- Rod Coronado -
"People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system."
- Malcolm X -
- Malcolm X -
Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Let's Be Honest
"Let's be honest. The animal rights movement as we now know it will never become a revolutionary struggle because the representatives of the oppressed enjoy enough privilege from the system they oppose to prevent them from supporting, let alone engaging in actual revolutionary activity that would risk those comforts."
- Rod Coronado -
- Rod Coronado -
Love Does Not Imply Pacifism
"Tactics based solely on morality can only succeed when you are dealing with people who are moral or a system that is moral."
- Malcolm X -
“Non-violence is not a moral principle but a strategy. And there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon."
- Nelson Mandela -
“The Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, even those who went on what they thought were suicide missions, had a higher rate of survival than those who did not fight back. Never forget that."
- Derrick Jensen -
To Mistake the Symptom for the Disease
"Animal exploitation and murder are no more the result of a particular belief system, political system, or economic system than are human exploitation and murder. To think that they are is to mistake the symptom for the disease. The disease is selfishness, greed, arrogance, and a lack of compassion. As Lord Acton told us, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Human history demonstrates that whenever a system (economic, political, religious, whatever) is installed that is designed to end, or at least ameliorate, human oppression, it is fairly quickly corrupted into a new mechanism for the same old oppression. Communism, is one example, institutional Christianity another. Political and economic democracy slow the process by distributing power widely enough to prevent its concentration while placing a significant share of it in the hands of those most vulnerable to oppression. As Winston Churchill reminded us, "Democracy is the worst system of governance ever devised except for all of the other systems that have been tried from time to time." Radical social revolutions simply put a new class of oppressors in charge. I wish it were not so, but it is."
"To put it bluntly, we enslave and murder animals because it is in our self-interest to do so and we have the power to get away with it, not because of capitalism, liberal democracy, the Judeo-Christian dominionist tradition, or any of the other reasons so commonly given. These are merely after-the-fact justifications. We enslave and murder animals because we can and we enjoy the results. Change the political or economic system, and that fundamental fact will still be operative, and the enslavement and murder of animals will continue unaffected except that it will now be justified by a different set of theories, one that is compatible with the new system."
- Norm Phelps -
"To put it bluntly, we enslave and murder animals because it is in our self-interest to do so and we have the power to get away with it, not because of capitalism, liberal democracy, the Judeo-Christian dominionist tradition, or any of the other reasons so commonly given. These are merely after-the-fact justifications. We enslave and murder animals because we can and we enjoy the results. Change the political or economic system, and that fundamental fact will still be operative, and the enslavement and murder of animals will continue unaffected except that it will now be justified by a different set of theories, one that is compatible with the new system."
- Norm Phelps -
The Problem: The Human Species Itself
"Animal liberation is the most difficult liberation struggle of all because speciesism is primordial and universal. Speciesism is arguably the first of any form of domination or hierarchy and it has spread like a deadly virus throughout the entire planet and all of human history. The problem is not limited to Western culture or to the modern world, such that there is some significant utopian past or radical alternative to recover. The problem is the human species itself, which but for rare exceptions is violent, destructive, and imperialistic. Universally, humans have vested interests in exploiting animals and think they have a God-given right to do so. To change these attitudes is to change the very nerve center of human consciousness. That is our task - no more and no less."
- Steve Best -
- Steve Best -
Violence and Control are a Part of Us
There is a reason why humans see leather as cool and sexy.
Violence and control are a part of us.
You can fight it and explain to people that it is wrong and that animals suffer for it.
You can tell people that they can buy synthetic materials instead.
Trying to convince people to buy synthetic fabrics is not how you change things.
Violence and control are a part of us.
You can fight it and explain to people that it is wrong and that animals suffer for it.
You can tell people that they can buy synthetic materials instead.
But leather is a lot more than a material that jackets are made of.
Leather is status. it is a symbol.
Trying to convince people to buy synthetic fabrics is not how you change things.
Synthetic fabric is synthetic revolution.
Humans want leather because it is a symbol of power and domination. The problem is internal and there is no jacket in the world that can ever change that.
* Text taken from the Only One Solution website.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Thanksgiving Feast
A dead turkey is what symbolizes more than anything, a holyday that is supposed to symbolize humans’ thankfulness to god for all the wealth he supposedly gave them.
