I want to separate. Specifically, I want to separate myself from all civilization and, more specifically, the industrialized world. I want to create on a piece of unused land to create a safe place to live and grow. I want the freedom to create personal standards of living, to engage in a collective process, to create and use autonomous physical space, and to create a new self-sustaining commercial system. I want a community free from violence, laws, sanctions, oppression, imaginary and political borders and the global market. It would be preferable to achieve this without the threat of violence or use of violence, without exchanging money and without written documents. Attempting to secede from the United States, or from anywhere else in the world, and even from the world as a whole politically, would be a major undertaking that would likely be marred by extreme violence. The United States Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court at point 18, does not allow states or private citizens to secede from the country. The right and necessity to secede and separate must be recognized and put into practice. To do this, ignoring the impending gunfire, would require an army of legal scholars. Two important memories in the history of the United States are the secession of the South and the desired secession of Texas. None of these have materialized, although there are hundreds of nationalist/separatist/secessionist groups continuing to fight (www.huffingtonpost.com). There are currently approximately 195 countries on Earth. Each of these is recognized in a geographical-political way. Only 192 are recognized by the United Nations and only 2 more are recognized by the United States. Many of the 195 are actually under the control of other countries (Rosenburg, 2011). Sin...... middle of paper......09/colorblindness-new-racismRosenburg, M. (March 2, 2011). The number of countries in the world. Retrieved from http://geography.about.com/cs/countries/a/numbercountries.htmGilbert, J. (2008). Against the commodification of everything. Cultural Studies, 22(5), Retrieved from http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a901749948~tab=content ~order=page doi: 10.1080/09502380802245811Moore, J. (nd) . A primitivist primer. Retrieved from http://www.eco-action.org/dt/primer.htmlMcQuinn, J. (n.d.). Against organizationism: anarchism both as a theory and as a critique of organization. Retrieved from http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Jason_McQuinn__Against_Organizationalism __Anarchism_as_both_Theory_and_Critique_of_Organization.htmlMatt, . (2002, November 07). Anarchism and collective organization. Retrieved from http://www.nefac.net/node/17