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Guest Post: Understanding The Fear Of Self-Defense And Revolution
Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,
Our era is a strange one when considering how social attitudes have developed in such a contrary fashion to the rest of history. I think that our forefathers would look upon our current culture with bewilderment when confronted with the fact that our generation has all but abandoned the option of physical rebellion as a tool for social change. Even among the most enslaved of nations and peoples, the idea of revolution has been held in regard as an entirely moral and principled affair involving every individual, no matter their age or economic station. Today, however, that which we call “revolution” has been delegated mostly to college-age intellectuals and has been so watered down and whitewashed with politically correct restrictions that the concept is hardly recognizable.
I believe the civil rights movements in America and in India in the 20th century have in many ways warped the public view of how opposition to totalitarianism is actually accomplished. I find it interesting that movements led by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. enjoy so much adoration in mainstream media and in public schooling, while the American Revolution is often either misrepresented or not discussed at all. Gandhi’s movement was, in concrete terms, a failure until Indians had actually began organizing to physically fight the British, causing the Crown to attempt to defuse the movement by suddenly offering up a reformation of Indian governance (one that would continue to benefit them). When one examines the facts surrounding Cointelpro operations by the FBI and CIA during the civil rights movement in America, one realizes that half the efforts and actions were legitimate and the other half entirely manipulated.
Over the course of half a century, the philosophy of “anti-violence” has come to include a distinct distaste for self-defense. Self-defense is now consistently equated to “violence” (and is, thus, immoral), regardless of environmental circumstances.
Even in the liberty movement, there are people who disregard physical defense as either barbaric or “futile” and have adopted rather less-effective pacifist ideologies of more socialist activism. The problem with certain factions of libertarianism is that they tend to live within their own heads, reveling in a world of Ayn Randian and Rothbardian political and social theory, while abandoning the other side of concrete resistance. Some in the survival community call these people “egghead libertarians,” and I think the label fits.
They rejoice only in the intellectual; thus, they tend to see themselves only as “intellectual warriors.” For them, the war against tyranny by extension must be fought on an intellectual battlefield. Otherwise, as individuals, they have little to offer the resistance. They believe that if they merely present a better and more logical philosophy, they will win over the masses to their side or even change the souls of the rather soulless psychopaths creating tyranny in the first place. Like magic, they will have won the fight without ever truly fighting. It sounds like a strategy right out of the “Art Of War,” but really it is an intricate excuse designed to avoid risk.
They have almost no experience with and, therefore, no respect for the concept of self-defense and revolution. And they have no capacity to fathom what such an endeavor would entail. This unknown scenario inspires fear in them — a fear of struggle, a fear of failure and a fear of death.
While taking action from a position of love for one’s fellow man is indeed noble, it is sometimes not enough in the face of pure evil — the kind of evil inherent in the ranks of elitism and the globalist ideology. It is important to keep at least one foot on the ground when building a movement of dissent and realize that while maintaining the moral high ground is paramount, there are limitations to what peaceful resistance can accomplish, depending on the opponent. If you are not prepared to use both peaceful means and physical defense if necessary, your movement will ultimately fail against an enemy without conscience.
Never before in history have humans been so dismissive of the self-defense concept when it comes to government, and I attribute this to clever conditioning and to an ingrained and powerful fear. Here are some of the most commonly heard arguments against physical revolution and why they are either ill-conceived or outright disingenuous.
Revolution Is Morally Wrong?
I find the attitude of moral superiority of the nonviolence crowd rather disconcerting at times and, in many ways, dishonest. It is very common to run into nonviolence proponents who are not satisfied with their own personal choice of pacifism alone. In many cases, they will attack or undermine other parts of the movement preparing for self-defense on the basis that even mere preparation is somehow akin to physical aggression. These people are never satisfied until everyone in the movement meets their “high standards” of activist purity.
In the end, I think their position is less about a regard for peace than it is about a regard for their own egos. People in general tend to support the formation of taboos (as opposed to honest principles) in order to gain what they see as the moral upper hand over others. They invent a condition of arbitrary piety around themselves in an act of self-elevation that does not constitute true morality.
Anyone who makes self-defense a taboo is not only living in a fantasy land outside the inherent structures of natural law, he is also likely doing so because he enjoys the sense of social superiority such a position affords. In this way many of the more irrational nonviolence activists are, in fact, no better that the raving acolytes of the cult of political correctness.
Physical self-defense against tyranny is not only necessary, but entirely honorable. When the violence of an individual is thwarted by defense, when a potential thief robs the wrong house, when a rape is prevented by an armed and prepared woman or when a potential murderer is shot dead by a citizen who refused to be a victim, our society cheers. But when someone suggests that the same measures be taken against a violent and corrupt government, people suddenly claim moral hazard.
There is no difference between the act of defending oneself against a common criminal and defending oneself against a criminal government. I would venture to say that self-defense is a moral imperative more vital to the survival of peace and freedom than any other.
Revolution Is Futile And The Enemy Is Too Strong?
When anti-defense initiates cannot effectively argue against the moral principles of physical revolution, they invariably change tactics, asserting instead that revolution is a useless endeavor that will end only in tragedy for the participants. I see this argument as a product of brainless nihilism rather than rationalism, and such a defeatist mindset invariably stems from cowardice rather than logic.
Nihilism is a powerful psychological force that destroys all hope and all positive pursuits. It is essentially the act of denying success before an endeavor is ever undertaken. Nihilists ensure their own failure because for them every scenario is a no-win scenario.
To them, I might seem like a blind optimist, while they see themselves as realists. In truth, pro-self-defense advocates are far more realistic. There is certainly a fundamental difference in the manner in which we look at the world. When I and those “optimists” like me see a problem, we look for a solution regardless of the scale of the threat; and if we cannot immediately find an obvious solution right away, we keep working until we do. There is no such thing as a no-win scenario for us. There is always a way to overcome an obstacle. The odds of success are not relevant where revolution against oligarchy is concerned.
I would also point out the reality that, at bottom, it does not matter what the odds are in a revolution for freedom. When all is said and done, you will probably be confronted with two choices in the face of tyranny: fight and possibly die; or surrender, become a slave and probably still die. Those who argue against self-defense are in most cases trying to avoid the inevitability of this choice by creating non-options and non-solutions out of thin air. This is the opposite of realism.
Physical revolution requires a methodology of adaptivity and courage. Fear has no place in the mind of a freedom fighter, and nihilism is just as foreign to him. The goal of liberty will be accomplished. Totalitarians will be defeated. The size of the movement is not a factor. We expect that we will be in the minority. There is no other outcome but victory because we will allow no other outcome. Period. If we are proven wrong, then we are proven wrong; but it will not be due to a lack of trying.
