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THE TOWERING INFERNO!
Posted by: APR on Aug 04, 2004 - 08:55 AM
Protest & Resistance
THE TOWERING INFERNO! - Fire and the Incandescent Varieties of Resistance to
Empire

By Green Anarchy


If there's one substance that's emblematic of our age, this epoch of turmoil
and destruction, it's the resplendent and transformative element of Fire.
The Empire is glowing from heat as its physical structures of dominion are
set ablaze by a worldwide eruption of insubordination. A counterattack
against the reign of capital and property has been ignited by the Earth
Liberation Front, who in late April torched an under-construction housing
development in Washington state, causing an estimated $1 million in damages.
>From British Columbia to Italy, a radiant conflagration has burst forth-both
within and outside the State's jurisdiction-and the molotov cocktail has
begun to emerge as the favored weapon of the exploited, the flickering
beacon of freedom that best exemplifies the spreading dissention.

All spring resistance against the U.S. invaders and occupiers has grown
stronger in Iraq. Throughout the country and among various factions or
sectors of the people, blows have been delivered against the Empire. Those
who would possess everything are being dispossessed. They must try to strike
everywhere in the hope that they will be secure anywhere, but in vain. Iraq
is only one site of looming failure.

There is no continent safe from the contagion of defiance, to varying
degrees. Unsanctioned strikes from Turin to Beirut and the Dominican
Republic; native risings in Australia, Canada, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia;
anti-globalization rioters in Guadalajara and Korea; ALF and ELF saboteurs
across North America and the U.K.; hackers, punkers, and a clearly growing
current of anti-civilization sentiment brewing surprises to come.

Also, advanced rot in many of the most developed or established fiefdoms of
capital and technology. Stein Ringen's "Message from Norway" was the Times
Literary Supplement cover story for February 13: "A remarkable study of
democracy has reached its conclusion, rule by popular consent is
disintegrating before our eyes." Fewer - and not just in Norway - see much
point in participating in exercises of manipulation and humiliation. In
pretending that voting exercises control over the conditions of life. There
are signs that the sun is finally setting on the cynical acceptance of
helplessness known as postmodernism. Its head-in-the-sand "refusal of
overviews" [except its own, that is] is an embrace of victimization and
there is less and less space for retreat and avoidance. In so many places,
people now have no choice but to fight back.
There are also the more passive forms of resisting domination, often seen
where the carcinoma of civilization has reached its most advanced levels of
control and oppression. Julian Ryall, for example, writes of "Japan's Secret
Epidemic" [Makka Time, May 31]: social withdrawal, even into total solitude,
and similar symptoms known as "hikikimori." Children who refuse to attend
school, for instance, is a growing social problem, according to Norimitsu
Onishi [New York Times, June 6], referring to those who "will never be able
to adapt fully to the larger society and, especially, to work in a Japanese
company."

American youth almost universally cheat in school and avoid voting. Simon
Head's The New Ruthless Economy [2004] discusses plummeting job
satisfaction. People are exhausted and degraded. And they must, on some
level, know it.
Such phenomena, especially Japan's, bring to mind Treblinka by Jean-Francois
Steiner, a tale of revolt in that death camp. Initially the Nazis exerted so
complete a subjugation that the inmate Jews working there became virtual
zombies. Every desired act of work required a separate command and
operations were thus almost paralyzed. But when the pressure was reduced,
prisoners began to plan their successful rebellion, which destroyed most of
its apparatus.

Either way, the system faces opposition. Its rule is not secured, its
vulnerabilities noticeable, breakdowns now increasingly expected, from
whatever quarter. It is time to seize the initiative with victory in mind.



This article originally appeared in Green Anarchy #17 (Summer 2004).
Print copies of Green Anarchy are available for $4 each in the U$A, $5
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