koru

respectable manifesto

(this is a work in progress)

Let's break this down into simple, easy-to-digest chunks.

The "Free World" isn't free.

Democracy was broken to start with and has only gotten worse.

There is no way to exercise your democratic rights because the term "democratic rights" does not refer.

You feel good about voting? So did the child who, in the 80s, sang along to Mel & Kim's "Respectable", feeling that they are expressing their rebelliousness in an effective fashion. Unless that child's parents were complete and utter morons, the only thing they were concerned about was its taste in music. They slept soundly, safe in the knowledge that their child's rebellion was occurring within safe, controlled parameters.

Look at yourself. You don't listen to pop music. You buy Bill Hicks CDs and movies like Fight Club. You read independent media sources - you're far more informed than, say, the average person who has only seen "Fahrenheit 9/11" and taken it at face value. You even shudder to call yourself "left wing", knowing that to do so would be to fall into that trap of easy categorisation which allows the media and other power elites to subdivide you off, simplify your views and dismiss you.

So, what the fuck are you doing with this knowledge? Do you think you're any more free for it? Did your attendance at No War rallies stop the invasion of Iraq? Exactly.

You're impotent.

I hereby invoke the following manifesto:

We, the people of the western democratic nations of the world:

- in recognition of the fact that freedom of speech does not exist
- in recognition of the fact that democracy, as with all existing political systems, was created as a means for the few to control the destinies of the many
- in recognition of the fact that our culture encourages ignorance and non-participation
- in recognition of the fact that voting is merely the illusion of choice;

declare that we shall do everything in our power to ensure that there is revolution within one generation.

We shall do this by refusing to resign ourselves to despair and inaction.

We shall do this by continuing to speak against injustice where it occurs.

Most of all, we shall do this by breeding, and educating our young in the truths of this world. We shall encourage them to take up arms and incite revolution among their peers.

And we shall not allow them to listen to Stock, Aitken & Waterman.

Posted by kanji at October 13, 2004 11:32 PM | TrackBack