Yet before that can happen it needs to be reflected in the hearts and desires of humanity in general. The change must begin with individual attitudes about what constitutes restoration and justice.
Right now the social and political climate is teeming with vengeance. The democrats hate the republicans and one group of protesters wouldn’t mind seeing the other come to harm. Vengeance culture begins and ends in us. So long as we are focused on divisive hatred and us versus them mentality, it will continue.
There is but one enemy of humanity and that is the state. It is a tool by which a ruling class is constructed on the work of the middle class and the misery of the lower classes who are systematically held down to give the middle classes something to fear. But even those who occupy the ruling class are victims of their terrible ideologies and spend their lives in a constant greedy struggle for more. The more you have, the less you can have, and the more you struggle with your own hubris and avarice.
The state and the ruling class aren’t doing anyone any favors, even if we often believe otherwise. By destroying our humanity, they destroy each and every last human.
Ultimately, the state is an institute of vengeance. It gives a monopoly of force to a government so that it can conduct vengeance against those who harm its citizens. But more often, the state is primarily concerned with conducting vengeance against those who would harm it. That is it’s very nature.
Humanity has come a very long way. Technology will make the state and its functions, as well as the ruling class, obsolete. Scarcity, which drives them, is something we can overcome. As we wait for scientists, engineers, innovators and inventors to set up the necessary conditions for a truly free, peaceful and prosperous humanity, we have one thing to do. We must exorcise our childish, petty desire for vengeance, and tame the hatred and fears which drive create that bloodlust.
It is no small task, to be sure. But the reward is no less than our liberty, freedom, autonomy, self-ownership and independence in all matters. If we cannot complete the task, the endless hunger of the state and the ruling class will eventually swallow humanity in their excess. It would be a shame if we came all this way for nothing.
It is time to look forward to what is possible, rather than backwards at what must be avenged.
Are you with me?
Source Article from http://www.copblock.org/167242/vengeance-culture/
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