As a ‘‘modern’’ man, I grew up in a
certain milieu… that of nihilism…
where only the party or nation or an ism,
has value… in religion, god has priority,
not human beings… that is nihilism…
where only money has value, that is
nihilism, and the motto, ‘‘America first’’
that is nihilism because it put country
before people…
Nihilism is where something is put before people…
and that is practically everything these days…
the trinkets of existence is all about putting
something before people… be it fame, or
titles or power, or money or material possessions…
I have been fighting that my whole life, however
I didn’t realize it… my lifelong battle has been to
put people before the trinkets of existence…
my decades long anarchism was about putting
people first, not nihilism…
But at the time, I didn’t realize it… I was just
‘‘fighting’’ the man… but it was more than that…
I was fighting for justice and people having a voice…
which is putting people first… and I so have rejected
the nihilism of Raygun and the GOP/MAGA…
I have been in rebellion against the leading values of
America because those values, especially during the
last 125 years, has espoused nihilistic values…
But quite often the battle fails because one doesn’t
correctly lay out or understand what one is fighting
or why…as a value, anarchism is a far more about
‘‘ad meliora’’ than capitalism or communism because
anarchism is about human beings and their values…
Do I recommend anarchism today as a value to be followed?
NO, for the simple reason we are not fighting that battle today…
I see that at some point in the future, Anarchism will be the
political ideology de jure… just not today… which is why,
in part, I walked away from Anarchism…but at some
point tomorrow, Anarchism will be the political path…
So, are you just getting along or are you actually
in rebellion, as I am..
Kropotkin