The Art of Anarchy: How the State Suppresses Creativity, Innovation, and Progress.

As Abe is currently attempting to reinterpret Article 9 of the Japanese constitution it looks like Japan may indeed be going "strongly forward," right into war. The "Status Quo" Destroys What We Don't (but could possibly) Know. I want to pause here for a second and look at the word "state." Look at the phrase "status quo." State and status are clearly seen to share a common etymological root. Namely, the Latin "stare" which means "to stand." Now, think of the words "stagnant" or "static." These words are all interrelated. What they have in common is clearly seen: NOTHING IS MOVING. It truly is a sad state of affairs. The state hates movement, hates innovation, and hates progress. How do I know? Well, if it is not easy enough to decipher already, let's look at three fields where true progress in innovation is basically grinding to a halt under state "supervision." This "supervision" is killing the real vision which always benefits humanity insofar as it is allowed to flourish. The three areas are: 1. Health 2. Science 3. The Arts Health Marijuana. Need I say more? Proven to dramatically reduce the symptoms of epilepsy and other neurological disorders, kill cancer cells and provide a safe, non-addictive treatment for pain, depression, and PTSD, Cannabis, this plant which also has about a million other practical uses is... "ILLEGAL." I think I need to smoke a bowl now because I want to puke. Oh wait. I can't. I'll be taken from my family, put in a rape cage and have to do hard labor. Silly me. I forgot. We are civilized. Super addictive opiate-based painkillers shown to make people suicidal and more depressed? Why, legal, of course. RESOURCES ON THE MEDICAL BENEFITS OF CANNABIS: http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/cannabis-pdq https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S9qkYLtAhSQ Science Nikola Tesla. Arguably the greatest inventor/scientific mind of the late 19th, early 20th century--dies alone, penniless, and talking to birds. No matter he was working to, and claimed to have found, a way to extract free, ambient energy from the air. The Rockefellers, Edisons, and Morgans, would not hear of it. No funding for you, Nik! Why was there no funding for Tesla? In a nutshell, it was because the state was interested in maintaining a violent monopoly on the production of power, so they could continue to stuff their faces with the finest foods and travel the world, while laughing at the likes of you and I, working until we die to pay for access to their shitty fossil fuels and crudely primitive sources for energy and power. Morgan could easily see that Tesla’s main motivation was not to make money. Rather it was to emancipate humanity with new forms of technology that would liberate people from darkness, drudgery, and various forms of top-down oppression. Neither Morgan nor the class he represented shared Tesla’s goal of conducting research and development to make life easier and better in ways that operate within, rather than against, prevailing patterns of nature, including what is best in human nature. SOURCE RESOURCES: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_todre.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer The Arts My whole reason for posting. I read an interesting quote by film director Francis Ford Coppola just yesterday: You have to remember that it’s only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. Artists had a patron, either the leader of the state or the duke of Weimar or somewhere, or the church, the pope. Or they had another job. I have another job. I make films. No one tells me what to do. But I make the money in the wine industry. You work another job and get up at five in the morning and write your script. This idea of Metallica or some rock n’ roll singer being rich, that’s not necessarily going to happen anymore. Because, as we enter into a new age, maybe art will be free. Maybe the students are right. They should be able to download music and movies. I’m going to be shot for saying this. But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money? SOURCE Well, how do you feel? Do you want to shoot him? I don't. I think his answer here is dead on. I am all for artists being paid. In fact, that is one of the main reasons I am on Steemit.com. However, as an anarchist, and as one who has given a substantial amount of thought to the matter, I do not support IP (intellectual property) "rights." These reasons why I do not can be basically summed up in this article by @jaredhowe. What I am getting at here is that real artists, paid for the art or not, are going to create. However, for anyone who has ever read George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying it is clear that some modicum of sustenance (food in belly, clothes on back, roof over head) are necessary for creation to really take place. I quote Orwell from the aforementioned title here: The next seven months were devastating. They scared him and almost broke his spirit. He learned what it means to live for weeks on end on bread and margarine, to try to ‘write’ when you are half starved, to pawn your clothes, to sneak trembling up the stairs when you owe three weeks’ rent and your landlady is listening for you. Moreover, in those seven months he wrote practically nothing. The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought. He grasped, as though it were a new discovery, that you do not escape from money merely by being moneyless. On the contrary, you are the hopeless slave of money until you have enough of it to live on―a ‘competence’, as the beastly middle-class phrase goes. So, this is it. Without money, creation is stifled. Without money, people become selfish (naturally). Without money, fear sets in. ( As a brief aside, I would also like to recommend W. Somerset Maugham's The Summing Up as an excellent exploration of this idea. Maugham wrote this book toward the end of his life as a kind of final statement, and self-declaration, and in it he talks much of how success, to the contrary of what society says and teaches, did not make him greedy, haughty, uncreative and unfeeling, but on the contrary seemed to engender compassion, creativity, and long suffering for others in him.) Without the State, Money Flows Maybe you are an artist working as a carpenter, daytime. Maybe you do landscaping. Maybe you are a garbage man symphony composer burning the midnight oil in unpredictable feverish heats of creative passion. There is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with working a "day job," is there? Sure, we should all strive to do what we love, and to do it ALL THE TIME. I'm a believer in that. If it wasn't what we were "meant to do" why would we be doing it for no pay, no glory, and no legacy, other than that of our own personal satisfaction? My main point in writing this is that, without all the restrictive--and maybe, more accurately, constrictive--red tape, meaningless legislation, bureaucratic fines, fees, licenses, taxes, and guns to your head to enforce them, you would probably have more money, and thus, more time, energy, resources, compassion and flow to dedicate to your art. A picture I drew of my former band, on which I spent thousands of dollars and got nothing in return but a personal satisfaction. Namely, the transmission of myself via sounds, music, and words to others, and the joy of connecting with my fellow humans on a profound level through self-expression. Anarchism, Art, and Order If you are an anarchist you likely know the overwhelming feeling of dread and fear that sometimes hits. I've got a stomachache right now because of it. It feels as if there is no way out. Behind on medical bills, behind on taxes, behind on absolutely everything and your whole life you have been told that this is normal: to burn yourself out, and slave each moment of existence just to pay a thief, is normal. Enough is enough. Can you imagine how beautiful the world could be without a state? Beautiful gardens being grown, medicine being made and technology being advanced at light-speed now that the lobbyists are gone. Now that everyone is armed, we laugh at those who would say "stop resisting" when they try to uproot plants from our gardens, forests and fields. Community organizations come to your aid. The bully who used to throw people in cages is now, ostracized caged or killed himself should he try to violate the rights or take the life of another peaceful human being. Can you imagine the paintings, the murals, the sculptures viewed from modern, high-speed roadways standing stories tall, of boys and girls playing, of great men and women of science, instead of the grotesque statues of communist leaders or child-murdering, dictatorial thieves? This is my world. I live in this world already. Will you be there, too? ~KafkA Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist residing in Niigata, Japan. / https://postimg.org/image/4dorojsjx/