anarchy, in definition, means no government. so, i lied, i'm no little anarchist. i'm a little anarchist, in the sense that i agree, a little bit. i'm not happy with government, i'm not happy with restrictions, i do not do well with authority or with rules. this is a personal problem.
i don't know what made me this way, i don't know if it was born or raised. but i am all about pissing on the police, respecting only those who show respect, doing what i want because i think i am responsible enough to make my own decisions about the safety of others. yeah, hiccups happen, this is life though.
i think i stress enough about getting into college, i think i stress enough about keeping my job, i think i worry enough about the economy and our government. i think i deserve to come home and relax, i think i deserve to live without a babysitter or big brother, i think i can do what i want. i am a functioning human being with a sense for right and wrong, that's what should matter.
i am a civil disobedient. i will never comply with something i don't agree with. i will get arrested for what i believe in. i will shit my pants in the process, but fuck you if you think you can make me respect the law. fuck the law, i will never let a "higher up" decide what is best for me. if i feel like having a glass of wine at the dinner table, by god, i will fucking drink it.
i would greatly suggest everyone to read the essay "Civil Disobedience" by Henry Thoreau. What Thoreau was trying to say with this essay, that if one doesn't agree with a law, then they don't have to obey it, in fact, they should disobey it in a nonviolent fashion/ They should do what they feel right, even though they are breaking a law and could get arrested. A direct example of this would be Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. it pretty much explains exactly how i feel about the government. well here is the gist of it:
- "but, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, i ask for, not at once no-government, but at one a better government."
- "a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it... Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator?"
- "I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right."
- "I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority... Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail."
- "A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
- "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them."
- "I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night... I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and bones, to be locked up... As they could not reach me, they resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. I saw that the State was half-witted... and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it."
- "Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced."
- "They force me to become like themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?"
- "I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society."
- "I perceive that when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."
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