In our age, arguments of the technological superiority of the enemy are often brandished as clear evidence of the uselessness of physical resistance. I think one could also make the argument that technological superiority in media manipulation and other fields could make nonviolent resistance useless as well. I’m not really sure why nihilists cling to the notion that technology matters at all, except that it perhaps offers an easy and lazy avenue of debate. The enemy has predator drones; therefore, revolution is futile.
In conjunction with Oath Keepers, I will soon be producing a video that will show the liberty movement how to build their own working thermal-evasion suits. Perhaps this will quell the incessant proclamations that drones and tanks and Apache helicopters mean anything at all in the face of asymmetric warfare. If the enemy can’t see you, they can’t kill you; and for every high-tech enemy, there is a low tech solution. Of course, I doubt this will mean anything to the nihilists, who don’t have the will to fight for anything except their belief that fighting back is useless.
Revolutions Are Always Co-Opted?
I have heard it argued by multiple sources within the liberty movement over the years that revolution is a poor option in defeating tyranny because of the cyclical nature of political and social change. They claim that all we have to do is look back at history to see that even when a revolution is successful in removing oligarchy, the resulting republic is invariably co-opted years or decades down the road. I agree, to a point.
The problem is not that the concept of revolution is ineffective. What these skeptics of physical rebellion tend to overlook or deliberately ignore is that no revolution in the history of man has ever gone far enough. Each revolution has targeted the corrupt government of their day, but no revolution has ever actually removed the elitist cabal behind those regimes — the same cabal of elites that has bankrolled nearly every tyranny over the past several centuries.
This is due in part to the fact that knowledge of who these elites are was not widespread. Today, for the first time ever, mankind has full access to information on who the globalists are and what they want. In fact, the elites barely hide who they are or what their intentions are anymore. One can simply look up the roster of organization like Bilderberg, Tavistock, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Monetary Fund, the Bank for International Settlements, etc. At least in the liberty movement, we know who the real enemy is.
Co-option is always a threat if you do not know who the enemy is. A revolution against the Obama administration alone, for example, would be useless because President Obama is nothing but a puppet, a mascot playing a role. Removing middlemen is a half-measure, and anyone who tries to lead you into revolution on the premise that Obama alone is the source of your troubles is probably an elitist leading you toward disaster. If you are not removing the root of the threat, then the threat will persist.
Co-option also occurs when people become obsessed with the idea of popular top-down leadership rather than bottom-up decentralized resistance. If you are out there looking for the next George Washington on a white horse to save you from tyranny, then you will eventually get him; but he may not be at all what he seems. Beware of generals and top brass suddenly in support of revolution. Beware of any notion of military coup. Beware of any revolution that uses political party divisions as a motivator. Beware of any government with a central bank that wishes to bankroll your revolution. Stay decentralized and refuse any push for top-down leadership. This is the only way to avoid co-option.
Revolution Solves Nothing Because Mankind Is ‘Predisposed’ To Tyranny?
The great lie being injected into the movement over the past few years is that removal of the elites will solve nothing because the “real problem” is the corrupt nature of humanity in general and that if we remove one set of elites, they will simply be replaced with another set, as if society is fatally predisposed to develop an elitist class. This is the most vapid form of defeatist garbage ever regurgitated by nihilists.
First, we have no idea whatsoever what life would be like without the globalist network because we have never lived in a society in which they have been removed, even for a single generation. I think early America after the revolution is the only example I can find of a society free from most elitist controls, and the prosperity that developed in that environment leads me to believe that removal of the entire elitist framework would result in undeniable positive changes for the world. Why else would the globalists spend the past two centuries attempting to dismantle the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
Second, if mankind is so “predisposed” to become naturally subservient to an elitist class, why do the elites feel so compelled to manipulate the masses with complex forms of propaganda and fear tactics? Why go through all the trouble of engineering economic disparity and war? What is the point if we are all dumb animals just waiting to be ruled? The argument is nonsense. The elites spend billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, in capital and go to such extremes because oligarchy is not a natural state of man. It is so unnatural that the elites are forced to expend constant energy trying to keep us from progressing away from the slave dynamic.
I believe a revolution is indeed necessary, a final revolution to remove the influence of the globalist cult once and for all — not only their puppet governments, puppet political parties and puppet despots, but the globalists themselves. Will bad men still exist in this world? Of course they will. But the kind of advanced and well-organized internationlist machine that thirves today will no longer exist. To save a patient poisoned to the extreme, the patient must be purged until his body can recover on its own. The elites are a poison that must be physically removed from the human system.
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"The great lie being injected into the movement over the past few years is that removal of the elites will solve nothing because the “real problem” is the corrupt nature of humanity in general and that if we remove one set of elites, they will simply be replaced with another set, as if society is fatally predisposed to develop an elitist class. This is the most vapid form of defeatist garbage ever regurgitated by nihilists."
No, the real problem is humanity. Warlords, Kings, Tyrants and other sociopaths have ruled humanity since the beginning of time, because most people let them. But it doesn't mean those of us who see it should not rise up. A few years of freedom is worth the fight.
No, the real problem is scale.
"Warlords, Kings, Tyrants and other sociopaths have ruled humanity since the beginning of time"
This isn't true. Define time and outline the timeline of human culture.
When your genes get threatened your threatened genes get going.
There has to be a threat against the survival of the majority by those in control before the people will turn on them. The rulers have to be the threatening outgroup to the victims' ingroup as it is normally played to create war.
as long as revolution is against the tribes interest no revolution will be allowed.
So long as we self-identify as Red, Blue, Socialist, Conservative, etc., there will be no revolution.*
*there is only one Tribe that matters anymore. It's a big club. We don't belong to it.
And down away fuckers for the youtube video link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu3rsha1ZtI
i junked you because kid rock has even dissed his own music saying his audience is fucking retarded. he was a smart guy that surfed a wave of bad music to success.
I'm retarded, so there's that. Still love Kid Rock. He's a bridge between left and right if you care to take it.
For the sake a balance, here's an important documentary about the prison industrial complex, and it's connection to Yellen. Only 4 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ6pLKlU-8Q
No, the real problem is we are afraid to die. Once you get past that, anything is possible. One way to get past that is to realize that you are a slave, right now, and that living as a slave is ignoble, immoral, and downright intolerable.
Is a life without free will/choice, and the ability to do what you will with the fruits of your labor really a life worth living. Is it satisfying or fullfilling in any way?
