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Monday, October 29, 2007
Achtung!
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Love
Religions and religious people tend to talk about love. About God loving us (yeah, the holocaust was really loving.). Or they tend to talk about som other GREAT SPIRIT that loves us or is love or that the "natural state of mankind" is peace, love and understanding.
Bullshit.
There is no such thing as love. Love is something we have made up, because without it the world would just be to horrible. Just like god. A world without a loving god and without love... That is horrific, isn't it?
Now, what I mean when I say that there is no such thing as love is not that you (and I) are mistaken when we feel strongly about our parents or our partners or our sibling or whatever. It is that it is a construct. It is my belief that love is at it's base fear and dependency. You love someone because somehow your life is made easier by that person. You depend on that person and you fear the loss of that person and of that dependency. So far it is natural. But things get complicated when you look at the fact that humans are not instinctive, but social and cultural animals. The feelings of fear and dependency we have will not stay simple and instinctive. They will get complicated by our culture and our social lifes.
And then... We make up LOVE. Because we are smart. And stupid. And so very very afraid.
I love my cats. But I doubt they love me back. I have no doubt they are very fond of me. After all, I give them food, security, cuddling etc. But love... No.
But then again... Isn't that what love is, and what love is about? Haven't we maybe destroyed and polluted the concept with shitty rom-coms, sappy love songs and such? Hasn't love been destroyed? Do you actually think that Mr. Right is out there? The woman of your dreams? That there is someone out there that you are meant to be with? Because that is not true, you do know that?
And still... There is something about it that really puzzles me.
But more about that another time.
On a more musical note: everybody MUST check out Siebensünden. They don't have a homepage (that works) but they sell their stuff via I Hate Records and Pas-83. And their latest release is an album/EP with the lyrics written by Nikanor Teratologen (if you can't read swedish that is really your loss because that man is a dirty disgusting mighty-as-the-eagle literary genious. But he's only published in swedish.)! But the music is really good, although the vocals put me of a bit. They take some getting used to.
On other news, Nifelheims new album should be out within a month or two and it is of course the most brilliant black metal release since the last Nifelheim album.
Bullshit.
There is no such thing as love. Love is something we have made up, because without it the world would just be to horrible. Just like god. A world without a loving god and without love... That is horrific, isn't it?
Now, what I mean when I say that there is no such thing as love is not that you (and I) are mistaken when we feel strongly about our parents or our partners or our sibling or whatever. It is that it is a construct. It is my belief that love is at it's base fear and dependency. You love someone because somehow your life is made easier by that person. You depend on that person and you fear the loss of that person and of that dependency. So far it is natural. But things get complicated when you look at the fact that humans are not instinctive, but social and cultural animals. The feelings of fear and dependency we have will not stay simple and instinctive. They will get complicated by our culture and our social lifes.
And then... We make up LOVE. Because we are smart. And stupid. And so very very afraid.
I love my cats. But I doubt they love me back. I have no doubt they are very fond of me. After all, I give them food, security, cuddling etc. But love... No.
But then again... Isn't that what love is, and what love is about? Haven't we maybe destroyed and polluted the concept with shitty rom-coms, sappy love songs and such? Hasn't love been destroyed? Do you actually think that Mr. Right is out there? The woman of your dreams? That there is someone out there that you are meant to be with? Because that is not true, you do know that?
And still... There is something about it that really puzzles me.
But more about that another time.
On a more musical note: everybody MUST check out Siebensünden. They don't have a homepage (that works) but they sell their stuff via I Hate Records and Pas-83. And their latest release is an album/EP with the lyrics written by Nikanor Teratologen (if you can't read swedish that is really your loss because that man is a dirty disgusting mighty-as-the-eagle literary genious. But he's only published in swedish.)! But the music is really good, although the vocals put me of a bit. They take some getting used to.
