How Anarchy is Systematically Undermined
Anarchy
is a prime target for being torpedoed. It's done so easily. The economic and
political powers that be don't have to destroy Anarchism as a movement. They
simply render it ineffectual by planting people who ridicule anything that
doesn't sound like what they want things to sound like and they want it to
sound like monotonous, droning, ever-repeating words and phrases
that, having been repeated endless times, become boring, emptied of content,
hypnotic. The petty and weak-willed among you, those who need an
orthodoxy to guide their way, and those who have hitched their entire
identity wagon to Anarchy take their cue from that.
There's
a species of bird, I think it's the cuckoo actually, that will expel any chick
from the nest that doesn't nod exactly as the family does. One errant nod of
the head, and the chick or fledgling is pushed out of the nest before it can
fly. Anarchists, sadly, have been
brought to the lowly emotional and ideological state of the cuckoo - and
you have done so willingly.
They
are instructed to throw out the good and the bad in religion alike so that no
one is left who cultivates humility or attempts to suppress their ego or
attempts to practice unconditional love.
They so
easily play on your ego. If someone doesn't behave properly, feel free to feel
one up by calling them "annoying", or worse.
The
momentary satisfaction of feeling superior to someone is more valuable to too
many of you than the Anarchist movement and all the hope it holds out. And that
is why you're ineffectual.
Nuance
is more important to you than substance and that is why the Anarchist movement
is fractured to the point of being crippled.
One
Israeli Anarchist's recent behavior toward me is typical. Rather than
celebrating the fact that there is another Anarchist in Israel, we are a very
rare breed, and reaching out to me in solidarity; he wrote me a snide little
post because I didn't immediately go into a harangue about the wall and all
Anarchists must do that - it's the nod, you know, everyone *knows* that.
He's
one of those Jewish Anarchists who need to prove himself to the Gentiles. My
feeling is to say to him: lose the inferiority complex, Jew boy. They can feel
your desperation and it's embarrassing to us who aren't doing figure eights to
be accepted.
It's
not my way to concern myself with individual expressions of what's wrong. I do the systems analysis of how the rich and
powerful work and articulate what's wrong to others. That's my style, my particular talent and my
potential contribution if you'll recognize it as such. I know that there are people that are much
better at details than I, and I am confident that they will carry out their
tasks, in accordance with their talents and aptitudes, and, in so doing, make
their contributions to The Cause. Their
work complements that of the people who see overall systems. The one does not
contradict the other and most certainly does not impede or devalue the other.
If you'll be wise enough to recognize the contributions that others who think
and work differently than you can make to Anarchy, rather than insisting that
they nod the nod right; you'll realize you've got worthwhile comrades and you
will encourage their dedication. If not, the loss will be to the Anarchist
movement in general and we'll all continue to suffer a while longer.
Too many
of you do not yet understand that the differences in people are their relative
strengths and you most certainly don't know how to make the best of that, how
to utilize those differences, which are strengths as complements and
supplements of one another. The Rothschilds do. Their whole empire is built on that knowledge.
Someone by the name of Davidson sent a letter to Nathan Rothschild on June 24,
1814. In the letter he wrote, "As long as a house is like yours, and as
long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be
able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for
together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world." Saloman (Salmon) Rothschild wrote the following to his
brother Nathan on
There
is another extremely important matter that the Rothschilds
have down pat that the Anarchists have not begun to understand. Reality is this
*and* that, not this *or* that. If you think disjunctively, if you think that
you must line up on one side of an issue or the other, if you can't think
comprehensively – you are the easy prey of those who can. They see all sides
and know how to work them to their best advantage. So must we if we are to
defeat them. We must learn to think conjunctively as they do, in terms of this
*and* that, to be able to handle paradoxes,
to be able to reconcile apparent contradictions - not opportunistically
as they do, but creatively, or we will continue to be their sorry slaves and
unwitting agents of their plots and schemes, that is, to be our own worst
enemies.
The
universe favors and fosters integrated complexes and systems, whether they are
good or bad. Those who can form a complex, integrated, cooperating system will
always have the advantage over those who, for the sake of petty ego and the
cheap thrill of squabbles, insist upon being atoms.
Rather
than understanding that if Anarchy is to work there *must* be endless nuance
(not annoyance, nuance), you take any difference you see as a sign that it is
issuing from "a foreign body" and expel it like so much pus.
Anarchy
is a great and noble undertaking and vision.
Pettiness
and greatness of character both reside within the sphere of human possibility,
with the former being the easier of the two options, admittedly. Yet, both can be encouraged and brought to
greater degrees of expression. *You* allow
those who would manipulate you by encouraging your innate pettiness to do so.
You can make the choice to listen to the few who urge you on to greatness. That is what I am attempting to do in writing
this. Be smart enough to recognize something intended for your well being.
The
petty are wholly unfit for Anarchy. The people pulling the money strings know
this. That is why they plant people among you who make being sarcastic and
jaded look sophisticated and cool. But they are not wholly to blame. Your willingness
to go along with it is your culpability and cooperation with the powers that be
and yours alone.
If you
cannot, or will not, become great; you deserve to be oppressed and
controlled and downtrodden and impoverished and humiliated and brainwashed
until such time as you have had enough and are prepared to swallow the
"bitter pill" of cultivating humility and unconditional love for
another Anarchist.
First
effect a revolution in your own hearts and psyches and at the very least be able to overcome the momentary pleasure of a cheap
put-downs for the sake of solidarity. Only then will you begin to be fit to
call yourselves Anarchists.
Doreen
Ellen Bell-Dotan,