but I'm not the only one,
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one,"
- Imagine by John Lennon -
The lyrics were taken from the song Imagine, an anthem that eternally echoes in every single heartbeat of an anarchist.
Yes, we, like John who is also an anarchist, might only be dreamers.... but isn't it more utopian to believe that our sense of justice and freedom can be represented by a bunch of political elite?
The system is called democracy. The system of representation, yet are we being represented or are we being robbed out of our power? The power of mandate that is now in the hands of unknown people with unknown integrity chosen through ballot box.
We, anarchist, do not believe in the state. The state is a disease, as it has proven over and over again throughout the centuries. Democracy is believed to be the best system, yet in practice, it is just another word for "slavery".
Once in every single term, the voters are said to choose for their representatives, but in fact, they vote for new masters, new rulers, not representatives.
Long before the existence of the state and democracy, we live in peaceful anarchist communities. Then came the concept of the state, and everything went wrong since then.
War, systematic murders, and genocides have all been done by the state. The state thrives by pitting its own people against each other. Blacks against whites, Christians against Muslims, and so on. By doing those, the state puts a mental fear in its people's conscience, the fear that makes us believe that without the state, we are helpless.
By using that fear, the state then puts out laws, regulations, which supposedly aim to establish "order and security" while in fact, the state only wants to "control" us. In most cases, the laws do not equal "justice". The laws have always been very powerful against the weak, but very weak against those in power.
The state and democracy are nothing but a perfect visage to enslave us through laws, regulations and mass fear. It is in these kind of situation that resistance is needed to abolish the state, as said by Iraq war veteran, Adam Kokesh, that "when injustice becomes laws, resistance becomes a duty,".
A complete obliteration of all states in the world, I believe, is almost impossible. But we can dream about it can't we? Or at the very least, we can live our daily lives based on anarchy core concepts, which are freedom, justice, love and most of all, mutual-understanding.
We do not need the state and its written laws to respect one another, to love or to be free. We are supposedly be our own masters of conscience and common sense. Put two babies in a room together, and they will interact with one another. They will try to understand each other. Mutual understanding is our basic nature, not enforced by a stroke of pen in legal papers nor by men in uniforms. The flames of anarchy is within each and every single one of you.
In the context of Indonesia, I believe that we are practically living in anarchy. We live every single day amidst the complete ignorance of the government. Our lives is regulated by laws that have never been obeyed and are mostly conceptually produced by bandits in suits sitting at the graft-riddled House of Representatives.
The law enforcers are no better as well, in fact, they are the worst. They are bandits in badged uniforms. The only difference they have with common bandits is that they have the authority to determine their crime as legit.
And as a presidential republic, Indonesia cannot expect much from its number one man, with the fact that he, himself, is not a leader. He cannot even lead his flock of power hungry politicians and cronies to have the same visions, let alone a nation.
Yet, despite all of those fuck ups.... more than 200 million people survive on their own every single day.
When natural disasters recently struck our nation recently, it was not the government nor the representatives that worked their ass off to save lives, but civilian volunteers, with their own resources and capabilities. The people risk their own lives for others, yet the government and the representatives were too busy having fun abroad.
The way the people voluntarily mobilized and coordinated themselves to save lives without a single or little government's assistance was an act of anarchy.
So, do we really need this government? Or should we just abolish it altogether?
You may think that I am only babbling for no reason. Yes, it's your right to do so. However, while you sit there comfortably on your chair reading about the world from your IPads and smart-phones, why don't you take a brief moment to take a stroll outside and see for yourself the hideous crime this state has been conducting on its own people. Then you tell me whether you live in a state of freedom and justice or in one ruled by a bunch of mobsters.
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