“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.” –George Bernard Shaw This tactic comes down to a choice: liberty or slavery. As Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” Secession from civilization can be an art form when we live deliberately as an example for how others can deliberately live. Life is too short not to seize it. Life is too precious not to play with it, mold it, and make it our own. All forms of human government will lead to self-interest, consumerism, immoderation, ill-discipline and a general lack of humility if there are not checks and balances in place to keep it transparent. The key to keeping the “spirit,” or pneuma, of democracy alive, and preventing those that uphold it from slipping into tyranny and power-mongering, is to set up internal checks and balances. Namely: strategic civil disobedience that leads to economic and ecologic equilibrium. We the People, we the governed, are these checks and balances. It can be no other way. Civil disobedience is how the disenfranchised lobby congress. We need only have the courage to do so. Like Howard Zinn wrote, “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.”
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:37:10 +0000
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