Thursday, March 30, 2017

language

If there is one way to see the footprint of any empire, it's through its language. Spreading as far as their territories. Language is a powerful thing, because it tells us how we think. If we have no word for a thought, then that thought becomes new. However, if we have been taught words for such a thought, then that thought becomes those words, unless we learn new words.

That's the poison of an imperialist language. It teaches us words to make certain thoughts forbidden. To make us fear those thoughts, and fear ourselves. And when we fear ourselves, we become our own enemy. So we remain silent, and we fight ourselves on their behalf. Constantly repeating the mantras of oppression until the questions become silent.

Right now, the fight of language has begun. We see a new generation of revolutionary ideas meet ourselves, and their language is fighting it. This is a fight that's been going on for almost a century. Before, people didn't understand the value of language. Our rulers had only the smallest clue of its influences. Today it dominates us with great invasiveness. It manufactures a reality that justifies bleakness. It presents ideals to make that reality necessary. The biggest victory in is fight, is the victory of the self. To understand ourselves and what our needs are. To understand how the bourgeoisie have taken those needs and replaced them with their own. When we speak to a reactionary, then we speak to a tragic being. A being that's bound by the language of his masters.

It is only through the realisation of this language, through critical thought and self reflection that we can begin to develop a revolutionary discipline. It is only then that we see how they hold ourselves, and our loved ones hostage for toil and servitude. When we see that law is not an argument from moral identity, order or rational thought. But rather an argument from the gun hanging at the oppressor's belt. There is no debating the law. There is no understanding the law. The law is pitiless to people who have no choice but to break it. The law says that the gunpowder of the state is holy retribution, and the gunpowder of the people is a poison of terror.

When a reactionary hears this, their language tells us that the law is there for our benefit, and that the law keeps an order for us all. The only context in which this applies, is in the context of words spoken by the state. It is their law, and their order. Poverty, war, colonies and repression are not order at all. This is manufactured chaos. Chaos that can't be justified as a misfortune or accident of nature. But a chaos far more dangerous, that's been designed to perfection to kill and silence anyone who stands in the way of the law.

This is where new language is formed. When we examine the law in this way, we quickly begin to realise that the law is anarchy, the highest anarchy. Where no inhibitions of any kind, justified or otherwise, hold back the destructiveness of mankind.

And so to reconcile this anarchy, this state of being, there is only one natural conclusion. Namely the praxis of anarchism. Which is to adapt a circumstance of anarchy, into a circumstance of us. A praxis in which we examine anarchy and see how we influence it to fulfil our needs. The state is simply the amplified institute of a merciless nature. Where the predators are given fangs, and the toothless prey is fenced in for their taking.

So, in my synthesis, those are the two words I want to teach today. Law is anarchy, and anarchism is the discipline of anarchy.

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