Bachelor of Anarchy Management

I have a friend that has a passion.

Previously that passion was a hatred of the ‘power structures’ in societies, plus any dealings with his hostile local council.

Now that anger had crystallized into the need for a movement to tear down our political and economic structures.

He is out recruiting like-minded souls for this quest. I am unfortunately not one of the willing but will offer advice from the side lines.

There are a few pertinent observations to make here:

Firstly, his passion would have never got this far without YouTube, complete with loads of easily digestible videos detailing all the conspiracies that were invented to control us in our inevitable journey to the matrix.

The internet speeds up the conversion of people to ‘disenfranchised’ status and also gives us more people that get over the line, into the ‘we must act’ stage.

Secondly, my guess is that my friend’s current recruiting stage via personal conversations with mostly sane-ish old friends will bear little fruit. We are not impressed with the thesis. And that will automatically lead to communion with strangers via social media.

Social media allows groups of similarly disenfranchised people to associate in private. Until they go public with some unfortunate action plan.

Thirdly, we would be well placed to create an official forum for these groups to air their grievances and be heard. Some of what they are reacting to has some merit, maybe (e.g. in the case of my friend it is over governance of the individual by law makers mixed with the evil control of certain global financial sector groups). In any case letting the air out of the balloon before it pops makes sense to me.

Finally, we should force these groups to get some formal training and maybe even licenses to operate as anarchist groups.

The history of social change in organised structures is littered with passionate manifestos that not only called for change, but also outlined replacement social systems.

Take communism for example; Marx and Engels went to the effort of outlining a whole new way to structure society so that when the disenfranchised workers took over Russia they had a blueprint to work with. It’s a shame that Marx and Engels had no understanding of human psychology and that their political structure was easy prey for maniacal dictators.

This might not have happened if they had done the requisite training and had obtained a Bachelor of Anarchy Management (BAM) degree, probably from UWS.