Sunday, May 18, 2008

From Sweden - Travel

not sure of the exact date, but it doesn't really matter:
"We must travel extensively in order to appreciate the experience of new social situations and expand the self beyond the inevitable constrictions of being part of one or a few culture(s).

We must move and get away. Everybody that is here for you now will be there forever. But they will become boring if you do not move.


We must uproot our 'self' from our 'self-image' to grow higher and deeper then our shallowly buried and suffocating 'selves.'

Watch your daily ritual. Notice your attachment to ritual, the comfort it brings you is more important to you than your actual happiness. And that despite the happiness you derive from routine, greater freedom and exploding joy will come forth as you break into fresh and cool territory. Do not allow personal ritual to constrict your days.

We do not understand the most important things that happen. There is a moment when you walk that both feet are off the ground. Sometimes, not always. In that moment you are suspended forever and you fly. Life has that in its grasp forever.

Capitalism creates the most disgusting, vicious, savage, selfish and dishonest society possible to this point. Because we think we are free from it or better than it, because we want within it and feel within it, we are under its power. In order to move beyond this problem, which decays and spreads like a virus every time you take a breath, we absolutely must tear down this system and begin to construct a new political thought, a new political imagination. We all have visions of the future. Let us not build them upon the monstrous cesspool burning below us. Let us clean this mess. There is absolutely nothing a government or system can do against an army which demands, without compromise, its complete destruction. It is not a question of whether we can be victorious. It is a question of whether we can organize and mobilize and construct a new vision of the future. And take action in the immediate so that this vision does not drag us along or keep us chasing something we will never get. It must be action that produces that vision, gives birth to it, changes it according to what must be done. Rigid conceptions of the future, of goals that we must achieve are limiting and will be wrong. You don't know shit."

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