In my last post, Real Political Act Of Love, I reflect upon an alternative to the inadequate tradition of force to effect meaningful change. This stands upon political realism grounded in our current situation and the nature of transformative reality.
Reality functions as an engine of change, transforming everything, and attempts to stop change proves as successful as yelling at the sea to stop the tide. The nature of transformative reality is that things change and observation of reality reveals this constant transformation of reality.
Our current situation bears witness to the fact that actions produce consequences, intended or not. We will not cease to experience these consequences until the actions that produce them stop.
The further the status quo slips into corruption and disorder the larger the opportunity to propose reform, press grievances and gain concessions. These successes will provide greater opportunities to exert political pressure.
As political pressure evolves into political power the opportunity to abuse that power becomes tempting. This opportunity tempts those who will seek to achieve a pure coherence of force to effect meaningful change.
Seek not the pure coherence of force
but rather the insistent mechanism of desire.
We already possess the ability to sustain an alternative society autonomously through networks of communication and cooperation. We have the proven power to establish true democracy from below.
An institutional method of guarantees and constitutional frameworks can move human society beyond the contests for sovereignty, beyond the need for authority and beyond every tyranny.
Today, aware of the history of systematized bureaucratic violence under structural forms of authority, we can insure democracy and freedom does not fall back into a nightmare of tyranny.
Up until now, violent revolutions have only perfected government, not eliminated the need for it. We can establish true democracy from below through networks of communication and cooperation.
True democracy does not homogenize, does not subordinate singular individual human beings and instead celebrates and thrives on radical differences.
We have the ability to forever change a system that now turns differences in every discipline of labor, emotion and power into an index of hierarchy.
A world based upon radical differences, with singular individual human beings free to express themselves, already exists in our networks of communication and cooperation.
