It has become clear to me that the society of this world is slowly unravelling. We are surrounded on all sides by methods of control and manipulation that we can never escape. Since birth we are molded into a form that will please those around us, and by proxy ourselves. Rejection of common values lead the individual down a lonely path with an ending as grim as any other. Divided and conquered, we cannot seem to grasp life for ourselves without taking from the grip of another.

In order to make money we must give in to the desires of others; we must sell our art, rather than live it. In order to make friends we must give in to the needs of others; we must give of ourselves, freely, and usually without any tangible benefit beyond the mutual feelings of goodwill we experience. In order to cause real change we must give in to the darkest urges within us; the urge to control and shape the world around us beyond the petty goals of the shortsighted. Any who thought their cause humanitarian should know that there is always blood spilt for your new form of control.

I am one of the egotistical elitist intellectuals who considers themself a person of unique talent. This is an illusion I keep primarily because I wish it were true; but also because by pretending to be above you I can raise myself above you, not only in my eye but yours as well. It is a simple thing, exerting your will on those who have been broken by daily life. Empty minds are easy to fill with whatever I can whisper often enough into their ears. Brainwashing is the simplest thing in the world: you repeat the message. If I wrote something haphazardly, but I came back to the same point every paragraph then I would have eroded your mind in a small way; but perhaps have more effect than you’d like to imagine. It really is as simple as repeating a message; the trick is discovering inventive ways to say the same exact thing. Given enough focus, it is frightening to think of the way we can alter our own mindsets through repetitious mental litany. All it takes is a little practice in redundancy.

I don’t want to brainwash you into reason. There are enough advertisements for things we don’t need as is. And my goals don’t involve reason; they require a mixture of impossible idealism and harsh realism. You must be willing to accept that anything is possible; either a vast world-wide network of secret societies, a repeating pattern due to the nature of greed, or the universal constraint of power. You must also be willing to accept that enemies that cannot be stopped, can be brought to heel. As I said this isn’t about reason; because I feel my intellect’s desire for knowledge is empty since it is not possible to both understand and live life; I’ve decided to move on to something solid; an attempt to improve the world around me, in any way at any cost, no matter how insurmountable the challenges.

The only thing I’m sure of is that we are more controlled than our forefathers. Being a slave is painful when no one believes you can compare to the suffering of one of the many subjugated races in our collective history. We are slaves however; indentured servants to our various forms of debt (student loans, credit cards, mortgages, etc). I believe we must clean the slate entirely; create an entirely new economic system, cautiously. The tale of humanity is the story of man trying to free himself from those who would try to control him. The sick cosmic joke, the meme of God, is that in freeing yourself from control you instantly buy into another form.

Freedom is in many ways an illusion.

That doesn’t stop us yearning for it. We all yearn to be free; free from worry, free from pain, free from control; but there is no way to be free completely, and there is no freedom from shadows when you want the light. That is the problem; not the capitalist or the communist system, not the left versus the right, but rather our struggle with all the controlling and guiding factors in our lives. The only thing we own is our bodies and our minds (everything else belongs to our true Mother). We did not ask to be born, so we should not owe anything to our birth mother and father; yet if they, or the people around them, provided an environment for us in which our souls grew bright and our minds grew keen, then we owe everyone a debt that can never be repaid. A debt we will one day chip away at through our own creations.

So what is wrong with capitalism? To advance in this system one must take from another; your money becomes my money. Occasionally the service provided is worth it rather than overpriced for the comfort of marketing execs; more often we only believe in its worth because of, to put it bluntly, a constant barrage of bullshit on every sense (remember brainwashing? Why do you think advertising works?). Well, what is wrong with communism (a noble idea to be sure)? When there isn’t significant reward for action, that action is either not taken, or taken poorly.

But why should anyone be denied water, food, shelter, and warmth? These things are plentiful enough on this fruitful planet (any who would say we cannot provide for all conscious beings on Earth is either a liar or a fool); the question has always been how to develop and distribute it all without becoming tyrannized by the system that would have to secure itself against those who would take and never give. I’m not here to plan all the details of this; I’m here to remind you that the system is never perfect and can always be improved upon.

So this brings us to the state of our sociopolitical system: a cantankerous blight upon the creation of many beautiful minds. What can we do to fight those in control when all of our limbs, our methods of affecting our will upon the world, are tied to the strings they pull? I think we both, in the darkest corners of our hearts, know the answer.

We have to cut the strings. Then we burn the stage, and the puppets in this insane theater.

Destruction is creation; there can be no question about that. The question is, will it be more beautiful? Will it be better? I don’t know that. But I’m sick and tired of the answers they are giving us; the rational lies they slip into our water so that we can all breath easy. The truth is a very frightening one; that we, and here I speak to all members of what we consider first-world countries, have taken more than our fair share. We sit and bask in faded opulence and pretend decadence, while we drop bombs on the poor souls unfortunate enough to have been born somewhere else. This is sickness. This is cancer.

