Disorderly Conduct #6 (Winter/Spring) is out! Yes, in case you haven't
figured it out, we are no longer a quarterly publication. Due to our
commitment to other insurrectionary green-anarchist, anti-civilization, and
anti-authoritarian projects, as well as our obligations to the newly formed
Confederated Anarchists for the Complete Extermination of the System
(CACES), we will now only publish twice a year. We hope you appreciate the
articles, short stories, poems, rants, jokes, blurbs, ideas, action
reports, updates, re-prints, contacts, artwork, and extensive effort put
into this publication. Original feature articles include: "Burning the
Bridges to the New Millennium", "Why Civilization?", "Not My Vision:
thoughts on organization", "Guilt: an anti-liberatory experience or an
ideology of masochism", and "Sketchies in Spain, France, Italy, and
Sicily". This one is well over 100 pages! Available for $5 from PO Box
11331 Eugene, OR 97440 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All Back issues of Disorderly
Conduct are available! Issues #1 and #2 for $2 each, #3 and #4 for $3 each,
#5 and #6 for $5 each, and the complete set for $18.
Burning Bridges to the New Millennium (and making deeper connections in our
lives)
This is NOT a ransom note, manifesto, or communiqu�. This is not meant to
be anything more then a declaration of autonomy, the remembering of the
anarchist idea of free association, and a re-commitment to the spirit of NO
COMPROMISE!
As I try to comprehend the enormity of the disease of civilization, and how
it has been declared terminal by every type of expert to the simplest folk
of the land, I contemplate on the amount of time and energy (and security)
wasted trying to form artificial connections with those I haven't much real
affinity. I have found my family, my pack. We are amorphous on one level,
always growing and shrinking, yet we are made of the same basic elements.
We sometimes travel to other lands to spread ideas of dissent and to learn
some wicked new tricks, and occasionally we don't connect again for a
season, a couple years, or sometimes even a lifetime. In this
post-colonial, post-modern, post-office world we "live" in, my crew comes
from different positions, products, and places. We are of different ethnic,
cultural, and economic backgrounds. We are of different ages, sexual
orientations, and interests. We may identify differently in the political
and social contexts, but we do have some basic things in common which unite
us in life and in resistance - It is our hatred of all domesticating and
dominating powers, and our desire to be wild human-animals once again.
We are a strange strain, yet we are just like you. In fact, we may be you!
We have long-term visions, ongoing affinity on specific goals, and daily
projects together. We respect, but are not afraid to challenge and debate
our different tactics. We often discuss our overlapping, converging, or
even seemingly contrasting strategies. We are always trying to deepen our
connection with each other and care for our damaged bodies and tormented
souls, as we become closer to the communal beings we once were, despite the
alienation and isolation that the modern mega-machine imposes upon us.
No, we are not perfect. We are part of the fractured existence, a
by-product of the suffocating and domesticating order, but we know what we
feel . . . and it is rage! Despite the odds and the institutions of
control, we have been able to connect to one of our primal instincts - the
urge to live and to fight back! All around us we see our world being
destroyed, the killing, the torture, and the slavery being inflicted on all
of life, and our rage continues to grow! Our rage has engulfed us, and now
it must flow. Rage over the misery brought on by those whose only salvation
will be a bullet in the head. Rage over the war on the earth and her
creatures - a war that has been going on for thousands of years, and is
always escalating. Rage at the idea of this death-culture being the only
prospect for us, then we die. No, we will not submit to the apparatus of
the state, the institutions of power, the ideologies of order! We will
resist, and continue to resist. When we have finally destroyed our
oppressors, we will burn their remains and the rubble of their
civilization, and we will bury its ruins deep so we may begin to heal.
We are filled with great love. Love of the beautiful chaos of life. Love
for the organic and wild connections we make with the earth and with each
other. Love for those who have compassion for our ravaged bodies,
programmed minds, and broken hearts. Love for those regaining our lost
knowledge and primitive spirit. Love for those with the courage and passion
to resist and to create anarchy now.
Our battle call is a treasonous one. Yes, we have declared war on the
existing order. We try to understand its foundations, so we may crack them.
