Being American

I have a project I have wanted to work on for a very long time: an exploration of what genocide is, a visceral environmental experience of the true horror of the loss of humanity.  I, sadly, can never complete this project: the subject is too raw for my soul to deal with, and it would more than likely destroy me.

This thought flows through to bring to mind the video of the song "Beast of America" by Nico Vega. Fair warning, there are very disturbing images shown here.



We have in the american psyke a drive to prove ourselves worthy of the revolution.  It's not expressed the same way with everyone, but somewhere, somehow, everyone I have ever met whom identifies as American is driven as if they must prove themselves worthy.  I'm not sure what that means in general, but I do know this: It often is expressed amongst the liberty movement in a militantly defensive fashion.  A sense of "I will stand for freedom!" Several times in my life, I have had to convince a person of just how bad an idea armed resistance is.

Here's a tip: IT'S A BAD IDEA.

This is not about the logistics of the idea, or the implementation or anything like that.  This is about just how mind-numbingly stupid it is to promote violence in pursuit of a peaceful society.  Forget the horror of death and dismemberment; Forget the pain and pestilence that will come to the innocent; and forget all romantic visions of a heroic revolution leading to a future utopia.

Guess what folks: Modern USA is the looked for Republic.  That concept must be hammered in.

Do we have problems?  Oh yeah, we have issues to deal with.

Do we have a persistent slide towards a fascistic future should we do nothing?  Yup, that's there too.

What is forgotten is what we had before this experiment in representational-ism began.  We were ruled by kings.  We were subjects of the crown as ordained by God and ritualized in right of arms.  Feudalism did not exist in the brutally bloody sense we have from the movies and fiction, but it was literally ownership of humans by other humans based on the station of our births.

There is also a fantasy of the American Revolution that it came from nothing: we were going along and then "FREEDOM!" was cried and then we fought a war and the constitution was handed down by Gods.  That ain't it.  If that is what you feel, you need to read a few books about the nearly two centuries of self-governance that existed in North America before the Colonial Rebellion.

Back to my original point on Armed Resistance.  If your goal is a free society based on respect for individual rights, how exactly can you justify the use of coercion to have your way?  How, in this blessed Universe can any form of killing lead to anything but more killing?  Where in your twisted fantasy can murder, no matter how just the cause, be anything more than murder?

Seriously people, I would like to know.

We live in a time and place which is honestly blessed.  There is nothing standing between you and your ability to speak. There are no boundaries in society which cannot be crossed by perseverance.  There are no political ideas which cannot by spoken about and tried.

Every 2 years we change who makes our laws. Every 4 years we elect a new king.

WE ELECT A NEW KING.

What about that concept does not strike you as radical?  What about that process does not seem revolutionary enough?  How can you sit there, screaming into the computer screen about justice, and then not take action at any level of the political discourse and still call yourself a patriot?  The Founders were not spontaneously vomited out onto the world stage: they were people who had worked for years in their own towns and colonies to make the gears of self-governance work.  There was nothing miraculous about the continental congress, it was the colonies sending a bunch of their politicians to one place to talk to each other, THAT'S IT.  Imagine your town council member being sent to Wyoming to chat about a problem and then, as things got worse and worse, having that TOWN COUNCIL member signing a charter of human freedom, throwing off the bonds of your God-Given Soveign and calling for war.

This would Jim-Bob, the guy that fixes your car when it breaks down, calling for war against your King.

If you truly want to be worthy of the revolutionary nature of America, you must run for office, work to get a law changed, or just go to your local government meetings and argue.  You want to be worthy of self-governance and representational-ism?  Then fucking go self-govern and Represent!  Ain't hard!  It's right there! Down the FUCKING BLOCK!

GO BE A GODDAMN AMERICAN!