A is for ANNA.. and ANARCHY!

The following words will not save your life; that, my friend, is up to you.

"Anarchism" is the revolutionary idea that no one is more qualified than you are to decide what your life will be.

--It means trying to figure out how to work together to meet our individual needs, how to work with each other rather than "for" or against each other. And when this is impossible, it means preferring strife to submission and domination.

--It means not valuing any system or ideology above the people it purports to serve, not valuing anything theoretical above the real human beings (and animals, etc.), fighting for ourselves and for each other, not out of "responsibility," not for "causes" or other intangible concepts.

--It means not forcing your desires into a hierarchal order, either, but accepting and embracing all of them, accepting yourself. It means not trying to force the self to abide by any external laws, not trying to restrict your emotions to the predictable or the practical, not pushing your instincts and desires into boxes: for there is no cage large enough to accomodate the human soul in all its flights, all its heights and depths.

--It means refusing to put the resposibility of your happiness in anyone else's hands, whether that be parents, lovers, employers, or society itself. It means taking the pursuit of meaning and joy in your life upon your own shoulders.

For what else should we pursue, if not happiness? If something isn't valuable because we find meaning and joy in it, then what could possibly make it important? How could abstractions like "resposibility," "order," or "propriety" possibly be more important than the real needs of people who invented them? Should we serve employers, parents, the State, God, capitalism, moral law, causes, movements, "society" before ourselves? Who taught you that, anyway?

*for independent men and women, full time revolutionaries, punk rockers, activists, musicians, artists, human beings.. And for anna.

Life can be beautiful when we start to break free!