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Monk Or Martyr: One American's Strategy For Survival In The New Normal
Submitted by Warren Pollack,
Revolution In America: Speaking Truth To Power
A Quaker essay from 1955 entitled “Speaking Truth to Power,” has over time evolved into a single soundbite used by academicians and intellectuals alike to describe the bravery, and personal absorption of risk, required to be candid with people firmly in power.
When you speak to power in the United States you are most likely going to be ignored as opposed to being imprisoned, persecuted, divested, or killed. Were our government “either functional or operable” it would consider people speaking to power to be an advantage and then adjust.
The last time a “government” adjusted to speaking to power, however, was best illustrated by the brave but foolish man who stood up to a tank (tank-man) in Tiananmen Square China thereby providing the symbolism of personal sacrifice and thus the political insecurity needed to justify a massive change in public policy. In the United States today any person, or group of people, standing up to a tank(s) or a militarized police vehicle(s) will be run over and flattened, the photographic evidence of being squashed and splattered on the pavement would then provide endless entertainment for millions of temporarily outraged people either in minute long videos or even five second repeating “Vines” until something more entertaining came along.
Our “dumb government,” has been buying tanks, bullets, and airport security apparatus more as a profit center for looting as opposed as a counter to any threat to power existential or otherwise. The reality being that when you speak to power today nobody listens or cares beyond those that will immediately profit from the growing security, military-industrial, banking, education, “healthcare.. etc”, and corruption apparatus.
The calls for a needed revolution go unheeded both not only by the elite looters at the top of our society and but also from the very disenfranchised at the bottom of it. It does not matter if nuclear reactors explode, twin towers fall, flood waters engulf, oil spills slick, food becomes rancid, healthcare becomes inaccessible and unaffordable, regressive taxation absorbs all economic activity, the middle class evaporates, corporate and banking schemes steal, constitutional rights are voided, top-secret initiatives determine the winners and losers, laws are written to special interests or broken by elites without recourse, or even an occasional baker's dozen of black men get shot. The point being, that in the United States every disaster perpetrated on the citizenry can be used by the empowered to legally siphon money “from the people” to the looters.
Rhetoric spins around a hamster driven news cycle, but no event no matter how dramatic will result in any kind of change let alone a revolution. The propaganda engine, intent on generating profitable controversy in lieu of producing risky and costly news, generates waves of noise from talking heads framed both left and right; with the competing waves canceling themselves out as they collide. “We the people” are encouraged to give our opinions in neverending and fruitless discussions on the dead end of chat boards and social networking. United States citizens are dupes and participants in pre-engineered divide and conquer rhetoric of a marketing born propaganda engine employing more than sixty years of experience.
Each individual participates with their voice in a cacophony of polarized and framed issues thereby causing a mass cancellation effect. This noise in turn allows for the looting of life, liberty, and property to occur to such an extent that a few have become rich beyond the dream of avarice as the majority become harvested useless eaters.
In this scientific age, there are many ideas that could improve the situation almost immediately but no impetus, reasoning, or leadership exists to see it happen. So no, an army of American “tank-men” symbolically standing up to oppression at the street level will not cause a revolutionary moment to occur. Change away from consumerism towards communism or laissez-faire capitalism, no, we cannot have any of that we are certainly not going to use the scientific method as opposed to magic for problem-solving. Of course, the restoration of rule law does not require any ideological adherence, social science, or planification whatsoever.
Perhaps as the chemical side effect of our hormone altering plasticine world, we have become genetically unglued. Evidence to this possibility exists in the public's attention to emasculated male celebrities displaying their sexual cross-gender identity crisis. The media circus certainly revels in the sideshow of menopausal-apeish-beast-women-creatures, the only manly figures remaining in the kabuki theater of US finance and politics. Revolution cannot be born by the spectacle of entertainment or by those that have been neutered or genetically cowed.
