Good Hearts Of Anarchists

The Good Hearts Of Anarchists

Anarchist picnic today and I don't go, anarchist gathering in Friendship park - I am in friendship park so often it feels like my territory. Friends good acquaintances speaker red and black flags, I do not stop to listen, I continued walking by studying Spanish. I see my friend in Laundromat and I exagerate allowing myself to take a little of my bad mood out on him because we are friends "When I was 20 I was the most convinced anarchist, now my political beliefs are something like the opposite of anarchism."

Thinking more clearly about it, definitely an exageration. Definitely not an anarchist, maybe I am against it sometimes. In extremes it gets old and not interesting but it really comes down to the day, the mood. Feel a love for humanity and moderate identification as someone on the left, feel a disdain for the low quality of people and think of most of it is as ideological fluff.

Anarchists arguing with Trotskyists in my mind is synonymous with Catholics arguing with Protestants, or vice versa. Yes, they are making particular arguments about particular things - and the content of the arguments between Catholic and Protestant and Trotskyist and Anarchist (or "Progressive" and "Anarchist" or "Leftist" and "Liberal" ... whatever) are quite different. But why are the people talking to each other discussing in such a way? I feel like I have a real understanding of it.

I think it isn't debatable, all else equal take an anarchist and a regular guy or girl the anarchist is probably going to be smarter and also have a bigger heart. The regular guy or girl isn't going to understand the anarchist. I tell a friend that my roommate is Iraq-War Veteran, etc and she responds "there is no excuse for ignorance" ... but does this person really understand that her mind is stronger than 9/10 ... that it seems that a huge proportion of human beings internalize the culture around them and accept it as "good" ... what is often forgotten is that being at peace with social environment is usually what a strong human mind does to adapt. A lady living in a ghetto who is happy with her neighbors is showing her strength. There is a load of wisdom in accomodating oneself to the world one lives in.

The knowledge anarchists, radicals, etc have about society often has a-lot of profound truth in it. I remember myself vividly the propoganda that was used to start the Iraq War and the radical left point demonstrated with pretty much flawless logic and evidence that the campaign was a fraud and crime against humanity.

Problem is though is that the socio-political world is something beyond the grasp of anyones mind, and thousands of pages can be written out producing evidence for the good and the bad ... the beautiful and the ugly. No, I do not think it is overly sentimental the actual violence and exploitation humans to do other humans, I just don't think there is much can be done about it. It is an odd way to end an argument, and it's just a blog post, to end it with a rather abstract argument: anarchists are likely to be have bigger hearts and stronger minds than the average person and so do not, in general, have a solid understanding of how stupid, mean, and manipulative so much of the mass of humanity is at the core.