Antiestablishmentarianism

Antiestablishmentarianism is a policy or attitude that views a nation's or society's power structure as corrupt, repressive, exploitative or unjust.

Antiestablishmentarians adhere to the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment. Their purpose is to subvert from within. This doctrine holds that establishments lose connection with the people and have their own agendas which frequently destroy the things they blindly don't address.

Antiestablishmentarianism has ties to anarchism but should not be confused with antifederalism or antifeudalism.

Modern day use

The modern use of the anti-establishment label became widespread in the 1960s.

The mindset this label describes prospered under the anxiety and frustration/anger with the United States government during the Vietnam war, as well as many other national governments during a similar time frame. Anxiety over the draft led to doubts concerning the implicit purpose of the war effort, and the moral legitimacy of that implicit purpose. The same attitude of doubt and independent moral scrutiny was, during this time period, applied to many established institutions of the day: race relations, gender relations, sexuality, cultural norms, musical creativity, drugs and drug prohibition, as well as various socio-economic concerns.

In this connotation, the phrase has at times been applied retroactively to historical phenomena that occurred before the 1960s; for example, the attitudes of both the German Nazi and Communist parties in the early 1930s; or the American radical movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Hungry Generation

In India the group of writers and painters during 1960s who called themselves Hungryalists are the most important contributors to antiestablishment literature.

Revolution

This talk of revolution is all humbug.  All this can we swept with the same broom to the trash can called "antiestablishmentarianism."  It applies also to religions who claim, "converting only to my religion will save you and your family" or "coverting to my religion is the only way out for you"..... because your religion is bad/wrong, does not show you the truth.

So you will notice that every antiestablishmentarian scaremonger tries to unleash fear in others, ask you to surrender and give in, by conveying through different nonviolent, not-so-violent, violent, and extremely violent modes, their underlying basic code, i.e. "you have to either comply or perish."

Living in exile in the safe, warm, and cosy comforts of democracy, renegades wrote their manual against democracy and named it communism.  The freedom of speech, of demonstration and protests displayed by coomies around the world are the ones most denied and crushed with a heavy fist under communist regimes.  Do you know anyone in any coomie paradise who did not comply and did not perish?

Humanity has a slow pace, no revolution is as stable and inclusive as evolution.  It is also true that humanity or for that matter animal world cannot exist without disparity.  Lions cannot agree to eat shrubs to establish equality and peace with antelopes.  Similarly, you cannot run a factory that is full of managers who give orders or full of workers who take orders to establish equality.  Phantasmagoric leftist intellectuals who dream of a world where manufacturing price = selling price to stop exploitation simply lack the prudence to exist among humans, forget discussing about economics.

Human thought will not agree to be forced to drive only through the Highway 1 to reach heaven.  The taste and comprehension of every human varies, and so, naturally, everyone agrees with a taste and logic that only he is comfortable with.  Every other imposed demand is unnatural, short-lived, and out-of-sync with the saga of human race.

The unheard and trampled voices of millions and millions of innocent humans crushed in attempts to hoist revolutions around the world simply does not permit civilized humans to sanction such revolutions.  The astonishing silence and coverup of the gruesome torture and killings of millions and millions of innocent men, women and children when revolutions have attempted to replace systems in nations across the world speaks in itself for the evil and failure of these revolutions which are argued to be ultimately for human good.



Revolutions are lead by frustrated renegades who ruin the lives of millions in order to showcase the lives of a few hundreds.  It has always been a failure, it is, and it will be...

The moot question now is the relevance of antiestablishmentarianism.  Inequalities and injustice has been part of human history, and to be prudent, shall be so ever, because we have now come to a point where we can distort any political or social turning point or incident from an inequality/injustice point of view.

Every political ideologue, who looks forward for a political life, knowingly or unknowingly, has been exposed to the practical aspects of antiestablishmentary movements.  The success of a political ideologue lies in his making a niche by finding his own antiestablishmentarian causes.

Quite naturally, antiestablishmentarian issues are not found freely lying by the road.  So what do we do?  Simple! Create one.

Making an issue out of a nonissue, rekindling instances in far forgotten and irrelevant history, distorting contemporary issues, and more dangerously stoking dissent - doing it all the while nestled in the comforts and safety of the establishment.

Antiestablishmentarianism can make even a mass murder like him a posterboy