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Kenny Bridge

We carry a new world here, in our hearts

About Me

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. I do not content myself with consulting authority in any special branch; I consult several; I compare their opinions, and choose that which seems to me the soundest. But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. The greatest intelligence would not be equal to a comprehension of the whole. Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give — such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. Therefore there is no fixed and constant authority, but a continual exchange of mutual, temporary, and, above all, voluntary authority and subordination.
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other. They say in a single breath: "God and the liberty of man," "God and the dignity, justice, equality, fraternity, prosperity of men" — regardless of the fatal logic by virtue of which, if God exists, all these things are condemned to non-existence. For, if God is, he is necessarily the eternal, supreme, absolute master, and, if such a master exists, man is a slave; now, if he is a slave, neither justice, nor equality, nor fraternity, nor prosperity are possible for him. In vain, flying in the face of good sense and all the teachings of history, do they represent their God as animated by the tenderest love of human liberty: a master, whoever he may be and however liberal he may desire to show himself, remains none the less always a master. His existence necessarily implies the slavery of all that is beneath him. Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty — by ceasing to exist.

I am a free thinking, selective service card burning, anti-statist, anti-authoritarian, straight edge, vegan, atheist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-sexist, radical that lives each day as though there may not be another.
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
-Henry Louis Mencken
"La propriété, c'est le vol"
-Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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My Interests

abstract expressionism, anarcho-syndicalism, anti-authoritarianism, anti-statism, atheism, biking, buddhism, civil disobedience, chromatic abstraction, critical mass, culture jamming, conscientious objection, debate, demonstrations, direct action, diy, existentialism, fair-trade, flag desecration, fluxus, food not bombs, french, gasoline and styrofoam, humanities, hunt sabotage, insurrection, inverse surveillance, libertarian communism, logic, lyrical abstraction, martial arts, marxist socialism, mathematics, music, organic and biochemistry, painting, pirate radio, poetry, political science, politics, quantum mechanics, running, secularism, sedition, sociology, squatting, straight edge, street blockading, taoism, tattoos, teach ins, teaching, temporal theories, transhumanism, utilitarianism, veg*nism, and lots lots more... feel free to ask

I'd like to meet:


Leila Khaled

Music:

My iPod's artist menu reads as such:

(Bolded artists are who I am listening to most recently)

A.F.I., The Acacia Strain, Against Me!, The Album Leaf, All Left Out, All Shall Perish, American Nightmare, Ann Baretta, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, As The Sun Sets, Avail, Bane, Better Than A Thousand, Black Flag, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Blood For Blood, Boards Of Canada, Bob Dylan, The Books, The Bouncing Souls, Boy Sets Fire, Buried Alive, Burnt By The Sun, Bury Your Dead, Catch 22, Ceremony, Choking Victim, Cobra Skulls, Coheed and Cambria, Comeback Kid, Common Rider, Consonant, Converge, Cro-Mags, Cult Of Luna, Curlupanddie, Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip, Day Of Contempt, The Dead Kennedys, Death Cab For Cutie, Death Threat, The Decemberists, Dedication, Diecast, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dodgin’ Bullets, The Dollyrots, Doomriders, Dropkick Murphys, Earth Crisis, Eighteen Visions, Elliot Smith, Eluvium, Envy, Every Time I Die, Explosions In The Sky, Figure Four, First Blood, Fugazi, Ghost Mice, Glassjaw, Good Clean Fun, Gym Class Heros, H2O, Head Automatica, The Hope Conspiracy, The Hostage Heart, Immortal Technique, Inquisition, International Superheros Of Hardcore, Interpol, Iron And Wine, Bach, Jawbreaker, Jello Biafra, Jets To Brazil, Jimmy Eat World, Joy Division, Judge, June Of 44, Kid Dynamite, Kids Like Us, Lard, Life Long Tragedy, A Life Once Lost, Lifetime, Lions, Love Is Red, L. van Beethoven, Lydia, Madball, MC Chris, Melvins, Mental, Minor Threat, Minus The Bear, Mission Of Burma, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mountain Goats, Mozart, New Found Glory, No Innocent Victim, Nora, Nothington, On Broken Wings, Operation Ivy, Orchid, Osker, Panic, Path Of Resistance, Pennywise, Piebald, The Pirate Signal, Pitboss/Pitboss 2000, Poison The Well, The Postal Service, Profuse 73, The Promise, The Promise Ring, Propagandhi, Quicksand, Rage Against The Machine, Ramallah, Reach The Sky, Righteous Jams, Rise Against, Sabertooth Zombie, Sage Francis, Samiam, Saves The Day, Screeching Weasel, Set Your Goals, Shai Hulud, Shark Attack, Shelter, Shook Ones, Sick Of It All, Sigur Ros, A Silver Mount Zion, Skarhead, Sliver, The Smiths, Snapcase, Solea, St. Germain, Stand And Fight, Street Dogs, Stretch Arm Strong, Strife, Strike Anywhere, Sunny Day Real Estate, Taking Back Sunday, Talib Kweli, Tat, Ten Yard Fight, Texas Is The Reason, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, A Thousand Falling Skys, Thursday, Tiger Army, Tragedy, A Tribe Called Quest, Triclops!, Vegan Reich, Verse, Warzone, The Weakerthans, With Honor, xDeathstarx, xTripwirex, Youth Of Today, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, +44, 100 Demons, 108

Books:

I read a lot, my favourite authors are; William Shakespeare, Jean Paul Sartre, Albet Camus, Christian Bok, Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, and Henry Miller

Heroes:

Jack Kerouac

My Blog

it's posted on several sites but not my own blog... until now hahaha

Straight Edge, The History and Future of A Positive Movement Lets go back to the early '80s. A time of punk rock and its death from the public eye. Here in North America punk moved under...
Posted by Kenny Bridge on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:22:00 PST