People think I'm crazy and/or bluffing when I say I would sooner die on my feet than live on my knees, but IMHO choice is the very essence of life.
Sure I could go along to get along and have more cheap chinese made crap in my garage but I find it more personally fullfilling to buck the system and be my own man.
It will be a beautiful day we hit a critical mass of pissed off citizens in this country.
Kid Rock's sister Jill Ritchie over him any day.
I'm not a very big fan of claims of a "false left-right dicohtomy". The differences between (and especially the consequences of) left-wing and right-wing politics are quite real, and are particularly felt by the more disenfranchised and underprivileged segments of society. At the same time, the evidence does seem to corroborate these claims, or at least partially so. This, I'm even less enthusiastic of.
Suffice it to say that there's a reason Zero Hedge is frequented by individuals from both sides of the spectrum. Militants are almost universally compelled to acknowledge that the mainstream political parties representing their interests (Social-Democratic and Conservative parties, respectively) have become beholden to the status quo, which in turn is dictated by vested interests at the top. Typically, the banks(ters) and largest corporations.
It's still a stretch to suggest that this, in itself, will prove sufficient ground for some form of common cause. Frankly, I'm uncertain what happens next.
At the bottom of the pyramid, yes, there are political divisions amongst people that could be categorized as "Left" and "Right". At the top of the pyramid, and even the middle of the pyramid, there are no parties, no ideologies, except globalism.
+1. The left-right thing is a toy used by the elites. It is of course used to control us by making us think we have a "choice" and that "voting" matters. But it is how those who wish to serve the elites (and wish to see their own name in lights) break themselves down into teams, like picking teams for a schoolyard pickup baseball game. Then these teams fight for the temporary ability to loot (as long as they "win" "elections"), all while serving the elites who fund them.
Yes ....Something that creates the need for people to think for themselves. Their very survival becomes a matter of making decisions contrary to what they are being told to do. For now things seem to work but soon they won't ....
These are the control rods that defuse any revolutionary action.
1. Welfare / Dat EBT
2. Porn, and plenty of it
3. Cheap Beer
4. Sports! 24/7 Sports! Did my team win!? Wheeeee!
5. State controlled media.
And the Revolution won't be televised - 'cause it ain't gonna happen.
Police Execute Man With His Hands Up - YouTube
RafterManFMJ +1
You are spot on.
RafterManFMJ +1
You are spot on.
Your last point is totally right, but you forgot the most important control rod, the one more important than all the others combined: internal divisions in the non-elite public. People fear each other much more than they fear the elite. I am not so paranoid as to say it was all planned that way, but revolution is impossible in a multi-racial, multi-cultural society where divide-and-conquer is child's play. Brandon Smith seems to be a nice, honorable man, but a majority of Americans fear his followers ten times more than they fear the NSA or the Rothschilds.
umm, hate to break it to you. but those divisions are real. when the nigs move into my neighborhood you can bet your ass im moving out.
oh and case you havent heard, we live in the greatest, free-est country in the whole world wide universe. no need for revolution
You must be one of those intellectual libertarians he was talking about. 2 digit IQ, I bet.
Talkin ta yusef?
Rothschilds? What's that?
Signed - the average American.
Just point us to the person in charge so we can ruff him up a bit. Anyone got intel on who it might be?
the revolution has been commoditised
6. Easy credit cheap toys
7. Slow erosion of net worth (no one notices)
8. Revision of History - un education
pornSec ?
RafterManFMJ While there's truth in that statement, it is also a bit harsh. The sheep are busy trying to survive; caught in the swirling detritus of daily living and survival. It's hard to be well-informed when you spend your energy and time at work, changing diapers, mowing the grass, etc. etc. I have great sympathy for the sheep. That's why I take on the heavy burden of sheepdog. I bear witness to the evil, and prepare to stand up... um, someday? In the meantime, I teach the children and grandchildren what liberty is, pass on old-style independent living skills, and teach 'em to shoot well. I have seen growing awareness among my extended family, friends, and neighbors. I have hope that I never had before. When critical mass is reached (and I do believe that will happen), my family will be among the 3%.
Even the sheep who won't fight can be passively useful. Tsarnev might not have been caught if, in a different scenario, he had been discovered in that boat by a partisan.
Everything you have to say is reasoned. I'm confused about the part about Tsarnev? Are you saying that if a libertarian patriot found him he would've let him go? That kid and his brother are the most transparent patsies in the history of false flag terror.
Rule one when dealing with the CIA/FBI if you must:
Never agree to take part in a 'drill' or become some sort of informant/operative. You will be set up.
I'm sorry not to be clear. What I meant about Tsarnev is: had it been an 'American patriot' involved in the Second American Revolution, and the man who found him had been a sympathizer who moved him along to other sympathizers, the authorities might never have caught him. In spite of the massive dragnet and gov resources.
"These are the control rods that defuse any revolutionary action."
6. Government schools (dominated by feminists), busily trying to turn little boys into little girls and drugging those who resist into submission.
You do not have to raise up and fight to gain freedom. Look at it this way, since the Constitution was written, how many fights have occurred on American soil and as a result each one resulted in a loss of freedom?
The Natives were placed on reservations, that is not free.
When the south wanted to secede, there was revolution. The south did not have the freedom to seperate.
There were other conflicts as well.
When blacks came to the Americas, they were not free and weren't free till after the 1960's in many places, but it was not a physical revolution whiich freed them. They may not have been 'slaves' prior to the 1960's, but the racist policies kept them in shackles.
Ghandi also proved that peaceful movements can accomplish more with less murder and violence.
Pacifism from a position of weakness is really just repackaged cowardice. I think Ghandi even said something to that effect. Ghandi accomplished a lot with "peaceful means" because the PTB knew that there was a backup plan.
"Pacifism from a position of weakness is really just repackaged cowardice."
Tripe.
#Truth
Guess it hits a little close to home for you............
TRUTH.
(Who is pretentious enough to use the word "tripe"?)
Exactly. MLK got the traction he did becauseTPTB would rather deal with him than Malcom X. This also didn't stop them from killing both in the end.
Kennedy's quote comes to mind: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Ghandi, et al, simply presented two choices to the same outcome, one of which leaves TPTB with more power than the other.
They killed Kennedy, too.
Bullshit. Pacifists in this country break in to military bases, smash and pour their own blood on military weapons, and serve long jail sentences as a result. They ain't fucking cowardly keyboard warriors hiding behind a computer. They are brave fighters for what they believe in. They put their lives and freedoms on the line. They are not fucking cowards.
