Good evening Internet people and Happy Friday! Or most likely Saturday by the time you’re reading this. Maybe Sunday? Well as long as you’re reading it I don’t care what day it is frankly. I’ve had a fairly productive day and now it’s time for me to tell you what’s on my mind. ''
Weeds. That’s what’s on my mind. I have a love hate relationship with weeds. I’m sure a lot of gardeners do. Yes, they are troublesome in the garden, but I admire that. Hell some are even deadly if you touch them, but I can’t be mad at them for that. Most people don’t like it when someone touches them uninvited, and they respond in a wide range of fashions, some of which can be deadly. So who are we to judge a plant? But that’s just my opinion. I care more about plants that I care about most people. Because people couldn’t exist without plants. In fact, I wouldn’t doubt that plants created animals in the first place. They are much more intelligent than most humans give them credit for.. Take Morning Glory, for example. People call it “Bindweed” out here because it effectively binds itself to other plants. Making it hard to remove without damaging the other plant. That’s smart right there. I don’t care how you are. Then there’s Himalayan Blackberries, which will literally fight you as you’re trying to chop them. But they do have berries on them. And some people grow Morning Glory on purpose. It does have pretty flowers and you can apparently shade your house with it.
I’ve heard it said that a weed is a plant that’s where you don’t want it to be. Me, I prefer to think of them as plants that don’t listen. And I admire that. They are the barbarians of Kingdom Plantae! The bandits, the pirates, the gangsters. How can I not like them? Frankly, I find it comforting to know that nature will always assert itself, no matter how much we try to control her.. Same with people. Many don’t like being told what to do. That’s why making things illegal doesn’t make them go away. That’s why tougher penalties don’t bring down crime rates. Some people legitimately don’t give a fuck. And I like that because it keeps the state occupied. Less time they have to sit around and think of more ways to fuck with the rest of us. Of course, they use criminals as on excuse to fuck wiith everyone anyway., don’t they?
And that’s why the people can not rely on a tip down authoritarian system to meet their needs. Even if you get some semblance of a choice in who gets to to be on top, whoever is on top will make sure there’s more for them and less for everyone else. Even a program like the Liberals beloved New Deal. White Liberals think it’s the best thing since gluten free, vegan, organic sliced bread. And it did do a lot of good….. For white people. And it fucked over a lot of black people in the bargain. Creating exclusively white suburbs, which white workers would gradually begin fleeing to. Of course the white workers were already making more money than the black workers, so they took it all with them. Then sat back in judgement as they started to decline. Of course now white people are starting to come back to the cities. Acting like saviors, but what they’re really doing is buying up cheap land and then bringing the property value up so nobody else can afford to live there.. And then they wonder why nobody cares when they lose their jobs. .
But that’s all the good that authoritarianism does in the long run. Unfortunately, most people throughout history who’ve resisted it were killed. I can just be grateful that my family wasn’t among them. We came to North America as pirates, and never really lost the outlaw nature. OF course that comes with it’s own set of baggage. Lot’s of alcoholism and violence and other bad things. But, that nature can be traveled for good things as well. That’s why today I’m a punk rock, permaculture pirate who writes blogs titled “Fuck it, before it fuck’s you.”