This is for all you good little slaves racing into work every morning. Take a minute to pat yourselves on the back for being sheeple. That’s right. Baaahhhh. Sheeple. You are already dead. You have forgotten who you are, why you are here and what life is truly about. We don’t need the government, they need us. Without our support they have no power. This city needs to make a statement to the world that government is unnecessary. We all know its true and the best way to prove it is to NOT vote. Unless of course you disagree, then hurry up and and get into your car and rush to the voting booth, watch as much TV as you possibly can, institutionalize your kids by sending them to school, give all your money to the bank, go to church to worship a god that doesn’t exist, never stand up for what you believe in, never produce anything that has any originality, never help anyone achieve their dreams and trust everything you read and hear in the mainstream media because that’s what good little sheeple do. Your life is a joke and you don’t even know it biatch. —Glad I’m Not Like You
This article appears in Oct 11-17, 2012.
Ahhh….. Words of wisdom by another street bum, livin it up on someone else’s dime!!! Probably wrote this bitch on his Iphone, or at the library the government built, operates and maintains for them. This bitch is an obvious troll, but I can’t seem to help myself!!!
What fucking horseshit with a capital H. I’d sure as shit rather be a sheeple than some little snot-nosed arsepucker who doesn’t appreciate that he/she is FUCKING LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO VOTE. You should be airdropped to join the Taliban, dumbfuck.
I call ‘Troll’ on this one. No one is this fucking stupid.
Sorry, I don’t have any spare change.
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Sorry, I don’t have any spare change.
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“No one is this fucking stupid”
I beg to differ Shamira. If no one was this fucking stupid then Noam Chomsky would be just another forgotten professor of linguistics. If no one was this stupid, Naomi Klein would be doing pole dances at N.D.P. conventions. If no one was this stupid, Michael Moore would be just another fat loser boring people at his local fair trade coffee collective. If no one was this stupid, Che Guevera would be reviled in the same breath as Eichmann and Beria.
If no one was this stupid, then the Grand Parade would not have been the stankiest oxy den east of Lachine last year. And if no one was this fucking stupid then No One would have had to do the Remembrance Day Mud Krump a year ago.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. The beauty of humanity is it’s capacity to surprise you, every time.
Using ‘sheeple’ once in a LTWWB is bad enough, but you, you just had to go and run it into the ground.
gotta be a troll though, even SMU polsci types, let alone Kings FYP kids, are above wasting their time on this kinda dreck.
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You’re an idiot.
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I work. I haven’t forgotten who I am. I haven’t forgotten how to have compassion, and I am not already dead.
Fuck you, you judgmental asshole. I will vote because not voting will not send a message. Not voting will simply hand the mayor’s chair to someone worse, someone who’s views don’t coincide with my own. Do you think by not voting, that you will take down the system?
Don’t be an armchair anarchist. If you want to take down the system, roll out and do what you think you need to do. Blathering about not voting as a form of “taking down the government” without any other action makes you the most dim witted bitcher I have ever encountered on these forums.
I don’t believe everything the media tells me. I stand up for what I believe in.
You are just as bad as the “sheeple” you hate. You’re an armchair anarchist.
I don’t fully agree with this Bitch, whether it’s a troll or not. But, the question is, “Why do we have a government?”
My answer would be because we’re incapable of organizing ourselves or thinking as a group without some structure to guide us. Hence we take masses of people and put them under the representation of a single person (MLA’s, MP’s, PM’s, etc)
But are we capable of thinking in mass numbers and maintaining any sense of cohesiveness without governance?
Think about a large flock of birds, or school of fish. They can organize themselves to a point where there are literally thousands of them moving through a small space and yet not a single one will hit another, the whole group turning at once and as one (literally, they all turn at the EXACT same time). Thousands of birds flying in circles, incredibly close to one another, yet none drop from the sky due to a collision with another.
