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Times New Roman
ArialDear One and All
What is typical of an anarchist is that not only does he send
attachments, but he can't bloody well spell 'anarchy'!
'Roots Anarchy' follows for your delectation and delight (!) - and
almost with the right layout too!!
John
Times New RomanRoots Anarchy
Do you remember
Burning Spear’s
‘Days of Slavery’
with its refrain
‘Do you remember the days of slavery?’
Do you then remember
your history
your identity
as an Ethiopian
as a free individual
in primal Ethiopia
in these days of slavery?
Or do you then remember
that all labour
is forced labour
that all labour
is hard labour
that then as now
we all live in
the days of slavery?
Do you remember
the empire
(Latin im-, upon, over
parare, to make ready, order
(...the enlarging
of the bounds of
Human Empire,
to the effecting of
all things possible
(the endeavour to
establish and extend
the power and dominion
of the human race itself
over the universe
F. Bacon
in these days of slavery?
Do you remember
‘Rule Britannia’
with its refrain
‘Britons
nevereverever
shall be slaves’
that rising hysterical
emphatic
nevereverever
Never?
never ever?
never ever ever?
Not even in
the days of slavery?
Do you remember
your roots, slave
(Greek, slave
a Slav
a Slavonian captive)
living in captivity
in the house of bondage
in the house of pain
your identity
your freedom
your autonomy
your creativity
your gifts
your uniqueness
your difference
your will
your desire
erased
in
the days of slavery?
Do you remember
that in chattel slavery
the chattel,
dispossessed,
becomes
a possession
and
belongs to
the master
but in wage slavery
the worker,
dispossessed,
becomes
a possession
who can choose
to belong to
as many masters
as desired
and call that freedom
in
the days of slavery?
Do you remember
that
(Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,
except as a punishment for crime,
whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted,
shall exist in the United States,
or any place subject to their jurisdiction
I3th Amendment, US Constitution
but
the will to slavery or voluntary servitude
shall exist
in every place subject to jurisdiction
(It is the people who enslave themselves,
who cut their own throats:
who having the choice
of being vassals or freemen,
reject their liberty,
and submit to the yoke,
who consent to their own evil,
or rather procure it
(Let us then conjecture ...
how this obstinate desire of slavery
has so far taken root,
that it would seem
at present
the love itself of liberty
were not so natural
La Boetie, Discourse on Voluntary
Servitude
in these days of slavery?
Do you remember
the need to remember
(It is incredible,
how suddenly the people,
the moment they are enslaved,
fall into so profound a forgetfulness
of their freedom,
that it is not possible for them
to rouse themselves up
to regain it,
serving so easily and willingly,
that one who sees them
might be tempted to say,
that they had not lost their liberty.
but their servitude
It is true,
at first, they serve by constraint,
subdued by force;
but those who come afterwards,
having never seen liberty,
and not knowing what it is,
obey without regret,
and do willingly
that which their fathers
did by constraint
So it is,
that when men are born under the yoke,
and afterwards brought up and
educated in slavery,
without looking forward,
contenting themselves to live
in the condition in which they were born,
and thinking they have no right
or other good but what they found at first,
they look upon the state of their birth
as their natural state
La Boetie
in the days of slavery?
Do you remember
how Power
uproots us
and carries us away
into captivity
/captivation
/deprivation
exhausting
decentring
unbalancing
entangling
us
in distractions and diversions
in word-drunkenness and mind-wandering
stunting imagination
stymieing creativity
deforming activity
through
inhibition
as much as
prohibition
until we become
mere things
lost in things
lost in a world of things
in the days of slavery?
Do you remember
your roots
your rootedness
in the here and now
in the biological centre of the individual
(Nietzsche)
(existence precedes essence (Sartre)
in my one flesh
in the creative nothing,
the nothing out of which I myself as creator
create everything (Stirner)
in original mind
in visionary imagination
(the imagination of the insurrection
in energy
(energy is eternal delight (Blake)
in the marvellous
in creative spontaneity & creative spontaneity
in the web of life
in the ebbs and flows
in anarchy
Lacking this memory
this knowledge
this rootedness
practice errs
insurgency fails
so do not forget
To travel the
roads to freedom
is to trace
the routes to recovery
roots recovery
the recovery of roots
the restoration of equilibrium
(There are always some ...
who are sensible of the weight of the yoke
and cannot refrain from throwing it off,
who can never become tame in subjection,
but ... cannot help reflecting
on their natural privileges, and remembering
their predecessors and former condition
These are the men who
having clear understandings,
and sharp sighted wits,
are not satisfied with the bulk of the people,
in looking only where they step,
but likewise take a view of
what is before and behind them,
and recall the memory of things past
to compare with the present,
and make a judgment of the future
These men,
were liberty entirely lost and out of the world,
conceiving it,
and finding it in their own minds,
and charmed with its lovely image,
could never relish servitude,
how finely soever it might be dressed up
La Boetie
These are
the uncontrollables
the men and women
who
create the impossible
those for whom the
thousand flowering
micro-insurrections
of everyday life
are not enough,
and whose projects
aim to eradicate
Power in all its forms
and burn the productive forces
in their quest
to recover
their roots
in these days of slavery?
Do you remember
that you are living in
the world of living objects
that you are a living object
until you rebel
and overthrow power and dominion
that these are still
the days of slavery?
John Moore
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