Recipe: Veggies and Cream Soup

*note* This is a large recipe, so cut it in half if you must. Or simply save some for later. It's good cool as well as hot.
(Sorry, no photo yet! We ate it all before I thought to take one.)

In a huge pot, sautee 1 large, diced onion in oil until it starts becoming translucent. Then add:

• 6 or so garlic cloves
• 4 thinly sliced carrots
• 3 sliced celery stalks
• 1/2 pound or more of roughly chopped mushrooms
  

Pour in about a cup of white wine and a splash of apple cider vinegar and let it simmer.
When the mushrooms are cooked through, add:

• 2 cans of unsalted corn, no need to drain the water
  
• 1 qt plain soy milk
• 1 qt plain rice milk.

When it's all hot, salt and pepper to taste and serve.
There is a surprising sweetness to this soup which contrasts very well with black pepper, so add as much as you find pleasant. =)

Why Anarchism?

Anarchism has a bad reputation. You have probably been trained to equate anarchy with chaos, violence, disorder, and destruction. Nearly without exception, anarchism as a concept is given neither attention nor credibility. It is generally thrown aside in the same breath in which it is raised. Because of this void in our collective education it is imperative that the question "Why anarchism?" must begin by answering another question: "What is anarchism?". There are dozens of books on the subject, some of which will be discussed here, but here's my basic introduction.

In a world of more than 6.5 billion humans, a minute fraction of those people determine how people will live, how they will work, what days they will celebrate, when they will go to war and against whom, what they will believe, and how they will think. A mere handful of people, relatively speaking, determine the paths all of us will take. The rest follow. They obey, though they don't even realize they are obeying. When expedient, people are given the illusion of freedom and control. (Two political parties provide the illusion of choice and change, for example.) When offered the "choice" of an orange and an apple, the person who insists on blueberry scones is an anarchist. So is the person who instead starts growing her own garden.

An anarchist is someone who, rather than simply go along with the crowd, the media, or the propaganda, (or the false 'rebellion' of the counter-culture), continually questions, evaluates, and thinks for him- or herself. But do not mistake anarchism for pointless rebellion. To be an anarchist does not mean simply taking the opposite view to everything you are told. It does mean questioning every assumption, insisting on original thought and intelligence, and arriving at the best conclusion possible, whether that is in accord with or opposed to the mainstream, based on one's own intellect and knowledge.

Precisely because they are independent-minded, anarchists will not all think alike. They will all think for themselves. This blog is about my thoughts, my rejection of the status quo, and my reasons for the conclusions I come to.

Why anarchism? Because it's a horrific thought that one may have a mind, be capable of thought, and yet live as an organic robot, a mental collage of one's surroundings, contributing nothing to this world. Be an anarchist! THINK!