Living The Revolution

It's a lovely day out there, that's for sure.
And it's going to b a beautiful night.

I'm going to be away the next day or so, so there probably won't be any posts now till Sunday afternoon. Sometimes I have to go party. Such is life.

I need to go let my hair down, that's for sure.

But I've been thinking recently, thinking a lot and in my head I've become certain of a lot of things.
This break will certainly do me good. But it is a break, a rest, a much needed burst of hedonism.

Because there really isn't time to stand still.

I've lived thirty long years and now, now, I know what I want to do with my life. The concept has grown over the life of this blog, it has been very much a personal journey, very much so, as ideas that began as concepts have grown, been thrashed out, got fuller.
And it has been a hard year, a year of headaches and heartaches.

It has been a year of high living, coupled with personal crises.

And it has been the year I became an adoptive uncle, a beautiful moment. A moment to give thanks for.

I guess when this blog started a lot of the concepts I had were just that, speculations. Ideas on things. They were not concrete, I was not concrete.

I did not, when I set this blog up have a clear vision of exactly how society needed changing, nor how that could be acheived, nor what role I could play in that.

And it's funny, isn't it. The ideas that are in my mind now are largely the brainchild of my critics.

And I have a lot more confidence in myself. I feel like I've come through the fire and I feel perhaps- ready.

Ready in a way I wasn't once. Ready to take responsibility. Ready to make decisions that I've agonised over. Ready to put myself on the line.

You see, it boils down to this. I believe it's time for a change. I think the capitalist system is in its death throes. And I think only two things can come from it- global tyrannies keeping their populations subjected to Police states nuking eachother into oblivion.

Or something new.

We have that chance, it's coming. We have the chance to kick down that rotten door.

And I know damn well what I want to put in its place.

The method I propose is an open and peaceable one.

The New World Order I propose is this.

And the fundamental Rights of Man by which we live should be these.

Now, I don't think this is going to be an easy thing to proselytise. Not for one moment. But it can be done, I believe that. No one can stop this message spreading. It's a message of peace, it's a message of passive resistance, it's a message of positive change.

It may well be that I die having failed. But there's seventeen years between now and 2025, so I fully intend to devote the best years of my life to selling this revolution. It needs to happen. It's that, or we blow ourselves up.

They can't arrest me for saying there needs to be a revolution. Because this will be turning the other cheek revolution.

And it's not going to be me on my own against the world, I know that. There are so many people out there who in their guts feel the same. It's just about connecting with them, linking up with them.

So yes, this is a start. Finding others who want to remove the global elite by peaceable means. Who want an end to capitalism, to the sham democracy of the party system, to private control of basic infrastructure, to monogamy and sexual repression, to racism, sexism and homophobia, to the waste and inefficiency, to the nostalgic archaism and bowing down to cherished totems of obsolete values, an end, an end to the way of living that his outlived its usefulness.



And what we need to be thinking of is building on that. Building a truly global movement. Not a political party, a movement. A movement committed to putting the entire globe under a direct democratic system of communal living. A movement committed to dismantling power structures and making the people themselves in their entirety the government.

This won't be government of the people, by the people, for the people.

It will be the people governing themselves.

I do not say this movement can be founded over night. But come together it can. And it's aims must be clear. It must be open, democratic and act within the constraints of the existing system. It must offer passive resistance. And it must ultimately be devoid of power structures itself. It must remain always a movement of the people.

It must exist solely to attempt to advance a peaceful transition to a New World Order.
By the methods I have outlined.

Do I have a clue how to set about this scheme? Not a jot. The vision sits there in front of me, and I know it needs to be done. But others with better organisational skills than me, others with skills in areas I can't even begin to conceive of need to be involved there. I am not an organiser. Founding organisations isn't something I know anything about, let alone how to achieve results in this kind of way. I can think, I can write, I can talk. I can do that bit.

So this blog is a start. And I have seventeen years to sell this message and see what happens. And I'm doing it openly and above board. And I believe it's right, I have never in my life been more convinced of anything.

So much so, I'm prepared to devote my life in it's entirety to this cause. Because it's the right thing to do. Anything else would be a waste of my life.

And I may fail, I probably will fail, one way or another.

But I'll die trying. I will not rest.

And over the last few weeks I've felt like everything in my life has been coming together in a curious kind of way. It's as if everything is hurtling together. I really believe that within a matter of weeks my life will be in total ruin, beyond repair, a life wasted for good, or that lift will have come.

Because I am battling to order my own life, to re-order the chaos it has become, to try make it SUSTAINABLE. Not only that, I'm wrestling with the deep feelings I have for a woman, feelings I never thought I'd ever feel.

I believe she plays some pivotal role in my life, yet even I can't figure out what that should be.

I'm hoping during the next few weeks that should become clear. But I'm conscious of one thing. I really have to start not just living by the values I preach, but start living them openly and proselytising them.

That means that if I'm saying there should be an end to the nuclear family, an end to monogamy and sexual chastity, I can't be a hypocrite and exist in a relationship where sexual commitment is asked for and given. It makes a liar out of me.

In other words, for me to have an credit in what I'm advocating, then if I do ever settle down with someone, it needs to be someone who is openly flaunting the fact that they are 'cheating' on me with my full permission.

Otherwise it makes everything I say valueless.

And I've got to stop aspiring to own things. I've got to start acting more as someone governed against their will. Really stand on the 'Render unto Caesar' line.

I am NOT governed by my consent. So I'll obey your rules, not because I think they're right, but because sensibly, I have no choice.

I need to live every day in silent protest against the principle of being governed by corporate elites over whom I have no control.

It's the values system that needs fighting. If you die leaving money in your bank account, they ripped you off. You died not having achieved all the pleasure you earned. And don't waste in fancy kitchens, or lawnmowers or any of that crap they advertise.
Spend it on YOU. Having fun. Go party, live it up. That's how they keep you down, the 'work ethic'.

And start noticing other people a bit more. Start think communally, start thinking of yourself as part of a communal group, a world in what all all of us are trying to do is live the happiest lives we can free of pain in misery. And what's the best way to do that.

All the rest is shite. All this 'Patriotism', 'Family values', 'Morality', they're just words.

They mean nothing if they don't lead to the greatest possible happiness of the greatest possible number.

So, I'm going to live the way I feel appropriate. I'm going to go to work, earn as much money as I can, pay my taxes and observe the law in pretty much most regards though let's be honest, from time to time I will ignore laws that I don't not believe it should be in the power of any free society to make- such as what stimulants I choose to put in my body.

But what I've earned, I intend to spend. On having a good time.



And I refuse to be bound by archaic codes of morality such as sexual fidelity, monogamy, loyalty to a section of the human race on the basis of a nation state unit, some bizarre idea that I had a role in legislative decisions because every five years I get to put a tick by the box of a candidate who's never going to lose in a seat like this anyway.

The revolution is about a state of mind. It's about living in defiance of the values of the capitalist 'liberal western democracy'.

I fully intend to eat, sleep, live and breath this revolution.

Because it is going to be achieved by living the values of hippie WITHOUT dropping out. And living them openly and in full.

And if I can find enough people up for it and all earning money, then all clubbing together to buy a nice big house where we can all live together in a Free Love commune, yes, I think that's the plan.

That's how I plan to live day to day whilst devoting my life to telling people why this must go, and what we can do to bring that about.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.