-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/10/2016 09:58 AM, xorcist@sigaint.org wrote:
1. The Conspiracy
Explained in full:
Such can only be the case if you're looking to play 'their' game. The very creation of such 'organizations' is what leads to the associated chaos in the first place. Rather, I favor a free association of individuals - with no organization, just people working towards individual goals; each taking a small chip out of the establishment. Consume it like a disease. Like piranha. Not by doing eyeball-to-eyeball combat on equal terms.
I'm not quite that stupid. Only a sucker deliberately engages in "eyeball-to-eyeball combat on equal terms" in real life. There is no such thing as a fair fight, because the only reason to fight is to shut a violent aggressor down. If it's a fight, fairness is already off the table. Teaching people to confuse fighting with a game or contest is a psychological weapon used by ruthless, vicious "winners" to create weak minded, self defeating losers and keep them in their place. Bullies and losers demand that people "fight fair." I can't afford to care very much about people who insist on proving themselves by "fighting fair." In a real fight the only rule is to end it by the fastest, safest means available. Those who insist on proving themselves the better man have a name, we call them cannon fodder. Winners create and exploit every possible advantage: They lie, cheat, take every advantage and the fewest risks possible while giving their adversaries no chance at all. Fighting is an ugly business, a grim necessity to be avoided when possible. There is nothing glamorous or heroic about it and nothing to brag about afterward. On the subject of "people working towards individual goals; each taking a small chip out of the establishment," I understand that's a popular idea. I believe that "chip" is usually a paycheck. But in politics loners are by definition losers. Popular fiction in the Rebel As You Are Told genre would, of course, disagree with this assessment - did someone mention media conspiracies earlier? A plan to destroy the Leviathans of society the same way krill destroy whales is no plan at all - because krill can't destroy whales, except by dying off en masse and starving the whales. Check your geophysics - - that plan is already underway, literally /and/ figuratively, courtesy of the Industrial Revolution. The whole point of radical politics is to change that plan as fast as possible. Individual, uncoordinated acts of sabotage and non-cooperation can not defeat a criminal gang that owns and controls a neighborhood. It can only weaken the gang, which results in a stronger, more predatory gang moving in. Kicking a gang to the curb takes an organized, united front of uncompromising resistance: In short, the regular folks in that neighborhood need a gang of their own. In today's domestic political warfare battle space, the effectiveness of organizations opposing State and Corporate agendas are determined by four factors: Relevance - how much do how many people already WANT to obtain the result the organization aims for? Agility - how fast can you stand up an organization, and capitalize on rapidly shifting opportunities? Cohesion - resistance to division, sabotage and hijacking in the organizational and network battle space. Scalability - how fast can your organization propagate clones of itself across existing communities? When these four factors are present, Shit Happens. They all require voluntary cooperation, a.k.a. organization, and the relevant skill sets and base of experience don't just happen by themselves. Propagating the tools and experience necessary for political action is a unifying theme and larger purpose of issue-oriented activism. To paraphrase George Carlin, "It's a big club and they want you in it." :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX+9VVAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqFFYIALlweJqO+NLkZ0v+5PKNuZ93 uqZ0DNSvF/Av8oYVqpB16VlOGv4SyGOVtUti+NV6OZ5wkc8BXTjdiascvMPUHLiD QKGooTljCFCpXGmUYLC/GX4bp1/hCrGqkXr4NCtkStvQ3IoQRqNEGwmsmlAcRa9b 5+JQ1GLqGC/rlWhgDx2f9ipNwdb2BOMIkiRft1cCoWj6WX0iliM3einjLcgqtJ+w W/5PS5gEWgu1+AmDEt4w8EsDvBkXSGC8IYrcYw77vSNrwSoJbMW+hVmohsUqZS6q cvFNHsHJmQy941dPUPS93gVA2TsXTrnRdv714T49HKfV63iQ6ufEgaqzEe0whQ4= =3/Vc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----