Towards a New Republic of Indonesia

Why Write?

Why am I writing? For Fun? No, I have genuine complaints about the global system and its functions.

It baffles me how much people don't actually know what they are talking about, the only honest people today are usually the most chastised. It seems as though anyone who opposes the status quo but dares to question the existing anti-establishment movements, especially ones that look back at the enemies that we defeated or even just ask basic questions is always chastised. Where freedom is sacrificed for Abstract ideas and goals.

We always say we are advocates for freedom, but I say that's bullshit. If freedom is what you want then why do you still cling to some of the bits and bobs of the existing system?

This can be interpreted as either a manifesto or just as a complaint about politics and my life.

The Childhood Bootcamps.

The Family is this one institution praised by many a conservative as an important cornerstone of society, the building block of society.

Well, I'm here to tell you all that it's bullshit.

The Family as an institution, especially the Nuclear Family is a fabrication of modern capitalism. It atomises and isolates the individual from the rest of society by creating a barrier via the holy mother and father relation. Oedipus desires his mother, but his father does not let him. I desire, but my parents do not let me.

"It is for your own good!" bullshit. You want me to be your trophy, you want me to be shaped the way you want me, how can you say that you are doing this for my sake? How dare you take away what I desire to do!

The psychology of the East is to be "perfect", for who? Tell me, for who? FOR WHO AM I TRYING TO BE PERFECT FOR?!

This kind of collectivism, this... totalitarianism makes me sick. Why must you dictate every single bit of my actions? Why can't I develop on my own? The fact that you are controlling my strings instead of me doing it myself is precisely why I am not independent. The development from childhood to adulthood is a fucking involuntary boot camp, during puberty all the demands get harder and harder whilst we become more and more rebellious. Why? Why must we suffer just for having our desires?

Now, of course, families often don't have time anymore to teach their kids... how to be obedient. This is where Schools come.

The Schools of the Ancients (Agora) were free and open, it was more so like an open club where people could hang out and learn in a mutual manner where "teacher" and "student" are flexible roles and we can choose what we want to learn and focus on and switch at any time.

The Schools of the Moderns follow a set curriculum, a strict timetable from 7 am to somewhere from 12 am to 3 pm. You cannot choose what you want to learn, what you wanna specialise in, or even cancel it altogether, you just have to hitch a ride from home, put on a smile, shake hands, sit, listen to the teacher's yap, hoping you don't bore yourself to sleep, do your homework, and go home. Fun, right?

From age 6 to 18 (excluding kindergarten), we are sent to fucking boot camps. Anybody who cannot be good and subservient is a "misfit" and must be sent to special facilities. Ah yes, the people who can't follow along with these artificial institutions made to instill social conformity in children and especially teenagers, the most active and yearning demographic and to make them into obedient workers.

The stuff they teach you is merely a facade, the point isn't to make you learn otherwise you'd have a choice in what you do want to learn, no the point is so that you listen carefully and follow what your future bosses will say to you.

The age of the internet allows us to take a step back into those ancient schools in a digital form, from people of different nationalities no less, to anonymously socialise and learning from others whilst treating each other as mostly equals.

The conspiracy of the seniles see this and realise that this could lead to a breakdown of social conformity and the desire for exploration of what is "out there". Thus they start preaching against technology and trying to moderate it in order to keep the status quo. The Elders knows best... how to crush the spirit of the desiring Youth, to regulate the media we consume and to ban certain kinds of media from being published because dear God that we have anything more riveting than Adit, Sopo, Jarwo, and to crack down on being a punk and defying authority in any meaningful way.

This boot camp that stripped us from our childhood innocence and teenage adventurism, both in the outside world and the digital spectacle. From Birth to 18 years old should be the times that we explore ourselves, that we play and be free, that we express what we think but we are not allowed to do so because on the front they say it's to "instill good morals" but in reality this is a mask behind the real purpose: to serve Capitalism.