From: laelth@yabbs
To: Justin@yabbs
Subject: re: free living
Date: Tue Feb  1 01:56:56 1994

Justin:
    The anarchy that you describe in your post #275 doesn't sound much 
like anarchy to me.  It sounds more like civil disobedience.  I admire 
civil disobedience (particularly against a law that one finds morally 
repugnant), but I don't see what good can come from the kind of random 
disobedience that you describe, other than a little freedom that we must 
purchase with jail time for needlessly breaking laws.
    Furthermore, how can Paladin books teach you how to practice anarchy?
Isn't it obvious that Paladin books is a part of the current system 
(capitalism), and that the system is making money off your desire for 
freedom, and your sense of powerlessness?  Capitalism has capitalized on
its enemies, and convinced them to buy products in the name of the demise 
of capitalism itself.  Paladin books can teach you how to BUY weapons.
Paladin books can teach you how to BUY survival gear.  They can teach you 
how to BUY chemicals, and equipment to make explosives.  They can teach 
you how to BUY tools that you can use to practice your trade.  They can 
even teach you to BUY more of their books, but they can't (and have no 
desire) to teach you how to be an anarchist.  Anarchy, as I understand it, 
means the obliteration of the capitalist system altogether, and Paladin 
books (which is profiting mightily off the current system) will never 
teach you how to do this.  All they can teach you is how to be a good 
capitalist, and they're hard at work doing just that.  In fact, you (and I 
too) help them out by promoting their books.

Peace!
 
-laelth