Twenty Years of Writing by William Saroyan

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  1. Emilio Yacat

    Emilio Yacat Bogchi Tsibogsky!

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    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1955/05/twenty-years-of-writing/641158/

    "The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody’s best friend and only true enemy — the good and great, enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops. lie does not conform for the simple reason that there is nothing worth conforming to yet. When there is something half worth conforming to he will not conform to that, either, or half conform to it." --William Saroyan
     
  2. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    The "Spiritual Anarchist" can find solace, in the fact that a quarter of the population still claims the sun revolves around the earth, and their teachers could not teach a child how to use a dictionary if their lives depended on. These are the simple facts, that are heavily censored in the mass media, ironically, leaving anarchism as the only choice.

    Playing around with pretty words, will make you money, not an anarchist.
     
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  3. Emilio Yacat

    Emilio Yacat Bogchi Tsibogsky!

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    No, he was emphasizing, that, in the hearts of heart of every human-beings, they are anarchist. That's what he meant by the phrase "Spritual Anarchist."

    I agree with Saroyan. Simply, because, you can observe how much people have a natural tendency to hate authority, even if they abide by their rules. The hatred is in there, deep within their hearts.
     
  4. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    They can't even share a stupid dictionary, and believe the sun revolves around the earth. Hate Is Such A Terrible Thing To Waste, If You Never Graduated From Kindergarten! Everyone knows, Kindergarten Drop-Outs Can Be Vicious!

    The youngest homicide on record was committed by a five year old.

    Spiritual Anarchism begins with knowing we know nothing, and the greater truth can be up to 125% efficient, whenever something makes too much damn sense.

    Emancipate Yourself From Mental Slavery, and learn nonlinear temporal dynamics and systems logics. Western civilization has already taken metaphysical approaches to the point of total collapse of the system.
     
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  5. Emilio Yacat

    Emilio Yacat Bogchi Tsibogsky!

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    Relax, brother. Not all people are bad. There's a lot of good people out there: you just need to look.

    Cheers!
     
  6. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Good, bad, it's all the same, when you can predict everything they'll do. Go ahead, call yourself a spiritual anarchist, and watch the AI teach you the meaning of anarchism.
     
  7. Emilio Yacat

    Emilio Yacat Bogchi Tsibogsky!

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    I'll watch out.
     
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