05-23-2017, 01:04 PM
(05-23-2017, 11:11 AM)ScottK Wrote: I guess the challenge is that the vast majority of people see the political structure as a necessary burden that they put up with and they don't question it and allow themselves to be controlled. That probably means that the political structure will continue on until such time that it breaks. So, IMO, the main goal of activism at this time should be to put reasonable thoughts into the public square for use at a later time.
I tend to agree. It's not that we shouldn't do anything, but that what's needed now isn't a futile attempt to stop things from getting worse so much as organizing the response so that we can serve when things do go downhill. I don't even know how "political" that kind of organizing even has to be. It's more just rebuilding social bonds that have atrophied. If you can do that you have a chance with a lot of different possible systems. I like Albert J Nock's idea of the "the Remnant" where your political project is to keep the flame burning for the ideas you think are just until a moment of opportunity manifests.
(05-23-2017, 11:11 AM)ScottK Wrote: An attempt to directly "fight" or go against the system for the average person, from the benefit of hindsight, is pretty futile while the elite still control the issuance and value of money AND the people are compliant with the system. There's always someone willing to accept money to perform an immoral act in our world.
People have to have a life worth more than what money can buy. There have been cultures where people have preferred their lifestyle over riches. I think very few ideologies offer what people are really looking for. That's why, as much as I've thought about politics and acted on my beliefs, I have a hard time prioritizing that over other, more meaningful things. But we still need to do it.
(05-23-2017, 11:11 AM)ScottK Wrote: If a critical mass of people actually were open to changing things, believed it could be done, were willing to put energy behind such an endeavor, and did it correctly, change could happen pretty quickly. This number of people to make a critical mass that I'm talking about is probably well less than 1%, but they have to be willing to work together to accomplish something. Being willing to work together is the big challenge here, since those who want to change government are an unusually headstrong breed, as Ra or Q'uo have said and as I have experienced.
That's what's so great about these decentralized movements; they don't need a leadership class necessarily, at least not in the same way as we're used to, and so a lot can be accomplished and coordinated without the need for so much discipline. John Robb, a former air force strategist, says that many modern terrorist networks, criminal syndicates, online activist networks, social media campaigns, and even the Trump presidential campaign are run like open source insurgencies where swarm techniques and super empowered individuals innovating at scale can simply overpower rigidly organized, conservative states.