I recently went through an entirely life changing experience.
I left my phone at my sisters for three days.
For three days, I only checked my laptop in the morning and at the end of the day.
For three days, I couldn’t be reached.
I cackled with delight, feeling naughty and free everywhere I went.
Then I realized something stunning. I’m not free.
None of us are.
Freedom ended decades ago and got worse.
I remember when they installed it. It was the first video security camera that we knew of. Likely costing thousands of dollars to install it patrolled an area where we loved skateboarding. It was there so security could come and chase us away. Skateboarding was illegal and this new tech was a way to enforce the law.
Proudly lawless, we dealt with this intrusion as people should. We vandalized it.
The first time we did it we were stupid. People just drove up to the place and taped a paper bag over the camera. They saw the license plate. Lumpy’s parents got a phone call and that was that. The next time we returned to skate there we didn’t make the same mistake.
Instead, we parked a block away and covered our faces with balaclavas. Instead of tape an a bag, we brought spray paint. We showed up one night and took out the camera. The next night, we skated.
We took out security cameras all over the city. Some we destroyed with paint. Others we cut wires. Some just got smashed repeatedly with skateboards.
It was really fun destroying property.
Most of all though?
It was really really really fun attempting to shut down the corporate capitalists attempts at surveillance and social control.
These days though the world is filled with better behaved more easily controlled lemmings.
We’re all lemmings and narcs. Each of us ready to record and report on the transgressions of the other. It’s fucking disgusing.
Are you reading this on a mobile phone?
Then you’re potentially the worst.
You’re potentially a narc.
Narc, remember this:
Snitches get stitches.
These days, it’s not dope smoking nor skateboarding that will get you narced and plastered everywhere for the delightful shraudenfrade of everyone.
These days, all of you dirty narcs worthy of a stabbing are there ready to document and shame neurodiverse people having a bad day. What’s more, videos usually begin once things get heightened. We miss what happened before the camera was pulled out.
We only see the worst of it then have a natural reaction to the loudest, most agitated person in the room. They become the scapegoat in the narrative.
People have been behaving badly as long as there have been people. Our digital age would delight the Stasi beyond their wildest dreams. More evidence would lead to more criminals. More crimes - whether they are thought crimes, speech crimes or actually fucking crimes would lead to more fun for the type of Delores Umbridge parasites that love enforcing rules.
What to do?
Begin by blocking sites like ‘occupy democrats’. These people are not ‘progressives fighting the good fight’. They are assholes profiteering from stoking division. Here’s a great example:
I had to search to figure out who this man is.
Apparently, he’s a catholic who went to a conservative catholic university and said conservative catholic things about abortion. And these fuckwaddles at occupy democrats er… other 98% decided that they needed to ‘amplify out of concern for the community’.
Instead of ‘shut up and kick’, let’s just let these things disappear.
Oh how I’d love for these people to just fucking disappear.1
Instead of ignoring this man and his anti choice message, they decided to promote racial hatred.
This problematic white man is not racial hatred.
The fact that he’s gotten away with it isn’t either.
However, pointing out racial injustice everywhere does….
Right?
It just fucking makes people angry.
Anger drives division, division drives debate, debate drives clicks
And I’m guessing that these parasites believe that the clicks drive donations and the donations are necessary so they can take over and continue this ‘ends justifies the means’ approach to healing?
Watch out for the narcs.
They’re out there, gleefully waiting, with their instruments of oppression and control close by.
Finally,
If you find yourself in an argument with an asshole, put your fucking phone away.
If you don’t and your nose ends up broken, I’ll happily giggle and tell you how fucking awful you look as I pretend that you didn’t deserve it.
Love the people who love you
And don’t be a narc.
Not the kicker who spoke to catholics - though I would like religion gone - Islam is shit. Christianity is shit and Judaism is also shit. If I haven’t offended your religion directly here it’s because it’s so fucking insignificant, I can’t be bothered to insult you.
As I wrote this week: don’t blame people for their opinions.
Yes reading this on a phone.
There are digital nomads
Guess I’m a digital houseplant.
Hmm