Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 02:10:46 +0200 (CEST)
From: Joacim Persson <joacim-AT-ymex.net>
Subject: Re: abstract concepts as tools of authority


On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, someone in the disguise of Jennifer Armstrong wrote:

> We are the cement which are described with our concepts.  Reality has to be
> changed.  Igoring social relations won't change them.  You ignore the baton
> wielding police at your own peril.

I once successfuly ignored the police for over two years. It took some
effort, yes, but it worked, and it cost them plenty of work for nothing. My
grandfather ignored the taxman all his life.  Except once, some time in the
50's he did fill out the tax form, claiming he had earned a million. They
made the usual arbitrary tax assessment on him anyway, perhaps out of
habit, perhaps because they didn't seriously think the poorest man in the
village was a millionaire. The thing is, it costs work, real money, for
authority to deal with disobedience -- what ignoring authority is. It wears
them out.

> perhaps in blissful, ignorance and most probably ignored yourself by real
> power.

Well if power ignores me, I can do whatever I like. Then it has abolished
itself.