Posts Tagged revolt

V for Vendetta

February 6, 2008 at 9:04 pm · Filed under Journal typed things, Politics, society ·Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This weekend I watched an amazing film. V for Vendetta. Finally, a film about England that is, yes mainstream, but more importantly, inspirational, challenging, revolutionary and every so slightly anarchistic. When I say anarchistic, I mean that blowing up the houses of parliament is may not be the correct way to get things changed, but my god, those fireworks looked awesome in the finishing scene.

V for Vendetta is, without exaggeration, one of the best films I have ever seen. Walking along the streets, I keep hoping that I’ll see a large ‘V’ carved or sprayed onto propaganda in my city, sprayed on billboards and buildings. I want it to be everywhere. I keep hoping to see, along with a myriad of ‘V’ symbols, people in V masks, V cloaks. I want a revolution, dammit!

I was surprised, and ecstatic to discover that around 100 people protested outside the White House, all dressed as ‘V’. Click here to read the article.

I hope that this film has made people wake up to the serious issues, the real problems that we face in the UK; the way our liberties are being stripped away in the name of terror; how are privacy is being removed in the name of fighting crime – the issues in V for Vendetta are real. And, more shockingly, if you look around, you can see it happening now.

Despite the film being shunned by many anarchists (e.g. ‘A for Anarchy’) due to the removal of important anarchist scenes, it is still a great film, that I’m sure will have a large impact on the public in the UK, and hopefully, in dictatorships acrross the world.

This is an important film for the UK, and one that should be seen by anyone shocked or angry about what is happening before our very eyes. While the film is not a call for terrorism on the scale of destroying the houses of parliament like Guy Fawkes attempted in the 16th century, it is more a call to arms, a call for unity, revolt and transcendence.

Remember, remember the fifth of November. Because it should never be forgot. Guy Fawkes attempted to destroy parliament because of religious reasons, but our vendetta is different. This is a social, and political vendetta. We want our rights back. And, we most certainly are going to get them.

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I wish, I wish, I wish

January 22, 2008 at 7:14 pm · Filed under Misc. Poems ·Tagged , , , , , , , ,

I wish I could express myself

I wish it was all so simple.

To compile a list of all my muses,

To break out with spontaneous eloquence.

 

I wish I could consolidate all of my views

To reap the harvest of critical thinking that I have nurtured over many seasons.

 

I wish I could gather and collect sentiments

Like colorful autumn leaves.

 

I wish I could tell you exactly how I feel.

I wish I could paint masterpieces simply by describing life and it’s problems.

 

I wish my beliefs weren’t so plastered with tautology

I wish I had an anthology,

Of the essays I have accumulated in my head.

 

I wish I wasn’t so ambiguous,

So platitudinous and unoriginal

So mind-numbingly orthodox.

 

I wish, I wish, I wish.

 

I wish I could unite my scattered philosophies,

An army of zealous commodities,

I wish I was honest and open,

Militantly persuasive, but challenging and noninvasive.

 

To compact my ideas,

and simplify them.

I wish I could.

To pound them down with a hammer of stubborn integrity,

I wish I could.

 

I wish I could create my own easy to understand ideology,

A compact congregation of thoughts and feelings.

 

A constitution that I must follow.

But always rebel.

My rules to break, to make and to swallow whole.

 

I wish, I wish, I wish.

 

And I wish I could colonize all the empty spaces in my head,

To fill them with inspiring memories,

With astonishing, radical ingenuity.

 

I wish all the long-dormant volcanoes would erupt with

faith and wisdom, ready to explode with hot lava of vehemence.

 

I wish I merely had the vocabulary to tell you my perspective,

My objectives, and my trials.

But my mind is too wrapped up in this wretched newspeak

That I have forgotten those necessary, revolutionary words.

 

I wish I could comprehend my hatred of authority,

To grasp the sheer intensity of my frustration.

Or why I long to revolt,

To progress and to find a new way.

 

And I wish I knew how to change this crumbling universe.

 

I wish; we wish; but all we ever do is wish.

 

I want to stop wishing.

 

 

 

 

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Get angry

January 19, 2008 at 7:48 pm · Filed under Misc. Poems, Politics ·Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

Get angry
It’s the first step
To overcoming apathy
Indifference and lack of care

Get angry
Look at the world
The uncritical majority
Don’t see oppression when it’s there

Turn off your TV
Smash the ignorance box
Get into the real world
With poverty and dirty cops
Take a moment to muse
On all the murder going on
Half the time it’s by the ones you trust
And it’s never justifiable

We’re being controlled by the media
They censor our very fate
Keep us blind to the real issues
Issues of the state

Covering up the facts
With celebrities, gossip and hatred
It’s enough to keep us from the actual truth
That fascism is here

It’s time to get angry
Because we don’t have long
Before we all become slaves
Before our actions are decided
By the despotic regime.

Look at how we’re being exploited!
Look at how they manipulate our trust
Look at the evidence
They lie at every stop

How can you believe they’re always right
When our countries a complete mess
And shareholders are the only lucky ones
But we never get a rest

I’m angry all the time.
I can’t suppress my rage.
Every second despair fills my mind
About this corrupt system.

I hate the illegal wars.
I hate the poverty
I hate the constant injustice
I hate this hierarchy

I hate the tyrannous laws that pass
Without a second glance
I hate the fact we never have a choice
But to conform
Or else fear they’re wrath.

If this is democracy
I’d hate to live under a dictator
Because they choose our livelihoods
They are the Freedom Haters.

If we step out of line
Look at what they do.
We’re put in prison for years on end,
For conflicting with their views.

So.
I hate this authority
This minority rule.
The paradigm needs to shift
To something a lot less cruel

This hegemony that we hold
Needs to disappear completely
The first step,
As I’ve already stated,

Is. To. Get. Angry.

Because this can’t continue.
This has got.
TO.
STOP

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