We study its institutions, so we can undermine them. We seek out its power,
so we can destroy it. We battle against its logic - reason and order; its
mechanisms of control - domestication, capitalism, and the state; its
ideology- patriarchy and civilization. We fight against these ideas, their
physical manifestations, and their remnants in our lives.
But, we must remember that we all have different perspectives on these
subjects, different experiences, different points of reference, and
different ideas on how to destroy these structures and mindsets (and in
some people's minds, whether to destroy them at all, or if they even
exist). This is why our relations with others need to be flexible enough to
compensate for and/or appreciate these differences, yet at the same time,
firm enough not to relinquish our autonomy or water down our ideas and our
passions. It is a balancing act that we often spend too much time on (and
in the "activist world", almost all of the time). We need to figure out
when to be open to, and learn from, other perspectives, and when there is
no reconciliation possible. This is a gray area, which at times needs to
come into more focus. It is not as simple as being either a fundamentalist
or a fence-rider. We should not be afraid to make some distinctions, and
occasionally draw some lines. We have spent enough time arguing violence
vs. non-violence, whether technology is neutral, or if we should vote. We
need to follow our instincts and deal with the consequences, whether or not
others find us "not anarchist", "lifestylist" or "too militant". Let's end
the abstract, academic, and hyper-theoretical word games. Let's create the
lives we want, let's fight how we chose to, and let's get free!
Certainly, we do need to continue to challenge one another, and be critical
of each other's behaviors, attitudes, and ideas, but let's focus (at least
some of) our energy where it belongs the most - the institutional systems
of control that are sucking every last bit of energy out of life. Let's
agree to disagree. Let's struggle shoulder to shoulder with those who
respect us, and whom we can respect. Let's live with and support those whom
we feel closest to. Let's fight alongside those we have real affinity with,
and let's break from those with whom we have none. Let's stop trying to
kill each other, and let's go for the throats of the muthafuckas who are
laughing at our sandbox world, and who are kickin' our asses (and have been
for a really long time!). Let's connect with other struggles where our
paths converge, but let's burn those fuckin' bridges that are too rigid for
change, too cemented for growth, and too long a span over irreconcilable
gorges of disagreement and mistrust. No, we can't (and won't) all get
along, so let's stop pretending we can. . . and move on.
WE'RE TAKIN' BACK OUR LIVES! (sorry, if it ain't the way you would like us
to.)
revoltingly yours, Matches Minister of Destruction and Re-connection The
"Bring On the Ruckus" Society
* Members of the Confederated Anarchists for the Complete Extermination of
the System (CACES).
the belief police by a. a. beings
you, with the dictionary in your hand obtained from the experts with the
newest and strictest language demanded from our mouths fuck you! you have
no jurisdiction over me!
you, with the rulebook in your hand obtained from the activist centers with
the restrained and irrelevant actions you demand from our resistance fuck
you! you have no jurisdiction over me!
you, with the magazine in your hand obtained from the bookstore with the
glossy pictures and articles explaining the hip and cool way to look fuck
you! you have no jurisdiction over me!
you, with the textbook in your hand obtained from the university with
politically correct issues and details determining how we should behave
fuck you! you have no jurisdiction over me!
you, with the map in your hand obtained from the gas station with the
routes and linear directions you want me to travel fuck you! you have no
jurisdiction over me!
you, with the manifesto in your hand obtained from the party with your
limited and restricted ideas based on strict ideologies and dogma fuck you!
you have no jurisdiction over me!
you, with the bible in your hand obtained from the moralists with
definitive and authoritative do's and dont's explaining the proper way to
exist fuck you! you have no jurisdiction over me!
you, with the notebook in your hand obtained from the belief police taking
notes on all of our lives in order to give reports back to your masters
fuck you! you have no jurisdiction over me!
the day will come when your pathetic little world based on control, lies,
and deception will crumble around you fuck you! i give you no jurisdiction
over me!
Link: www.greenanarchy.org
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writes on Saturday December 28 2002 @ 06:29PM PST: [ reply | parent ]
You can burn the bridges but the new millenium is here anyways. Clinton
tlaked about building a bridge to the 21st Century and comedian John
Stewart pointed out that you could a build a doughnut to the next century
and will still get Y2K calendars.
Time may change you, but you can't change time.
