I kind of figured something was wrong when he came back to our school in grade 11 from being in alternative schools and staying with his dad in Africa. I think the main tip off was he didn't wear shoes...in the city. I don't care what's going on in your head...you wear shoes in a city. We never really hung out when he got back, but I did offer him shoes. He didn't want any.
Next I heard he was in a May Day parade. Apparently he was quite enamored with the whole communist theory. The only time we talked about it was when he said it was perfect on paper. I've made my opinion of people who think this way known before here. Not surprisingly (and like most people in the circle he traveled in at this time) I can't think of a single time he's actually had a job. Ironic how these apparently radical thinkers supporting the rights of the workers don't work like the rest of us. You'd think they'd at least try it out a bit first.
A friend of mine ran into him a few days ago at another friends house. The conversation where we talked about it went something like this:
Friend : "I ran into Luke the other day."
Me: "No shit. Where?"
F: "I stopped by Tim's place. He was there. It was weird."
M: "Oh yeah, how's he doing?"
F: "Well, he has a huge ass Jesus beard and Jesus Hair, lives in a garage of a house I assume is abandoned and dumpster dives and sells weed for money to get by."
M: "Damn. I could get him a job for sure. We should do something..."
F: "No, he's a hardcore anarchist. He says he likes living in the garage because there are like 25 people living in the main house. Obviously all anarchists. He dumpster dives and sells weed because he doesn't want to have anything to do with the market system we've established."
M: "We should seriously burn that house down."
Look, being an idealistic communist is one thing. It's pointless and not very unrealistic, but hey we all like to dream when we're sitting around all day not working. Anarchists, on the other hand, are probably quasi-retarded. I've never met an anarchist who didn't come off sounding like someone talking about their favorite fantasy novel. Market anarchism, free-market anarchism, anarcho-capitalists, Anarcho-syndicalism, and so on and so forth - all of them are fucking so unrealistic why would you even bother? Sure pure egalitarianism would be great, but often time it's not even what they're talking about. Fuck, I don't even think they know what they're talking about 90% of the time. And by 'they' I mean the people who seem to subscribe to the possibly thousands of different utopian anarchist theories.
Look, grow the fuck up. I could imagine a fantasy world were everything would be great too, we'd have unlimited resources, infallible moral reasoning skills, and flying cars that could get you around the world in like 3 hours. I could do that, but what the fuck would that accomplish? If you want to be different, find a more useful way to do it.
