| WHAT ANSWERS? Many questions and criticisms are thrown at the current anti-civilization, anti-technology wing of anarchism by anarcho-leftists, particularly the idea that the strand of anarchism ignores the class struggle, and as such, is close-minded and even eco-fascist. Many will also ask how people will survive without technology at the present state, and criticize those who support Ted Kaczynski. The problem with this situation is not that they are curious of answers, curiosity is a virtue of human nature, allowing us to playfully experience the sorrow and joyful aspects of our lives; rather the problem lies in them asking. Anarcho-leftists tend to think through means of logic and rationality. They know what is right for the working class, they know what is right for the environment, they know what is right for the anarchist movement. They form large organizations to one day bring about the class war. They are their own specialized sub-group of class analysists who continue to encourage a false war about an artificial economy. They need rationality and logic and without these reassurances begin to feel very threatened. Since many of them believe in the rationality of civilization, the very thought of a world free from rules, organizations, and science frighten many of them forcing them to ask the very questions or hurl labeling insults. Because they are part of the left, and so part of the colonialist political spectrum, they are and always will be bound by certain limitations and expectations of civilization. They readily accept the imposition of rationality and logic (an outside force) and sacrafice their needs for the ideology. The outcome of this situation leads many of them to continuosly search for answers from outer sources to fit their politics accordingly. They become so entangled with the rational and the logical, they themselves begin to dismiss all other thoughts, critiques, and senses they believe are irrational, and fight to control and suppress what wildness, fantasy, and imagination they once had within themselves. Because of these limitations, they become open to answers they already approve of through their accepted rationality and logic as the one and only. This embracing of the outer artificial, rather than the self-exploring creative inner, continue to deny what independence from civilization they have within themselves. Thus the irony of the logical and rational fascism of their ideologies will always prevent them from receiving the very answers they are searching for. They have blinded themselves with their own logic and intil they question the very instuments of their inner securities and needs of control, they will continue to nag, insult, and question while preventing themselves from ever reaching the answers. |