As someone who is omewhat dedicated to "fucking shit up" I have to say its not all about hate, or to fuck it up for anyone else. In fact, I have specific people in mind who should have their stuff messed with badly, but thats besides the point.
I don't know if you've been reading my stories about Peru or not, but I'm going to use an example from that, then expand on it. There are some things I have left out of this trip. In jokes, the daily grind of life on the move and finally, the beggars that plague the streets of Peruvian cities.
It didnt matter which city, or wher you were. You were a rich tourist, so they went to you. The lepers (of which there were more than a few), the orhpans, the homeless...without fail, every day we were in a large town or city. They would ask and plead for just a sol or two (thats 1/3 of a $US, last time I checked) to allow them to eat. And being a generally nice person, I liked to think, I wanted to give them one, but....
Where did it stop? Other beggars watched, stood around the corners of the streets to see who was the softest among the foreigners. Whoever gave a single sol away could expect a small crowd to follow them. And what could that person do? Were they to judge who was and wasn't worthy of eating that day? Or were they to bankrupt themself trying to feed everyone on the streets?
I was the above person. I had a bad experience in Cuzco in my first few days based on above. The worst bit was the feeling of judging on people for whom there was nothing to be guilty of. I wondered why they were there, if there were larger reasons than just the poverty of a third world nation involved. So I began to read, about economics, about globalization, about strange 3 letter groups like the WTO and IMF. I begun to understand there were systemic reasons for the disparity in wealth, that it actually benefitted people, who cared nothing for the suffering of others so long as they continued to gain material benefits.
So first I started to look at groups that were dedicated to trying to right this. I found very slim pickings, mostly among the fringes of the left, hollow babbling by hollow men whose "solutions" were worse than the disease, whose talk of justice was as meaningless as that of those who benefitted from the status quo. I wanted nothing to do with them.
The system that propagates this, the axoims upon which it rests are my enemy and what I want to destroy, to fuck up. Sure, it would probably involve alot of suffering. But any more than what there is now, where whole economies are ravaged for the benefit of less than a thousand men, where regional recessions are organized and planned, damn the consequences of those who lose their only means of support? Could it be any worse then when force of arms is used to "open a country to market economics" and the dead litter the cities like discarded wrappings?
Probably not, is my feeling. To be fair, I dont think any political system to replace tis would be better, as you well know. Or any economic system. But it may, possibly just change things enough to allow some of those people who were denied it to find some form of freedom. To be fair, I admit freedom is not for everyone, that self-liberation is probably the only way can really live in such a messed up world and that path is not for everyone to take. But then again, life is not what the Judeo-Christian ethic teaches us either. For many, such a struggle would be liberation from intolerable suffering and strife, even if they died in the attempt.
I'd rather people had the chance to be free then act as money makers for a few bastards at the top of the food-chain. But then again, I'm fucked up like that.
PS: Oh, I'm not a Subgenii either. They've got some good ideas, but so do the Christians, Discordians, Buddhists, Muslims and Hindu's. Just because someone likes some of the ideas of a particular group doesnt mean they owe any alleigance to it, is the realization I'm coming to. Even with Discordianism.