YOU ARE LAZY APATHETIC MONSTERS; MALIGNANT TUMORS PENETRATING INTO THE EARTH’S MOST YIELDING RESOURCES.

But hey, it’s not YOUR problem right? It’s the liars’ and crooks’, the politicians’, the mercenaries’, the drug dealers’; It’s the schools’, the games’, the movies’, and the leaders’ problem. Somebody else will deal with our suffering… that is the appeal of the messiah fable. SomeONE shall come and save us. SomeONE else. You are wrong, completely and totally. Change can only come from within.

But what change?

All of us with idealistic aspirations (who are serious about it) ask ourselves the very same question, hopefully with every fully conscious moment. I don’t know the answer still, but I have a few definite ideas to try. Simple things like nationalizing food in a manner that does not involve burning crops and slaughtering pigs in order to increase price. Some more complicated things like completely rewriting squatter laws to prevent someone owning land without living or working it, and preventing exploitation and control through monopoly of land. Schools and national parks should be the center of every community; rather than the bloated, polluting cityscape that we find so attractive. Many other things can be done to change the focus of community from protection from outside influences, to harboring and cultivating its own unique culture.

I’m not here to push those ideas on you. Every region should instead form its own idea of what should be, and do its best to actualize it. So what’s preventing that now?

Control.

They are controlling us. No I don’t know who “they” are. I know “they” exist though. When the gap between the rich and the poor is increasing, there are some driving that increase. The same is true when it decreases. It takes active and selfless movement of the individual to cause change for everyone in a beneficial manner. We can hand out money to bums all we like; that won’t prevent the bums from existing.

We must treat the disease, rather than the symptoms. The disease is this system we all enforce by compliance. The disease is apathy because we are comfortable with our paper bags, cement walls, and electronic boxes.

The disease is us and all around us. So what is the cure?

Well, it has become clear to me that the world is slowly unraveling, but many seem not to notice. The reason is that the selfish few (as opposed to the selfish many who don’t have the resources of the selfish few) have been moving so slow that no one has noticed the definite effects on their personal level. We cannot impart wisdom on the witless, or open the eyes of those who pretend to see; we can only lead them towards the truth.

So what do we do?

The answer: Destroy. Not nihilistically, you must still use your better judgement; but remember the servants to the system suffer regardless, and their inaction hurts us all. If a positive change comes from your seemingly immoral action, so be it. We must stare back at the abyss, and leap in; abuse the system they play in a way that will be noticed. We must make sure to commit actions so treasonous and on such a scale that those with their eyes on their feet will see the rubble they are stepping on, and look up to the beast that created it.

And that is the basic philosophy: Do evil, hopefully in secret, and hopefully within the protection of the supposedly “powerful”, so that some light can come from this darkness. Remember we are all actors upon a stage; but the roles are not set, and we need not read the lines we are given. Think carefully where our story can go that will lead to a better tomorrow, some kind of happy ending, and move the story in that direction. We can be hero, villain, or in-between. The hero must give all for the righteous cause, the in-between provide the basis of reality, and the villain is what truly drives the story. All can have a lead role; the question is: are you a leader or a follower? Are you one of the archetypes? Or are you all of them combined; neither villain nor hero, but bringing change nonetheless?

Realizing that morality and ethics are all relative, and that good comes from evil, then we are free to commit all sorts of actions that can only hasten the completion of the cycle; and eventually lead to a positive trend, however temporary. Simply put: we are spoiled. A little mayhem will wake us up, and this allows us to get some very primal satisfaction in retribution for certain disgusting acts carried out by the supposed authority figures (the pigs with their tasers, the crooks with their lobbyists, the liars and their schemes). I’ll be damned if it won’t be fun to wipe the twisted smile off their smug faces. Goddamn what I would give to be the one to stomp on Bu-… hmm better not say that; FBI’s REX64 or whatever program may pick up on it.

Revenge will be sweet, even if the aftertaste is bitter. Hopefully some change will come of it. If you believe the government has gone too far; that some power has been usurped from local communities by an overreaching federal system enforcing unpopular laws of prohibition; that the executive branch should not have the ability to declare nothing less than a global war; that congress is not exactly representative of the values we hold dear; than there is really only one path to liberation. It won’t be the easiest path, and it isn’t likely to be a peaceful path, but it is the path I have already chosen.

Some day in the near future, I hope to fall to the ground, bleeding love; to look at the unending sky above me, broken earth beneath me, death around me, and be able to whisper, “it was for the better”. I’m sorry it has to be so bleak, but what other way can it be?

-Natas Enasni

Practical Section: Use the secret service organizations manuals against them. The sabotage manual distributed by a certain organization in certain South American countries provides good examples of simple subversive actions that can be taken. Read the manifestos of the great guerrillas, and incorporate all the best information that can be practically applied.

The best advice I can offer is simply thus: never, ever give in. We will win by will, and nothing else. Our will, the will of the free, against the will of the controllers. And never lose the support of good men and women; there will be many afraid and neutral, attempt to not offend them, but remember we are fighting for the good, rather than the weak or apathetic.