ENOUGH WITH THE ON-LINE HIQ INTERNATIONAL
ENOUGH WITH THE ON-LINE INTELLECTUAL WHINE AND CHEESE PARTY
ALREADY!!!
The net is full of whine and cheesy
posts and I'm getting nauseous from it already.
Many of you post a lot of "Isn't fascism getting ridiculous?"
posts. Obviously you're disturbed by what's going down around you - so you
brandish your keyboard and post a link. When you really go ballistic, you
get sarcastic or sardonic. The ubiquitous injustice hurts you - but not quite
enough.
What are you going to DO about where your country is going besides being a
total limp dick and posting outrage after outrage on the net? How about a bit
of uprising? (Nice pun, Doreen)
How about organizing demonstrations of the HIQ community? How's about
organizing to brainstorm about what can be DONE to ameliorate the
conditions for Joe Citizen?
The internet was invented:
1) the
better to disseminate State-sanctioned modes of thinking, values, fnords and clichés
2) to
provide the masses with the illusion that they are doing something when they
post
3) to
monitor what people are thinking when they go for the bait described in point
(2)
By doing nothing and merely posting
you are playing right into their hands. You are providing them with the
information they want from YOU and effecting NOTHING.
The mega-message that you're sending is: I don't like what I see, but I'm a wuss who can't do anything about it but write. Governments
LOVE emasculated intellectuals.
Observe Bakunin. Observe Louise Michel. Observe
Emma Goldman (it is said that she never went to a speaking engagement without
taking a book so that when she was hauled off to jail she had something to
read). Observe Margaret Sanger. Observe Gustav Landauer.
They were intellectuals, surely of stature not less than yours. They wrote, to
be sure, and if they were alive today they would, no doubt, avail themselves of
the internet. But they principally took ACTION. They were people of action
first and foremost. They put not only their brains at the disposal of the masses
but also put their asses on the line for the sake of others. They didn't
bellyache. When they wrote it was to enlighten the masses and galvanize them
into a formidable force, not in order to alleviate their conscience and not in
order to express themselves in such a way as to keep themselves safe. They
acted. They took personal risks. They were, in a word, REAL intellectuals.
Now excuse me. I have to go back to working on the program for revision of
Israel's electoral system that I've been batting my head against a wall for
months working out with other intellectuals in a number of countries who are,
like me, dedicating their lives to the real bettering of conditions of the
citizens of their respective countries.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan,