What would happen if we all decide to push the button marked “Do Not Push?”
What would happen if we all decide not to color in the lines?
What would happen if we all refused to comply with daylight savings time, or even refused to comply with clock time altogether?
What would happen if we just stop playing their game and made up our own game?
What would happen, is, the power structure would be at a loss. They are only equipped to deal with people doing things, like protesting. They have no idea, and have no system in place to deal with people not doing things.
It should be apparent by now that Americans, as a rule, don’t have the heart for any type of revolution, or physical fighting against the power structure, they are much better at not doing things, so let’s give them something that they can not do, you know, baby steps.
They have shown great promise in the arena of not doing things. They have not done anything to prevent the spread of COVID, they have not done anything to stop the wars and genocides going on in other countries, they have not done anything to get ready, as much as a person can, for the environmental disasters that are coming, they appear quite adept at doing absolutely nothing.
Our only hope, such as it is, will be to play to their strengths.
We can tell them all the things that they don’t have to do and then maybe slip a few things in, like riders in a bill, that we want to see them not do, like go to work, get out of bed in the morning, or buy massive quantities of toilet paper.
Christopher Hitchens once said that, “The entirety of Christianity can be summed up in the pathetic image of, the flock.”
I’ll see your Christians, Chris, and raise you the rest of humanity, because they are sheeplike at best.
The resistance cells of the near future will be groups of like-minded individuals gathering together to collectively say, “meh.”
The revolution of the near future will not be fought with guns, and swords, and bows and arrows and knives and rocks and improvised explosive devices and stolen rocket propelled grenades and dynamite or purloined semtex or spike strips, it will be fought by the whole of society deciding that the cost of doing things, like participating in a system designed to keep them struggling, in debt forever, sick, and broken is just too high, so we will fight our war by just going back to sleep.
This is a recurring theme in my work, but I feel very strongly about the power of doing nothing. I honestly think it is our only way out.
This article by
is scary, but has some good suggestions about ignoring or walking away from their game.I’m joining the beggars banquet and including this link so you can send me money if you want. It is entirely possible, if you make a small contribution, that I will send you a copy of my book Stop Doing So Much Shit: The ultimate guide to becoming the slacker you were born to be.
What you are describing sounds very much like a Global General Strike. A General Strike by the 90% against the 10% who "own" EVERYTHING now.
A simple, peaceful, refusal to work under these conditions anymore. No marches, no riots, no violence. Just a refusal to continue the current system and an opportunity for negotiations to begin towards a NEW "New Deal".
That's when we find out how far they are willing to go, and how far the military will support them. With military support they can turn off the water and power in cities. Demanding that everyone "Return to your jobs" or be reduced by thirst and hunger into giving up.
It would be worth doing just to cut through the bullshit and find out where everyone really stands.
Yeah, I think I like the fight back plan better. I've never been much for laying around watching the world go by. It usually comes back around and bites us in the Derriere just when we think we're safe.
I would rather fight up front so I can see the bad things coming at me. I prefer to fight what I can see, hear, and smell, rather than wait for it to drop an unseen bomb on me while I'm sleeping.
But, for all of those who would rather die in their sleep without ever knowing what took them out, go right ahead, sleep away. I'll be right outside with my automatic weapons and RPG's.