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Guest Post: How To Defeat Tyranny
Submitted by Brandon Smith from Alt-Market
How To Defeat Tyranny
It is inevitable. There comes a point in the development of every crisis, every catastrophe, every impending disaster, every act of methodical dictatorship, in which the generations selected by fate or destiny to endure the trial must attempt to look beyond the intellectual and the psychological, to deeply consider the greater philosophical or spiritual questions of their epoch. Certain moments in history demand that truly free individuals relinquish their cynicism, and embrace that inherent world of form and conscience that exists in each of us but remains largely unexplained. Without this act of “faith”, or intuitive knowing, good cannot exist, inspire, or prevail.
To understand what we face in our age of encroaching technocracy draped like glistening silicon across the face of a third world American cesspool, we must accept certain realities; the first and foremost being the existence of “evil”. Not the evil of ignorance, that is easy to recognize. Not the evil of apathy and moral relativism, though the stench of both sharply permeates the sour underside of our culture. No, I am talking about pure, unbiased, unflinching, perfectly conscious and fully absorbed evil. The kind that they tell stories about. The kind that history books speak of almost in awe, as if it is miraculous in nature. A dark tide. A prehistoric leviathan. An unbelievable and seemingly inhuman myth made manifest by astonishingly vile despots.
This evil is so overwhelming that many people today scarcely imagine it possible. It is our society’s greatest weakness; the denial of ultimate malice.
Our current governmental system has adopted a policy of open theater, in which the two sides of the false paradigm now barely hide their farcical opposition to each other. Their rhetoric no longer obscures their acts of political collusion in the destruction of our founding principles and Constitutional protections. In the past several years they have acted in the best interests of corporate minorities and moneyed elites without hiding their intentions towards globalism and the destruction of sovereignty, fearlessly spitting on the redresses of the public. All of this while they arm themselves to the teeth with billion-plus round stockpiles of ammunition and Orwellian surveillance technologies. Yet, foolish subsections of our populace still argue that the government is a “product of elections”, and is “made up of Americans for Americans”. Even if we do not see them as an enemy, they certainly see us as such.
Our financial system is a stampeding procession of nightmare fueled blood-drenched circus freaks dancing in an ether driven haze of pungent absurdity. It is as if our economy has become a morbid parody of itself, like a queasy piece of horror/comedy cinema. We are so far along in the collapse of our markets that the banksters no longer see the need to hide the fraud. With the advent of the Libor Scandal, governments, central banks, corporate financiers, all flaunt their criminality with pride. Yet, some Americans still clasp their naïve hopes to a chance of fiscal recovery.
To fight against an evil of this magnitude takes more than anger, or physical preparation, or organization. It takes personal exploration, a steeling of one’s heart, and a conquering of one's shortcomings.
Tyranny, true tyranny, thrives on our selective awareness, and our ability to bend our minds and our vision to avoid seeing that which is really there. In the end, victory over tyranny is less about guns, bombs, mass dissent, and civil fury; it instead requires an acceptance of the dark side of the world, and the unwavering will of honorable men ready to face it. That is to say, the defeat of tyranny begins and ends in the mind.
In America today, many minds are not ready to handle the trials ahead. Maybe it’s the ease of several generations of uninterrupted prosperity. Maybe it’s the Babyboomers. Maybe it’s Generation X. Maybe it’s the public education system. Maybe it’s the water. Maybe it’s all of the above and more. At this point, we have little time to debate symptomatic culprits. It is time to go to the root of the problem, and cut it out.
What we need is a foundation, a set of “personal rules for combat” when engaging a tyrannical establishment. This “code” should above all else provide a way of mentally and spiritually confronting one’s own weaknesses and presumptions. Dictators and oligarchs are not our primary concern. Our inner state is.
Rule #1: Stop Waiting For Others To Fight The Battle For You
If you want to put an end to totalitarianism, you can’t sit around waiting for other people to solve the problem for you. The greatest downfall of any political campaign (even when led by a liberty minded candidate) is the centralization of popular focus on a single man. There is no knight in shining armor coming to lead the Liberty Movement to the promised land. These unrealistic expectations will only end in disappointment and nihilism. The solution starts not with others, but with YOU. Where do you contribute to freedom? What actions have you taken? Who have you inspired? What ideas have you offered? What project have you organized, struggled for, sweat for? Take the reigns of your own destiny and finally join the fight instead of perusing the internet longing for a guru to hand you a mission.
