Today I founded the Leftist Free Autonomous Radical Thinkers (Left-F.A.R.T.) movement. It is a platform for anyone whose political leaning is to the left, and who is willing to explore new, radical and independent avenues of thought.
What does the Left-F.A.R.T. want? Here it is:
We want to make people on this planet aware of the terrible, relentless and appalling Globalising Friedmania and fight it. (Naomi Klein deserves credits for re-igniting my zeal.) We want to implement a humanistic world-view, in those people who don’t have it yet. People must become independent thinkers, capable of making sound and rational decisions without the help of infantilising agents who are telling us what to think, do or buy.
We want, in general, to make people more human and put some distance between us and the “Natural World” of animals. We herewith recognise the human responsibility for using that enormous brain of ours to lift us above the level of other species and become better than nature. We want to excel in our abilities and knowledge. We understand the necessity of social relations and cohesion.
Secularisation has left a void where religion used to fulfil that need. Secularisation is good, the void, however, should be ‘a-void-ed’ (…har har…). People teach themselves as well as each other. We need to accept input and feedback from our brothers and neighbours, without feeling attacked. We can do this, if we are confident in our ability to think for ourselves. Let your voice be heard and your writings be read. Communicate! Take the responsibility of having a political opinion. Doing this exempts the Principally Scrupled Democrats or hard-line Anarchists, from having to vote in regular elections.
We accept the Sun going Supernova in a few billion years as the real issue concerning our planet, as opposed to our belief systems, making lots of money or eat all we can (and more). If we concentrate on this, we might become a palatable species along the way. How do we evacuate 30 billion people from this solar system? By learning to live together properly, by making this planet survivable until the big flash comes, by putting all our efforts together and by BECOMING BETTER THAN WE ARE!
I realise that this initiative is not new, for there are many platforms like this, but since it caters to Autonomists like me, I’d like to invite everyone to joint the ranks of the Left-F.A.R.T., and become Autonomous too. Joining is easy. Follow these simple steps:
Get rid of old ideas, especially those you got from your parents yonks ago. Explore new ways of thinking and follow paths you don’t know yet. Become independent, especially in forming opinions, so that you actually understand why you have that opinion.
Take the “human measure” as your measure, instead of what the general public perceives as “society”. Society sometimes takes roads that are not favourable to its people but rather service the rich upper class. Find a balance between your interests and those of others. Be AWARE of those interests of others and try to create synergy.
Doubt everything you think you know for certain, and check yourself to reality every now and then. Be curious, experiment and investigate. Accept the idea of being “under construction” until the day your earthly life ends.
And, as goes without saying, all this comes for free!
