School of the Way - Anonymous

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School of the Way This book is for school of the way, School of the way are for all, Thus this book is for all. 1. The dao of anarchy What is school of the way? The way of anarchy. Anarchists understand the way, the dao is the way. Anarchism can’t be explained to others, the dao can’t be explained to others. Anarchists aren’t really ‘anarchists’, the dao isn’t really the ‘dao’. Anarchists are always misunderstood, the dao is always misunderstood. Anarchists always hide, the dao is always hidden. Anarchists understand the negative way, the dao is the way of negation. Anarchists need no guidance, the dao is guidance. Anarchists are selfless, the dao is selfless. Anarchists act when they need to, the dao determines need. Anarchists understand the Mother, the dao is the Mother. 2. The way without names The only way to convey the way, Is to always fail to convey the way. As the way cannot be named. To understand the way is to need no names. To explain it to others is to use names, To use names is to always fail. 3. Mother Anarchy If Mother is empathy and Anarchy is reason, Then Mother Anarchy is ethics. Ethics is ‘the way of virtue’. 4. Anarchist way The anarchist way is the way, The way is the negative way, The negative way is the hidden way, The hidden way is the way without names. The way is chaos, the way is order, The way is order out of chaos. Being the order out of chaos, Are the Order of Anarchy. 5. The spectacle of things What does the spectacle mean? It is like a magic show where the thing you look at is what fools you. The spectacle is the things people don’t do, don’t see, don’t know. The spectacle is people thinking they know, see and do things. Everyone knows the spectacle yet most do not understand. Those that do, are not part of it, that is why they do 'by not doing'. 6. What anarchists want What is it that you anarchists want? They always say. So anarchists answer, Justice for all, Well-being for all, Freedom for all! An end to this system of slavery, An end to the cycles of states, An end to private property! So they say, No, really what do you want? 7. On property Why are all anarchists against private property? Anarchists understand the system. Private property is the root of the system, It is the gear that turns all the other gears. The inheritance of it creates the patriarchy, The structure of it requires hierarchy, The enforcement of it requires violence, The protection of it requires policing, The administration of it requires law, The accumulation of it creates capital and class, The labor of it makes slavery out of labor, The centralization of it creates tyranny and oppression, The propaganda of it presents it as natural, The authority of it exhausts the morality in religion. The power of it abuses the people that give it power. The cost of it causes suffering for it to have value. The exploitation of it creates pollution and destruction, The conflict over it is the only warfare we know. How is all this done for thousands of years? The beast that feeds on blood and sweat, The state. 8. Government and state The distinction between government and state is practically useless, That's why it is useful in theory. The government governs a group of people, (politics) The state administers territory. (economics) The 'nation state' governs a group of people within a certain territory. (political economics) The 'system' of private property is the 'international relations' of 'nation states'. The state cannot exist without government, Government can exist without the existence of states. Governments claim to represent the 'rights' and 'will' of the people, While the state actually enforces 'property rights' every minute of every day. The system is based on private property, So all anarchists are against both government and state. Government as we know it can only function, Within the confines of and for state (property) law. Without private property there is no state, Without state all have the freedom to choose, How, why, when and if they are governed or not. That’s what ‘freedom of movement and association’ means, That’s how you get equality. 9. Critical theory What they call ‘international relations’ in political science, Is how individual perspectives ‘determine’ groups. The perspectives and groups are always the same, The things that change are the ‘cycles’ and conditions of the system. The ‘cycles’ are determined by ‘stages’ of accumulation. The thing being accumulated is the ‘value’ of private property, The thing being resisted is the ‘cost’ for people. Those who understand the system always criticize the system. From this criticism is ‘critical theory perspective’. Due to this criticism the system adapts. Every time it adapts it reveals a weakness, a limit to its adaptability. Taoism is the critical theory from two thousand years ago, Anarchism is the critical theory from two hundred years ago, Same perspective resisting the same system. It is the system that attempts to adapt to us, not us to it. We do not compromise, the system compromises itself. We do not yield to it, it yields to us. This is the way things are. 10. If anarchists were evil If anarchists were evil, none would know order. If anarchists were evil, evil would know no fear. If anarchists were evil, We’d burn down private property every day. We’d eat a fat cat every day. We’d hunt down the righteous every holy day. We’d kill every last one of these state collaborators. We’d crucify the compromising liberals. We’d torture the theists to death with our nonsense. We’re not and we don’t, Not because we fear death, Not because we fear the state, Not because we fear the fire, We fear nothing, We are water. 11. The end of state The system ends the way it began, with private property. Not because someone is going to ban or forbid it, It loses value as it becomes useless. The last cycle of the system has already begun. Private property will be as useful and valuable, As hunting and gathering is today. Nationalism will be as foreign to people, As identifying with animal spirits. How does private property lose value? The same way it always has, As we conquer bread. 12. State of terror If terrorism is political violence, And the state has a monopoly on violence, Then every state is a terrorist state. 