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You say you want a revolution?

Bill Posters | 31.08.2005 00:15 | Analysis | Ecology | Free Spaces | World

I postulate that the function of dreams is to prepare us for space, and that is why they are a biologic necessity.
- William Burroughs

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No blood for oil.

I sold my last car not long after watching 'Shock and Awe' on television. The peace chant 'No Blood for Oil' did somehow get to me. I thought of it every time I had to fill the tank. I not only watched the mainstream news media version of what was going on in Iraq, you see. I'm one of the small percentages of people who gets their information from "other sources". You know, the one's that don't have to worry about auto industry consumer confidence. The one's without all the bullshit and lies. I almost convinced myself that I was 'making a stand' for peace, too. The reality was it more about economics. That car needed more work done to it than it was worth, so I had to ditch it. I got a thousand bucks for it. I don't want to tell you how much it cost me.

The cars I've owned have cost me well over a hundred thousand dollars. Fuel costs, insurance costs, maintenance, registration, steal belted radials all paid for with added GST. I've now got nothing to show for it. That's only the cost to me personally, the true cost of cars is something I could never estimate. Smelting, polluting, gassing it up for smooth ride on a planet being more and more paved with a nice hard crusty surface to drive on. No blood for oil, I finally figured out what it means; stop the militarization of the worlds energy resources.
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Scooter commuter
Neil Keene gets in a spin over the scooter craze.
Newcastle Herald 24/08/2004
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My first car spun around really quickly one day when another car hit it. I Never even saw it coming. I remember wondering why small change and other bits of my stuff started to float around in the interior. Then I wondered why I couldn't see anything anymore. I never saw that car again.

A surgeon once told me that two of the main causes of cancer today were obesity and diesel fumes. I see junk food advertisements for kids. I see a subsidized diesel industry. A man holds the metal tin and asks me to aid cancer research. I think about DNA terminator drugs and see people asleep at the wheel, with dangerous climate change up around the bend.


I still love you.

My next car was an HZ station wagon. The V8 trimatic was quite a different experience from my first little car. I could accelerate that thing to over 250kph on a quiet open road at night. I'm lucky to be alive, I know it. It was just natural though. Why have a car like that if you're not gonna open her up now and then right? Surely, they wouldn't sell them like that if it was wrong?

Another car I had was a fuel injected 323ie. Beautiful shiny gold thing. I felt good when I drove it not only because it drove well, but it just made me feel good to drive it. It was a dream, only I didn't realize it was not my dream. It was someone else's dream.
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Beaut scooting
SOARING petrol prices have given the Australian motorcycle industry
a chance to push its claim for cost-effective motoring of the scooter variety.
Newcastle Herald 04/09/2004
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So not only do we now have cars bumper to bumper on our roads, their advertising has monopolized our media.Television, radio, and outdoor media. You can't read the news paper without seeing a car advertisement. If you use a commercial news website you will soon have cars bopping around your screen. All alternative routes have been blocked off. The roads have been closed.

"You walk around the block, you come back and you've seen a collage of fragments. You haven't seen a sequential narrative or picture. Your consciousness is cut by random factors. This is a process that is happening all the time."

If you consider your subconscious mind, as William Burroughs did in many different states of consciousness, its easy to see how everything we see and hear becomes a part of how we think about the world. How even the most educated person could start dreaming somebody else's dreams. Go for a drive on any city arterial and see what you don't see.
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Scooter ban ends monkey business on roads
MINI-motorbikes, petrol scooters, motorised skateboards and other motorised
toys will be banned from Victorian roads and footpaths by the end of next week.
The Age 11/12/2004
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Burn your cars.

I know for a fact that I would not be saying these things about our beloved combustion engines if I still owned one. Everybody hates an ex-smoker with a 'holier than thou' attitude towards life. I'm fortunate because public transport serves my A to B needs pretty much. Where I live was a conscious decision I made in relation to that. So is government policy when it comes to selling lots of larger style petrol driven cars. It was in the fifties when manufacturers decided to produce more of the American style larger vehicles instead of the smaller more economical cars. That is no accident.
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Law pedals scooter scare
MOTORISED scooter riders have been put on notice by police,
who have handed a 36-year-old Central Coast man fines totalling $944.
Newcastle Herald 29/12/2004
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"Those idiots who chain themselves to trees", a friend of mine says to me, "don't they know we need them. We've gone to far to turn back now. We need to use all the resources we have to get off the planet. What are you going to do next, trade your laptop in for a little rubber band spinning around a pinwheel?"

