So, below you'll find my final response to a particularly annoying douche. if you want to see the whole exchange, here's the link.
I gave you the benefit of a thought out and measured response and once again you came back with arguments that donāt actually address the things Iāve said but rather argue against things youāve decided Iāve said. At no point, either in my post or in my comments, have I said anything that would lead anyone to believe that I want to maintain the status quo, or submit to current definitions of democracy, government, or fairplay. You seem, however, to feel that I must be in support of these things because I donāt believe everything you believe and am therefore to be pitied and or ridiculed.
Soā¦enough. I was going to do another line by line refutation of your nonsense, but you would just seize on the things that you want to (like your complete and utter failure to read my example of anarchy producing new governance as a metaphor, which youād have to be blind to miss and so was clearly on purpose) and ignore that which is inconvenient to your tiny little worldview.
Here, instead, is the shortlist of claims that I have made, first in my article and then in my comments. I have made no other claims or arguments other than these. Refute them if you choose to, or donāt, but if you come back with a lengthy treatise on the virtues and vices of positions I did not take, you will henceforth be ignored as the intellectually fascistic buffoon I now believe you to be.
1. Revolution is needed.
2. The current system is corrupt.
3. Before tearing down the current system, we should first decide what its replacement will look like.
4. The individuals currently rousing others to join this brilliantly motivating movement have not engaged in the planning required by item three.
5. Item 4 is concerning to someone who values life and liberty and doesnāt want to see the world burn for the sake of a good marshmallow bonfire.
6. Things really, really need to change.
7.An individual person can be awesome. People are generally shit.
8. Democracy, true democracy, the Platonic ideal of democracy, is not the system we currently exist under but rather a hoped for ideal. It is the best, most egalitarian system of rule weāve ever come up with. It is not that systemās fault weāre so bad at applying it.
8.Government is not a shadowy abstract, but rather a collective of people trying to exercise power weāve given them and doing a piss poor job. The problem isnāt government but rather our apparent inability to care enough to put the right people in those roles.
9.Anarchy is unsustainable. True anarchy, the Platonic ideal of anarchy (not the wishy washy, pick and choose, everyone be nice to each other because, but otherwise do whatever the fuck you want, anarchy) would last just long enough for those with organizational skill and charisma to form new ways of governing groups. People form groups. Weāre social animals. Just ask Facebook.
10. Any group requires rules to protect the group at large from the whim of the individual. Put more than three people in any room or situation and they will form a hierarchy and rules of engagement. You can call those rules whatever you like, but those of us who care what words actually mean call them law.
11. There is no āsystemā that is responsible for our current predicament. We are responsible. We have abdicated authority, responsibility and free agency in exchange for expensive cars, affordable childcare and iPads. Our greed and apathy have produced or allowed every evil that walks the earth. What you are fighting is people and the creations of people. Not abstractions.
12.If you want to know who the villain is you need only look in the mirror. Anyone trying to pass the buck or defer responsibility for the current state of the world is guilty of the same travesties that they rail against.
13. If revolution is to succeed it has to be more than just a revolution in the streets; it has to be a revolution of mind. We have to decide what is of value and what is not, and sacrifice that which is not so that no one, anywhere, has to go without that which is. That includes money. Yes, even in the form of taxes. Money only has value in what it can be exchanged for. If you feel that you have a right to more money and more things than your neighbour and so shouldnāt have to be taxes, youāre not a revolutionary, youāre not even a philosophically astute spectator. Youāre just an asshole.
Please, please find a way to twist that to suit your agenda of āshit on those who dare question the movement.ā
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