Gary Rumor’s Anti-Entropic Continuum

Busy lives we lead. I rush around and rush around working and coming home and doing this. Slurping on a bowl of Miso and tofu. I finally found a place in Long Beach that sells the big bags of miso paste that you can dab out and throw into a bowl of hot water with cut up green onions and chopped up tofu chunks. It is healthy, tasty and easy to make.

My anarchist buddies Dean and Mitchell are critiquing my insistance that anarchists stand up and count themselves just like libertarians and communists and fascists and democrats and republicans do. I am not some CIA bean counter. Even though the CIA monitors my site and reads it. It is just that I think most anarchists are afraid to face the fact that they are such a small minority and they don’t want to have to deal with such a cold hard reality.
I could understand if these anarchists were part of some super secret underground society out to overthrow the state, then anyone would be justified in refusing to be counted. That is simply inviting repression. But most anarchists are pacifists or at most brick throwers. Property damage is about as far as most anarchists go. Even advocates of armed revolution generally only advocate the general uprising at the time of the general strike, or armed self defense when battling fascists. The vast majority of anarchists are minor property owning members of the former middle classes who are now students, declassed, lumpen proletarian tourists, long term S.S.I. patients, inheritors of some sort of family wealth, disillusioned communists or permanently down classed into the working class like me. Many are middle aged white gay males and females.
There is a new class of anarchists the up from the working classes black and Hispanic inner city youth who have cut their teeth on the streets, in gangs and who have real bonafides are angry youth. This is the class of anarchists that I consider to be the future and hope of anarchism just as in the 70’s and 80’s the punk rock white working classes of England were the hope of anarchism in an earlier generation and the hippie dropouts were in the 60’s and the radical working classes in the syndicalist unions were in the first half of the 20th century especially in Spanish speaking countries.
Today the real anarchist movement is in the streets of Athens and Buenos Aries and Leningrad and who knows where else. I think Mexico City is always a real hope for anarchism. The USA is a dead zone. It is a place where anarchists become corrupted and become social workers after they get out of college. Not all anarchists, but so many do that there is almost no anarchist movement among the thirty and forty something working classes except for a few academics and unstable people. Then you find some dotards in their 50’s and 60’s. The old anarchists from the real anarchist working class movement are all dead. U.Utah Philips was one of the last of that breed. Any others are in nursing homes forgotten elders dreaming of better days.
I dare someone out there to prove me wrong and not with polemics about anarchist desire and how you can’t define an anarchist. I want to see hard factual information. Numbers, and real factual data oriented information.
I am so sick of impressionistic accounts of black bloc’s and autonomists movements taking over cities when they are only one or two info shops and a couple of hundred kids wearing black tee shirts at an anti war demonstration put on by real communists or showing up at a punk concert where their favorite band is playing.
Seriously if you can’t even get it together to keep a store front going in your community then you are not much of a threat to the established order. I mean if Seattle was the high point of north american anarchism then that is not exactly making a revolution.
But this can be said about almost every cult group-let. Communists have fallen into that fringe after once being a party with some influence in this country a real threat. Now Communists are just another fringe group. Even the Green Party, some 40 years after the first Earth Day is barely an influence in the country. It has not even come close to the Communists at their height and they never matched the Socialist Party which had millions of members at the turn of the 20th century.
Not that the ideas have not had an influence. Look at environmentalism. The Environmental parties have no power, but the ideas of environmentalism and not for profit organizations are certainly influential but they steer clear from real power, the Sierra Clubs and Nature Conservancies etc. Now if all these environmental groups united under one banner as a political party, that would be something. Just as if the labor movement united as a political party it would be a power. But it doesn’t happen.
