little pricks

Wilhelm Reich said that sexual repression resulted in authoritarianism. I never read that it was an inevitable process, but I would think not; probably just a tendency, however likely. But Reich did strongly make the point that fascism rose directly out of authoritarianism, implying—if he did not state it outright elsewhere—that fascists are sexually repressed.

I would add that, following from the above logic and adding in a little bit of Freudian-like content, fascists have small penises. It makes sense. Men with big dicks tend to use them in other ways; it’s those little pricks that cause all the trouble, by projecting their inferiority onto others whom they see as weaker than they are and thus compensating for their insecurity.

You see it all the time, cops, bureaucrats (A-holes in general) proving to themselves that they are “real men” (despite their lack of length) by imposing their will on others, beating them, and even shooting them down in the street. A bully is a bully, whether in a schoolyard or on the force.

We’ve begun to work on the problem of bullying in schools and other institutions, but we’ve yet to turn our attention to the bullies who would kill us in our streets and even in our homes. And, because we fail to do this, the rules and policies that law enforcement uses to “police” us are becoming increasingly lax. Stop-and-frisk becomes jump-out; bean bags and rubber bullets become full metal jackets; choke-holds become death grips. The “authorities” believe that, if they can kill off enough of us, the rest of us will fall into line, become good little, compliant, unknown citizens.

But, instead, what is going to happen is they are going to start a war—a revolution. And it will be our own fault, because we haven’t done what we have needed for quite a while now to do: insist that the A-holes stop spying on us in the name of terror threats that don’t actually exist (save the terror for the terrorist and leave the citizens alone), stop beating us senseless, and, especially, stop shooting us down in the streets. Because, if we don’t get this message across to the “law” enforcement “community,” the next step is tit-for-tat. We’ve been there before, several centuries ago. But, again?