Now picture a few hundred people jogging across a field. Try picturing what that would look like if they all decided to change direction at once. There would be mass pile-ups, people getting stepped on and pushed, and so forth. They’d probably end up getting in a fight, dividing the field in half and waging a war until one side/group/person got to determine the destination or course of the group…
Our personal independence prevents us from working in such large numbers effectively, so we sacrifice this independence in order to achieve direction. Alas, not everyone agrees with the direction, but have no choice but to acquiesce or get trampled.
I’m using the animal movements as an analogy, I hope it made sense.
..but without government there would be no one to look after us..and enforce human rites ..jeesh
You managed to get online to post this bitch.. you are also a ‘sherson’. You are giving in to a big corporation allowing you internet access! Oh my. Get a grip.
The Hackeysack Brigade shall rise up!
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Wow, I can almost feel the speckles of ultra-rare hipster-hobo-troll saliva running off this bitch. It feels like if you were to gargle with a cup of fermented hair grease.
10 % ‘oh the horror’ and 90% ‘suppressing gag reflex’.
If it weren’t for government, you wouldn’t be collecting that welfare cheque.
I support you in your need to express yourself, just don’t be stupid about it.
Awwww…What a cute widdle anarchist! Let me guess OB, you’re the same kind of fuck-wit, chicken shit loser who dresses in black, covers his face, throws rocks through plate glass windows and incites riots at all G8 Summits and hometown-team-losing-Stanley Cup finals. lol
“You are already dead. You have forgotten who you are, why you are here and what life is truly about.”
Oh really? Well, why don’t you fill us all in there, Mr. Professor. What IS life truly about? Pan-handling loose change at the busy intersections? Stealing other people’s shit because the people you ripped off are rich corporate sell-outs and you’re “stickin’ it to the man” by not getting a job to support yourself? Maybe life is truly about “Occupying” a city park by squatting in your patchouli-soaked tent, living in abject squalour and playing bongos and hackey-sack all day?
For what it’s worth, I’m glad you’re not like us either, hippie.
You can’t fix stupid. That is all :-/
Fuck you and the high horse you rode in on, OP.
I’m guessing this is zilla submitting a bitch that is actually unique for a change…
in that it’s so completely asinine that no respectable human would find it credible.
“You see, their morals, their code, it’s a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They’re only as good as the world allows them to be. I’ll show you. When the chips are down, these… these civilized people, they’ll eat each other. See, I’m not a monster. I’m just ahead of the curve.”
“If it weren’t for government, you wouldn’t be collecting that welfare cheque.”
^^ what zed said.
Of course we don’t need a government. Afterall, look how well Somalia is doing without one.
Saying that we are incapable of organizing ourselves without governance is the exact premise for which government is organized. And its bullshit. You are brainwashed. The reason the jogging analogy doesn’t apply is because as a people we have forgotten who we are. We THINK we are ourselves, our bodies and our emotions but in REALITY we are simply consciousness, a life force inhabitting a body that is experiencing this reality. We have forgotten this TRUTH and have become disconnected from eachother and the oneness that we all belong to. Based on that TRUTH alone, we are capable of anything. We are capable of all things. I agree completely with OP. Government only tells what we can’t do. They decide what we learn in school, who we are allowed to worship as gods, whose allowed to live in a house they can call their own while living in the world and which jobs best suit us. We are spirtitual beings at birth. As we get older we become indoctrinated by media, schooling, religion and the people who control those institutions shape our lives and tell us how we should be and what is normal. Their normal. We have forgotten the true nature of our existence. We all instinctually know what is right and wrong and are capable of holding ourselves accountable to that without laws and the fear of God. Cheers OP. Finally somebody saying something worth speaking about.
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: Ivan Sonofabitch (10/15, 10:04AM)
Wow Ivan, I see you’re coming out of far right field this morning. And a Seig Heil! for you!
