I can’t even tell you how many times delusional hierarchs have accosted me with the question of “morality.” It seems that somehow, in the minds of the swivalized and domesticated, “anarchist” is synonymous with “immoral.” It is as if rejecting the idea that others have an inherent right to boss you around–when they don’t–somehow makes you an advocate for butt-fucking house pets and throwing bricks at little old ladies.

The reasoning of deluded hierarchs is, if you reject the definition of right and wrong imposed on you by others, then you reject the idea of right and wrong entirely.

And, just a quick observation here, it’s always seemed funny to me and more than a little ironic that any hierarch would even raise the issue of morality. What could a hierarch possibly know about “right” and “wrong,” other than the programmed belief that “right” and “wrong” are always determined by someone else, by some authority beyond you, above you–the parent, the teacher, the priest, the boss, the coach, the cop, the military commander, the legislator, the voice in the dashboard telling you to turn left? The first and most-rehearsed lesson that a hierarch learns is to defer to someone else’s definition of right and wrong, to never draw your own conclusions about what you “ought” to do.

Don’t take my word for that. Stop for a moment and consider the totality of your life’s activities in hierarchy. What percentage of those activities do you freely choose to do simply because you firmly believe with conviction that such-and-such activity is the right thing to do, and that it should be done the way you’re doing it?

Nothing at your job, if you have one, qualifies. Everything you do at a job is done according to what someone else dictates. You are a machine made of flesh, dragging stones up the pyramid.

Then rule out all the activities of necessity–like shopping or getting gas or driving to and from work–because what you do and how you do it are dictated by forces beyond you. You could “choose” not to buy food and go hungry, or you could “choose” not to buy gas for your car (and run out of gas, and show up late for work, and lose your job…), but there are strong forces that compel you to conform.

So what have we whittled your moral universe down to? The question of which 2 hours of corporate cop-shows you watch on TV?

News flash: In a hierarch world, your whole life is dictated to you. Hierarchs are rendered totally incapable of contemplating right and wrong, or planning freely-chosen moral conduct. Hierarchs’ moral capacities are as atrophied as the muscles inside of a cast after a long period of non-use. No, I would have to say that whole communities of “little Eichmanns” who thoughtlessly march in lock-step and assume their assigned seat, lack an essential component of analytical thought necessary for the fullness of moral inquiry.

I would say that moral inquiry–real moral inquiry–requires that essentially-anarchist engagement begins with asking, “Should I defer to someone else, or should I listen to my own conscience? Should I march in lock-step? What are the ramifications if I accept my assigned seat? Who are the authorities, and are they moral and do they know more than I do?”

In short, by my thinking, real moral inquiry demands that we constantly question authority, to include the question of what makes authority the authority, and this is not an inquiry hierarchs can engage in…and if they engaged in it, such an engagement would necessarily make them anarchists.

So, considering that, I always find it ironic when deluded hierarchs (who are incapable of complete moral inquiry) raise the question of “morality,” as if anarchists are somehow morally inferior rather than morally superior to deluded hierarchs.

By the way, the question is frequently thrown out there, you would think that it was an anarchist who was given an award for being the most peaceful human on the planet and then maintained 3 wars and invaded the privacy of billions and approved drone strikes against civilians and maintained “black site” torture centers around the globe…you’d think that was an anarchist rather than a die-hard hierarch of the highest order. So, to answer the question of morality, I tell deluded hierarchs that I can only speak for myself, but as an anarchist, I don’t believe in funding terrorists…like the United States, bombing water treatment facilities, dumping depleted uranium all over people while “liberating” them, mass-murdering children through draconian sanctions, supporting a top-ten human rights abuser that launches missiles from Apache attack helicopters into civilian traffic in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, destabilizing other governments through assassinations and proxy death squads.

But hierarchs’ tax money pays for that…every day.

If you live in the United States and you go along with the program, money from your labor has been extracted from your paycheck to finance the murder of children somewhere in the world today.

I don’t know how to conduct a serious conversation about “morality” with baby-killers. I try, but I’m not very good at it.

And that’s just one aspect of hierarch immorality. Consider the millions who are locked in cages, kidnapped and subjected to suffering, both innocent and guilty alike, financed by thoughtless zombie hierarchs who shamble through their unconscious lives… Or the millions who are arbitrarily fenced off into pockets of poverty on one side or another of artificial national boundaries so the obscenely wealthy can continue profitable exploitation of all of us…paid for by the oblivious supporters of hierarchy who question the “morality” of abolishing the mass-grave of the hierarch machine… Or the toxification of water, and land, and air; the mass-destruction of the natural world carried out by the obedient hierarch slaves committing omnicide for cheese puffs…

It leaves me little option but to shrug and admit that anarchists have a very different idea about how to define “right” and “wrong.” An anarchist concept of morality is quite different from the one maintained by deluded hierarchs.