06:39 am - the rational anarchist
The rational anarchist is NOT a socialist.

Socialism is a scientific theory Statist in nature: the socialist without question seeks that the rule of the system of laws that make up socialism eventually rule. It is totalitarian: socialists want nothing less than the whole world to be ruled by their philosophy. They can say it's anarchosocialism if they want to.

The rational anarchist is OBVIOUSLY not a Satanist. Satanists in part come from religious tyranny: many people have turned to this 'dark side' because they make a flawed logic leap afyer rejecting the tyranny of established religions that fail to provide anything they have offered. But the rational anarchist realises that evil will never give them any real freedom.

The rational anarchists accepts that governments exist: and further sees that hating and denying the right of people to desire government cripples the objectives of anarchists. There is no where to hide, no niche. People -- many people feel that government is necessary: the rational anarchist will work with these people -- when they, as is occasionally if not always, the case, are rational and above board -- for a long run goal of more freedom and peace.

naturally the rational anarchist is a rare person. It requires deep thought and deep feeling -- perhaps compassion is a prerequisite. the more militant and conformist have in the past flocked to the safety in numbers that are the Bolshevik derivatives: these are already "set up" so to speak: little innovation or creativity is necessary to be a socialist. Marx and those other mysterious people who laid the architecture for the Bolshevik derivatives have done all the hard thinking: all the socialist is left to do is follow the script.

But this isn't contributing to anarchism and will in all likelihood never really will contribute to anarchism: as any survivor of the Russian Soviet could tell you: as anyone reading the history of life in Russia under the rule of the Societs could ruelfully describe.

(oh, cheer up. the great thing about anarchism ius that it is LIBERATIONG: you are aloowed to change your mind and allow new realisations to move you. you can even make new friends)
The rational anarchist has their hands full. Nihilism is a dead end for them; its depressed pessimism is more like a pathology or a symptom of imbalance, an intellectual giving up completely than the willful urge for autonomy that is anarchism, the desire to live freely. The rational anarchist has learned, if anything, to see through the subtle deceptions of those who would rule in the modern world, the economic statists who create arbitrary standards of measuring human effort (a cash system that has not been based on a fixed precious metal standard for decades). The rational anarchist must think AND feel and deal patiently with the many people who have given up their mental autonomy -- "think for ourselves? Why? That's what Government's for!"

the rational anarchist has no individual enemies: the ratioanl anarchist has ideological enemies that include racism, child abuse, misogyny. These ideological enemies to a peaceful and tranquil world culture the rational anarchist realises are no one's friends, and do not even truly serve their proponents. Raising consciousness and exposing lies for what they really are are tools the rational anarchist can add to a deep desire for a peaceful world.

Wars do not benefit the rational anarchist. The rational anarchist of 2004 does not say "the world is on the verge of becoming a police state" -- the rational anarchist of 2004 acceps that the world has BEEN a police state since time immemorial. (the rational anarchist knows that those national boundaries are illusions used to divide and control human beings, but acknowledges that people believe in those illusory boundaries)
each established nation on earth with very few exceptions was established via military brutality, generally in a past that has been almost forgotten by most people, and is told of in "histories" by the military victors: thus the police states are strengthened. The police state is always a hindrance to the rational anarchists desire for more freedom: the rational anarchist calmly realises that the more people desire true freedom and do not confuse it with the vetry limited, spooned and doled out almost-freedom of the military/police state, the greater the level of personal freedom the rational anarchist can hope to eventually enjoy.

But it's obvious that the rhetoric of the militaristic is useless and actually a limitation to the long range desires of the rational anarchist. "We can beat them" and "this is a war we can win" and "we'll take back what's rightfully ours" and other miltaristic rhetoric are useless to the rational anarchist: who sees that those who wield power use such "fighting words" to manipulate millions.

In the states ruled by Constitutional Republic this sort of violent rhetoric -- "we'll do the killing for you: you just give us your obeisance and tax money" -- decieves millions into accepting the rule of the military industroal complex year after year and passes itself off as "democracy" -- in which the voice of the people is the voice of the Divine presnece and meant to be respected.

the ratonal anarchist understands how those who were in another era royalty have changed into economic monarchs with disguised intentions of despotic rule: this is why being rational and looking at things long term rather than screaming for revolutions that have already failed to produce meaningful change is the methodology of the rational anarchist. (Re: the American Revolution: won by violence, and creating the slave/police state that has been the USA since 1789.)

Rational anarchists want to raise awareness. Actually valuing and believing in concepts and values such as liberty, justice for all and freedom more than the representatives of Constitutional Republic (pseudo-democracy), the rational anarchist knows that in the long run if people choose freedom it is far more valueable than if they feel coerced, threatened or "guilted" into it.

Some may view this acceptance of things as they are as compromise. But the rational anarchist knows that many people in the Constitutional Republics believe that they have Democratic governments. Even Plato recognized that Democracy leads to anarchic living conditions: which is why the modern proponents of Economic Statism and Constiutional Republic present their philosophy as Democracy. but it is not and has never actually been. trhe first electoral college in the USA took the decisions out of teh hands of the masses (vox populi) and put them into the hands of a small council who ruled in the place of the people.

In true democracy, the tool or referendum is used very very often. In 2002 referendum would have been used to poll the people as to whether or not the United States' resources were to be used for a war. This did not happen because the United States is a Constitutional Republic that comes very close to being a theocracy. (when the alleged Christians of the United States call the religious people of other monotheist practices "religious extremists"; something telling is occurring, but what?)

Obstacles to rational anarchism are many and include the rampant anti-intellectualism that hiders American thought to this day. Nonetheless the rational anarchist recognize that on a cosmic scale, nothing endures but change, and that trends of today can be washed away very very quickly by realisation, insight and intuition.

(so what.)