I am writing in the vein of Zola… and should be take as such…
I accuse these people of lying: Observe, Wendy, Joker, Gloom among others…
not of lying to us, that is a given, no, of lying or being dishonest/ of being
unauthentic to themselves… by lying to themselves…let me be clearer…
these people lack the courage to honestly address what their positions,
their political, philosophical, economic and religious positions actually
involve…or entails…
they avoid any attempt to discover or describe what their positions involve
by attacking me or IAM… an example is when one calls me an “Marxists”
with no attempt to get any context as to what a Marxist actually believes in…
or no attempt to discover what their position/s might be… they may in fact,
be Marxists themselves… but who knows because they will not engage in
any way, shape or form as to what their position actually might be…
for example, they attack my position of corporation being the nexus of evil…
and I hold that corporations must be held accountable… so attacking me
suggest that they don’t want corporations to be held accountable…I am a
Marxists for wanting corporations to be held accountable and pay their fair share
of taxes…ok, I am good with that… if being Marxist means holding corporations
accountable and paying taxes…I am good with that…
another position I hold, and have stated ad nauseam,
I hold to the position that the most important value we hold,
both individually and collectively is the value of justice…
I hold to justice as a value before I hold to freedom…
if we don’t have justice, freedom becomes irrelevant…
and these people who attack my position, does that mean they
don’t believe in Justice? that they don’t want people and/or corporations
to be held accountable, to hold the rich, powerful, the connected to be
held accountable for their actions?
these liars don’t lay out their position, they just attack my position as being
“marxists” but they never lay out what they hold to be true or what is their
position… just that I am wrong…they don’t hold themselves accountable for
what they believe in… these liars…they lie to us and in doing so, avoid
accountability for their own beliefs… they never tell us what they believe in…
only that I am wrong… ok, fine, tell us how how I am wrong in regards to what
you believe in? why is your truth more “true” then my belief?
their attacks hold that they don’t want to be held accountable for their
beliefs…
that they are being “inauthentic” is clear… to give an example what exactly
this “inauthentic” actions means… I return to the Dreyfus affair to which my
title refers to… the French high command in 1894 knew that someone was
passing top secrets to the German high command… so to avoid blame,
they decided to implicate a Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, as the the person
who was passing the top secrets and why did they pick Dreyfus? because he
was Jewish… and that is the only reason why they picked him… it was politically
safer to dishonor a Jew, then the real culprit who was in fact a French army officer
named Ferinand Walsin Esterhazy…but he wasn’t a Jew and that was enough for
him to escape notice until later when a court trial, which suppressed evidence,
cleared him of charges… so the entire French high command tried to suppress
evidence which cleared one man and implicated another simple because it wasn’t
convenient for the high command to implicate the guilt party…who was
a high command favorite…
that is the point here… why engage with the truth when the truth implicates
ones favorite beliefs… so these liars tell lies about what Kropotkin believes to
save their own personal truths from being exposed… or understood…
it is easier to attack someone then to engage in the search for the truth about
what one actually believes… Observe may actually be an Marxist, but he would
never engage in a search to discover if that is true because that would interfere with
his own idealized imagine of who he thinks he might be… the truth becomes
a battle ground between the idealized self image of himself or an
escape from the truth by attacking others to escape any type of self
examination that might expose one as a … communist? perhaps…
something worse then a communist? depends on what self imagine Observe is
protecting…
so these people engage in self deception to protect their own self image,
their own idealized vision of who they think they are, not who they actually are…
and it is important to never discover who one actually is… because that truth
might give lie to the idealized vision people have of themselves…
Kropotkin