"Forces Of Chaos And Anarchy"

"We are forces of chaos and anarchy
Everything they say we are, we are --
And we are very proud of ourselves."

Those Jefferson Airplane lyrics are almost forty years old now. The 60s are longer ago than most people realize.

But on hearing the song by chance the other day, I got to thinking about D/s, and "forces of chaos and anarchy."

D/s clearly is a disruptive force in society, or could be, and I mean "disruptive" in the best possible way. That D/s is not a political entity is solely the result of its practitioners being overwhelmingly, tightly, closeted.

D/s people are not in a dissimilar place to where gays and lesbians were when the Jefferson Airplane was singing "We Can Be Together." And our society is just as uninterested and hostile to exposure to any form of alternative sexuality as society was 40 years ago regarding same-sex love. But D/s people rarely if ever feel like an oppressed minority, since most are happy to be private or at most involved with small groups of trusted like-minded people.

Nor are we monolithic; a D/s voting bloc is not ever happening -- I've met plenty of people in this life who I wished I lived in the same state as simply so that I could nullify their vote with Mine. I have no illusions that D/s people, numerous as we might be, will ever be a political "force" in traditional terms.

But as forces of chaos and anarchy? As an invigorating disruptor beam fired into the increasingly conformist, complacent and rapidly darkening, hardening, collective heart?

It's not an unappealing thought . . .

[In the spirit of anarchy, no YouTube Tuesday post tonight. Hey, it's a start!]