In Space No One Can Hear You Vote Republican
Envoi de AAA Insurgent Cosmos le 28 Décembre 2003 20:28:38:
In Space No One Can Hear You Vote Republican
Having recently come across a rather bountiful supply of high-quality rocket-fuel, we here in AAA Insurgent Cosmos are forced to admit that we haven't been paying as much attention to gravi-capital's recent imperialist adventure in Iraq as more terrestrial-minded revolutionaries. We've been far too busy exploring the myriad possibilities of independent, autonomous space-travel to follow the endless spins of the war-machine's all-pervasive propaganda apparatus. It goes without saying, though, that as at least somewhat earth-bound radicals, the more it tries to justify this unjustifiable war, the more outraged we are at seeing the natural organic unity of the human community desecrated further by elite interests once again.
We've also been busy following the situation in China with keen interest. Sadly enough, the recent forays into the cosmos on the part of a so-called "socialist" regime are likely to create a future scenario that allows the fascist forces of the right and the crypto-fascist forces of the left to collude and thus consolidate further their insidious monopoly on space-travel. The thought of humanity being held hostage yet again under the auspices of a new Cold War in space only serves to add fuel to our insurrectionary fire...which is another rant, of course. But, as you can see, having your head in the stars while having your feet planted firmly on the earth can be exhausting at times.
One event occurred recently, however, while gravi-capital's commander-in-chief was visiting his sycophantic understudy Tony Blair in England that quickly snapped our attention back planet-side. Faced with the international embarrassment of approximately 100 000 protestors marching through the streets of London in "honour" of his visit, good old Dubya committed the type of oratorical blunder that it seems American politicians are renowned for. After claiming that the military excursion in Iraq would usher in a wave of democracy in the Middle East, he got carried away with himself and actually called for an international democratic revolution (!!).
The slip, which must have made his PR men cringe, seems to have largely gone uncommented upon by gravi-capital's mainstream media. This is hardly surprising to us. We were, conveniently enough, reminded several times of how "lucky" we were to live in such a free and democratic society, where people are allowed to express even views that run counter to those of the State (and have them summarily ignored, incidentally). However, if Bush's inadvertent admission that Western-style representative democracy weren't enough, a more critical examination of the concept could possibly undermine gravi-capital's interests not only in Iraq, but in every nation on the planet.
The representative forms of democracy so loudly trumpeted by Bush and Blair is the democracy of elites. It is the process whereby the agents of gravi-capital robs those who live behind the walls of its various competing nation-states of their ability to both make the decisions that affect their lives and to effect desired changes in their immediate environments. In exchange for the dubious honour of having an extremely limited say in the political arena every four years or so, we surrender the right to have a voice in the countless affairs of everyday life that affect us in the interim, as well as in the other spheres of life. Electing affluent elites to govern over our lives and submitting to their rule of law, we are excluded from having any decision-making power in the broader social realm, such as the world of work, education, and applied technology (to name a few). Moreover, the nearly uniform and prefabricated platforms these elites devise for us allows them to both choose and limit our options for us. So, is it any wonder that he creation of genuine alternatives to the current social reality appears to be almost impossible? Along with everything else, gravi-capital has become the king of "that's-just-the-way-it-is." This overall dynamic epitomizes our collective and individual alienation as gravi-capital has monopolized control over almost all aspects of life, transforming life on earth into a planetary prison-house. A world dominated by war, poverty, and the dreary, meaningless slavery of waged-labour is the result, despite the fact that the vast majority of the planet's inhabitants desire something altogether different.
Clearly then, like so many of the other central concepts that earth-bound society in its dotage operates on, democracy has become formal rhetoric, a meaningless term used to mask ulterior motives and interests. Even in the West, most people hold professional politicians and the system they represent in such utter contempt that the media spectacle has to launch massive propaganda campaigns in order to cajole a disaffected electorate into voting. This doesn't stop voter turn-out from plummeting in most "advanced" industrialized nations. Meanwhile, in gravi-capital's colonies (known popularly as the developing world), people have to either submit to outright tyranny or be led by gunpoint to the ballot-box to elect whatever regional warlord who has amassed the most military backing from competing imperialist masters. The burgeoning resistance on the part of the Iraqis to the imposition of gravi-capital's much-vaunted "democracy" may, in fact, be another sign that all over the planet the sheep are beginning to look up (to paraphrase AAA forerunner John Brunner).
The nascent and near-universal disgust with the democratic illusion will only prove fruitful, however, if it is the starting-point for the creation of alternatives. We here in AAA Insurgent Cosmos, like George W. Bush, also hope to see an international democratic revolution, albeit of a radically different sort. We'd like to see flower a movement that involves everyday people around the world bypassing gravi-capital's politicos, bosses, and bureaucrats to take direct control of their workplaces, communities, and their natural environment in its totality. It is time that the people of this planet translated their current apathy towards blatant tyranny and desecrated forms of democracy into the creation of decision-making processes that are consensual, direct, and participatory. And, if these structures are respectful of the principles of decentralization and autonomy, we could create a truly free planetary democracy worthy of the name.
That would be a monumental step towards abolishing the iron-grip of gravi-capital over our lives and the environment we live in. And maybe then we could also end its insidious control over space-travel, and thereby empower each and every person on the planet to explore their destiny among the stars. Never being ones to think small, we here in AAA Insurgent Cosmos are going to actually call for a radically different democratic revolution, one that is not just international but cosmic in scope. All that grade-A rocket-fuel must have enhanced our visionary prowess. So, we hope to see you in space, cosmonaut...where there are no ballot boxes.
AAA Insurgent Cosmos
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