There are many reasons why the US will not have a revolution. To this end, I have updated some the original quaker essay talking points with a set of newly minted points of observation applicable for late 2015 and our fate onward from that point;
--A wholly coercive system consisting of a police state
--Bureaucracy runs amok
--Dependency has replaced morality, personal responsibility, and civics
--Propaganda has replaced fact and truth finding
--Everyone has a voice, as long as those voices speak within the narrow context of divide and conquer issue framing
--Opinions echo and cancel each other out
--Speaking in a single reformative voice becomes an impossibility
--Correctness has replaced personality
--Specialization and complexity caused loss of overview
--”Carpetbagging,” for friends and family represent the greatest personal imperative achievable
--Stoicism and polarization have become substitutes questioning and reason
--A great narrowing of opportunity, options, and outlook due to corporatization
--A profits efficient and integrated system of unparalleled complexity with no redundancy resiliency or planning
--Depersonalization paradoxically coexists with a worship with a celebration of self
--Schooling and indoctrination stress conformity and compliance rather than thinking
--Perception trumps fact, history, map, or insight
--Labor value and the value of human life continues to diminish
--Authority and compliance, rather than individual conscience represents the dominant ethos
--Participation in illusory economic dreams and fantasy become aspirational points of lockdown
--The natural environment continues to become permanently degraded thus diminishing the world's carrying capacity
--Corruption has become legalized and institutionalized
--All individuals franchised individuals are participants and beneficiaries of corruption
--Consumerism has become one of two major operable ideologies, Islam being the second major ideology
--Totalitarianism has become inverted
Totalitarianism has become distributed across governments, groups, elites, bureaucracies from local to federal, from federal to international, and from international to a few corporations that exist everywhere. Everyone that earns a wage, buys a product, pays taxes, ponies up money for fines, votes, or conducts economic activity have been captured and are beneficiaries of systemic corruption. Unconstrained local tyranny has been making brutal contact with this nation's most vulnerable, this trend will graduate to the middle class and expand from local to national level next.
In other words, the year 2015 differs significantly from 1955, because today you cannot speak to power because there is nobody to speak to, not a single leader can be found and constructive ideas, although plentiful and obvious, will not be allowed take hold.
A leaderless, narrowing, putrefied, lying lawless system of festering corruption; how well do you think our society will be able to absorb our next crisis point or rise to meet humanity's greatest challenge, survival itself? Speaking to power within a power vacuum anyone?; a vacuum being a place where sound cannot travel.
Thus, my personal strategy for change has morphed from speaking to power in favor of becoming a monk rather than a martyr. If I could stand in front of a tank and have it force positive change I would do so but clearly that opportunity won’t happen or present itself. Beyond 2015, I fear it will continue to be everyman for himself and thus divided we'll fall having rejected the spirit of one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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This falls into the “What if” or “I forgot to take my meds today” category ;-)
Everybody knows by now that all printers and copiers leave an invisible mark on the printed page, so it can be traced back to the printer, point of sale, credit card, address and name of the purchaser, if needed. But…
“What if” all new commercial paper shredders scan and store images of all shredded pages? Some bucket-size shredders for home use have the same capabilities. A readable low-resolution image of a full-text page is just a couple of Kb in size. So, a tiny 2Gb memory chip on your shredder’s PCB (printed circuit board) can store up to a million pages of your shredded documents.
If your home shredder is more than 4-5 years old, you are fine; but, if it is new or a couple of years old, keep this Conspiracy Theory in mind.
So, if you see on TV a computer being seized along with a shredder, you would know that they won’t be wasting their time trying to reassemble thousands of strips.
Now, where are my meds? ;-)
Looney
P.S. Here’s an interesting Conspiracy Fact from Wikipedia:
… Historically, the General Services Administration (GSA) set paper shredder guidance in the Interim Federal Specification FF-S-001169 dated July 1971, superseded by standard A-A-2599 for classified material, which was canceled in February 2000. GSA has not published a new standard since.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_shredder
The ongoing revolution is that of individual producers opting out, not a collective movement acting for the "greater good". A stochastic army of John Galts, acting out of their own individual conscience, and leveraging the Internet to circumvent and void past-century taxation and regulations.
Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth, All We're 'Remembering' are British Lies (LINK)
June 4, 2014 will for many mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. What it should actually mark is the anniversary of one of the more spectacular UK black information operations -- almost on a par with the mythical Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
The original story of Chinese troops on the night of 3 and 4 June, 1989 machine-gunning hundreds of innocent student protesters in Beijing's iconic Tiananmen Square has since been thoroughly discredited by the many witnesses there at the time -- among them a Spanish TVE television crew, a Reuters correspondent and protesters themselves, who say that nothing happened other than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to leave the Square late that night.
Yet none of this has stopped the massacre from being revived constantly, and believed. All that has happened is that the location has been changed – from the Square itself to the streets leading to the Square.
I just wanna be able to watch Paternity Court during Revelations End of Days
Pass the Thorazine
What percentage of the US population wants to be free from government? A fraction of 1%?
The public is far more interested in controlling others than in being free. Most will gladly let themselves be controlled as long as their desire to control is satisfied.
Belief in control equates to their belief that it is necessary for their survival which is quite far from the truth.
Who needs a revolution, the wealthy will eventually turn on each other, and there will be NO PEACE found upon the earth SOON!
You want revolution? Kill all television broadcasting. Stop it at the satellites and cable companies. Revolution will ensue in three days. If you want it faster, kill all cellphone towers and disconnect all phones, phamblets and tablets. Revolution in one half hour. Plus hysterical screaming suicidal zombies. No shit. Try it.
June 4, 2014 will for many mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. What it should actually mark is the anniversary of one of the more spectacular UK black information operations -- almost on a par with the mythical Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
It is funny. Nobody really listens to Rock Music.
Ever hear of System of a Down? Here is a song named, "Hypnotize"
They are Bosnian and had no investment in this.
Read the lyrics, LISTEN TO THE MUSIC, and really contemplate what the lyrics mean folks. OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES. You have been lied to for far, far too long.
And you buy into every word they say...Your junks are demonstrative of that fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpUU7u6OXcI
Why don't you ask the kids at Tienanmen Square?
Was fashion the reason why they were there?
They disguise it, Hypnotize it.
Television made you buy it.
I'm just sitting
In my car and
Waiting for my
She's scared that I will take her away from there.
Dreams and her country, left with no one there.
Mesmerized the simple minded
Propaganda leaves us blinded.
I'm just sitting
In my car and
Waiting for my girl.
I'm just sitting
In my car and
Waiting for my girl.
I'm just sitting
In my car and
Waiting for my girl.
I'm just sitting
In my car and
Waiting for my girl
Incredible band and amazing song from years ago. The best songs have lyrics deep enough to analyze for a lifetime.
I'm still trying to figure out who put the ram in the ram-alama-ding-dong. Folks call me a conspiracy theorist but I've think I've nearly cracked the code.
I am working to determine who put the Bomp in the bomp-ah-bomp-ba-bomp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXmsLe8t_gg
Part of the agenda of TPTB is to diversify America so that there is no resistance to their power and the little pockets that do popup can be villified and made examples of.
The reason they like diversity from people of different nations is because those people don't know any better! They live under dictatorships, kings and other types of government and they are not for the most part guaranteed anything in this life. Once they move to America and the government starts taking away liberties and growing the police state, these people don't care because they are used to it and are simply happy to be able to buy stuff and enjoy things they couldn't in their countries. WAKE UP people FFS
My only hope is that some in the military will stick to their oaths and take out the tyrants before its too late to save America
I'm sad to say, EP, that I fully agree with you.