The author of this article has little idea of why Gandhi was successful. The population of India could not be ruled by England unless the people of India assisted them. Once the Indian people, by refusing to obey or cooperate with England, showed they would no longer be ruled, the English knew their time was over.
African Americans showed they would not cooperate, so Jim Crow ended. Nonviolence means civil disobedience, not inaction as the author implies. Sitting down at segregated lunch counters is civil disobedience. Boycotting segregated businesses was civil disobedience. Marching through the South was civil disobedience. Claiming that those people who were beaten, set upon by police dogs, had fire hoses turned on them, had their churches bombed or murdered were "cowards" is a completely moronic statement that only shows your very real ignorance.
So many words, so little understanding.
Too many facts for ignorant people to grasp.
Tripe.
Pacifist activists today generally just march in large numbers because they think it is safe, then run away when the tear gas comes out. They aren't even on par with the activists in Gandhi's day. They are pussies.
Again, bullshit. Marching in the street isn't civil disobedience. It's a fucking parade. Marching in the streets certainly isn't what peace activists, as opposed to well meaning supporters, are doing.
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics." Mark Twain
Telling the truth is a conspiratorial act today. The ignorant masses praise Gandhi, Mandela, and MLk Jr as we were taught at public indoctrination centers aka schools, through our oligarchic governments, and their propaganda-arm media. Finding your own version of history is more interesting, logical, and revealing in the context of today's 'global village'. True intellectuals can see through the rubbish of 'liberal democracy' but they are very few the world over. Most choose to regurgitate 'the facts' that they have been conditioned to repeat while confirming their cognitive dissonance and normalcy bias in the face of reality.
Gandhi liberated India or maintained multinational control over its economy? Gandhi united India or quelled a violent/threatening nationalist uprising in favor of a non-violent/non-threatening globalist multi-cultural society? Unfortunately, Gandhi was also very close to the Brits(aka European Monarchs who control the United States of America Corp...just like Marx, Hitler, Trotsky, Lenin, and by extension Mao).
http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/the-oldest-multinationals-in-india...
http://topcompaniesindia.com/mnc-multinational-companies-in-india/
http://www.sanskritimagazine.com/india/the-little-known-dark-side-of-gan...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/47659337/Gandhi-was-a-British-Agent-and-brough...
Nelson Mandela, humanitarian or corrupt internationalist?
https://sioeeu.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/vordersj.jpg
http://moonbattery.com/nelson-mandela-communist.jpg (ask Anthony Sutton who financed communism and who the hell is Yossel Mashel Slovo and what is he doing in South African politics, hmmm?)
http://americanfreepress.net/?p=11873 or http://www.zimbio.com/Necklacing
http://www.examiner.com/article/mandela-legacy-south-african-economy-wor...
MLK Jr or Michael King? Civil Rights Activist or International Communist pawn who destroyed another populist movement in favor of 'non-violent' (or non-threatening) resistance?
http://spiritofcontradiction.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/incarceration...
http://www.martinlutherking.org/thebeast.html (and who the hell is Stanley Levison)
Oh the ignorant masses. “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."~A. Huxley (Measles kills!!! Help!! Save us oh dear and benevolent master!!! Don't worry peasant, there's a 'safe' vaccine for that. Just don't ask Vaccine Court)
"Ignorance is Strength."~E.A. Blair "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” ~J.W. von Goethe
"To know that you do not know is the best.
To think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it."~Lao Tzu on the same line as Socrates
"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."~H.L. Mencken
May anti-intellectualism be defeated and human spirituality be embraced in the name of self-defense as the attacks have not ceased in centuries. May the people of North America recognize their past and rise up to confront the future as the last true bastion of seriously threatening resistance, that the world might unite under individualism and liberty for all. The end is nigh and their plan is clear.
"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.” (Impact of Science on Society, Page 50)~G.B. Shaw ...the same sort of character and beliefs that might render physical self-defense impossible...
Self-defense is an inalienable human right and we are under attack through psyops, health care, the food supply, physical force and violence, taxation without representation aka legalized extortion, and the conspiracy has been more than successful but best leave it with William Wallace.
I would never advocate violence, because that would be wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnI81iB0gBQ
I do advocate violence.
It is right to defy oppression and counter violence with violence.
This is Fight Club.
Fuck. Yeah.
>>>While taking action from a position of love for one’s fellow man is indeed noble, it is sometimes not enough in the face of pure evil — the kind of evil inherent in the ranks of elitism and the globalist ideology.
Suddenly, I envision Thomas Friedman, a locked basement, and a coupla hard, pipe hittin' niggers with a pair of pliers and a blow torch.
I do advocate violence.
It is right to defy oppression and counter violence with violence.
This is Fight Club.
No, this is not "Fight Club". The only blood you'll lose while hanging out here, is if you pass out from ingesting too many psychotropics, inhaling junk food and monster drinks, while sitting in the comforts of your cozy safe home, and nose dive into your keyboard. This idea to "defy oppression and counter violence with violence" is a noble claim, but just another broken record being played out at blogs like this. This attitude of "talking big" has become an infectioius dis-ease" running rampant all over the internet, ad nauseam. Who is really doing anything to counter their oppression, in a violent manner, other than those, like Dorner (tried).
I'll be the first to admit, I'm not interested in being a martyr by storming the White House (the ultimate symbolic hive of oppression) and getting the Revolution ball rolling. I'm hoping a patriotic rogue faction of the military takes care of that. Like almost everyone else, I'm taking the path of least resistance, even though, ironically, I've got a small arsenal at my disposal. Maybe that's exactly how TPTB have planned it. Everybody is waiting, getting mentally weaker, as they incrementally dismantle our abilities to take action and the fascist police state grows.
Maybe that's the problem; everyone is waiting for someone else to jump into the Fight Club ring to take care of business. Everyone is afraid of a little pain, or a lot of pain, or death, and so we just sit, in anticipation, waiting and watching the screen for "The Big Event" that may never come.
Bundy Ranch proved that the movement is not all talk. We were on the verge of war right then and there. The feds knew running away was their best option at the time. It's all about opportunity and timing. The founders had to go through a lot of pain before they finally found the opportunity to revolt.
I'm fairly certain most people in this country are glad they have a government that prevents people like Bundy from doing what they want. Sorry, but most Americans are not going to rally around a cause like "we all should be able to take whatever we want from public lands and not pay for it."
Obviously, you have never had your head stomped repeatedly or on second thought, maybe you did.
That is true. I have normalcy bias. But normal is fucked up. A lot of guys have lost limbs and have lost loved ones fighting for bankers. For fucking nothing.
For nothing?!
BULLSHIT!