It seems to be absurd that even the day that symbolizes humans’ gratitude to god, nature and everything around them, they celebrate it by ignorance, violence and contempt to everything around them.
Hundreds of millions of turkeys are tortured for months, murdered and eaten in the thanksgiving feast.
A violent feast of ostentation and hypocrisy.
It symbolizes how greedy and boastful humans are. Not modest and grateful.
Unfortunately it is not surprising that this is their thanks.
A critical examination of humans’ nature and of life in general, makes it very logical. And when atrocities like these are logical…
What is your dilemma?
* Text taken from the Only One Solution website.
Nonviolence
The non violent approach which is both speciesist and ironically extremely violent.
The non violent approach is speciesist because it is non violent towards humans but at the same time and as a consequence it is violent towards non human animals.
It gives humans an automatic and evident power to decide whether or not they are willing to stop torturing. It is not supposed to be the abusers' decision and the animal rights activists let the abusers make this decision, a decision that regards other creatures' suffer.
The non violent approach is violent because refusing to use violence to stop much more violence is actually supporting violence. From the moment you are aware of the possibility to stop someone’s suffer using violence and you refuse to use it, you choose suffer.
The speciesist and violent approach is in the concept that the one and only duty of activists is to convince the abusers to stop abusing and not to stop the abuse.
As far as most activists think, their variety of options is expressed in persuasion methods only. The basic approach is hardly ever questioned. Convincing people to divert their diet is the only option, the differences are in the ways to do it.
If something didn't work they will try another but all the options have the same in common, they all are different tactics with the same strategy, to convince the abusers to stop abusing, but not to stop the abusers.
When you maintain a non violent approach, if you fail to convince a non-vegan speciesist, he is free to go and continue the abuse.
It shouldn’t be their choice. You don’t ask the tortures if they would like to stop torturing. You just stop them.
We know it is not easy as "just" stopping them, but it is what we’ve got to do. It begins with you realizing the absurdity. With you stop asking the oppressors to stop oppressing and start to find a way to stop it all.
* Text taken from the Only One Solution website.
The non violent approach is speciesist because it is non violent towards humans but at the same time and as a consequence it is violent towards non human animals.
It gives humans an automatic and evident power to decide whether or not they are willing to stop torturing. It is not supposed to be the abusers' decision and the animal rights activists let the abusers make this decision, a decision that regards other creatures' suffer.
The non violent approach is violent because refusing to use violence to stop much more violence is actually supporting violence. From the moment you are aware of the possibility to stop someone’s suffer using violence and you refuse to use it, you choose suffer.
The speciesist and violent approach is in the concept that the one and only duty of activists is to convince the abusers to stop abusing and not to stop the abuse.
As far as most activists think, their variety of options is expressed in persuasion methods only. The basic approach is hardly ever questioned. Convincing people to divert their diet is the only option, the differences are in the ways to do it.
If something didn't work they will try another but all the options have the same in common, they all are different tactics with the same strategy, to convince the abusers to stop abusing, but not to stop the abusers.
When you maintain a non violent approach, if you fail to convince a non-vegan speciesist, he is free to go and continue the abuse.
It shouldn’t be their choice. You don’t ask the tortures if they would like to stop torturing. You just stop them.
We know it is not easy as "just" stopping them, but it is what we’ve got to do. It begins with you realizing the absurdity. With you stop asking the oppressors to stop oppressing and start to find a way to stop it all.
* Text taken from the Only One Solution website.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Innocents When They Sleep
In order to produce comfort pillows and worm blankets for humans, this is the "discomfort" geese "have" to endure...
Humans are not innocents even when they sleep.
* Text taken from the Only One Solution website.
Absurd (vivisection)
Animal rights activists claim that vivisection is absurd because it is unscientific and unsafe for humans.
Don't you think it is absurd that animal rights activists are fighting for good science instead of a sufferless world?
Using the unscientific argument is speciesism. Non humans’ suffer is the strongest case against vivisection, a fact that is totally absent in the anti vivisection movement.
It is a moral issue not a scientific one. If you have reached the point that you hang on the few doctors that go against animal experiments as your best case against vivisection, then the animals have a problem that no alternative could solve.
