Satyagraha - truth force

JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Che

1) John F. Kennedy,
2) Robert F. Kennedy,
3) Martin Luther King,
4) Macolm X,
5) Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
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All possibly murdered by the CIA (the Central Iniquity Agency - in my opinion) one of the most evil terrorist groups in human history.

Paysan

I am a peasant, an urban peasant. A peasant - un paysan - a man of the country (in the non-urban sense of country). Just a person.

19th December 2007 - A non-normative society

In a non-normative society where no one is forced to do anything and anyone can do anything;
where there is freedom and no one tells you what to do; there will often be a role for the evil of psychiatry to mop up those who in large numbers do nothing because they can and because no one has told them what to do or how to do it. I am not saying people should be told what to do. I want freedom. But at the least there should be care and advice. From someone. Anyone at all would be good.

In a survival of the fittest society, where everything is a competition, there will always be humans who lose the fight, or who don't fight, or, because of true human nature, desire instead to co-operate. These stubbornly human individuals will also often be mopped up by psychiatry.

Those who find themselves under the "care" of psychiatrists invariably have simply had problems with life and are not sick.

There is quite literally no hope whatsoever for society until it is a common belief that everyone is owed their basic needs as a right. This is totally feasible and has been for a long time.

A great deal of paid work is unnecessary and damaging to humans and the planet.
You can't tell us that we are free and then tell us that we have to get paid work or we will starve.

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Why is the Citizens Advice Bureau a charity? It is a necessity.

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As an anarchist I am against all prisons on principle.

Dialogue

"Do you have a diagnosis of schizophrenia?"
"Yes."
"Do you think that you have schizophrenia?"
"No."
"Is there any such thing as schizophrenia?"
"No."
"So you think there is no such thing?"
"There's no such thing."
"Do you think you are mad?"
"No."
"Do you think there is any such thing as madness?"
"No.

...........Look, as long as they keep giving me the money I don't give a shit."


( A conversation I once had with someone ).

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Time for a basic income for all. Yawn.

"Is it just me or is everything shit?"

Reading "Is it just me or is everything shit?" and it's better than I thought.
It is one of the few things that is not shit and it is excellent satire.
It is not cynical as one might expect. It has a quite sincerely radical thrust.
One thing: why didn't they call the sequel "Is it just me or is everything still shit?" instead of "Volume 2"?
It is truly excellent. Once again the flame of truth and reality is kept heroically burning. By someone somewhere.

Volume 2 even mentions the book "NHS PLC" which is about the destruction of the NHS by NewLabourUSDemocratPartyOfEngland.

Anorexia Politica

If anorexia nervosa (self-starvation) exists as an illness, would it would be equally logical to say that political hunger-strikers suffer from anorexia politica (self-starvation for political ends)?

This is discussed in Insanity: the Idea and its Consequences.

No behaviour or misbehaviour is or can be an illness or a disease. .....

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The idea of mental illness and insanity can be used to absolve the guilty and punish the innocent.

There is no such thing as mental illness, insanity or madness; there cannot be such things as mental illness, insanity or madness.

11th December 2007

Anyway, where was I.
Sanity - a word which means health - and a mind cannot literally be healthy or unhealthy - is defined by some as good adjustment to society.
What if you cannot relate to the society you find yourself in?
And what if some of the scum that it reveres - e.g. Thatcher - don't even believe in society?

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By the way, all public transport should be 100% free....

Suicide is not murder

I have said "suicide is a civil right" and yet that I do not agree with murder.

Suicide is not murder. Is suicide killing? Maybe. But it is not murder.

I have criticised others for compromising the Law of Moses and killing or murdering (outside - possibly - a just war).

Thou shalt not kill/murder (another).
The Law of Moses apparently says "Thou shalt not murder/illegally kill" and not "Thou shalt not kill", according to the correct translation.

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Jobs

Jobs for all?
At what cost to the planet?

Unspeak

Have now finished the book "Unspeak" and discovered its' website, unspeak.net.
Broadly speaking it's about the fraudulent use of language in contemporary life.
To contradict Alistair Campbell, who apparently called the book "crap from start to finish", I would say it's brilliant from start to finish and I want more.
One thing that is interesting is the fraudulent replacement of the term "global warming" with "climate change". This seems to have been at least partly a deliberate tactic. And look how dominant the second term now is!
It does matter what you call things as this book makes clear.

He attacks one neologism which I had adopted - "islamofascism". And this is probably the only thing I disagree with.
Maybe "islamofascism" is stretching language. But I think it probably just about qualifies as a justified term..... Can't think of another term that does the same necessary job.
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Yankosceptic

If you can be "Eurosceptic" - doubtful/sceptical about some aspects of the EU, why can't you be "Yankosceptic"? - just a bit doubtful and sceptical about some aspects of the USA?

I am an anti-capitalist eurosceptic.

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The US has c.5% of the world's population and consumes c.25% of its energy....

C'est la vie?

All the ones that want me I don't want

All the ones I want don't want me

Albert Camus

"There are causes worth dying for but none worth killing for."

Albert Camus.

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It should be pointed out, as it is not recognised by all conventional accounts, that Camus had an interest in anarchism.