"Don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness"
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After reading Swarmwise by Rick Falvinge as well as some work from famed anarchist collective CrimeThInc I am in a chaotic mood.
It feels like no matter what actions I choose to take, I'm always going to be pissing someone off. Forget about making everybody happy, you can't even make half of the people happy in your day-to-day life. People just think so differently from each other.
Ideas that seem obvious to one person will seem bizarre to the other, more often than not. We're all full of ideology and warped perceptions of the world around us.
Anarchy suggests that we do best when we follow our own compass and do what we think is right. It's about the idea of community not as a tyrannical enforcer of ideology but as a shared space of common ideals and interests. Eliminating Kratos, the violent enforcement mechanisms of law and justice, to the greatest extent possible.
Living the principles of anarchy means to do what you think is right in each moment, not allowing groupthink to cloud your judgement.
It's a fun mindset to approach life with. Doing what's right on your own terms is a powerful way to live. It has me working on my new album a lot, bringing my best energy to my jobs and my social relationships, and wanting to keep pushing myself to grow and improve with each new day.
I wasn't planning on thinking like an anarchist, it happened by accident.
You can check out Swarmwise here and CrimeThInc here.
With anarchy, you just have distributed enforcement rather than centralized enforcement. Anarchy sounds good when nobody does anything wrong. It is when people perform actions deemed "wrong" from wronged parties, things get messy.
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It is when people perform actions deemed "wrong" from wronged parties, things get messy.
I agree and I think that's true in any society no matter what kind
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We improve day by day, but we never improve enough to please all!
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That's right
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Do we really need labels when we are trying to do our best? I don't know...
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Not really but they can be useful for discussion's sake
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Naaahhhhh... Discussions in the end are all about ego...
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PS: I just read this phase now, that is from a Brazilian musician (Raul Seixas) that says
"disobedience is a necessary virtue to creativity" and your text come into my mind.
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Are you an anarchist when you make love to a woman?
Do you behave like an anarchist when someone who you know dies or gets sick?
Is anarchical desicion in the make when you see an accident and a human in need?
How did your "own compass" came into being? Can you pin down from where the things come you name your own?
Imagine that you have to identify yourself in every moment, every encounter as an anarchist. Try as hard as you can to stick to that. How much meaning does it get?
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