I was with a political action group many years back, who studied the immigration issue thoroughly, and found that immigrants from authoritarian or dictatorial government-run countries, tend to vote conservative, and we approached Sen. Ted Kennedy with this research when he was promoted new immmigrant legislation.
He either chose to ignore it or didn't believe it.
Tune out, drop out, fly under the radar or in stealth mode.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Gadsden_flag.s...
I'm gonna hide under my bed.
And it's a water bed.
Why shred when you can burn, oh yeah I know why so we can recycle. Bleach the paper first if the ink isn't magnetic. If the ink is magnetic it can be removed using electrostatic processes. Then shred the paper if you can't burn it.
Dewey, One's Congress-Critter's attic would be a great location for the task.
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Document shredder.....
Scan it!
http://s25.postimg.org/9c0yfg2j3/Document_shredder.jpg
Don't shred - burn.
Best essay on ZeroHedge to date.
Since 2008 when I lost everything and was homeless for a while with a wife and kids, to my recovery (partial), to the discovery of this site, I have gone through all the stages of grief.
I suppose it was late last year that I realized what this essay had to say. America is done.....in fact was still born the moment Federalism was ensconced in the Second Constitution ( what the ignorant call "The" Constitution.)
Being a monk is correct. Flying under the radar is another way of saying it. Tune in and drop out. Whatever.......George Carlin had it right when he said that he no longer had anything invested in this country.....just a slightly amused observer.
At 50+ I have no more time to waste my thoughts or my heart on such matters. Fuck it all, except for my friends and family.
Fuck it all.
60+ but feeling pretty much the same.
My approach is to ignore the game as much as possible.
No car, no TV, No cell phone, no credit card, no debt.
Cycle everywhere (still good for 50 miles any day of the week) - ride through winter in Canada.
Eat well - cook from scratch almost always.
Hiking, Archery and bow making for fun.
The less I have to do with what passes for society, the better I feel.
I try to feed the corporate monster as little as possible.
A fellow archer......I'm in good company now. I may have had some disagreements with you in the past.....may still in the future. But nothing that a few flights to target with you couldn't put to rest.
Nock it and sock it, my friend.
Disagreements are OK.
Grudges, not so much!
Here's my latest bow.....
#53 @ 28"
http://s25.postimg.org/xtt23c53j/P6025851.jpg
http://s25.postimg.org/7zj9dk53j/P6025850.jpg
Whoa !! She's a beauty ! Seriously !
Do you make to sale also, because I would seriously consider buying one.
I'm 32 years old and have been living that way for 5 years now. It has really helped me get my head together.
Turning 60 and have given up on this shit show. Country so fragmented by wealth, social identity, victims of all sorts of discrimination and our leaders worried only by their holding on to power. Spend time with family and don't watch news as it is same old narrative from script handed down by those in control. "No Country For Old Men"
I think Sherwood Schwartz had it right back in the 60s.
No phone
No lights
No motor cars
Not a single luxury
Like Robinson Crusoe
It's primative as can be.
He could see the future, and the future is fucked. Who knew Gilligan's Island was such a visionary piece of social research.
Those seven brave souls stopped feeding the monster and had a great time every single week.
Hackers are at the forefront of the ongoing revolution.
What has squashed protest in the USA, is not the Tank or gun barrel.
It is life in a super max, 23 hour lock down.
Even George Orwell could not of thought up something so sick!
Paper spray and police brutality have done pretty good job on the OWS protesters.
And don't forget jail terms.
<<It is life in a super max, 23 hour lock down.>>
I get you, but a small correction if I may.
it is the ability of the Federal Reserve central bank to print 'money' for itself ex nihilo and pass it on to its lieutenants, military/police enforcers, favoured cronies, puppet governments, and associated central bank tentacles around the world.
Otherwise, the criminals at the top could never AFFORD this level of surveillance and enforcement.
I agree with this essay, but the primary reason to become a 'monk' is NOT b/c people aren't listening.