Rule #2: Believe In Something Greater Than Yourself - Abandon Childish Cynicism
This is where we get all “spiritualized”, which for the typical cynic is a rather gooey and uncomfortable affair. If accepting a higher purpose to the universe and your own existence is too much for you, then at least consider deeply the future of humanity in general. Think not of what mankind is today, but what mankind could be tomorrow if you make it so. Know that there is an indelible good within us, though it may be difficult to see at times. Cradle that spark, and champion its return. It is not enough to oppose tyranny. One must know exactly what he is fighting for in order to triumph.
Cynics do not make history, or change a country for the better. They are the forgotten dust wafting about in the wayward attics of time.
Rule #3: Deal With Your Fear, Or It Will Be Used Against You
A subjugating government’s size, military might, technological superiority, and overall gravitas are irrelevant. The fight will come whether we want it or not. Accept the fact that the fight is coming to YOU; your fear of it does not change the eventuality of it. Wars, especially those waged for freedom, are won by the will, not by arms or technology. Not by laser guided missiles and predator drones. Tyrants always have the advantage. They always have the upper hand. They win when they are able to convince the masses that this advantage makes them invincible and that resistance is a futile exercise. They lose when the people could care less about the size of the guns pointed at them.
All men are afraid to take risks, especially mortal risks. However, great men understand the necessity of risk in the pursuit of that which is right. Fear should play no part in your life, ever.
Rule #4: Understand The Nature Of Tyrants
Overcoming fear is one thing. Being overconfident is another. Understand that the evil you face is capable of absolutely any depravity in its lust for absolute control. Understand that the crimes you will one day witness in your battle to dethrone the autocrats are designed to rattle your will and eradicate your resolve. Know that to attain a free country you must struggle through social, economic, and physical carnage you never thought possible before. Be ready, psychologically and emotionally, for anything…
Rule #5: Dump Nihilists And Obstructionists By The Wayside
You can’t save everybody, and you certainly can’t impart a sense of greater purpose on cowards, weaklings, and nihilists. These people are inherently self centered, and seek only to prolong the ease and length of their own existences regardless of the cost to others. Nihilists in particular are so inwardly and subconsciously ashamed of their own weaknesses that they go out of their way, often obsessively, to project those weaknesses on the whole of. The have to believe that if they are not capable of fighting back, no one else can be either, and they will shriek to the rafters about the impending doom of us all.
Nihilists and Obstructionists are dead weight on any dissenting activist movement, even though they pretend to support the cause, and should be tossed to the curb immediately. A revolution for liberty requires foresight, and courage. If a person does not meet both these criteria, they will eventually bring you down with them.
Rule #6: Find A Love For Humanity Once Again
I know as well as anyone how hard it is today to care about most people given the amount of utter stupidity so many display on a daily basis and the costs this behavior has accrued in our society over time. Get over it. Recognize that when you fight for freedom, you fight for EVERBODY, even people who have not earned your efforts. If you fight only for yourself, or your immediate circle, you will lose. Look at the bigger picture, and know the real breadth and consequence of this undertaking. Fight for all, or you might as well crawl into a shallow hole and pull the dirt over your head now.
Rule #7: Remain Adaptable To The Circumstances Of The Environment
Absorb what works, and cast off what doesn’t. Be stubborn in your principles and your resolve, but not in your strategies. Vulnerability comes with predictability. Blaze trails the tyrants don’t expect. Show them something they’ve never seen before. Be bold, or go home.
Rule #8: Retain Your Principles Or You Will Fail
The philosophical doctrine being peddled by elites in our military today states that “in order to defeat a monster you must be willing to act like a monster”. This is insanity. Forgoing one’s principles and adopting dishonorable and vicious methods is not the way of a warrior; it is the way of the tyrant. Remember what you are fighting for. This is not just about our personal survival, but the survival of a worthy ideal. Abandoning that ideal may give us the illusion of short term success, but in the long run, the cost will bankrupt our movement, demolish our moral high ground, and make hollow any victories we do achieve.
The Real Fight Is Within
Some may have stumbled upon this essay with the expectation that it would outline a kind of step-by-step instructional guide to crippling the globalists. Sorry to dissatisfy if that was the case, but it is better that we all comprehend now that there will never be such guide. As much as globalists and collectivists with aspirations of world dominance and total financial centralization are a threat to our way of life, the real fight, the fight that matters most, is not without, but within. We will overcome them only when we overcome our own failings.
I imagine many wish, as I surely wish, that simple days and comfortable times could continue on forever. The difficult truth is that history tests man, and sets the extraordinary apart from the mundane. Sometimes these tests are so epic in their scale that one wonders if anyone will step forward to weather the storm. Someone always does, and we owe those brave souls a debt of gratitude which can only be paid with our own stand in our own era. At the end of all things, we will either open the door to a better world, or we will cut our own throats. Tyranny is nothing but an opportunity for the best in all of us to rise.
