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RE: Don't Vote
If the guards have been told that your votes are the source of their authority; better to deprive them of that justification.
If the guards have been told that your votes are the source of their authority; better to deprive them of that justification.
The source of their authority is the walls around the prison. We can't vote for them to disappear.
Metaphors can only go so far. Voting is exactly what legitimises the existence of our mental prisons . In our case the source of the authority and the reason the prison is able to exist without walls is our collective belief in the legitimacy of it. For many people voting is directly the result of that belief in the need for themselves to be ruled and the voting system itself legitimises our subservience to violent authority
When I vote, if I vote, my mind is not in a prison. While I'm in this actual prison of debt, I understand the person who goes to vote against the nutcase Socialist to keep their prison less shitty.