Nothing must be won-- nothing can be won. Things only exist and wait to be experienced. This kind of thinking may seem contrary or lazy to an aggressive mind-set; but it really isn't. All of the things that popular (and un-popular!) movements seek to institiute already exist. This is why revolution is unnecessary and usually destructive. The act of revolution does not seek its stated goals, it seeks itself, as all things seek themselves. And so revolution yields violence, destructiveness, and conflict. It is somewhat better to let not revolution but re-evolution unfold. Revolution is of itself the imposition of one will upon another, often the imposition of the numerically lesser upon the numerically greater. And in the end, revolution tends to result in the handing of the bludgeon of power from one to another, and little is thereby accomplished. The AIGH does not seek to discredit or soil true people's movents, those almost universally popular and intending the best. But in such cases it is not revolution that takes place. If only one soldier is left holding his gun, the person who reaches out and directs the barrel downward is not a revolutionary but a messenger.
But as a culture we have ultimately gotten nowhere, yet. Our carnal history of revolutions and movements has simply succeeded in handing the gun to someone else. Indeed, the system of "representative democracy" is essentially based on that event. The populace votes and someone else gets to hold the gun for a while, and then someone else, and someone else. But this accomplishes nothing beyond the empty solace that the people have chosen the executioner-to-be.
Why is all of this so? Because the world is full of people who strive to become, to become whatever. And the people who truly are often go without realizing (as is reasonable!) that they are. The simulation that is the forced process of becoming is a project of sorts, an actually conscious push. But the state that is truly being, is beyond definition, beyond attempt or willpower. It is pure. And so, often, those that are are totally unaware that they are-- they live in needless non-sensicality. Does a lamp know it is a lamp? Does it strive to be a lamp? No; and if it did so strive, it would be too busy to give off any light, too busy to be what it already is.
And so has been the neurotiic disease of political and social movements. If we truly feel that we are correct in our intentions, we cannot continue on our path of striving to form a group based on rhetorical solidarity or fervor. We must begin to facilitate being, not the flimsy state of becoming. Otherwise the new, wonderful, free, jubilant triumph will become just another stereotype, another mold, another rigidity, another gun.
Trying is not doing. Our only hope is to do, to be. From a certain perspective this may limit us to ourselves and our immediate situations. But we can only be Sultans of ourselves, and purity is infectious. So take heart. Revel!
It is the state of Anarchy in which the AIGH swims. It is not a thing
to be pieced together, it is a thing that exists and waits to be experienced.
It is Tao, Buddha-nature, Brahman.
We are all Buddha, according to many sects, monism gone wonderfully mad. And we are all
ourselves. Human-ness is not denied by our Buddha-nature, by the fact
that we are all one great being. And Human-ness is not lost when we
find our Buddha-nature. It is something that exists and is at the core
of all of us. It has simply been clouded over by delusion and confusion,
by the need to become.
Tao is also nothing to be found-- we all live in the Tao at every
moment. But we are kept on pins and needles for life because we have
been taught not to realize where we are, who we are, and what we are.
We struggle so desperately to become, but few take the chance to
simply be. To be in the Tao fully and to stop struggling,
nothing has to be lost, we don't have to strip away anything, we don't
have to find a new beginning. A leaf drops from a tree and is carried
away by a breeze. That is all.
So it is with Anarchy. We live Anarchy every day, because as emotional
and intelligent beings we are all Anarchists, no matter how much the
desire of would-be kings tries to mis-inform us. Imposed delusion and
confusion keep us striving to become externally powerful and effective,
to become what is mistakenly termed our "Selves." What is this "Self" that
we are pushed to construct? In fact is is not a Self but an Other. It is
a juxtaposition and no more than that. As our true Selves have been
pushed aside, the resulting void has left the need for this filler, this
constructed juxtaposition in order to "validate" our lives. The pure
existence that is our true Self is kicked away and nearly lost in the
interior consciousness that we have been instructed to bury under a pile
of other people's power-baggage.
Anarchy is not politics, not instruction; it is not a belief system,
not contrived action, not revolution. Anarchy is a baby eating a cracker
and spitting out the mushed remains in sheer delight. That is true Self,
true Anarchy!
Does all of this mean that action is useless? Does it mean that
creation and teaching and caring is nothing? Of course not. Such ideas
are conclusions jumped to by the reactionary and suspicious. Humans
act as a function of our physical existence. Every heart-beat is an act--
are other things any different? We cannot help but act! But our
intentions of producing a solid, pre-ordained result must be recognized
for what they are-- the delivering of an infant already gripped with
rigormortis. Every-day action is that vitality that will enliven both
ourselves and others. (But don't imagine that every-day action has any
limits. Our only limit is apathy, and things are otherwise open-ended!)
Some will be shopkeepers and some will be guerilla poets; but no matter
what one is and chooses to be, even one day to the next, revelation will
pour from every moment. And it is revelation, not instruction, that awakens
others to themselves. It is a random event, completely within itself,
within each person's Self. Revelation is the moment that true Anarchy
breaks free.