You and Me, We Are Like Anarchy

A rockin' anarchist anthem for #FreedomMusicFriday.

It’s #FreedomMusicFriday again. Prepare to add a new song to your playlist.

Sometimes I choose a song whose freedom-related message must be teased out. It’s there, but we need to talk about it a bit to grasp its full implications. Other times, the messages are a lot clearer. And sometimes, like today’s choice—“Anarchy,” by Lilith Czar—it’s like shooting fish in a barrel!

If you like rock, then, from a musical standpoint, you should like this song. It’s good rock. It’s got a good groove. If you like anarcho-libertarian ideas, then you should love it. It’s pretty darned anthemic, as such things go.

So let’s take a look and a listen (two video versions below). (Note: Explicit language/NSFW)

It starts out and you assume she’s talking about a tempestuous love affair:

You and me
We are like anarchy
For the whole world to see
See who we are

But is that what she actually means?

What we believe
Is not what they believe
And we can only be
Be who we are

Okay, so we have some notes of defiance. Defiance of the mainstream. Defiance of socially or forcibly imposed “public opinion.”

Still, that could just be an attempt by the lyricist to establish outsider cred. Until she gets to the chorus:

You and me
We are like anarchy
Fuck your authority
Iʼll make my own

Now we’re getting somewhere. Though she states it in rather pithy fashion, we learn here that she is aware of several salient moral facts:

• No one has automatic authority over any other,

• You have a natural right to self-govern, and

• All involuntary authority violates that right.

And I guarantee you that she is speaking of involuntary authority (a.k.a. government) here, and not the authority of a wise master whose council or leadership one chooses to follow.

Next, she sounds notes of defiance.

If you fight me
Youʼre fighting a whole army
I make no apologies
If you push me too far
Who the hell do you think you are?

There, we see that she understands another set of moral realities:

• Involuntary authority is a form of slavery, and

• You have a natural right to resist all violations and trespasses against your body, property, and freedom.

In other words, protective force is justified in response to coercive force. Or, if you prefer, FAFO.

Next, she recognizes a fact of life: People who believe in freedom are usually treated like crap by the larger society.

Society
Says that we're all just freaks
And that the friends we keep
Arе broken at heart

Oh
We donʼt say thе right things
Donʼt look the right way
Treat us like trash
Wanna throw us away

If you’re like me—and if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you are—then you know exactly what she means.

As H.L. Mencken said, “Most people want security in this world, not liberty.” IOW, normies gonna normie.

Now, she ramps up:

But weʼre marching back
With our boots on the ground
Weʼre coming for kings and the queens and their crowns

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls
If you can hear my voice
Then listen close 'cause the powers that be
Donʼt want you to know you have a choice
They want you to think theirʼs is the only way
The only path to whatʼs right
But I say fuck them
The revolution begins tonight

So much we could unpack there.

She sees that it is time to move past any system that presumes hereditary or automatic authority. That it is time to move to HumanGovernance 3.0.

She recognizes the centrality of human choice. That self-ownership is what makes us real, and if it is taken away, then our very personhood is effaced.

She recognizes the power of statist propaganda. That most of us are indoctrinated from birth to believe that the state, and its involuntary, inescapable monopoly on governance, is the only way forward for humanity. That over the last 5,000 years, the state, via its pet intellectuals, have suffused all of human society with the belief that without them, we’d all be clubbing each other for rat meat. That we are slaves in need of masters.

She then raises the concept of revolution, which can mean a number of things.

At the beginning of Chapter 5 (of The Distributed Nation), we will explore in detail why initiating revolutionary overthrow of the system is neither desirable nor practical. But she could also mean social revolution, personal revolution, or any other form of freedom-oriented EVOLUTION.

Finally, she gets to the end and lets us know what she really meant by “You and me are like anarchy.”

And that’s why I say
You and me
Weʼre like anarchy
Fuck authority
No apologies
You and me
We can only be
Who we are

She is not talking about a romantic relationship. She’s talking about you and me and she and everyone who wants to live free. No apologies.

And that is exactly what we should do. Live free. Speak the language of freedom. Defy those who would violate our self-ownership and personal agency.

And never apologize for any of it.