It is b/c no-one has the ability to print 'money' so all efforts based on real wealth, assets, intelligence, etc., are doomed. Criminals will be criminals, and their agenda does not include any of those.
However, becoming a 'monk' is the best and probably the ONLY way to fight a central bank. Enough people are and will be doing this -- as the Greatest Depression continues -- that the central banks soon will not be able to afford these levels of surveillance and enforcement any longer, as fewer and fewer are trusting their currency. 'Full faith and credit' is all they have for its support, and that is eroding.
Become a monk, and starve the central bank.
That is the point that the author forgot to make, but I think it's the most important point of all. Bringing 'bigger' guns or 'speaking truth to power' is useless when the problem is neither weapons nor truth, but money.
If a small and limited government is too much to ask, then an impoverished government is a close second choice. A fascist government, as we have now, is of course the worst of all systems and probably represents the death of a particular society.
(NO government would be best, of course, but that hasn't happened since the dawn of 'civilisation' and perhaps never will again, this side of heaven.)
They keep milking the productive cow, but they never feed her. They just refinance the farm on free credit and expect the cow to take care of herself.
The driver of the lead tank in the "the tank man incident" had human empathy, Rachel Corrie didn't get so lucky.
The narrative was a complete fabrication. And you bought it, hit the bait and swallowed it, hook...line...and even the sinker like the good fish that you are.
Read above.
NOTHING...ABSOLUTELY NOTHING...which the MSM reports is to be taken at Face Value.
It is always a distorted narrative which is presented to MANIPULATE YOU.
I actually didn't buy it. I have gone beyond the tin foil hat into the realm of the faraday cage and I am suspicious of everything including many of my own frames of reference.
I was simply trying to state that the people at the helms of power now days are undisguised psychopaths and will mow down any monks, that's not to say that they're wrong, because at this stage of human evolution we have yet to figure out what exactly will work. More power to them, I wish them luck.
<<NOTHING...ABSOLUTELY NOTHING...which the MSM reports is to be taken at Face Value.>>
Or taken at all, if it can be helped. Do not click on their links or their sites. Do not listen to their broadcasts. Do not take anyone seriously who does rely on them or take them at face value (that's anyone, including Tyler). If the alt media references it, do not click on the link to confirm; just believe it or not using other tools (context, credibility, logic, other source confirmation, etc.).
The MSM is NOTHING but fascist propaganda. Default starting point for any MSM source should be disbelief.
If it's on the MSM and it's news, it will be better reported somewhere on the alt media. Find it there.
If it's on the MSM and it isn't on the alt media, it isn't news.
Either way, by ignoring the MSM completely, you are not missing anything except a waste of time. Even better, this is one of several ways we can starve the beast.
I'm a "monk" who has no problem with being a martyr- for the right cause- Jesus Christ- the only solution to this world's problems.
Very cutesy, citxmech, so when MacArthur, Patton and Eisenhower raided the Bonus Marchers camp, against Hoover's orders, and slaughtered over 100 men, women and children (American men, women, and children --- to the historically ignorant) then he was following that dictum, no doubt?
"The Glory and the Dream" by William Manchester details this episode in US history quite clearly... Well worth a read.
While that is oft' quoted, it's misses the point:
It's those who are willing to die for the cause who win the wars.
Were it not for that trait in humankind, there would be no war, no defeat, and yes- no victories.
I think Patton's (or Geo.C.Scott's) point was more pragmatic - of course you have to show up to the fight to have a chance, but in any dispute, once the parties engage, it is the side that can maximaze injury with the least losses who typically "win." Put another way "determination" alone is rarely a substitute for superior firepower and tactics.
But if you can respawn, then it's fine to die for your country again and again.
<<It's those who are willing to die for the cause who win the wars.>>
From one of history's great scripts, Godfather 2:
Michael: A rebel was being arrested by the military police, and rather than be taken alive, he exploded a grenade he had hidden in his jacket. He killed himself and he took a captain of the command with him...it occurred to me the soldiers are paid to fight, the rebels aren't.