Some got shiny medals with colorful ribbons, others got plastic replacent limbs, still others get to fight with the rats and roaches for stale town talk bread at the neared VA hospital.
Everybody's a winner!
We all have one ace in the hole our mortality, when you are ready to play that card you are in a revolution, until then it's all theory and Che t-shirts.
Here, it's Brownshirts, instead of Che t-shirts, but the sentiment is correct.
Cherry Picker I hate to break it to you but..
Despite segregation and racism prior to the Civil Rights movement and the policies of the so called "Great Society".. black people had higher levels of 2 parent families, developed their own businesses and generally created communities that would be admired today compared to the inner city hell holes created by entitlement programs. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger and that was the case for blacks prior to the Civil Rights movement. Democrats didn't like how prosperous they were becoming so they created the Great Society and the rest is history.
"These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference."
-Lyndon Johnson
I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for two hundred years.
-Lyndon Johnson
>because most people let them.
Not just let them. They don't mind. And don't care. There is no point in rising up - how many folks would that be? ~3-5% ? And the fight would be to change the system to what exactly? And how long would the new system last before it goes the way of all those idealistic systems which have already been tried? (Yes, this includes the idea of the U.S. Constitution. And the idea of socialist revolution). They simply don't last. What lasts is any form of dictatorship as long as 90% are not raped too hard.
The best way for the 3-5% "who see it" is to stay low and avoid getting into trouble. Somehow almost all new ass raping technique invented by TPTB come with small loopholes almost purposely added there to allow for a few chosen to escape it.
"There is no point in rising up - how many folks would that be? ~3-5% ?"
9 - 15 million people taking direct action (assuming a sufficient base of support from those playing a more passive/indirect role), would be more than sufficient to overwhelm the current regime. During the American war for independence (a succesful secession not a revolution), only ~2% took direct action. In the Ukraine right now a very small percentage of the population is doing a fine job of physically resisting the regime in Kiev.
"And the fight would be to change the system to what exactly?"
Why change the system? Why not just abandon the current system and create parallel new ones, which starts with withdrawing consent and participation? Why not just secede (a much better option than revolution)?
I think that our forefathers would look upon our current culture with bewilderment when confronted with the fact that our generation has all but abandoned the option of physical rebellion as a tool for social change.
That's an absolutely untrue statement. There is food on the table, money is coming in (by working or handouts), and for most people the line in the sand has not yet been crossed.
You didn't get the context of the post or aren't educated on the founding fathers view point.
It is a true statement because:
The founding fathers had a different view point then our modern society, thus they would look at our current culture with bewilderment. They new that handouts was another form of slavery which our current culture doesn't understand.
The elite power structure has somehow convinced Americans to trust mega-banks and other shady institutions.
Frozen raccoon complaints derided as racist:
http://tinyurl.com/kesyr2q
Iffn' I wuz really hungry, I'd prolly eat that critterz azzhole and never once consider it negro. Pass the black olives, please.. oops.
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You must be the frozen coon asshole in the last post.
I'm in. Now what?
Psychopaths have always been around. They come and go from power. I would not be suprised at all that the Roman Empire collapsed under the weight of psychopaths.
Have you studied the history of the Roman emperors? Some of them were real pieces of work. More than just Caligula and Nero were completely fucked in the head. There was a lot of corruption when it came to who would become the next emperor, and a lot of that involved the praetorian guard.
Yeah, Caligula found that out the hard way. The praetorian knew their lives were certainly better under an emperor rather than a republic so they killed one and installed another.
Miffed
It was the inbreeding.
And it's happening again. Had enough Bushes? How about another Clinton?
What your not #ReadyForHillary? How sexist and also somehow racist of you!!!! Please report IMMEDIATELY to your neares Rre-Education Camp Governent Learning Ceter, they will 'help' you out.
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And, I realize that this does not rise to the level of the Romans, nor even to the royal families of Russia and Europe, where you had the sistercousinwife dynamic going for a half dozen or more generations straight.
But they're certainly working on it.
Furthermore, there's a much larger human population now, so there is a bigger pool of sociopaths to start with. And with treatments now available for things like porphyria and hemophilia, they can go on to produce much more grotesque configurations of 'human' DNA...
hemophilia for the win, Alex.
It rose to power driven by that same weight. Then it got fat and lazy and the psychopaths stopped "hunting" and, instead, killed the cow on the farm. It was at that shift that the Roman empire died.
All empire is driven by psychopaths...
You can be revolting all by yourself.......
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but powers and principalities.
No revolution can go far enough without addressing the foe that we dare not tread upon - the spiritual enemy.
"The Empire never ended."
"The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one"
"To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. This is a paradox: whoever defeats a segment of the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus, imposing its form on its enemies. Thereby it becomes its enemies"
This.
To shift your mind to to the acceptance of killing people ("deservedly" or not) leads you to become the very power structure you rebel against. All it means is that the Empire has had a rebirth into a newer and stronger form... the shedding of skin...
I have come to the conclusion (somewhat fecitiously) that we live in Hell, where the only way to obtain pleasure and gratification (think food and resources) is through the destruction of life forms, many multiples more than you, just so that you can continue... And to what purpose do you continue for? Merely a prolonged destruction of other life forms until you, too, are one day destroyed, and consumed.
Kinda puts it all into perspective.
Ultimately, in the grand scheme of things, what people (elite or otherwise) do doesn't mean fuck all. In ten thousand years no one will remember anyone that lives, in one hundred thousand nothing will remember the existance of our species and in less than a million years not a single trace of our being will exist in the entire universe (entropy's a bitch).
So, Mr/Ms pyschopath elite... put that in your pipe and smoke it. You are nothing but a fucking worthless spec of dust floating on a worthless spec of dust revolving around a burning worthless spec of dust that doesn't mean fuck all in the grand scheme of things.
Joke's on you bitchez.
pretty dark read, with much accuracy likely... to love and have been loved makes some of it worthwhile... intangible things by some accounts... there is beauty in nature to be appreciated, and art... but most people living in cities, particularly the people with few resources, devolve to the basest form of pre-packaged existance, learning to appreciate some or none of the beauty as it is in short supply... this is why the elites have their get-aways, and why people of modest financial resources, but relatively sound minds and souls, move to the country...
tick tock
FWIW
Revolutions are ongoing. The progressives successfully drove the 19th century industrialists from power only to replace them with financialists. The ongoing drive for control and centralization of world resources and populations has topped out. Entropy is bringing this pipe dream down. You have to look no further than Detroit or Athens to see that the grand scheme is falling apart. The next two hundred years will witness the resurgence of tribalism and decentralization.
here we are, on the Internet, gabbing with strangers, wondering who they are ... and reading about revolution. Many of us agree with the sentiments expressed by the author. I do, anyway. But ... NOW WHAT?