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Yes, 911 truth has to be one of the first steps toward awakening. Without it there is little hope, period.
this is grrrreat for children!
kids need to know this stuff or they will hafta learn it or grow up quite ignorant, especially politically
and it IS hard to teach an older dog new tricks...
Rule #2: Believe In Something Greater Than Yourself - Abandon Childish Cynicism
'cynicism' seems to be the "bigBadBuzz-word0'the-month" for the "libertairian schoolmarms and preachers" to expound
once a kid is taught (?) abt the flyingSpahgettiMonster + evolution = adult wisdom, s/he is gonzo if not 3-4evah, at least for a decade or two or 3-4
the fight is against one's own conditioning; always
error sucks, especially if one has been feasting on it for all one's formative life
we all get this to some extent of course... we don't "know" much on our first day in this psychopath/sociopath ward do we?
now people are starting to wake up to the fact that the planet earth may well be the universe's answer to: what to do with the criminally insane?
of course everybody else is always the problem in these fuking loonie bins of mass insane confusion...
...btw, brandon: STEP 1 = nomo TV
STEP 2 will be revealed to you w/in a decade of starting STEP 1...
...trust me!
now people are starting to wake up to the fact that the planet earth may well be the universe's answer to: what to do with the criminally insane?
Mike Royko called it: Asylumism -and we're all in the Asylum
similar
i'm talking about a perceptive awareness stemming from self-understanding and how that works
what is the universe up to with us? how and why are we part of Nature? what are we? why are we? what does human BEing (& BEcoming) mean?
so i may coming at it more ontologically, but i've never read or followed royko so i may be mistaken; he probably never heard of slewie either Hahaha!
as above...so we start with the present incarnate self: wtf is going on w/ moi? is there anything one can do for oneself here beside pretend it isn't happening? why am i like this? how do i rilly work, anyway?
b/c of our family & social & career "needs" coupled with the psychodynamics of our defense mechanisms and amazing shadow-projecting capacities, we are ... well, plato's cave describes it pretty well. and where does he put this "parable"? in theRepublic (of course!) [ch X]
in the history of ideas, the cynics were a philosophy "approach" which developed from one of plato's students and appears to have been based on the idea of keeping all variables so freaking simplified that normal folks are totally convinced that the philosopher is totally fuking insane b/c to recognize his perspctive would destroy theirs
kinda like the chairsatan [and marioECB & angela] simply keeping the checks in the mail the simplest way possible at this point in time... by 'enhancing stability' under dodd/frank!] L0L!!!
we do have the bestest fuking banksters tho! everybody is con-vinced he and timmah are criminally insane! Hahaha!
Damn, slewie, that's some deep caca, ontologically speaking...sort of makes me want to back up to an earlier incarnation and put on the ocher robe to meditate until merger with said universe, through greater (or lesser) vehicle (as the budistas say)...because in the end, well, you meet your end anyway, so why fight it...this has crossed my mind of late, but I am too conditioned via California's MCRD, me thinks to go gently into that Dylan Thomas night.
Royko was a chicago columnist who raged against Daley (not me) and the machine for decades before it was popular.
Tat Tvam Asi?
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/daly.html
Reject liberalism, Marxism, feminism, et al.! Reject Egalite, Fraternity, Stupidite, and the new global-Babel project BS! Reform yourself before even thinking about telling other people what to do! Give your televisions to the poor and homeschool your children and grandchildren. Keep your powder dry and your motives pure.
Oh, and liquidate all the banksters and their jolly crew.
you can "liquidate all the banksters" by simply pulling your money out of the rotten banks
you can also liquidate tyranny by pulling your taxes away from the vehicle of tyrants, Govt
Stop Paying Your Taxes: Problem/s Solved
"..I am talking about pure, unbiased, unflinching, perfectly conscious and fully absorbed evil."
Not evil in a religous sense, but the sociopathic greed of bwankers like the Rothchilds and Rockerfellers... the covert and subversive evil behind the curtain (of Govt) ...the big cheaters and theiving scum of society that think nothing of stitching-up or just murdering others that stand in their way
study the French Revolution and look at Robespierre who went from waxing liberal man-of-the-people to murderous blood lusting tosspot (tyrant) in a few short chaotic years. Study, think, learn
that's precisely what power (the monopoly of Govt) does to you, that's what power's done to our evil deranged dysfunctional elite
Wanna stop it? Bring down Govt, the growing fields of 90% of all human evil and tyranny
Thought Crime of the Day: Stop Paying Your Taxes... don't feed the sociopaths, take away the tool of tyrants
Agree entirely.
