Becoming an Anarchist ?

Proposition 8 was a California State ballot proposition that amended the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman. It overrode a recent California Supreme Court decision that had recognized same-sex marriage in California as a fundamental right. The official ballot title language for Proposition 8 is “Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry.” The entirety of the text to be added to the constitution was: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

“If the individual has the right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny”, Benjamin R. Tucker

In my opinion, mariage is just something left of old religious habits and we should switch to a more civil union, but why forbid people wanting to get maried?

Why let the government decide what lifestyle is right or wrong ?

Once again we get to a religious problem thanks to people thinking that they are superior therefore have the right to impose their views on other people, here using an oppresive law. People are just not fit to decide on these kind of questions ! I am not concerned by prop 8, but I still don’t see why some people need to push their opinion on others… it won’t chance a thing for them ! But still they try to oppose social progress… and the system let them !

It should be up to each individual to decide what lifestyle they want to follow as long as it doesn’t harm their neightboors… and to me two guys or two girls getting maried won’t kill anyone.

Right now I’m in Florida and I discover that a LOT of people are homophobic. It is really “ok” here, it won’t offend anyone. Why all these ignorant people raised with a religious blindfold should get the right to decide who I can mary ? Leave me alone !

They have no clue of what’s going on in the world, they base their logic on the bible or other ridiculous beliefs… but in the end they still get to decide for other how to rule their life by allowing laws like prop 8 to pass.

Once again, I am not directly concerned, but I wonder what would I do if I was. What would I do if I was denied my rights to live my life as I want ? Well I’m not sure…

I leave you with this video of Keith Olberman :

In my opinion we should remove all frontiers.

People always preach the values of “freedom” and “equality”, but in the end when someone from another country try to get into yours, it’s not the same speech. Yeah, we should be equal… but only if we’re born in the same country !

I was born in France. What make me more entitled to wealth than another guy born in Africa ? Maybe he’s better than me and deserve more, who knows. If he wants to change the ods and get into a place -like Europe- where there are good jobs and good money… well he can’t.

Or it will be complicated. Or illegal.

Why ? If this guy want to get here and work, why should forbid that ? I’m sure that if he is good he will be usefull to society and therefore raise the level of living for everyone ! Of course, he might “steal” my job, but then why should that be MY job ? Because I was born here ?

Also, what is more arbitrary and random than frontiers. Let’s take the example of France, a guy in the south, near Spain, will be closer to their Spanish neighbors in many ways (geographical, cultural…) than to their compatriots from north of France ! So why shouldn’t the south of France and the North of Spain create a country of their own ? Or why every city shouldn’t become a country ?

It is just as arbitrary !

So in the end, because of where you were born you have to stay in this one territory. You can’t go elsewhere unless you go through a lot of procedures and paperwork… that often fail based on some criteria set by the governments.

Frontiers are just a way to keep people from making the best of their life by going to the place they could enjoy the most. It is arbitrary and unfair since the place you are born determine -in most of the cases- the country you’ll have to live in.

PS : A lot of people say that the problem of Africa is that it is overpopulated. The same people say that Europe and developed countries’ populations are getting older and older and that the birth rate is bad…

The American election campaign is still going on, millions are spent.

But for what ? When I speak with American citizens they still end up with the same arguments such as “Obama said [insert something here] 20 years ago, he shouldn’t be president”, “McCain made [insert a mistake here] 35 years ago ! How can I vote for him !”. It is also about who is the best christian, the best black guy, the best war veteran, the youngest, the oldest…

The ones actually looking at the programs are rare.

It was the same in France for the 2007 election. People will vote based on some factors that should not influence their decision… and the politics will spend a lot of money trying to look as good as possible.

Of course there will be some debates, but the people watching these debates have usually made up their mind. They don’t want to be convinced ! They just want to see the opponent of their guy getting beat up. And if he doesn’t, they’ll say he did anyways.

People don’t know how to pick a leader. It’s all about apparences… what’s the point ?

In the end you can be sure that a lot of people will vote for Obama because he is black and a lot for McCain because he is not. Should that kind of factors influence a vote ? Well… no !

Let’s take a look at this marketing operation :

(via marketing alternatif via bloguerrilla)

Oh yeah, that’s good politics right here. “Lol poop ahaha nao let’s vote”.

Democracy FAIL

Religious suffering is, at the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

-Karl Marx

Faith is a belief in the trustworthiness of an idea.

A religion is a set of tenets and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law.

In my opinion, religion is bad. Like, really bad.

When I say that, please do not mix religion and faith. Faith can be a good thing since it can give people hope, make them better person and so on. I guess that some people just need faith to keep on going. So why not! They can put their faith in God or in a magical cheesecake, I couldn’t care less. I also don’t like to mix religion and buddhism which I consider to be more a phylosophy than an actual religion.

But religion is different, it is the organization and exploitation of faith. It is a set of rules and laws that you must - or at least should - follow in order to be a good person. If you don’t, you will end up in trouble. Of course all these laws are set by men that decided they were so amazing they could dictate the ways of an entire population. “Don’t use condoms”, “Women should stay hidden”, “Homosexuality is bad” and so on. If I’m a woman and I want to walk around like I want, let me be ! If I’m gay, give me a rest !

All this leads to fucked up ideas justified by texts written thousands of years ago. It might have made sense then, but not anymore. Do not eat pork ? Yeah, back then this meat carried disseases, but now? Kosher was a good way to control how meat was prepared in order to avoid people to eat tainted meat, but now it is not necessary anymore. Waste of time, waste of money.

Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

-Voltaire

It also give people a legitimity they don’t deserve. How many time have you heard “in the name of God” to justify stupid actions ? Crusades ? Jihad ? Wars ? Genocides ? Persecutions ? Anyone?

On the other hand, when did a religion solved a crisis instead of starting one ? Yeah I know it’s easy to ask this question, you could answer me “alright, maybe religion didn’t solve a crisis, but a lot of good religious people actually helped!“. Ok, but to me this is faith. This is altruism. It’s not religion.

Religion is a hierarchy where a minority of people impose their views on a majority based on interpretations of old books. By keeping people in this logic they get power and money.

Alright, not all of them get that. Let’s take the priest of a small village… he will most likely be far from being rich. It is just because he is at the bottom of the hierarchy. Just like some low paid employee. He might do good things, but why should he give up on so many things in order to achieve that ? It’s just another stupid rule to go against human nature. Maybe the priest could make a better use of his time to help people than just reading scriptures on his own for a few years and then reading them to a bunch of people on Sundays.

No ?

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

-Leviticus

Religion is a way to hold back evolutions of society. Just look at who oppose social progress. Abortion, gay rights. Look at who oppose scientific progress. Look at creationism.

It’s often religious lobbyist that feel in charge of a divine mission to save other people. They base their logic on some old texts that are often irrational.

If you want to eat pork while having protected gay sex with multiple partners… It’s your choice, why should I care ?!