Roth: What does that tell you?
Michael: They can win.
Tell that to Jesus Christ. Took over the whole world BY dying. Or tell that to the 9/11 hijackers. Tell me they aren't winning the war.
No. If you believe it, JC took over the world by being God and rising from the dead. The death part was just the lead-in.
And as far as the supposed 9/11 hijackers, that was 2996 to 19.
No war is ever won.
Both sides lose, just one side loses more than the other.
Too bad.
So sad!
Tragically true article:
just came from my congressman's local office..talking to a wall would have the same results ..note to self bring bags of money and someone might listen. becoming a monk why not. the reptiles rule.
It has become pretty obvious at this point that almost every single one is being blackmailed or is on the take.
All the more reason to stop voting! Quit participating in a fraud.
Last time I attempted a serious discussion with my retarded, airheaded and morally depraved senator, Maria Cantwell, about the offshoring of American jobs she strongly supports, her only reply was:
"That's the only way companies can compete!"
Who needs neocons, when we've got plenty with "Ds" after their names?
If you didn't give to the 'campaign' you have no voice.
Held for ransom much..........??
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/23/white-house-to-release-hostag...
Bene vixit qui bene latuit - Ovid.
(To live well is to live concealed.)
Interesting that this was written during the time of the Roman empire (well before the decline) over 2000 years ago. Nothing changes.
This accelerated corruption is revolution from the top down. Per Å:
"...Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud. Force may be applied either at the time of making the revolution or afterwards. Fraud, again, is of two kinds; for (1) sometimes the citizens are deceived into acquiescing in a change of government, and afterwards they are held in subjection against their will. This was what happened in the case of the Four Hundred, who deceived the people by telling them that the king would provide money for the war against the Lacedaemonians, and, having cheated the people, still endeavored to retain the government. (2) In other cases the people are persuaded at first, and afterwards, by a repetition of the persuasion, their goodwill and allegiance are retained. The revolutions which effect constitutions generally spring from the above-mentioned causes...." - http://genius.com/Aristotle-politics-book-5-annotated/
USA can continue to boil like frogs or invoke Article V of the constitution.
Warren Pollock.
Youre back baby. We love you.
Btw you guys misspelled his name in the header.
Hey Tyler Durden, was that a white flag?
The probably you did not understand the sacrfice (even though apparantely foolish) of the tank man and he vanished thereafter. He did not sacrifice his life for nothing. He made a point: Evil always stabs in the back. It does not have the courage to come from the front.
http://just-a-thought-from-thinair.blogspot.com/
don't get me wrong zerohedge, I respect your opinion and do not want to influence you in anyway. You have the solemn right to do what you think is right.
don't get me wrong zerohedge, I respect your opinion and do not want to influence you in anyway. You have the solemn right to do what you think is right.
Sorry Tyler Durden, I did not realize this was not your own post.
"menopausal-apeish-beast-women-creatures,"
Quicker to type Hillary
This is all due to the collapse of the Soviet Union if you can ever think calmly and critically. The world of a unipower is the world that is increasingly uninhabitable, boiling frog in cold water.
Well you can always join this guy in a new marxist revolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XlhFMa4t28A
Harry Browne, who lived under tryanny with a smile on his face. A true hero.
"How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World"
Guidance that is still applicable today.
Link: http://www.amazon.com/How-Found-Freedom-Unfree-World-ebook/dp/B00M20I134...
R.I.P. Harry.
I am not so bereft of hope. My prayers seem to be getting answered, though not necessarily in the manner I prefer.
What's amazing is that our leaders themselves think they're speaking Truth to Power. But the Power is insolvent.
I prefer talking trash to power. It's more fun and just as useful.
I prefer talking trash to power. It's more fun and just as useful.
WOW! The server liked this comment so much it printed it twice when I posted it once. Damn, I've won a machine over to my way of not thinking.
