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Title: Daily Life & Hiroshima Author: anhilaal Language: en Topics: Return Fire, Coalition Against Work and Civilization: South Asia, india, daily life, work, Hiroshima, spectacle Source: retrieved from Return Fire vol.1 Notes: PDFs of Return Fire and related publications can be read, downloaded and printed by searching actforfree.nostate.net for "Return Fire", or emailing returnfire@riseup.net
[ed. - Released by anhilaal, of the Coalition Against Work and
Civilization: South Asia. From an invitation to a two-day gathering in
Puri, India, October 2012: “Civilization is the history of turning more
and more human activities into work[...] What else is the impersonal,
organized power and violence other than impersonal, organized control
over our work and its products? We are against all work-pyramids
operating in the name of countries, parties, families and identities. We
are for self-determined human activities which are not possible without
abolition of our existence as wage-workers or serfs.”]
1. “Everyday almost the same routine: go to bed around 24 hrs; go to
work and come back home around 20 hrs; have dinner and read a little and
go to bed again. Well anyway I'm glad to have at least something to do.
I am doing this job not only for the sake of earning money as you know.
Let's hope for the best: for being able to do something more useful for
myself like studying some nice books and try to write something about
the current international affairs.”
A page from our normal daily life devoted to un-charismatic struggles to
keep our head above water.
2. Bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed 100,000 within
seconds.
3. The scale of killings betrays only the extent of state formation.
Conversely, claims of organizing its prevention betrays the extent of
the same. An elementary question: how do they mobilise so much
financial, ideological and human resources to carry them out?
4. One of the questions we might ask, to start with, is: how high was
the per capita income in America on the eve of war? Or per capita
domestic rate of saving? Or how big was the size of the credit-bubble?
Everything boils down to the endless control over the reservoir of
labour of contemporary and future generations through indirect and
direct taxes and profits. To be precise, crumbs that we get back as
salary, wages and benefits are only a fraction of all that is taken away
from us and turned against us. In other words, immense funds mobilised
for national unity/security and/or development are unthinkable without
our daily normal lives.
5. Our eventless drab, normal life is the other side of spectacular
killings: organised by states or proto-states in the name of god, people
and workers.
6. Our drab daily struggle to keep hunger at bay might take place
without such killings. But such spectacular killings will not take place
without our drab daily struggles.
7. Every time we shout “Hiroshima or Auschwitz never again!” and we put
our magnifying glass at the root of world-history to uncover the reasons
'that gave birth to such tragedies', we end up preparing for the last or
lost battles.
8. The roots of extraordinary events are not lost in an unbreakable
chain of extraordinary events, personalities and thoughts. The roots of
the spectacular events are in our 'non-spectacular', normal, daily
lives.
8.a. The roots are, to be precise, between our hands and the plough, our
hands and the assembly-line, fingers and the keyboard and trigger and
the index-finger. Empires emerge and vanish into thin air because of the
type of relationship that exists between us and our instrument of work.
In this the biggest violence that we do unto ourselves is the root of
all violences.
9. So long as large swathe of populations is engaged in existential
combat i.e. tied down to and reproducing itself mainly for work, the
final non-recurrence of spectacular killings can never be guaranteed.
10. It is only the freedom from this chain called ordinary, daily life
determined by needs of outpumping work-pyramids i. e. the Chief and the
subordinates of the thieves of our lifetime, for example competing
states, firms, families, identities and managements; that will free us
from the recurrence of extraordinary human tragedies.