Noam Chomsky “just another forgotten professor of linguistics?” Language, i.e., what you’re using now, is constitutive of what it means to be a human being which Chomsky’s linguistics, particularly the process of language acquisition, has as its object of study. Naomi Klein and Michael Moore, while popularizers, are on the right side of social justice, but to say that Che Guevera should be reviled in the same way as Eichmann and Beria is breath-taking. I guess that puts you on the side of the South American dictators. That’s where Eichmann and Beria would be located today if they were still around.
But it was the crack about the Grand Parade would not have been “the stankiest oxy den east of Lachine last year” which was the most hurtful. As far as I know, we never had any “stankiest oxy den” in Lachine.
The “stankiets oxy den?”
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
mclean, you’ll have to go back to the bitch ‘Augmented Reality’. I pretty much said the exact same thing you just did. But for the purposes of this bitch we’ll have to deal with just THIS Reality. Mmmkay? Because I kinda do agree with you.
“We have forgotten this TRUTH and have become disconnected from eachother and the oneness that we all belong to.”
Someone’s either a Star Trek Borg fan or has just recently watched Avatar again.
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Mclaen, there are prisons all over the world filled with child molesters, murderers, theives, etc, that kinda prove that our “instinct for right and wrong” isn’t enough to keep everyone honest.
PS; if you’re going to defend your own bitch, at least have the nuts to own up to writing it.
Gruss Gott to you as well, Montrealman. I stand by my comments – Chomsky, Klein and Moore are nothing but sanctimonious purveyors of monkey doodle and baked wind. They’ve all made a pisspot full of money from criticising a system where the garnering of capital is seen as somehow, shameful, underhanded and downright nasty. Their careers have all flourished in a nation which is supposedly the embodiment of all earthly evil, yet they haven’t served a day in jail, or spent a night on the run. Obviously the West is turning into a post-911 fascist autarky – My local Chapters devotes 90 square feet of shelf space to worthy tomes hysterically proclaiming that to be the case. Perhaps I was overstating the case in comparing CHEsus to Eichmann & Beria. It would be more accurate to compare him to Himmler. Both were young men who wanted to get involved in world changing events. Both harbored a desire to play soldier and loved the military trappings that they adorned themselves with. Both were utter military incompetents. Himmler’s woeful performance as Commander of Army Group Vistula was a fuckup on a vast scale. Che’s heroic exploits in leading his Brigadistas in the wrong direction and then shooting himself in the chin during the Bay of Pigs differ only in degree, not in kind. Both created repressive secret police forces as part of their unique vision of “Social Justice” Both dabbled in central planning of industry with predictable results. The only significant difference is that Himmler lost his lunch when witnessing a mass execution whereas Che rather enjoyed them. And they both chose to die like pigs when they finally had to face the fact that the world was not buying what they had to peddle. And suggesting that my contempt for Che and the pimps who followed in his train(castro, ortega, chavez) presupposes a support for nasty old right wing dictatorships is the sort of crepuscular thinking one would expect from a first year poly-sci student – not a retired pedagogue. Swing Heil “You’re the tops, you’re a Stuka flier. “You’re the tops. You’re machinegun fire…”
If we left government we would go back to mob rules. Where assholes control everything by authority of gangs. Happens every time governments fall.
There is a theory that if everyone was a perfectly good person that we wouldn’t require government. That by itself has it’s problems, let alone the fact that we are definitely not all perfectly good people.
Also ultimately as social creatures reliant on each other, there will always be a way that we organize ourselves. This can be viewed as government regardless of it’s form.
I agree that we are all ‘brainwashed’,in a sense, by how society (government, peer etc.) has dictated the way we should live our lives…but can you imagine a world with no structure or order? I’m curious to know how you see a world where people don’t work and are free to do whatever they please? Do you also disagree with our laws? What would that look like?
