This is how the world ends. December 21st. Ragnarok. Revelation. End Times. Karmic Retribution. Kali Yuga. Fuck it all. Call it whatever you want, from whatever bullshit faith stole the seers words. Yes, it was going to end.
“these are the times that try mens souls…the summer patriot…” That was the word of the government. Those fucking assholes. What the fuck do they know about patriotism? What gave them the right to use Tommy Paine’s words – those socio-fascist sons of bitches. I remember the days before the war, before the alliances, before the unions, the blocs, before the crash. Hell, I was alive before the stoner selling weed from his parent’s basement was legally considered a “terrorist” – before the small business owners, journalists, and artists started “disappearing.” I remember when I could, had I wanted to, ignore the future that stared us directly in our face. It yelled at us from its perch atop the mountains of Wisdom. There were few who heard the screams.
“..the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph” – that was my response to their bastardization of Tommy Paine. That was my response as the NAU came to be – my very same response when our “leaders” took us to war against the EU.
I remember the day I lost hope. I was live-blogging from Washington Square Park. They had already taken the city at that point. The EU soldier was walking over, no doubt to do a scan of my computer contents and inevitably and futily take down one of the many wireless access points that were tripling in number daily….though I had heard the conquerors planned on destroying the google offices in chelsea. No doubt that would take down more than half of the networks. Obviously we couldn’t fight back. The NAU had taken the guns of all the citizens, but the governments that came before had already stripped the men and women of Manhattan of any ability to defend themselves.
I lost hope in one single explosion of a moment. I watched it, as if in slow motion. The scene is burned into my third eye now – a grotesque tatoo on my soul. The masked soldier turned, alerted by the delirious banter of Military Man, the crackhead who was always seen wearing military fatigues and a bluetooth headset that was connected only to his imagination. “Wael how yha doin thare cracka? You wann some wee-” Before he could finish propositioning the soldier for a gram of some heinous schwag, the soldier raised his rifle and squeezed a three round burst of hollow point into Military Man’s headset crowned skull.
There was a bloody mess. It took me a moment to process what I had seen, but there was no shock as I turned away. There was only revelation. That resounding cry from the future resonated through every cell in my body. The cry of dear future’s painful death. This is how the world ends.
If there is anything we can learn from the recent liquidity/sub-prime crisis it is this:
The time is now to question the authority of the state. Anthropology tells us that as our population grew we turned from the tribe to the chief, then later the state to organize us, protect us from each other and, redistribute our wealth. All the while, the leaders have disarmed the populace, drugged the masses, maintained an information monopoly and always skimmed more than is fair from the top. The most dangerous thing we have done to jeapordize our freedom has been allowing the nation-state to dictate issues of buying and selling. It is quite clear that the moment you let the government dictate issues of buying and selling it allows that government and its officials to be likewise bought and sold. This is no more apparent than in the federal reserve and its gestapo, the IRS, who are literally stealing from dollar denominated bank accounts daily by devaluing the dollar, stealing the fruits of the american workforce, and manipulating the global economy in line with narrow interests. The free market is under attack, and thus freedom - in every sense of the word – is likewise under attack!
We have evolved along with this process of socio-political organization and now we need to evolve beyond it. We no longer need a state to organize us and we no longer need a state to prevent us from killing each other. The evolution of social organization has reached its apex because man has evolved beyond the animal. We see this now because we demand equal rights (but not unearned equality in status) and a voice in government affairs. We see this now because we will not stand for information monopolies. We see this now in the complete decentralization of authority.
Businesses are flattening organization structures to adapt to changes more rapidly while peer to peer communication has used decentralization to maintain autonomy of the individual and resist the grip of control. Soon society will begin to mimic these patterns. And so the time of the state is over and McKenna’s archaic revival is upon us.
Life, liberty, and property were the values that brought together a small band of loosely allied peoples and developed them into the United States of America, most powerful nation in the history of mankind. This grand nation is now under attack by enemies both foreign and domestic. And it simply because the founders forgot one basic value – an omission that is bringing the entire world to its knees. The founding fathers overlooked the freedom of consciousness and thus gave up that which makes us human, and thus that which makes us truly free.
The time is now to see through propaganda and social programming, to see through our own neurosis, to see through meaningless issues and embrace values that resonate with what it means to be a human that has left the animal behind – the values of the Ubermensch and the values of transhuman destiny. It is time to turn our backs on increasing organization and control from above because we have control from within and an innate motivation for organization borne through peaceful interaction, a caveat no longer necessitated by state mandated coexistence and disarmament. So we come full circle as the democratic nation state must face its darwinian fate while the anarcho-capitalist neo-tribals take root. These modern tribals of personally and digitally connected autonomous social units have arrived because there exists within us all the nomad soul and we shall never settle, never stop moving and never stop progressing through the evolution of our collective state of mind.
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