the questions I have asked have been meant to give you, the reader,
questions to ask yourself…to allow you to think about or understand
what your questions are about…
when a person, for the sake of understanding and research,
pulls a rose out of the ground and then they study the rose…
by the very fact of pulling the rose out of the ground,
you kill the rose, that you are studying, and your understanding
is something that is now dead…
we do the same thing, when we pull random and isolated thoughts
out of context and study them…the very attempt to isolate a thought
is to kill that thought…for our thoughts exist in context with other thoughts
and with other idea’s… thoughts don’t exist individually, by themselves,
they exist within a larger context of other thoughts and other idea’s…
so I brought up property yesterday… this idea does not exist
in isolation and by itself… it exists within context of other ideas and other
thoughts and we have to approach it within the context of other idea’s and thoughts…
what is the value of having possessions? land and houses and TV sets and soft
comfy couches…what value to we gain from them?
is it more to show/prove that we are wealthy enough to afford them?
or do we another purpose to these material goods?
the relationship of values to possessions is just another example
of our failure to have the courage of an attack on our convictions,
and not believe to we have the courage of our convictions…
property is just another assumed conviction we don’t challenge or
think about… along with ism’s like capitalism and democracy
and wealth and dozens of other convictions we blindly accept without
any thought to or understanding of…
I cannot speak of convictions you fail to understand and blindly accept,
because they are your convictions, not mine…
it is not enough to have the courage of our convictions,
we must have the courage for an attack on our convictions…
Nietzsche…
Kropotkin