[quote=“Magnus Anderson”]
Kropotkin: a dreamer living in a fantasy land, easily annoyed, flinches at everything disturbing his sleep
K: I am impressed you actually thought of me… because to be honest with you,
I don’t give you a moments thought… even when I am answering you, I don’t
really think about you because you are just a clueless kid and I don’t bother
with clueless children… When I am “responding to you”, I am really just
focusing on my thoughts and what I am thinking about is what I am writing…
you just happen to be there…
Wouldn’t that just destroy Pezer and Fixed Cross if I of all people become the reknown maker of philosophical shorts?
And Maggie Andy, if you gotta fucking check Wikipedia to know which way Montenegro leans internationally, then your not really in much of a position to claim to be one. I’m guessing most of your cultural awareness of your homeland comes from James Bond: Casino Royale?
I don’t watch movies. A waste of time. Most movies, especially TV shows, are either “realistic”, in that they represent modern day way of life (which is detached from reality, hence not exactly realistic, other than in the superficial sense that it is something that can be observed in reality), or they are “unrealistic”, in that they portray something that cannot possibly happen in reality.
Didn’t know Casino Royale takes place in Montenegro until you told me so.
Why should I care about modern day Montenegro? Why should I care about American Montenegro? Why should I care about any modern day country when I know that no modern day country has culture?
I want to know where my instincts come from. I started by exploring my genealogy. Then I looked up the countries my ancestors lived in, specifically the history of these countries, so that I could see how people used to live there in an effort to see how many of my instincts match their tradition.
Magnus Anderson: “Kropotkin: a dreamer living in a fantasy land, easily annoyed, flinches at everything disturbing his sleep”
K: a couple of things, first of all, I have worked with kids and now I work retail,
frankly, I have the patience of a saint… the only thing I flinch at is…
young republicans… hate them…and in life, I am about the funniest
person you will ever meet…I have been told by many, I should have gone
into standup comedy… I simply don’t have the ego for that…
and last but certainly not least… I am always working toward the future…
I have no interest in the past, it has little value for me, I have some interest
in the present, where we currently now… and most of all, I am engaged in
the future… where should we be?
I do dream of the future… of a better future for all of us… what needs to happen
to get us to a future we can all live in?.. for me, I always ask, why?
and what future should we try for?
I can see where we have been, I can see where we are and I want us
to see where we need to be…and that focus on what needs to be,
has often been called a “dreamer” and I am ok with that because
every great person who has lived, has been called a dreamer… for wanting
a better future for us all… I’m good with that…
While I certainly do not seek to identify with the bourgeois, nor to imitate its peculiar culture and morality, my independence as a peripatetic craftsman/bard/assassin excludes me from the proletarian class… and yet does not make me a capitalist, for I have no employees.
In any case, I have been recently experiencing a principle of capitalist economics pertaining to demand and what I’ve recognized as a freedom granted only because of the sheer volume of possibilities available for a merchant.
It is almost analogous to the converse of being in a casino with so much money, you can bet big and it’s nothing if you lose.
In my case, I have so many requests from customers that I am able to bid much higher (now that I’ve researched the data) than before… and if I don’t get the job, I still have plenty of other stuff to do, so I’ve lost nothing. But, being still at the low end on the bidding pole, there’s a good chance I get the job.
This ability and room to experiment is very refreshing and I’m quite learning a lot.
What I’m also experiencing directly is the vastly disproportionate change in profit leveling when you do the same work in the same time as a wage worker at your skill level, but make three or four times the amount he does simply and only because you aren’t working for a wage like him.
Something aren’t right about that. I don’t mean morally. I mean in the way that wage workers willingly allow that and haven’t yet got their shit together and put the coup DeVille on them niggaz. Shit don’t even make senze.
