Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not.

If you’re interested in terror, you should look at its causes. Now from the point of view of apologists for state-terror, you’re not allowed to look at the causes because that’s considered rationalization or justification. So if you try to look at the causes, like every sane person does, it’s rationalization and what you’re supposed to do is throw tantrums and scream about Islamic fascism and blame it on the bad genes of the Arabs or something. But you’re not allowed to look at the causes and there’s a good reason for that; soon as you look at the causes you start looking in the mirror.

Having recieved initiation into the most august of western esotericism’s linneages on my birthday at full moon in the year of my second saturn return, I feel imbued with sufficient MacGregorian zeal and fire to avenge the theft of Liber 777 by bringing the middlebrow victorian misogynist neo-satanism of the aeon of the crowned and conquering spoilt brat to a belated close in its 108th year. The TW belief has never given good results in my view, and I have opposed it throughout my career. Later in the year I shall take the opportunity afforded by a visit to Loch Ness to close the relevant demon gate, doing my bit to make 2012 a year of seminal changes, hopefully for the better.

‎Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world you’d better try to understand it. That doesn’t mean listening to a talk or reading a book, though that’s helpful sometimes. You learn from participating. You learn from others. You learn from the people you’re trying to organize. We all have to gain the understanding and the experience to formulate and implement ideas.

Now, of course, it’s extremely easy to say, “The heck with it – I’m just going to adapt myself to the structures of power and authority, and do the best I can within them.” Sure, you can do that. But that’s not acting like a decent person. Look, if you’re walking down the street and you see a kid eating an ice-cream cone, and you notice there’s no cop around and you’re hungry, you can take the ice-cream cone because you’re bigger and just walk away. You can do that – probably there are people who do. But we call them pathological. On the other hand, if they do it within existing social structures, we call them normal – but it’s just as pathological, it’s just the pathology of the general society.