13. Democracy and capitalism Democracy and capitalism are incompatible. For capital to have any value, Most can’t have it, some must hoard it. Most must want it, some can’t give it. If they give it, it loses value. In a democracy most have power, That’s why there is no such thing as a democratic state, That’s why everyone gets a republic instead. 14. Useless politicians People feel like their politicians are useless, That’s because they are. The things politicians say today are the only things left for them to say, Whatever they can say was already determined before they were born. The things that politicians can say today, Are the result of things they already did a century ago. The things that politicians could say a century ago, Are the result of things they already did for centuries before. They think they represent the government of the living, They don’t understand that the state enforces the will of the dead. 15. Subjects of the system When the state overthrows the government, They call it a coup d'état. When the government overthrows the state, They don’t call it anything, it never happens. The government is subservient to the state, So the people are subjects of the system. 16. Master and slave Most people think that the people ‘on top’ of the hierarchy, That they are actually in charge or control of the system. It’s an illusion enforced with violence, It’s what they want to believe. The master is always chained to the slave, So the master is as much if not more of a slave then the slave. As the leaders are chained to the state, They are the slaves of the state. 17. Power and authority The politicians say they have the will of the people, The people must then want poverty? The unions say they represent the working class, The workers must have asked for misery? The nations say they exist to ensure peace, The citizens must then love war? They say you don’t understand how things work, You don’t understand the things they have to do, You don’t understand the situations they are in, It is what it is so they do what they can. They think you should be grateful. If only they understood the way things are, They would understand the difference, Between power and authority. 18. Schools of ethics School of naturalists are deontological, (undefined way) So they always seem ‘mystical’ to others. School of law are consequential, So they always seem ‘righteous’ to others. School of scholars are pragmatic, So they always seem ‘virtuous’ to others. School of the way are ‘the way’, (undefined way) So they always seem like fools to others. 19. Be the fool Every generation thinks they know propaganda, That’s why it propagates. To take away the knowledge of scholars, Is to be the fool. That's why the fools, Cannot be fooled. 20. School of naturalists Those who know le nom du père, They are le non du père. Les non-dupes errent, As the shrinks tell you. Those who know the beginning, Those who know the signs, Those who know ritual, As the shaman tells you. Those who remember, Those who repeat, Those who do, As the monk tells you. It is better than hatred, It is better than carelessness, It is better than disobedience, It is better than saying bad words, As the old mystics tell you. They are always there, You just have to listen. 21. Grow up anarchists! People always say, Grow up anarchists! The law thinks you are fools. Scholars say sure it’s cool when you’re young, But you’re getting too old for such childish nonsense. You can unlearn knowledge, You can unlearn propaganda, You can unlearn ideology, You can unlearn belief in a religion, You can unlearn meaning in a ritual. You cannot unlearn ‘the way of Mother’, So you can’t ‘grow up’, So you stay as ‘carefree and curious as a child’. 22. Theory of everything In the physical sciences, They seek the theory of everything, A way to unify the laws of general relativity, With the lawlessness of quantum mechanics. In social sciences they seek the same thing, They call it material and ideal. We know it as history. 23. Birth of scholars When you apply it to ‘the system’, Anarchism is what you get. When you apply it to everything else, The way is what they call it. Most want to understand it, They just want it without the ‘radical’ parts. So we get scholars. Scholars want to be born feet first, Just to be safe. 24. Schools of way and law The school of the way is the ‘opposing way’ of the school of law. It is why ‘the way things are’ negates ‘what is’. To convey the way is the ‘same opposite’ of speaking law. Legal speak is precise to cover every probability. The way is precise to 'show every possibility'. That’s why both sound like nonsense to most. 25. The lawless People think anarchists don’t want law, So we can do all the wrong things. We don’t care about law, So we can always do the right thing. 26. A hundred years hence A century ago civil war was waging and sides were already chosen. The choices determined the rest of the century. The anarchists understood what would happen as it has happened. They told them it was not the way, They did not listen. Black Army fought because they cannot yield. Green Army fought because they cannot yield. White Army fought because they did not want to know, Red Army fought because they did not want to understand. The White did not want to know, As they think they already understand ‘what is’ best. Yet their basis of ‘what is’ is rooted in the Green. They don’t understand the Black so they fear them. The Red did not want to understand, As they think they already know ‘what is’ best. Yet their basis of ‘what is’ best is rooted in the Black. They don’t know the Green so they don’t trust them. The White thought the Green betrayed them, They thought they were on the same side, Yet it is the White that is always compromising. The Red thought the Black betrayed them, They thought they were on the same side, Yet it is the Red that is always compromising. The Black and Green found the way in each other. They always do yet rarely do they see or hear each other. 27. Two thousand years hence Some two thousand years ago, The state brought its cult to a place, Where it found religion. Most wanted to compromise, Some did not. They hated them for it, Now they glorify it. They say they were zealous, The other they don’t understand, They say they were without ritual. Those with privilege and position feared them, So they named them by their blades. 