Why is it that in America there is no Labor Party, no effective Environmental Party, all we have are the big Two and the cults on the fringe. This is a strange What happens here is the rapid and deliberate devaluation of all opposition. You are in the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or you are in one of their think tanks. Everything else is Waco and Jonestown. The media constantly reminds us of this. Once in a blue moon one of the members of the legitimate parties bolts and joins the greens or libertarians and as a courtesy the media might give them a little coverage in the warm-up period between the primaries and the real campaign. Look at poor Ralph Nader blamed as a the ringer in 2000 or Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988. The only time we had a viable third party was in the 90’s when the Ross Perot Party had his millions behind it to make it a reality. But Ross Perot? Give me a break he was portrayed as a distraction for wingers and he did for the right what Nader did for the left, absorb the bolters into a harmless sideshow. No serious movement has ever been able to achieve power other than the time when the Federalists collapsed and the Republicans were able to rise up from the ashes.
I am not against Anarchists, hell I spent at least 20 years of my life calling myself an anarchist and I am not even sure it is the fault of these good people who call themselves anarchists. TO be effective you have to have money, you have to have media connections and you have to be dedicated. To some extent you have to be ruthless or be able to set up the rules so that you don’t have to be because anyone who comes close to being a threat is brought in if they are effective, marginalized if not and killed or incarcerated if they are a serious threat. I would say it is an elaborate system, and to an extent it is, but it is also simply the way of the world. But why is the world in America so polarized? Center left and center right are the only thing. Real left and real right are out of the picture, although both of them exist and with the advent of cable have more access to media and with the internet can be found by anyone diligent enough.
The problem is not one of access to information, there is no lack of information. What there is a lack of is the political will to unite and act. We have what has been called the weak unity of the internet, people unifying for a day or an hour for an event and then disappearing. I have seen this at demonstrations where I would see people but then never see them any other time. This weak organization is not a threat, it is a release valve for the pressures of modern civilization. It is a panacea an aspirin for the political headaches of our times.
We have nothing else because frankly we want nothing else. We are too busy, too vested in the system as it exists. We are almost all privileged just being here. Only Europeans have more privileged than Americans. What we have is the jackpot mentality that we might strike it rich and are conned into accepting poverty and insecurity on the odd chance that we too might find lady luck come our way and shoot us from poverty and obscurity into fame and wealth. That absurd and immature dream keeps millions enthralled and that is all it takes. Americans will not organize, will not unite, will not make the effort because they are vested in the dream of getting rich and it is this delusion, reinforced by the media, the crappy school system, dead end jobs and the sheer amount of medication that we each take, that all combines to keep us in a perpetual sleep. Even as they rob us blind, as they give themselves billions of our tax dollars to pay a few hundred masters of the failed universe, even then we do not rebel, we meekly offer these rich whatever spare change we might have and wish them better luck next time. They call it the free market, capitalism, anything they want, but it is simply a state of shock or perhaps hypnotic trance. A hypnotised person can be operated on because they are not aware of the pain. The mind is a powerful thing when awake and when in a trance state you can do anything, rape, murder, pillage and plunder and the victim will simply watch TV. There is no connection. The mind and body has been disconnected and when that happens the only thing you can do is find a pressure point and press until a reaction occurs. When you get a reaction, a shout, a cry out of pain, then you might have hope. Life has again been born. Until then you are dealing with a sleep walker, in a permanent womb of insensitivity. That is the modern world a literal matrix of sleep.
So how many anarchists are there? I mean real awake, living breathing state killer communal living, fire breathers? Who knows, maybe a couple dozen, maybe a couple hundred. The rest are simply semi conscious fading in and out between sleep and wakefulness, hope and despair. They are maybe a million maybe more and if you simply don’t define them just call them people desiring a good life then you might count almost every being on the planet.

RIVERSIDE RALLY AGAINST HATE
Stand Up to Anti-Immigrant Fascists
Protest Against Neo-Nazis/KKK

This Saturday, October 24, 10 am
Corner of Indiana Ave. & Madison St., Riverside, CA 92504
Park on south end of nearby Villegas Park

Tags: Anti Nazi Demo in Riverside, the Big Sleep, the Delusion., the Dream State, The Matrix, The Trance

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