For those ignorant of the tag

I published this little essay on the xxxxtreme urban street tag facebook page a couple of months ago. It will tell you all you need to know, and in fact far more than you should. (My essay can also be found on the awsome world of Dan Fbach.)

"Survival of the fittest" is a phrase routinely and wrongly attributed to Charles Darwin. The saying actually comes from social theorists who were, perhaps, a bit overzealous, and certainly far to direct, in pursuing the interests of the better half. A central tenant of Darwinism is, infact, randomness. There is no "deserve" in nature. Right and wrong, punishment and reward, justice and injustice; nothing but illusions. The lion does not catch the gazelle because it works harder; or because it has a better grasp of the concept of victory. The lion catches the gazelle because it has the dumb luck of being born a lion.

This is why tag is essential. Those of us who are burdened with the truth know that our weekly ritual is an act of defiance; a primal scream against the nihilism of the bitch goddess we call nature. But what do the common people see? They see rules, "winners", "losers". Most importantly, they see order. Simply put, we of the tag are order. We are society. The veneer of reason we create prevents the peasentry from abandoning their work in despair; or destroying themselves in hopeless rebellion against forces beyond their understanding. Instead, the unwashed accept our arbritrary rule as "natural" and turn their dimly realized frustrations upon each other. True, this does lead to some ugliness from time to time, but this can be logically justified as population control. At any rate, society is surely more productive and efficient than it otherwise would be.

If tag did not exist it would be nessessary to invent it.

(If I die tomorrow, this will be my legacy. I hit the whole illuminati-meets-Karl-Marx tone perfectly on the first draft, this is only a slight revision. I like to think that there is some legitimate anti-conservative satire behind all the nonsense.)