To our friends currently detained in Bandung,
Though bars and walls attempt to separate our bodies, they are incapable of imprisoning our will, our memory, and our consciousness as Unique beings. In a world that constantly tries to reduce individuals into mere numbers, symbols, or instruments of something supposedly greater, your existence affirms something that cannot be confiscated, ownership of oneself.
We write not in the name of abstractions, not in the name of hollow humanity, nor out of imposed moral obligation. This letter arises from affinity, from one ego recognizing another, from wills encountering and acknowledging each other, not because we must, but because we choose to.
The State may call you offenders. Official morality may label you deviant. Yet we know how often those grand concepts are merely specters demanding sacrifice without ever truly living. You chose not to bow to those specters. That choice, whatever its consequences, belongs to you alone. Continue reading “INDONESIA – Solidarity letter for egoist/nihilist/insurrectionist comrades detained in Bandung”