In article <6bccd1dc.367fade0.alt.gathering.rainbow@aol.com>,
gathering@cygnus.com wrote:
> In a message dated 98-12-22 07:39:12 EST, you write:
>
> <<
> You got some news coming. If it weren't for the resolution of
> some outlaw hippies fighting injustice, you wouldn't have a
> chance to make your happy camping trips into the woods. If it
> weren't for the resolve of anarchists in the last century, you > might be locked into severely exploitive working conditions,
> and not free to vacation whenever your spirit yearns for nature.
> You don't have to make yourself any promises for the New Year,
> but if you do you should try harder to tell the difference
> between words and blood.
> >>
> It's true. It is very true. I don't know why it isn't immediately apparent
> that anarchy, which disdains laws or rules, has no primary linguistic > connections to resolution/resolutions/resolve neither as synonym nor
> contradiction. Resolution is a drive consciously decided upon. This is not a
> dissimilar paradigm from the difference between a boundary and a rule/set of
> rules. Boundaries are viably adaptive, fluid, able to adjust situationally.
> Boundaries protect an individual and let the individual inter relate
> creatively with the necessary give and take. Rules are rigid, static. The
> rainbow has consensus. How does that differ from resolution? Without
> resolution, how would you identify the work you need to do? How would you > prioritize? Because there are no rules/laws does it mean there is just
> meaningless, pointless, amorphus nothing? Resolution is a focus of energy,
> whereas a law, again, is rigid, tending to be or to become material or aligned
> as materialism. M the r

The decision to organize the production of the anarchist collective,
that waste may be minimized and time freed for the members who contribute
their labor, is no different in kind from the resolution to straighten up
the campsite, to assure the living environment is clean and healthy. These
are spontaneous activities. We organize because we're conscious, we can see
possibilities which wouldn't occur to lower animals. Sanity spoke hastily
in trying to fend off a possible political discussion here, but it's all
connected, and if you put your eyes down close enough to the river and
look upstream you can see the people in cages, saying don't forget them.

What's the R and why are you it, M?

I think the Millenial Amnesty should be named Day of Freedom.
Would that work?

Regards,
Johnny Thunderbird
http://fly.to/heavyLight

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