That's the biggest hurdle. Perhaps we still have to convince the placid and blind, but more than that, we have to have some sort of physical connection to each other. And the dispersed nature of the Internet doesn't facilitate such meetings.
Sad as it may seem, the fact that this manifesto landed here, on a blog, though read by many, almost dooms it to oblivion.
We will all know one another soon enough, once we are rounded up and executed. I'll be the guy wearing my underwear on the outside of my pants with a stupid grin on my face.....
Good. I'll look for you, then. At that point I'll need the chuckle!
why wait to be rounded up and executed? There are only 22 million .gov employees. There are 300 million of us. If each citizen who killed a .gov was then executed. They would be gone long before we were; execute about half of them and the rest will turn tail. We'd be freed of them. Of course shooting the bankers and lawyers would then be like shooting fish in a barrel.
There are not 300 million of you. There are, maybe (being generous here), 1 million in the entire US that might rise up against their government, that understand what the real issues are and know who that targets should be.
You are outnumbered and scattered.
Which is why you haven't been rounded up and executed... yet.
P.S.
This article looks to me like a phishing expedition. Bite with care.
1 million is way too generous.
Most gun owners love that liar Chris Kyle and flag waving bullshit. They whine about "big government" while simultaneously waving its flag and worshiping it. I'm not convinced there will ever be an awakening of that sort. The second American Revolution is pure fantasy.
Humans will be replaced by robots and the elite will evolve into cyborgs, and paytriots with their old mosins and cans of beans aren't going to do anything about it, albeit whine about it on message boards that very few even read.
Paytriots can't even agree who the "enemy" even is. It's the Jews, Jesuits, Masons, British Royals, etc and paytriots argue all day which one of these groups the eye of the pyramid is. Even if all of these groups were eliminated, man still has an ego, and despotism would still be inevitable.
The only sliver of hope I have is that technology will liberate the masses from the daily toil of labor and make food, water, shelter, and health care in such abundance that they would become as free as the air you breathe, thus rendering money obsolete. Most paytriots denounce such a possibility as "socialism" yet the future the paytriots advocate would regress humanity back to robber baron days or to live like the Amish.
Trying to force a revolution is as pointless as trying to manage a market. They are forces beyond individual human beings, much like tsunamis or earthquakes. Prepare for revolution but don't look forward to one. Do what you can during an emergency, but don't try to create one.
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During the period of the American Revolution guerilla warfare worked well and was tough to beat. The common man with plenty of guns and ammo could defeat the strongest military on earth. Today the military technology is beyond most people's comprehension. The government is probably a good 25 years ahead of technology we see in our present time. Though I think guerilla warfare is tough to beat, I believe the military technology has all but neutralized it. The beast can get wounded but will rise to power again.
Tell that to the cave dwellers in Afghanistan who still aren't defeated.
Well your example is much better than mine. I was thinking of the Rebellion vs the Death Star. ;-)
Technology, though impressive and demoralizing, is no match for determined individuals in vast numbers. The question is if there would be enough who would risk their lives in such a scenario. Do people really have this kind of courage today? Not many experience life threatening events in their daily lives, how is one to prepare?
We seem to be divorced from reality where shocking events only take place on TV in the safety of a cosy living room.
Miffed
There are many whom fit the bill you have listed. But we need to know that there are more of 'us' out there that may not stand on the field of battle with us, but will meet the need[s] for our support staff and resources. What we are hypothicating on is not as easy as many may romanticize about. There is communication[s], logistics, supply, shelter, transport, etc.
Enjoy the easter egg......
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LMAO! You think NATO is in Afghanistan to "defeat" the cave dwellers. Too funny.
The Afghanistan War is deliberately unwinnable on purpose. The whole point of the operation are the poppies.
Don't forget they are stabilizing the area for the oil pipeline.
As for the military/gov and their technology. All their machines need mechanics and pilots or operators. Soft squishy humans just like us with pressure points and family to squeeze.
I've thought about that threatening the family bit a lot. IMO, if you just went in and started killing their spouses and children wholesale, not only would there be some ethical issues that I have a hard time getting around (I'm not going to execute a 9yr old kid because it's fucking wrong on many levels,), but you would also stoke a great hatred in a lot of them, even those who might otherwise be on the side of liberty. If you really started going after the families hard, it would probably backfire. What you want is for them to be worried about their families and to stay home to protect them. That doesn't work so well if you've already killed their family. Once you kill their children, yours become fair game, and not in an "oops, the bomb wasn't supposed to go there" kind of way.
Now, picking the most abusive of the bunch, and burning their fucking house down without their family in it is something else all together. It would create some hatred, but they would still have something to lose. You cannot just apply pressure, you must also use leverage, and them having something to lose is where that leverage comes from. Once you have that, you must figure out exactly where to place the fulcrum.
Silly cowboy! It happens all the time, but if nobody is there to see, does it really happen.
We had to burn the village to save it.
Some army puke
Dear Dr., With this post, I'm announcing, my retirement from the self-appointed role of "Leading Italcs = broken vote script on nearly all browsers" issue/ problem, custodian.
Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires for a reason.
But if you want another example of a small nation using guerrilla tactics against a superpower of the day, and winning, just look at when Vietnam kicked the crap out of the Mongol hoards.
That may be the intention., but even so the war is unwnnable even if they set their mind to it.
The average 12 year old Afghan is worth a platoon of pussified western soldiers.
Thats just a fact, nobody 'wins' against the Afghans on their home territory.
They are supplied with enough weapons to keep them able to wound the beast just enough... not so much to send it home but enough to keep it angry and afraid. If you were an unsanctioned "revolution" you would not be so supplied and would face significant difficulties.
Look, all the elite need to do to fuck North America, Europe and Asia is to pull the plug on all the nuke plants, or destablize a bio warfare plant and fuck off to their hideouts in Svaldbard and wherever the fuck else they have dug big holes and burried lots of valuable shit and wait it out.
You don't think the World Heritage Seed depot was for you did you?
If you believe that the oligarchs are trying to set up a neo-feudal system, then yes, those seeds actually would be for you and I. You think that feudal lords would grow their own food?
