Nobody

Nobody

By Dr. Bones
The Anarchist Library
May 31, 2019

Nobody.

There is no revolution on the horizon, there is no party, there is
no grand idea that will finally awaken humanity to its potential
and free us from our chains.

There is no vanguard, no purpose, no secret method we can use
to magically make the powerful resign themselves to the fate of
ordinary existence.

There have been pretenders.

There are priests, and pimps, and false gods,
that call on you to worship them.

They will give you immortal, “sciences” and identities,
they will assure you if enough people just donned the
uniform or spoke the right words everything would be
okay.

There are those of course who would deny you even that,
who refuse any action without every detail planned out.

Who will run the schools, who will build the roads, how
will blockades and tire fires impact our carbon footprint?

They will call your plans starry-eyed, impractical,
an Insurrecionist fantasy.

They say this half-asleep.

They, so wise, say they will “wait for the people to rise.”

The people have risen and been crushed.

Occupy failed, Standing Rock failed.

All that’s left is you and me.

Everybody is waiting and nobody wants to start,
everybody wants to join and nobody wants to build.

Everybody is waiting for a grand and general revolt, yet steal
an apple or burn a cop car and they’ll call you an “adventurist.”

Everybody is sure change is right around the corner,
that divine powers will steer us the right way.

Everybody is sure time is on our side, that the good ones will
always win and that things can’t hold out much longer.

Everybody says a revolution is possible with no bloodshed
and no hard feelings, that everyone will be heard and cared
for.

Everybody is waiting.

Waiting for something.

Waiting for somebody, somebody to save them.

They aren’t coming to save you, Comrade.

Nobody is.