Government is the sandbox of sociopaths.
It is evil in a religious sense, and one the Luciferians do not consider evil but good. They are eugenecists, too, and they have a sub-culture religion (though all may not actually believe, as in all faiths).
Rockefellers.
Study the French Revolution in relation to the Templars and learn something yourself. :) I mean that in all kindness.
Learn the realities of things like SRA or programs like MKULTRA. Learn the art of political compromise (as in how politicians are controlled).
Awareness beckons.
Excellent perspective.The time for assigning blame and identifying the problem has passed. The time for creating the solution is here. It is our opportunity. It is our destiny. In my view the silver bullet we have is to expose suppressed energy technology. Tyranny has monopolized energy resources around the world and snuffed out all competition. See: http://www.zerohedge.com/forum/2012-08-08/energy-oil-petrol-dollar-and-true-freedom
I'll tell you who tomorrow's freedom fighters will be. Corporate Labor Unions. I know, most people don't like unions and much of it has to do with the way the media portrays them. Yes, government employee. OK. However, Corporate labor unions are about the level of non union corporate workers and that's because corporations have to compete with them. If fact, I made more after retiring from a Baby Bell, in 1994, receiving $1,200 a month and medical benefits. Of course I couldn't really retire on that kind of money so continued to work till 2008. It's during those years as my kids finished school and went off on their own that I and my wife, became debt free and we were able to sock away a nice nest egg. My old union has been working with out a contract for over a year now. The Company wants everything back. Pensions, medical, work rules, everything fought for for over 50 years. It was a lot cheaper back then for corporations to make promises in the future than to give out decent raises. Promises in the future, sound familiar?
I've been to about ten union rallies this year, demonstrating for a fair contract. There I stand with members of all generations, races, religions, as one, brothers and sisters in a cause for the MIDDLE CLASS. Believe me, this company can well afford to at least keep the status quo, but corporate greed is foremost their objective. All TPTB and non union corps are hoping for a union defeat so they can enjoy more profit and lower compensation for non union workers.
You can junk me if you like, but I have a fighting group to pledge my allegience to. A group which I lend support and can receive support. A group to, if called upon, actually fight the very same shit everyone here just types about. What's your group?
It is very acceptable to hate unions in this country even by people who would benefit the most from them. The TPTB have very successfully waged a propaganda war against them. Without getting into all the old arguments about unions pro and con, one fact is irrefutable. The unions made sure in the past, that the middle class continued to share in the wealth and productivity increases in this country. By successfully waging war on the unions, the oligarchs have waged war on the middle class and is in the process of destroying both.
Such doggeral!!
Second the Hungarian Revolution, '56, of which you use a picture of was a the real deal. And none of which they my brothers in arms would sign off on this piece or nonsense you jot.
Sorry.
Elljen a Magyar Forradallom!
the ideas here appropriate for children in my opinion
only if properly edited of course
this would not "stunt their growth too badly" and he seems to be writing to the US culture, so as he notes: at present levels of totally meaningless "socially-agreed" MSM bullshit, this might be some improvement
but your point is well taken and it is true imo: this is not for adults who know "the real deal" as you say
peace
There are, roughly, 540 people in this country who control every thing we do. If you throw in a few billionaires and The Fed, we may be up to 1,000.
In an armed struggle, I love our chances.
Keyboard jockeys, "preppers", lone wolves, and backwoods militiamen are no threat (current) illegitimate U.S. federal government. However, a dedicated bunch of active-duty military, veterans, police, civilians, and federal marshalls certainly could suddenly enforce the Constitution and arrest the whole stinking lot of them... http://tinyurl.com/cd5cyjo/
Read Trevanian, particularly Shibumi. 40 years ago he predicted the state we're in.
In these United States the entertainment state is also a polce state, a welfare state, a war state and a kleptocratic state. I think the deepest problem is that men not only do not wish for freedom, they actively disike it and prefer obedience to something greater than themselves. I suppose it is possible to have a world that is not this way, a world freed from the evil that men do, but I see that all through the human history that we know men have rushed to bring back the chains they struck off and call out to one another that the gold glitters in the sun and makes them beautiful in chains. Only the very few have tried to be different, and usually they are only eccentric and in that eccentricity they find a place of freedom but that freedom is not very deep in the end, as the hippies demonstrated quite well.