Lie or Revolution

I lied.  Hopefully, my readership will have looked at my previous essay with a critical eye.  That was my intention in telling an untruth in the first place.  The untruth which I published was not an explicit lie, but an underlying one.  The essay was Hypocrisy 101—and in said essay, I compared discriminating against homosexuals with that of holding resentment towards evil billionaires. 

Hypocrisy 101 was intended to argue that even steps backwards can lead us towards equality and justice.  I argued that any utopia free of strife would be less than what mankind can strive towards.  However, if we attempt to take the argument that evil has its place in society; if we argue that oppression and corruption a functional part of living in a free society—we are serving to protect evil. 

What must be protected is not the welfare provided the billionaires who profit off of poverty, drug addiction, and various other absences of social justice.  What must be protected is the ability of the people—and the notion of the people—to revolt against oppression and injustice.  And in order to accomplish this we must have the foresight to see that the path to liberation will be arduous.

Things in our society, which we do not care for, do have their place.  However, we cannot allow that the place of corruption in society reside in a place which is not affronted.  Apathy is the greatest enemy to revolution.  If you read Hypocrisy 101 and found it offensive—good—if you did not, imagine a culture that supported everyone in meeting their basic needs.  Imagine a society where feeding the hungry took precedence over sustaining government.

When we can honestly say that we are serving the eventual emancipation of the poor and working classes, the revolution will have already been realized.  Right now, if I choose only to speak for myself, I am serving capitalism as much as I’m serving anarchy.  And here, I want to say, in motioning for the eventual revolution, I am living a lie.  And that is hypocrisy.