I believe that anarchism is not merely an economic system, it is a way of life, a way of interacting on an individual level and a community level, it is a value structure that is based on love and respect, surely, somewhere at its heart must lie "spirituality".
PINNACLE OF EVOLUTION.
There’s a crazy ape, who
by means of incredible intransigence
has mastered the art of carnage;
through dogged determination
in a ruthless rampage
raised the body-count beyond belief.
This crazy ape
creates the human chronicles
as a cruel callous calendar,
transforms our indulgent earth
into a primitive barbaric abattoir.
He struts across the land
with bumptious pride;
he’s destructive, he’s devious,
demands dominion
planet wide.
His claim to fame,
history immortalised in rivers of blood.
Even so,
this crazy ape called man, believes
he’s the GODS’ sublime solution,
progress’s perfection,
the pinnacle of evolution.
Towards An Anarchist Spirituality...
“They therefore invented an idea of
"primitive man" as a being whose total intelligence was supposed to
consist in some rudimentary fumblings towards the kind of wisdom
monopolized by Western civilization. Hardly dreaming that there are
other and highly developed types of intelligence and wisdom, as well as
different life/goals, than those contemplated by Western man, these
anthropologists found only what their prejudices enabled them to see.
Their premise was that their own culture as the "latest" in time
represented the height of evolution. Earlier cultures must therefore be
elementary forms of "modern” culture, and their degree of civilization
and intelligence had to be estimated by the degree to which their values
approximated to modern values.” – Alan Watts Myth and Ritual in Christianity
To begin with, this quote by
philosopher Alan Watts is in reference, immediately, to Christianity
and it’s origins, it’s colonialist imperative but also applies more
broadly to modern culture as a whole. I would find it hard to not relate
critique of modern culture to Christianity, being that it has been, if
not the most dominate religion of the past 500 years,could be called the
most dominating with it’s imperative of conquest and control. We have
seen in our lifetimes alone, a massive amount of repression, genocide,
ecological devastation and oppression under the flag of divine right.
From the conquest of the west to the colonization of the east (read
Phillipines, South Korea, Australia, etc.) at the hands of not only the
Church as an institution, but the force of will of “good” Christian
missionaries, paving the way for development and providing reformist
cleanup after genocide wrenches it’s deadly claim.
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