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Let's face it, we live in a "just can't do" society. When things are going easy, we don't do; when the going get's tough, the tough obtain permission slips.
We don't "just do it," because we can't. We walk to a river and look for a sign that says, "go ahead, you're allowed." Instead, we more than often find, "no wading, no swimming, no fishing, no boating or rafting, no you can't, don't even think about it." We are then held responsible for, "just doing it" and are subject to fines and/or imprisonment.
All of us are held to rules & restrictions, required to obtain permissions & permits, tasked to look, then verify, before we leap. In our daily lives we are the subject of scrutiny, held in stasis and bottled, admired, or scorned. A rule to us is not an imaginary line, but a brutal dictator subjecting us to consequence. We are forced, by society and dictums, to walk the line. Rules exist in protest to freedom.
Prejudisms impose additional "can't do" restrictions. In a mockery to enslavement, those who are subjected to these additional restrictions, forced to request permission where others need but do, are tied to a tether of excessive scrutiny and vilified for merely existing. Through societal prejudice, through birth or violation, outcasts are created. But, ultimately, we're all under the tether of scrutiny.
Nike's slogan is a call to anarchy, a casting-off of tethers and chains, a dismissal of "permission slips." Anarchy and, concordantly, Nike insists on the fundamental right to "just do it," claiming freedom as a dictum --- rather than a mere privilege.
It is easy to dismiss anarchists as mere radicals and violators of rules, particulary considering the opportunitists in Europe falsely claiming to be anarchists.* In the eyes of a society programmed to look at signs for permission, a society that waits until the light turns green despite there being no cross-traffic, it is easy to villify the nonconformist.
But, is easy the same as right? What is liberty if not the fundamental right to, "just do it?"
* The hooligans in Europe claiming the mantle of anarchism are not anarchists, but opportunists. They exploit the fact there are rules & restrictions, imposed by our governments, preventing the victims from imposing their own personal form of consequence.
We don't "just do it," because we can't. We walk to a river and look for a sign that says, "go ahead, you're allowed." Instead, we more than often find, "no wading, no swimming, no fishing, no boating or rafting, no you can't, don't even think about it." We are then held responsible for, "just doing it" and are subject to fines and/or imprisonment.
All of us are held to rules & restrictions, required to obtain permissions & permits, tasked to look, then verify, before we leap. In our daily lives we are the subject of scrutiny, held in stasis and bottled, admired, or scorned. A rule to us is not an imaginary line, but a brutal dictator subjecting us to consequence. We are forced, by society and dictums, to walk the line. Rules exist in protest to freedom.
Prejudisms impose additional "can't do" restrictions. In a mockery to enslavement, those who are subjected to these additional restrictions, forced to request permission where others need but do, are tied to a tether of excessive scrutiny and vilified for merely existing. Through societal prejudice, through birth or violation, outcasts are created. But, ultimately, we're all under the tether of scrutiny.
Nike's slogan is a call to anarchy, a casting-off of tethers and chains, a dismissal of "permission slips." Anarchy and, concordantly, Nike insists on the fundamental right to "just do it," claiming freedom as a dictum --- rather than a mere privilege.
It is easy to dismiss anarchists as mere radicals and violators of rules, particulary considering the opportunitists in Europe falsely claiming to be anarchists.* In the eyes of a society programmed to look at signs for permission, a society that waits until the light turns green despite there being no cross-traffic, it is easy to villify the nonconformist.
But, is easy the same as right? What is liberty if not the fundamental right to, "just do it?"
* The hooligans in Europe claiming the mantle of anarchism are not anarchists, but opportunists. They exploit the fact there are rules & restrictions, imposed by our governments, preventing the victims from imposing their own personal form of consequence.
