The Phenomona of GLOBAL DISOBEDIENCE
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Friday February 28, 2003 18:44
by ipsiphi - is a silly term. we just change history.
ipsiphi at mindless dot com
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an emergent property of New World Order.
is exciting commentators and essayists and newspaper journalists at the moment. The new "buzz words" seem to be Disobedient. Civil. Non violent. Pacifist. Direct Action.
You can expect lots of people to try and explain to you what these things mean. But it really is very simple, and as one of the original writers to use these phrases together I thought I should tell you where they came from.
I am a freak, a hippy, trippy, anarkisty freak.
I remember the first stages of my educational formation and the oddities they entailed.
I was introduced to number theory before logic, something that ensured years of silly sylogistic arguments.
I was introduced to ethics before morality.
My Mammy did it.
The same woman who had responsibility for sending me to urinate in the Phoenix Park before the present Pontiff Jonh Paul 2 said mass (a great mass said by a great man) in 1979.
This had a big effect on me.
c/f
http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=12739
She presented such sweet ethical debates and paradoxes to me as "would you kill someone to stop them killing your mammy? even if killing someone is a sin [a mortal sin she added]"
and
"would you have turned up your nose when you smellt burning meat coming down the railway line if you had "hypothetically = just imagine it" lived in NAZI germany?"
and
"if you had been "hypothetically = just imagine it" a prisoner in one of the concentration camps of Europe would you have stolen food or water to survive even though you knew that would cause the death of another prisoner?"
oh sticky questions from the mammy of sticky bricky.
She then pointed out to me [the mythical mammy of the O as-if the real one doesnt give a shit] that concetration camps existed in Europe between 1937 and 1945 in order of prisoner size in
Poland
Germany
Bylorussia
Hungary
Czechoslavakia
there were also "hard labour camps" in
Spain
Portugal
Romania
Bulgaria
Ukraine.
oh dear.
Well we are not going to let that happen again are we?
no we are not.
Which is why we are all being DISOBEDIENT.
Now disobedience is not only fun, it makes sense, it is an emergent quality in our current political discourse. Civil disobedience today is not the Civil Rights tactic of Martin Luther King or Ghandi. Dont let anyone tell you it is because it isnīt. I have sat in assembly with disobedienti and they arenīt Ghandi. Take my word for it. And most importantly neither the Indian National congress nor Luther King had used the internet or contemporary counter culture to spread their ideas.
That is an innovation of the 21st century. The century that shall see anarchic- slightly trippy hippy freaky ideas come to "centre stage".
I shall around for most of this century and shall do my best to explain what I see happening so if you still feel "left out" of the wondergul new situation where young people occupy embassys in war zones, where coincidently War trains are stopped in two European countries without any "tangible proof" of interconectedness than just go on reading.
Have a nice disobedient weekend.
remember your mammy told you why you ought not hit other kids, why you oght not steal other kids food and why you should be nice to everyone.
If you are from a "christian tradition" she may have mentioned "the Baby Jesus".
amen to that.
tribute to Martin Luther King
http://liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm
the link is to a review of Dublins last RTS day the day that Germany elected the current Red/Green alliance. [the one that kind of supports peace] I wrote it when I was stoned so dont get too upset if it doesnt make sense. Global things donīt make academic sense.
oh and these are english pages relating to Egunkaria I have been asked to distribute.
http://www.barcelona.indymedia.org/index?section=27&language_desplegable=en