You also won't turn back the clock to before industrialization. That cat's
out of the bag. Now what? Back to the Future?
Thanks for the harrangue. Makes me think that some things never change.
writes on Sunday December 29 2002 @ 12:00PM PST: [ reply | parent ]
ha, ha, ha... this reads like the bad poetry and angry rants i would write
when i was fourteen. too funny.
Wrench writes on Saturday December 28 2002 @ 06:54PM PST: [ reply | parent ]
Be gentle, everyone goes through learning phases. When GA! came to Chicago
on their tour it was an interesting video and discussion lead by Warcry.
Warcry is very educated and the two gentlemen with her were well-spoken, I
was pleased with their presentation.
Then upon showing further interest I was given a few things to check into,
some people to talk to, etc. I began to talk to a lot of greens
(anarchists, not party) and their ideas, it was all utopian. No technology,
none of that industrial machinery. The funny kicker was they always had
things to sell. Some would give it away, which was cool, and it wasn't
forced or pressed or anything like the ISO brigades, but these three
following things were always on hand:
Videos. VHS. Yea, you're gonna live in a tree and have tv/vcr combos run on
what, solar power?
Color papers. You gonna haul those up in the trees too, have elaborate
catwalks to make the machine (which will run on recycled waste material I
guess?) spit papers out into the "uneducated" industrialized folk below?
Vinyl/cds/tapes. Personal audio equipment is a waste with the batteries and
everything..
Now I know this is coming off inflammatory, but when the GA! kids want to
make a positive impact for antiindustrial crowds why wouldn't they perhaps
use different mediums? I just saw on the IMC wire that wireless network
folks from Oregon are hooking up treesitters with 802.11 so they can ... OF
ALL THINGS... BLOG. That's right, write a journal about their day (albeit
interesting.. its not really an anti-industrial move).
I would like to see the GA! crew more openly embracing the technology they
use, and seeing if they can't improve upon its fuel efficiency and whatnot.
Create small solar modules for their radios I've seen them use so they
don't use batteries and the like.
My two cents. I invite GA! folks to email me for discussion.. I'm always
interested in this particular movement. Anyone with info on the efforts
greens have made to embrace technology but improve on it rather than hide
its use at all.
Reverend Chuck0 writes on Saturday December 28 2002 @ 08:33PM PST: [
reply | parent ]
Look, let me go over this again for those of you who are inclined to engage
in the "primitivists are hypocrites" argument. This argument is illogical.
If you want to engage in this argument, then you need to understand that
non-anarchists will say that any anarchist is a hypocrite for participating
in a capitalist system. I've gotten emails from idiots who argued that it
was hypocritical for anarchists to use computers or charge money for
anarchist books. See, this argument is specious because none of us can
escape capitalism or civilization on this planet and live some kind of
non-hypocritical lifestyle. So we do what we can as anarchists and radicals
to change the world with the tools that are available. And all of us have
to live our lives within the capitalist system--it's a tribute to our
dedication that so many of us try to live our beliefs and ideals despite
not being able to escape the planetary capitalist system.
So, I encourage you not to throw stones like this, because they will come
back and smack YOU in the face. ;-)
writes on Sunday December 29 2002 @ 11:20AM PST: [ reply | parent ]
You reap what you sow, Rev. Chuck.
bored writes on Saturday December 28 2002 @ 09:16PM PST: [ reply | parent ]
wow that was a whole lot of nothing
sex cells writes on Saturday December 28 2002 @ 10:11PM PST: [ reply |
parent ]
haha the Rev.chuck0 read my mind.whenever i hear that shit "you are a green
anarchist , but you use a computer etc etc" i think of people who think its
hypocrytical to be an anarchist and pay taxes, live within a government etc
etc. its a totally hollow arguement. i dont want firearms in my ideal
society, but we have to use them as of now. does that make one a
hypocrite?! of course not!
Makhno writes on Sunday December 29 2002 @ 08:36AM PST: [ reply | parent ]
I like the spirit displayed in this article, although it's not as well
written as that piece, No Membership Required, from Green Anarchy, that I
posted a couple of weeks ago. There seem to be a couple of main ideas
common to these two essays:
(1) There is a direct link between the level of technology and the
oppression and exploitation we suffer from.
