WALTER EDMUND BOND (37096013)
6/6/2012 8:17:21 AM
End Lame
-A BRIEF RANT INSPIRED BY MY READING OF THE BOOK ‘ENDGAME’ BY DERRICK JENSEN-
I seem to have lost my patience with a great number of the mouthpieces in this ‘movement’, It’s gotten to the point where everyone with a laptop and an opinion about Animal Liberation, Earth Liberation or Human Liberation thinks that everything they have to say is professionally valid. It’s really reached ridiculous proportions, and I simply wont fall into the trap of validating people because they learn how to parrot movement rhetoric. The old adage still holds true, if you cant walk the walk, then don’t talk the talk’. Taking a class in school doesn’t make you a revolutionary. Dressing a certain way or listening to certain music doesn’t make you an activist. Having friends with big names and reputations doesn’t mean you know jack shit!
The constant need for approval and validation is a mark of infantilism and immaturity. For those people with in the Liberation struggles that are searching for a sense of identity and socialization, you should seek elsewhere. Because this is not about you, its about them. the Animals, the Earth, the enslaved and downtrodden of humanity. In the struggle for Liberation our voice, our actions, our lives are for them. SELFLESSNESS, means servitude to our activism, no matter what!
There are a lot of amazing people out there doing a lot of hard work, they are the ones that have taken Animals into there homes until they have no other time for themselves, they are the ones that organize and shout down abusers in the street, and they are the one that risk their lives and freedom so that others can have lives and freedom.
They are not the blabbermouths that coin phrases and ideologies, they are not the peter singers and derrick jensens of the day. They are not the armchair generals that expect you to do the difficult and dangerous activism that they are to lazy or cowardly to do themselves, no, and a thousand times, no! the true heroes are far and few between, they are unsung, on the run or to busy trying to save the world to stop and bask in glory. And all the real heroes, purveyors of true freedom and Liberation despite their different approaches, tactics and personal beliefs all have one thing in common: they are more concerned with personal effectiveness than personal posturing.
To all those that are really in this struggle, good for you, stay strong and never give up! We will change things or we will die in the attempt, either way we always win, we never lose. To all those that make a living from their ivory towers and have found a lucrative payday sounding good and doing nothing, you are nothing but a flash in the pan, here today gone tomorrow. May you choke on every penny that your privilege, position and posturing have afforded you. Animal Liberation, Whatever It May Take!
Walter Bond
ALF POW
