The world is in a constant state of
anarchy. Order is imposed on it in the
forms of science, religion and politics, and the individual, for the most part,
accepts it. The ones that don’t are
considered subversive, and while some subvert the system through violence and
self-exclusion from society, the most continue on the same course as those who
accept it. The individual that accepts
the pillars of society accept the power established in the anarchic nature of
the world. American democracy is the
victory of white landowners establishing laws and establishing a mode of
existence for the borders of America that the populations residing within these
borders will accept. This mode of
existence tells the individual to fear anarchy as it is in the existence of
politics’ best interest that no other contender manifests, but nonetheless it
is anarchy repressed by the State. Maybe
the current State is most beneficial for the biggest number inhabitants of the
American continent, but that is not the case when an ecological, spiritual, and
qualitative existence are the lenses that one wears to judge.
Judgment
of something this abstract is the death of the anarchist who is destroyed by
the State by repression or conformity, or is temporarily dispatched to the
realm of the Absurd. The anarchist,
after finding the inherent evil in Power, Control and Authority resists as the
will allows, but the individual is unable to continue resistance indefinitely
and wanders away into a situation that turns the evil into a sick joke. The Absurdist takes the sick joke as a new
Cause and begins it’s dissemination among those around him or through
writing. The sick joke must be told
because an anarchist devoid of the fervor that anarchy provokes is without a
thought-home. The sick joke is Power of
man over anything, and an intense need for ridicule is needed to satisfy the
Absurdist’s ontological dilemma.
And what
an ontological dilemma the Absurdist is faced with! With the critique of Power internalized, the
Absurdist chooses to temporarily ignore the active rejection of Power and
chooses a tactic that is not considered productive in the arsenal of anarchist’s
tactics: ridicule. Rejection is still
carried into the realm of the Absurd, but rejection is voiced in a new light. But this light does not cast the shadow of
productivity that the active anarchist is able to use to keep his mind out of
guilt.
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