Anyone can offer good advice. Anyone can be an expert. I am neither. I started using the phrase classwarnow a few years ago. It might have been something that my friend Brad and I used to say in jest. Then I started reading a bunch of shit about Marx and Lenin and other various revolutionaries. I had already come to the conclusion that sustainable living was the only sensible path to the future.
The phrase classwarnow does not indicate that I think people from one social class should take up physical arms against those in another class. I don't. I don't believe in coercive activity. Arms mean coercion. I do, however, believe in free will. I believe that a state, a government and a social class have just as much power over you as you give them. What I want is for people to begin to really reconsider the relationship that they have with the state. To realize that the concept of a nation is one that requires you to believe in it, not to simply accept it. If you are left with a choice between 2 ideas, one you simply passively accept, and the other being one you're willing to run toward, and put effort into making work, the second idea will win.
I believe we can do better. I do not believe in utopia. I do, however, believe that we can do better than we are currently. I simply want to invite people to start having that discussion. Is this the best we can do? Are the current models of government, of economic units and international trade the apex of human creativity? Is this the best we can do, or is this a system where brute force and economic power is to set rules of the road?
I don't know. I hope not. I want to take an honest look at the systems of the past, see where they failed and where they were successful. I want to take an honest look at the present, at the way things seem to be working out and see if the direction they are going is where I want to go. I want to look toward the future, to examine trends and try to see if we can make corrections where necessary to avoid potential hazards.
In the meantime, I do know that social change has never come from the top. The civil rights movement was not guided by politicians. Politicians gravitated to it once the noise in the street became loud enough. Unions are what forced changes in the workplace, the bosses didn't do it because it was the right thing to do.
Until I figure out how to do all of that, I am hosting a radio show where I play music, once a week. I think that it's pretty good music, and I hope you stick around. I hope that you can take 2 hours a week to kick back, relax and join something larger than yourself. Join me to listen to music, to think a little bit and have some fun.
The Dr.