OK, so once again we are emphatically taught that our political system will
not set us or anyone else on this planet free. We knew that, of course.
Still, how can we not hope at least for a lessening of the horror? I
remember Art Speigelman's quote..."the difference between going to hell
faster or at the normal speed..." or something very close to that. But
regardless, once again Democrats & Republicans ("Good Cop" & "Bad Cop")have
done their routines, & now we can focus on real revolution, which will never
occur from within our political system. There is a good book by Raoul
Veneigem called "The Revolution of Everyday Life," & its a pretty
complicated book & theres no way to do it justice with some little blurb,
but most of what you need to know about the book you can gleen from the
title alone: that the way you live your day to day life, little descisions
you make about what you do or dont do, what you buy or dont buy, what you
read or dont read, what you watch or dont watch, what you listen to or dont
listen to, what you eat or dont eat, etc., etc., are potentially
revolutionary. Also, appropos to us in particular, what you make, & how you
make it. Well, this is obvious, isnt it? But when I see "No war in Iraq"
stickers on the back of huge fucking SUV's, then I think that these kinds of
ideas are not particularly obvious to everyone. Ultimately, what this is
getting at is the only kind of revolution that is ever going to have a real
& lasting effect - psychic revolution, mental revolution...revolution of the
soul, one person at a time. The beauty of this is that you dont have to wait
around for anyone to liberate you, you just make it happen yourself. This is
also the difficulty, & it requires constant & concerted effort. We cant just
sit there & take what we're given; fattened up & dumbed down into bovine
complacency by decades of systematic disempowerment & de-education (in the
guise of "tax revolt"), then bombarded with fear & lies, & finally offered
prefab "lifestyles" dictated by mass market corporate capitalism as some
sort of security blanket against the overwhelming anxiety. Its not too hard
to see how someone might get off on the US Military slaughtering people on
the other side of the planet, when this is as close to a feeling of personal
power that he or she ever gets in his or her severely constricted &
constrained socio-economic position. Democrats have either gone right along
with or been inefective in countering Republicans in the dehuminization
program. So fuck it, the elections are over, & now is exactly the time to
increase our resistance, our defiance, & our energy in pursuit of psychic
liberation, & to make sure those motherfuckers see that we are not cattle to
be managed by themselves for their own purposes. John Kerry would not have
set you free anyway.

Sam Coomes of Quasi. theequasi.com