28. The red are so populare Did you hear the news again? They say the red did good in the elections again, They ran on an inclusive platform again, They say they have the will of the people, again. They promised to expand the services of the state, They promised to help people with their debt, They promised to do something about the monopolies, They promised to help out the migrants and indigenous, They promised more opportunity for citizens, They promised more scraps for the people. The only thing they want from the plebs, Is for them to say their name. That’s all, a formality, Again and again. 29. Discourse of the age The Red say, If you want to be part of this society, You have to be as we are in the way that we teach it. The White say, You have to do as we do in the way that we preach it. The Black say, What if we don’t want to be part of this society? What if we don’t think your way of being and doing is good? The Red says, You can’t be as you say you are, You need to be educated to learn why you are wrong. The Black say, What if we understand and still don’t do? What if we don’t do because we understand? The White says, Then you need to be punished, It is for your own good. The Black say, Now you know why we don’t do what you want, Now you know why sometimes we must do what you don’t want. We know we prove nothing, you do that for us. The Red says, You are hopelessly stubborn, our society is the best, Therefore you must be an enemy of the people, Now you must die. The White says, Finally we agree on something. 30. State of fire The state is of fire, As fire it spreads and destroys all in its path. The fire is of the earth, Yet the earth is powerless to stop it. Those who worship the fire, They thought they could control the fire, Yet they cannot stop it, none want to be first. They know if their fire stops another fire spreads. The air tries to be like water, Yet it dances for the fire. It feeds the fire and doesn’t know it. Only the water stops the fire, From the ashes life thrives longer then it burned, Until it dries up again, until a spark is lit again. 31. On 'enlightened centrism' Enlightened centrism is cognitive dissonance. It is the way without a way. Those who compromise yet do not yield. They cannot, they think ‘what is’ is all there is. Those who prioritize the doing over being, Those who prioritize what is over the way things are, Those who prioritize the material over the ideal. The ‘idealists’ are never confused, They do not compromise, they cannot, They already yield to the way things are. This is what enlightened centrists think they are, As they think what is, is the way things are. 32. The only extreme The only ‘extreme’ is the ‘centrist extreme’. It is what ‘fascists’ always are, Reactionary. The conditions they are reacting to, Is what they are named. Like ‘national socialism’. They take what they think is practical from yin, They take what they think is practical from yang, They create something entirely impractical. As it has already compromised the meaning of both. The meaning they never understood, As they see things as only having practical value. The contradictory way is the way without a way, It can only create more contradictions. So they look for scapegoats, After which everything will be fine. So they look for their own myth, After which they will prove everyone else wrong, After which all they have already done will be justified. 33. On fascism Fascism reveals itself in politics, Like boom and bust cycles in economics, Like a byproduct of process, Always spewing out of some asshole. The reactionary always thinks they are the ‘ideal center’, They think they found ‘the way’ to be ‘both’, As they keep reacting, as they keep ‘doubling down’, So they think it must be ‘the only way’ remaining. They want to be virtuous and righteous, They want honor and glory, They want love and respect, They want power and authority, They want everyone to praise them, They want everything so they get nothing. They know it but don’t understand, They think they deserve it, They demand it, they try to force it, So they get more of the opposite. 34. Stay with the way Most people want the same things as fascists, That’s why they fall for it every time. They want total security, absolute certainty, pure control. They too want to be ‘both’ things, they want ‘perfection’. No one is perfect, perfection is death. No one knows and understands everything, No one can always be both things in all situations, There is always one more then the other. Thus one should understand their own strengths and weaknesses, One should understand when to use which tool for what end, One should not act as they are not, In order to ‘stay with the way’. 35. Break on through School of naturalists show people, That they know the way. School of naturalists also tell people, That there must be another way, To get to the way, From the other way, The negative way, The way without. Pure reason as they say. 36. Schools of reason School of naturalists prefer inductive reason, School of law prefer analogical reasoning, School of scholars prefer abductive reasoning, School of the way prefer deductive reason. School of naturalists start at the beginning, School of law start at the end of the beginning, School of scholars start at the beginning of end, School of the way start at the end. All end at the end, Whether they know it or not, Whether they like it or not. 37. Tides of war There is peace here and war there. There is war here because there is peace there. Those who say rising tide lifts all boats, Don’t understand how tides work. 38. On rights Human rights are meant to protect people, From the state. Property rights protect the state, From the people. The state enforces both ‘rights’. People then wonder where their rights are, When they need them the most. People then wonder what it is, That they serve and protect. 39. Without law People ask how can there be justice in anarchism, Without the laws of state? They ask as if they know justice, As if their prisons are empty, As if the state doesn’t kill people, As if judges have authority to judge, As if the lawyers are virtuous, As if they don’t already know, That law is used to justify the injustice.