Force is used not by those who have become weak under the preponderance of the strong, but by the strong who have emasculated them.

We live in a world today where nearly every piece of cultural expression has been co-opted from its point of origin, commodified, and sold to back to the people. In a capitalist economy that has separated everybody into his or her own individual space, we are forced to define ourselves by what we buy. Even people who think they are being politically progressive by purchasing free-trade beans or boycotting Nestle are still ultimately defining where they stand by how they utilize their consumer power. That isn’t revolutionary at all. You can’t buy yourself a sense of self-worth. You can’t buy yourself an identity… In order to truly express ourselves, we need to create our own identities rooted in our lifestyles and what sustains us. It needs to be a full expression of who we are and what we do… Now, obviously, we are all too deeply intertwined in this economic system to just give it the middle finger and try and operate outside of it. An identity based solely on the rejection of what commoditized identities are marketed to you isn’t much of an identity, either.