There are roughly seventy five million gun owners in the U.S. The tipping point would occur should there be a coordinated effort to confiscate those weapons. Using the math of the Revolution, approximately one third of the population supported the Revolution. One third was ambivalent, and one third supported the Crown. Roughly three percent of the population actually fought in the Revolution. So let’s go back to the seventy five million gun owners in the nation. If only three percent resisted with violence confiscation efforts that would produce an army of roughly two million, two hundred and fifty thousand. This resistance would be a swarm not a coordinated effort.
To reference Solzhenitsyn: Quite simply the state would run out of agents.
This is not 1860. We live in a very complicated interdependent system that relies heavily on a brittle and fragile infrastructure. Imagine what a few thousand armed men and women hunting agents of authority would do to a city like New York. Chris Dorner comes to mind. Do not wish for this. It could leave your children in a smoldering ruin
Past performance is no guarantee of future returns.
Until the US military adopts true guerilla warfare tactics, executed in very small squads with a "flat" organizational structure, they will never be able to put down an uprising. There is a saying about tank crews. They have to get out to eat and piss sometime. It is then the tactics pay off and a $0.50 rifle round trumps a $25 million high tech tank or similar weapon. Or, a lousy phosphorous flare, 3 inch steel pipe, and a pineapple grenade neutralizes the same tank. Asymetry is the real bitch in war.
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You spend $5 and they spend $500 million to counter the $5 threat. Attack where your enemy is weak and you are strong. We can blend in here in the US (camoflouge,) and the printing presses will prove to be a weakness. Figure out a low tech way to beat a high tech system that is used for threat detection, and watch them spend billions to come up with a technofix that may or may not work.
You maybe haven't played hockey for decades, but once you get going, it'll all come back to you.
Hockey...Fuck fair. We play to win.
You just won't be as fast without blades.
anyone who talks about "fightin fair" aint been in a lot of fights...
and hockey is such a great sport. speed, skill, toughness, confindence. teaches boys so many lessons...
Which I learned well, from an early age.
This is why I don't want you to have a gun. In my country, Canada, it's unlikely anyone I meet will have one. That's just fine, I can deal with a punch quite well and am pleased to if that's what it takes. If there are guns everywhere, the frightened and confused become king,and I don't want any part of it. Have fun.
you'll be glad me and my gun stand between you and the africans and mexicans...
Fascinating. You actually are between me and the Mexicans. I'm not sure about the Africans though.
You know what happens when everybody has guns? They think real hard about fighting and whether or not it is worth it.
You are obviously a city dweller. Canadians have tons of guns. Many have semi auto military style rifles as well (not too hard to make full auto if you know what you are doing). The rural folks also make all kinds of explosives just for shits and giggles (what else do you do when you have no internet or starbucks at the farm?).
It's not all that hard to get your blasting ticket. Then you can buy dynamite and caps. Stumps respond well to small charges.
Mostly scoped 30 06s hanging on the walls around here. Not too many poseaur guns in this part of the world..
You may think you live in a civilized society, but watch what happens when the big rigs quit running and the shelves empty at the grocery store. Watch the neighborhood dogs go insane with hunger and turn feral. What will you do when 2 legged and 4 legged animals turn on you or your family?
Way back in the bush is where I live. I need wilderness behind me, being surrounded by humans makes me nervous.
I have named Bears back in my bush and really the Elk are by far the most dangerous things out there. Cougars are big pussy cats. I have wandered in my bush for many years, never carry anything more than a good small knife in my "break a leg" pack. My tripod is called "The Cougar Swatter" it's true.
I'm guessing you send smoke signals to the nearest village and they then in turn send it along until it reaches civilization.
3 MB/s actually. Nothing special but it does the trick.
If they don't have a gun why would they punch you?
They will stab you instead.
Time to start making dinner reservations.
"but but but what about my social security!!!!!! i dont care if my kids become tax slaves, i want my damn social security"
- what the dumbfucks around me would say if they were capable of putting down the remote/igadget and articulating a coherent thought
Its always a laugh to hear people complaining of being robbed when they simply sold out too cheaply. None of this was done with a gun to our collective head, we traded our milk producing cow for a bean plant to heaven. Something for damned near nothing does it every time. There many reasons why we are here but none of them are accidental. The failure of our economy will create much distress that will yield even more cheaply sold liberties and growth. Of the power of our enlightened elite.
Pacifists faced the firing squad ( or minimum hard labour in incarceration ) during the World Wars and yet face execution or hard labour fighting injustices in the system during peace-time. Go Figure!
9/11 which gave us the Patriot Act(s) I and II, NDAA, Afghan War, Iraq, War, Libya, Syria, Ukraine that has killed and displaced millions without answers... 2001 - 2014 Justice served ?
TARP bailouts with no federal crimes and prosecution for the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve and the bank(s) kept solvent... 2008 - 2014 Justice served ?
GAME OVER!
After nearly 14 years it's certainly got nothin to do with "fear"!
Justice is in the eye of the acquited.
Justice is in the eye of the acquited.
That you Alan?
When that helping hand from the elders comes in to get you off! We'll "get off"!
Have I got a little honey for you... 14 years old going on 26 built like a ...
Let's hope that this scumbag finally faces REAL justice!!
all part of the Master Plan, welcome to Solar Cycle 24
edit: Solar cycle 1 was the first solar cycle since extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began.[1][2] The solar cycle lasted 11.3 years, beginning in March 1755 and ending in June 1766. The maximum smoothed sunspot number (monthly number of sunspots averaged over a twelve-month period) observed during the solar cycle was 86.5 (June 1761), and the minimum was 11.2.[3]
Cycle #1 was discovered by Johann Rudolph Wolf who, inspired by the discovery of the solar cycle by Heinrich Schwabe in 1843, collected all available sunspot observations going back to the first telescopic observations by Galileo. He was able to improve Schwabe's estimate of the mean length of the cycle from about a decade to 11.11 years.[4]However, he could not find enough observations before 1755 to reliably identify cycles, hence the 1755–1766 cycle is conventionally numbered as cycle #1. Wolf published his results in 1852.[5]
edit, edit; ...leading up to 1755, no one, not one! Egyptian, or Aztec, or ...oh never mind
The sociopaths will take us to war as a solution to the problem.
They'll always be another Napoleon.
The elites have enough nukes to make sure that when the meek finally inherit the earth there'll be nothing left on it worth inheriting.
As far as they're concerned, the whole lot of us aren't worth their last number two---and, of course, there's no God who'll hold them accountable, much less stop them. So why not? What does it matter?
That wouldn't be cutting off their own noses to spite their faces, that would be cutting of their own heads to spite their faces.
