Remarks On Anarchism

Gratitude

What the anarchist needs above all else is gratitude. This "Anarchist Gratitude" is vital to get them through the world. A world that is unjust, unfair and will not change. But one must move on in spite of this.

This is where I diverge from right wing commentators like Jordan Peterson. If your motivations in life are to attain sex or success, you are doing things for the wrong reason.

The four words that govern me: "Is it worth it?" And it is much better to say that phrase as it is and not in the past tense. Nothing is worth sacrificing your life for, bar immortality.

Few, such is their sociological acclimation, can comprehend the serene grace of anonymity.

One does not need permission from someone else on how to view the world.

Instead of tweaking your face, how about you tweak your mind. That is the long lasting cure.

If we put as much time into doing good, as we do into looking good, the world would be a much better place.

If I had to say, I would guess that grateful people are more Left leaning than Right leaning. I think the Right is prone to dreaming about happiness whilst perpetually letting it slip from their grasp.

Solitude is the pulse of maturity. Thus great efforts are made by the system to deprive people of solitude, for the system wishes to keep the people ignorant.

In our quest to earn money, to service our vices, we alienate ourselves from the universe.

If you think of yourself as imprisoned, what then is the key to liberate you? Most people think of money or love. I think it is gratitude.

A slave is not just someone who has their rights taken away from them. A slave is also someone who lives a life of luxury and yet still demands more.

Just because the majority does it, does not make it right, honest or the way to become happy.

It is so true what Hemingway and Bukowski both said in different ways, that the more mature and intelligent you become, the unhappier you get.

Regarding Jordan Peterson's philosophy, I think it is good for society but bad for the individual. He would no doubt argue that a good society is good for the individual, which is true. Would you rather live in North Korea or the Uk? It answers itself. But I still adhere to the view that marriage and family only makes one's life more difficult. On top of what is already a most difficult existence to begin with.

Curiosity is the best teacher you will ever have.

The gravest mistake is to have sacrificed so much in return for very little. It is nothing short of self-betrayal.

If boredom is your biggest problem in life, you should count yourself lucky.

Does money make you happy depends on what actually one determines happiness to be. If being happy is simply not having to worry about bills ever again, then money will provide that happiness. But if being happy is trying to make everyone adore you, no amount of money will be enough.

It is childish to have the mentality that life must give back to you. True maturity is what you can give back to life.

You think you have it bad. There are children living in dire poverty that dream of the life you have.

We live in the future, always. "Once I am forty and have X, Y and Z, then I will be content." We are only happy with things we don't have; any happiness we possess is only for the life we dream of.

As Terence McKenna remarked, people are lost because they demand more to live for other than themselves.

Just because you are drifting in the sea, doesn't mean that you are lost. You have to keep the faith that you will find your island.