Informant38

Probably not the best time just now to be vague and poetic.
By "Withdraw. Reject. Disengage" I meant from the minds of the oppressing force. Their mouthpieces, their p.r. androids. Like that.
But rereading it it's not carrying that too obviously, and could be seen as directly counter to exactly what Goodman and I-Witness and the people on the street in St. Paul are doing.
There's a psychic or spiritual or non-material aspect to all this, and in that realm engagement gives substance to things created by circumstance, so that concentrating on evil gives it weight and power.
A difficult task to ignore them when they're coming down on you on horses with shields and guns and pepper spray, large faceless creatures armed to the teeth.
I see now that the exhortation is holding a much larger and more complicated thing, a mantra whose purpose and meaning are clear to me but not to anyone else without explanation, which this is trying to be.
There's a seductive aspect to interrogation - power and authority in a relaxed confident mode, the vulnerable prisoner exposed, open to the whims of the uniform and the badge.
Withdraw from that, reject its authority, disengage from the logic traps it offers.
The processes of sanctioned governmental redress appear to be entirely compromised.
The party conventions were seamlessly woven into the same tapestry as the Super Bowl, run by the same people toward the same end. These were commercial enterprises, profitable circuses.
The goals behind them have nothing to do with democracy or human progress or any ideal abstraction.
It's survival, for the men/spirits behind the events, with the promise of technologically-granted immortality and cosmic wealth and power. As science-fictiony as it sounds I think that's what's driving it all.
Apotheosis of the swine.
Meanwhile back on the sidewalk...
We - and I say that even though I'm alone at home sitting on my ass and not out in the street getting beat up by the real neo-Nazis in their black vehicles and dark-blue uniforms - are not trying to get the troops out of Iraq, and end wars for oil - these are symptoms - we're trying to get the pigs off our backs and out of our neighborhoods - that's the disease.
Like everything else "pigs" can be defined out of existence.
I don't mean police, or the invisible cabal behind the Bush Administration. It doesn't have an ethnic specificity.
It's that thing, and all its little constituent members, that's out there doing all this, pulsating, gloating, sneering, lying and stealing and killing people all over the world. The assertion that each constituent of the pigocracy is simply a confused and bent human being, as capable of redemption as anyone else, is true enough, but that's for afterward.
Now it's time to give them nothing.
They have negative energy dynamos, that run on resistance and argument. So those things have to be carefully selected and employed with subtlety. Which is why humor, and music, can be so uplifting and confirming in the face of armed to the teeth phalanxes of demonic looking cops. Because they transcend logic
Because humor and music come from what we are that they aren't.
The assertion of tenderness and light in the face of cruelty and death.