On other news, Nifelheims new album should be out within a month or two and it is of course the most brilliant black metal release since the last Nifelheim album.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
Battlestar Galactica
Just watched an episode of the above mentioned series (S03E01) and just came to think about how well it reflects the plight of the palestinian people. And the iraqi for that matter. I'm obviously not the first one to do that connection. But it is still interesting that a show so obviously in the american/anglosaxon sphere of influence can choose a so specific side...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Ms. Anthropy
You Are 63% Misanthropic |
 Here's the truth: Most people suck. You are just lucky enough to know it. You're not ready to go live alone in a cave - but you're getting there. |
Not as bad as I thought it would be. Maybe there is some hope for me?
Friday, October 5, 2007
Eff Off
I'm sad at the moment. Not for any real specific reason, like a death or something. But this world makes me sad. People make me sad. Not any specifik persons. Just people. Humanity.
This is sad. Pathetic. Shit.
This is sad. Pathetic. Shit.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Lumpenproletariat
"...the term refers to the 'refuse of all classes,' including 'swindlers, confidence tricksters, brothel-keepers, rag-and-bone merchants, organ-grinders, beggars, and other flotsam of society.'"
-Wikipedia & Marx
As you can see, the lumpenproletariat is not considered that great by Marx, or traditionally by Marxists. They are those who are outside the system, who are withouth traditional means of emplyoment. It is referred to as a "dangerous class" by Marx, not likely to be productive in the revolution. A conservative class, a class just as (or more) likely to align with the bourgoisie as with the working class. And why not? Marx & marxist have a way of really neatly explaining away contradictions in the ideology*, such as the revolutionary stance of the working class.
Among communist revolutionarys the working glass is often viewed as something inherently revolutionary. The working class is always revolutionary. A drive for revolution is a part of being working class. But how do you then explain the lack of communist revolutions in the world? After all, the working class exists everywhere. It is because the working class is being misled, you see. It is being fooled by the bourgoisie.
Now, I would say that if the working class is being misled into not being revolutionary it isn't revolutionary. But that don't really fit in with the communist/marxist world view. I would say that being workin class is being conservative, wanting things NOT to change. Out of fear, if nothing else. Why do you think Oi! (evolved out of the working class + punk) has not changed in almost 30 years, while many other forms of punk (a middle class phenomenon) has continued to evolve (in many cases evolved in to totally different genres)? Sure, all the Discharge clones can be pretty boring, but that is a very special case and a very special band. And still, they manage to either do something of their own or they rip Discharge so incredibly good that you know they do it as a specific tribute to a specific band. Another example: Sex Pistols vs. Public Image Limited. Get it?
And the lumpenproletariat... Once again, a piece of the working class that doesn't behave like it should. Therefore it is not a real part of the workin class. The working class is what the marxist decide are the working class. Simply because they, in their romantic mist, don't see the need of destroying the working class. The steps towards a revolutionary society does not include putting the working class on the top of the pyramid. The working class has (as has all people) been contiuously bred to stupidity, fed with fear and hate. The know that if things change, they will change towards the worst. Thats what it means to be working class. But not for the commies. The definition of lumpenproletariat is "those that don't fit."
The working class must be destroyed. ALL CLASSES MUST BE DESTROYED. IT IS A VICIOUS SYMBIOT, THIS SOCIETY. One cannot function without the two others. The must all burn, they must all be purged.
But for now, I can at least romanticise the outlaws, vagabonds and at least potentially free and rebellious spirits of the lumpenproletariat. Sure, their bodies are in worse dangers than mine. The may die, be beaten, used and abused, but their minds and spirits are left to their own accord to a much larger extent. I appreciate that. In my dealings with criminals (not that it happens that often) and other 'outsiders' I see a free will and an uncovered eye about what this society really is than I do in my dealings with representatives of the class system.
Marx called them "the refuse of all classes" and meant it as a derogatory term. I see it as something positive. To be refused by the classes it to be cast out for refusing to be a slave.