(2) The types of relationships best-suited for promoting free, positive
human interactions are informal ones, based on affinity, family, friendship
- not formal organizational ties, membership, or "citizenship".
Reading Redneck writes on Sunday December 29 2002 @ 11:45AM PST: [ reply |
parent ]
a few years ago a friend of mine took me to an illegal street race in a big
city in the northeast. I was a little skeptical because I am naturally very
wary of cars as envirmonmentally and culturally destructive. One thing I
realized when I got there though, was that the people who were
participating in this event were reclaiming their cars by sheer dedication
to fixing, rebuilding, redesigning and generally recreating them. They were
taking control of their cars. Instead of monolithic entities to be bought
as is from a dealer and only meddled with by a proffesional expert, these
kids were making cars that are expressions of their own creativity. Doesn�t
do away with a whole lot of things that are wrong with cars, but it did
show me that our relationship with technology is in a whole lot of ways
more fundamental to the destructiveness (in this case mental/culturally
speaking)of that technology. Just a thought.
(I)An-ok Ta Chai writes on Sunday December 29 2002 @ 01:03PM PST: [ reply
| parent ]
Good point!
This is the best post that I've read on infoshop.org in a long time!
Makhno writes on Sunday December 29 2002 @ 01:43PM PST: [ reply | parent ]
Redneck makes a good point; human beings are never totally passive victims
of capitalism, technology, or any other social force. Resistance to
oppression and alienation can take many forms, including the one he
described in his post. I remember reading an anecdote in a book by Marshall
McLuhan about a worker who, when he finished assembling a computer in a
factory, signed it, thus asserting his individuality, his craftsmanship,
against the alienating conditions of his labor.
Such individual and communal acts of resistance are vitally important, but
we must never forget what it is that makes such resistance necessary in the
first place. Cars, computers, and all the other amenities of our
industrialized technological society are made possible by a vast, intricate
network of production and distribution, with all of the bureaucratic
organization, alienated labor, ecological devastation, violence, and
expropriation that that system implies. Caught as we are in the very
entrails of Leviathan (as Fredy Perlman might have put it), we must each
still try to develop a critique and a practice that can allow us to
recognize and fight against a system that destroys lives and communities.
spacequixote writes on Sunday December 29 2002 @ 05:04PM PST: [ reply |
parent ]
But isn't it backwards to blame our ills on technology that is a product of
certain social relations? Technology comes and goes, and ultimately you can
smash dumb machines as much as you please, but capitalism is what is at
issue here.
Sk! writes on Sunday December 29 2002 @ 06:03PM PST: [ reply | parent ]
This debate has been hashed and re-hashed, but from a green Anarchist
perspective, capitalism is inseperable from technology. Socialist
alternatives of self-managed production, as they lie under the aegis of the
division of labor, will eventually adhere into a state (whether it's called
a federation, commune or municipality or whatever). In other words, there
will be authority and with authority comes the reversal of the process of
socialization of resources (i.e mechanization, as shown by the USSR, PRC
and Cuba to an extent). That's not to say that all GA's reject production
in a transitionary period. I think it's indispensable for coordinating the
post-civilized revival of bio-regions (especially in the ravaged third world).
To sum up, Capitalism is, indeed, the enemy, but our methods of attack and
long-term goals decidedly differ. The best source for GA critiques is at
primitivism.com in my opinion. You should check it out.
-Sk!
pr writes on Sunday December 29 2002 @ 06:16PM PST: [ reply | parent ]
How to totally demolish capitalism using green anarchy and technology.(yes
it is possible) 1) You listen to some green anarchists and watch what they
do and how they do it.Theres a lot of science in there as well as fighting
spirit and it's a strain of anarchism thats enriched what was looking
pretty dead in the water.(trad anarchism) 2)You steal the appropiate
technology at hand and use it to study,map,subvert and destroy the state.
3) You mop up the defenceless propertarian capitalists at your leisure.(all
these steps should be a lot of fun btw:) These points are for those
interested in a revolutionary anarchism that needs to increase the tempo of
it's attacks on the state or lose vital momentum but need not involve
losing anonymity. Capitalism or Anarchism,that is the question,there can be
only one answer.
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