I had to laugh. He had a point though. Surely people are aware what we're doing to the planet is detrimental to our environment. Are we really asleep at the wheel? Or have we actually made a collective unconscious decision to ensure the survival of the few...in outer space? For the rest of us on the ground it seems it's going to take more then setting the wheels on fire to ensure a habitable planet. It'll take a true revolutionary to explode this machine.


GM Statement:
There will be 50% more cars on the planet by the year 2030.
"oh God" said somebody in the audience.


Well, you know, we're all doing what we can.




Author's Note:
Thanks FRSC, street artist: BANKSEY, Critical Mass, Adbusters and "other sources"

I know Che rode a motorcycle.
My only crime was to ride an electric scooter on roads I helped pay for in Australia.


Bill Posters
- e-mail: post.nobills@hotmail.com

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only the truth is revolutionairies

09.09.2005 22:34

only the truth is revolutionairies
only the truth is revolutionairies
the forest preced man the desert follow him

humanity wont be happy till the last capitalist is hung with the guts of the last bureaucrat
a single nonrevolutionaries weekend is infinitely more bloody than a mouth of total revolution
religion is the ultimate con to be free in 2005
is to participate.
obedience begins with consciousness
consciousness start with disobedience

Well, it's not an insurgency, as the Bush regime is
NOT legitimate. An insurgency is defined as those who
resist an established government. Hence, they need to
be referred to as 'resistance fighters,' as in Iraq.
remove "any bureaucratic obstacles that may be
preventing us from achieving our goals". [Yes, please
remove *yourselves.*]
Boredom is counterrevolutionary.
We want to live.
In a society that has abolished every kind of
adventure
the only adventure that remains is to abolish the
society.
The liberation of humanity is all or nothing.
Those who make revolutions half way only dig their own
graves.
No replastering, the structure is rotten.
The revolution is incredible because it’s really
happening.
Run, comrade, the old world is behind you!
Live in the moment.
Down with the state.
When the National Assembly becomes a bourgeois
theater, all the bourgeois theaters should be turned
into national assemblies.*Referendum: whether we vote
yes or no, it turns us into suckers.
Let’s not change bosses, let’s change life.
Nature created neither servants nor masters.
I want neither to rule nor to be ruled.
We will have good masters as soon as everyone is their
own.Don’t be taken in by the politicos and their
filthy demagogy.
We must rely on ourselves.
Socialism without freedom is a barracks.
All power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Politics is in the streets.
Never work
The boss needs you, you don’t need the boss.
By stopping our machines together we will demonstrate
their weakness.
Humanity won’t be happy till the last capitalist is
hung
with the guts of the last bureaucrat.
A single nonrevolutionary weekend is infinitely more
bloody than a month of total revolution.
We refuse to be highrised, diplomaed, licensed,
inventoried, registered, indoctrinated, suburbanized,
sermonized, beaten, telemanipulated, gassed, booked.
The forest precedes man, the desert follows him.
Coming soon to this location: charming ruins.
A revolution that requires us to sacrifice
ourselves for it is Papa’s revolution.
Revolution ceases to be the moment it calls for
self-sacrifice.
I take my desires for reality because I believe
in the reality of my desires.
Be realistic, demand the impossible.
Power to the imagination.
Those who lack imagination cannot imagine what is
lacking.
Imagination is not a gift, it must be conquered.
Action must not be a reaction, but a creation.
Action enables us to overcome divisions and find
solutions.
The enemy of movement is skepticism. Everything that
has been realized
comes from dynamism, which comes from spontaneity.
We refuse the role assigned to us: we will not be
trained as police dogs.
We don’t want to be the watchdogs or servants of
capitalism.
Take revolution seriously, but don’t take yourself
seriously.Religion is the ultimate con.
Neither God nor master.
If God existed it would be necessary to abolish him.
Can you believe that some people are still Christians?
I suspect God of being a leftist intellectual.
Revolutionary women are more beautiful
Burn commodities
You can’t buy happiness. Steal it.
To be free in 2005 means to participate.
The golden age was the age when gold didn’t reign.
“The cause of all wars, riots and injustices is the
existence of property.”
*The definition in Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary is
actually: “Amnesty: The state’s
magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too
expensive to punish.”]
Abolish alienation.
Obedience begins with consciousness;
consciousness begins with disobedience.
First, disobey; then write on the walls.
Freedom is the right to silence.
Talk to your neighbors.
Don’t get caught up in the spectacle of opposition.
Oppose the spectacle.
Down with journalists and those who cater to them.
Freedom is the crime that contains all crimes. It is
our ultimate weapon.
Open the gates of the asylums, prisons and other faculties.

 http://www.loveandfearlessness.com

anonymous
mail e-mail: procyonlotor@myway.com


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