I'm sorry, but I wasn't aware that monk whines about shitty leadership.
Another fine example of someone who is horribly confused, ignorant or a big fucking hypocrite.
It's not the fault of the windmill that it spins in the wind. Go shout the wind down!
"You can't fight City Hall" - somebody said back in the day.
Bend like a blade of grass in the wind.
I know I will go to downvote hell for this but there is some precedence for the Monk's beliefs...... the hippies. Maybe if everybody refused to fight, got but naked, screwed like rabbits and did tons of drugs this could be defeated. Of course this wont happen as everybody has been stewing in anger. Some people believe that you can only effectively oppose something with it's true opposite.
Monks existed centuries before hippies, and still exist- unlike hippies.
Monks don't screw like rabbits- hippies did.
Monks (some) were occasionally inebriated- hippies (most) were regulary inebriated.
So- not so much opposites- as completely different.
The hippies in their own twisted way took on a war movement. It undenyably had an effect at least state side. These monks are dropping out in a sense in rebellion, the difference is how one drops out. Splitting hairs there I think.
I imagine you are a fan of Mother Theresa, she would say "I will never attend an anti-war rally if you have a peace rally invite me."
I can see I misused the term precedent there. I also don't mean to imply that MT would be in support of the greater hippy movement, there are commonalities though.
What troubles me is the need for an event sufficiently large enough to dissolve the current state of affairs, yet also weak enough to not drop everyone back to the days of Og, Son of Fire.
Too small a crisis and we end up with total totalitarianism, as opposed to the current kinda, sorta totalitarianism that only flexes when the peasants get uppity.
Too large a crisis and we will long for the day when we slept in air-conditioned palaces stuffed with food, drink, and entertainment on demand while simultaneously complaining about how oppressive and unfair everything was getting to be.
Our future may well encompass free health care for all- but you'll have to provide your own set of pliers to the dentist.
At the same time, however, the looming menace of technology seeems to suggest that the window of opportunity for creative destruction of the current system may be more limited in time than we suppose.
"But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour."
I once thought that most people were sheeple, I now believe most city dwellers to be over-cooked noodles with no backbone whatsoever. They just sit and wait for the end and try to scramble down the same highway all at once when the shit hits the fan.
Too bad its too late to change the direction now - I just have to be the monk, but a well armed one for when the noodles slither my way.
"Beyond 2015, I fear it will continue to be everyman for himself and thus divided we'll fall having rejected the spirit of one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
And therein lies the victory. It is inevitable.
"Everyman for himself" means personal responsibility for action, inaction and consequence. Bring it on!
Nations are bullshit creations by those who wish to impose their will on others - fields to divide up the herd into manageable sized groups. They have the added benefit, for those who crave power, of being an easy way to set one group against another so they are too busy fighting each other to go after the true enemy of humanity - so-called 'leaders'.
Without nations or 'leaders', how much war would there be?
Not a lot, IMHO.
Anarchism is the only way forward for humanity.
While I love anarchism as a concept, it's probably a dead end.
When people have the power to decide how to live their lives, governments end up spawning in the new garden while nobody is tending the weeds.
Given the world we live in with a population that has been brought up to 'need' government, you are likely correct, but humanity, if it lasts long enough will learn the lesson and finally get there.
I'm not optimistic on this one, though.
Extinction is more likely.
Divided WE fall.
Divided I succeed.
Kick the habit of collectivist thinking!
What do I mean?
What I mean is, humans have heard every topic described only in collectivist terms, that even individualists only think in collectivist terms!
Think I'm kidding? Not at all. I'm being completely straight and literal.
Think about it.
What do "individualists" and advocates of "individual liberty" discuss endlessly? They talk about supporting, voting-for and electing candidates that are pro individualism and individual liberty.
That is PURE collectivism.