You got to love “anonymous” bitches. Let the so called “sheep” follow the bitch. Teehee, or Baaaahhhh. On a side note, you punks suck. And why would you stereotype all the working class? I work fulltime and am on my way to a great pension, but I don’t rush to my car to vote, institutionalize my child, worship anything. I also only pay my bank a small monthly fee (not all of my money). So on the other side of it. All anarchists, skaters, punks, and streetpunks are also sheep. They’re just following a different shephard in their originality I guess. Baaahhhh.
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: Ivan Sonofabitch 10/15, 12:54PM)
As I was reading your hysterical rant I couldn’t help thinking that it was the product “of the sort of crepuscular thinking that one might expect from a first year poly-sci student” with the difference, of course, that the thinking mirrored that of the students’ poly-sci Brown Shirts Club.
We hear all about those who are “nothing but sanctimonious purveyors of monkey doodle and baked wind.” Damn them, damn them all! We then hear all about those for whom “the garnering of capital is seen as somehow shameful, underhanded and nasty.” Damn them, damn them all! Perhaps, however, it wasn’t the “garnering of capital” so much as the method by which it was “garnered” that was the real issue. Then we hear all about those who have flourished “in a nation which is supposedly the embodiment of all earthly evil.” Damn them, damn them all! The swine, the hypocrites! But has any one of them actually said or implied that? And then we hear all about how they all managed to avoid “serving time in jail or on the run.” Damn them, damn them all! The bloody cowards! Of course, it’s not clear just how being a felon or a fugitive, in itself, qualifies one for anything at all. And then we hear all about their claim that the west is nothing but “a post-911 fascist autarchy!” Have they no restraint? Have they no respect? Damn them, damn them all! But, um, has any of them actually said that? And then we hear all about Che being the proper embodiment of Himmler rather than Eichmann or Beria since each, with his own vision of “social justice,” operated the network of death camps which exterminated millions. Damn him, damn him to hell forever!
Ivan, have you ever thought of a career writing for some contemporary version of the “Volkischer Beobachter?” Seig Heil!
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Just because we need a government system…doesn’t mean we need the one we have.
After all you have to be living under a rock & be about as intelligent as an ant to not know our political system is far from perfect.
Money pays off our politicians, & if not cash today, then a nice plumb job in future when you are out of office !
Lobbiests, envelopes full of money, where IF you or I did it & were caught, by Revenue Canada we would be fucked, but Mulrooney, it was an oversight ! You believe that, I got a debt free bridge crossing Halisux harbour I’ll sell you for cheap….cash of course, please put it in an envelope.
But why is it we should have input to education according to a story I read last week, but no input to gas regulation ?
Why is it that a monopoly on a very necessary part of all of our lives -electricity- is mandated 9+ % profit taking every year ? Yet the same government system, couldn’t get N.S. Power to break even so to HELP US OUT they privatised it….now we pay to make sure it makes a large profit !
Why is it that we are supposedly taxed fairly, Yet when we buy fuel, we pay, Federal Tax, Provincial tax, Road improvement tax & HST a blend of Fed & Provincial taxes …. if all of these except HST were removed gas would drop over .30 cents a liter ! ! !
Something smells in the Country of Canada & it is every level of Government & the way we are ruled over. THe Government of this country no longer works for the people, it works for itself & those in power are definately working for the good of THEMSELVES. Which means those who got the money get what they want .
You want a real reason to get angry, go look at our Charter , the Gov is only suppose to borrow money from the Bank of Canada at a very low interest. Yet we pay 40 billion dollars a year to Big Banks in this country to service our debt to them (aka interest)… without ever paying down the principal…we will effectively be paying forever !
THe Bankers & our top political leaders are often one in the same….coincidence I for one don’t believe it is.
MM, I already do.
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o.p., in 20 years or so, when the world goes fucking nuts, due to disasters one after the other, man will be all by himself. no gubment, no order, no prisoners. when everything, including your computers and iclods i phoneys shut down, there will be chaos, and i will love it. i would love to see the collapse tomorrow, but it won’t be that soon. and oh yes, it is deffinately going to come, it has before, and will happen every couple thousand years. and know what? we can’t do fuck all to stop it.
