Why I am an Anarcho-Sentimentalist

I’ve been calling myself an Anarcho-Sentimentalist for a while. Not that I like labeling myself, or the others, in general. Nevertheless, and for a while now, I call myself an anarchist-sentimentalist. Why, would you ask? Because I am a hippie soul, or have a hippie's vein, as I usually say. And why an anarchist-sentimentalist?

Because I identify myself with the principles of Anarchy: I’m against the domination of the strongest over the weakest, against the power that destroys rather than builds, that forgets the poor and the vulnerable people in the name of wicked games of influence and power, and treat the world as if it was a chessboard... putting down the pawns in the first place.

And Sentimentalist because I believe in ideals and causes, I dream of a better world. Because I am for a free society, based on mutual aid and respect, with ethics, values, and humanism. And based on the love of one's neighbor, on an equal and no-discriminatory treatment, based on the race, color, sex, or the level people are included in the social structure.

I believe in these principles, which, moreover, are the basis of Christianity, and I believe that only they can save the world. That's why I say that I'm an Anarchist-Sentimentalist. Two words that, in my opinion, end up meaning the same one another.

We all are or should be born equal, in dignity and opportunities.
And the world should be ruled by values, and by the love of one's neighbor.
And not by the power, by men subduing other men, by the oppression of men over men.
In whatever name or whatever form it may assume.

Isabel
www.isabelnolasco.com

Photos: kids of East Timor, taken by me.

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