. Social classes are an innately excepted and even expected manner in which people live regardless of their placement. Born into middle class, one expects to fulfill the role of their division and to be treated accordingly, though they may not realize it. Those who are the heirs to the ruling class, regardless of the government system (monarchy or democracy) are expected to continue their family’s legacy in wealth and power. We are hard-wired into this belief of subservience based on income, class, race, and/or gender.
But is that the only way to be? Must we live divided by invisible lines of perception? Governed, controlled, oppressed, by the power possessors of our nation. The answer is anarchy.
The concept of anarchism is so closely connected with darkly dressed teens, white makeup, piercings, and an infatuation with death and darkness that one cannot often see beyond that. They expect anarchy to be disorder, havoc, and turmoil because this is what they have been told. They rely on structure and so the absence must be chaos.
But in reality anarchy is nothing but the absence of governmental restraint and the development of a community of equals, all their own. Is this so terrible compared to a blindly lead society, who follows the doctrine of others without conscious thought? When all are open, ruling together over only themselves, corruption has no hidden corner to grow in.
However, humanity at this stage, still so unstable and violent, may not be able to sustain such a peaceful and liberal way of governing. It may be that people need to be told because they have yet to really want to think independently. Structure, in all its corruption, may very well be what we need now, to keep from us the unknown until the masses can withstand such a foreign concept. But as the ones in power lead them farther from the truth, while still preaching of their rights, how will they ever know they aren’t in control?
In America it is said the people govern, but still we are still subservient, excepting what they say as fact. We take from them the taxation that our forefathers deemed criminal. We don’t question their wars and their motivations for all that they do. We think we know, but those that really understand either join them in secrecy or disappear.
Note from the author: But I for one am not willing to let others pave my way. I will not be a sheep blindly led by a governing Shepard who claims his path is best for me. I will not go quietly to the slaughter, without ever think for myself. In this anarchy has found a home, but in the masses it is still too revolutionary for them to except.
By: Landis Grenville
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