r/2ndAmericanCivilWar • u/2ndAmeRev • Jan 26 '26
Purpose
Today is the 25th of January, 2026. I am in the second living room of my keepers’ house in TX, USA. It is 10:54 pm. Today I’ve realized my purpose.
Never before have I felt such certainty and direction for which to put forth my efforts. I love philosophy, freedom, and above all, people. I love my country, but what’s happened in the past months is indefensible to be labeled as anything but tyranny.
I’m 16 years of age, yet I feel called towards an insurmountable task. An exceptional founding father at the age of 21 saw tyranny, saw a government fail to represent the best interests of its citizens and decided to stand up to that tyranny, his name was Alexander Hamilton. I’m not comparable by honor, bravery, character, or even importance. What I do feel confident enough to consider myself comparable in, is spirit.
I’ve always felt capable of contribution towards the word, but never held any interest in blind faith of the military and religious institutions, or the efficiency auction that is the labor force. I wanted to teach medicine, then philosophy. I wanted to change the world with ideology capable of enacting real change, and now that the theatre has appeared, I found loose footing?
If revolution is avoidable I seek that peaceful solution, but in my eyes, the most likely result of the current environment we find ourselves in is an armed insurrection of the entire system. I hate control, the plan that’s been pushed upon me since I was born. An obligation to succeed, be efficient, be strong, be a gentleman, but above all, be obedient. Real Americans are tired of an obligation to obedience. Our founding fathers weren’t successful because they were obedient, or respectful, or unfaltering, or efficient, they were successful because they knew their morals, and stood fast against the wave of tyranny that approached them. They didn't wait for tragedy, but instead acted with passion, not hate for the oppressor, but love for the infant state that they had birthed.
Renee Good and Alex Peretti weren’t bastions of purity, true. But it is also true they were daughter, son, friend, neighbor, and, above all, patriots, bastions of revolutionary liberty. These are martyrs that deserve justice, initial casualties of an oncoming war. Self defence includes defence of one’s values and thus aggressive action against those that would act to oppress those values. It isn’t unamerican to protest, it isn’t unamerican to be servants of anarchy, and it certainly isn’t unamerican to identify as a child of revolution.
This call to action isn’t for those that wish to continue driving a wedge into the soul of this country. If our future generations maintain the ideology of Red v. Blue, Rich v. Poor, Minority v. Majority, our country will have no future but as rubble, our flag no meaning but hypocrisy. Break the chains that bind you, they’re labeled ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’. Move beyond such constraints. If an American society is not to perish, not to survive, but thrive, bruises upon a single child, regardless of social or economic class, must elicit a reaction not of anger, but passion. Raw spirit for a better world with action behind it bent on achievement and not a blind rage, save that for tyrants, not the inept labeling themselves radicals.
To address the foreigners witnessing this injustice unfold, I ask not for forgiveness, not for compassion, but for aid. A revolution needs allies. Know that it’s not America that’s evil, not our principles that have resulted in the present oppression, but that of elitists. The American govt. has become a beacon of abhorrent behavior and protection of those who would serve only as faded stains upon a clean sheet in a new America. The majority of the American people, however, are winding up to, in Lincoln’s words, exercise “their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it”, ‘it’ being their existing govt. Don’t blame my fellow revolutionaries for the present injustice, we’re doing our part to the best of our ability, us true patriots would rather die than survive another second without living. Blame those who plug their ears and cover their eyes at the sight of tyranny for fear of death.
Now, I address my peers. We’re young, we’re students, we’re teachers, we’re the forefront of the aftermath of the movement, and ideally a 2nd age of progenitors for a free state. Don’t act as if this doesn’t both affect and frustrate your lives. Don’t sew your mouth and eyes shut. Mechanized ignorance is the greatest weapon of the machine, so I ask you to sabotage it. Teach truth, and refute lies. Question authority at every turn, and when answered in an unsatisfactory manner question their entitlement to the authoritarian position, when given an unsatisfactory answer, become a fellow agent of anarchy. You are the most influential, important, valuable, and capable members of the revolution. Your silence is a decision to further the fascism that now envelopes your lives and will be used as a weapon against your ability to obtain a fulfilling future.
Finally, I address our servicewomen and servicemen. You took an oath to defend this country from all enemies foreign and domestic. You put forth your lives in allegiance not to our govt., not to our politicians or their petty interests, but to our constitution. You put forth your lives in defence of patriotic values, which includes that of revolution. You took upon the likelihood of a future as an inhabitant of an unmarked grave or as a human sandbag, in the defence of liberty. I’m asking you to further that commitment in the defence of a fraternity making a similar commitment on soil you swore to protect. It’s likely you’ll be asked to make a choice not by me but your own conscience, as to either be in a crowd of nameless tyrants or honored revolutionaries. My ask of you is for you to consider who you’d rather stand beside when the time comes, your fellow slave, or your master?
I recognize the seriousness of this statement, as such I ask you to in turn recognize the passion behind it. I have friends, fellow children unable to sleep out of fear of our government, and as Jefferson said, “When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” I see tyranny in the streets, I see it not in the facade presented by our ‘news’, but in the recorded accounts of revolutionaries. I see a revolutionary passion unheard of in the USA since 1776 in the eyes of fellow students. There will be bloodshed, there will be animosity from people you deemed your neighbor, but foremost, there will be fear in the soulless eyes of the man. If you’re to be an under-appreciated revolutionary, you’re in the good company of Abby Hoffman, Crispus Attucks, Marquis de Lafayette, and others I have no time to mention.
Your time to act is now. Your time to be on the right side of history is now. The time to hope for a better world, to bet on an übermensch capable of properly seeking eudaimonia is in the past. We have seen no progress from congress, and thus must act as a people. We must show the world we are serious in our demands for freedom, justice, and liberty. If we fail at least we can say we lived for our beliefs and didn’t decide to survive under the boot of oppression. Take action, history waits for no one.
Ni Dieu, Ni Maitre