Problems should be solved from the roots and the root is an historical crime against weaker creatures in an excuse of human superiority. The problem is in the way humans see animals not in the way scientists see science.
If activists believe humans are too insensitive towards non-human suffering, then they must fight against them, not for them.
* Much of the text taken from the Only One Solution website.
Sadism as a Starting Point
The animal rights movement calls bullfights, rodeos, circuses, marine parks and zoos violence in disguise of entertainment.
The truth unfortunately is much worse.
It is entertainment.
The human race is entertained by torture and abuse.
Humans seek for the power and dominance over other species and they enjoy it. There is no other way to explain the amusement children get from brutally murdering a bull or aggressively roping a calf.
Bullfights, circuses and rodeos are some sort of a celebration of humans’ victory over other species, a symbolic display of their tyranny.
We have to comprehend this. Enjoying such a brutal and violent shows, like rodeos, bullfights and circuses are a part of the human race’s nature.
You can try to convince people not to participate, you can try to promote legislation against those cruel acts, you can demonstrate, you can liberate a few animals, but you can’t change the fact that this is a part of the human race. Humans enjoy humiliating and hurting others - humans and non humans.
Stop fighting the symptoms, deal with the real problem.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Pure Speciesism
For some reason animal rights organizations "decided" that no matter what humans do, they must stay.
The most violent, greedy and destructive specie - the one which is the root cause of the problem they fight against - must stay. Amazing.
The automatic chance humans get and the speciesist request to be patient won't be given in case of human victims.
Right now, animal rights organizations act as if the human species is simply the best specie ever...
This is pure speciesism.
The most violent, greedy and destructive specie - the one which is the root cause of the problem they fight against - must stay. Amazing.
The automatic chance humans get and the speciesist request to be patient won't be given in case of human victims.
Right now, animal rights organizations act as if the human species is simply the best specie ever...
Every day that you choose to give humans immunity, you choose the other animals should wait.
* Part of the text is taken from the Only One Solution website.
* Part of the text is taken from the Only One Solution website.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
"I do it only out of duty"
Number of insightful quotations taken from the page "Words of Wisdom" on http://www.whyculturedmeat.org:
"Tactics based solely on morality can only succeed when you are dealing with people who are moral or a system that is moral."
--Malcolm X
“Non-violence is not a moral principle but a strategy. And there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon."
--Nelson Mandela
"... humans are much more social than rational creatures. In everyday life on average, people try to merge into society, behave correspondingly, and afterwards rationalize their behaviour, i.e. find "rational" reasons why they act as they act. This observation is so obvious that it does not seem to merit quoting empirical support."
--Martin Balluch
"Let's be honest. The animal rights movement as we now know it will never become a revolutionary struggle because the representatives of the oppressed enjoy enough privilege from the system they oppose to prevent them from supporting, let alone engaging in actual revolutionary activity that would risk those comforts."
--Rod Coronado
"People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system."
--Malcolm X
"Animal liberation is the most difficult liberation struggle of all because speciesism is primordial and universal. Speciesism is arguably the first of any form of domination or hierarchy and it has spread like a deadly virus throughout the entire planet and all of human history. The problem is not limited to Western culture or to the modern world, such that there is some significant utopian past or radical alternative to recover. The problem is the human species itself, which but for rare exceptions is violent, destructive, and imperialistic. Universally, humans have vested interests in exploiting animals and think they have a God-given right to do so. To change these attitudes is to change the very nerve center of human consciousness. That is our task - no more and no less."
--Steve Best
"Animal exploitation and murder are no more the result of a particular belief system, political system, or economic system than are human exploitation and murder. To think that they are is to mistake the symptom for the disease. The disease is selfishness, greed, arrogance, and a lack of compassion. As Lord Acton told us, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Human history demonstrates that whenever a system (economic, political, religious, whatever) is installed that is designed to end, or at least ameliorate, human oppression, it is fairly quickly corrupted into a new mechanism for the same old oppression. Communism, is one example, institutional Christianity another. Political and economic democracy slow the process by distributing power widely enough to prevent its concentration while placing a significant share of it in the hands of those most vulnerable to oppression. As Winston Churchill reminded us, "Democracy is the worst system of governance ever devised except for all of the other systems that have been tried from time to time." Radical social revolutions simply put a new class of oppressors in charge. I wish it were not so, but it is."