The ethos of Wall Street is kill or be killed. De Rothschild Bank is my bitch along with all the holdings of the de Rothschild family. I claim squatters rights on all their real estate and all their wealth. They can
leave my property with the cloths on their backs, one tuna sandwich, their tooth brush, and a change of cloths, and a suitcase.
March 10 2015 all payment is due in full, Lord de Rothschild.
NOTE: That's $500 Trillion estimated wealth, but I'll bet it's more.
As long as the means of pacification, beer and football are at hand, all is well.
When your kids are crying cause there is no food, your sister is raped by the "authorities",
and your wife is crying, the long knives will come out. When you have nothing to lose but your misery, or
the humilation too much to bear, the long knives and the ropes will come out.
No one forgotten how to use this tool, and no one has failed to uptake the lessons of the last millenia, those
lessons are part of the fabric of our society, official and otherwise.
Fear not , that fire burns in the soul of our world
Fear has long since been replaced by resolution among many who will not act out a preordained down-spiraling narrative. Playing chicken is not advisable at this point.
I don't even know what to think of a person who can read informationliberation.com for a few weeks and no't soon buy a ticket out of USSA
Maybe think we are deciding between the plane ticket and a pizza?
Travis Bickle: Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up.
I've been at this a long time. Long enough to know that the FBI informant in the room is the guy who advocates violent action. Violent revolution plays into their hands. Look how well that worked out in the Arab Spring, Nicaragua, Cuba, the USSR....
Certainly something to keep in mind, but not to the point of paralysis.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." JFK 1961
I agree with the author and with JFK, in that physical revolution will be both necessary and inevitable. My general feeling is that for those who participate there is some personalization ithat has to take place that draws a call to arms. It's either that or a major event that sparks a movement. The Bundy Ranch standoff had the makings of a catalyst event and TPTB wisely recognized the momentum building and decided to fight another day.
But for any resistance to happen, there has to be the fundamental acceptance that death is part of life, and to really live in peace you need to be able to challenge anybody who infringes on natural law in the comfort that truth brings. Even with death as a possibility.
I'm tired of trying to figure this out. This is all a bunch of bullshit. I don't give a shit about this stock market shit. I don't give a shit about this bond market shit. I'm fed up with the whole fucking thing. I am gonna do what I know what is best for me... If you are reading this, it doesn't apply to you. It only applies to me. Fuck it.
Yeah, Fuck it. Thats the ticket. I am gonna quit looking for answers and make my own fucking answers... and quit worrying about this bullshit.
In "your" own words
“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”
And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.”
... insightful man - one of my favourites.
Re: “I believe a revolution is indeed necessary, a final revolution to remove the influence of the globalist cult once and for all — not only their puppet governments, puppet political parties and puppet despots, but the globalists themselves.”
I am sympathetic to the idea, but I believe that such an attempted revolution would be futile for the following reasons:
1. Who, specifically, are these people? You have to name them before you can remove them. Some NWO cheerleaders, such as George Soros, George H. W. Bush, and Dick Cheney, are well known, but most are not or not known to be part of the globalist conspiracy. Do most people associate the queen of England with the globalist conspiracy? They do not, and if you told them that that sweet old matronly lady was a leader of the globalist conspiracy they would laugh at you.
2. The globalist conspiracy is, of course, global, and any attempt to overcome such a conspiracy would also have to be global.
3. The overwhelming majority of people, in the US and elsewhere, do not understand the globalist conspiracy or even accept that it exists and would therefore not support a violent revolution to overcome it.
4. The globalists are ready for such an uprising and have already put in place measures to deal with it, such as the prison camps that FEMA has been building. Those camps will hold people arrested during domestic riots. The militarization of the police is another example that the rulers are ready to crush domestic dissent.
Barring some miraculous consciousness-raising by the mass of sheeple, things will continue as they have been going. The debt-laden world financial system will collapse and the debt slaves will embrace a one-world government when it is presented as the way out of their sufferings. It will be like Germany and Italy in the 1930s, but on a larger scale.
For those who do not like the scenario that I present, I suggest that you look for a place to live that would be less affected by the NWO fascists.
#1 irrelivant or underway already
#2 irrelivant or underway already
#3 The basic issue.
#4 irrelivant or underway already
Thank you for the article. Fantastic article. When I read an article like this and begin to read the comments I am expecting men who have thought deeply about the time they live in and know something of history and who have stood on principle at least a few times in their life. Yes I agree and gave green arrows to many. I don't give many down arrows unless someone is a completely out of touch because I assume that most will see their wrong thinking. I am just a simple guy, not real bright, but I learned when I was five years old that the only way to stop a bully is to stand up to him. And if all the bully knows is violence then violence it must be.
I live in an urban environment for the first time in about 16 years I am amazed at how out of touch people are with the truth. The truth of nature. We are humans, we are mammals, we are animals. No matter how evolved we think we are we will always have to revert to that base instinct to protect what we hold most dear. I hold my family, justice, and freedom dear. But when I read the poster on zero hedge I know that the current generation or the next generation of my family will likely be dead. Because if in this community where there is so much bravado and pointing out the injustices, if even 50 percent disagree with what this author states then it truly is going to be a lonely fight. I come to zero hedge to know that I am not alone, that there are people who understand. But at times like this I wonder just how much or how many. I apologize for the length and it being boaring and conceited.
You are not alone. That is the greatest gift ZH has given me. Though populated by quite a range of intellects and personalities, no where else have I found such spirited debate. Quite refreshing after spending my day working with drones and mind numbed sheeple.
Miffed
Too bad Miffed. I'm in the medical field, there are at least a half dozen people I talk to regularly at work who are on the same wavelength. That gives me hope.
Much of the crazyness of the recent past is the result of the government's ability to spend without having to beg for tax money. When the dollar finally crashes we will see some return of sanity I believe. I am patient for now.
society will quit you before you quit society, the old homilie theres never a cop around when you need one applies.
"Never before in history have humans been so dismissive of the self-defense concept when it comes to government, and I attribute this to clever conditioning and to an ingrained and powerful fear."
True, but it must also be considered that the male population has been noticeably emasculated through adulterating the food, drinking water, and soft drinks with gender bending chemicals. Tranquilizing agents are being put in municipal water. The Pentagon announced almost 15 years ago that it was experimenting with tranquilizing the population using psychotronic warfare. This is a big reason why you see little resistance... men are not what they once were and when you bring it up a lot of people go into denial.
benb writes ... (excuse after excuse). Hogwash. What's in the water or airwaves isn't what ails American men. Such nonsense is what Brandon Smith excoriates with his magnificent treatise. Slavery or liberty are the choices. And yep, you're gonna die. Do you prefer chains around your neck when that day comes?