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Title: WyldFire! communique #1 Author: WyldFire! Collective Date: 2015 Language: en Topics: freedom, rewilding Source: Retrieved on 6 November 2015 from http://rewyldstl.noblogs.org/post/2015/05/01/wyldfire-communique-1/ Notes: First communique of the WyldFire! Collective, an informal accompliceship of autonomous, random dreamers, lovers & fighters.
If I were free…
If domination, hierarchy, privilege, patriarchy, racism, ecocide &
genocide, class & caste, nationalism, ethnocentrism, representation were
abolished… if manipulation or outright theft of personal agency, norms &
mythic standards of identity, all forms of police and all the other
burdens humanity has endured for millennia were to be thrown off… if we
build positive notions of freedom, focused on the freedom-to, rather
than languish under notions of -unfreedom, the contradictory
freedom-from – contradictory because if you feel a need to have a
freedom-from, you’re not truly free at all… if all oppressions could be
cast aside and a multitude of better worlds and communities could pop up
like so many weeds breaking through the cracks of the coerced, the
forced, and the un-natural…
“If…”
The risks and uncertainty of freedom are real, but are they more
threatening than the certainty of countless & painfully familiar
sufferings and daily humiliations under domination? The persons who
contributed to building the hegemononic society of control had no
crystal ball, no certain or objective knowledge of how their systems of
domination would turn out. Likewise, none of us who stand and resist
possess any roadmap certain to lead to the downfall of hegemony.
At the very least, we are united in our common recognition of the
overbearing wrong-ness of the state of the world, today; it’s
ever-present violence at every level of our lived experience. At the
very least, we become accomplices in our common understanding that we
cannot sit by and do nothing. In a cause & effect world, we must take
action against the conditions of domination, of the domestication of all
life for the purpose of consumption, consumption which feeds the systems
of domination.
Recognizing that we share similar persistent dreams, our imaginations
insisting even in the face of all the pain and suffering inflicted up
this world that we CAN be free, we take aim not only at the institutions
and the individuals who serve and pursue domination over other persons
and communities, we take aim as well at the internal domination of
repressed hearts, minds, spirits and imaginations which stifle our
agency, circumscribe our lives and fill up every hole left by the
alienation of un-freedom with the banality of what passes for life,
today; a domesticated, increasingly dominated life.
Because we must…
Understanding that we must free ourselves, together; that we must free
ourselves if we are to lend a hand in freeing one another, and we must
lend a hand to one another in order to get free, we acknowledge that we
must do both together, at once, as part of the same process.
Because we must take affective action inside ourselves, in our
relationships and the world around us if we want to have an effect on
the horizons & potentials of our lives, we seek the de-colonization and
re-wilding of everyday life.
ReWyld!