That is falling for the collectivist lie and scam that "you must have at least half the people on your side (majority vote) to enjoy individualism or liberty". Since when do individualists believe they need the approval of the collective to enjoy individualism and liberty?
I'm not sure when. Perhaps most individualists have always been collectivists.
But at least a small percentage of individualists have been real individualists, who adopted the ideas, actions and attitude that said, "To hell with everyone! They can adopt whatever insane, self-destructive ideas, actions and attitudes they want. But I'll have no part of it. I'm going my own way, and they can do without me.".
After which they moved to whatever was the most attractive "frontier" to them at their time in history, and established a life of as much individualism and liberty as they could muster.
While full-bore "frontiers" are far and few between today, modern versions of these true individualists do "get the hell outta dodge", and do find ways to remain mostly or entirely "out of sight, out of mind". These true individualists know a few simple facts. Like... just moving out of the fictional "nation" and "jurisdiction" that considers them a "citizen" == "slave", and into a well chosen alternative, dramatically increases the degree of individualism and liberty they can enjoy.
They also know, by living in [extremely/very] rural areas, and adopting certain specific productive activities and lifestyle, they can almost completely avoid predators-DBA-government (as well as most other human predators).
These are the decisions and actions of real individualists. They are not captured by the self-contradictory and utterly hopeless approaches of "collectivist individualism".
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If you actually care about individualism and liberty, extract every last vestige of "collectivist individualism" from your brain. Then sit down and make plans for how you can best put that individual who is YOU, into the place and activity that lets you enjoy the most individualism and liberty possible on the planet as it is today.
And just forget "collectivist individualism".
That is a collectivist TRAP... a trap that prevents advocates of individualism and liberty from ever achieving any individualism or liberty. What's the point of that?
So-called democracy is just the tyranny of the many over the few.
Think about 'the many' I might be referring to and ask yourself if you really want those guys telling you what to do.
And that's IF voting actually made any difference.
Voting means you are going along with the game, and validates those who think they have the right to tell others what to do, that's all.
When government is the problem, there's only one solution.
Yup! Hence the rational answer is:
ESCAPE, EVADE, HIDE, LIVE.
All revolutions start with "No!" What comes after is complex: Resist, fight, run, or hide.
However it must always be remembered that tyranny needs us, while we do not need them. That is the root of their tyranny, but it is our obedience that enables their tyranny.
See you on the battlefield, or listen for my tapping out of "-.-- -.-- --.." on my cell wall from within one of Zion's basements.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
The Four Rs
Rejection: Stop Paying, Stop Obeying, Stop Playing
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Restoration: Restore the American people, country and Constitutional republic.
Retribution: The guilty must answer for their crimes against the American people and the Constitution.
I think you have a point, but you only seem to care about Americans.
The problems are global and much worse in many places than they are in America.
"I think you have a point, but you only seem to care about Americans."
You are correct. While I do care for the plight of others, especially at the murderous hands of the DC US and their Zionist masters, my chief concerns lie with the fate of my country, America, and my fellow Americans.
However, when we Americans are successful in destroying the DC US' tyranny, and Zion can no longer utilize the DC US as their war dog, the rest of the world will be that much safer. So indirectly, my, and the rest of we Liberty and Constitutionally minded Americans, are also serving the rest of the world.
Those around the world that are sick of the plunder, the murder, and power's self-serving justice, must stand up, where they are, and say "No!" Because, while the problem is global, the enemy is local.
In the coming fight for Liberty, always keep in mind Tyranny's Paradox: "Tyranny needs you, we do no need them, and they depend upon our conformity."
See you on the battlefield, or hear your tapping out your sign of life and Liberty from some basement cell in some corner of Zion's empire.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
As Americans all we can - OR SHOULD - concern ourselves with is fixing America.
Secession is the only political solution available in the time remaining. Unfortunately, other elephantjackass sock puppets control the states too.
http://leagueofthesouth.com/
http://freeflorida.org/
Warren Pollock's 95 theses.