It is curious, to say the least, that laws are widely respected, when they are made by the same figures that, every four years, we see smiling on billboards, in electoral advertisements, and that, sporadically, we see in the police news handcuffed and arrested for leading scandals. In other words: the laws, conceived in the midst of the same mud responsible for sending some unfortunate ones to jail, are and must be respected as if they were a moral imperative. Undoubtedly, there is something comical in all this, and the obscenity with which the flock is enslaved and remains passive is laughable, when this pornography called law should more sensibly inspire a perennial state of revolt and insubordination.
Category: Notes
Anarchism Is Noble
Anarchism is noble as a manifestation of revolt against the unjust and usurping power relations on which society rests. Men like Stirner, Thoreau, and Proudhon denounce and demolish all the hypocrisy that covers the false arguments that sustain the exploitation of liberties. These are men who flatly refuse to accept as normal a state of systematic abuse in which, on the one hand, a few usurpers enjoy, and on the other, the powerless usurped suffer. Such men are, to say like Nietzsche, free spirits, who would not think twice about preferring death to an existence of dishonor and slavery.
Modern Democracies
Modern democracies have brought together all the most devious means ever invented by the human mind and have materialized a supreme and unprecedented ode to hypocrisy. This much-acclaimed system, whose criticism is inadmissible and may earn a place in jail, boils down to a tyranny that only grows stronger as the years go by. A tyranny, therefore, a legitimate system, but oppressive, unjust and cruel. The individual, who has absolutely no part in it, has to swallow it and finance it, even in the face of unacceptable abuses and absurdities, watching, gagged and with his hands tied, the perpetuation of a will that can be manipulated and is effectively manipulated by scoundrels, a will contrary to his interests. For everything that once seemed unattainable to the most shameless of tyrants, today there are sure means of execution, and so it seems that souls, more than ever, are submitted and unable to react.
Having a “Cause” and Wanting to Impose It
There is a remarkable difference between having a “cause” and wanting to impose it on the rest of men. It is possible to say, at first, that this difference is character. But it can also be said that the more the feeling inspired by the “cause” is true, the more its “benefits” are clear in the mind of the one who has it, the more will be the natural impulse to want other men to have it too, or to “enjoy” it. Here, then, we come to the imposition. There is no way to interpret it, regardless of how it is practiced, or how it is founded, if not as a primary violation, a direct attack on the freedom of the individual. The imposition will never be noble, and after the tyranny has been perpetrated, those who have suffered it can no longer be called free men.