Last month I examined Christopher Rufo’s opinion on modern-day anarchism (although he calls it nihilism). Now I see that Freddie de Boer has a slightly different take on the matter:
I argue that there is a certain treacherous animal spirit stalking around in the WEIRD world, particularly among the young, a yearning for deliverance… and if they have to, they’ll take deliverance through violence. Our culture has erased transcendent meaning and left in its place short-form internet video, frothy pop music, limitless pornography, Adderall for the educated and fentanyl for the not, a ceaseless parade of minor amusements that distract but never satisfy. And people want to be satisfied; they want something durable. They want something to hold on to. They want to transcend the ordinary. And I’m afraid that, with God dead and the romantic ideal ironized into annihilation, the pure thrill of violence is one of the only outlets left to express the inexpressible, and committing violent acts is free.
It is an excellent study, and I recommend it greatly.
And while I’ll leave the solution thereof to the psychologists and therapists, I’m suggesting that now — more than ever — is the time when one should always be armed, less some disaffected young asshole takes it in his head to experience the “thrill of violence” at a place where you happen to be.
It’s bad enough that we should be armed against random robbers not to mention those of the BLM/Antifa persuasion, but now there might be some dreamy anarchists to deal with as well…
Anarchy = the absence of gov’t, or force.
Something I have been in favor of almost all of my life.
Though gov’t is intrusive I live my life everyday as if it doesn’t exist.
When I write my memoir it will be titled “Outlaw Paradise”.
The working title of my autobiography:
* LIKE FOG THROUGH BAMBOO
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