Étendard Noir - Recruitment

[:sauropod:]

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You might have heard of me; I may be arrogant to think you might have. I am David Laurent, a professor of political theory and lecturer at Université de Nouveau Paris.
As what I hope is not too pretentious a show of my credentials, I include an excerpt from Anarchism: From Sol to Sirius, authored by myself.

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Through the unguided meandering of humanity’s societal development, our species has, collectively, and unwittingly, forged the chains of its own enslavement. As hapless, social creatures, we have facilitated the exponential growth, merging, and interconnection of our societies, corresponding with an exponential growth of power held by the ruling class. All efforts to break these chains have been thwarted – first through force, later through mass indoctrination and the stifling of truly free thought. The propagation of ideologies that serve the perpetuity of the status quo is a success of those in power that spans millennia. Populations remain divided on the inconsequential, but united against the meaningfully extreme.

It is, perhaps, a failing of mine and my fellow thinkers past and present, that the theories and arguments for real societal change remain untenable. Perhaps these are intrinsically untenable things. Bitter is the thought that mankind’s path is an unavoidable one; more bitter still is the thought that nothing short of bloody revolution could tear us from our relentless march away from real freedom.
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Yet this most bitter of thoughts is one I cannot untangle.

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