As It Was, Then Again It Shall Be
So, the public is once again deliriously feasting upon the news of politician betraying the public trust.
Who it is doesn’t even matter.
Why is any of this surprising, with either with party?
Most of these guys have varying degrees of slime residue, and many are still actively involved in their various high crimes and misdemeanors. What’s equally appalling is the crazed public interest and the ridiculous “outrage” expressed when they hear about it, as if it’s something unusual or unexpected. The public feasts on it like a smorgasbord of intrigue and gossip, stuffing itself like Mr. Creosote.
Oh well. Soon enough it will all be over. At least one can hope.
I’ve completely enjoyed reading Murray Bookchin’s The Ecology of Freedom. What an amazing read, something I’ve put off far too long. It’s a marvelous, eye opening treatise on the unification of social and ecology theory that lays out, quiet completely, the effects of hierarchies in human societies, not the least of which is the formation of the State, a well known spawning ground for corruption and thievery and violence. You also get more than a spoonful of coercion, domination, classism, resource wars and all sorts of other nasty stuff.
In the introduction he states that “society in the form of bands, families, clans, tribes, tribal federations, villages, and even municipalities long antedates State formations. The State, with its specialized functionaries, bureaucracies, and armies, emerges quite late in human social development-often well beyond the threshold of history. It remained in sharp conflict with coexisting social structures such as guilds, neighborhoods, popular societies, cooperatives, town meetings, and a wide variety of municipal assemblies.”
As Hayduke would say, “‘Twas ever thus.”
The good news is there are viable bands, families, clans, tribes, villages and communities that can function quiet well without the State. We can create bioregional federations. And just think. You won’t have to hear all this rubbish about who’s shagging who or who got caught with their paw in the kitty. Not to mention really nasty stuff like Guano Bay, genocide and nuclear war.
Ask yourself, “What’s my government done for me lately?”
“To think, as it was, then again it shall be. And though the course may change sometimes, the rivers always reach the sea.”
