too much! thanks don!

#moderslavery.jpg# School sux, teachers sux, parents sux, the authority sux. While you are rebelling against society, you are blind to the cause. If you understood the cause of the denigration of your identity, you wouldn’t have used violence to fight back. You would have bettered yourself to prove the fact that you are a threat to the system, the reason why you are enslaved in social captivity. By proving yourself is making a stand where you are recognised, where you achieve status, and where you are respected for who you are. Violence will only help to further denigrate not only your identity, but also of your family and culture. Religion, culture, sports, and arts are some of the vehicles available for our disposal in order to avoid violence. At the same time, we are in controlled of our struggle, and it’s not dictating the terms of our fate. We will always live on the edge of society, but violence must not be the answer.

According to a simple model used by Barnardo’s family counselling, violence is like second nature to all of us. They suggested four reasons why we resort to violence: attention; power; helplessness; and revenge. We seek attention or recognition when we are excluded from society, when we are deprived and discriminated against because of our culture. We want to become powerful so that we can overcome obstacles and struggles but when we come against bureaucratic and corporate institutions we feel helpless. Living in long periods of time under helpless conditions is stressful, and this breaks out once in a while in actions characteristic of revengeful violence. Such that robbing an old lady on the street or beating up a defenceless cripple are targets aiming at society, and not necessarily the individual. We have witnessed other violent acts against society which targeted statutes or historical monuments of a nation.

There are power struggles in the home where all walks of life suffer from; there are struggles in bureaucratic and corporate institutions whether you are an employee, a client, or a consumer. But our struggle identifies with minority ethnic groups living on the margins of society. While violence associated with institutional struggles of the home and bureaucratic/corporate cultures, spans from the bedroom homicides to courtroom battles, violence associated with struggles of minority ethnic groups are often displayed on the streets.

Minority ethnic groups in some unconscious way seek recognition for their rights, to achieve their status and fulfilled their identity of who they are. Long term living in poverty or helplessness conditions has hardened our psyche, and we seek revenge against society. We are involved in gangster music, underground fashion, drugs, alcohol and crime. This is important; it is not pop culture that is causing violence. It is a smokescreen! Pop culture is a means of sustaining the sub cultures of the streets, and not the cause of it.

While culture and religion also pose a form of authority, they don’t enslave our minds in long periods under helpless conditions where we break out in violent acts. Instead culture, religion, sports and the arts provide alternatives to take control of our struggles. It is then that we can conquer our oppressors and make a stand in society for who we are.

Taking my experience as a former Labour voter, I would join those who have already left NZ because of the government’s interference with people’s lives, especially its manipulation of bureaucratic and corporate services to that effect. I could have left 12 years ago with qualifications to find work elsewhere but for their political interference in my life I ended up stuck on a benefit.

I would vote for an alternative values party, and a large number of ex Labour’s supporters have jumped ship. The only people left behind are Unionists and Socialists along with the Greens and their PC comrades. The likely bulk of the upper class NZers would consist of Nurses or similar female dominant workers along with a massive layer of bureaucrats and corporate class.

I think that families and individuals have left NZ to seek decent family values, and I will be concerned about those who are coming into the country, whether they already have a preference for Feminist Socialist agenda.

GO! we'll be way better off without negative bigots like you here ...

WTF?

the point of rebellion is to challenge the status quo in order to improve all our lives. rebels wish to overthrow the existing dominant system. they want a functioning and fair society and not the slow-motion implosion that is modern capitalist society.

culture, religion, sports and the arts are not unimportant but any battle to expand your freedom surely must confront the economic violence that comes from our division into classes. this is what is at the root of anti-social behavior and social imbalance.

economics forces us to use violence against one another. not merely physical harm but violence in terms of hurting one another to get ahead. what do you to at work? in order to benefit your boss you enable the legal thieving from people just like you. people don't ask to pay for water, food, counselling. they are forced to do so in part by your continued support for the system. the system keeps running on the same unless we challenge the injustices which form it's foundation. refuse to take part.

if each interaction we had in society resulted in a building-up instead of a tearing-down of the individual then the violence would end, institutional and personal.

together we can all be free.

I assume that fucking awful noise on the link was ripped off from White Christmas.
You guys didn't even get the chords right.

"Didn't even get the chords right"

so what tight arse.

chords are what you hold up your pyjamas with.