"To put it bluntly, we enslave and murder animals because it is in our self-interest to do so and we have the power to get away with it, not because of capitalism, liberal democracy, the Judeo-Christian dominionist tradition, or any of the other reasons so commonly given. These are merely after-the-fact justifications. We enslave and murder animals because we can and we enjoy the results. Change the political or economic system, and that fundamental fact will still be operative, and the enslavement and murder of animals will continue unaffected except that it will now be justified by a different set of theories, one that is compatible with the new system."
--Norm Phelps, Until there are no beings whom we still define as "other"
"I recall cutting my philosophical teeth on Marx, and then discovering Nietzsche, who confirmed my deeper biases toward pessimistic views on humanity. I've done a hell of a lot of work on AR and veganism here in El Paso and have been constantly in the media, doing interviews, and organizing groups and actions. But it cuts against my grain and I do it only out of duty."
--Steve Best, Until there are no beings whom we still define as "other"
"Tactics based solely on morality can only succeed when you are dealing with people who are moral or a system that is moral."
--Malcolm X
“Non-violence is not a moral principle but a strategy. And there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon."
--Nelson Mandela
"... humans are much more social than rational creatures. In everyday life on average, people try to merge into society, behave correspondingly, and afterwards rationalize their behaviour, i.e. find "rational" reasons why they act as they act. This observation is so obvious that it does not seem to merit quoting empirical support."
--Martin Balluch
"Let's be honest. The animal rights movement as we now know it will never become a revolutionary struggle because the representatives of the oppressed enjoy enough privilege from the system they oppose to prevent them from supporting, let alone engaging in actual revolutionary activity that would risk those comforts."
--Rod Coronado
"People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system."
--Malcolm X
"Animal liberation is the most difficult liberation struggle of all because speciesism is primordial and universal. Speciesism is arguably the first of any form of domination or hierarchy and it has spread like a deadly virus throughout the entire planet and all of human history. The problem is not limited to Western culture or to the modern world, such that there is some significant utopian past or radical alternative to recover. The problem is the human species itself, which but for rare exceptions is violent, destructive, and imperialistic. Universally, humans have vested interests in exploiting animals and think they have a God-given right to do so. To change these attitudes is to change the very nerve center of human consciousness. That is our task - no more and no less."
--Steve Best
"Animal exploitation and murder are no more the result of a particular belief system, political system, or economic system than are human exploitation and murder. To think that they are is to mistake the symptom for the disease. The disease is selfishness, greed, arrogance, and a lack of compassion. As Lord Acton told us, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Human history demonstrates that whenever a system (economic, political, religious, whatever) is installed that is designed to end, or at least ameliorate, human oppression, it is fairly quickly corrupted into a new mechanism for the same old oppression. Communism, is one example, institutional Christianity another. Political and economic democracy slow the process by distributing power widely enough to prevent its concentration while placing a significant share of it in the hands of those most vulnerable to oppression. As Winston Churchill reminded us, "Democracy is the worst system of governance ever devised except for all of the other systems that have been tried from time to time." Radical social revolutions simply put a new class of oppressors in charge. I wish it were not so, but it is."
"To put it bluntly, we enslave and murder animals because it is in our self-interest to do so and we have the power to get away with it, not because of capitalism, liberal democracy, the Judeo-Christian dominionist tradition, or any of the other reasons so commonly given. These are merely after-the-fact justifications. We enslave and murder animals because we can and we enjoy the results. Change the political or economic system, and that fundamental fact will still be operative, and the enslavement and murder of animals will continue unaffected except that it will now be justified by a different set of theories, one that is compatible with the new system."
--Norm Phelps, Until there are no beings whom we still define as "other"
"I recall cutting my philosophical teeth on Marx, and then discovering Nietzsche, who confirmed my deeper biases toward pessimistic views on humanity. I've done a hell of a lot of work on AR and veganism here in El Paso and have been constantly in the media, doing interviews, and organizing groups and actions. But it cuts against my grain and I do it only out of duty."
--Steve Best, Until there are no beings whom we still define as "other"
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