We in the West are not nearly as free as we are taught to believe.
We don't have government of, by & for the people, which is Orwellian newspeak for government of, by & for the elites, to which #AbrahamLincoln himself (a lawyer) belonged.
We don't have government of, by & for the people, which is Orwellian newspeak for government of, by & for the elites, to which #AbrahamLincoln himself (a lawyer) belonged.
https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1245600212111872002?s=20
Our elites & other favoured clients of the state enjoy a lot of apparent freedom, because of their relative wealth, but in reality we are ALL enslaved - rich & poor, Black & White, high & low IQ alike - to #BigBrother & #TheMatrix of state & capital.
Most especially, those of us who are White are NOT free to express any sense of racial identity & solidarity we may feel, without being accused of #WhiteSupremacy, while other racial/ethnic groups ARE free to do so.
#BigBro has always sought to undermine the bonds of tribe & kinship, in order to claim people's loyalty for himself. Thus were the tribes & kingdoms of medieval England united into a single kingdom & #NationState, which in 1707 merged with Scotland to form Great Britain.
It was from this mercenary #PatronState, deceitfully posing as a nation, in order to legitimise itself, its ruling elites & the immense power they wielded & abused, that the American colonies won their independence in 1776.
It is by posing as our nation that BigBrother tricks us into loving him (no need for torture, as there was in Orwell's 1984).
It was the founding fathers hope & intention that America would become a genuine nation forged from different European peoples of the same race.
It was the founding fathers hope & intention that America would become a genuine nation forged from different European peoples of the same race.
This they knew would be difficult enough, without trying to included other races, which would be impossible. It is why they restricted citizenship to Whites.
But instead of becoming a genuine nation, America became a bigger, more powerful mercenary patron state that Britain.
But instead of becoming a genuine nation, America became a bigger, more powerful mercenary patron state that Britain.
Having liberated themselves briefly from the British Big Brother, an American Big Brother formed & asserted itself in Britain's place, most decisively in the Civil War, which was fought to preserve the unity & POWER of the federal state, i.e. of Big Brother.
Americans are, of course, taught a very different narrative, as are the British.
But I must leave it up to you to decide which narrative you find the more truthful.
But I must leave it up to you to decide which narrative you find the more truthful.
The question is, how are we to liberate ourselves from our enslavement to BigBro & the Matrix of state & capital?
Firstly, we (especially academics) have to recognise our enslavement, & develop an understanding of it. Something I have made a start on doing.
Firstly, we (especially academics) have to recognise our enslavement, & develop an understanding of it. Something I have made a start on doing.
Such an understanding should liberate us emotionally from viewing the state as our nation. Only then can we begin work on our material liberation, which will involve organising OURSELVES, peacefully, legally & grassroots-democratically into GENUINE communities & nations.
We can't do away with the state (BigBro), as anarchists naively thought, because we depend on it, not least to enforce the rule of law & non-violence. We have to radically reform & repurpose it, from facilitating society's self-exploitation to facilitating it's self-realisation.
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