Here y’go OB, it’s local so it;s ‘ok’. now fuck off.
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Dave Howlett is the man.
Democratic government is a government of representation. You vote for the candidate that best represents your interests. If he is not out there, how about starting your own party?
If there is no government at all and people are left to their own devices, you’ll have a society resembling modern day Somalia. How do you propose settle disputes between people OP? You decides who owns what? If there are no laws, I guess people can do pretty much do whatever they like, rape and pillage to their hearts delight.
If you want have some basic laws, you need lawmakers, who decides who they are?
I imagine you didn’t think this far ahead. You’re just tired of the same ol/same ol. I understand that part but a society with no government would definitely not be a kinder, gentler one.
I only skimmed the comments, so forgive me if this has already been covered- multiple sheeples (it’s so commonly used now…isn’t that a sheeple-y thing to do?) is bad enough, but holy shit on a shingle do I ever despise the out and proud non- voters.
Don’t vote? Shut the fuck up with the complaining, you’re a part of the problem not the solution to it.
Democracy is slavery. Ok, what do you propose OP?
remember people, it’s almost october 31st. and that can only mean one thing.K.A.Y. KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.
Ya know. it’s actually quite amusing to read the responses to this bitch. All the mentally retarted donkeys will, of course, make an attempt to be critical of a non-voter. However, these donkeys fail to realize that having the democratic right not to vote is what ultimately makes this country a democracy. Especially since the pathetic NDP has passed bill 59. If people don’t wish to vote, that’s their democratic RIGHT, so leave them alone. FFS!
More was on the right track. We have a working government, although there are clearly some leaks in that boat. I think you’d have to be completely insane not to want to transition to a better system of organization. With technology these days, you can have a lot more accurate representation of an individuals wants and needs, without the need for rank upon rank of politicians and bureaucracy.
Just because we’ve always done it this way, doesn’t mean it’s the best way.
The Anarchistic Romantic
“We don’t need a government, they need us.” (Glad I’m Not Like You)
Whether this is a troll or not doesn’t really matter. What is interesting is the political philosophy behind it, one that has been around for centuries. It’s called “anarchism,” the view that government not only oppresses the people but actually corrupts them. Anarchism draws its philosophical inspiration from “romanticism,” the view that man is basically good and that evil is the result of the distortion of his nature brought on by the institutions of a corrupt society.
The most famous exponent was Jean Jacques Rousseau who maintained that man, as he existed in a state of nature prior to organized society, was pure and noble,
guided only by the benevolent promptings of his heart. The view has had its most recent manifestation in the Hippie culture of the 1960’s with its rallying cry of “Make love, not war!” Since man is basically good and has become corrupted only through his social institutions – government, the church, capitalism and so on – the solution is obvious Throw off the yoke of those institutions and restore man to his pure, pristine state. Government must be the first to go.
The problem, however, is that the romantic anarchist never really reflects on the meaning of government. What is it for? What is it supposed to do? Its most fundamental function is not, as many seem to suppose, the taxing of the people, engaging in war, providing for the wealthy, and so on. It’s most fundamental function is to provide the framework for the operation of the law where by “law” is to be understood not the regulation of speed limits and such like but rather the law in terms of which the most basic rights and liberties of the citizen are enshrined. The paradox then, is that in pursuing the complete and unfettered fulfillment of human expression, romantic anarchism undercuts the very foundations upon which that expression might be attained and safeguarded.
