We Do Not Need To

It Is By Losing Ourselves In Inquiry, Creation & Craft That We Become Something. Civilization Is A Continual Gift Of Spirit: Inventions, Discoveries, Insight, Art. We Are Citizens, As Socrates Would Have Said, & We Have It Available As Our Own.

Be Patient, Do Nothing, Cease Striving. We Find This Advice Disheartening And Therefore Unfeasible Because We Forget It Is Our Own Inflexible Activity That Is Structuring The Reality. We Think That If We Do Not Hustle, Nothing Will Happen And We Will Pine Away. But The Reality Is Probably In Motion And After A While We Might Take Part In That Motion. But One Can't Know.

Anarchism Is Grounded In A Rather Definite Social-psychological Hypothesis: That Forceful, Graceful And Intelligent Behaviour Occurs Only When There Is An Uncoerced And Direct Response To The Physical And Social Environment; That In Most Human Affairs, More Harm Than Good Results From Compulsion, Top-down Direction, Bureaucratic Planning, Pre-ordained Curricula, Jails, Conscription, States.

For Mankind, Speech With A Capital S Is Especially Meaningful And Committing, More Than The Content Communicated. The Outcry Of The Newborn And The Sound Of The Bells Are Fraught With Mystery More Than The Baby's Woeful Face Or The Venerable Tower.

There Is The Dumb Silence Of Slumber Or Apathy... The Fertile Silence Of Awareness, Pasturing The Soul... The Silence Of Peaceful Accord With Other Persons Or Communion With The Cosmos.