Interviewer: Do you ever practice? Tony Iommi, Black Sabbath guitarist: No.

Monday, April 27, 2009

"Imitate the Immutable Decrees of the Divinity"

By what inconceivable art has a means been found of making men free by making them subject; of using in the service of the State the properties, the persons and even the lives of all its members, without constraining and without consulting them; of confining their will by their own admission; of overcoming their refusal by that consent, and forcing them to punish themselves, when they act against their own will? How can it be that all should obey, yet nobody take upon him to command, and that all should serve, and yet have no masters, but be the more free, as, in apparent subjection, each loses no part of his liberty but what might be hurtful to that of another? These wonders are the work of law. It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ of the will of all which establishes, in civil right, the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment, and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political rulers should speak when they command; for no sooner does one man, setting aside the law, claim to subject another to his private will, than he departs from the state of civil society, and confronts him face to face in the pure state of nature, in which obedience is prescribed solely by necessity.
-Rousseau, Political Economy.


So what about the laws of war?

I want to smash your house, I want to scratch your car, I want to fuck your wife, I want to break your life, I want to feel you snap, I want to HEAR YOU FUCKING CRACK.
I don't like the world today; I'm going to rebuild it my own way. I'm a man, I am society, I don't like you so I'll turn you into me so you'll just have to learn it's for the best. I've heard it only hurts for a moment THE BAITING OF THE PUBLIC.
You can't stand the sight of me and all the troubles I bring. I showed you what it's like to fucking hate your life now you see things like me and you will never be the same. We cancelled all your plans, you want to give up man. You ruined life for us; we'll ruin life for you. Shout, cry asking why you feel like shit. You want to die.
--Fucked Up, Baiting the Public