But that having been said, romantic anarchism has and will continue to have a strong intuitive appeal.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
“It is often said that democracy is the worst form of government, except that all others have already been tried” – Sir(?) Winston Churchill (Side note: after playing Civ IV, I can’t not hear that in Leonard Nimoy’s voice)
Perhaps that is why when revolutionary governments have finished settling scores with the usual suspects (capitalists, aristocrats, plutocrats, exploiters, kulaks, etc) the anarchists (romantic , or simply unwashed) are usually next on the list to be “purged”, “liquidated”, “re-educated”, etc. Indeed, history has shown that so-called “progressive” governments of the left have been as vicious, if not more so, in subjugating anarchists than their counterparts of the far right. * See Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” for a microcosm of this phenomenon during the Spanish Civil War.
BLOW What is K.A.Y.?
ssshhh, boru. be vewy vewy quiet
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: Ivan Sonofabitch (10/16, (:30AM)
I take it that you are then accord with my view that the philosophy of the romantic anarchist – is there any other kind? – undercuts the very foundations upon which his yearning for the complete and unfettered fulfillment of human expression might be attained. It is essentially irrational – by definition there is no structure – and, as with irrationality generally in both the private and public spheres, works to consume itself as well as its victims. Whether of the right or the left, both are equally vicious and they end terror. However, to dismiss the Romantics as a whole as merely the “unwashed” is just stupid unless you call the great Romantic poets and painters of the 19th. century just the “unwashed.” It is when Romanticism departs the artistic realm and emerges in its political manifestation that it becomes murderous.
In addition to having read Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” several times – indeed I have the original Penguin paper back on my shelves – I have lived and worked in Catalonia during the latter part of the Franco regime and so have personal knowledge of a vicious dictatorship of the right. Franco had his own Gestapo. They were called the “Guardia Civil” made up of the phalangist (Spanish fascist) veterans of Franco’s “Nationalists” as they were known during the Spanish Civil War. They were a law unto themselves. They say that there is no war more vicious than a civil war and the Spanish Civil War certainly bore the truth of this out.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I think I was slamming anarchists, rather than artists, as being unwashed, but aside from that I agree with everything you’ve said. Certain concepts just don’t translate well into other spheres of influence. I view anarchists not as noble idealists but rather as deluded simpletons at best or power-hungry shemers at worst (but then, of course, they wouldn’t be “true anarchists, would they?” Let the romantics stick with art. I mean, every culture has it’s own creation myths and some of them are highly entertaining. But no one could seriously suggest teaching them as science. That would be downright nutty.>; )
Absolutely correct on the viciousness of “civil war” My father saw enough of it in Cyprus in 1974.
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: Ivan Sonofabitch (10/16, 12:48PM)
Yes, I realized that you were “slamming anarchists” rather than the Romantic Artists but anarchism is only one variant of Romanticism – unfortunately a lethal one as it embodies “Millinarianism,” the ushering in of “The End of Days” and the construction of a “New Jerusalem,” that “Shining City On The Hill.” The paradox is that, while its motivation is utterly benevolent, its realization is invariably totalitarian, one which will brook no opposition.
But it is Romanticism which is the dominant theme. There is a romantic streak in all of us to which Romantic Anarchism appeals. It very often takes the form of Archaism: Hitler, for example, wanted to restore the virtues of the Teutonic knights of the First Reich; Mussolini looked back to the glories of the Roman Empire embodied in the axe-and-rods symbol of Italian fascism; Franco’s archaism was a distinctively Spanish variant, a re-birth of the combination of Spanish knightly nobility together with the Most Holy Catholic Church all set in a structure of a feudal. aristocratic Spanish landholding system. But Archaism is not limited to the Old World. One thinks of the 19th. century’s Emmersonian “moral perfectionism” in New England and of Thoreau’s “Pastoralism,” his ideal of American rural self-sufficiency set on the shores of his idyllic Walden Pond.
In your own case Romanticism emerges in the form of your immersion in militaria – a failrly common variant which I share to a considerable extent. (I might even post photos of my collection of Britain’s lead toy soldiers with their boxes which are artistic in their own right.) Even my current avatar, Sir John d’Aubernon, resonates with one example of my own Romantic Archaism.
Anyway, nice talking.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!