TRADITIONAL BRITISH FASCISM
The nationalist fever in England is hitting its peak: flags and bunting are everywhere, the queen’s face is upon every saleable surface, television is less entertaining than staring at a brick. Why? Because the fucking queen is still alive and on her parasitic throne after sixty years of banal fascism. Banal fascism? Yeah, you read that right. The queen is a fascist, that is impossible to disagree with whatsoever: she is the unelected head of the state, parasitically living off of the working classes and never needing to do anything more than wave or decide who gets to come to her parties. She is banal because the majority of the British public don’t care or, worse than this, support her neo-colonialist, incestuous, soul-sucking paradigm. I’m not going to get many people to reconsider their values, I just want to rant. Specifically, I want to rant at anyone who considers themselves to be pro-monarchy because “they’re nice” or “they’re traditional” - both of which seem to be the only excuses most otherwise reasonable people can give to support their open support of Her Majesty.
Amy has decided I am a badger. And I quote, ‘You furrow away and when you come out everyone shouts, “OOOHH A BADGER!” and if you’re unlucky you end up as roadkill and then a farmer comes along, picks you up and cooks you for dinner. You’re also quite vicious and if you’re unimpressed then you eat your young.’
My life has been made analogy.
The term anarchy comes from the Greek, and essentially means ‘no ruler.’ Anarchists are people who reject all forms of government or coercive authority, all forms of hierarchy and domination. They are therefore opposed to what the Mexican anarchist Flores Magon called the ‘sombre trinity’ — state, capital and the church. Anarchists are thus opposed to both capitalism and to the state, as well as to all forms of religious authority. But anarchists also seek to establish or bring about by varying means, a condition of anarchy, that is, a decentralised society without coercive institutions, a society organised through a federation of voluntary associations.
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So, Mr. Wank (Crywank; James Clayton) chilled last weekend. Here we are, looking intelligent as per.
People get really irritated by mental illness. ‘Just fucking get it together! Suck it up, man!’ I had a breakdown, and a spiritual friend came to visit me in the psych ward. And they said, ‘You need to get out of here. Because this is the story you’re telling yourself. You know, Patch Adams has this great work-group camp where you can learn how to really celebrate life.’ It’s something people are so powerless over, and so often they want to make it your fault. It’s nobody fault. I started thinking of suicide when I was 10 years old—I can’t believe that that’s somebody’s fault. Like, ‘Oh, you’re just an attention getter.’ Mental illness isn’t seen as an illness, it’s seen as a choice…. I have a joke about how people don’t talk about mental illness the way they do other regular illnesses. ‘Well, apparently Jeff has cancer. Uh, I have cancer. We all have cancer. You go to chemotherapy you get it taken care of, am I right? You get back to work.’ Or: ‘I was dating this chick, and three months in, she tells me that she wears glasses, and she’s been wearing contact lenses all this time. She needs help seeing. I was like, listen, I’m not into all that Western medicine shit. If you want to see, then work at it. Figure out how not to be so myopic. You know?’
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Maria Bamford (via yeshairy) Putting the “BAMF” in Bamford. (via rosalarian) Flawless^^^ (via genderbitch) |
