Anarchist? Then make yourself useful!
Channel: joybuzzarD x
Date: 2012-03-01

The idea for this video started with a conversation at the Occupy Regina camp back in November when it first started snowing and we were shoveling the plaza and the city walks around the campsite and somebody was saying we should just wait for the city workers to do it.  Somehow this turned into a long conversation about the viability of anarcho-collectivism within the context of modern urban life, and I was using the drains as an example because I've been clearing them on my block for years and often have people ask if I'm being paid. Sort of, because I live in a basement and if the streets stay flooded, it soaks into the ground, raises the water table and increases the chance of flooding throughout the block. My point is, when essential public services are being underperformed, cut and/or privatized, we, as citizens, have a responsibility to take over and perform those services ourselves. Conformity and deference to established institutional authority is just plain lazy, real anarchism is hard work.  I agree with the Zeitgeist people that capitalism isn't working, and we need a resource based economy. Jobs are not a resource, labour is.  Make yourself useful.  Also, I need a better ice pick. The song is "Brain dead" by Carla MacEwen. www.joybuzzard.com