Eu sou Anarquista
June 2011
“It is misleading to say: Progress should be organized. What is really productive cannot be put into forms made in advance; it flourishes only in unrestricted freedom.”
— Eduard Spranger (via liberationfrequency)
“We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.”
—Lucy Parsons (via liberationfrequency)
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The food industry burns nearly a fifth of all the petroleum consumed in the United States (about as much as automobiles do). Today it takes between seven and ten calories of fossil fuel energy to deliver one calorie of food energy to an American plate. And while it is true that organic farmers don’t spread fertilizers made from natural gas or spray pesticides made from petroleum, industrial organic farmers often wind up burning more diesel fuel than their conventional conterparts: in trucking bulky loads of compost across the countryside and weeding their fields, a particularly energy-intensive process involving extra irrigation (to germinate the weeds before planting) and extra cultivation.
All told, growing food organically uses about a third less fossil fuel than growing it conventionally, according to David Pimentel, though that savings disappears if the compost is not produced on site or nearby. Yet growing the food is the least of it: only a fifth of the total energy used to feed us is consumed on the farm; the rest is spent processing the food and moving it around.
“The every day activity of slaves reproduces slavery”
— Fredy Perlman (via liberationfrequency)
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Make no mistake, every intellectual concept, which each one of us finds merit with, is the result of a cultural information influence, one way or another. The environment is a self-perpetuating programming process, and just like designing a software program for your computer, each human being is, advertently and inadvertently, programmed into their world view. To continue the analogy, the human brain is a piece of hardware and the environment around you constitutes the programming team, which creates the values and perspective.
Every word you know has been taught to you one way or another, and thus, every concept and belief you have is a result of this same influence. Jacque Fresco once asked me, “How much of you is you?” The answer, of course, is kind of a paradox, for either nothing is me, or everything is me, when it comes to the information I understand and act upon.
Information is a serial process, meaning the only way that a human being can come up with any idea is through taking in dependent information that allows that idea to be realized. We appear to be culturally programmed from the moment we come into this world to the moment we die, and I’m not going to drill in it much more than that.
” —Peter Joseph (via zeitgeistmovement)
“The first man who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, “This is mine.” and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. How many crimes, how many wars, how many murders, how many misfortunes and horrors would that man have saved the species, who pulling up stakes or filling up the ditches, should have cried to his fellows, “Beware of listening to this impostor. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the Earth belong to us all, and the Earth itself, to nobody.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (via zeitgeistmovement)
“Each individual, each association, commune, or province, each region and nation, has the absolute right to determine its own fate, to associate with others or not, to ally itself with whomever it will, or break any alliance, without regard to so-called historical claims or the convenience of its neighbour.”
—Mikhail Bakunin (via liberationfrequency)
“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.”
—Ludwig von Mises. (via 18goingon80)
“A mais profunda raiz do fracasso em nossas vidas é pensar, Como sou inútil e fraco. É essencial pensar poderosa e firmemente, Eu consigo, sem ostentação ou preocupação.”
—Dalai Lama
Greek Default: A Game of Euro-chicken? →
anarkismo.net
“The big bad ECB wolf is a-huffing and a-puffing but the first of the three little pigs is showing no signs of surrendering just yet. And behind the spectacle of the Greek populace standing up against its government and the core EU powers, lurks a recent historical shadow - a spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Yugoslavia. — Today Greece is the target of pressure and brinkmanship by the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund who are holding back the next installment in the so-called “bailout” agreed last year. The payment of €12 billion was originally scheduled for this month and without it Greece will default on repaying its existing bonds due for redemption on Jul 15.”
Well-written and informed, with clear and concise explanations of the current economic situation of Europe, and especially Greece, and the interests of capital and State in trying to impose their agenda on the Greek people. Definitely an informative read.
