Revolutionary Self Theory: Part One

One of the great secrets of our miserable yet potentially marvelous time is that thinking can be a pleasure. This blog will provide a manual for constructing your own self-theory. Constructing your self-theory is a revolutionary pleasure, the pleasure of constructing your self-theory of revolution.

Building your self-theory is a destructive/constructive pleasure, because you are building a theory-of-practice for the destructive/constructive transformation of this society.

Self-theory is a theory of adventure. It is as erotic and humorous as an authentic revolution.

The alienation felt as a result of having had your thinking done for you by the ideologies of our day, can lead to the search for the pleasurable negation of that alienation: thinking for yourself. It is the pleasure of making your mind your own.

Self-theory is the body of critical thought you construct for your own use. You construct it and use it when you make an analysis of why your life is the way it is, why the world is the way it is. (And ‘thinking’ and ‘feeling’ are inseparable, since thought comes from subjective, emotive experience.) You build your self-theory when you develop a theory of practice — a theory of how to get what you desire for your life.

Theory will be either a practical theory — a theory of revolutionary practice — or it will be nothing… nothing but an aquarium of ideas, a contemplative interpretation of the world. The realm of ideals is the eternal waiting-room of unrealised desire.

Those who assume (usually unconsciously) the impossibility of realising their life’s desires, and of thus fighting for themselves, usually end up fighting for an ideal or cause instead (i.e. the illusion of self activity or self-practice). Those who know that this is the acceptance of alienation will now know that all ideals and causes are ideologies.

To be continued…

Revolutionary Self Theory

In case you missed it the last time, the SeLF have decided to re-run their serialisation of Larry Law’s ‘Revolutionary Self Theory’ – one of the most important pamphlets ever produced. Here goes…

This blog is for people who are dissatisfied with their lives. If you are happy with your present existence, we have no argument with you. However, if you are tired of waiting for your life to change…

Tired of waiting for authentic community, love and adventure…
Tired of waiting for the end of money and forced work…
Tired of looking for new pastimes to pass the time…
Tired of waiting for a lush, rich existence… Tired of waiting for a situation in which you can realise all your desires…
Tired of waiting for the end of all authorities, alienations, ideologies and moralities…

…then we think you’ll find our following posts to be quite handy.

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We, the un-designed,

Do solemnly swear that from this day forth we shall

endeavour to strip away the masks that we use to disguise

our innate beauty. We shall no longer allow ourselves to

idly choose between ‘off-the-shelf personas’ and ‘pre-

fabricated identities’. The fact that we have become so

accustomed to wearing masks is hardly surprising in this

Corporate Age. The corporation itself is a mask used to

disguise the identities of those who privatise abundance

and socialise suffering; highwaymen have always worn

masks. And as the corporatic attitude slowly adulterated

every aspect of human existence it was only a matter of

time before even our prized ‘individuality’ became a mass

produced commodity. ‘Cool’ is nothing more than being

comfortable with who you really are, cool is freedom from

masks, but cool seems to be out of fashion these days.

Fashion is little more than creative fascism, it

enslaves both the designer and wearer. We like to believe

that we’re ‘unique’ and yet we spend a fortune on clothes

that will stop us from ‘standing out’ in a crowd;

following fashion guarantees nothing but anonymity. Every

piece of ‘designer’ clothing is 100% pure wool – that is

to say it is a covering for a sheep! See how faithfully

the heard follows the fickle whim of an uptight Prima

Donna one year only to feign embarrassment at photographs

of their fashion faux pas the next.

The Punk DIY ethos was great, it said don’t be a

slave to pop culture, make your own fashion. But instead

of experimenting with clothing and style to discover

their innate and uniquely true individuality everyone

decided to dress like a “punk”!

The SLF are way too vain to display somebody

else’s name on their clothing. We wear no ‘fashion’ that

has not itself been fashioned from an aspect of our own spirit;

the clothes only maketh the man if the man maketh the

clothes – do your own thing. Come gather ye peacocks and

strut, for the re-renaissance shall be humanity’s sexiest age.

Yours truly,

the SeLF