You are at the bottom. You have been put at the bottom because the rickety pyramid ahead of won't hold with you in it. You have a choice. Set the pyramid ablaze or build a new pyramid. Both are totally acceptable. Both are good. But you must choose, and you must see. You cannot live in the shadow and in the sewers of this tower of Babel any longer. It must burn or be deserted.
* don't get me wrong. I am a big fan of Marx and of socialism. Marx was a genious. But he wasn't right all of the time. And I should also state that several contemporary marxists use the word lumpenproletariat as simply a description of people outside the wage-labor system.
-Wikipedia & Marx
As you can see, the lumpenproletariat is not considered that great by Marx, or traditionally by Marxists. They are those who are outside the system, who are withouth traditional means of emplyoment. It is referred to as a "dangerous class" by Marx, not likely to be productive in the revolution. A conservative class, a class just as (or more) likely to align with the bourgoisie as with the working class. And why not? Marx & marxist have a way of really neatly explaining away contradictions in the ideology*, such as the revolutionary stance of the working class.
Among communist revolutionarys the working glass is often viewed as something inherently revolutionary. The working class is always revolutionary. A drive for revolution is a part of being working class. But how do you then explain the lack of communist revolutions in the world? After all, the working class exists everywhere. It is because the working class is being misled, you see. It is being fooled by the bourgoisie.
Now, I would say that if the working class is being misled into not being revolutionary it isn't revolutionary. But that don't really fit in with the communist/marxist world view. I would say that being workin class is being conservative, wanting things NOT to change. Out of fear, if nothing else. Why do you think Oi! (evolved out of the working class + punk) has not changed in almost 30 years, while many other forms of punk (a middle class phenomenon) has continued to evolve (in many cases evolved in to totally different genres)? Sure, all the Discharge clones can be pretty boring, but that is a very special case and a very special band. And still, they manage to either do something of their own or they rip Discharge so incredibly good that you know they do it as a specific tribute to a specific band. Another example: Sex Pistols vs. Public Image Limited. Get it?
And the lumpenproletariat... Once again, a piece of the working class that doesn't behave like it should. Therefore it is not a real part of the workin class. The working class is what the marxist decide are the working class. Simply because they, in their romantic mist, don't see the need of destroying the working class. The steps towards a revolutionary society does not include putting the working class on the top of the pyramid. The working class has (as has all people) been contiuously bred to stupidity, fed with fear and hate. The know that if things change, they will change towards the worst. Thats what it means to be working class. But not for the commies. The definition of lumpenproletariat is "those that don't fit."
The working class must be destroyed. ALL CLASSES MUST BE DESTROYED. IT IS A VICIOUS SYMBIOT, THIS SOCIETY. One cannot function without the two others. The must all burn, they must all be purged.
But for now, I can at least romanticise the outlaws, vagabonds and at least potentially free and rebellious spirits of the lumpenproletariat. Sure, their bodies are in worse dangers than mine. The may die, be beaten, used and abused, but their minds and spirits are left to their own accord to a much larger extent. I appreciate that. In my dealings with criminals (not that it happens that often) and other 'outsiders' I see a free will and an uncovered eye about what this society really is than I do in my dealings with representatives of the class system.
Marx called them "the refuse of all classes" and meant it as a derogatory term. I see it as something positive. To be refused by the classes it to be cast out for refusing to be a slave.
You are at the bottom. You have been put at the bottom because the rickety pyramid ahead of won't hold with you in it. You have a choice. Set the pyramid ablaze or build a new pyramid. Both are totally acceptable. Both are good. But you must choose, and you must see. You cannot live in the shadow and in the sewers of this tower of Babel any longer. It must burn or be deserted.
* don't get me wrong. I am a big fan of Marx and of socialism. Marx was a genious. But he wasn't right all of the time. And I should also state that several contemporary marxists use the word lumpenproletariat as simply a description of people outside the wage-labor system.
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