Raise the Hammer

Agreed, but hungry angry anarchist lions will only gobble'em all up. We need to be governed and we need a good strong government but surely we don't need one that's sheepish and corrupt. - WRCU2

Ya, those aren't the Lions I'm looking for either WRCU2… and I love that analogy, it is very apropos.

I'm being somewhat cryptic in my choice of words because as Borelli commented above:

I'm not eager to fully characterize my position on violence in a comment on a website

I'm not eager to fully characterize my position on seizing control of power on a website. I am serious when I say these are questions better answered in the corner of seedy bars. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like : )

But to clarify a little and maybe get some more discussion on this topic going, because I think it is a really good one. I'll lay some more cards on the table.

My reference to sheep and lions, as some may know, comes from a quote usually attributed to Alexander the Great:

"I fear not the army of lions led by a sheep, but rather the army of sheep led by a lion."

To me, this quote is very relevant. The "Anarchists" as they like to call themselves (although I don't believe that's what they actually are) are the army of Lions. The "establishment" or "powers that be" (or whatever you want to call them) do not fear that… they haven't since 300 BC apparently. What they do fear is a Lion leading Sheep (e.g., Crazy Horse, Louis Riel, MLK, JFK, Malcolm X). But those Lions are no more.

The reference to Sheep isn't just meant for the people either, as you point out, without the Lions our government becomes just a bunch of Sheep too. The world needs leaders, men and women who inspire, who have conviction and a cause or purpose beyond acquiring and retaining power.

But given my upbringing and what I was taught (which to this day has yet to be proven to me to be wrong), I have little hope of that happening. We have been divided, individualised, and converted from citizens to consumers. Access to our power system is tightly controlled, the Lions (if they exist) are vetted and refused (or worse). And the result of all of that is that people have become nothing more than the core-product of our economic system… like the march of workers into the Moloch Machine in the movie Metropolis.