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The problem with this proposition as forwarded is that it solicits far too specific issues. Just today I've been writing about the fallacy in Western thought being that we are far too much of a reactive people, with woefully little brain activity devoted to addressing the cause of effects. There IS a unified field theory to society. There are larger issues that need to be taken care of for a cascade effect to be apparent.
At the same time, some of the best change you can make is to yourself. None of us want to think that there's anything wrong with the way in which we live and view the world, but there is, period. And in order for our actions to reflect the selfless aims of people who want the best for all, we have to BE those people. Not all of us will make it that far, including myself. We will have to become someone else entirely. You may have to sever all ties to those you know, discard what you have, utterly divorce yourself from what it is that defines who you are now to become who you must be if you're really going to pursue this. I don't know that I can. I don't know that I can't. Each comes with its heartbreaks. Each will make you happy in different ways, and neither is necessarily better than the other. You may be jailed. You may be killed. It will be a war so utterly inconceivable to the traditional definition of war, in that it will truly be a war to end war: international, class, racial, cultural. Like the Jews freed from Egypt, we might not be allowed to pass into the Promised Land, because we will have the memory of being slaves to the old way. Are you all right with the possibility that you will never get to see what you fight for, that the rest of your life might be nothing but struggle so that those who come after will know only peace and contentment? In the end, are you simply fucking about with this romantic image of rebellion and change, or are you willing to play the Death card? I don't have an answer to these questions yet. Do you? |
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