Would you believe that I'm an Eagle Scout? I fear my fate is to become a tertiary character in a badly written cyberpunk novel. I'm friendly, upbeat and optimistic, except when I'm cynical, pessimistic and solitary. Some people don't get my jokes, but I'm not telling jokes for them--my specialty is gallows humor. I sometimes become obsessed, but I can also be fickle. I think I'm very moral, except in the terms of modern morals. I pick socio-political fights. I talk too much. I can be pedantic, which sometimes comes off as condescending (which I'm *usually* not trying to be). I want more bookshelves. I haven't forgotten where I came from. I end sentences with prepositions just to piss off people with English degrees. I need an editor. I don't know when to give up--I've wasted to much blood, sweat and tears on lost causes.My blog and livejournal strive to mimic each other.Flickr: FlintSparcSome writing:
Where License Reigns With All Impunity: An Anarchist Study of the Rotinonshón:ni Polity
Blood Money: The Human-Capital Equation of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
Review of A People's History of Iraq: The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers' Movements, and the Left, 1924-2004
Bringing Class Struggle Up-To-Date
Supporting Revolutionary Afghan Women
Fascists, Anti-Fascists and the State
MOBilization radio: LPFM (low power FM) and pirates
A New Syndicalism?
Anarchist Organization: an Oxymoron, or not?
Interview with Left TurnRanting:A16, Black Bloc, anarchism, anti-capitalist, violence, non-violence, IMF, World Bank .Why I don't like government:
"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality." (P.-J. Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, translated by John Beverly Robinson (London: Freedom Press, 1923), pp. 293-294.)
